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COMICS |OT| September 2016. Comics Should Be Good.
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echoshifting
Banned
I don't think that one is ever coming back
Please don't say that.
echoshifting
Banned
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Hahah if it does, the plan is to go to #100. So if it takes a year off, and finishes the run, you were only 5 years off
Well what she didn't mention is you'll be watching it, but it'll actually be a stage play of it, and she will be acting out every role.
Yea, think about that.
echoshifting
Banned
I tried to image search a good response to that. The results were often disturbing and completely inexplicable.
You'd be right to avoid the newer event stuff. It's such a shame that most of the 90s god tier run is still not available digitally.
echoshifting
Banned
It's a crime is what it is.
All of the new stuff is garbage. How do you fuck up What If? over and over again like that.
echoshifting
Banned
Oh. OH.
I'VE GOT IT
WHAT IF [bad guy] WINS???
I'VE GOT IT
WHAT IF [bad guy] WINS???
echoshifting
Banned
Orrrr...wait for it! TWO words.
INFINITY. GAUNTLET.
INFINITY. GAUNTLET.
I really want to post that one Batroc page from Gwenpool lol.
Freezasaurus
Member
Those late night echo posts. :3
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Mid morning! 9:20 am baby, ive already ready had a coffee and an energy juice, I'm ready to go
Freezasaurus
Member
WAT, where the hell are you? It's 4am here.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Scotland Mang, that's why I tap out of the thread about 7/8pm each evening haha. I've been up for two hours and seen the kid off to school already. Now it's time for a workout. This would be even more epic if it was also 4am here!
echoshifting
Banned
I am a little bitter about what's become of the once-great What If? Sorry. >.>
Wait do I frequently go off the rails at night? Is this a thing?
Oh my god. This is a thing isn't it.
BKatastrophe
Member
I just figured that ripping someone's heart out was a bit extreme, but I guess when you put it that way...
I'm still allowed to be curious as to the vision Virginia saw, right?
I'm still allowed to be curious as to the vision Virginia saw, right?
RIP
Action Comics completely failed to deliver on something I was really excited for and dragged a three (tops) issue story into five.
I'm going to assume he'll be back and that was a mere "introduction" story, as it were. It did end on a bit of an anticlimactic note.
Surprisingly good? Green Arrow. Everyone seemed shaky of the writer and I wasn't expecting much. Some rave reviews later and that book is one of my damn favorites.
Most surprisingly disappointing though? Action Comics by a full light-year.
Trial of Hank McCoy is upon us. His comeuppance is nigh.
echoshifting
Banned
Ha ha ha. Sorry. Your post was a convenient excuse to launch my many musings about Virginia.
Also I wanted to destroy something beautiful.
(I'm just glad somebody read that tbf. I've been sitting here all day thinking BK at least will read that. Dude has no choice)
edit: I saw that before the edit mister. I've got my bricks and mortar right here pal
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
AvX what if is the worst.
Did Magneto just crush Kid Nova's skull?
Edit: HE DECAPITATED HIS HEAD. This is way out of character for Magneto. This is Ultimatum tier.
BKatastrophe
Member
Okay this Emma Frost solo caught me off guard.
DAMN. I THOUGHT I WAS SWIFTER. Nah it's cool. Good to read a good breakdown. I just...wasn't expecting it...like if you walked outside after waking up and someone hit you with a wrench as a response. Who expects it.
RepairmanJack
Member
I read a shit ton over the weekend, but I feel like I remember nothing. Let's try to piece together what I read...
Kill or be Killed 1&2
The book that I probably remember the most. I'm not sure if I'm in this for long but so far I am ok with the premise. Seems like an angsty fuck the world Fight Club mixed with Death Note. The premise or the 'kill everyone' angst can ware thin pretty fast though so it all depends on where it goes from here. I also feel like the whole "Oh, crap I went too far ahead again." thing Is setting up for some big twist later on to just be past off as "I didn't mention that before did I? Shit."
Civil War II 5
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
All-New Wolverine
This was kind of a bleh issue. At least Laura pointed out how I feel about this entire event as a whole though.
Eclipse 1
I thought this was a pretty boring first issue. I think I may give it one more but didn't really care for it. It felt like old school Vertigo in a way, but almost too much that it made it just boring.
ASM
I looked forward to something happening with Ock for what feels like forever, but honestly I found this issue pretty boring. At least it wasn't a CW tie-in? It's got that going for it.
I caught up on a few more Marvel books, but they aren't sticking out to me at the moment.
Kill or be Killed 1&2
The book that I probably remember the most. I'm not sure if I'm in this for long but so far I am ok with the premise. Seems like an angsty fuck the world Fight Club mixed with Death Note. The premise or the 'kill everyone' angst can ware thin pretty fast though so it all depends on where it goes from here. I also feel like the whole "Oh, crap I went too far ahead again." thing Is setting up for some big twist later on to just be past off as "I didn't mention that before did I? Shit."
Civil War II 5
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
All-New Wolverine
This was kind of a bleh issue. At least Laura pointed out how I feel about this entire event as a whole though.
Eclipse 1
I thought this was a pretty boring first issue. I think I may give it one more but didn't really care for it. It felt like old school Vertigo in a way, but almost too much that it made it just boring.
ASM
I looked forward to something happening with Ock for what feels like forever, but honestly I found this issue pretty boring. At least it wasn't a CW tie-in? It's got that going for it.
I caught up on a few more Marvel books, but they aren't sticking out to me at the moment.
