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[Serpentine]

Annie Wu is drawing Scarlet Witch #7. I guess I have to read this series, Marvel keeps putting artists I like on it. It's like their version of Constantine: The Hellblazer, in that sense, which I'm catching up on and enjoying enough. Wish Riley Rossmo wasn't the main artist tho, 'cause he's like the weakest of all of them

anyway MoS isn't the worst shit ever but it's like 45 minutes too long

 

[Messi]

So....I just bought two pages from Secret Wars: Siege. Two Amerikate pages.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

yeah but: what IS fun? how do you define it? how do you achieve it? when you praise Marvel movies for being "fun", what exactly do they do? I'm talking something substantial here, not just "fun" by itself, as an adjective that lost all its meaning through overuse

Fun means for me entertaining.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

I've been getting stuff I thought I had dropped in my pull folder for some reason, so I asked my LCS to print out a copy of my pull list so I could look it over and see what's still on there and... WHAAAAAAAAT? How do their records even work? I'm seeing stuff on this list I haven't pulled in years, I'm seeing stuff on this list that's over a decade old...

Bazooka Jules! Apparently, I'm still pulling Bazooka Jules! And Slott's Great Lakes Avengers! Can't miss the next issue of that one!

 

[Lashley]

Annie Wu is drawing Scarlet Witch #7. I guess I have to read this series, Marvel keeps putting artists I like on it. It's like their version of Constantine: The Hellblazer, in that sense, which I'm catching up on and enjoying enough. Wish Riley Rossmo wasn't the main artist tho, 'cause he's like the weakest of all of them

anyway MoS isn't the worst shit ever but it's like 45 minutes too long

It can't be worse than the art in #1

Gave up after that

 

[Freezasaurus]

So....I just bought two pages from Secret Wars: Siege. Two Amerikate pages.

Dat Messi money.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

yeah but: what IS fun? how do you define it? how do you achieve it? when you praise Marvel movies for being "fun", what exactly do they do? I'm talking something substantial here, not just "fun" by itself, as an adjective that lost all its meaning through overuse

you could try reading the reviews, they tend to go into detail using lots of words

 

[Messi]

It can't be worse than the art in #1

Gave up after that

The artist changes every issue.

 

[ElNarez]

you could try reading the reviews, they tend to go into detail using lots of words

most of them say it's "not fun" or "not a Marvel Movie", which a) that kinda sounds like my jam and b) that doesn't say a lot

 

[Poodlestrike]

Capullo, what the hell.

Huh?

reading those BvS reviews and man

"fun" is really a fucking meaningless word

My junior english teacher would get super pissed if anybody handed in an essay with words like "fun," "good," "bad," etc. in them. Felt that they were so generic as to be meaningless. Easy way to lose a letter grade, lol.

 

[Serpentine]

I also placed another IST order:

Gotham Academy vol 1
Batman and Robin Eternal vol 1
Punisher MAX Complete Collections vol 1 and 2

It can't be worse than the art in #1

Gave up after that

I kept hearing this about SW #1, which is a shame 'cause I generally like Vanessa Del Rey's work (including her work on Constantine!)

 

[slightconfuse]

Marvel movies have a energy to them.

DC movies are like getting a root canal

 

[Freezasaurus]

I also placed another IST order:

Gotham Academy vol 1
Batman and Robin Eternal vol 1
Punisher MAX Complete Collections vol 1 and 2

Me too!

I got:

Prison School Vol.3
Prez Vol.1
Forever Evil TPB
Revival DLX HC Vol.3

 

[Lashley]

The artist changes every issue.

Fuck.

Have I missed out? Has it been good?

 

[Poodlestrike]

Marvel movies have a energy to them.

DC movies are like getting a root canal

no u

I felt no energy in Thor.

Or Thor 2.

Or IM 2.

It really is basically meaningless. Fun means we liked it. Not fun means we didn't. It's not a rationale on its own.

 

[Messi]

Fuck.

Have I missed out? Has it been good?

nope

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Huh?

It leaked.

 

[Freezasaurus]

The artist changes every issue.

