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Post by wildfire on Mar 19, 2011 9:47:22 GMT -4
I thought this would be fun... I'm sure a few of you guys still read comics.
I've been workin' through the current X-Men trades, from the start of the Second Coming/Mutant Messiah story.
The last one I read:
Cable: Stranded (vol. 3 of the last Cable series)
This picks up RIGHT after Messiah War (like, seconds after). X-Force has gone home, Stryfe is gone, and Earth is still toast.
Hope argues with Cable that she wants to go back to the present, and triggers his time slide thingy... sending him two years into the future without her.
She finds two cities, both trying to use the left over tech from Stryfe's empire to leave the dying Earth. She picks one, Bishop picks the other... they fight in space.
The fight attracts the Brood.. bad things happen.
Cable and Hope escape (sorta) and are now shooting through space in emergency life pods, with Bishop (not quite dead yet) following in a Brood ship... not sure if he's still Brood-ifed or not.
The problem I had with his story is they way the portrayed Hope. They state she's 9 (relatively.. time travel and all).. two years pass, and she has romance? at 11? I don't think so. Why not just say she was 12 to start? that's how they draw and portray her. It's time travel, they could do whatever, yet they choose something that didn't make sense.
Don't get me wrong, the story was pretty good, it just hurt my head that a boy of clearly teenage years (probably 16 ish) fell madly in love with a 9 year old urchin.
I really dug the first Cable trade, but it's kinda gone on too long. Bishop killed the Earth to make it easier to catch them... I get it. I trade (6-8 issues) would have covered it... I defintely feel like I've read the same story 3 or 4 times now. It's a good story, but time to move on.
I'll definitely get the last one though... they've seriously painted themselves into a corner, I can't wait to see how they get Hope back to the present... I'm thinking Shi'ar, since they're in space now.
If you're following the main line, and just wanted to check out how things went with Hope, I'd say you could really read any 1 of the 3 Cable trades, or Messiah war, and get the idea easy enough.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 9:54:22 GMT -4
The only comic book I currently collect and read is Batman the Brave and the Bold which was based on the now defunct Cartoon Network Series. It's now in Vol.2 with a slightly changed vibe, but still cool. The recent issue had Guy Gardner & Lobo in it, good stuff...
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Post by maddog1981 on Mar 19, 2011 10:00:57 GMT -4
My current favorite books are:
Walking Dead Batgirl Usagi Yojimbo
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Post by wildfire on Mar 19, 2011 10:10:17 GMT -4
The only comic book I currently collect and read is Batman the Brave and the Bold which was based on the now defunct Cartoon Network Series. It's now in Vol.2 with a slightly changed vibe, but still cool. The recent issue had Guy Gardner & Lobo in it, good stuff... Is the new one in continutity now? That'd be interesting to have them pull that off. I have a few of the OLD B&B series (pre-crisis) and they're usually pretty fun.
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Post by maddog1981 on Mar 19, 2011 10:11:33 GMT -4
I think it's a comic version of the cartoon.
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Post by ljacone on Mar 19, 2011 10:35:31 GMT -4
I read too many comics. My main titles right now are Invincible Iron Man over at Marvel and Brightest Day over at DC. IIM has been getting a ton of hype pretty much since it started, and recently Marvel renumbered the book to number 500 to take advantage of the continuous publication of Iron Man since '63. The current storyline involves Otto Octavius, who is dying, challenging Tony Stark to either find a cure for the inoperable brain tumor which is slowly killing him, or admit that there is a problem which he cannot solve. There's some backburner stuff going on with the Mandarin and Ezekial Stane (super genius and super psycho son of Obidiah Stane) as well. The book has its ups and downs but generally has been strong. Brightest Day, well, what can I say about Brightest Day? This book has been a rollercoaster ride from the beginning and now that we are getting on towards the end things are really picking up. I am a huge mark for Hawkman and the stuff going down with him has been insane. Not sure where this is going but its been one hell of a ride. Other books I am digging include Outsiders (which is being cancelled, sadly), Doom Patrol (ditto), Flash (too many delays but it rocks), Tiny Titans (AWW YEAH TITANS), glamourpuss (GREAT book), GI Joe: ARAH (classic GI Joe), and Uncle Scrooge (natch), plus a few others.
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Post by maddog1981 on Mar 19, 2011 10:36:47 GMT -4
Darkwing Duck is awesome.
I hate the new Flash book. The delays suck and the book itself is just really slow.
