Sam Nova was McGuiness? damn...I guess I can see it thinking back. No wonder I liked the art
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COMICS! |OT| March 2016. It's your job to be great.
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Sam Nova was McGuiness? damn...I guess I can see it thinking back. No wonder I liked the art
Fancy Clown
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You also need The Black Glove after Batman and Son
The Black Glove is now included in the Batman and Son trade.
Freezasaurus
Member
That face is pretty amazing. Well-sculpted, but I just can't take that expression seriously.
I'm a little worried for Trump, he doesn't talk in complete sentences and Rubio/Cruz are going wild again.
Freezasaurus
Member
How about dat Romney giving a speech today for the sole purpose of shitting on Trump? What a class act.
Fancy Clown
Member
Ooo did not know that
He is doing it for the good of the party!
Yeah, they released a deluxe edition a couple years ago that merged the two into one collection.
Trickster
Member
Man it's hard reading comic books. Reading the Uncanny Xmen series from 2013, and at some point in the series, all of a sudden there a conversation where the characters are talking about, among others, Logan being dead/gone. Even though the series hardly have him appear, and the only time you see him, he is completely fine. So I guess to understand wtf that is about, I'll have to read some other series that this one doesn't even hint to while dropping spoiler bombs?
Freezasaurus
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Marvel and DC do things like this a lot. They try to get you to buy a bunch of different books just to keep up with all these different aspects of the story. It's one reason why a lot of people prefer indy books these days.
TetraxShards
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It was always this way though. It's the nature of a shared universe. It's just more pronounced when every character and team has their own line of books, as opposed to a single title.
I don't know why they dropped the asterisks with the little boxes that told you exactly what to read. Those were handy.
Trickster
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I mean, I don't so much mind the random spoiler as I mind that I have no idea which of the million random x-men series I would have to start reading to have his apparent death be covered.
Like, there are soo goddamn many avenger, spider-man and x-men series that have all started within the last 3-4 years. And I can't find anything that help give me any kind of overview. And apparently a new line of a named series can just be a completely different roster of characters being focused on from the last. Uncanny Xmen 2013 vs Uncanny Xmen 2016 is like that for instance. WHY?!
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
TetraxShards
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Titles are reused because they could lose the rights to them if they're not kept in continuous publication. The classic example is Captain Marvel. When Marvel won the rights to the name over DC, there was a clause that they had to publish a comic called "Captain Marvel" every so often or the rights would revert to DC. The original Mar-Vell was killed off in the 80s, so they would bring in his kids as legacy characters or publish "lost stories". There was also that time they brought him back to life but it turned out he was a Skrull. Eventually, they just made Carol Danvers into Captain Marvel to get around this, and DC winded up renaming their character Shazam.
Freezasaurus
Member
Because now they suggest that you just read everything.
TetraxShards
Member
#ItsAllConnected
That's bleak.
It won't last.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Pics or GTFO.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Yeah Marvel's been kinda dumb about this lately. They constantly relaunch and renumber series in an effort to be more newbie friendly (and get more sales), and in turn, it makes some things a lot more complicated than it needs to be. It's bad enough that there's two Squirrel Girl #1s, and it's even worse when you consider they both started last year!
Crossovers are getting annoying again too. Feels like everything is getting sucked into them lately with them. They were pretty good about this for a bit, but it's getting bad again.
Loki: Agent of Asgard #15-17 - Great ending to a great run, as the Asgardians battle Old Loki during Ragnarok (aka the final incursion) but Loki manages to escape (along with Veritas) outside of reality (where Surfer and Dawn were hanging out during Secret Wars aswell). I love good guy young Loki, its a much more interesting chatacter than boring ass villain Loki, and I hope they do somethinh else with him in the future.
Freezasaurus
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Sillymonkey is full of LIES. I just finished Far Cry Primal and enjoyed it quite a bit. The drastic change in setting is just what the franchise needed. Hopefully something similar is in the works for Assassin's Creed.
TetraxShards
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He's in the new volume of Thor, and he's....different. Very Hiddleston-y, maybe a bit too much actually.
Well, he did tell Verity he wasn't going to be the same person he was, after all.
I meant more the analogy he used. I'm sure the game itself is fine.
I complained about this two years ago and everyone told me to shut up. (not really)
I have the same feelings about Assassin's Creed as i do Far Cry, just mainly numb at the whole series.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
TetraxShards
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It says a lot about Assassin's Creed that the announcement that one wasn't coming out this year was the most buzz the series got in years.
Trickster
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That sounds hella dumb lol.
But yeah man, this shit is just so hard to wrap my head around, I've tried and failed too :/
Freezasaurus
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I only see two mistakes.
Howard the Duck #4-5: mweh. Its alright, issue #4 had some funny stuff with Strange but its still very low on the "comedy Marvel titles" for me. Deffinately not something I would buy if I wasnt reading on MU :/
the scripting just doesn't do anything well enough. It's not quite funny or interesting but a mild combination of the two.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I see at least 2 excellent choices, maybe 3 depending on what that little robo figure dude on the left is
Freezasaurus
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Oh my lord, the rest of the Republican party is trying to bury Trump tonight.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
It's Bomb Man. I'm pretty 50/50 on him. My comic store had Kidrobot Mega Man mystery boxes. I was hoping to get Yellow Devil but he's rare.
I knew you were a fan of Bomb Man.
And they're both on the left.
My feelings exactly.
The series is 4 issues in as of now and so far I have seen a mixed bag of impressions online. Some say it's a bland story with lifeless art, while others say it is currently the best X-team book out there featuring some of Land's best art. What do you guys think?
Personally, I am reading Extraordinary X-men and Old Man Logan at the moment. OML has been consistently good in both the art and writing department. Whereas Extraordinary has been very hit or miss, but good enough to stay in my pull list. My favorite X-related book ever is Remender's Uncanny X-force, and the Uncanny Xmen team is essentially the same characters. For that reason I am interested in checking it out.
Personally, I am reading Extraordinary X-men and Old Man Logan at the moment. OML has been consistently good in both the art and writing department. Whereas Extraordinary has been very hit or miss, but good enough to stay in my pull list. My favorite X-related book ever is Remender's Uncanny X-force, and the Uncanny Xmen team is essentially the same characters. For that reason I am interested in checking it out.
This Trump University debate has been brutal. I think there might be other questions later.
Freezasaurus
Member
These guys are just trying to distract him and Trump is falling for it.
Poodlestrike
Banned
As robot masters go he's aight.
*slaps VanWinkle with a fish*
Go read Martian Manhunter, first trade is out now.
Sibersk Esto
Banned
As someone who's not a fan of the original Miller story the current Old Man Logan story is pretty ace, if only for Sorrentino's art and the extra flashbacks to Logan's family which makes me care about that setting far more.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I get what they were going for with Marvel NOW and I think that was pretty successful and accessible for the most part. Now it's a lot more confusing on top of more #1s after only a few years. Read an Avengers book? Got a crossover. Read X-Men? More of those. Spider-Gwen? Gotta read Spider-Woman too. Squirrel Girl? Hope you like Howard the Duck. Just a pain.
Ongoing X books are usually a little more complicated. If you're reading Bendis' Uncanny I know it crosses over with All-New pretty often from what I've heard. I'm not much of an X-Men reader so I can't really give much advice myself.
My favorite X-Men book is Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender, which was pretty self-contained. I don't know how much I'd recommend it to someone trying to get into X-Men, but it's really good outside of like one arc midway.
Also, me > LaunchPad in SF5
