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Post by maddog1981 on May 18, 2011 10:14:39 GMT -4
In the main story they were consistent but when you got into tie in issues you never knew how strong they were going to be. Like in JLA they killed their Black Lanterns fairly easily. In the Superman mini, he practically had to drop an atomic bomb on his and even then it was almost not enough. They really were written up or down to the situation.
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Post by ljacone on May 18, 2011 11:04:51 GMT -4
In the main story they were consistent but when you got into tie in issues you never knew how strong they were going to be. Like in JLA they killed their Black Lanterns fairly easily. In the Superman mini, he practically had to drop an atomic bomb on his and even then it was almost not enough. They really were written up or down to the situation. Well, I think that also depended on who all was there. Like in JLA, they had Doctor Light with them, and her powers were demonstrated as being very effective against the BLs. Same with Halo over in Outsiders (although the nature of her powers was not as strong as Doctor Light). I did not read all of the crossovers but I can see your point. The ones I read were pretty straight. Best one you may not have read: Doom Patrol. There's a great bit where Cliff Steele (Robotman) is attacked by the reanimated corpse of... Cliff Steele. Also, Robotman doesn't show up AT ALL to the Black Lanterns, because he is a brain stuck in a machine. Plus we get to see the Chief's ex-wife do a number on him, too...
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Post by wildfire on May 18, 2011 11:32:04 GMT -4
I skipped Blackest Night... seemed to much like the story with Neron a few years ago... Underworld Unleashed I think it was?
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Post by maddog1981 on May 18, 2011 12:36:06 GMT -4
Blackest Night was amazing for the first 3/4 of it and then kind of limped across the finish line. Still good but it definitely finished weaker than it started.
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Post by ljacone on May 18, 2011 13:14:02 GMT -4
I skipped Blackest Night... seemed to much like the story with Neron a few years ago... Underworld Unleashed I think it was? Yeah, Underworld Unleashed is the one you are thinking of. But the two stories are totally different from one another. Blackest Night was amazing for the first 3/4 of it and then kind of limped across the finish line. Still good but it definitely finished weaker than it started. Still not seeing that. Blackest Night #8 was hit after hit after hit as far as I was concerned.
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Post by wildfire on May 18, 2011 14:10:54 GMT -4
Yeah, I'll have to put it on the list I didn't love GL Corps war (and I thought I would) so I was kinda soured in general, but I'll need somethin' to read after I catch up on X-Men and Fables
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Post by ljacone on May 18, 2011 14:19:04 GMT -4
Yeah, I'll have to put it on the list I didn't love GL Corps war (and I thought I would) so I was kinda soured in general, but I'll need somethin' to read after I catch up on X-Men and Fables Right now I am reading The Life And Times of Scrooge McDuck. HIGHLY recommend this if you can find it. I got the three HCs for less than half price at a used book store and they are awesome.
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Post by wildfire on May 25, 2011 17:34:02 GMT -4
I gotta read some of the Duck books one of these days.
I just read one of the Iron Man: Director of SHIELD trades (With Iron Hands?).. it's the one where the Mandarin tries to use Extremis as a WMD.
Iron Man is my favorite character...by a wide margin, but I was pretty skeptical of this one... it combines two of my three least favorite Iron Man bits.
For those keeping score, the other (and worst) was the Crossing/Timeslide/Iron Boy nonsense... I think it was a year before I bought another Marvel comic after that. I know I was like the only one that really liked Force Works, but they'd didn't need a Clone Saga level retcon (it also was about the time they killed 2099)
Extremis is stupid.. it makes Tony Stark a mutant, essentially. Blah... hopefully it's gone by now (I sorta stopped reading after the horrid Warren Ellis run). I only got this trade because it was $3.95.
The SHIELD thing could have made sense, if Tony hadn't been fired as Secretary of Defense just a little bit ago in Marvel Time...that also annoyed the crap out of me.
That said, Mandarin is a great bad guy, and this was a pretty good arc... the psych analysis bit was pretty cool.
What didn't make sense is why the SHIELD guys were on Tony's side, but if you let that go, it was a good story.
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Post by ljacone on May 26, 2011 8:04:46 GMT -4
Iron Man is my favorite comics character and I am within spitting distance of having the whole run so it is good to meet another Iron Fan!