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Post by ljacone on Mar 19, 2011 10:53:25 GMT -4
Darkwing Duck is awesome. I hate the new Flash book. The delays suck and the book itself is just really slow. Darkwing Duck kicks ass, but I am missing a few issues of the first arc and the first issue of the second, so they are piling up while I try to track them down! The newest issue with Steelbeak and F.O.W.L. was a hoot. I also picked up the DWD Classics trade that Boom published, its on the reading stack!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 12:06:40 GMT -4
I think it's a comic version of the cartoon. Correct, as I said above it was based on the now defunct Cartoon Network Series. But the series first Volume was closer to the Cartoon then the New Volume Two Series which in the end it's not part of the current DC line of books... I've read so many titles over the years and here are a few... Suicide Squad Justice League of America ( My Largest Collection ) Justice Society of America Shade the Changing Man ( Veritgo ) Sandman Mystery Theatre ( Vertigo ) Sleepwalker Every New Universe Title Every (DC Comics) Impact Title Planet of the Apes ( Adventure Comics ) Rom Mouse Guard Rocketto Big Bang Comics ( My Favorite All Time )
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Post by wildfire on Mar 19, 2011 13:07:09 GMT -4
I've always been a big Iron Man fan.. that's the comic I have the most of... I've got from #100 to the end of the original series(through the horror of the Crossing and teen Tony) , and most of the 2nd... I haven't really read much since Civil War though... I got really annoyed by how then ended the Secretary of Defense storyline, only to make him director of SHIELD right after... seemed dumb. Good to know the book is good again... I just picked up a couple random trades on the cheap, so I'll probably fill in around them if I like them.
Titans/Outsiders was a big fave of mine, too, but only the REAL Titans (Nightwing, Starfire, Cyborg, etc)... and they tend to get the shaft. Is Dick still Batman?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 13:42:02 GMT -4
Batman and the Outsiders was a good book, lost interest once Batman was gone from the title...
Nova was another book I really liked, I have the original series in full and a good amount of the newer series...
A few more books I liked...
West Coast Avengers The Defenders / New Defenders Thing ( His Solo Book ) Powerman & Iron Fist Heroes for Hire ( 90's version ) Vietnam Journal G.I.Combat Strikeforce Mortuary ( Marvel ) Moon Knight
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Post by ljacone on Mar 19, 2011 14:18:29 GMT -4
I've always been a big Iron Man fan.. that's the comic I have the most of... I've got from #100 to the end of the original series(through the horror of the Crossing and teen Tony) , and most of the 2nd... I haven't really read much since Civil War though... I got really annoyed by how then ended the Secretary of Defense storyline, only to make him director of SHIELD right after... seemed dumb. Good to know the book is good again... I just picked up a couple random trades on the cheap, so I'll probably fill in around them if I like them. Iron Man is my boy too. I'm about 25 comics short of having the entire run of the book. I loved Tony as the SecDef, but the Director of SHIELD worked too. That was a fun story because the Knaufs wrote him as a private sector guy running this government agency like a private organization... and making it immeasurably more efficient and successful! We have two Batmen now. In Gotham City, Batman is Dick Grayson with Damien Wayne as Robin. Internationally, Batman is the recently returned Bruce Wayne, who know claims that he has been financing Batman for years.
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Post by wildfire on Mar 19, 2011 15:23:23 GMT -4
Wow, that's impressive. I only have about 1/3 of the 1st hundred (though I do have #1).
That sounds intriguing, Batman that is. Have to keep an eye out.
@ Dennis: Nova is a great book... the recent space stuff (annihilation and the Nova Corps story) were really good. I was a big New Warriors fan back before Marvel decided to destoy them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 15:34:29 GMT -4
@ WF I loved the Annihilation story and then I ended collecting it right when Nova Corps started but I did get Four issues off eBay of that storyline...
I'm still reading and plan to re-read NFL SuperPro, it was listed as the worst comic book. I have to say I really like it, some of the bad crap made in Comics I've enjoyed...
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Post by MT on Mar 19, 2011 16:50:44 GMT -4
ljacone, I was reading Brightest Day up until about issue 8 or 9 when I decided they were just dragging out a series of stories that would've been more effective as either two or three different series or could've been condensed and told in 12 issues. I may pick up the rest of the series in TPB sometime down the line.
ALSO, yes The Outsiders and Doom Patrol have been cancelled.
maddog, I'm sure you see the irony in the fact that, by your estimation, the Flash book has been "slow".
On my current reading list:
Green Lantern (been reading since way before it was "cool") Batman Inc. Azrael (before it was cancelled) The Unwritten Haunt (by Robert Kirkman of Walking Dead fame) Rasl (by Jeff Smith, who created Bone) Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (retelling the story word for word as it appeared in the novel) Irredeemable Silver Surfer (new mini-series) SHIELD (Jonathan Hickman's hidden history of the SHIELD organization)
Recently finished the min-series Superior by Mark Millar and Lenil Yu. It was nice, but kind of read like a movie treatment more than a comic series. I also just finished the Ultimate Thor, which was pretty good. Batman And Robin was an awesome series but I bowed out when Morrison quit writing it and moved to Batman Inc.
On my constant reading and re-reading rotation are the following by master Grant Morrison: The Invisibles (read it a different way every time), The Filth (poetic), Final Crisis (people who don't like this are with the trolls!), SEAGUY, and I'm very much waiting for the decade and a half delayed release of the collected Flex Mentallo.
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