I am starting to grow fond on the Venom designs.
Still. I hope this is the last time we see a ____verse book.
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COMICS!!! |OT| May 2017 - Every Empire Falls
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Still. I hope this is the last time we see a ____verse book.
Freezasaurus
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LOL, just wait until the Captain Marvel movie gets close. They will do a Captain Marvelverse event where everyone is Captain Marvel.
Are arcs in single books now events?
No difference. Ultimate collections might have been the old branding for the thicker TPBs Marvel puts out.
No hardcover edition either.
Oh, this isn't an event? Saw something on Twitter that called it an event.
whatsinaname
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There were two regular sized HCs released. I have the first, have to pick up the second sometime.
Yeah but I thought Vic was referring to a hardcover of either the Ultimate or Complete collections.
Not that I would know. Maybe it gets a additional One Shot, but as far as I know only Venom is involved yet.
If it would be a Spider-Event, Slott would be writing.
Marvel said they were taking a break from linewide events. This seems to be self contained outside of an anthology book.
Marvel themselves called this an event, probably for sales reasons.
whatsinaname
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I've started reading an interesting book called Notes on a Thesis. It is hilarious! If any of you have spent any time in academia, or around people in academia, you will spot so many "familiar" caricatures. If you are a Ph.D. student or a postdoc, I would classify this as a must read just based on the first couple of chapters.
ah, ok. Got it.
ah, ok. Got it.
No, the link I posted is the only info I've found so far.
Same thing as last time they announced no more events for the "Heroic Age" relaunch and immediately put out that shitty Shadowland crossover.
LaunchpadMcQ
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A strange and disappointing choice...
Brah. Brah.
Look at that Legend of Wonder Woman book. Trim size determines whether it goes in my oversized shelf or my peasant/trade shelf.
I'm being facetious. But I do wish it was oversized.
flaxknuckles
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It sure is weird and isn't scripted as well as a typical Peter David book. I am very interested where it is going though. But if it ends up with Ben redeeming himself and becoming Spider-Hero #472 then I'm gonna be mad disappointed.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Mix the trades and hardcovers with different dimensions. It adds character.
La Maquinon
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Excited for that Fantagraphics anthology! Whenever I read their stuff, which isn't often enough, I really enjoy it.
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Me too! Love & Rockets and Megg and Mogg are some of my favorites. Always pleasant titles to read.
Yes. Van winkle needs to add tpbs between his OHCs.
La Maquinon
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Loving the Jean Grey book so far! I'm intrigued by this Phoenix plot.
Perez posted wip art from the Spider-Man Generations book: https://www.instagram.com/p/BUu7LbmgB1J/
Book is good.
Tekken will save us.
Oooookay, so, I just finished reading through Age of Apocalypse. Psycho that I am, I actually purchased the entire event in floppy format, including some of the books that came later. For reference, I used Comic Book Herald's AOA reading order. I read up until the Twilight TPB, which I believe is made up entirely of comics that came out at least 10 years after the fact. I did, however, read the floppies associated with the Dawn TBP, which (I think!) combines concurrent books with later works.
My first takeaway from the entire thing is ... that was really interesting. I've never been the biggest X-Men fan, so I'm sure a bunch of the references are going over my head, but I know enough about the major players to appreciate the differences in characterization that this otherworlds tale affords. I also appreciate the scope of the undertaking, taking a bunch of what were probably the top-selling comics in the mid-90s and interrupting them for half a year, while turning that entire universe on its head. It is pretty great to follow each story to its conclusion, seeing how they weave in and out among each other, to finally all come together for the conclusion. And the conclusion is fairly satisfying, which isn't typical, in my experience, for huge events like this.
Unfortunately, the books aren't all winners. Generation Next is great. Haunting, really, and Sugar Man is a bit of a creeper. Amazing and Astonishing X-Men are pretty good, as is X-Calibre and Factor X. Gambit and the Xternals, despite the serious implications, didn't really grip me a ton. And considering his significance, and my interest in the character himself, X-Man didn't really light my world on fire. I understand the purpose of the X-Universe tie-ins, but I'm not overly fond of the execution.
Funnily enough, Apocalypse kinda reminds me of Thanos in the MCU. He doesn't really do a ton, we're just to take all of the characters at their word that he's incredibly powerful and intimidating. He does beat the crap out of Magneto in the graveyard outside of Xavier's ruined estate, but Magneto is significant nerfed by that point. And Mags ends up ripping Poc's ass in half like it's nothing, at the end.
