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Post by The Doctor on Jul 24, 2009 19:03:26 GMT
Meh. Can't buy it if no-one stocks it.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Aug 2, 2009 11:48:01 GMT
I think Ultimatum is now officially the worst comic of the decade. Not content with ruining an entire comics line and nearly a decade of continuity, Jeph Loeb proves he is utterly insane. The ending in particular is amazing. In a 'how did this possibly get published' way. The Thing kicks down the door to Doom's castle and crushes Doom's head to a bloody pulp in one hand. Hurp-a-durp. |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2009 16:11:21 GMT
*reads spoiler*
Good lord!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 7, 2009 18:41:49 GMT
I read the issue. What in the blue hell happened to Jeph Loeb. I've read The Long Halloween - it's very good! Utter drivel. The sniping of Cyclops at the end of it was pretty guff as well That being said the preview of Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man looks good. Oh and I recommend Uncanny X-Men: First Class. Andy |
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Post by blueshift on Aug 7, 2009 18:49:27 GMT
Honestly? Sadly enough I think it was that his son died. Just about everything he has written since then has been utter rubbish.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 7, 2009 19:41:25 GMT
FPG got some re-orders in of Wednesday Comics #2-3 so I thought I'd give them a go. Ah yes, it's clicking now. Worth it for Kamandi and Strange Adventures alone, which are both utterly superb. I'll buy more issues if I can find them for these two strips alone. Hawkman, Deadman, Batman and The Flash are pretty good. Less said about the wank-fest that is Wonder Woman or the yawn-fest of Superman the better.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 8, 2009 10:06:42 GMT
Secret Warriors #6 Nice big battle. Interesting final page - agent inside or gone rogue ?
New Avengers #55 Hood's people get a power damper. ok, nothing great.
Dark Reign: Young Avengers #3 and this didn't do it for me either with the YA assessing the DarkYA. Liked the series till now.
Mighty Avengers #27 Again another Meh, from the Avengers camp.
Dark Avengers #7 Pointless fight between Norman's two Dark teams....
X-men Legacy #226 Rogue, Gambit & Danger come home into the middle of the Dark X-Men crossover. Decent issue in a run around sort of way.
Dark X-men: The Beginning #1 & Dark X-men: The Beginning #2 Background stories about Norman's slightly dodgy recruiting abilities. Confirms what I thought the Omega Machine was about and how it's powered. Hands up who thinks the old style Beast is coming back. You too ?
X-Factor #46 More time travel fun with X-Factor. stretching a bit now, needs some resoloution.
X-Force #17 Oh what an absoloute joy. Kyle/Yost effectively stick two fingers up at the recent crossover and pick up *exactly* where they left off. Honestly you could skip the Messiah War issues and this would *still* make perfect sense. Lots of blood and continuity. Best X-Book out there by a country mile.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 23, 2009 18:14:23 GMT
UK Newsstands death watch:
Star Trek Comic appears to have died with #3. The fourth issue is three weeks overdue and newsagents only have #3 in. Personally, I chucked it after the mind-numbing snoozefest that was #2. Surprised to see it go so early: I would have thought there would have been enough of a fanbase to keep a Trek comic going.
Terminator Salvation Comic appears dead with #4 for it finishes off the prequel story, the features have been gutted, the letters page is gone and there is no 'next issue' blurb. Either Titan did not have the licence to print older Terminator stories (Salvation, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Terminator and Terminator 3 are sold as entirely different licences fact fans) or the kids didn't give a toss about Salvation. I dropped this after #1. It was a very bad comic indeed.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 26, 2009 16:56:26 GMT
Caught up on Wednesday Comics #6-7. While there are some duffers (Superman, Teen Titans) and some don't work in the weekly format (Green Lantern, Sgt Rock) overall this remains a fun and decent package. Supergirl and Metamorpho are hitting their stride now. I suspect Kyle Baker is making up the Hawkman story as he goes on, but it's fun so probs there. Strange Adventures and Kamandi remain the stand-out strips by a country mile.
Doom Patrol #1. I actually only bought this for the back-up Metal Man strip as it reunites the Justice League team of Giffen. DeMateis and Maguire. It's what you expect, which is fine by me. The main strip is ok, though it didn't really grab me until the cliff-hanger which did make me think: "I want to find out what happens next."
