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COMICS! |OT| March 2015. Warning: can be hazardous to your financial health.

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Baron von Loathsome

Member
Hellers said:
Marvel for a while were trying to say it wasn't a full reboot. I think the only way you can do this properly is to do a full and total reboot. Ditch everything and start again. DC had two major problems with Nu-52. First they didn't ditch everything which made chunks of it confusing. Secondly it was mostly balls (Although I'm quite attached to bits of it now).
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Yeah, I thought it was bizarre that they didn't really reboot Batman or Green Lantern. And, on another note, I have no idea why they made Amanda Waller skinny.

Zombine said:
Look at Obama creepin' in the background.
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That was the first thing I noticed.
 
F

fauxtrot

Banned
My first actual single issue was Amazing Spider-Man #115 (thanks, grandma!):

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I was reading the black and white omnibuses a year or so before getting that issue (also thanks to her). It's actually been framed on my wall for the last 10 years or so.
 
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GAMEPROFF

Banned
My Spidey/Backlash Crossover arrived. I flippes through it and it has everything that was bad about the 90s. Jim Lee, badass Venom, Clones, grimdark 90s Image superheroes... Oh boy. What a luck that this has to be the last intercompanyCrossover book I needed to pickup to reach my goal to finally have all Spider-Man books that were ever printed.
 
O

Owzers

Member
people keep talking about Messi like he's still around, it's time to let him go. Ikea won this round, next time we'll be more cautious. Comic readers, don't let your friends shop alone.
 
Z

Zombine

Banned
GAMEPROFF said:
My Spidey/Backlash Crossover arrived. I flippes through it and it has everything that was bad about the 90s. Jim Lee, badass Venom, Clones, grimdark 90s Image superheroes... Oh boy. What a luck that this has to be the last intercompanyCrossover book I needed to pickup to reach my goal to finally have all Spider-Man books that were ever printed.
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Oh wow good job that's insane.
 
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GAMEPROFF

Banned
Zombine said:
Oh wow good job that's insane.
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You mean my goal? :D well, I am not that far behind anymore. I own 430 of 710 issues of Amazing Spider-Man (reprinted in some form or another), about a third of all ever released Miniseries and about the half of all ever released One Shots.

The only thing which really lacks are side series like Spectacular, Web of, Tangled Web, etc.
 
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my name is ed

Banned
GAMEPROFF said:
You mean my goal? :D well, I am not that far behind anymore. I own 430 of 710 issues of Amazing Spider-Man (reprinted in some form or another), about a third of all ever released Miniseries and about the half of all ever released One Shots.

The only thing which really lacks are side series like Spectacular, Web of, Tangled Web, etc.
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sie sind verrückt
 
C

Cade

Member
Serpentine said:
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With any luck, by the end of today ComicsGAF will have answered all of my burning questions. thx serpentine

Zombine did you buy type 0 or just buy the demo off someone? I wanna play it but the going rate is too rich for my blood and i don't really care about typo
 
M

mreddie

Member
So Mighty Avengers...

Nextwave is canon?

Also, dreadlocked Monica is back? Might Avengers is leading to its insane finale.

EDIT: Okay not finale since it seems it's not one of the 33 books ending in May.
 
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Zombine

Banned
-Cade said:
Zombine did you buy type 0 or just buy the demo off someone? I wanna play it but the going rate is too rich for my blood and i don't really care about typo
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Bought Type-0 and Hardline on Tuesday. I jumped right into the demo and haven't touched Type 0 yes.
 
C

CBTech

Member
Zombine said:
Bought Type-0 and Hardline on Tuesday. I jumped right into the demo and haven't touched Type 0 yes.
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I want to play both right now. Picked up my copy yesterday, but I have IKEA furniture to put together and I need to finish Majora's Mask 3D (just have to do the moon and maybe check out the fishing stuff they added). Hopefully I'll be able to play some this weekend.
 
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Cade

Member
Zombine said:
Bought Type-0 and Hardline on Tuesday. I jumped right into the demo and haven't touched Type 0 yes.
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Pretty brilliant move of Square's to sell their million year old upport by packing in a demo of a Final Fantasy game people have been waiting a decade for.
 
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NotTheGuyYouKill

Member
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YES THANK YOU JESUS SABRINA IS BACK, YES YOU MOTHERFUCKERS YES

Also, they're launcing a third horror title this year along with Afterlife and Sabrina returning!

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/19/archie-comics-announces-new-horror-imprint-teases-series

In October of 2013, Archie Comics shocked the world with the launch of Afterlife with Archie, a series that featured the classic Riverdale High cast of characters you know and love from Archie Double Digests—only with zombies. Written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and illustrated by Francesco Francavilla, Afterlife became an overnight sensation, both for the sheer audacity of its concept and the fact that it was a genuinely great (and genuinely scary) comic book. Last October, Archie launched a companion series, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, a full-on occult horror story set in the ’60s.

