GrandHarrier
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I remember the days of Swashbuckling adventure.
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COMICS! |OT| May 2014. I for one welcome our new Amazon overlords.
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Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
Also forgot to mention how pump I am for Sensation Comics. Wonder Woman will finally be a main character!
Duane Cunningham
Member
Okay, making my way through the last ten or so years of major Marvel storylines, and I'm now in early 2007, having just finished Civil War. Eh, pretty good, I guess, but I read the other 2006/2007 crossover right before that... Annihilation. And it was certainly better.
Now I guess I'll read a few odds and ends from right in there... see where New Avengers goes post Civil War, as well as Brubaker's Captain America (I do already know that
). Also maybe check in on X- and Spider- ville a bit. Oh, and I think I missed something about the Inhumans... that Silent War thing. I did read Son of M before Civil War, and the Black Panther part of CW (and the part of CW where the Sentry goes up there). So I have the gist of what's happening there, but wouldn't mind getting the details.
Then it's time for Annihilation: Conquest and Planet/WWW Hulk!
Now I guess I'll read a few odds and ends from right in there... see where New Avengers goes post Civil War, as well as Brubaker's Captain America (I do already know that
Bucky takes over the role now
Then it's time for Annihilation: Conquest and Planet/WWW Hulk!
DrFaustPhD
Member
PSA: Chew sale on comixology.
Highly recommended for anyone that hasn't read it. Excellent art and writing throughout, and a very well defined, hilarious universe.
Highly recommended for anyone that hasn't read it. Excellent art and writing throughout, and a very well defined, hilarious universe.
Read Planet Hulk and then pretend there is no such thing as World War Hulk. Its better that way.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I don't remember really, isn't Forever Evil just the middle of the Trinity War?
KoruptData
Member
They just will have a rotation of Hardin and someone else. The #10 solicit has John Timm's. His work looks good.
http://johntimms.deviantart.com
Edit -Not every month is double shipping.
https://twitter.com/jpalmiotti/status/468749812389904384
tringworldso
Member
Benjy pls... the end of Trinity War led to Forever Evil.
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Anyway I found a nice site which summarized all the plot points of every Forever Evil tie-in:
http://www.squidoo.com/forever-evil
Personally, you should just read the Forever Evil, Justice League and JLA 10 summaries. Everything else is not required.
Freezasaurus
Member
I think it depends entirely on the writer and whether they can handle the commitment. Batman Eternal quadruple ships and its been great so far. Granted, the writing is probably split between people.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Dude's on a fool's errand.
Duane, read EVERYTHING. All the tie ins, all the one shots and cash in books. You're not really doing comics unless you read everything. TBH if you're only reading the events you're also doing it wrong, you should also be reading Avengers, Iron Man, Cap and Spidey at the very least. You're not really doing comics unless you read everything.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Maybe it's just the tiredness and crankiness talking but this is bloody hilarious. The comics were so unessential that it's not even worth reading the summaries! lmao
But no, read everything.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
The bombshells are starting to tempt me........
Freezasaurus
Member
Ugh. Imagine getting into them now and having to track down all of the ones you missed. Sometimes that's enough to dissuade me from getting into some new form of collecting.
Duane Cunningham
Member
Haha, that's not far from what I'm doing, actually. Right now, I'm reading the first six issues of Mighty Avengers.
Yeah good luck with getting a Supergirl. I have Wonder Woman, Harley and Ivy. Need to pick up the others after my holidays.
tringworldso
Member
Haha, the other tie-ins aren't essential at all to the main storyline. They all use the "missing heroes" setting of FE to do their own thing. Hell, you just need to read FE 1-6 and JL 24-29 to know everything.
GrandHarrier
Member
Ryan Higgins tweeted about Forever Evil #7 (not a spoiler, just a reaction but spoiler tagging anyways).
Yessssssssssss! Forever Evil #7 is AMAZING! So much craziness in the last few pages. @geoffjohns and Finch kill it, totally worth the wait.
Jedeye Sniv
Banned
Spread the net wider then, there's always more!
So wait a second, you're saying that a company publishes unnessential, nay - pointless comics? It's a fucking DISGRACE. We should petition them.
GrandHarrier
Member
Rogues Rebellion was a lot of fun. Essential? No, but I really enjoyed it.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
Ewing is the Ewing of comics.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
I don't think I like Ryan Higgins because he reminds too much of 2005 me and the Xbox 360.
