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Post by The Doctor on Jun 30, 2012 6:30:05 GMT
At least with The Children's Crusade, we are getting it in two solid lumps. It originally was released as a bi-monthly (or more) series. Heinberg is a VERY IMPORTANT TV WRITER, you see.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 30, 2012 8:03:21 GMT
Monthly...... with a 6 month gap in the middle!
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Post by legios on Jun 30, 2012 21:57:19 GMT
Six months.... No, that is quite unacceptable. Mini-series or not, television writer or not. Don't take on a job if you can't deliver on time, and if you can't deliver on time on someones elses IP then you should be replaced. I wouldn't have been reading it when it came out - I would have got halfway through and then given up due to the failure of the series to exist.
I'd agree with you on the arguing Phil. I think the writer is intending to make the point that the adults are no more and no less well-adjusted then the kids (and by extension the kids are ok). Unfortunately the way it comes across is that everyone in the comic is a colossal, and quite unpleasant, idiot, leaving open the question of why I should care about any of them...
Not sure whether to skip next issue and come back when all this is over or not. I shall have a think about that.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 1, 2012 7:38:46 GMT
It'll be two more issues at least and is said to be "of some significance"
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 1, 2012 14:16:02 GMT
Heinberg's schedule is why there's been no Young Avengers ongoing since the original wrapped at #12
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Post by legios on Jul 1, 2012 19:48:38 GMT
Couldn't they just assign a different writer to the book? Or is that my status of another age of comics speaking?
As to the Children's Crusade story being "of significance".... it doesn't particularly significant for me - the characters I buy the Panini Avengers book for are barely in it and it is mostly people standing in a room behaving like brats. If it turns out to be plot-relevant to a later story then if said story doesn't do its exposition duties I can always look it up online. I shall see how I feel when next issue comes out.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 2, 2012 20:02:11 GMT
Heinberg's schedule is why there's been no Young Avengers ongoing since the original wrapped at #12 His work ethic does not impress me, nor does Marvel's inability to make money from their own characters. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 5, 2012 12:57:43 GMT
Burns: spidey FF in the new Panini asm.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 5, 2012 20:38:03 GMT
As I have said before, Burns maintains his boycott of Spidey comics since the character was rebooted.
Grrr, can't find the new Langridge Muppets comic on Comixology.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2012 22:03:56 GMT
Anyone got a recent Panini collected edition to hand?
What's the cover to Wolverine & Deadpool 36 a homage to?
It's got a "after Steranko" mark on it..... I know I've seen it before as the cover of a Marvel UK thing back in the 70s
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 7, 2012 6:25:55 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 11, 2012 12:42:10 GMT
See status updates passim concerning WHS Swindon's inability to get new magazines on their shelf in a timely manner. Lunchtime on Thursday and they still haven't got the new stuff out. That's a wasted trip! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 1, 2013 15:08:41 GMT
Panini's Essential X-Men has finally reached X-Men vs Avengers. Is it me or is JRjr phoning in the art for this? There's pieces, noticably certain faces, that just don't look right for him.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 1, 2013 16:34:15 GMT
It wasn't his best, but then the story was an absolute turd.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 1, 2013 18:19:57 GMT
I'm hoping it'll setup Cyclops having been Apocalypse all along. But yes it doesn't look good.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 1, 2013 19:30:34 GMT
I shan't spoil it for you. Sadly reading it will do that well enough for you.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 7, 2013 12:32:29 GMT
Panini have increased their Marvel reprint price by 55p to £3.50
Still good value.
Shame Avengers and X-Men are so bogged down in the A vs X $#!+3
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 8, 2013 18:01:16 GMT
Indeed, but that's a heck of a steep price rise. Sales must be down a tad. Expect one or two of them to vanish soon then.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 8, 2013 18:38:30 GMT
I'd lay money on the Hulk title being first up against the wall.
Should have stuck publishing FF.
Nice to see the FF, and Death's Head, in the new Astonishing Spider Man
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 31, 2014 13:37:46 GMT
Hmmm.
Had to hunt about for my Panini collected editions this week. Got Wolverine and Deadpool in the usual shop but they didn't have Spiderman or Avengers. Found Avengers in WHS - have I moaned about them being behind the counter so they don't get stolen? - but couldn't see Spiderman. Eventually the assistant found one copy tucked up the back.
Thankfully this is the penultimate issue of the Avengers that's part of Avengers vs X-Men. The nightmare nears it's end. Just another 6 weeks to go.....
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 13, 2014 16:10:00 GMT
And it's finally over!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 13, 2014 17:43:01 GMT
Hooray!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on May 2, 2014 18:14:14 GMT
I see that Panini Hulk has rebooted. It has the Waid Hulk series in it. Anyone read it? I am tempted.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 2, 2014 10:04:28 GMT
Given that there's been a few trades out recently I decided I'd purge my back issue boxes of stuff I had in trades.....
Turns out I had an entire long box full of material I had printed in colour trades stashed under the bed. That's going to the loft and I'll retrieve my Early Panini Essential X-Men run which I don't have in trades.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 2, 2014 17:57:58 GMT
And done.
I now have a couple of hundred X-Men issues to hand that I didn't have before.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 3, 2014 21:58:31 GMT
I've bought the Panini X-Men issues since the end of the 90s. This is one of my most tragic secrets - not because I buy X-Men comics - but because I've never read any of them. I buy it religiously every month and consider it to be 'something I read' yet I never get round to it. They go in a longbox in the corner, and every now and again I think, right, I must start reading those, and never do. Yet I still buy it. Month in, month out. Force of habit. I think my first issue was 67 of the first volume before it renumbered a few years ago.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 3, 2014 22:21:21 GMT
And renumbers again next month! 67? www.comicvine.com/essential-x-men-67-meet-the-new-x-men/4000-264925/Aw, that's a good issue. Adjectiveless 70 is a fine fine comic. It's the one where they need to get the bomb out of Cyclops chest. I've got 1 - 112 of the first volume. At that point it reached E for eXtinction which I had and all US issues onwards. I picked up with I think 15 or 16 when I stopped buying the US issues. The Panini collected editions are a fine way of publishing the US material at a much cheaper price. The only problem is you're never 100% sure what will be reprinted..... They really could do with a second CE for X-Men though as so much goes unpublished. |
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 3, 2014 22:27:23 GMT
Looking at those covers it's actually 68 I started at, and I tell a lie I think I must have read four or five of them. Looking at those. Still quite a bit to catch up on. If it's renumbering again does that mean the start of a new arc? Might be time to actually try and read it.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 3, 2014 22:34:14 GMT
Yes.
It's essentially the start of the post X-Men vs Avangers stuff starting with the new volume of Uncanny X-Men and All New X-Men.
I've got the first five issues of both. Uncanny was ok, but lost sympathy for the lead characters. all New is surprisingly good. Should be a complete train wreck. Isn't.
Avengers, Mighty World of Marvel, Wolverine & Hulk have all relaunched or are just about to.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 3, 2014 22:38:34 GMT
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