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Post by maddog1981 on Mar 19, 2011 17:23:19 GMT -4
I liked the first 12 issues of Irredeemable but it seems like they started dragging it out once it had some success.
I don't know what it was with the Flash. That first story arc felt like a two parter drug out into six issues. It felt like it just went on forever. I agree on the irony of it.
I like Green Lantern Corp. better than Green Lantern.
Batman Inc. hasn't captured me yet.
Love Knights of the Dinner Table. One of the most consistently funny comics on the market.
Hated Final Crisis. I thought it was too disjointed and it really made me hate that whole RIP era of Batman. I liked some of the tie ins and lead ups. Loved that mini series where they dumped all of the super villains on some planet.
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Post by maddog1981 on Mar 19, 2011 17:28:13 GMT -4
I actually liked the Heroes for Hire book that Marvel did during the Civil War timeframe. It failed miserably but then every book I really latch onto fails... see also Shadowpact.
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Post by maddog1981 on Mar 19, 2011 17:35:50 GMT -4
I also own this. I tried to get rid of it but it threatened to kill my family and burn down my house:
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Post by MT on Mar 19, 2011 17:37:03 GMT -4
I liked the first 12 issues of Irredeemable but it seems like they started dragging it out once it had some success. I don't know what it was with the Flash. That first story arc felt like a two parter drug out into six issues. It felt like it just went on forever. I agree on the irony of it. Geoff Johns seems to do that a lot, as I felt the same way about Brightest Day being a more compact story dragged out over more issues than it needed. If it would get out on time it could build some momentum. After just three issues it's hard to get a feel for where it's going. You're with the trolls! It was seemingly disjointed because time it's self was becoming disjointed thanks to Darkseid's manipulations (never mind the fact that, unlike a Johns project, this was actually cut back several issues and the story that NEEDED more issues to be told had to be condensed). The tie-ins and related material did nothing for me, but they were decent for what they were, I suppose. Actually, the Superman: Beyond 3D story was brilliant, especially the ending, but none of the others excited me that much.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2011 19:57:55 GMT -4
Read Batman: The Killing Joke today.
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Post by wildfire on Mar 19, 2011 21:14:25 GMT -4
That's a classic!
I didn't actually read Final Crisis... the reviews were lousy, so I wasn't tempted. I did enjoy 52... even read some of the Booster Gold series that spun out of it.
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Post by maddog1981 on Mar 19, 2011 21:58:11 GMT -4
I enjoyed 52 for about 12 issues and then the flaws of the series really started to detract from my enjoyment of it. I've been meaning to revisit it. I don't think it was a piece of shit like Countdown was or anything. I just got annoyed that 52 was supposed to tell us what happened going into One Year Later and never did.
I want to know how fucking Bullock got back into the GCPD and they've never explained that ever. God, did One Year Later piss me off when it was all said and done. Such an awesome idea with such shitty execution.
The Batman situation is really fucked right now if you ask me though. There's some serious bloat with his books right now and I hate having two Batmans. I would've been okay with leaving Bruce gone for awhile longer as Dick had really grown on me as a Batman. Marvel just seemed to have a better plan with how they handled Caps death and return. He came back and moved on.
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Post by ljacone on Mar 21, 2011 10:13:50 GMT -4
I actually liked the Heroes for Hire book that Marvel did during the Civil War timeframe. It failed miserably but then every book I really latch onto fails... see also Shadowpact. I also dug Heroes For Hire v.2. I am a big Power Man fan and so a HFH book starring the Daughters of the Dragon (who started out as a supporting cast in Iron Fist and then jumped with Danny over when Power Man became Power Man & Iron Fist) was appealing to me. I really dug the backup with Tarantula and Paladin where Paladin found the armory of old school Marvel weapons; at one point he wields Cockroach Hamilton's 6 barrelled shotgun (AKA "Josh")! That book was fun to read but it was destined to fail just based on the large amounts of women and the lack of characters which Marvel deems "sellable." Same with New Excalibur, which was a WONDERFUL series but only made it to 24 issues. Claremont was money money money on that book and old school Excal fans such as myself ate it up. But it didn't fit with the current mutant scene and thus was cancelled and replaced with the abysmal Captain Britain and MI13... which was canned something like 12 issues later. Psych! @cc, Brightest Day to me is an anthology book, so I dig it as an anthology. I don't mind the big ensemble cast because I dig pretty much all of them anyway!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2011 10:54:18 GMT -4
@md I too was a fan of Shadowpact and another book I liked was Primal Force two really cool Magic Based books from DC Comics...