TetraxShards
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I think he means the old Bendis one that took place after Civil War, Birdman.
I read all the Civil War tie-ins, but I was 19 and very, very bored. Never again.
GrandHarrier
Member
Lolwut?
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
His general attitude towards DC reminds me of a very dark time in my life.
Duane Cunningham
Member
Yep, 2007. Bendis/Cho. And I read New Avengers up to CW, so I'll pick that back up too.
CapNBritain
Member
The price jumped to $1.99 a while back, which is when I dropped it. 99 cents is the sweet spot for digital comics and DC was stupid to try and buck that trend. Marvel is even worse with their $2.99 comics, which I refuse to get on that price. Luckily, theis sale has allowed me to swoop in and catch up on Batman '66, which I enjoyed initially.
Funnily enough, I also decided to splurge and get the entire Batman Beyond 2.0 and Justice League Beyond 2.0 series right before the Batman '66 sale. I heard they were doing a
Justice Lords
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
I don't know which ones are out there brah, these covers are giving me ideas and strange sensations....
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Birdie, I love your posts
Another Comixology sale! I really want Revival but if that Zatanna and Black Canary book is this week I'm gonna have to pass on the sale. Although I could just order that and the Revival HC and third trade off of IST...
But then we wouldn't get CLASSIC moments like this.
Or this
Both in issues one after another btw...
echoshifting
Banned
Nearing the end of my own journey through the last decade of Marvel. I wrapped up both Age of Ultron and AvX over the last couple of weeks and, god help me, I enjoyed them both. I'm gonna ramble about AvX now...I'll try to spoiler the big twists.
AvX got off to a pretty awful start. The big battles between the two teams were boring, uninspired, completely without stakes. The whole period of time where the Phoenix is traveling to Earth was poorly constructed and executed. The first Avengers crossover and the Secret Avengers crossover felt like alternate takes on the same mission. I still can't wrap my head around both of those books actually happening -
- but they were both pretty bad so whatever.
When the Phoenix Five show up though, things get interesting, and while it may have gone on a bit long, I enjoyed watching it all play out. I still think it's kinda weird and lame that one of those fragments goes to Colossus and not Magneto, particularly given the fallout that takes place in Uncanny X-Men afterwards. But watching Scott slowly go completely
was pretty cool.
I was surprised to find myself agreeing with the Avengers through pretty much the entire story....going in with some familiarity of the events and a fondness for the X-Men, I expected to side with Cyclops. Blind faith has been a major theme with the X-Men dating all the way back to House of M, and they finally paid for it. Cyclops' belief that the Phoenix is a force for good for mutants is COMPLETELY INSANE when you reflect upon its history. I thought it was a terrific twist of irony that
The conclusion of the story was handled much better than the last big hero vs. hero brawl event (Civil War). Both sides were vindicated in the end:
A few bullet points:
-I had to laugh out loud at what total douchebags the Avengers were towards Wolverine early in the event. There is one scene in particular that is beyond ridiculous and makes no sense for any of the characters.
-Meanwhile it's totally cool to send Beast, Captain Marvel and Noh-Varr into kree space to stop the Phoenix. Can't see anything going wrong there.
-The Iron Fist/Phoenix crossover was fantastic...if you read AvX do not skip this crossover.
-WAKANDA holy SHIT
-This event really fucked up Wolverine and the X-Men, didn't it? I'm going to read through the end of the Hellfire Saga, but I'm looking for an exit.
I might have some words on Age of Ultron later. Still percolating. Really, though, I consider AvX to be the proper ending of the era that began with Avengers Disassembled and House of M...AoU feels like the prologue of what comes next. Having read most of the events to come out of this period over the past year and a half, I'd rate them as follows...
War of Kings
Annihilation
The Thanos Imperative
Siege
Annihilation: Conquest
Avengers vs. X-Men
Spider Island
Second Coming
Civil War
House of M
Avengers Disassembled
World War Hulk
Messiah Complex
Necrosha
Messiah War
Secret Invasion
Schism
Shadowland
Fear Itself
It's really only those last four I completely disliked, everything else had enough fun moments to be a good time.
AvX got off to a pretty awful start. The big battles between the two teams were boring, uninspired, completely without stakes. The whole period of time where the Phoenix is traveling to Earth was poorly constructed and executed. The first Avengers crossover and the Secret Avengers crossover felt like alternate takes on the same mission. I still can't wrap my head around both of those books actually happening -
Noh-Varr somehow manages to betray the team twice on the same mission??
