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Post by The Doctor on May 26, 2010 7:01:04 GMT
Brightest Day #2 is in my to-read pile. Now I fear it.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 27, 2010 18:35:35 GMT
Seige#1 is a very daft comic in which Norman Osborn declares war on Asgard and goes off with his army to pick a fight with the Norse gods. I do like the pace at which this moves - a few pages of "we scheme and connive to create a pretext for action", and then Osborn and the comic just decide they are bored with all the mucking about and just decide to get stuck into things. It is far better than most recent large scale crossovers from either of the Big Two in terms of its pacing and in its sense of energy. A fundamentally daft idea, but carried off rather well. Karl Siege#3: Like most "Event" mini-series these days it has pretty much turned into a trailer reel trying to get me to buy umpteen hundred other titles. I am not planning to - it is just about readable on its own as absurd tosh. After all, it delivers the high points of the story (and the punchings of Norman Osborn) in a reasonably fast-paced style. Disposable tosh but inoffensive for what it is. (I am amused that they couldn't make Osborn last all four issues as the villian though - needing to pull a last minute fake-out to stretch the series to four issues. Karl Siege#4: Right, well, that is over then. We have now reached the last issue of a four issue mini that seemed to go into a rapid death spiral fairly early on. It doesn't feel so much like this issue is the end of a story as it is a few pages that should have been in last issue, along with a load of stuff dealing with the Sentry bolted onto the front end. Doesn't do exactly what I thought they were going to do with the Sentry but it has much the effect of what I thought they were setting up. Hopefully the last few pages of the issue represent Marvel burying the whole "Dark" era of recent stuff wholesale and moving on. We could do with this marking the end of the Second Iron Age of comics so we can get back to a more enjoyable status quo. Been avoiding Siege. Ordered the Panini trade. All I have to do is wait for it..... If you wish to save yourself the wait and the cost I can let you have my issues for nowt. It isn't like I'm going to read them again. Karl : Well I enjoyed that. Four issues so it doesn't feel like it's being strung out forever (House of M, Civil War, Secret Invasion) The length in turn means that each issue goes somewhere and doesn't feel like it's just treading water . The art is clear throughout. I didn't feel like I needed to read any other books for it to make sense. AND the bad guys comprehensively loose. Worked for me. Best Marvel event I've read this century. |
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Post by legios on May 27, 2010 21:21:37 GMT
Siege 1-4: Well I enjoyed that. Four issues so it doesn't feel like it's being strung out forever (House of M, Civil War, Secret Invasion) The length in turn means that each issue goes somewhere and doesn't feel like it's just treading water . The art is clear throughout. I didn't feel like I needed to read any other books for it to make sense. AND the bad guys comprehensively loose. Worked for me. Best Marvel event I've read this century. Glad to hear that you got more out of it on balance than I did. Karl |
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Post by blueshift on May 28, 2010 12:12:54 GMT
I have the day off work and decided to read Siege. It uh... really didn't do it for me I'm afraid. Very very rushed and the comic seems to get bored with the idea of a 'seige of Asgard' about 20 pages in. Add to that some rather too gruesome deaths, and I'm a bit underwhelmed.
Don't get me wrong, it isn't nearly as bad as some of the other stuff companies are pumping out, but it seemed to be more a synopsis than an actual story
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 1, 2010 18:18:06 GMT
Ex Machina #49 Mitch seemingly puts an end to the Invasion and in the process gets arrested setting up the last issue. The end for this has seemed a little protracted due to delays and has left me not caring that much .... until I read this. Decent issue. X-FACTOR #205 "We're having difficulty killing half a dozen Mutants none of whom are Wolverine". Great line :-) Confirms Utopia takes place before this issue which means continuity is soooo screwed up ! X-MEN LEGACY #236 Bastion traps Utopia in an energy shield and summons Nimrod sentinals from the future to kill everyone X-FORCE #27 but Cable's got one time jump left so off he & X-Force go to stop the Sentinals. But how will they get back  ?? X-MEN: SECOND COMING – REVELATIONS: BLIND SCIENCE #1 The X-Club Science Team have been one of the best things in the X-Books over the last few years and here they get a chance to shine. Trapped on an exploding oil rig during Second Coming they find themselves in the future...... Doctor Nemesis is great in this, but somehow the other don't really shine and the story doesn't really work. Avengers #1 Bendis being fluffy to launch the new main Avengers title. Kang shows up to kick things off but it didn't really work for me. Have higher hopes of Brubaker's Secret Avengers.
