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COMICS! |OT| June 2013. Nothing can stop the Juggernaut! ...except E3 BREAKING NEWS.
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slightconfuse
Banned
Read avengers 13 for your answer
Basically the kids are some sort of life battery and can power dead things.
*waits for dcbs shipment*
I liked New Avengers #6 and Avengers #11,12, Hickman's avengers reads like a tv show complete with the "previously in" front page and there is a sense of forward progression that people have been talking about regarding Hickman plotting out his stories. Hickman is a builder.
I liked New Avengers #6 and Avengers #11,12, Hickman's avengers reads like a tv show complete with the "previously in" front page and there is a sense of forward progression that people have been talking about regarding Hickman plotting out his stories. Hickman is a builder.
Rastafarian42
Member
lmfao
This is why I am somewhat hopeful for Infinity. If you look at the art-only preview pages that have been released for Infinity #1, it's pretty clear that the book is continuing events that have been taking place in the regular Avengers series. If Marvel is dead set on pumping out events, I would rather have them be logical extensions of preexisting storylines rather than something like Age of Ultron which has nothing to do with anything that is going on in the Marvel U.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Still. Evolutionary War references = Comic gold
I think New Avengers has been pretty straight forward so far. Avengers sort of goes all over the place in terms of plot focus, but New Avengers has been a single coherent story.
I guess you're right about that, I just have an easier time reading solo books than team ones because of the tighter focus.
read Infinity #1 FCBD, if Hickman is trying to get people hyped for the event, i don't see how this was a success. It reads like you're only seeing every other word in a sentence and it's not enjoyable in the slightest. There's Thanos, an assassin, and thanos' underling.
I get being vague with plot points, but this is the prelude to an event and i presume that wanting people to be excited also should involve people actually knowing what's going on.
This issues' content has no context, it just exists.
The underling learns there is something going on in a planet they once conquered, goes there and brings back a box of heads as a tribute. The assassin gets sent to finish his one mission, which is to earth...to....jump on the back of a shield agent? Inhabit his body? Lurk above the avengers? Twist off his head? For what?
This issues' content has no context, it just exists.
BlueScrote
Member
Andrea Sorrentino is killing it on Green Arrow.
GhostRidah
Member
Superman Unchain then the Man of Steel, this week is going to be amazing.
GrandHarrier
Member
The Overwhelming Avengers
comicbookresources.com look at the dilution of the Avenger's name.
As someone outside looking in I can't comment as much. Or maybe I can? I commented earlier but it is fast becoming easier to tell who isn't an Avenger than who is. New Avengers are actually the Illuminati, right? So why aren't they called that? Avenger's Arena isn't just Young Avengers but also Runaways etc? Certainly makes you wonder how far Marvel will go with the Avenger name. And how willing Marvel readers will be to read anything with Avenger's in the title.
Yes, yes he is.
comicbookresources.com look at the dilution of the Avenger's name.
As someone outside looking in I can't comment as much. Or maybe I can? I commented earlier but it is fast becoming easier to tell who isn't an Avenger than who is. New Avengers are actually the Illuminati, right? So why aren't they called that? Avenger's Arena isn't just Young Avengers but also Runaways etc? Certainly makes you wonder how far Marvel will go with the Avenger name. And how willing Marvel readers will be to read anything with Avenger's in the title.
Yes, yes he is.
slightconfuse
Banned
I feel like each avengers title offers something different
Avengers/ new- Hickman doing his thing
Avengers arena- hunger games
Avengers assemble- continuity free stories
Also DC is just as guilty with its justice league name as of late
Avengers/ new- Hickman doing his thing
Avengers arena- hunger games
Avengers assemble- continuity free stories
Also DC is just as guilty with its justice league name as of late
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Not even the JL name could save Vibe
poor Rafa
is JL Darkness still around
poor Rafa
is JL Darkness still around
GrandHarrier
Member
Yes, Justice League Dark still exists.
Eh, the idea that the Avengers aren't this specific group anymore feels like it's being made way too late - the moment Bendis added Spider-Man and Wolverine to the roster meant that you were an Avenger if you called yourself an Avenger, full stop. It's got cachet now, so you might as well monetize the fuck out of it to support books that would normally be canceled. It's not a big deal unless you have to read every Avengers book but who the fuck cares about those people.
slightconfuse
Banned
JL dark is part of trinity war next month
I'm fine with New Avengers keeping the title it has, even if the cast is basically the Illuminati. The line up is Iron Man, Beast, Black Panther, Mr Fantastic, Dr Strange, Black Bolt, and Namor. Other than Mr Fantastic and Black Bolt, all of those characters have had runs on the main Avengers, most pre-Bendis (not sure about Dr Strange). It also ties into the regular Avengers title.