Man, that shit would drive me nuts. That's the thing that has kind of put me off of Gotham Academy recently. I need the art to have some continuity, at least within a story arc.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

most of them say it's "not fun" or "not a Marvel Movie", which a) that kinda sounds like my jam and b) that doesn't say a lot

Most of them say its disjointed, tonally inconsistent, overwrought mess of a film, featuring thin female characters, dumb male characters, haphazard and jarring editing, pointless scenes, action sequences that exhaust rather then exhilarate, a grating Jesse Eisenberg playing Max Landis playing The Joker playing Lex Luthor, with a lack of human stakes to get behind

but ya know keep handwaving all the bad reviews away cuz "something something not marvel". Its not like they all jerked off to Nolan's interminable super-serious Batman movies a couple years ago or anything

maybe the movie isn't very good, ever thought of that b

 

[Weiss]

The first Thor was remarkable just by virtue of being a good Thor movie.

I liked Thor 2 a lot but I'm in the minority in that. Iron Man 2 was kinda meh and never saw 3 and don't care to.

Age of Ultron was pretty crappy, though, and that was a movie that was more quippy than Avengers and suffered greatly for it. Otherwise I like all the MCU movies except Ant-Man, which I've yet to see but plan to.

 

[ElNarez]

Fuck.

Have I missed out? Has it been good?

it's a Later Era James Robinson book

set the bar low, and then it's lower

 

[Lashley]

nope

Thank God. My backlog is big enough.

 

[Freezasaurus]

it's a Later Era James Robinson book

set the bar low, and then it's lower

I thought you meant Jimmie Robinson at first. I was all like BOMB QUEEEEEEEN.

 

[ElNarez]

maybe the movie isn't very good, ever thought of that b

yeah but

these people also praised Guardians of the Galaxy and called it the New Star Wars, and not only that movie was shit, it was so shit I forgot everything about it as I was leaving the theater and, again, it's not for effect, I literally did that's how little there is in this film worth remembering

 

[Poodlestrike]

It leaked.

OH EM GEE

Is it good?

Is it everything I've been hoping it is?

 

[GAMEPROFF]

no u

I felt no energy in Thor.

Or Thor 2.

Or IM 2.

It really is basically meaningless. Fun means we liked it. Not fun means we didn't. It's not a rationale on its own.

Iron Man 2 was my favorite Solomovie until Cap 2 came out...

 

[ViewtifulJC]

yeah but

these people also praised Guardians of the Galaxy and called it the New Star Wars, and not only that movie was shit, it was so shit I forgot everything about it as I was leaving the theater and, again, it's not for effect, I literally did that's how little there is in this film worth remembering

GotG was aggressively mediocre, that I agree.

Maybe both these movies can be not-good in two different ways! Diversity!

Iron Man 2 was my favorite Solomovie until Cap 2 came out...

 

[Serpentine]

I thought you meant Jimmie Robinson at first. I was all like BOMB QUEEEEEEEN.

a Big 2 editor calling him up would be tight

give him some corporate money after the early cancellations over his last handful of projects

 

[slightconfuse]

I will defend Thor 1. It's a solid Thor origin story.


IDK DC movies feel like their comics dark and colorless. Feels like there is no passion from the people making it.(which is,probably why Age of Ultron was average)

 

[Sandfox]

Most of them say its disjointed, tonally inconsistent, overwrought mess of a film, featuring thin female characters, dumb male characters, haphazard and jarring editing, pointless scenes, action sequences that exhaust rather then exhilarate, a grating Jesse Eisenberg playing Max Landis playing The Joker playing Lex Luthor, with a lack of human stakes to get behind

but ya know keep handwaving all the bad reviews away cuz "something something not marvel". Its not like they all jerked off to Nolan's interminable super-serious Batman movies a couple years ago or anything

maybe the movie isn't very good, ever thought of that b

There's also the fact that Deadpool was different from the "Marvel formula" and was well liked.

yeah but

these people also praised Guardians of the Galaxy and called it the New Star Wars, and not only that movie was shit, it was so shit I forgot everything about it as I was leaving the theater and, again, it's not for effect, I literally did that's how little there is in this film worth remembering

Your opinion of the film was clearly different from what most others thought rather than the reviewers being bad.

