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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 27, 2014 8:08:06 GMT -5
Speaking of shuffling off the mortal coil, is Wolverine dead yet?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2014 8:28:41 GMT -5
Speaking of shuffling off the mortal coil, is Wolverine dead yet? I...think so? Or soon. SUPER SOON. Just not super enough. |
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Post by fuzzyblueelf on Nov 27, 2014 9:15:46 GMT -5
I thought Logan already died when he melted into an Adamantium Statue?
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Post by the4thpip on Nov 27, 2014 15:41:26 GMT -5
I thought Logan already died when he melted into an Adamantium Statue? Well, there is a guy called Sharp in Weapon X who looks like Logan and has two personality struggling for dominance, one of them Logan's |
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 27, 2014 18:38:04 GMT -5
man why'd they have to kill off Archie? It's alternate future Archie, regular Archie's fine. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 27, 2014 19:35:46 GMT -5
I really enjoyed Gotham at Midnight, it was mostly set up but a supernatural police procedural with Jim Corrigan sounds like its right up my ally.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2014 20:40:09 GMT -5
Just started the death of Archie trade, and the first few chapters maintain the high quality of the first years of the Life with Archie mag. It's a pity this had to end so soon, before there were kids around, even. One of my biggest reserves regarding Arch dying at the end is that it looked like a stunt. Yes, people die eventually, but Life with Archie had pretty much been about real life and I was thinking "if an editor thinks that getting shot and killed is part of a normal life, then our society is facing a really big problem". Well, since that's precisely the point of this last story arc, I can't object anymore. Our society is ill, and this is clearly stated in the book. (Not only because of both Clay and Arch getting shot, but also because of Wall Street tearing down the life of small town America... and because of politicians who are clearly in it for the prestige of the position more than to better the lives of yhei fellow citizens.) Good job all around. Thanks for reminding me. I think I finally got over the anger of being screwed out of the last issue enough to buy a copy on eBay. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2014 20:50:36 GMT -5
Back in New York, that last issue of Life with Archie was hard to come by. Here in Wyoming, everybody had it - Target, Barnes & Noble, the local newsstand. I could've picked up a dozen copies if I wanted. But I've given them enough money for this; we got all 10 of the variant covers for issues 36 and 37. Well, we liked 9 out of the 10, and it seemed silly to get them all but one. (Damn, I'm turning into a collector again, aren't I?)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2014 21:21:24 GMT -5
I'm sure I could have gotten it at the LCS if I came in on Wednesday, but the way he operates the store all the comics go on the shelf and at the end of the day he fills pull boxes with what is left. I've missed out on too many of the "hot Image #1's" to continue with him. Not to mention, two years in a row he neglected to even order Love And Rockets for me, because he doesn't look that far into the Previews catalog for anything.
So I went with an online pull, and they did the same thing. Charged me for the comic, invoiced the comic, marked it as shipped, but it never arrived. A month and a half afterward I finally got a response to my several requests for an explanation. Their response was "Oops, some were damaged"
Then why invoice me for it and mark it as shipped? Never got a refund either. But the one consolation is it looks like Heavyink is crashing and burning as we speak. You reap what you sow.
So at this point, for the past two or three months, I haven't been buying new comics at all. I think I'm going to become a trade waiter.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Nov 28, 2014 4:42:07 GMT -5
Anyone else tried Rogues! Vol. 2 The Cold Ship ? I've read the 5 issues and have been nicely surprised.
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Post by Jesse on Nov 28, 2014 6:33:31 GMT -5
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Gotham By Midnight #1.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 28, 2014 8:25:33 GMT -5
All-New X-Men continues to entertain (although since I read it in collected form, I'm always a bit behind the news).
I really liked the conversation between adult Scott and teenage Jean. Bendis is at his best with character moments. It's just unfortunate that he often disregards how characters had been written before and goes for his own version… Here it worked beautifully with Scott and Jean, but Warren Worthington is written as an idiot (far removed from the bright and self-assured rich kid he was in the 60s). (And how in heaven's name can it be possible that Charles Xavier got together with that psychopath, Mystique? Didn't she, like, try to murder Moira MacTaggart, slit Banshee's throat, blow up Muir Island, try to commit genocide on humanity and more beside?)
The O5 being stuck in the present really evokes the SW6 Legion that showed up in the 5 years later era of Legion of superheroes; except here, the concept is used right. I find it cool that Stuart Immonen got to draw both of these "teenage team returns to the present" storylines!
Now that it looks as if the O5 are stuck in the present, we don't have to twist our brains into knots trying to reconcile strands of continuity and send them back to the past. This storyline uses the concept of parallel worlds being created whenever we mess with time, and so we just have to imagine that somewhere in the multiverse there is a Marvel Earth from which the O5 vanished one day, never to return. As for "our" Marvel Earth, it got extra time-displaced citizens from a parallel timeline, not that different from Rachel or Dark Beast. Carry on, Marvel. And please just don't kill too many characters just because "replacements" are available.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2014 12:13:40 GMT -5
I really enjoyed Gotham at Midnight, it was mostly set up but a supernatural police procedural with Jim Corrigan sounds like its right up my ally. I couldn't handle the art. I do think it works well for the book, though. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 29, 2014 17:48:35 GMT -5
Ben Templesmith is something of an acquired taste, I couldn't get into his work at first either and if Gotham was a traditional capes book I probably wouldn't care for it but as it's nontraditional his murky atmospheric look works really well.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2014 23:47:13 GMT -5
Templesmith is one of my favorites in comics today. He's the reason I picked up both 30 Days Of Night and Wasteland. Not regretting either decision by the way, even if he never did interiors for Wasteland. I will try to check out anything he illustrates. I can see some genres not working with his style, but so far I think he knows his groove and sticks with it.
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