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Post by wickedmountain on Dec 23, 2016 22:09:56 GMT -5
Comics I read digitally tonight  Future Quest #1 Flintstones #1 Aquaman Rebirth #1 Titans Rebirth#1 Justice League Rebirth# 1 Green Arrow Rebirth #1 Nightwing Rebirth #1 I'm wayyyyyyyyy behind in comics. |
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Post by wickedmountain on Dec 23, 2016 22:23:09 GMT -5
4 issues was way too short for a TPB and Coates is focused on longer term storytelling (which makes sense due to his background), I'm following the series in singles, so I'm enjoying it, but it's very slow. I think Marvel wanted to push out a TPB on Coates' name, but they should have had a bit more patience. Unrelated: I started on Grayson TPB 4 yesterday (and also have bought a load of IDW comics due to the humble bundle this week. Lots of Transformers and GI Joe, but also the first issues of Micronauts, Mask and several issues of Rom). I really dislike that the first chapter so far is all about some Robin crossover. I started it late, so I'm still during that issue, but Dick hasn't even appeared yet. Did the Grayson book get cancelled ? and was the girl in it with him a different Huntress or no ? |
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Post by wickedmountain on Dec 23, 2016 22:24:05 GMT -5
4 issues was way too short for a TPB and Coates is focused on longer term storytelling (which makes sense due to his background), I'm following the series in singles, so I'm enjoying it, but it's very slow. I think Marvel wanted to push out a TPB on Coates' name, but they should have had a bit more patience. Unrelated: I started on Grayson TPB 4 yesterday (and also have bought a load of IDW comics due to the humble bundle this week. Lots of Transformers and GI Joe, but also the first issues of Micronauts, Mask and several issues of Rom). I really dislike that the first chapter so far is all about some Robin crossover. I started it late, so I'm still during that issue, but Dick hasn't even appeared yet. IDW/BOOM have some awesome books I need to read some more of them. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 24, 2016 7:53:55 GMT -5
4 issues was way too short for a TPB and Coates is focused on longer term storytelling (which makes sense due to his background), I'm following the series in singles, so I'm enjoying it, but it's very slow. I think Marvel wanted to push out a TPB on Coates' name, but they should have had a bit more patience. Unrelated: I started on Grayson TPB 4 yesterday (and also have bought a load of IDW comics due to the humble bundle this week. Lots of Transformers and GI Joe, but also the first issues of Micronauts, Mask and several issues of Rom). I really dislike that the first chapter so far is all about some Robin crossover. I started it late, so I'm still during that issue, but Dick hasn't even appeared yet. Did the Grayson book get cancelled ? and was the girl in it with him a different Huntress or no ? Yeah, It did... though it wasn't so much cancelled as the story finished... the book re-started as Nightwing right away. It has since been established that the Huntress in Spyral is the same Huntress running around the DCU right now.. wether she's the same one as pre-New 52 or not is anyone's guess. |
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Post by Trevor on Dec 24, 2016 9:00:59 GMT -5
Comics I read digitally tonight Future Quest #1 Flintstones #1 Aquaman Rebirth #1 Titans Rebirth#1 Justice League Rebirth# 1 Green Arrow Rebirth #1 Nightwing Rebirth #1 I'm wayyyyyyyyy behind in comics. That's not behind at all. I'm catching up on DC I missed and am approaching the Infinite Crisis era. |
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Post by wickedmountain on Dec 24, 2016 15:53:20 GMT -5
Comics I read digitally tonight Future Quest #1 Flintstones #1 Aquaman Rebirth #1 Titans Rebirth#1 Justice League Rebirth# 1 Green Arrow Rebirth #1 Nightwing Rebirth #1 I'm wayyyyyyyyy behind in comics. That's not behind at all. I'm catching up on DC I missed and am approaching the Infinite Crisis era. Well I meant behind a lot more than that but this was a good place to start over because technically I would be behind before new 52 came out. This is just where I am starting over from for now lol. So yea I'm skipping ahead some for now lol . |
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Post by wickedmountain on Dec 24, 2016 15:57:33 GMT -5
Did the Grayson book get cancelled ? and was the girl in it with him a different Huntress or no ? Yeah, It did... though it wasn't so much cancelled as the story finished... the book re-started as Nightwing right away. It has since been established that the Huntress in Spyral is the same Huntress running around the DCU right now.. wether she's the same one as pre-New 52 or not is anyone's guess. Ah okay ty very much friend for info |
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Post by wickedmountain on Dec 25, 2016 4:46:15 GMT -5
Read digitally tonight, Batman Rebirth #1
Flash Rebirth #1
International Iron Man #1
Black Widow #1
Weird World #1
Red Hood &The Outlaws Rebirth #1
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Post by String on Dec 25, 2016 12:06:03 GMT -5
Inspired by the Classic thread, been catching up on IDW's G.I. Joe set of titles, a good portion of which are offered on Comixology Unlimited. Written mainly by Chuck Dixon with Hama with art by Gallant and Robert Atkins, the set-up uses some elements from the recent movies such as the Pit now being a large underground hidden base somewhere in the Nevada Desert.
