Rafa=FedKilla
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All comic writers need to read Batman and Robins last issue. I'm looking at you Hickman and Scott Syder.
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COMICS! |OT| March 2013. Pinching Dr. Banner? Bad idea; Hulk pinches you back.
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Supermanisdead
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i've always been bored by hickman. he used to be relatively unimportant and working away on fantastic four and some series about leonardo davinci, but now he's running the 2 biggest books and the summer event. zzzz
GrandHarrier
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Fuck you, Legion Archives #8, for being the one randomly hard to get, super expensive copy. 6x retail price? ololololol sure no problem. -_-
Hickman's Fantastic Four was great and I like his world building in Avengers . If you don't like long form story telling then the two main Avengers books aren't for you.
Guileless
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I made the transition to digital recently (for everything except Archie). My shop was 40 minutes away and I had to pay 9% Tennessee sales tax there. No regrets, except the occasional double page spread that i have to zoom in on. Not a big deal.
Guileless
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Midtown has a pretty wide selection and free shipping if you spend $75.
GrandHarrier
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Totally depends on what you want from a comic. If you like snappy dialogue and some cool action sequences, then I can definitely see someone not liking Hickman. His writing is not witty like Fraction's or Gillen's. His books do have cool action sequences, but they also go on long and seemingly unimportant tangents that don't pay off for months. Like when he turned FF into a Blackbolt solo book for a couple of months when the character had never even been in his run prior to that. The Blackbolt stuff was eventually awesome, but at the time I wondered why he was taking the spotlight off of Doom and the other villains that Reed had gathered to work with the Future Foundation.
I will say that New Avengers seems to be the book he would prefer to write if given the choice between the two.
Anticitizen One
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If you think Avengers is slow paced then you need to see Geoff Johns Justice League where like 18 issues in and things are only starting to pick up now.
krypt0nian
Banned
I fucking love Hickman's Avengers, issue in and out. Fucking idea man, tbh.
I'll remember all of these posts when everyone is losing their shit at Avengers in a year.
you get it
you get it
Anticitizen One
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I like Avengers but Hickman really comes across as a wannabe Grant Morrison to me. He seems to try to hard to write big epic complicated weird stuff.
Grassclipper
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So I remember years ago that Bendis was kind of teasing that Hawkeye had superpowers, I guess went nowhere?
To be more specific Clint was subdued by a power inhibitor when the New Avengers fought the Dark Avengers and he lifted a car with one arm during one of the first few new Avengers arcs in the Heroic Age.
To be more specific Clint was subdued by a power inhibitor when the New Avengers fought the Dark Avengers and he lifted a car with one arm during one of the first few new Avengers arcs in the Heroic Age.
Fantastic Four started off with a bigger bang. I really liked the three solo issues of Avengers, but that first three part arc was pretty slow. No doubt it will all pay off though.
Freezasaurus
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Eh. I don't read Avengers, and I've always been pretty meh on Manhattan Projects. Yes, I find it average at best. I like the covers, though.
But I'm psyched for East of West.
sazabirules
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When does East of West come out? This week?
krypt0nian
Banned
Mmmmm East of West.
Freezasaurus
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Next.
krypt0nian
Banned
March 27.
sazabirules
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Thanks! I can't wait to get a job once I graduate and set up a pullist at my LCS so I don't have to remember what to buy each week.
Hickman is so much more elegant at writing his big epic complicated weird stuff. Morrison has done some fantastic stuff in his time, but a lot of it is weird for weirdness sake.
Spike Spiegel
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Not to start anything (well, maybe a little), but what are you suggesting they learn from it? B&R #18 was the equivalent of ordering one more drink for the drunk, horny girl making bedroom eyes at you from across the bar.
Freezasaurus
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Vermillion
Banned
Can't wait for New Avengers #4. I really wish that it double-shipped :/
Hickman is awesome. He is spiritual behind all the tech-talk, and that just warms my heart. And he is very subtle with how he is going around these matters. I almost cant believe that Marvel editors let him do his stuff on Avengers instead of FF.
I still have chills going down on my spine when it comes to his FF Johnny resurrection...
I still have chills going down on my spine when it comes to his FF Johnny resurrection...
Everything dies? No. Everything lives!
Meus Renaissance
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Recommend me some stuff to read please
Vermillion
Banned
New Avengers
Scarlet Spider
Everything else on my pull list isn't exactly universally loved. Like:
Wolverine (very new)
Gambit
Avengers
I picked up the first issues of Avengers and New Avengers for the Skottie Young variant covers. I will eventually grab the run in an omnibus or something. The same as I'm doing with Fantastic Four. I can wait for that.
Manhattan Projects I'm pulling monthly and it's been most enjoyable. Don't regret that one bit.
slightconfuse
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Manhatten projects is full of action. Oppenheimer is such a great character.
Guileless
Temp Banned for Remedial Purposes
I am thoroughly enjoying Gambit. Buy it people. Only 2.99.
GrandHarrier
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Preacher
Sandman
Fables
Chew
Sweet Tooth
American Vampire
Planetary
DC: The New Frontier
Hawkeye
X-Factor (starting with the Madrox miniseries)
Daredevil (the recent Mark Waid run is a good jumping on point)
Atomic Robo
Prophet
Dial H
Powers
Queen & Country
Animal Man (Grant Morrison's run)
have a read of the synopses for those and see what tickles your fancy
Freezasaurus
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Best comic book ever.
oh god yes. The Nextwave Ultimate Collection is one of my favorite trades, easily.
GrandHarrier
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Only vaguely related to comics; But I love that, as I looked at the Nextwave Ultimate Collection on Amazon, this little gem was on it:
Looking for the Audiobook Edition?
Tell us that you'd like this title to be produced as an audiobook, and we'll alert our colleagues at Audible.com.
Why yes, yes Amazon, I think I *would* like to hear Dirk Anger and Elsa Bloodstone in audiobook format.
Looking for the Audiobook Edition?
Tell us that you'd like this title to be produced as an audiobook, and we'll alert our colleagues at Audible.com.
Why yes, yes Amazon, I think I *would* like to hear Dirk Anger and Elsa Bloodstone in audiobook format.
GhostRidah
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Doesn't Five Ghosts come out this week? 
creationtheory
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Hickman is kind of like the Neal Stephenson of comics.
Vermillion
Banned
Explain? I don't get the reference.
creationtheory
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Stephenson writes very long multi layered stories that go off on tangents that may not have a payoff for a very long time. He's a great writer too.
Yeah, I can see that. Loved reading Snow Crash all those years ago.
Nice avatar, btw. Very nice...
Mark Waid's current Daredevil run
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Doesn't Five Ghosts come out this week?
Yep and Saga #11. Already a good week for me
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