Uncanny Avengers strikes me as a somewhat temporary thing, sort of like Dark Avengers (which was the most popular Avengers title for a bit). Whenever Remender finishes telling the story he wants to tell, I think the book will be quietly shuffled out of the spotlight.
Secret Avengers is sort of redundant with the addition of Uncanny Avengers. I think that will be the book to die of attrition in the next year or so.
Avengers Assemble is the title that was supposed to appeal to fans of the film, but again, this book runs the risk of dying from attrition, especially with Mighty Avengers launching.
Avengers Arena probably didn't need to have Avengers in the title (other than for sales). Some of the characters were from Avengers Academy, but that's about it. The Young Avengers team is 7-8 years old by this point. Both of these books won't last in the long term.
The X-Men line is just as overstuffed, but at least the teams get different names, (X-Men, X-Force, X-Factor, New Mutants, Excalibur, etc).
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Young Spider-Man, surely.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
They changed Thunderbolts to Dark Avengers, they still gettin' cancelled
Oh god Fury Max's sales are so low, fuck each and every one of ya'll for not buying it
Oh god Fury Max's sales are so low, fuck each and every one of ya'll for not buying it
Well, when Marvel relaunches almost their entire line, but Dark Avengers is left at issue 180 or whatever, it shows you how much confidence they had in the project. Way/Dillon Thunderbolts is doing alright despite being the poorer book.
Same with JiM, Red She-Hulk, and Captain Marvel.
oh shit...
also, dang jeff parker got boned with the relaunch. Stuck with two unenumbered books that were tanking.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
That'll teach Marvel to put out good comics with female leads
Hope Valerio Schiti/Jordie Bellaire lands somewhere cool, like Mighty Avengers or some shit. The striking difference in character expressions compared to Land would be worth the price tag alone.
Hope Valerio Schiti/Jordie Bellaire lands somewhere cool, like Mighty Avengers or some shit. The striking difference in character expressions compared to Land would be worth the price tag alone.
Red She Hulk is gone. Don't have much hope for the other two. Captain Marvel at least was a fairly recent title when Marvel Now started, like Hawkeye and Gambit.
purnoman3000
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The art in JiM destroys almost anything in the Big 2, it better not get cancelled.
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Editorial mandated Parker had his characters play outside the playing box of the regular Marvel U and I really didn't care for the lost in timestream/world x adventures.
Freezasaurus
Member
I like Captain Marvel, I just wish it had better art.
The art is stylized. I don't think you can judge it in the same way you do something from Cho, Maleev or Dodson.
True, it looks good when it's conveying motion. It looks really good when it does that. I just don't like the faces.
What, seriously? It's one of the best things Marvel has right now. Why is no one buying it?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Wait, Captain Marvel is getting canceled?
Not yet. However its sales are in Marvel's cancellation range.
I hope they pick up, I really like the character.
Freezasaurus
Member
Why do I even read comics anymore? It seems like everything I like that isn't published by Image or Dark Horse ends up cancelled.
They haven't said it's getting cancelled yet. There's still hope.
slightconfuse
Banned
red she hulk was ok. liked the book better when it was Rulk in the lead
GrandHarrier
Member
Just finished off Legion Archives Volume 3. Starting Archives Volume 4.
THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLIGHT RING. BRAINIAC 5's FABULOUS COMPUTER MIND.
I wonder if all Legion rejects who were given a Flight Belt as a consolation prize got a Flight Ring sent to them as well?
THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLIGHT RING. BRAINIAC 5's FABULOUS COMPUTER MIND.
I wonder if all Legion rejects who were given a Flight Belt as a consolation prize got a Flight Ring sent to them as well?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
BoosterDuck
Banned
Is Brainiac 5 holding up two fingers so the artist doesn't want him to look like he's doing the middle finger
GrandHarrier
Member
Already been photoshopped my friend.
Affeinvasion
Member
Since when is nick fury white? lol. This is why people hate comics because they're always changing the characters we know and love to be edgy.
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