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Post by legios on Jun 2, 2010 19:54:59 GMT
Justice League: Generation Lost#2: I seem to have missed #2, despite feeling sure that I had ordered it. Ah well.... Reading this issue I'm not sure that this series is going to be for me anyway. I'm not really a fan of the repurposing pf Max Lord as a master villian anyway, so the series gets of on the wrong foot anyway. I'm also not really fan of Judd Winick's writing amd I don't think that the plus of having Giffen on art is really compensating. Much as I like the characters I think I shall be giving this a miss.
Doomwar#4: Lots of fighting against Doom's army of Doombots. This series is delivering on the idea of Doom being at war against the Black Panther and his allies certainly. It does what it says on the tin but this issue sags a little because really it doesn't feel like there is a lot going on other than people fighting robots. Does what it sets out to do, your mileage may vary as to whether this is a good thing or not.
Secret Avengers#1: Steve Rogers' "deniable" Avengers team make a debut that feels much more affective than Avengers#1 did. Opening in media res with an operation going wrong straight out of an espionage thriller it seques swiftly into something that seems to be rather deftly using Marvel's backstory in a fairly accessible way to tell a solid story. The team line-up has a lot of dramatic potential given the nature of the characters and Brubaker seems to be a good choice to handle this kind of story. There remains a nice vein of humor running through the issue, but it moves at a much better pace than Avengers#1. At the moment I am leaning much more towards keeping this book on than I am latter.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 3, 2010 13:44:47 GMT
Secret Avengers was indeed a much better 1st issue than Avengers. That said it didn't have the amazing prose story at the back. Ralph and I made Karl read it - sober. Why? Because we are his friends and we suffered as well and thought we should pass it on.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 3, 2010 13:47:04 GMT
The Return of Bruce Wayne #2 - more enjoyable stuff and I can't think of a better artist to do the puritan witch-burning era than Frazer Irving (come on we want more of Gutsville), brilliant stuff.
Oh and Grant Morrison's Batman outstmarts gods - FACT!
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 6, 2010 15:44:02 GMT
Secret Avengers#1: Steve Rogers' "deniable" Avengers team make a debut that feels much more affective than Avengers#1 did. Opening in media res with an operation going wrong straight out of an espionage thriller it seques swiftly into something that seems to be rather deftly using Marvel's backstory in a fairly accessible way to tell a solid story. The team line-up has a lot of dramatic potential given the nature of the characters and Brubaker seems to be a good choice to handle this kind of story. There remains a nice vein of humor running through the issue, but it moves at a much better pace than Avengers#1. At the moment I am leaning much more towards keeping this book on than I am latter. Karl Yeah worked for me too. The Beast on an Avengers team is a good idea. The team seems to fit with Brubaker's Captain America work too. I do wonder if a covert team is really what's needed in the bright new dawn of Marvel comics though. Probably a trade pick up for me. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 7, 2010 17:33:50 GMT
Avoid the various AGE OF HEROES anthology comics: they are crap.
Secret Avengers #1 was tops! Much better than regular Avengers #1.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 10, 2010 17:55:49 GMT
Picked up the first couple of issues of Justice League: Generation Lost. Readable but nothing happened that I didn't already know from the solicit for #1. Dropped.
I'm spending too much money on comics and not having time to read them all so I suspect a cull soon of what I'm following.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jun 10, 2010 18:56:57 GMT
I've dropped Generation Lost as well, and apparently dropped Brightest Day by default - as there was an issue out this week and I couldn't be bothered to buy it when I was doing my comics order from Ebay.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 24, 2010 15:53:26 GMT
X-Men Second Coming Revalations: Hellbound #2[/url]: Depressing. Half the cast turns evil. Very little to redeem it.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 12, 2010 15:01:52 GMT
I have been spending far too much on comics,
Oh what silly economics!
I've cut quite a few titles,
That were like icicles!
I shall keep reading Frankencastle, Secret Avengers, Chew,
X-Men Forever and The Unwritten are the other few!
