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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2014 12:28:51 GMT -4
So JLA is getting cancelled in April. What was even the fucking point of that book? Nightwing, Superman Unchained, Stormwatch and Suicide Squad are four others being cancelled and I read JLA becomes Justice League United (once billed Justice League Canada) and so in April the New 52 will be the New 49... I'm down to a few DC books now and they are Redhood and the Outlaws (a very fun book), Red Lanterns and Supergirl. I do have to say the crossover stories in DC is way extreme and it's killed books I like and have dropped... I'm waiting to get the tpb of Superior Foes of Spider-man in February, anyone read this title and what do you think?
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Post by maddog1981 on Jan 25, 2014 12:41:10 GMT -4
It's good. It's in a similar style to Hawkeye. It's mostly comedic but really humanizes the characters at the same time.
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Post by wildfire on Jan 27, 2014 11:16:48 GMT -4
So JLA is getting cancelled in April. What was even the fucking point of that book? It's really more of a re-start... they're starting with 'Justice League United' right after. Some sort of storyline reason is what the comic book dirt sheets are saying. Edit: I see Dennis already answered. Yeah, they're actually down to like 43 books or so for April, IIRC.
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Post by wildfire on Jan 27, 2014 11:17:11 GMT -4
Double post
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Post by tyguy on Jan 28, 2014 21:01:07 GMT -4
Read some old books recently. Avengers Celestial Quest, 8-issue series from 2001. Thanos is in it. Nuff said. Really weird swerve at the end. There's a dead black spot in space which is a cancer in the body of Eternity. Death reveals this black space, called the Rot, is actually the off spring of Death and Thanos. Ooookay.
Then I read the 12 issue series Avengers Forever from 1998. Holy time traveling big mess of fuck.
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Post by wildfire on Jan 29, 2014 15:32:50 GMT -4
Avengers Forever was partly Kurt Busiek given free reign to do whatever he wanted, but mostly a fix of the horrendous event from a couple years before: The Crossing/Timeslide. That's the one where Wasp turned into an actual Wasp, and Tony Stark was said to have been working for Kang since the 70s, so they killed him off and grabbed Tony as a teenager from the past.
It was bar none the worst story in Marvel history... Kurt Busiek actually did a great job fixing it with as much logic as one can possible have when comic book shape shifting and time travel is involved.
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Post by tyguy on Jan 31, 2014 16:12:45 GMT -4
Silver Surfer #97-100. Mephisto trying to corrupt and take the Surfer's soul, disguised as Nova.
Alpha Flight #97-100. Teamup with Avengers. The being Her crashes in Toronto pursued by the Consortium, an alien invasion begins. Then they get whisked to another planet to fight Galactus and Mac Hudson sacrifices himself.
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Post by MT on Feb 7, 2014 8:20:58 GMT -4
Ty, I've got that entire Surfer run from the late 80s-90s. It's one of the few long running series I stuck with from issue one until the end.
Decided to use some of that sweet free money (AKA birhtday gifted cash) to pick up a few graphic novels this week. Currently reading (well, not as I type this, but before and sometime after) Saga volume 2. I also got a Judge Dredd collection and volume 8 of The Unwritten.
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Post by wildfire on Feb 7, 2014 16:36:29 GMT -4
I've really been digging the new Judge Dredd stuff... too bad it's kinda pricey to get 2000 AD here in the states.
I really enjoyed the first big arc of Unwritten, but I feel like it kinda petered out. The Fables 'crossover' was really more of a Fables Elseworlds story.
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Post by MT on Feb 16, 2014 10:26:14 GMT -4
I was browsing the free stuff on Comixology and came across Classwar. I remember being interested in that when it came out in the early 00s, but never tracked it down. Read the first issue for free, liked it, the other five of the six issues series are only 99 cents each. Good stuff two issues into it, and less than five bucks for an entire series isn't bad at all.
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Post by maddog1981 on Feb 16, 2014 12:54:43 GMT -4
Yeah, that's what I love about Comixology.
Like the time I bought the entire run of Invincible for 99 cents an issue.
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Post by MT on Mar 25, 2014 1:46:39 GMT -4
Almost all of the comics I read "today" were published "yesterday". Currently reading The Maxx series from the early-mid 90s again. Finally getting into Morrison's Animal Man and Moore's run on Swamp Thing. Waiting to get Saga volume 3 when it comes out this week. That's about as new as it gets for me these days. Marvel and non-Vertigo DC (still reading Unwritten) have pretty much lost me with the mega crossover non-events and reboots. I'm waiting to see how the reviews look for the newest Valiant Solar, Man of the Atom series. The last Dark Horse series few years back started strong and quickly devolved into "WFT?" territory, so I'm hoping this one is better.
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Post by wildfire on Mar 25, 2014 9:55:42 GMT -4
Yeah, I'm thinking I'm probably going to cut back on my current stuff... it's just not worth $3.99 an issue. I don't remember which publisher it is, but they're re-printing and re-coloring the Maxx... I think it's called 'Maxx Maximized' if you're interested. I'll definitely be checking out the Solar and Magnus re-boots.
Unwritten I think really lost it's momentum after the first big arc, and the Fables 'crossover' (Which was really just an elseworlds story) was pretty terrible (and I'm a HUGE Fables fan).
I think my favorite non-Big 2 series right now is probably Great Pacific, though they seem to be throwing aliens into the mix, which is really dumb. Saga I've heard is starting to go downhill, but I'm also looking forward to the next trade...hard to credit the 'kewl' internet kids sometimes when it comes to comics... they all love Hickman, after all.
I'm reading Arak, Son of Thunder at present.. got about 1/2 the run... just read some YOung All-Stars (guess I'm on an Roy Thomas kick), but that is not is best work.
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Post by MT on Mar 25, 2014 14:32:24 GMT -4
The Unwritten picked up for me where I think you left off. It quick being more like a linear comics story and started getting very layered and textual. That's the kind of stuff I like. I was hooked from the first arc, but to me it just kept getting better.
Maxximized doesn't interest me so much because I've got the originals. I know it looks better, but the story is what I'm after and I've got that already.
Frankly, Marvel has taken such a political editorial slant that it's hard for me to even consider their current stuff in the same light as the old. There's too much agenda laden nonsense, especially in anything Bendis does. I was thinking about picking up the old Jim Starlin Adam Warlock collection today at the bookstore, but it was $34.99 for a softcover collection! Screw that. I do like that old cosmic 70s Marvel stuff, though.
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Post by maddog1981 on Mar 25, 2014 19:32:07 GMT -4
IDW is doing the Maxx reprints I think.
I'm still enjoying Marvel quite a bit but Forever Evil just killed my interest in the DCU dead. Do you guys realize the actual Justice League hasn't been in the Justice League title since August? And the end of FE just got delayed 2 months until May. Say what you will about Marvel's double shipping but Infinity came and went in no time and it was a small hiccup in any title you were reading. Not an almost year long absence of the reason you read a title.
But I too am reading more older stuff right now. Still on my Post-Crisis kick where I'm reading Superman, Adventures of Superman, Action Comics, Justice League, Suicide Squad and the Flash in an chronological fashion. It amazes me how much character development were in the books at this time.
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