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Post by hondobrode on Oct 12, 2016 9:01:05 GMT -5
Well, those are the best ones IMO. The series is still amazingly good up until Paul Smith leaves with # 175 being his last issue.  Grant Morrison did a stint about 10 years ago with Frank Quitely that was also really good.  YMMV |
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 12, 2016 18:00:11 GMT -5
I read the Morrison run recently and loved it. The issues with Quitely were the best, of course. Those two just seem to bring out the best in each other.
The Whedon/Cassady run a few years back was great as well. And I quite enjoyed the more recent stories by Brian Michael Bendis, although they did suffer heavily from crossover-itis in places.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 12, 2016 18:52:51 GMT -5
I read the Morrison run recently and loved it. The issues with Quitely were the best, of course. Those two just seem to bring out the best in each other. The Whedon/Cassady run a few years back was great as well. And I quite enjoyed the more recent stories by Brian Michael Bendis, although they did suffer heavily from crossover-itis in places. I finished a re-read of the Whedon run and have now just started the Morrison run on Unlimited for the first time and I'm loving it. |
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 13, 2016 22:54:40 GMT -5
Haven't read the Whedon / Cassaday yet but it looks good.
The Morrison run was the first time since the heyday of the X-Men that it felt fresh and vibrant and great. I was truly excited to read it.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 14, 2016 10:00:27 GMT -5
Haven't read the Whedon / Cassaday yet but it looks good. The Morrison run was the first time since the heyday of the X-Men that it felt fresh and vibrant and great. I was truly excited to read it. Yes, but...who was Xorn?  |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 14, 2016 10:06:43 GMT -5
I love new comics but am a bit tired of reboots. If I'm looking at random X-Men comics published over the last 5 years, I have a really hard time knowing which book belongs to which Volume, even though I've got resident X-Geeks who can explain my ears off. That's why I like the classic Claremont books, there was one series called Uncanny X-Men, and each had just one cover so it's easy to spot...and I own all the good ones I think (#94-#143...gets a bit spotted after that). I would have said #94-170, or possibly #175. The book started to lose me a bit after Rogue joined (I still consider her a "new" character rather than a classic one, and have never much liked her or any other X-Man to come along after Kitty Pryde) but I'm prepared to concede that it's still pretty good up until the end of the fake Phoenix storyline. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 15, 2016 15:30:51 GMT -5
I keep thinking I'm going to drop Squadron Supreme, yet I keep buying it. It's not very good. I started buying it because I read Thundra's earliest appearance (from Fantastic Four) fairly recently and I've come to love her potential as a character. And I was curious to see how she was handled in Squadron Supreme. But it's been very disappointing so far. If I had realized James Robinson was writing it, I don't think I would have bothered. The art is great. Especially the covers. And I do like the way the storylines bring in so much of the Marvel Universe. Toro as an Inhuman may be a seriously dumb idea but it's so nice to see somebody doing something ... anything ... with Toro that I accepted it. For the most part, I liked the chapters set in the Great Refuge. Still, it's just not a James Robinson project without some really dumb dialogue. So I think I'll be publishing a monthly comment with "Dumbest Dialogue of This Month's Squadron Supreme" for a while. For the issue dated December 2016: Attuma: WHAT WOULD YOU SAY WE HAVE IN COMMON? Namor: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. YOU AND I ARE AS UNALIKE AS -- AS --
NO, I'M NOT GOING TO WASTE MY TIME GROPING FOR METAPHORS ... That kind of dialogue is fine if you want to make sure the reader knows that the speaker is a pretentious, pseudo-intellectual wanker. But it sure sounds like authorial laziness when it comes from the mouth of Namor, the one true Sub-Mariner, the Avenging Son, King of Atlantis. He's not going to waste his time groping for metaphors; he's going to waste his time talking about not groping for metaphors. So, yeah, I think my main motivation for continuing to read Squadron Supreme is to make fun of James Robinson. |
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 16, 2016 1:22:46 GMT -5
Haven't read the Whedon / Cassaday yet but it looks good. The Morrison run was the first time since the heyday of the X-Men that it felt fresh and vibrant and great. I was truly excited to read it. Yes, but...who was Xorn? Xorn was who Grant Morrison declared him to be. What follows is retcon bull you can either accept or not, as you see fit. |