Extremis is in fact gone. It was rather stupidly expunged by some magical Skrull plot devi--errr, I mean virus in Secret Invasion.
Extremis was not too bad the way that it was handled by Charles and Daniel Knauf, who took over after Ellis left after his ONE STORY (one story does not make a "run" in my opinion). They handled it as another upgrade which allowed Tony even more control over his technology. There's a scene in their first arc (which is before Civil War) where Tony is fighting Crimson Dynamo while advising one of his aides on an auction, and controlling a Life Model Decoy at a board meeting, and I think one or two other things, all at once. That was what Extremis allowed him to do. Part of the problem is that Ellis knew what he wanted Extremis to be and no one else did. F'n Bendis, for instance, along with Matt Fraction, constantly refer to it as a "virus," which is about as close to 100% wrong as you can be while still being in English.
The Director of SHIELD stuff actually works really well for me because of the first arc of that era. Tony transforms SHIELD and runs it like a private business, which ruffles a lot of feathers but actually is super successful. This idea that Stark had a horrible run as the Director came from external stories, such as anything written by F'n Bendis or Dan Slott. In his own book, Tony's SHIELD was lean, mean, and effective, and he won the support of his team.
I agree with you about the SecDef story. That was a superior run from John Jackson Miller which unfortunately became fodder for F'n Bendis's first attempt to "fix" the Marvel Universe, the abortion known as Avengers Disassembled.
I too am a big fan of The Mandarin. It seems that Fraction has big plans for him after the Invincible Iron Man Annual which completely revised his origin and then his recent cameo at the end of the Resilient arc. The way the Knaufs wrote him was amazing. I especially liked him superheating the rings and embedding them in his spine! Yikes!
Regarding Duck books, check out Boom!'s monthly Uncle Scrooge book. It reprints classic stories from Carl Barks and Don Rosa and others, and it's a heck of a lot of fun. They also put out a similar Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse title, plus I think the anthology Disney Comics. As for new material, they also publish a superlative Darkwing Duck title, a Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers book, and just began a Ducktales book!
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Post by wildfire on May 26, 2011 11:58:52 GMT -4
Extremis was around the time I was starting to get away from Monthlies... that and Avengers Dissembled pretty much sealed it for me... then I almost got back in and they nuked the New Warriors, and I was done I'm not a big Bendis fan either. I think he tried too hard to be 'Kewl', and he obsesses about boring characters (Carol Danvers and Jessica Jones come to mind) I've since read a bit of Secret Invasion, and yet, Tony is pretty much a villian in Bendis' books, which really turned me off. I've got 'The Five Nightmares', which I think was Fraction's first run.. that was decent, even out of context... I'll probably re-read it after I read the other SHIELD one I have. I absolutely LOVED Ducktales as a kid (the cartoon, but I've never really seen the comics around... I'll have to see if I can find a good cheap E-bay auction or somethin'. I'm missing I think about 75 comics or so for a full run of the original series. I have from about 150 to the end, and about have the ones before that... I remeber being SUPER excited when I got #1 for like $50 on E-bay... not sure what it's worth now, but just the principle of the thing made my day. I also have maybe 10 issues of ToS, later ones (like 80-90 or some such), and most of the side titles (Force Works, West Coast Avengers I have up until it jumped the shark)
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Post by maddog1981 on Aug 21, 2011 21:45:55 GMT -4
So I got a Galaxy 10.1 tablet and Comixology is awesome looking on that. Splurged on a bunch of Invincible and Young Justice comics.
Considering getting the 1st issue of Justice League this week but haven't decided one way or another yet.
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Post by tyguy on Aug 21, 2011 21:52:41 GMT -4
What's a Galaxy 10.1 tablet?
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Post by maddog1981 on Aug 21, 2011 21:57:33 GMT -4
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Post by tafkaga on Aug 23, 2011 18:45:03 GMT -4
Currently working on 'The Saga of Swamp Thing' Volume 1 by Alan Moore... never read Swamp Thing before, but this is awesome. Great writing.
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Post by Dustin on Sept 2, 2011 22:39:46 GMT -4
I just read Justice League #1 by Johns & Lee. Did anybody here check it out?
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