Freezasaurus
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Doesn't seem to be. This girl's name is Rina Logan? I'm just reading from the wikipedia page. I only know the character exists because she's been mentioned in an lol capacity.
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Doesn't seem to be. This girl's name is Rina Logan? I'm just reading from the wikipedia page. I only know the character exists because she's been mentioned in an lol capacity.
Yeah looks to be unrelated. Well least Rina has a better look than the other Wild Thing.
DC has gotten better, they got free agents leaving Marvel and they made great books since then.
Freezasaurus
Member
Yeah looks to be unrelated. Well least Rina has a better look than the other Wild Thing.
They are both awful though. I mean, are those energy claws?
Putting lesser known writers on stuff like Flash gave DC consistent sales. I think I'd be a lot more interested in say Walker's ASM than I would BMB's.
Freezasaurus
Member
Bendis spent a lot of time on ASM. Marvel likes that kind of thing because it's a known quantity. They get nervous when they can't predict how people will react to a new writer on a franchise where they've gotten Slott or Bendis since the dawn of time.
I remember during that last summit they were looking looking for new terms for their limited series and it looks like they decided to go with epic here.
We don't know how long this is going to be so I wouldn't say that. If anything the tagline leads me to believe that it be leading into something new.
BKatastrophe
Member
Anyone get the feeling that we're gonna get Bendis on Doctor Strange?
I can't shake it.
I can't shake it.
Cates hasn't even started his run yet lol.
Freezasaurus
Member
If you put Bachalo back on art I'm down. Or Maleev. How dope as fuck would a Strange book look with Maleev on art? Seems his style is catered more to gritty street-level books, but I'd love to seem him do something different.
BKatastrophe
Member
I didn't know someone was already put on it.
Maleev's art, for me, is best when he's doing stuff that's got a more fantasy/sci-fi bend to it. Action sequences in Iron Doom have been great.
I didn't like his art on Scarlet. Then again, I didn't much care for Scarlet.
Freezasaurus
Member
What has he done with a fantasy style to it? Bendis Moon Knight?
I really liked Scarlet until they started releasing like one issue per year. The huge gaps between issues killed it.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
In case you wanted to see Rich Johnston not getting a seat while being actively insulted from the stage
https://twitter.com/KingImpulse/status/912455323239243776
https://twitter.com/KingImpulse/status/912455323239243776
BKatastrophe
Member
Bendis Moon Knight. The Iron Man books. Even Daredevil had some cool visuals with superpowers.
My base point is that I don't like him on just gritty street stuff. He needs to be on something where he's forced to incorporate elements that force a contrast to the usually monochromatic palette that he tends to use. Otherwise he gets boring.
I read the trade. Found it boring.
Just give me an Avengers comic by Aaron and Ribic with the o.g. roster and a few others. I've not liked the main book at all since the post-Secret Wars relaunch, I'm usually a fan of Mark Waid but his run has been pretty disappointing. The ANAD line-up sucked and the relaunch after that with Kang (who's been waaaay overused in the past few years) was just plain boring and I couldn't care less about the Champions, so that arc just turned me off completely. The .1 issues dealing with the original Avengers were so much better it's a shame that was just a mini.
Freezasaurus
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I imagine Marvel wants a book that comes out on time so Ribic is out.
If we're getting an Avengers book by Aaron it will likely hit when Odinson and Tony are back to their traditional roles. This could potentially lead into it going by the tagline.
Freezasaurus
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Daredevil was very much a gritty street-level book. Except maybe for the Hand sequences. The Bendis and Maleev run on DD was stellar, though. And definitely one of my favorite portrayals of the character. Maleev also did some work on the Empire of the Dead series that broke him out of his shell a bit and made him work with a more colorful pallete.
LordOfLore
Banned
A page from Spencers Secret Empire Abridged story in one of the Legacy one-shots:
Gwenpool Absorbs The Marvel Universe is one of the other 2 stories in the issue and will likely be the best of the 3:
Gwenpool Absorbs The Marvel Universe is one of the other 2 stories in the issue and will likely be the best of the 3:
Freezasaurus
Member
I see they are trying to trick me into buying this, but it will not work.
LordOfLore
Banned
Me neither. Hopefully itll be collected in a future Gwenpool trade.
BKatastrophe
Member
And it doesn't have to be overt. I like the monochromatic palette that he chooses based on the book. Just something that forces him to pop a little bit. And has a lot of action. Maleev talking heads are not great. Scarlet was mostly talking heads. Maleev does action incredibly well.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
oh my fucking god
I'll take the bullet for Gurihuru art and you guys.