X-Men Forever #5. I am surprised how much I am enjoying this though could those more versed in X-Men lore explain how the young version of Storm came about as that confuses me no end.
Due to circumstances, I need to cut back on comics. Aliens is dropped as is Chew, which I loved but couldn't find #3 anywhere anyway and ordering on-line is now unaffordable. Wednesday Comics stays in as it only has a few issues left. Sticking with X-Men Forever and The Unwritten. Doom Patrol not sure about yet.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 26, 2009 17:17:25 GMT
Storm was de-aged by a character called Nanny to "save" her from the Shadow King.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 26, 2009 17:39:50 GMT
Righty ho.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 27, 2009 16:51:56 GMT
There's a new creative team on Fantastic Four. It's dull as fuck though. I managed to correctly guess the cliffhanger from page one alone. Zzzzzzz. Also points off for re-using the shitty mid-70's logo.
DEAR CREATIVE TEAMS OF FANTASTIC FOUR: STOP DOING REHEATS OF OLD STUFF. THIS SHOULD BE THE MOST SURPRISING BOOK ON THE STANDS. IT SHOULD HAVE THE 'SHOCK OF THE NEW'. THAT IS ALL.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2009 15:34:07 GMT
Wednesday Comics #8. RE: Metamorpho. Ah, ok, I get it now. This is less of a story and more a 'stylistic gimmick of the week' type strip. Now I get it, it's growing on me rapidly. This week's strip was really clever, laid out like a periodic table. Overally, quality remains high (let us forget Superman, though it looks nice). Well done, DC, you have managed to make me committ to a weekly book, which your previous efforts failed to do. Now make your regular titles less continuity ridden and less full of gratutious violence and I would buy more of your products.
G-Man: Cape Crisis #1. Marvel have consigned Mini-Marvels to the dustbin, but we can still enjoy Chris Giarrusso's fun and lively superhero strips, albeit this time with the copyright labels stripped off. It's funny, it's fun, it's just a damn good read. And you get some back-up strips thrown in too. They're of variable quality but adds value to the package. Oh, and no ads. For $3. Well done, Image.
X-Men Forever #6. There's a two-page scene here between Sabertooth and Xavier which is the tightest, best observed thing Claremont has written in years. And bear in mind, Sabertooth is usually a character I don't give a toss about: normally the most one-note character in comics. Now I want to know what he will do next. Good stuff.
-Ralph
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Post by kayevcee on Aug 28, 2009 21:55:09 GMT
X-men Forever made SABERTOOTH interesting? Going to have to get the trade of that, methinks! Also, I love that X-continuity is sooo bat faeces mental that when someone says: Storm was de-aged by a character called Nanny to "save" her from the Shadow King. nobody bats an eyelid. -Nick |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2009 17:12:16 GMT
My continuing failure to find employment means more cuts to comics. The Uninvited is dropped, as like Chew, issues were hard to find. Wednesday Comics only has 2 more weeks to go so I'll stick with it until the end. The 2nd issue of Doom Patrol did nothing for me so that's dropped. X-Men Forever #7 entertained me as usual (hurrah for Nick Fury cheesy WW2 flashback scenes) so that will stay. The Transformers: Tales of the Fallen series looks like run-of-the mill tie-in fodder so not bothering with it.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 14, 2009 9:56:21 GMT
Ex Machina #44 at last some answers tying together lots of the series. Endgame time ! Batman & Robin 3 Not as good as the last few. Professor Pyg has the same name as one of the Daleks pig mutants ! MIGHTY AVENGERS #28 Bit of a mess. We start with the boring Inhumans plot, we move to the "Scarlet Witch" and Stature having a falling out, which gets the Young Avengers involved.... then Ronin shows up for a few words with the Scarlet Witch... NEW AVENGERS #56 Power dampner loosed on everyone. Avengers lying in the road everywhere. X-FACTOR #47 This time travel arc has gone on far, far too long. Enough ! X-MEN LEGACY #227 More Rogue & co in support of the Dark X-Men crossover. DARK X-MEN: THE BEGINNING #3 Interesting volume with the Sub mariner tale providing set up for what follows. Not sure about the Aurora story at all cos that pretty much undoes Carey's work in the X-Men annual a few years back. UNCANNY X-MEN #514 More of what's come before ... DARK AVENGERS #8 ... as is this but with some awful art. Both Dark Beast & Weapon Omega get visibly stabbed yet they're walking around again a few panels later. Oh dear. And I note Mystique's vanished for most of this story so she's got to be on the X-Men's new floating Island HQ (oh just don't ask) X-FORCE #18 More X-Force greatness wrapping up what's gone before. The last pages with Laura getting her arm chainsawed off were gratuitous. Yes it's grow back but .... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-23 identifies the woman who did it.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 14, 2009 19:03:07 GMT
Thoroughly enjoying both Batman and Robin and X-Men Forever. Good to see Paul Smith art in X-Men Forever six, although I don't think Terry Austin was a good fit as inker. A softer line would have been better.
