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COMICS! |OT| May 2014. I for one welcome our new Amazon overlords.
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Aside from a few issues in the very, very beginning of the Lee & Ditko run, I really should pick up Amazing and give it ALL a read.
Wicked + Divine is next month right?
PaulExcellent
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Shit, I missed Amazing Spider-Man 1.1. Is it worth the cash?
Yes. June 18.
Honestly, just find arcs that interest you and go nuts. I got my start with Gauntlet and Grim Hunt though I personally wouldn't dream of reading it all myself.
Affeinvasion
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I liked moon knight way more than last month, but it just feels like a 2.99 book and it isn't. I know it seems really stingy to begrudge a dollar, but I'm liking loki way more. I also would like some sort of serial being worked in. I like the story telling for the most part but I'm finding it really difficult to care about next month or the month after.
P.S. everybody should be reading Loki.
P.S. everybody should be reading Loki.
It definetly fills in the blanks between Amazing Fantasy and ASM#1. No villain yet, but it's nice to see Peter develop. He just doesn't JUMP into the hero biz.
700 issues do sound like a lot.
Supermanisdead
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omg ultimate spiderman
omg
omg!!!
omg
omg!!!
PaulExcellent
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A'ight. I'll give it a look. Thanks!
Almost caught up to Batman - New 52, buuuuuuut I keep getting bored. The art is good, though. I might as well keep going. :/
Delta Assault
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Started reading Old Man Logan, since some people mentioned it while talking about Hugh Jackman's career. Looked interesting, so why not?
Just finished the 1st chapter, and it seems intriguing in just how fucked up everything in this future is. I mean, it isn't the sort of familiar landscape that you get with other future stories like TDKR or Kingdom Come. This is a much more extreme dystopia, so I'm just eager to try and figure out exactly what happened.
Just finished the 1st chapter, and it seems intriguing in just how fucked up everything in this future is. I mean, it isn't the sort of familiar landscape that you get with other future stories like TDKR or Kingdom Come. This is a much more extreme dystopia, so I'm just eager to try and figure out exactly what happened.
Art is fantastic, too.
Supermanisdead
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teen cyclops is so cute, i love him n_n
Maninthemirror
Banned
Could comixology purchase by Amazon mean they are bringing a color e-ink ebook reader?
GrandHarrier
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Spoilers he grows up to become one of mutant kinds greatest monsters.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
I literally just read it and I dunno, I felt a bit empty. The art is stunning, can't say a bad thing about it. But the story was so slight, what was it even?
He gets beat up, finds some magic armour, kills the ghosts and then finds the bodies? It was just a b c, so pat, nothing apart from the art really saying or doing anything. Finding the bodies really stuck out to me as odd too - so this building is being renovated - you open the door, go down some stairs and there's the bodies, not really hidden or anything. Is anyone even renovating this building? Doesn't that involve going inside it at some point? How long had the punks been there, since the 70s? That building's been renovated since the 70s??
Still, Declan Shalvey can draw that white cape all day and I will be somewhat happy. Ellis needs to start making this go somewhere soon though.
Batman Eternal was much better for not having that terrible Major dude in it. Love the art too, Clarke is so unique, really like it when he pops up. The story was a bit eehhhhhh. I like the angle with Vicki, having her be obliviously reckless is a fun comic beat. Was nice to see Tim being Tim, I've missed that. The nano bots got a big eye roll though. It feels a bit stupid.
Future's End was much much better than I'd expected. As others have said, strong 52 vibes from this. Time will tell where it goes, but I'm on board for a while. Much more promising than Eternal started, I thought.
Original Sin was very solid. I don't really like Deodato, the photoshop filter he uses is a bit ugly, and I find the aggressive modern styling a of his layouts a bit tiring to read but he served the story well and has a good enough style to do recognisable and consistent characters in a book like this. The story is really interesting and I have great faith in Aaron, dude has literally never let me down ever, even when he wrote Mojo and I bloody hate Mojo. That sure is a big ass team that got put together though.
Freezasaurus
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Original Sin was rad. I wasn't sure about a superhero murdrr mystery, but it's really entertaining so far and seems to be working better than the standard event fare Marvel has tried in the past.
Iron Fist Living Weapon #2 was also a blast. Shit just got real. I still don't see the violence that some people were complaining about. Hand ninjas aren't even real people.
