No get the OHC versions. I find the smorgasbord is waaaaay too big.
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COMICS! |OT| November 2015. The much-anticipated sequel to October's OT.
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No get the OHC versions. I find the smorgasbord is waaaaay too big.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Wait, where was this confirmed?
full gay or only kinda gay?
Spike Spiegel
Member
I'm guessing he's referring to the new preview that Marvel put out today.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/comic-previews/uncanny-x-men-600-marvel-comics-2015-2015-11
EDIT: Guess so.
Ah, I actually just pulled the trigger on the Smorgasbord before this. I'm usually fond of big ol' omnibi so it shouldn't be a problem, though. Also grabbed Sandman Overture, Busiek/Perez Avengers Omnibus 2, and then I knocked off Amazing Screw-on Head, the Abe Sapien series, and the first volume of BPRD Hell on Earth. So I've finally knocked the Mignolaverse down to just the rest of BPRD Hell on Earth and the one volume of Hellboy in Hell that's out. So close to being done!
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Yes, she is.
I hope this Iceman gay thing doesn't take up a lot of the pages in that issue.
YOU GUYS THINK THIS IS A FUCKING GAME?
I absolutely love how inconsiderate and how much of a complete asshole she is.
I'd like her too if that wasn't the fullest extent of her character.
I think Bendis is the worst part of all of it. Jean is only acting this way because he needs to write a bad episode of Degrassi in comic form.
It's clear he doesn't understand what it's like to come out or how it happens. He's fine telling the kind of narrative that plays best on a reality TV show. Just saying "Jean sucks" is letting him get away scot free. He's playing that card for himself now.
It's clear he doesn't understand what it's like to come out or how it happens. He's fine telling the kind of narrative that plays best on a reality TV show. Just saying "Jean sucks" is letting him get away scot free. He's playing that card for himself now.
Freezasaurus
Member
Nope. I knew you could do that, but honestly, I wasn't a huge fan. Multiversity: The Just was my favorite book of the entire series.
Grant Morrison is knocking at your door.
Freezasaurus
Member
Grant Morrison doesn't appeal to everyone. And even among his fanbase, most people aren't going to like every story of his. Sometimes he's just too weird.
Tizoc
Member
I already posted that the trailer wouldn't have anything new.
Heck we've already accepted that the game will release in 2017.
They've hardly shown many worlds by now.
Freezasaurus
Member
Sooooo.......... I may have just bought this:
I've always liked this one, and she looks great in the Youtube unboxings I've watched.
I've always liked this one, and she looks great in the Youtube unboxings I've watched.
This went exactly how I expected.
Screaming_Gremlin
My QB is a Dick and my coach is a Nutt
I have finished Ultimate Comics X-Men. Now just to finish up the last arc of Ultimates, then read Cataclysm and finish it off with the All New Ultimates or whatever the hell they call it.
So apparently when they said the X-Men who chose not to be cured of their powers were going to live on a reservation, they really meant it. They get their own sovereign nation in like a few square miles of irradiated dessert and have their American citizenship taken away. Nothing that interesting really happens. They develop magic seeds that can grow plants anywhere (like in their irradiated hellhole called home). Rogue becomes a crazy person who live in the trees and is like a shitty version of Poison Ivy. Psylocke mentally controls half of the X-Men to turn against the other and a rogue part of the government continues to try and kill all mutants. Naturally Kitty Pride saves everyone.
That leads us to the big conclusion of Ultimate X-Men (minus the Cataclysm stuff coming up).
World War X could have been interesting I guess, but there was sort of a pretty massive issue with the whole thing that they never really bothered to explain. Why was Jean Grey the villain? Brian Wood decided in the 21 issues he would be writing this book that it apparently doesn't matter enough to be explained. She rules Tian (a bunch of floating islands from an earlier Ultimates arc) and for some reason in her mind there can only be one city of mutants, so Kitty Pride and her group in Utopia need to join her or she will have to kill them.
They proceed to fight and have a war. Kitty Pride turns from Gandhi to Rambo in about 3 panels and also gains super strength to go along with her other powers. At least I assume so since she was punching the head off a bunch of robot/cyborg soldiers. Then in the end she blows up Tian with a mutant powered rail gun. Jean Grey then apparently gets to live with them in Utopia after agreeing to wear a power dampener and starts a garden.
The one redeeming aspect of this whole arc is that Kitty Pride goes on for issues that by fighting back she is going to be seen as a huge terrorist and everyone will hate her (she actually gives up control of Utopia to Colossus to prevent any blow back on the rest of them). After the war she meets with a representative of the Army who pretty much tells her no one in the United States government gives a fuck about the whole thing and they are just tired of dealing with the mutants. When she asks about the reaction to her blowing up Tian, she gets told the rest of Southeast Asia thought they were a bunch of assholes and are glad its gone.
Also on the plus side, at least in X-Men they call him President Rogers and not President Captain America.
I can really see why the Ultimate universe was put out to pasture. At this point, with the exception of 12 issues from Hickman and Spider-Man, there really hasn't been any good comics since Ultimatum ruined everything.
So apparently when they said the X-Men who chose not to be cured of their powers were going to live on a reservation, they really meant it. They get their own sovereign nation in like a few square miles of irradiated dessert and have their American citizenship taken away. Nothing that interesting really happens. They develop magic seeds that can grow plants anywhere (like in their irradiated hellhole called home). Rogue becomes a crazy person who live in the trees and is like a shitty version of Poison Ivy. Psylocke mentally controls half of the X-Men to turn against the other and a rogue part of the government continues to try and kill all mutants. Naturally Kitty Pride saves everyone.