I don't like where the reading order I used put the Dawn book. If I had to do it all over again, I probably would not have read those comics at that point. I think a lot of them are supposed to act like prologue events, but I definitely feel like I'd have gotten more out of them, reading them after the fact. Considering the breadth of the story, I also feel like a re-read would illuminate a lot details I missed on the first go-around, as well. I don't know when I'll have time for that. I also don't know if I'm going to just continue on into and through the Onslaught saga, or if I'll skip that and read Exiles.
My first takeaway from the entire thing is ... that was really interesting. I've never been the biggest X-Men fan, so I'm sure a bunch of the references are going over my head, but I know enough about the major players to appreciate the differences in characterization that this otherworlds tale affords. I also appreciate the scope of the undertaking, taking a bunch of what were probably the top-selling comics in the mid-90s and interrupting them for half a year, while turning that entire universe on its head. It is pretty great to follow each story to its conclusion, seeing how they weave in and out among each other, to finally all come together for the conclusion. And the conclusion is fairly satisfying, which isn't typical, in my experience, for huge events like this.
Unfortunately, the books aren't all winners. Generation Next is great. Haunting, really, and Sugar Man is a bit of a creeper. Amazing and Astonishing X-Men are pretty good, as is X-Calibre and Factor X. Gambit and the Xternals, despite the serious implications, didn't really grip me a ton. And considering his significance, and my interest in the character himself, X-Man didn't really light my world on fire. I understand the purpose of the X-Universe tie-ins, but I'm not overly fond of the execution.
Funnily enough, Apocalypse kinda reminds me of Thanos in the MCU. He doesn't really do a ton, we're just to take all of the characters at their word that he's incredibly powerful and intimidating. He does beat the crap out of Magneto in the graveyard outside of Xavier's ruined estate, but Magneto is significant nerfed by that point. And Mags ends up ripping Poc's ass in half like it's nothing, at the end.
I don't like where the reading order I used put the Dawn book. If I had to do it all over again, I probably would not have read those comics at that point. I think a lot of them are supposed to act like prologue events, but I definitely feel like I'd have gotten more out of them, reading them after the fact. Considering the breadth of the story, I also feel like a re-read would illuminate a lot details I missed on the first go-around, as well. I don't know when I'll have time for that. I also don't know if I'm going to just continue on into and through the Onslaught saga, or if I'll skip that and read Exiles.
please no
Freezasaurus
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Yup, its great.
Donniewahlberg
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Took the time over the last evening or two to sit back down and give Williamson's first vol of The Flash another shot, since I put it down half way through before. I do still find there to be an painful amount of exposition and/or redundant dialogue, but I did mellow out on it. The godspeed arc is what it is. The funny thing is I'm convinced there is a tremendous plot there if you shuffled some of the pieces around. There's some stuff regarding Godspeed's identity and how Barry figures it out that I think could be changed and shuffled to make something really exciting and thoughtful as the capping point on the whole thing, but as it is, it's Williamson's
and that's fine. It's done now anyway. I do really really like the art in the book, and I like some of the thoughtful applications of the Flash powers. I haven't really read a Flash book before so I honestly don't know how much of that stuff is original or not, but I liked the slipstreaming etc. I think I'll give this another volume, the epilogue was good and did a good job of pointing out how many threads Williamson set up and left in the wind for the future. Maybe I'll just end up frustrated again lol, who knows.
Barry has an new really good friend, who's really the new evil flash
Yeah. It's pretty awesome. I'm not all the way finished yet, but I'd rate it at 8/10.
BrightLightLava
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Floppy comics? In 2017? Psycho, indeed.
Freezasaurus
Member
You are going to keep spamming that aren't you?
Several times per day.
SpiderJerusalem
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Schweinehund
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Brah. Brah.
ahhhh
I had heard that gravity fucks with bindings on Omni's if you have them standing vertical, or is that just some bullshit?
Eitherway I have all my books stacked horizontally in my closet, or am I doing it wrong?
Freezasaurus
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I would imagine it has something to do with the binding used, but my Gotham Central omnibus says there is some truth to it.
whatsinaname
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For my larger omnibuses, I put some paper or a small post-it pad under the pages.
Ehh. The page block can sag a bit over time, but I can look at an omni from 2 years ago and it doesn't look any worse than an omni from three months ago. I'm not worried about it.
I'd be more worried having the books stacked horizontally, tbh. That's a loooot of weight on those lower books. It could bend the spines and all that stuff.
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Tragicomedy
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Physical comics in 2017.
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