The last few issues of minis such as Doomwar, Joe The Barbarian, The Return of Bruce Wayne,
Shall be read as to read they cause no pain!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 19, 2010 19:25:09 GMT
UNCANNY X-MEN #525 X-Men Second Coming part 10: Fight, fight, fight. The only good bits are the X-Club trying to break into the dome with the aid of the Avengers and the FF. NEW MUTANTS #14 X-Men Second Coming part 11: Art worked well for me in this one. Very little New Mutants in it save for Cypher's presence on the X-Force team in the future. The New Mutants issues I've read in this crossover haven't been bad, might have to pick up the volume 1 trade... X-FACTOR #206 *Finally* we get all of X-Factor in one place. It's been too long. X-MEN LEGACY #237 X-Men Second Coming part 12: More X-Force in the future than anything else which shows essentially how the battle's won.... X-FORCE #28 X-Men Second Coming part 13: ... which takes us back home to an issue where X-Force take the backseat behind Scott and Hope which is a shame cos this is the last issue of X-Force v2. Some of it was great - the first six issues and those in the third trade. But as soon as the title touched anykind of crossover it went in the toilet. I'll miss this X-Force line up. The writing's made me want to seak out Kyle & Yost's older work which lays some of the groundwork but a couple of the trades are soooooo expensive. Not a fitting finale and not how I remember X-Force. I'll think of it as the title that brought Archangel back and made it good too. X-Men Hellbound #3 of 3 a bit more hope than in the last volume. Everyone gets out alive, though some of what happens looks like it's setting up some bad stuff on the horizon. Skip the middle issue and it was an OK limited series. X-Men Second Coming #2 X-Men Second Coming part 14: The big wrap up. Cable's dead but I'm looking at how they went and see at least two easy ways of bringing them back so that's not having the impact on me that it is on characters in the book. This is an issue about patching up the wounded and dealing with the consequences of what's been revealed recently. The reveal of the new X-Force is the silliest double page spread I've seen in a while: like they'd be standing around posed like that waiting for Logan to get back from a meeting (The new X-Force is Archangel, Fantomex, Deadpool and Psylocke . If Kyle and Yost were writing I'd be happy. As it is..... Then we have Hope's power revalation: like it's a surprise the Phoenix is involved with a red head mutant. And finally the new Mutants appearing on the monitor: that's been a long time coming ! As a crossover X-Men second coming hasn't convinced me to buy any of the X-Books regularly again (and killed one of the ones I did) It was a little too long and stretched out over three months.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 19, 2010 21:41:37 GMT
I need to cut costs further so all $3.99 books are dropped so it's bye-bye X-Men Forever as that comes out twice a month. Return of Bruce Wayne only has 2 issues left so I'll stick with that. Stumptown and Supergod dropped as they never come out. I want to read Larry Hama's continuation of Marvel GI Joe but it's a $3.99 book so I shall wait for the trade.
Regular comics now cut to: Chew, The Unwritten, Punisher/Franken-Castle, SHIELD (which is a bi-monthly), Joe the Barbarian (two issues left). All $2.99 books.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 19, 2010 21:47:35 GMT
One of my major titles ended this week. I look forward to reading Ex-Machina #50.
Remaining I have X-Factor. X-Force is still on my list so we'll see what the new series is like but I'm not confident. I've bought the fiurst 3 Secret Avengers but I suspect it'll be trades after next week's #4.
Anyone bought the Marvel UK X-Men and Avengers recently? Where's each book up to in US terms?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 28, 2010 7:51:04 GMT
Secret Avengers #4 Big fight, Nova gets saved, flies off. That's about it. The only hook I could find to make me come back was to find out what the stuff with Fury is about so I'm not sure I can bother. Yet another secret society that's been around for donkeys years ? Oh dear, give mne strength.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 2, 2010 23:32:41 GMT
2000ad Prog 1700
Another fabled jumping on point. Two great stories to kick this off.
Judge Dredd by John Wagner/Ben Willsher - following on from the disatrous Sinfield era, Dredd's now on the Council of Five. Great stuff.
Low Life by Rob Williams/D'israeli - Dirty Frank is an undercover Judge and has the best name ever. The art is exceptional.
Nikolai Dante - first part of the latest chapter in the saga - not much of a hook yet but I have faith.
Defoe by Mills/Gallagher - zombies are not my cup of tea as they've been done to death but it's well executed.
Age of the Wolf by Alec Worley and Jon Davis-Hunt - werewolves apparently but didn't grab me all that much.
