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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 31, 2010 11:40:09 GMT
Amazon have delivered two trades of X goodness with a third en route.
Uncanny X-Men: The Five Lights Hope finds a little out about her family and the goes round activating the powers of each of the five new mutants. Gets a little repetitive after a while and exposes the ongoing problems the book has: THERE'S TOO MANY CHARACTERS! It's hard to get a grip on who the X-Men are, the only character with any screen time I'm not interested in and have been over exposed recently while the ones I do want to see are floating in the background showing up for a panel or two here and there. The only real good thing about it s that Doctor Nemesis keeps showing up. Put him, X-Club & Northstar in a book and I'll be happy.
Ultimate Exiles 6 is here and Generation X classic v1 is en route.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 2, 2011 23:16:10 GMT
Slightly annoyed by the Generation X Classic v1. It contains The Uncanny X-Men & X-Men issues together with Generation X#1 which were all in the Phalanx covenant/origin of Generation X trade. But it's not got the other issues from the Phalanx trade and has got 3 and a bit issues of Generation X not in the previous one. So I'm stuck with both !
*FOUR* trades I have ordered were on this week's shipping list: Avengers Assemble v1, Cable & New Mutants HC, Marvel Masterworks Uncanny X-Men v3 (FINALLY a colour reprint of UXM 121!) and Secret Warriors 3: Wake the Beast
I also note Essential Captain Marvel v2 seems to have gone awol from the shipping lists.
I had a look back at last year to see what my favorite trades were.... and got a little shock:
Deadpool & Cable Ultimate Collection
Exiles Ultimate Collection
Essential Avengers 7
X-Men Asgardian Wars HC
West Coast Avengers HC
Iron Monger HC
Under Siege HC
Iron Man: Stark Disasembled HC
Most of these are Hardcovers ..... an interesting move away for the classic material I prefer.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 3, 2011 20:56:30 GMT
1985 by Mark Millar and Tommy Lee Edwards. A really enjoyable tale and free of the horrible cynicism that permeates a lot of Millar's work.
Enjoyed by all the scots contingent.
The mammoth book of crime comics. Edited by Paul Gravett - Eisner, simon & Kirby, Toth, Moore, Gaiman, Spillane, Cole, Bernet and many more. Great slab of comics retails at 12.99 snagged at The Works for 4.99. But i would have paid retail for it.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 7, 2011 21:19:55 GMT
Thor: The Mighty Avengers vol 1 is charming and well worth a read. It's just genuinely heartwarming and one of those rare comics were the entire creative team mesh perfectly. I defy any reader not to raise a smile about a panel in which Captain Britain talks about how the British never give up while a ghostly 'Rule Britannia' image appears behind him as he poses in a heroic manner during a Big Fight with Thor. Just lovely stuff all-round and the artist manages to give Thor a more, well, 'kiddy' look without taking away the sense that he's a powerful Norse God, which is a difficult thing to pull off.
Shame the series itself was prematurely canned but then it was buried under the deluge of Thor stuff Marvel is currently throwing at the wall. They do this every time a movie comes out of one of their comics to generate a slew of tie-in trades. Why? Don't they have faith in repackaging older material? They have decades worth of stuff! It never makes sense to me.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 10, 2011 23:29:11 GMT
Amazon have just been emailed:
They cancelled Captain America: No Escape the same day. I expect to see that back soon too.
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Post by Jaymz on Jan 11, 2011 0:32:57 GMT
The date isn't wrong for Justice League International Vol. 5, that's the Titan version they have listed, which isn't out until March.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 11, 2011 1:51:09 GMT
ah. ta.
Still doesn't explain why they cancelled it originally.
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Post by Jaymz on Jan 11, 2011 2:32:02 GMT
Depends on their supplier, I know Diamond UK don't supply Amazon anymore, but I don't know who their DC supplier is. Titan may have intervened and prevented them from getting stock which they're going to release, or Amazon didn't get the deal they wanted from the supplier and couldn't be bothered with them.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 13, 2011 12:21:12 GMT
Thor: The Mighty Avengers vol 1 is charming and well worth a read. It's just genuinely heartwarming and one of those rare comics were the entire creative team mesh perfectly. I defy any reader not to raise a smile about a panel in which Captain Britain talks about how the British never give up while a ghostly 'Rule Britannia' image appears behind him as he poses in a heroic manner during a Big Fight with Thor. Just lovely stuff all-round and the artist manages to give Thor a more, well, 'kiddy' look without taking away the sense that he's a powerful Norse God, which is a difficult thing to pull off. Shame the series itself was prematurely canned but then it was buried under the deluge of Thor stuff Marvel is currently throwing at the wall. They do this every time a movie comes out of one of their comics to generate a slew of tie-in trades. Why? Don't they have faith in repackaging older material? They have decades worth of stuff! It never makes sense to me. -Ralph Ninth issue for free comic book day: www.bleedingcool.com/2011/01/12/one-more-thor-the-mighty-avenger-by-roger-langridge-and-chris-samnee/ |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 13, 2011 19:31:59 GMT
Dispatching soon:
Secret Warriors - 3: Wake the Beast
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny Xmen - 3
Avengers Assemble Vol. 1
Hmmm: X-Force: Cable & the New Mutants was out the same week as some of these.