The Sabretooth and Professor X scene is indeed one of Claremont's best bits of writing in a long while.
Goddamn it though Frank Quitely is a genius, B & R is a beautiful looking book and I'm enjoying the fact that GM is staying away from most of Batman's existing villains and creating new ones. Turns out Frazer Irving's arc is being bumped back one to allow Cameron Stewart of Seaguy to do an arc. What this means for FQ's return is unclear at the mo.
Andy
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 15, 2009 22:20:11 GMT
Ultimatum. The story itself is actually very good, world endingly good. But the art and script mean for messing story telling.
Ultimatum Spiderman Requiem. Very good indeed. Beautifull writing helping to put into perspective what has happened in the Ultimate Marvel Universe. The last pages where Captain America frantically searches through the rubble leap off the page.
Ultimate Comics: Ultimate Avengers 1 &2. MILLAR IS BACK!!!!! I love this man's stuff! This story has the feel of the Ultimates and Ultimates 2. Crisps, new, dark, intricate. Thank God Millar is back!
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 20, 2009 16:57:40 GMT
M.O.D.O.K. : Reign Delay. Very, very funny humour 1-shot. Normon Osborne, fed up with M.O.D.O.K. spamming his answering machine, sends him to his old home town. But oh no, M.O.D.O.K. sees his old tormentors from high school at a reunion. Then, terrible things happen. Had me laughing out loud many times, especially during The Toilet Scene. Recommended!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 22, 2009 21:18:25 GMT
I enjoyed #2 of G-MAN: CAPE CRISIS and Wednesday Comics #11. Both solid, well put together reads. I shall miss the latter when it goes, though I will not miss the Superman strip, sadly struck down by American Writing Disease despite the very pretty art. In the last couple of weeks, The Flash (to my surprise) has pulled forwards as my favourite strip. Sadly, Hawkman ran out of steam a while ago: he's been fighting that bloody dinosaur for a month now!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2009 14:18:13 GMT
MIGHTY AVENGERS #29 The Avengers finally find out Wanda isn't Wanda courtesy of Ronin who shows up. The Inhuman weapon stands revealed. Not a bad issue.
Dark Reign The List Avengers ? Out early compared to the New Avengers series - should be at least after 57 which was due this week but didn't make it to the UK. Ronin mixes it with the Dark Avengers and gets arrested.
X-FACTOR #48 Yeah, great stuff as ever.
DARK AVENGERS/UNCANNY X-MEN: EXODUS best X-Men comic I've read for a while and it's one big battle. Wolverine finally meets Weapon Omega and dishes out some payback. Omega gets stabbed again and is still going....
DARK X-MEN: THE CONFESSION set a few months in the past this sets some background to Utopia that having appeared before sort of gives away where the characters standing and undermines the side switch in the last Dark Avengers.
Dark Reign The List X-Men 2nd really good X-book this week. Norman's not happy with the X-Men and Namor so decides to exact some revenge. In turn see what Namor does.
X-Men Legacy Annual 1 Not an annual, more a bunch of teaser trailers. Avoid.
More to come when I read them....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2009 15:48:19 GMT
DARK AVENGERS #9 Ares goes for a chat with Fury about what his son's been doing. Fabulous dialogue between the two.
DARK REIGN: YOUNG AVENGERS #4 This LS has been loosing me as it's gone along.
Batman & Robin 4 And I've been going off this for a couple of issues, gone I think.
