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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 10, 2011 14:00:29 GMT
Claremont shouldn't have come back to the X-Men. I enjoyed X-Men Forever, but his two returns to the X-Books proper were not that great.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 10, 2011 15:10:08 GMT
Couldn't get into forever
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 10, 2011 15:16:52 GMT
I enjoyed it, but V2 was a mistake coming so soon. It should have been rested for a while.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 10, 2011 20:42:04 GMT
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Post by legios on Jun 10, 2011 21:06:15 GMT
I quite enjoyed X-Men Forever Vol1 on a disposable tosh level, but I found it to be a bit of a "read twice" thing to be honest (which is no bad thing, sometimes comics should just be disposable entertainment). Vol.2 I didn't really get into though.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 10, 2011 21:13:20 GMT
V2 would have worked better, had their been a longer gap between it starting and V1 ending.
Andy
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Post by legios on Jun 10, 2011 21:16:02 GMT
Possibly, I just know that it was around the time of that and the Annual that the I stopped being engaged with the whole thing.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 10, 2011 22:31:00 GMT
As did I.
It was a fine tosh 'read once' comic, but it felt like it was going on long past its natural end-point and I dropped it four issues into volume 2.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 11, 2011 6:44:57 GMT
what were X-Factor and New Mutants like?
I recall you raving about Forever when it started
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 11, 2011 8:09:20 GMT
The first year of it was quite enjoyable.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 11, 2011 8:55:24 GMT
X-Factor Forever was pretty decent. The main story had some great art by Dan Panosian. There was a back up with the history of Apocalypse. The art on that was dreadful.
Didn't check out New Mutants Forever myself.
Andy
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Post by legios on Jun 11, 2011 10:01:16 GMT
The backup for the X-Factor series had shudder-inducingly bad artwork, but the main story was quite fun I thought.
I completely forgot that the New Mutants one was coming out.....
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 24, 2011 20:42:29 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 16, 2011 12:21:32 GMT
Disposable Heroes on Ebay get most of my business due to good service. Alas, their ebay shop closes this month with a thinly veiled 'ebay won't let us link you to our website' message. I'll just switch to buying direct then.
Oh, ebay.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 27, 2011 18:51:26 GMT
The new Daredevil #1 is utterly splendid and all should read. Great fun, well written, fabulous and clever art. Plus, extra story pages for the extra $. That's more like it.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 28, 2011 21:14:05 GMT
Disposable Heroes on Ebay get most of my business due to good service. Alas, their ebay shop closes this month with a thinly veiled 'ebay won't let us link you to our website' message. I'll just switch to buying direct then. Oh, ebay. -Ralph Hmmm, and comics are 5p cheaper a pop direct from them too. Bye bye, ebay. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 29, 2011 12:43:17 GMT
url?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 29, 2011 13:12:04 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 29, 2011 13:25:21 GMT
Ta. I use them on ebay quite a bit so...
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 31, 2011 22:16:10 GMT
The initial 4-issue Muppets comic by Roger Landridge is finally available for sale in the UK! Tis a 96p magazine from Marvel at $6. Picked it up last week. Hilarious.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 1, 2011 1:09:31 GMT
It is bloody good.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 3, 2011 18:33:54 GMT
I picked up ALPHA FLIGHT #0.1. Hmmmm, it was ok but lacked any kind of sparkle to it. Nice to see the old-line up but it didn't grab me I'm afraid. -Ralph On the way, as is the Alpha Flight Chaos War one shot we missed. Both were OK. I've now bought the Chaos War one shot 3 times (gave first copy away because it was coming in a trade, sold the trade and needed to rebuy) Sadly the shock ending of Fear Itself: Alpha Flight #1 had been given away to me beforehand. Competant enough though. Fear Itself: Alpha Flight #2 showed up today and provides some motivation for Heather's actions: she wants to get her daughter back. How that makes her blast Mac I don't know but there's a distinct hint she's been brainwashed too so I'll let that pass. No my real problem with this issue is the court room scenes that set the motivation up: The daughter has been placed with Heather's cousins. Cousins? ? ? Last time I checked her parents were still alive and even if they're not Alpha Flight 5, during the Shaman origin story, establishes that Heather has a large imeadiate family - why didn't the baby go to one of them? I know, I know, the baby needs to provide the obvious motivation but it doesn't quite fit her back story. Other than that good stuff, though there's something up with the Puck that's suddenly appeared. Deep breath..... Besides we all know that Byrne Alpha Flight > Mantlo Alpha Flight > all other Alpha Flight! |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 3, 2011 19:29:28 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 17, 2011 21:19:27 GMT
Out tomorrow (today via ipad) is DC's Batman Retroactive 90's special. Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle - THE Batman team.
Pick it up. New tale fits in to their previous run and the reprint is of the one off Trash story.
Andy
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Post by Jaymz on Aug 17, 2011 23:47:59 GMT
Out tomorrow (today via ipad) is DC's Batman Retroactive 90's special. Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle - THE Batman team. It was out in the shops today as well. New comic day was moved forward to Wednesday in the UK at the beginning of this year thanks to Bob Wayne at DC. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 18, 2011 12:03:16 GMT
Oh so it was! I'd forgotten about that.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 18, 2011 17:54:40 GMT
Disposable Heroes on Ebay get most of my business due to good service. Alas, their ebay shop closes this month with a thinly veiled 'ebay won't let us link you to our website' message. I'll just switch to buying direct then. Oh, ebay. -Ralph Hmmm, and comics are 5p cheaper a pop direct from them too. Bye bye, ebay. -Ralph And another 5p cheaper again when using the semi-sub option in advance. Hmmm. £2.45 a comic with good service or £3.10 in FPE with somewhat variable service. Tough choice. About as cheap as I can get them this side of being able to afford an iPad and therefore digital copies (hopefully in 2012). -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 18, 2011 18:27:29 GMT
Could not stop myself. I had to pre-order a copy of the 20th anniversary reprint of X-Men #1. £2.45 on pre-order. Wasn't it 80p back in the day?
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Aug 18, 2011 19:08:50 GMT
I think it was something in that ballpark certainly. Gives one some perspective doesn't it?
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 25, 2011 17:14:33 GMT
X-Force 13: Sorry really not feeling the love that I'm reading elsewhere for the Remender X-Force. The life is just gone from the title that was there during the Kyle/Yost issues. I feel it's cancellation from my pull list aproaching.
X-Factor 223 & 224 while X-Factor continues to be top notch every month, but in a way completely different from what you expect on a mutant book.
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