What book is it?
my name is ed
Banned
yes never trust hickman
BKatastrophe
Member
So is he taking shots at us, or at himself?
Freezasaurus
Member
One of the Legacy one-shots. Just buy them all and you'll figure out which one it's in.
Vic_Viper
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What are some of the best OG Wolverine story arcs/books since like the late 90s till he died in Death of Wolverine? I like the current Old Man Logan run but it just feels like its missing something now that hes older and from another time.
Never really read any of his solo books when they were coming out aside from Millar's run and some of Fractions. Any recommendations? Solo or otherwise?
Loved:
Enemy of the State
Wolverine and the X-Men
Uncanny X-Force
The Astonishing Wolverine and Spider-man
Reading or plan to:
Morrison's New X-Men
Bendis's New Avengers run
Are there any must read books that I might not know about that I need to read?
Never really read any of his solo books when they were coming out aside from Millar's run and some of Fractions. Any recommendations? Solo or otherwise?
Loved:
Enemy of the State
Wolverine and the X-Men
Uncanny X-Force
The Astonishing Wolverine and Spider-man
Reading or plan to:
Morrison's New X-Men
Bendis's New Avengers run
Are there any must read books that I might not know about that I need to read?
That won't be a problem. I'm buying them anyway.
MHWilliams
Member
Most of DC's new folks are from their internal writing program thing, if I recall correctly. The rest have been around for a while. Hitch, Seeley, Rob Williams, and Orlando. The newish writers include Vendetti, who came from Valiant, and Williamson, who wrote Birthright. Most of that tracks fairly close with Marvel's talent.
The real strength of DC is allowing imprints like Young Animal to incubate new folks.
Honestly, looking at my pull list, I think Marvel's biggest problem is the perception of the line as a whole and being able to sell specific books. I don't think the writing on an individual series basis is much worse. Which is part of Higgins' statement that got lost in the shuffle: right your major books and the rest will follow, because readers will perceive the overall line as being better. Avengers and X-Men need to be at the top of the heap again, alongside Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man.
LordOfLore
Banned
Its the Not Brand Ecch one with the dabbing and Cho Spider-Gwen meme cover
Freezasaurus
Member
Hmmmmm, I wasn't going to buy that... But Gurihuru.
I don't buy everything, but I will buy these.
Freezasaurus
Member
This sounds more realistic. :3
BKatastrophe
Member
Thought so
BKatastrophe
Member
Uncanny X-Force and Uncanny Avengers by Remender have pretty important Logan arcs.
Sure, I enjoy Marvel Comics. Could do without Spencer events though. Go back to the funny books Spencer.
Freezasaurus
Member
He could always go back and do a remastered Morning Glories where the remastering process makes it coherent.
Season 2
Freezasaurus
Member
Is he really going to do it? Do people still care? I wrote that series off somewhere around issue 35.
BKatastrophe
Member
I read a short description.
Spencer says it's like Runaways meets Lost.
The fuck could that ever even mean?
Spencer says it's like Runaways meets Lost.
The fuck could that ever even mean?
Freezasaurus
Member
It means... there is a group of main characters....and it will go on for 4 seasons too long.
Right after SE Omega released he went on a podcast and said that he's taking a break after writing that huge story with plans to return to both Morning Glories and The Fix soon. Some of the things he mentioned about the creative side of SE we're pretty interesting.
I really liked it. I read it all over the course of a few days and was totally floored that it wasnt really wrapped up. It all ends in a cliffhanger.
Its Runaways in as far as its a bunch of kids who find out their teachers are evil, etc. Lost as in there are 100 mind bending questions and every issue ends in a WTF cliffhanger.
Need some help. Does anyone use the Amazon Kindle android app? It seems like a total piece of shit, but I'm not sure if I'm just missing something. I only downloaded it because I could redeem a free comic from Amazon and I decided to grab Planet Hulk. The app seems like total junk. There are no proper settings to customize viewing on my phone, I can't get it to rotate to landscape, zoom doesn't seem to work properly, and even downloading the file was a pain because it would only sync and download. Everything feels like DRM hell.
I'm used to buying digital comics from Image and putting CBR files on my phone if I wanna read on the go. I use Perfect Viewer and it's great for everything. Is there a way to make the Amazon Kindle app behave like that?
I'm used to buying digital comics from Image and putting CBR files on my phone if I wanna read on the go. I use Perfect Viewer and it's great for everything. Is there a way to make the Amazon Kindle app behave like that?
He said that was the end of season 1...looool