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DC Comics for September 2005 (Cover images and solicitation information inside)
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This is what I'm looking at as my tentative pull list:
Marvel
New Avengers
Ultimates 2
DC
All Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
Desolation Jones
Maybes:
Green Lantern
Batman: Journey into Knight
JUSTICE
Not even going to touch that House of M/Infinite Crisis stuff with a 10-ft pole.
Anything you comic guys would recommend?
Marvel
New Avengers
Ultimates 2
DC
All Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
Desolation Jones
Maybes:
Green Lantern
Batman: Journey into Knight
JUSTICE
Not even going to touch that House of M/Infinite Crisis stuff with a 10-ft pole.
Anything you comic guys would recommend?
House of M #1 was shit.
Infinite Crisis, I'll have to level with you.. I'm loving it. OMAC and Villains United have kicked ass, Rann-Thangar War has kicked ass if you love the old sci-fi superhero stuff. The only thing I haven't been loving is Day of Vengence, but I never got into the magac stuff... also, some of the setup they've been doing over the past 2 years has been cool, and a lot of the crossover stuff (Birds of Prey, Verheiden's Superman, Rucka's Adventures of Supes, Red Hood, Green Lantern, most of the Titans and Outsider's stuff, etc) has been really fun to read also. Hell, I even loved Identity Crisis except for the last worthless damn issue. Otherwise the rest of the series was damn fine IMHO. So long story short, while I'm not very excited on House of M, Infinite Crisis has my hopes pretty high, and that is entirely on the limited series that are running and the prologue stuff they have been building the last couple of years.
anyway, Green Lantern is good, Batman is good right now (non prefix/suffix main title). I would consider letting go of New Avengers in exchange for Young Avengers which is actually really fun. Ultimate FF could be cool with Millar on it and about to cross over to the 616 universe (main Marvel U). might be cool, might suck. If it's cool, expect the books to sky rocket in price and become insanely scarce.
Infinite Crisis, I'll have to level with you.. I'm loving it. OMAC and Villains United have kicked ass, Rann-Thangar War has kicked ass if you love the old sci-fi superhero stuff. The only thing I haven't been loving is Day of Vengence, but I never got into the magac stuff... also, some of the setup they've been doing over the past 2 years has been cool, and a lot of the crossover stuff (Birds of Prey, Verheiden's Superman, Rucka's Adventures of Supes, Red Hood, Green Lantern, most of the Titans and Outsider's stuff, etc) has been really fun to read also. Hell, I even loved Identity Crisis except for the last worthless damn issue. Otherwise the rest of the series was damn fine IMHO. So long story short, while I'm not very excited on House of M, Infinite Crisis has my hopes pretty high, and that is entirely on the limited series that are running and the prologue stuff they have been building the last couple of years.
anyway, Green Lantern is good, Batman is good right now (non prefix/suffix main title). I would consider letting go of New Avengers in exchange for Young Avengers which is actually really fun. Ultimate FF could be cool with Millar on it and about to cross over to the 616 universe (main Marvel U). might be cool, might suck. If it's cool, expect the books to sky rocket in price and become insanely scarce.
Eh, I kinda figured House of M would be shit, but with Infinite Crisis, there's just too much shit going on in too many books at one time, and I can't be bothered to search for all the back issues of what I've missed (especially since I've been hearing about how OMAC Project is scarce as hell and all that jazz).
actually infinite crisis (more appropriately the countdown issue and the four mini-series so far) are really self contained. It's kind of like Secret Wars. There are cool little references to the saga in the tie-in books, but any of the four series can be read independently of each other or any related crossover books. In that respect iot is also kind of like Fall of the Mutants. Nothing that happened in one series had much of an effect on what was going on in the other ones.
I would give it a try. It basically breaks down into:
Day of Vengence = magic
OMAC = high tech espionage
Villains United = classic superhero
Rann-Thangar War = classic sci-fi
pick the series that sound most appealing to you and don't worry about the rest.
I would give it a try. It basically breaks down into:
Day of Vengence = magic
OMAC = high tech espionage
Villains United = classic superhero
Rann-Thangar War = classic sci-fi
pick the series that sound most appealing to you and don't worry about the rest.
evil solrac v3.0
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Bowser said:
you dont have to read teh "back" issues. it's just set-up and damn good storytelling. fun too.
Hmm...OMAC Project sounds the most appealing (I'm a sucker for espionage type books). I'll try that out.
edit: I was going to do Mail-Order with www.dcbservice.com, but I think I'm gonna use www.bobscomics.com. They actually have a selection of current and back issues as well as advance issues. Plus, free shipping on orders $20 or over! Here's what I'm ordering:
All Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder #1
Green Lantern #1-3
Ultimates 2 #7
New Avengers #7-10
For ~$22 and free shipping! Yay.
I'll end up getting the New Avengers Vol 1 TP, Ultimates 2 Vol 1 TP, and the Astonishing X-Men Vol 2 TP from www.dcbservice.com (50% off the Ultimates 2 TP, and 35% off on Astonishing X-Men; discount on New Avengers remains to be seen, but it'll be at least 35% off).
edit: I was going to do Mail-Order with www.dcbservice.com, but I think I'm gonna use www.bobscomics.com. They actually have a selection of current and back issues as well as advance issues. Plus, free shipping on orders $20 or over! Here's what I'm ordering:
All Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder #1
Green Lantern #1-3
Ultimates 2 #7
New Avengers #7-10
For ~$22 and free shipping! Yay.