Still no sign of Essential Captain Marve1 Vol. 2 creeping back on the schedules
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 13, 2011 19:35:54 GMT
Hurray for FCBD Thor!
The two HC's of Bob Layton's 80's Hercules stories plus the trade of the recent mini have been safely placed in the reading pile.
I GIVE THEE...THE GIFT!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 13, 2011 21:03:55 GMT
Hurray for FCBD Thor! The two HC's of Bob Layton's 80's Hercules stories plus the trade of the recent mini have been safely placed in the reading pile. I GIVE THEE...THE GIFT! This shall be fine sport indeed! *laughs uproariously* Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2011 22:49:50 GMT
Been reading bonkers 70's Kirby in Essential Captain America 5. It's glorious mental. In this evening's issues, Cap was sucked into another dimension to help escapees from an Earth asylum (floating in space) fight demonic creatures!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 14, 2011 23:03:16 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 16, 2011 22:00:15 GMT
From the library was found Black Panther by Jack Kirby volume 2. It was INSANE.
And it features THE BLACK MUSKATEERS.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 17, 2011 10:54:07 GMT
If anyone passes by an LCS or if James is reading: did the Cable & New Mutants HC actually come out recently?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 17, 2011 17:41:54 GMT
I'm sure I saw that in FPE recently.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 17, 2011 23:04:49 GMT
Today is a big day for Phil's X-Men trade collection: I *FINALLY* own colour reprints of UXM 120 & 121!
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Post by Jaymz on Jan 17, 2011 23:45:48 GMT
If anyone passes by an LCS or if James is reading: did the Cable & New Mutants HC actually come out recently? Yes, sort of. We got the Direct Market version first week of January, the one where the cover is New Mutants #87 and the spine is a numbered volume of Marvel Premiere Edition HCs. No sign of the normal version yet. I expect it's out in the US, who knows when the UK will see it. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 21, 2011 18:12:26 GMT
Hercules: Twilight of a God. Puts a full stop on the Layton run with a new series. I was a bit sad at the end.
Captain America: Two Americas. Brubaker acheives the impossible and makes the Falcon almost cool. Almost.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 28, 2011 17:21:33 GMT
Planet Hulk - up there with the best Hulk runs. Great story and art throughout.
Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man - Chameleons - Great art from Takeshi Miyazama and David LaFuente along with Bendis' best work for ages. Thankfully light on the stink carried over from Ultimatum.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 28, 2011 22:33:25 GMT
Planet Hulk: Yet again I told you so several years back. Why does Andu not believe me?
Phil has his Cable & the New Mutants HC and is v happy with it. Yes it's Liefield but I was there, I remember what New Mutants was like pre Liefield and how him turning up was a real shot in the arm for the book. V pleased to have it and looking fwd to the X-Force volume.
Meanwhile Secret Warrriors 3 was a cracking read. Loved it.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 28, 2011 22:34:25 GMT
I do believe you, but I was in no rush to get it as I knew it would get a healthy reprinting.
Andy
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Post by Shockprowl on Jan 29, 2011 17:47:53 GMT
Planet Hulk rocks a fat one, alright, and World War Hulk is one of my fave graphic novels EVER (and no it's not just 'cos the Sentry's in it!).
Speaking of the Blond Bombshell (as Spiderman calls Sentry in World War Hulk), I've just got and read 'What if' number 200 which, I wont spoil it for you, features Sentry being very cool. Oh yeah.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 29, 2011 21:45:22 GMT
HULK!!!!!!
-rALPH
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 16, 2011 12:52:39 GMT
My order for Essential Captain Marvel v2 has just been cancelled by Amazon :-(
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 16, 2011 18:54:08 GMT
DAMN IT!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 17, 2011 19:06:59 GMT
Bollocks, that is annoying.
I was planning on getting that.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 22, 2011 17:10:57 GMT
I had planned to follow Secret Avengers in trades, but I saw volume 1 the other day with a price-point of £19...for 5 issues!!! Fuck that! I will wait and see if it turns up in the UK newsstand Avengers book instead.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 22, 2011 18:44:53 GMT
HC or TPB? I hope the former....
EDIT: yes must be the sc isn't out yet. Half that at Amazon for the HC if you want to get one of your operatives involved.
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