TropicalFish
Member
Wait what? What solo?
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Well similar to Fatale being deconstruction of the femme Fatale role in pulp fiction and tropes that percolate in those kind of tales, I believe kill or be killed is the same for vigilantes/punisher types so I'd stick with it for the consequences, I bet Bru will follow through. That said while he nails it 90% of the time, Bru can have the odd duff book so who knows. Pretty psyched to check it out whe it hits trade though.
Believe it's a good ten years old or so now, I remember the covers. I think it's young emma in training or something?
RepairmanJack
Member
Yeah, I can see it go either way. I'm in to it now to see where it goes, but it seems like it could become tedious fast. I hope it ends up being handled well though.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Well keep us up to date next.month man, interested to hear your thoughts on it in a general manner, since I've got that one earmarked. Do you read Velvet?
TropicalFish
Member
Ooooh that one. Thought Marvel released a new Emma solo book for a second lol.
RepairmanJack
Member
No, my non-hero reading has been pretty lacking since I got back into reading Marvel and DC in the last year or so. I used to only read the non-hero stuff in trade but that eventually lead to catching up on the hero stuff and since I've been following that weekly everything else has dropped off exponentially. They're just kind of harder for me to remember in a weird way. I either forget the books altogether or forget what happened in them the last time I read, then I feel like I need to re-read everything to continue and it never happens. Like right now I have two issues of Wick+Div and an issue of Black Science to read but it's oddly hard to push myself to actually read them. At least with Black Science it's more of a losing interest thing than not remembering.
LordOfLore
Banned
Mostly digital for the system.
Newsarama interview with Tynion.
Creative changes on some Marvel books.
More Marvel delays.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Haha interesting, I honestly find it the very opposite. Bar a high few I find most marvel/dc books, more so marvel lately to be utterly disposable and forgettable. Most of my independent stuff feels like the real shit, the stuff I actually look forward to and engage in.
Although, and this is just my opinion, I'd say the two examples you gave ar e more indicative of those books quality than anything else. If I need to drop a book it'll probably be Black Science, and I didn't make it beyond the first trade of wicked and divine. I'd just put those down as less interesting books.
To each their own though right, and admittedly none of rebirth has hit trade yet so I can't even judge there. If that's what you're digging right now power to you.
Lol I own not one physical game for the vita, think I only ever had the game that came with it as a physical and that's that. Not something I do with any other system but on vita digital seems the way.
LordOfLore
Banned
The sale doesn't even have the great What If? Annihilation/Civil War story which got mostly copied by the Secret Wars Civil War story.
Why was Abin Sur flying a spaceship?
Was Hal Jordan using a villain's ring during Emerald Twilight?
To be fair "What If... The Silver Surfer possessed the Infinity Gauntlet?" is legitimately one of my favourite individual issues of a comic ever.
RepairmanJack
Member
I would completely agree with most of the independent stuff being more engaging and great, it's just harder for me to keep engaged personally. Either my interests change or I put less time into comics, or any number of other things always seems to get in the way. Hero comics are always easy to just jump in and read, everything else I actually have to be invested in in some way or else it all falls flat for me. It all could change with one random trip to the LCS and picking up a bunch of random trades, but it just depends on that mood hitting me.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
For sure man, don't get me wrong, I've been back and forth throughout the years. One thing i'll say, and this could be purely personal, but I will say that it's a lot more fun in here if you're into cape books, and I think that becomes a circle where enthusiasm for the discussion in here and then the books compell each other a bit. It might just be the newer crop of posters, or coming back to the board during the height of Rebirth & Civil War 2, but the conversation in here compared to a few years ago seems much more cape/big two driven, and I've certainly found myself keeping up with the jones to an extent. Reading reviews and articles on happening in the current books so I get the jist of the conversation in here and can contribute a little more with whats popular, and in turn I think that's made me a bit more enthusiastic in general for the cape books, it feeds back. I'm not as in on them as you are right now, and I'm not even saying it's got me to go buy bad books, it got me to go grab Vision where I might not have, or some other stuff. This is kind of a springboard off into another matter but it's something I consider and feels kind of related, in my own mind anyway.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Haha. They usually use Rasputin as their nazi figurehead but it was a nice touch. I really like that little series, sledgehammer is cool. Have you read the other stuff he's in yet?
That may have been the first Lawrence campbell thing too before he starting doing bprd stuff, I'm not sure. Dude is a beast.
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
Not yet. Reading BPRD 1946 now. Just going off that reading order from multiversity
LordOfLore
Banned
The Gillen book? Announced for December. Title to be revealed at NYCC most likely.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
That reading order confuses me haha. It is chronological or by published order? I would have thought the iron prometheus would have cropped up before sledgehammer regardless? This is why I usually look at that thing and tell people not to bother ha.
Oh, that's the one I used, I think. If that indeed doesn't follow published order (it's definitely not chronological), I believe the purpose is to keep the chunks together as much as possible to keep reading easy while also making sure the big things that are cross-referenced come in the right order. It makes for quite a nice experience and keeps things from getting too complex, like requiring you to switch off series every single trade.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Maybe it's not the one I've seen then ,the one I saw looked way over complicated. All you really need to do is HB 1-6, all of Plague of frogs, a few of the smaller minis if you want, then just hell on earth and the rest of hellboy to the end of in hell at your leisure, mixing in Abe when that kicks off. Finish off the other minis at the end if it pleases you. I think I'm just going to order my trades on my shelf like this at some point and just take a picture of it and then just regurgitate it as and when needed haha.