I'll end up getting the New Avengers Vol 1 TP, Ultimates 2 Vol 1 TP, and the Astonishing X-Men Vol 2 TP from www.dcbservice.com (50% off the Ultimates 2 TP, and 35% off on Astonishing X-Men; discount on New Avengers remains to be seen, but it'll be at least 35% off).
Well said, borghe.
None of the Infinite Crisis mini-series' are really essential reads, but are fun lead-ins to Infinite Crisis if you have the extra cash. Personally, I'd much rather read titles from the core DCU, so I'm only picking up The OMAC Project at the moment. I also gave Villains United a shot, but found the first issue grossly overrated.
As for House of M, it's garbage so far. Absolutely nothing happened in the first issue - pretty typical of Marvel's books these days. Bendis says the end of issue three will probably crash the Internet. With the crap Marvel's been pulling, it'll probably be Magneto bumping uglies with Mary Jane, or something to that nature. I'd skip House of M and any books that tie into it.
As for books to add to your pull list, Bowser, I'd consider Astonishing X-Men (Season Two will begin a few months after #12 finishes), Batman, Flash, Seven Soldiers (All of the books! They're a great self-contained romp even if you decide to only pick up one of the books), and the upcoming Defenders by Keith Giffen. But honestly, there's so much good stuff coming out right now, especially from DC, that it's hard to pin down a list. I'd just recommend heading to the shop and seeing what you like.
None of the Infinite Crisis mini-series' are really essential reads, but are fun lead-ins to Infinite Crisis if you have the extra cash. Personally, I'd much rather read titles from the core DCU, so I'm only picking up The OMAC Project at the moment. I also gave Villains United a shot, but found the first issue grossly overrated.
As for House of M, it's garbage so far. Absolutely nothing happened in the first issue - pretty typical of Marvel's books these days. Bendis says the end of issue three will probably crash the Internet. With the crap Marvel's been pulling, it'll probably be Magneto bumping uglies with Mary Jane, or something to that nature. I'd skip House of M and any books that tie into it.
As for books to add to your pull list, Bowser, I'd consider Astonishing X-Men (Season Two will begin a few months after #12 finishes), Batman, Flash, Seven Soldiers (All of the books! They're a great self-contained romp even if you decide to only pick up one of the books), and the upcoming Defenders by Keith Giffen. But honestly, there's so much good stuff coming out right now, especially from DC, that it's hard to pin down a list. I'd just recommend heading to the shop and seeing what you like.
nomoment said:
As for Astonishing X-Men, I'm picking up the first two trades and I'll collect Season Two singles. Seven Soldiers looks interesting, but I don't think I'll keep up with each of them (might look through two or three of 'em though). What issue did the current arc of Batman begin with?
Last arc begins with #639, I believe. But you don't really need to worry about picking up the previous issues; the book has been pretty new reader friendly so far. All you need to know is,Bowser said:
Jason Todd is back as the Red Hood, and is trying to topple Gotham criminal underworld. Batman knows Jason is back, and is currently investigating possible reasons/causes for his return
nomoment said:
Nomo what issue did they meet in? I'd like to reread it because I just don't remember it well, but I'm too lazy to look back through the books to find it..
WTF? Ras has 2 daughters now Talia and Nyssa? When the hell did that happen?
A few more highlights from the month:
Superman/Batman #23 (Love that McGuinness!)
Flash #226 (Sad about Geoff Johns leaving, but here's hoping a superstar creative team joins up in the coming months)
The OMAC Project #6 (Landronn is quickly becoming one of the better cover artists)
Vigilante #1 (Ah.. Bruce Jones. Hated his Hulk, but this book sounds cool. Here's hoping his Hulk run was only crappy because of editorial mandates from Marvel.)
Superman/Batman #23 (Love that McGuinness!)
Flash #226 (Sad about Geoff Johns leaving, but here's hoping a superstar creative team joins up in the coming months)
The OMAC Project #6 (Landronn is quickly becoming one of the better cover artists)
Vigilante #1 (Ah.. Bruce Jones. Hated his Hulk, but this book sounds cool. Here's hoping his Hulk run was only crappy because of editorial mandates from Marvel.)
Spike Spiegel
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http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=33363&goto=nextoldestDarienA said:
Nah, it's probably
Indigo that dies, she's a Brainiac after all. Nightwing's doing his own thing in the solo series, working undercover as... a criminal? And just because Superboy's fighting Supergirl doesn't mean he's evil again; she's gonna throw down with Power Girl too, in the first ish of her new series.
Maybe Supergirl just likes to fight.
Spike Spiegel said:
Way to f*ckin destroy Talia as a character... wait a damn minute... isn't Talia part of Villians United with Nyssa nowhere in sight... I'm sorry...
Killing Tallia and resurrecting her until she broke her?
Spike Spiegel
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Maybe Nyssa prefers not to reveal her existence to the villain community? Or maybe the writers just don't like Nyssa? ...In any case, I think Talia and Nyssa are running the League of Assassins as partners; together they've taken their father's place, as was his plan all along.DarienA said:
Quadrophenic
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