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 16, 2016 1:44:50 GMT -5
I keep thinking I'm going to drop Squadron Supreme, yet I keep buying it. It's not very good. I started buying it because I read Thundra's earliest appearance (from Fantastic Four) fairly recently and I've come to love her potential as a character. And I was curious to see how she was handled in Squadron Supreme. But it's been very disappointing so far. If I had realized James Robinson was writing it, I don't think I would have bothered. The art is great. Especially the covers. And I do like the way the storylines bring in so much of the Marvel Universe. Toro as an Inhuman may be a seriously dumb idea but it's so nice to see somebody doing something ... anything ... with Toro that I accepted it. For the most part, I liked the chapters set in the Great Refuge. Still, it's just not a James Robinson project without some really dumb dialogue. So I think I'll be publishing a monthly comment with "Dumbest Dialogue of This Month's Squadron Supreme" for a while. For the issue dated December 2016: Attuma: WHAT WOULD YOU SAY WE HAVE IN COMMON? Namor: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. YOU AND I ARE AS UNALIKE AS -- AS --
NO, I'M NOT GOING TO WASTE MY TIME GROPING FOR METAPHORS ... That kind of dialogue is fine if you want to make sure the reader knows that the speaker is a pretentious, pseudo-intellectual wanker. But it sure sounds like authorial laziness when it comes from the mouth of Namor, the one true Sub-Mariner, the Avenging Son, King of Atlantis. He's not going to waste his time groping for metaphors; he's going to waste his time talking about not groping for metaphors. So, yeah, I think my main motivation for continuing to read Squadron Supreme is to make fun of James Robinson. I actually like James Robinson, a lot. I've rarely read anything by him that I didn't enjoy. |
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 16, 2016 18:36:50 GMT -5
The Squadron Supreme is a concept I like, and despite James Robinson not being as solid as he used to be, I'll try the series out on sale.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 19, 2016 17:03:57 GMT -5
I thought it was going to be a light week at the comic book shop because the only books I get that were coming out were Black Widow (#7) and Kong of Skull Island (#4). And I was thinking of trying out something new in such an uncluttered week. But no! Dark Knight III: The Master Race #6 came out! And there were two covers that were both pretty cool. One of them was regular price and the other was $7.99. I ended up getting the more expensive one because I liked it a tiny bit more. AIN'T IT COOL?!?! And also Astro City #40. It seems like I just got the previous issue last week. Maybe it was the week before. The only one I've read so far is Astro City, and I only read about half of it. It's pretty cool! |
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Post by Spike-X on Oct 20, 2016 2:20:56 GMT -5
Astro City is consistently great, and the current series is the best the book has ever been.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 20, 2016 10:10:12 GMT -5
The next issue of ASTRO CITY (#41) is - according to a recent letter column - the official 100th issue when you count up all the various incarnations of the series. I can hardly wait to see what Busiek has in mind! I'm kind of hoping to see an homage to anniversary issues like those from Marvel in the 1960s. Roustabout grows four extra arms and fights the Confessor! The First Family must face all their foes - and they turn out to be robots! GUEST-STARRING EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER WHO'S EVER BEEN IN THE SERIES!
And then, in a tip of the hat to the Bronze Age, it's inked by somebody mimicking Vince Colletta.
That would actually be sort of awesome. Might be bad for sales.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Oct 20, 2016 14:27:26 GMT -5
I was a little worried with this latest Astro City incarnation.. the first issue, with it's strange, 4th wall breaking epilogue, seemed very un-Busiek like. It picked up quickly though, and has been amazing the last few issues.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 20, 2016 14:34:20 GMT -5
Yes, but...who was Xorn? Xorn was who Grant Morrison declared him to be. What follows is retcon bull you can either accept or not, as you see fit. Luckily, House of M happened roughly during that time period... so my take on it is that the Scarlet Witch started messing with reality a little earlier than we knew, and Xorn was both really who Morrison said he was, and (later on) really someone else. The timeline was rebooted softly. |
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