It is if you ignore the middle part sure.
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COMICS! |OT| July 2016. Everyone Loves A Hero, Everyone Loves You
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It is if you ignore the middle part sure.
I don't think Civil War 2 has been middling so far.
that's cuz it ain't over and Secret Wars is all great.
The middle was rough imo. But the same will likely happen to civil war.
Freezasaurus
Member
I'm talking about finished events, Messi-kun. I won't make a judgement before CWII is done. But a lot of Marvel events are great for the first couple issues and then jump the shark. Fear Itself and Original Sin are both examples of this.
Yea I spent 1200 helping my mum out and doing it big with my gf. I am spending the rest on Absolute sandman 1-5 +death.
TropicalFish
Member
I liked Battle of the Atom. I wish the O5 got sent back by the end but it was still good.
whatsinaname
Member
So in...
FF#1 - We get Mole Man ( a villain that is still around and active today).
FF#2 - We get the Skrulls
FF#4 - We get Namor reintroduced (and Sou Da's avatar it seems)
FF#5 - We get Doctor Doom
Damn, at this rate, was all of modern marvel created in just a couple of years or something.
FF#1 - We get Mole Man ( a villain that is still around and active today).
FF#2 - We get the Skrulls
FF#4 - We get Namor reintroduced (and Sou Da's avatar it seems)
FF#5 - We get Doctor Doom
Damn, at this rate, was all of modern marvel created in just a couple of years or something.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Peter was out of college in like 10 years since his introduction.
It's been like 5 years since.
Freezasaurus
Member
Have I ever told you guys about the time I got Absolute Death for $25 from a Barnes & Noble clearance sale?
Thought you were going digital and selling your physical books?
I did but I got absolute preacher and was like one more couldn't hurt.
But yea everything I own is gone except for some cheap hardcovers and absolute preacher. Not going to miss the marvel stuff since I can read that anytime
Yea everytime. My B&N has all star batman and robin by frank miller but I heard that sucks :/Have I ever told you guys about the time I got Absolute Death for $25 from a Barnes & Noble clearance sale?
Freezasaurus
Member
I don't know if B&N should even bother carrying Absolutes. No one pays list price for those things anymore.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
fixed
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
I recently found out how Kyle died in Injustice.
..................it's pretty brutal.
..................it's pretty brutal.
yeah there's a reason why Marvel says its universe started at Fantastic Four #1
What we tell ourselves to enable Absolute purchases. Those Sandman Absolutes are honestly works of art though. Enjoy them.
I refuse to buy used books at new prices from B & N anyways.
And now they wont even publish a Fantastic Four comic....
All it needed was Sinestro taking his mustache. Was a bit much for me but that seems to be Injustice on the whole to be honest. The novelty of the series wore off rather fast.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
It's just funny how DC won't allow fatalities in the game yet in the comic they allow the characters to die in the most grotesque MK like way. Like, Jesus dude, he already died from suffocating did you have to take it a step further?
Grayson's death is still hilarious.
Yeah it's not even like deaths in DC can't be gruesome it's just all of this is so low brow it sticks out even more. The way Dick died did make me laugh for how ridiculous it was. I guess in regards to game vs comic it's an accessibility thing.
Freezasaurus
Member
I think the difference is that Injustice isn't the main DCU, so they're more willing to let the creative team go nuts. Kind of the way Marvel did with Ultimatum. The difference between Injustice the comic and Injustice the game is the size of the audience. A lot more people are going to play the game than read the comic, and they want to keep the game open to as much of the audience as possible. An M-rating would seriously curtail that potential audience.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
After Arkham Knight they can make exception.
Although AK's M rating was super tame.
The relaunch sucked and only got good with the Beverly issue. I assume the ANAD restart kinda messed things up but like Ant-Man, I assume this was planned.
Quick question that I might make a OT, do you guys like when comics get political? I follow a guy on Twitter who hates the recent Marvel books because of the LIBERAL AGENDA! (Turning some heroes into women is somehow a issue) and it got me wondering, aren't some books based on the political climate at the time? Hulk was made in fear of the Cold War, Iron Man was made due to the rich outnumbering the poor back in the 60s.
Original Sin was crap from day one
ViewtifulJC
Banned
every single work of art is political to some degree. It will always expose the author's own values and attitudes. Its a case by case basis if you like the work in question or not.
Brianimaniac
Banned
The problem with keeping that pace going is that if you follow it to its logical conclusion, you get to Parker Industries. Let us be grateful for all the years of no meaningful progress.
This. Before comics got to this phase where they're being criticized by some for having a political agenda, they were still a product of a system that favors the white, the male, and the straight, resulting in a product where those things are the default and disproportionally most prominent. Also, especially with superheroes, the idea of what is moral. That isn't apolitical just because it might not have been as deliberate and conscious.
Thinking back on AK I don't know why it got an M rating.
Nothing about it seemed any more violence or risque than the others.
The start, had to be.
Comic fans were a lot more accepting back then excluding some obvious things.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
reminder that Gruenwald made Captain America really sad about shooting a terrorist with a gun cuz he's never shot guns despite being in WW2
Freezasaurus
Member
Oh come on, Orb was hilarious.
Speaking of Original Sin. Is Nick Fury still the Watcher or whatever the hell happened to him in that story?
Even now the universe has been destroyed and put back again.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Yeah, and Im not sure any comic has ever interacted with him after that, as The Unseen.
Yeah, I think he appeared in Silver Surfer recently.
Freezasaurus
Member
He did. Only for a few panels, if that.
Brianimaniac
Banned
Original Sin might be the worst Marvel event (of the ones I've read) since Disassembled kicked off the modern event era.
And I like Jason Aaron so much that I think he's the only writer working today where I will buy every issue he produces whether it sounds interesting on paper or not.
And I like Jason Aaron so much that I think he's the only writer working today where I will buy every issue he produces whether it sounds interesting on paper or not.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
It's bad. But Axis is easily worse. And fear itself I'd say is worse as well
Brianimaniac
Banned
Original Sin left me feeling like a great Marvel even wasn't even possible. Like if Jason Aaron can't even pull it off, then there's some larger problem with the way events are produced and it doesn't even matter who writes them.
But then I adored Secret Wars, so I don't know what to think. I still think of that one as an anomaly.
But then I adored Secret Wars, so I don't know what to think. I still think of that one as an anomaly.
I didn't read Axis and probably never will. Remender's Marvel work never did a lot for me and I stopped reading all of it before Axis came along.
This kind of comment makes me wish I exploded and transcended space and time and come back as Ricky Martin.
Just wait until we get into Onslaught and Heroes Reborn.
I consider things of that size to just be crossovers with events being line wide.
Brianimaniac
Banned
I don't count those tiny things where they clearly just took a regular-ass story arc and decided to throw a handful of useless tie-ins at it.
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