That leads us to the big conclusion of Ultimate X-Men (minus the Cataclysm stuff coming up).
World War X could have been interesting I guess, but there was sort of a pretty massive issue with the whole thing that they never really bothered to explain. Why was Jean Grey the villain? Brian Wood decided in the 21 issues he would be writing this book that it apparently doesn't matter enough to be explained. She rules Tian (a bunch of floating islands from an earlier Ultimates arc) and for some reason in her mind there can only be one city of mutants, so Kitty Pride and her group in Utopia need to join her or she will have to kill them.
They proceed to fight and have a war. Kitty Pride turns from Gandhi to Rambo in about 3 panels and also gains super strength to go along with her other powers. At least I assume so since she was punching the head off a bunch of robot/cyborg soldiers. Then in the end she blows up Tian with a mutant powered rail gun. Jean Grey then apparently gets to live with them in Utopia after agreeing to wear a power dampener and starts a garden.
The one redeeming aspect of this whole arc is that Kitty Pride goes on for issues that by fighting back she is going to be seen as a huge terrorist and everyone will hate her (she actually gives up control of Utopia to Colossus to prevent any blow back on the rest of them). After the war she meets with a representative of the Army who pretty much tells her no one in the United States government gives a fuck about the whole thing and they are just tired of dealing with the mutants. When she asks about the reaction to her blowing up Tian, she gets told the rest of Southeast Asia thought they were a bunch of assholes and are glad its gone.
Also on the plus side, at least in X-Men they call him President Rogers and not President Captain America.
I can really see why the Ultimate universe was put out to pasture. At this point, with the exception of 12 issues from Hickman and Spider-Man, there really hasn't been any good comics since Ultimatum ruined everything.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
I wish he'd knock on my door. It would be a reverse Misery situation. I'd take him captive to keep him from writing anything else.
He's also written a couple of plays and a collection of prose though, too.
Beat me by one second... lol
Poodlestrike
Banned
YUSSSSS
Also, Grant Morrison is unquestionably a genius, but I think the art of Doom Patrol is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Such a talent for the absurd, the bizarre.
It's a shame that Bunn had to be bullied for this to happen.
BKatastrophe
Member
So I finished Alias last night. Really liked it. Mu favorite arc was the Spider-Woman arc, but the Purple Man arc was a close second. Really good book that never got too gritty or dark (good balance of humor), but still kept a very serious and much darker tone compared to the rest of the MU. Bendis' Daredevil is still one of my favorite, if not my favorite street-level book, but Alias is still really good and has some very heavy moments, making very top tier.
Street level Marvel keeps on keeping on.
Street level Marvel keeps on keeping on.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Is there anywhere to read the actual dialogue the anagram guys are saying? I can get the gist of it, but I'd like to be able to read the actual words, and my anagram solver is spitting up its guts 
Tizoc
Member
Is there anywhere to read the actual dialogue the anagram guys are saying? I can get the gist of it, but I'd like to be able to read the actual words, and my anagram solver is spitting up its guts
They can be anagrams of whatever you want them to be.
They don't HAVE to make sense within the reader's understanding.
Hawkgirl hasn't really had any problems. You should be fine
I never listen ;_;
Looking at the few auctions on Ebay that have pictures of it unboxed...is it mostly the red belt/trim on the jersey that's the problem?
Amazon is actually where I ordered her from. I went from BBTS to eBay (because I wanted her sooner). And after waiting a week for it to ship, and having a terrible experience with the seller, I asked for a refund and ordered from Amazon. Problems are everywhere, the worst is the hair. Black splotches all over, incredibly spotty and inconsistent paint lines, some smudges on the arms. I'm not generally that picky about paint issues, but this one is baaaaad. What makes it worse is that the Catwoman I got looks spectacular next to this one.
Nice choice! I love mine <3
Poodlestrike
Banned
That's... that's not how anagrams work.
It's just that the first one pretty clearly says "Happening?", so I kinda assumed there was some actual dialogue in there.
Also, I'm pretty sure this one dude is actually John Constantine. Same personality, same skillset, all that's different is the hair. Trenchcoat Brigade indeed.
Johns back on Aquaman and Vibe, Jesse Quick, and Hawkgirl on the Flash tonight. What a time to be alive
Cool
whatsinaname
Member
The anagrams were fun to do but I didn't get all of them. Looked up the others on this page.
http://userpages.monmouth.com/~colonel/police.html
As for Kipling, I understand that Morrison initially wanted to use Constantine but then Editorial pulled permission.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/10/26/comic-book-legends-revealed-390/
Also, how cool was that The Painting That Ate Paris arc!
Tizoc
Member
IIRC, the character was indeed based on Constantine but I think Morrison couldn't use him?
I never bothered to unravel their anagrams since...this is a Grant Morrison comic and crazy shit happen in it.
One thing I do remember is that some of their lines has them say a sentence where the first letter of each word make up the word NOWHERE.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Huh, thanks.
And it was SO DAMN COOL! Leading the Horseman into the Dada-painting was brilliant. Wraps everything up in such a fantastic little bow. Ditto having the Brotherhood trapped in the painting themselves, because of course that's where they'd end up. It's a perfect resolution to the arc.
And yeah, Kipling is 100% a Constantine expy, right down to the dress sense. I don't know why they bothered denying permission, he used the character anyway.
Freezasaurus
Member
That would be the case anyway. Catwoman is your spirit animal.
TheDarkKnight774
Member
I'm back! I'd be happy with either Johns or Parker. But this better not prevent my John's Shazam book that should have happened already
Tizoc
Member
IIRC Constantine was created by Alan Moore correct? Wonder if at the time the DC editors were aware of the tensions between the two