 

[ElNarez]

The only genuinely good Marvel movies are Iron Man, Iron Man 3 and Cap 2. That's it.

 

[slightconfuse]

I like GoTG more than others but some of it has to donwotht he fact they made a Freaking Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

Like it is still crazy they are making an Inhumane movie(blackbolt, karnak,on the big screen!!)

 

[Owzers]

The only genuinely good Marvel movies are Iron Man, Iron Man 3 and Cap 2. That's it.

*nods*, though i'd say maybe not Iron Man 3 despite liking it a lot more upon later viewings.

 

[Sandfox]

The only genuinely good Marvel movies are Iron Man, Iron Man 3 and Cap 2. That's it.

Iron Man 3 wasn't good imo.

 

[Sibersk Esto]

I still like the first Avengers a ton. Maybe that makes me a part of the unwashed masses these days but I'm sticking to it.

 

[slightconfuse]

I still like the first Avengers a ton. Maybe that makes me a part of the unwashed masses these days but I'm sticking to it.

Me too it's a fun ass movie!

Also Ant-man is great

 

[GAMEPROFF]

IronMan 3 is shit and I came to the conclusion long time before the fucking Mandarin thing.

The one and only time I wanted to leave the cinema.

 

[slightconfuse]

I hated the mandarian thing at first but i,came around to liking it.

 

[Poodlestrike]

Cap 1 does not get enough love imo.

But yeah, Cap 2, IM1 are the standouts. I'm a little mixed on IM3, it definitely does more right than it does wrong but something about it rubs me the wrong way. Only seen it the once, mind.

 

[ElNarez]

Iron Man 3 wasn't good imo.

The parts of it that are a Shane Black movie are great.

The parts of it that are a Marvel Action Movie, heavy on the CGI and wire tricks, is bland. Like, it's not bad, it's just there. It's garnish. It's filling. Doesn't take away from the dish, but doesn't make it better.

 

[WadiumArcadium]

I still like the first Avengers a ton. Maybe that makes me a part of the unwashed masses these days but I'm sticking to it.

Nah, you're right. Its great. I also liked IM3 more than the mess that was IM2. Sam Rockwell was that film's only saving grace.

 

[slightconfuse]

Cap 1 does not get enough love imo.

But yeah, Cap 2, IM1 are the standouts. I'm a little mixed on IM3, it definitely does more right than it does wrong but something about it rubs me the wrong way. Only seen it the once, mind.

Cap 1 was a solid period piece but cap 2 was crazy good.

IM3 was a Shane Black movie with robots(which is dope)

 

[ViewtifulJC]

first half of Iron Man 1 > Iron Man 3 > Iron Man 1

 

[Sandfox]

The parts of it that are a Shane Black movie are great.

The parts of it that are a Marvel Action Movie, heavy on the CGI and wire tricks, is bland. Like, it's not bad, it's just there. It's garnish. It's filling. Doesn't take away from the dish, but doesn't make it better.

My problem with Iron Man 3 is the characters.

 

[Freezasaurus]

first half of Iron Man 1 > Iron Man 3 > Iron Man 1

I thought the first Iron Man was stronger than the other two movies. 2 probably being the weakest.

My problem with Iron Man 3 is the characters.

40 empty Iron Man suits don't count as characters.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

My problem with Iron Man 3 is the characters.

I can tell

you know how I can tell

Spoiler

because we're connected

 

[slightconfuse]

Speaking of Iron Man how is the Bendis book?

 

[Freezasaurus]

Speaking of Iron Man how is the Bendis book?

I'm a few issues behind, but it was quite good.

 

[Serpentine]

Cap 1 > Cap 2

I still like the first Avengers a ton. Maybe that makes me a part of the unwashed masses these days but I'm sticking to it.

It was a great opening night theater experience. I don't really need to rewatch it

 

[Zombine]

My favorite comic book movie is X2.