There are a large number of Joe team members seen or named but Duke, Scarlett, Snake-Eyes, Stalker, Mainframe and Dial-Tone are always near the fore-front. There's quite a bit of reliance between Scarlett and her action teammates and the tech geek branch (called Fobbits) with Mains and D-T. The initial premise concerns the Joes learning of Cobra's existence at all, as they are thought of as being the head of conspiracy theories, an all-encompassing mysterious global terror network manipulating world events for their own nefarious goals. Really? Really.
Dixon does well with mixing in current events and locations while maintaining the same level of military tech jargon that Hama used so effectively in the original Marvel series. The action is good and the art is acceptable. The new relationships between the Joes is interesting (such as Duke's past with Scarlett) and Snake-Eyes still kicks mucho butt.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 27, 2016 10:18:00 GMT -5
Read Empress today.. one of the MillarWorld sci-fi books. This is the one with Stuart Immonen doing the art, just off his Star Wars gig. As most of Millar's work is these days, it's clearly meant to be a screen play... the 7 issue series took me just over an hour to read. It's pretty, that for sure, with some cool alien designs and concepts. They all just kinda fly by the window while the plot happens, though. The actual story is about a queen and her kids fleeing her husband that happens to be dictator of the universe.... of course the kids are practically superheroes.. the boy is a techincal genius and the girl an insane hand to hand fighter... so it kinda feels the the Incredibles on the run in space.
Decent read, but I don't think I'd spent $3.99 per issue on the next Millar project like this... I'l wait for the more inexpensive trade and not have to keep the singles around until the series is complete.
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Post by Dizzy D on Dec 27, 2016 13:34:49 GMT -5
Ultimates volume 2 and I hate Fairyland 2
Ultimates: Al Ewing is still the "new" Marvel talent I like the most and we still get a guest issue by Ward, but Civil War II raises its ugly head (I get that Ewing has to touch upon it, cause CWII has Captain Marvel front and center and Captain Marvel is an important part of the Ultimates). So another strike for crosscompany crossovers interfering with good titles. Luckily the CWII nonsense remains limited and has more to do with these specific characters reacting to the concept and the choices.
I Hate Fairyland: I'm wondering how long Young can keep this up. (*Looks at 25 billion Marvel Babies covers* All right, that long, I guess). I'm still enjoying the title, but it's not suited for any longform storytelling and Gert is not the character to grow in any way (even not including the fact that she literally can't grow).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2016 1:03:36 GMT -5
Just got to read The Sixth Gun Vol. 9: Boot Hill finally, collecting issues 48, 49 and the triple sized #50 that served as the finale of the Sixth Gun Saga. This has become one of my favorite modern series. I haven't read any of the spin-off mini series (or trades collecting them) but the main story is a fantastic weird west saga that stands on it own but is filled with a plethora of great characters, engrossing action sequences, mystery, intrigue, mythology and world building (on oh so many levels as world building is the core of he plot itself of the entire saga) with a lot that twists, turns and thrills the entire way through.
Cullen Bunn is an enigma to me. His creator-owned stuff is so innovative (in terms of using things new and old in new and unexpected ways not creating new things/ideas ex nihilo), filled with deep engrossing characters, full of life and interest, that I will take the thrill ride with him almost every time (whether it's Sixth Gun, Helheim, the Damned or anything else), yet I have been meh or disliked pretty much all his big 2 stuff (the best of the bunch I felt was his Fearless Defenders)and I am very conflicted with his current Conan run(it's solid but all the ideas he's using we saw him use before and better in his creator-owned stuff so it feels hackneyed and repetitive, like I've read it before but the characters and settings have been whited out and Conan and the Hyborian Age inserted in their place (along the lines of what Thomas and de Camp did with some of Howard's non-Conan tales making them Conan stories, except Bunn is using his own published stories for the fodder for Conan stories). His Micronauts is a touch better, as it feels like its drawing on the Marvel run for tone and inspiration but taking its own shape at least and not retreading things I have seen before by Bunn.
He's prolific, and his best stuff stands out in today's market as some of the best stuff out there, but the bulk of it leaves me less than enthused if not a little cold. Like I said, he's an enigma to me.
-M
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Post by wickedmountain on Dec 28, 2016 1:43:22 GMT -5
Read digitally earlier tonight
Red hood and the outlaws Rebirth series #1
Red hood and the outlaws rebirth series #2
Flash Rebirth series #1
Flash Rebirth series #2
Nightwing Rebirth series #1
Nightwing Rebirth series #2
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Post by shaxper on Dec 28, 2016 9:11:07 GMT -5
Finally got around to reading The Sandman: Overture, and I'm disappointed. You'd think even an adequate work with Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III on it would be worthwhile, but as a coda to the ENTIRE Sandman saga (chronologically occurs first, but it only makes sense if you've read everything that came after), it was just plain disappointing. Characterization was adequate, plot was nonsensical, and none of it did anything to make the original story richer beyond giving us a clue as to why Dream is always so mopey.
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 28, 2016 10:18:01 GMT -5
Just read the first two issues of Foolkiller, that rarest of things, a Marvel title that embraces and builds on past continuity! Greg Salinger has built a new life as a psychotherapist sice giving up the identity of Foolkiller, but his inability to prevent a tragedy pushes him back into the mask...and now, it looks like his short lived successor from the 90s is going to come after him! I love it when they remember the obscure characters...
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