Verdict - the first two strips alone make it worth the effort and the rest are well executed and I know Dante will pick up rapidly.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 3, 2010 20:13:26 GMT
X-Factor 208 A nice lark as Rahne comes home and discovers Rictor in bed with Shatterstar which is a bit of a shock cos apparently Rictor's the father of her child and not the Wolfman. Is that *the* Pip the Troll I see? All set up nicely for the nextt issue - the concept of "Longshot goes to Las Vegas" is a good one.
My LCS failed to save me MU Update 3. Suspecting this might happen I'd ordered one off eBay. More serious was the lack of Ex Machina #50... Now they've changed hands I suspect our TWENTY YEAR relationship may be coming to an end....
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Post by panderson on Sept 13, 2010 11:35:09 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 13, 2010 11:48:14 GMT
They've had good reviews, though I haven't checked those series out.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 13, 2010 11:50:16 GMT
MMMM, so Thor's price went back down to $3 for the start of Gillen's run. I read a few issues and dropped it as the writing wasn't to my taste. I read M's copy of the most recent issue and the price had went back to $4. I had thought of jumping back on for Fraction taking over, but nah, I'm pretty much done with $4 comics.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 17, 2010 13:34:46 GMT
I prefered the previous volumes of Stark Disassembled Collected hereSecret Warriors is good so far but you do need to read the earlier volumes |
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 17, 2010 15:25:09 GMT
Return of Bruce Wayne appears to have stopped coming out on any kind of schedule. Dropped.
Comics now trimmed to: Chew, Punisher and The Unwritten. And SHIELD, which is bi-monthly.
The era of mostly $4 comics and expensive trades has culled most of what I was reading.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 29, 2010 19:39:09 GMT
Secret Avengers#1: Steve Rogers' "deniable" Avengers team make a debut that feels much more affective than Avengers#1 did. Opening in media res with an operation going wrong straight out of an espionage thriller it seques swiftly into something that seems to be rather deftly using Marvel's backstory in a fairly accessible way to tell a solid story. The team line-up has a lot of dramatic potential given the nature of the characters and Brubaker seems to be a good choice to handle this kind of story. There remains a nice vein of humor running through the issue, but it moves at a much better pace than Avengers#1. At the moment I am leaning much more towards keeping this book on than I am latter. Karl Yeah worked for me too. The Beast on an Avengers team is a good idea. The team seems to fit with Brubaker's Captain America work too. I do wonder if a covert team is really what's needed in the bright new dawn of Marvel comics though. Probably a trade pick up for me. Secret Avengers #4 Big fight, Nova gets saved, flies off. That's about it. The only hook I could find to make me come back was to find out what the stuff with Fury is about so I'm not sure I can bother. Yet another secret society that's been around for donkeys years ? Oh dear, give me strength. : well there was some money left in my Paypal balance. A better issue this time and yes, LMD was on my list of possible solutions to the Fury problem. Not much in the way of Avengers action this issue but it does tidy up some of the loose ends. The big reveal at the end of the issue makes me think I should know who John Steele is, but according to that link he's just a minor character.... |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 26, 2010 14:13:30 GMT
X-Force: Sex & Violence #3 Not bad, but nothing special. Kyle & Yost did much better work earlier in their X-Force run.
Uncanny X-Force #1 Not the travesty I thought it would be but the spark isn't there. Shall pick up the trade and see.
X-Factor #209 Longshot & co go to Las Vegas. Exactly what you'd imagine it being.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 28, 2010 1:17:31 GMT
X-Factor #210 meanwhile back at the office..... Monet gets a client...... who turns out to be not what she seems .... and Rictor & Rahne go for a scan which doesn't quite go to plan! Superb issue.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 29, 2010 0:13:57 GMT
Picked up the new look Dandy - two strips from Lew Stringer and some nice work from Jamie Smart.
George vs Dragon had a nice riff on a Looney Tunes gag which made me smile.
Overall I quite enjoyed it.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 5, 2010 8:04:04 GMT
Secret Avengers #6 Well I was walking by the comic shop with spare change in my pocket..... I knew Shang Chi was in it, but I had a little wooop when I saw John Anan, the Prince of Orphans, guest starring. What I am noticing though is that many of the Secret Avenges are hardly in any issue of this title. Lots of Steve Rogers, cameos from Ant Man, Beast & the Widow, but I don't think War Machine, Valkyrie or Moon Knight were to be seen, just like in large parts o the previous story.
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