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COMICS! |OT| June 2015. Alright fanboys, it's time to pick a side once and for all.

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tim1138

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I just read through all of Transmetropolitan again a few months ago. While Planetary is my favorite thing from Ellis, Transmetropolitan is probably his best work. Spider is such a glorious bastard.
 
Tizoc

Tizoc

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Zombine said:
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I have that as a wallpaper =D
 
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Coriolanus

Banned
sillymonkey321 said:
You could read a comic, that's something people do when bored.

I'm trying to get excited for E3, Witcher 3 is was my planned pre-E3 hype buildup game and it's working somewhat except i feel tired when i play Witcher 3. The story is terrible, basically. Here is my first 4 hours of story summary:
You are looking for Yennefer, you go to a small villlage, the nilfgardian in charge says he knows which way she went but will only tell you if you kill a griffin for him. You kill the griffin, go back to the guy, he says she went to Vizima. You get ready to go there, Yennefer comes to you and you still go to Vizima. Emperor of Nilfgardia says he's trying to find Cirri and wants you to help him because Witchers find stuff. You have to find a guy who has info about her, he tells you two places to check. You go to a Baron and he says he saw her and he has info, he'll give you this info if you find his daughter and wife for him.

That's is one step up from absolute bullshit. They are trying to disguise fetch quest structuring as the main plot.
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... that's not witcher 3.

Witcher 3 is, first and foremost, a Gwent simulator. Why you wasting time with all of that optional claptrap?
 
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flaxknuckles

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Anyone else find it weird that Wonder Woman is like the only DC book that didn't get an 8-page preview for the upcoming issue? There are a few others but most books are covered.
 
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Owzers

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Coriolanus said:
... that's not witcher 3.

Witcher 3 is, first and foremost, a Gwent simulator. Why you wasting time with all of that optional claptrap?
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I've been avoiding Gwent, first game i played i put down my highest cards and then figured out you don't get them back in your deck after the first round :p Second game the person had way better cards than i did.
 
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zennyzz

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I just kinda wished there was some context. The style is Bruce Timm goodness and the voice acting is on point.

But I left the video without any real opinion on the world or characters.
 
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Coriolanus

Banned
sillymonkey321 said:
I've been avoiding Gwent, first game i played i put down my highest cards and then figured out you don't get them back in your deck after the first round :p Second game the person had way better cards than i did.
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I put 125 hours into the game before i decided to finally follow Geralt's true destiny.

The following 15 hours were an exercise in getting my ass beat, stealing strats from the AI, growing a beard and gwenting my way to the very top. No ragrets.

WadiumArcadium said:
Gwent is so much fun. Northern Realms ftw.
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Niilfgard eventually surpasses it, but yes, for quite a long while spy bombing and decoying my way to a victory were the favourite strat.
 
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my name is ed

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Simply Sarah said:
Isn't that because the ones with the truly bad tastes are driven out with pitchforks and fire?
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That reminds me of this one poster, Guileless I think. He used to quietly post covers of his pull list every week.

It was always Archie before they had their creative renaissance and Zenescope.

One day another poster just straight up asked why the hell he bought those books. I don't think I saw that guy post again...
 
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GrandHarrier

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my name is ed said:
That reminds me of this one poster, Guileless I think. He used to quietly post covers of his pull list every week.

It was always Archie before they had their creative renaissance and Zenescope.

One day another poster just straight up asked why the hell he bought those books. I don't think I saw that guy post again...
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If you're reading this come back and post those covers again bro.
 
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Kipp

but I am taking tiny steps forward
Ohhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiit. So remember how I said one of the coworkers who I was close to quit today? Well I obviously was saying some... things about what I thought about the job and my boss to her since she quit and I was happy with her.
Anyways, it looks like my boss took over that Skype account. Not sure whether or not she has or will read the conversations though. Oh geez.
 
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ViewtifulJC

Banned
Kipp said:
Ohhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiit. So remember how I said one of the coworkers who I was close to quit today? Well I obviously was saying some... things about what I thought about the job and my boss to her since she quit and I was happy with her.
Anyways, it looks like my boss took over that Skype account. Not sure whether or not she has or will read the conversations though. Oh geez.
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Rip
but I am taking tiny steps forward
(Today, 06:27 PM)
 
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Baron von Loathsome

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Kipp said:
Ohhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiit. So remember how I said one of the coworkers who I was close to quit today? Well I obviously was saying some... things about what I thought about the job and my boss to her since she quit and I was happy with her.
Anyways, it looks like my boss took over that Skype account. Not sure whether or not she has or will read the conversations though. Oh geez.
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You are already Kipp'd.
 
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GrandHarrier

Member
Kipp said:
Ohhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiit. So remember how I said one of the coworkers who I was close to quit today? Well I obviously was saying some... things about what I thought about the job and my boss to her since she quit and I was happy with her.
Anyways, it looks like my boss took over that Skype account. Not sure whether or not she has or will read the conversations though. Oh geez.
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Welp.

Hope your new job interview goes well.
 
E

echoshifting

Banned
So, I'm trying to get my wife back into comics. She really wants to read Secret Wars but she hasn't touched a comic since Brubaker was writing Daredevil. I tried to get her to read A/NA first but she couldn't get into it. I went ahead and put together some annotations for the first issue to catch her up but I think it's riddled with errors. I don't suppose anyone feels like reading it over and telling me what I got wrong?