When the Phoenix Five show up though, things get interesting, and while it may have gone on a bit long, I enjoyed watching it all play out. I still think it's kinda weird and lame that one of those fragments goes to Colossus and not Magneto, particularly given the fallout that takes place in Uncanny X-Men afterwards. But watching Scott slowly go completely
Dark Phoenix
I was surprised to find myself agreeing with the Avengers through pretty much the entire story....going in with some familiarity of the events and a fondness for the X-Men, I expected to side with Cyclops. Blind faith has been a major theme with the X-Men dating all the way back to House of M, and they finally paid for it. Cyclops' belief that the Phoenix is a force for good for mutants is COMPLETELY INSANE when you reflect upon its history. I thought it was a terrific twist of irony that
Xavier's own blind faith in his bond with Cyclops results in his demise. And now that I've actually read the whole event, I have a lot of trouble blaming Scott for that.
The conclusion of the story was handled much better than the last big hero vs. hero brawl event (Civil War). Both sides were vindicated in the end:
the Phoenix ended up being just as destructive and dangerous as the Avengers predicted, even when Hope took possession, but in the end new mutants started popping up, which is all Cyclops really wanted.
A few bullet points:
-I had to laugh out loud at what total douchebags the Avengers were towards Wolverine early in the event. There is one scene in particular that is beyond ridiculous and makes no sense for any of the characters.
And Wolverine takes it like a BITCH. He just comes crawling back. Dude has been pushed out of too many quinjets I guess.
-The Iron Fist/Phoenix crossover was fantastic...if you read AvX do not skip this crossover.
-WAKANDA holy SHIT
-This event really fucked up Wolverine and the X-Men, didn't it? I'm going to read through the end of the Hellfire Saga, but I'm looking for an exit.
I might have some words on Age of Ultron later. Still percolating. Really, though, I consider AvX to be the proper ending of the era that began with Avengers Disassembled and House of M...AoU feels like the prologue of what comes next. Having read most of the events to come out of this period over the past year and a half, I'd rate them as follows...
War of Kings
Annihilation
The Thanos Imperative
Siege
Annihilation: Conquest
Avengers vs. X-Men
Spider Island
Second Coming
Civil War
House of M
Avengers Disassembled
World War Hulk
Messiah Complex
Necrosha
Messiah War
Secret Invasion
Schism
Shadowland
Fear Itself
It's really only those last four I completely disliked, everything else had enough fun moments to be a good time.
TetraxShards
Member
I enjoyed reading that, echoshifting.
The real story here is Fear Itself: Worse Than Shadowland
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, BIRDIE?
The real story here is Fear Itself: Worse Than Shadowland
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, BIRDIE?
echoshifting
Banned
I figured that might be an issue for Birdie, but they are both so fucking bad, it's a trivial placement
Sorry, BB. I do have the Iron Man tie-ins on a list somewhere.
Can't wait for August. Miles Morales looks insane.
Rafa=FedKilla
Banned
I can't believe nobody is talking about The United States of Murder Inc. Wow, just wow.
CorporateClown
Member
Anyone else dislike the way Marvel does their covers, paper-wise?
I just had ink from both issues 1 and 2 of Daredevil rub off on my fingers and now the covers are smudged. Maybe my fingers are unnaturally warm?
I just had ink from both issues 1 and 2 of Daredevil rub off on my fingers and now the covers are smudged. Maybe my fingers are unnaturally warm?
I hate that.
KoruptData
Member
Each issue of Batman is almost like a hardcover.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
I really don't think Superior Foes is gonna live past issue 15.
Marvel's handling of the series has been so frustrating. Can't believe how they pushed out those filler issues, they should not have released three issues in less than a month.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
So any Hawkeye news.
No.
Okay.
No.
Okay.
Stop being so easily exploited then.
TetraxShards
Member
That Spider-Man 2099 cover is great.
Is this the first official confirmation that Superior Foes is ending with #15? The solit refers to #14 being the penultimate issue.
Also, no Hawkeye in August it looks like since it's usually announced with the Spider-books.
echoshifting
Banned
I refuse to believe any indication Superior Foes is ending until it actually ends. Marvel is chucking a gold nugget out the window if they do that
Tyrant Rave
Banned
It was basically confirmed with the second trade. It was originally going to collect issues 7-12 and they later updated the description to 7-15.
It's a shame, because outside of the last two filler issues, the series has been amazing.
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