Ex Machina 45 But Ex Machina's still great and into the final furlong here ! 5 issues to go.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 24, 2009 18:49:31 GMT
Dark Reign The List X-Men. Splendid stuff from Fraction and Alan Davis. Just hammers home how shite Greg Land is on Uncanny X-Men. I'd much rather Davis and the Dodson's tag-teamed on that book.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 24, 2009 19:43:42 GMT
Yeah, it worked in a way X-Men hasn't for while....... but possibly because it was more about Namor & Norman than the X-Men
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 28, 2009 19:53:11 GMT
Read the last issue of Wednesday Comics. Well done, DC, for the first time in several years you got me to pick up every issue of a series. How did you do this? By providing variety, a good mix of creators and putting the book out on time. But more importantly: it was not mired in a 60-issue crossover event which requires intricate knowledge of stories published 40 years ago and also: no gratitious or horrible violence. Not one uncessarily dismembered limb! Not one reference to a comic out of print since 1975! You also finally managed to fix the Flash strip/character after years of driving it into the ground.
Well done.
Please do this again and/or apply some of the lessons learned here on more of your titles. Then I'll spend money on your products much more regularly. Easily.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 2, 2009 17:07:24 GMT
Which titles survived the Friday massacre of Phil's order last at the comic shop  ? |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 2, 2009 21:14:40 GMT
But first this week's reviews: NEW AVENGERS #57 I'd not twigged the villains power damper was one abandoned by the NA before. Bendis reuses his "Luke Cage is badly hurt but they can't help him because of his steel hard skin" theme from Secret War. Lovely scene where Spidey gives Norman what's coming to him. UNCANNY X-MEN #515 Or what do you do the day after. I need to discuss Dark X-Men so will come back to this issue in the X-Men thread. But I need to get this out the way here first: the idea of Mutants on a floating island nation in the Pacific made from the remains of Asteroid M. Well the original was properly destroyed waaaay back in New Mutants 19 (with the remains slavaged & destroyed in X-Men/Avengers) Whereas the second was rebuilt from Graymalkin and rebuilt to form Providence the floating the island home to Mutants in the Pacific ..... Oh dear ... so we've got a derivative storyline managing ignore an established story ? oh dear.... X-FACTOR #49 Whathappened to Guido, Rictor & Shatterstar: Fabulous issue, setting up the grand climax next month. X-FORCE #19 More blood. Watch as X-23 teams up with her hunter from the last 18 issues and tries to escape. I'm missing the Vanisher though ! |
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Post by legios on Oct 2, 2009 21:18:21 GMT
Wednesday Comics#12 on balance I've quite enjoyed this little experiment of DC's, and I would love to see them repeat it at some point. Not all the strips have been to my taste - Superman has been very pretty but deathly dull, and Hawkman was so well for a while and then.... well, Hawkman you have taken four weeks to fight a dinosaur please turn in your superhero license - but some the Flash and Batman strips have been fantastic and I quite enjoyed the Green Lantern strip. It was accessible, enjoyable and far removed from the unrelenting grimness of the modern DCU - good stuff.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 2, 2009 21:25:00 GMT
So.....
Staying
X-Factor - for one more issue as it looks like we've a bucketload of resoloution in issue 50.
Dark Young Avengers - It's a Young Avengers series, Cornell's written it, there's one issue to go.
Ex Machina - 5 issues shy of the finish it's be silly to chuck that in so close to the finish.
X-Force - for my money the best X-Book out there.
Gone
Batman & Robin
Mighty Avengers
New Avengers
Dark Avengers
Uncanny X-Men
X-Men Legacy
Astonishing X-Men
Why ?
Well Astonishing has stank for a long time now.
Batman I liked the first few issues of but was chilling on even when I read the last Quitely issues.
Avengers I've found myself reading more to know what's happening in the Marvel Universe than because I enjoyed it - though some have been good so I wouldn't be surprised to a New/Dark trade review down the line.
X-Men (Uncanny & Legacy) Fraction's Dark X-Men crossover provided an ideal jumping off point with much resoloution. Apart from Exodus & The List, X-Men hasn't floated my vote for a while and it was time to vote with my cash instead of hoping it'll get better.
There's some ofther stuff too. Money's short, trades are cheaper, more durable and have no ads and my comic shop - of which I was a customer for 22 years has just changed hands.
I'll run X-Force through to the close of Ex Machina then it's onto trades for that too.... [see trades thread for more]
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 3, 2009 11:09:00 GMT
Have you read any of X-Men Forever? I'd be curious what you think of it, as you'rea much bigger x-men fan than I. Picked up #8 but not had chance to read yet.
-Ralph
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