I also liked the Freedom Fighters...
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Post by wildfire on Mar 21, 2011 11:06:21 GMT -4
[ Same with New Excalibur, which was a WONDERFUL series but only made it to 24 issues. Claremont was money money money on that book and old school Excal fans such as myself ate it up. But it didn't fit with the current mutant scene and thus was cancelled and replaced with the abysmal Captain Britain and MI13... which was canned something like 12 issues later. Psych! @cc, Brightest Day to me is an anthology book, so I dig it as an anthology. I don't mind the big ensemble cast because I dig pretty much all of them anyway! Claremont actually wrote something decent recently? I thought after Sovereign Seven he was totally out of ideas. I can see how Excalibur would totally not work right now though... the mutant books are all VERY tight right now.
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Post by wildfire on Mar 21, 2011 11:07:22 GMT -4
@md I too was a fan of Shadowpact and another book I liked was Primal Force two really cool Magic Based books from DC Comics... I also liked the Freedom Fighters... The shadowpact bits from 52 were good.. didn't seem likely to make a good ongoing, though... maybe I'll check it out next time I buy stuff
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2011 11:46:58 GMT -4
@md I too was a fan of Shadowpact and another book I liked was Primal Force two really cool Magic Based books from DC Comics... I also liked the Freedom Fighters... The shadowpact bits from 52 were good.. didn't seem likely to make a good ongoing, though... maybe I'll check it out next time I buy stuff I really enjoyed the Shadowpact series and the 1994 to 1996 Primal Force series is worth getting issues #0 till #14...
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Post by tyguy on Mar 21, 2011 12:08:15 GMT -4
I have the paperback novel of 52 and will get to reading it soon. I'm only vaguely familiar with the comic book story, but a few other storylines from comics were made into books and I have liked those.
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Post by ljacone on Mar 21, 2011 12:50:24 GMT -4
[ Same with New Excalibur, which was a WONDERFUL series but only made it to 24 issues. Claremont was money money money on that book and old school Excal fans such as myself ate it up. But it didn't fit with the current mutant scene and thus was cancelled and replaced with the abysmal Captain Britain and MI13... which was canned something like 12 issues later. Psych! @cc, Brightest Day to me is an anthology book, so I dig it as an anthology. I don't mind the big ensemble cast because I dig pretty much all of them anyway! Claremont actually wrote something decent recently? I thought after Sovereign Seven he was totally out of ideas. I can see how Excalibur would totally not work right now though... the mutant books are all VERY tight right now. Well this was a few years ago... spun out of House of M and was cancelled before Secret Invasion. It was old hat sutff for Claremont, dealing with the Multiverse and whatnot like on the old Captain Britain and Excal stuff. Like, the recurring foes of the New Excal team was a group called Shadow-X, who were an evil version of the original X-Men from an alternate Earth. And their major enemy was Albion, leader of an alternate Captain Britain Corps -- being made up of all of the Caps who chose the sword instead of the amulet. Which is pretty damn awesome frankly. There was also a story dealing with Nocturne having a heart attack which was obvious catharthis for Claremont and his health problems, which was very personal and heartfelt. I think that basically he was given free reign over the book and really didn't have to worry about connecting with anything else, and it worked really well in that context. It was like the old days where you ONLY had to read Excalibur to get the Excal story.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 8:54:08 GMT -4
Talking about Shadowpact and Primal Force, I started reading Primal Force again and I will read Shadowpact again too...
Primal Force starts off with these DC Characters in Jack O'Lantern - Liam McHugh, Tornado ( Red Tornado ), Claw, The Golem and Meridian with Maltis leading the group...
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