Page 2-4
The three characters standing here are Dr. Strange, Dr. Doom and the Molecule Man. Dr. Doom has been working in secret to attempt to stop the Beyonders from destroying everything. The incursions are Dr. Doom’s fault. When the Black Swan first appears in New Avengers, she refers to a godlike entity called “Rabum Alal.” This was, in fact, Doom himself. Dr. Doom has been behind the incursions the entire time.

It started with an experiment conducted by an all-powerful race of beings called the Beyonders. They wanted to see what would happen when they destroyed all life simultaneously. Doom was the first to learn of this plan, and to learn of how they were going to do it: using the abilities of one of the most powerful beings on Earth: the Molecule Man. The Molecule Man can literally change any molecule in existence, including his own or external molecules, into anything else. He had to impose a series of mental blocks on himself to keep from destroying all reality. The Beyonders are simply removing the blocks…on a timer, set 25 years ahead of time, at which point the Molecule Man in each distinct reality will cause its universe to detonate. Significantly: the Molecule Man is a universal constant; while most of the heroes and villains in the Marvel Multiverse are different across the various realities we’ve seen, the Molecule Man is always the same. He was likely created by the Beyonders to act as this bomb.

The Beyonders may be all-powerful, but they have one weakness. They exist outside of multiversal space (and therefore will not be undone by their own plans), but they are “glued” to linear time (i.e., they cannot time travel). Dr. Doom was able to exploit this weakness since he can easily travel through both time and space. He started murdering the Molecule Men in every universe to prevent them from destroying everything. After seven years of this, the incursions began; a side effect of what he was doing. The destruction of the Molecule Men resulted in such a massive release of energy that universes literally began to collide with each other.

Now this plan might seem nuts, and it is, but Doom knew there was no way to actually beat the Beyonders. Everything was going to die no matter what. But as each Earth shattered, he was able to save small fragments of them and turn them into something new.

For a more detailed explanation of all of this, see New Avengers #33. The important takeaways from this are: Doom has figured out a way to salvage some of what was destroyed in the incursions, and Dr. Strange is working with him because he believes Doom is right and this is the only way.

Pages 6-8
Here we are at the beginning of the final incursion: the collision of Earth-616 and Earth-1610. Earth-616 is the main Marvel Universe, the one that has been written about since the birth of Captain America during World War II. Earth-1610 is the Ultimate universe, written about since around the turn of the century.

So this is the Ultimate universe that we’re seeing, *not* the main Marvel Universe. Reed Richards-1610 has convinced Nick Fury-1610 that they might be able to prevent the destruction of their planet if they destroy Earth-616, but he knows they’re actually out of time. He has another plan, one that involves the Cabal.

The Cabal are from 616, and they’re like an evil version of the Illuminati. Eventually, the Illuminati came to believe that what they were doing was wrong; that they could not kill other Earths to save their own. Namor disagreed, and freed several big nasties like Thanos, Terrax and the Black Swan to help him kill these other Earths during incursion events. When the Illuminati learned what he was doing, they trapped the Cabal on a dying Earth, hoping to destroy them all. Instead, the Cabal ended up on Earth-1610 with Reed-1610. Their plans are still a mystery.

Pages 11-20
Not much to explain here. This is the battle between Earth-1610 and Earth-616. Earth-1610 loses…or so it seems!

Pages 21-24
Reed-1610 launches a second wave, and here things start to go badly for Earth-616. Lots of heroes die in this attack. Of course, it’s all a cover for Reed-1610 to launch a ship patterned after the ship Reed-616 is trying to launch.

Something that’s important to note about the machine they have Eden (aka Manifold) strapped into: Manifold’s powers are based off of need. He pictures where he or others need to be, and he is able to teleport them there. This machine will allow him to expand his powers across the entire planet, and to reverse them; he’ll be able to bring the “needed” heroes onto the liferaft.

These liferaft ships have been built to withstand the destruction of their respective Earths. They can exist between multiversal space just like the Beyonders. The 616 ship is loaded with the Fantastic Four family and Black Panther. The 1610 ship contains Reed-1610, the Cabal, and a stowaway (as seen on page 21).

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Nobody knows how or why Cyclops has a Phoenix egg, but he is able to use it since he was the last host of the Phoenix force (in Avengers vs. X-Men).

Spider-Man, Thor, Star-Lord, and Captain Marvel are the characters pulled into the 616 liferaft by Manifold, but nobody knows yet why these particular characters are “needed.” It’s also unknown if Phoenix/Cyclops was pulled in by Manifold or if he pulled himself onto the ship.

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The final incursion. Much sadness. Not much to explain here.

Next, read Secret Wars #2. This is the introduction to Battleworld, the realm Doom and Strange have managed to cobble together from all of the destroyed Earths.

And now! Now you can get into the really fun stuff. There are a bunch of different series set within these different realms…and everything is weird in each one in different ways, so you’re really not even *supposed* to know what’s going on. For you, I recommend the following books:
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I know it's quite long so if nobody bites that's cool. I figure most of this info is close enough to at least get her through the book...I know the Molecule Man stuff in particular is pretty shaky but god damn that is hard to explain.
 
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fauxtrot

Banned
Yo, you can't get fired if you quit first

Call up your new future wifey and tell her you two are running away together to San Francisco.
 
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