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Post by Pinwig on Sept 2, 2018 21:53:11 GMT
The Celestial Madonna with the big boobies?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 3, 2018 16:31:40 GMT
The Swordsman is not rubbish! Name one thing about him that's not rubbish. The Celestial Madonna with the big boobies? Is that the official full title of the story? Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 3, 2018 16:54:39 GMT
The Swordsman is daring!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 3, 2018 19:22:01 GMT
Yes, yes it is.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 3, 2018 21:43:29 GMT
The Swordsman is daring! -Ralph He is not.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 4, 2018 10:01:51 GMT
Nonsense. He is up there with Doctor Druid.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 6, 2018 19:59:28 GMT
Nonsense. He is up there with Doctor Druid. And he's just kicked the bucket. I know _everyone_ returns from the dead in Marvel, but surely there can't be anyone out there who would bring this dull fellow back to life... can there? Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 6, 2018 20:40:08 GMT
Doctor Druid is great!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 7, 2018 5:38:50 GMT
Sorry, I was talking about the Swordsman, who has just died in the Celestial Madonna TPB that I'm reading. Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 8, 2018 19:40:54 GMT
Nonsense. He is up there with Doctor Druid. And he's just kicked the bucket. I know _everyone_ returns from the dead in Marvel, but surely there can't be anyone out there who would bring this dull fellow back to life... can there? Martin Without spoiling things, he does pretty much stay dead. Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 8, 2018 19:41:05 GMT
Doctor Druid is great!!! -Ralph He's not.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 8, 2018 21:36:59 GMT
He is in one of the best Avengers line ups.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 13, 2018 17:01:44 GMT
He is still pish though.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 13, 2018 17:21:20 GMT
Because Martin has a run of several large X-Men hardcover omnibuses, and because they contained a nagging gap that he couldn't even find a TPB to completely fill, he has recently shelled out a significant number of Earth pounds for the new 'Wedding of Cyclops and Phoenix' hardcover ( www.amazon.co.uk/X-Men-Wedding-Cyclops-Phoenix-Omnibus/dp/1302913220 ). It's not great, but contains some stuff that I hadn't read before, such as the Cable issues and the Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix limited series, and some issues of the X-Men series that I don't think have been TPBed before. Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 13, 2018 18:05:24 GMT
OOO, Cyclops and Phoenix is really good stuff.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 13, 2018 18:05:55 GMT
He is in one of the best Avengers line ups. -Ralph A weak link in it
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 16, 2018 22:13:24 GMT
Agreed!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 17, 2018 5:38:38 GMT
Finished reading the stuff I hadn't read before in the Cyclops and Phoenix Omnibus, and finished reading the classic Avengers issues in Phil's 'Celestial Madonna'. Have moved onto the 'Celestial Quest' issues in the volume, which is clearly inferior but contains fewer words and so looks like being a quicker read.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 22, 2018 7:09:49 GMT
Martin has finished reading 'Avengers: Celestial Quest', with two weeks to spare before I am due to return these books to Phil. It was a better read than I had expected, and quite interesting. The reference to it taking place five years after the Celestial Madonna Avengers issues confused me, as there were 25 years between the publication dates and it did not appear to be set in the past, or a flashback. Then Martin read the marvel.wikia.com page on the sliding timescale of the Marvel universe. marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Glossary:Sliding_TimescaleI guess I can understand the logic of this approach, how it was seen as being the lesser of evils compared to having constant reboots or real-time ageing of still popular characters, but I don't like it. I prefer for characters to age in real time, if the stories are linked to present-day Earth. As pretty much all the stories that interest me, including Transformers and G.I. Joe, occur in the space of about a decade and a half - circa 1980-1995 - I can reject the sliding timescale without the difficulties that arise for people who want to acknowledge 50+ years' worth of Marvel comics. Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 22, 2018 7:49:55 GMT
At least 2000ad lets its' characters age. Dredd had a plotline which spanned 20+ years.