Iron Fist Living Weapon #2 was also a blast. Shit just got real. I still don't see the violence that some people were complaining about. Hand ninjas aren't even real people.
Supermanisdead
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he turns into scarlet witch?
Freezasaurus
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You shut your filthy mouth. Wanda was just a peach.
#rekt
Supermanisdead
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Magneto #1 was stellar, Nightcrawler #1 was stellar, Cyclops #1 was stellar.
Storm #1 will be...!!!!!! I can't wait. X-Men solos = the new age of comics.
Storm #1 will be...!!!!!! I can't wait. X-Men solos = the new age of comics.
Maybe wolverine will get one!
Rogue and Kitty please.
GrandHarrier
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No Dazzler? Messi Plz.
Freezasaurus
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Rat Queens #6 - Fuck yeah, love this book.
Supermanisdead
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I'm hoping for a Teen Jean ongoing.
Affeinvasion
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I see we're still having problems differentiating between manslaughter and murder in comics threads.
No more distinctions.
Speschal K
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Yup. Continues to deliver.
"Yes, it's mushrooms. It's also people. Mushroom people, Betty."
Supermanisdead
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you mean genocide and murder.
Palette Swap
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I really liked Original Sin, the art and roster work really well for me.
I like the idea of this big mystery but damn, I hope it won't turn out to be a mix between Ultimate Origin and Identity Crisis.
At least, it's Aaron, not Loeb or Millar.
I like the idea of this big mystery but damn, I hope it won't turn out to be a mix between Ultimate Origin and Identity Crisis.
At least, it's Aaron, not Loeb or Millar.
Storm Chamber
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I think Hepzibah has awakened something in me and I don't like it.
I don't like it at all.
Nightcrawler #1 was....something.
2/3 aint bad though
I don't like it at all.
Nightcrawler #1 was....something.
2/3 aint bad though
Affeinvasion
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Don't people have to die for it to be genocide? She just turned off the x-gene which inadvertently killed some people with shitty mutations. Genocide in real life is serious business, and while I believe that Marvel wanted you to think it was genocide to make it more dramatic, it was not genocide. Genosha was genocide.
ViewtifulJC
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KoruptData
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I'm not going to call Iron Fist a bad book or anything. It is just not for me. I am not going to continue with this one.
fredrancour
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Every time I consider expressing my mild dislike of the xmen with hyperbolic hatred, i wind up sounding like a crazy nazi and making myself uncomfortable.
Oh well. Guess the internet has enough trolls without my help.
Oh well. Guess the internet has enough trolls without my help.
Supermanisdead
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well it's all sci-fi allegory stuff anyways, but the description of genocide includes forced sterilization, which is what she did.
Same reasons as me?
Storm Chamber
Banned
Moon Knight continues to impress.
Gonna be a real shame when Ellis abandons the book at issue
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Man I can't get down with the fur!
Gonna be a real shame when Ellis abandons the book at issue
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Give in to the space skunk lady. Corsair did.
Man I can't get down with the fur!
Affeinvasion
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Although that also clearly didn't happen here as new mutants have been born. It just took the normal cycle of baby to adolescent. So there was a gap in mutant awakenings but it wasn't prevented completely. The point is that intention matters and people trying to color Cyclops as anything other than a villain are grasping at straws. Especially since he's basically been a fear-mongering dictator for almost 10 years even before he was "corrupted" by the Phoenix Force.
Freezasaurus
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Does she resonate with your inner furry?
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I've been catching up on Spider-Man. Only a couple more issues of Superior to go.
WTF
The way Slott has been making everything fall apart is just lazy and unconvincing.
I said "Fuck you." aloud when Norman
#29 was such shit that I don't know if I'm going to continue.
WTF
The way Slott has been making everything fall apart is just lazy and unconvincing.
I said "Fuck you." aloud when Norman
hacked his arms. Why do his arms need internet? Do they browse GAF?
BenjaminBirdie
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I loooooooove Andy Clarke. Batman Eternal is really quite wonderful.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
They were connected to his phone originally.
But that didn't fit the "everything has to go wrong" agenda so they got connected to his mask later, which almost makes sense, but not really. I'm convinced the change was made purely so we could have that moment where Norman shows him things.
There's no reason for his mask and arms to be connected.
BenjaminBirdie
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Yeah. Nightcrawler was really not great.
That said, I absolutely love pretty much every other solo Marvel right now. They've really let teams have their own voice on them while the bigger pieces get moved around in the team books.
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