Both series have been missing from stands for some time—Afterlife’s last issue was in February, and Sabrina hasn’t come out with its second issue yet—but Archie is planning to have both series return in a big way. This spring, the publisher will release Afterlife with Archie #8 and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2 under a dedicated Archie Horror imprint—and they’ll be joined by a third.

“It’s happening organically already,” says Archie Chief Creative Officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. “You launch one book, it is what it is. You launch a companion book and you think, ‘These seem to be speaking to each other’ … In-house we started referring to these books as the Archie Horror books. We wanted to make it official, and when it started to look like Afterlife #8 and Sabrina #2 were going to be released around the same time, why don’t we formalize something that is already happening, which is the imprint.”

It’s certainly a gesture of commitment in light of the fact that it has been five months since Sabrina #1 was released—something that Aguirre-Sacasa is extremely apologetic about.

“I could give you a dozen excuses, and none of them are really good. We really really wanted to launch the book at New York Comic-Con because it was close to Halloween. In retrospect, we should’ve delayed the launch to get a few issues in the can,” says Aguirre-Sacasa. “there’s no excuse, and there will never be a delay like there was been between Sabrina 1 and 2. Like, never. We are very, very lucky that we have an incredibly passionate and understanding fan base that is eager for the book.”

According to Aguirre-Sacasa, the fact that Afterlife and Sabrina took off among fans and critics alike was a big (yet pleasant) surprise to everyone involved.

“In retrospect, the idea of mixing teenagers and horror is like, the biggest no brainer on the planet!” says Aguirre-Sacasa. “It’s weird because, in Afterlife there are dark, dark things—but it’s also funny! Its tongue is planted firmly in its cheek. But with Sabrina, it’s really, really dark, and only getting darker. We’re halfway through issue three now, and I would say the darkest comic book I’ve written, and the weirdest comic book I’ve written.”

As for that mysterious third horror series, the publisher isn’t quite ready to reveal what it is just yet. But Aguirre-Sacasa was able to give us a pretty sizable set of clues.

“I can tell you that it will be centered around a major Archie character,” teases Aguirre-Sacasa. “She has appeared in one of our books before. And [the book] will be in a genre we have not explored or even hinted at in Sabrina—in Afterlife, we’ve only hinted at it a tiny, tiny bit. And it will be set in the present.”

Until the big reveal, Archie Horror fans have two new comics to look forward to. Afterlife with Archie #8—an homage to The Shining that will have its characters trapped in a hotel full of ghosts—willl be released under the new imprint May 6, 2015. Meanwhile, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2 —featuring the terrifying Madame Satan—will be released on April 15, 2015.

“[The Archie Horror books] have prompted the best work of our careers,” says Aguirre-Sacasa. “To take these iconic characters and reimagine them and place them in situations they’ve never been in before—it’s a blast, and I’m glad people are responding to it.”

Courtesy of Archie Comics, here’s a set of exclusive preview pages from Afterlife with Archie #8 and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #2.
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Freezasaurus

Member
Tragicomedy said:
Any Demon/Dark Souls experts in here? I'm going to need someone to show me the ropes in Bloodborne next week. I'm scared...
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Man, I'm gonna have to get re-acclimated to things. They took away the shields. I'm kind of terrified, now.

*wonders if they actually added a pause feature*

Doubt it.
 
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MG310

Member
Freezasaurus said:
Man, I'm gonna have to get re-acclimated to things. They took away the shields. I'm kind of terrified, now.

*wonders if they actually added a pause feature*

Doubt it.
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That was my thought coming out of the beta. Going to take some getting used to since I never went without a shield in any of the games.
 
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Freezasaurus

Member
MG310 said:
That was my thought coming out of the beta. Going to take some getting used to since I never went without a shield in any of the games.
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In DS2 I had a rad shield that absorbed all fire damage, and like 50% of magic damage. That combined with a Drangleic sword +7.... HHHHHNNNNNNGGGGGG

I think I stopped playing around level 173.
 
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Freezasaurus

Member
Messi said:
I aint about that Demon Souls, Dark Souls or Bloodborne life. I don't have the patience.
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Don't get me wrong, those games are fucking rage-inducing. But when you get through whatever was giving you trouble, the feeling of accomplishment the game gives you is like the greatest feeling you can ever get from a video game.
 
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Messi

Member
Freezasaurus said:
Don't get me wrong, those games are fucking rage-inducing. But when you get through whatever was giving you trouble, the feeling of accomplishment the game gives you is like the greatest feeling you can ever get from a video game.
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Noooooo thank you. I get frustrated playing Lego games.
 
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