Marvel's sliding timescale is not ideal for me but I get by. Better than DC's shite multiverse bollocks!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 22, 2018 12:40:24 GMT
2000ad does have the advantage of the future setting, so there is handwaving involved as well to an extent. Dredd should be in what his eighties, but due to health and tech advances he's more like a supremely healthy 50 year old.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 23, 2018 13:33:06 GMT
Having finished the Cyclops & Phoenix hardcover, Martin has been taking inventory of the continuous runs of significant length that he now has in Marvel collected volumes, and the following are the main four:
- Avengers #212-285 - New Mutants #26-73 - Uncanny X-Men #220-317 - X-Men (1991) #1-37
I have collections containing other issues in the above titles, but those are the main continuous runs.
Here's how I've got them:
Avengers: The Trial of Yellowjacket Avengers #212-230
Avengers: Absolute Vision Volumes 1-2 Avengers #231-254
Avengers: The Legacy of Thanos Avengers #255-261
Avengers: The Once and Future Kang Avengers #262-269
Avengers: Under Siege (Premier HC) Avengers #270-277
Avengers: Assault on Olympus (Premier HC) Avengers #278-285
New Mutants Classic Volumes 4-7 New Mutants #26-54
X-Men: Fall of the Mutants Volume 1 New Mutants #55-61, Uncanny X-Men #220-227
X-Men: Inferno Prologue (Marvel Omnibus) New Mutants #62-70, Uncanny X-Men #228-238
X-Men: Inferno Volume 1 New Mutants #71-72, Uncanny X-Men #239-240
X-Men: Inferno Volume 2 New Mutants #73, Uncanny X-Men #241-243
X-Men Volume 1 (Marvel Omnibus) Uncanny X-Men #244-269
X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda (Marvel Omnibus) Uncanny X-Men #270-272
X-Men Volume 2 (Marvel Omnibus) Uncanny X-Men #273-280, X-Men #1-11
X-Men: Bishop's Crossing (Marvel Omnibus) Uncanny X-Men #281-293, X-Men #12-13
X-Men: X-Cutioner's Song (Marvel Omnibus) Uncanny X-Men #294-297, X-Men #14-16
X-Men: A Skinning of Souls X-Men #17-24
X-Men: Fatal Attractions (Marvel Omnibus) Uncanny X-Men #298-305 and 315, X-Men #25
X-Men: The Wedding of Cyclops and Phoenix (Marvel Omnibus) Uncanny X-Men #307-310, X-Men #26-35
X-Men: Phalanx Covenant (Marvel Omnibus) Uncanny X-Men #306, 311-314 and 316-317, X-Men #36-37
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Sept 23, 2018 19:04:27 GMT
Oh yes, one other sizeable continuous run I have is Uncanny X-Men #162-203, but just in pocket book form.
Edit: And Avengers #158-196 in pocket books + Heart of Stone.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 7, 2018 15:28:41 GMT
Martin's new batch of books from Phil consists of:
The New Defenders Neil Gaiman's Eternals Spider-Man - The Complete Alien Costume Saga Volumes 1&2
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 7, 2018 16:12:34 GMT
If you can work out why I've lent Eternals to Martin, shush! There is a reason!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 8, 2018 6:25:33 GMT
If you can work out why I've lent Eternals to Martin, shush! There is a reason! Issue #1 contains the line, "Why don't you invent a truck that turns into a giant fighting robot that flies?" Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 8, 2018 7:01:51 GMT
Nope!
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 9, 2018 13:55:15 GMT
I am sure that Martin will enjoy the alien costume saga!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 9, 2018 13:59:06 GMT
Volume 1 is a classic.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 20, 2018 6:25:35 GMT
If you can work out why I've lent Eternals to Martin, shush! There is a reason! Finished Neil Gaiman's Eternals. Apart from the fact that it's a good story, probably the best 21st Century Marvel book that I've read to date, I don't know what special secret reason you had for lending it to me. Martin
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