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COMICS!!! |OT| April 2017 - Now Featuring Superstar Artist Brett Booth - APRIL FOALS!

Zombine

Banned
Can finally talk freely about Alien: Dead Orbit.

One of the things that I loved immensely about the book was how well Stokoe captured a vibe somewhere between Alien & Aliens, and the coloring is DOPE AS SHIT. Biggest tease and shocker is that
the Xenomorph isn't introduced completely until the last page.
But now shit is about to get real for the duration of the run.

I'm also the proud owner of this page:

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(Non-spoiler, was a part of the preview period)

IGN 10 out of 10
 
It's kind of hard not to imagine Stokoe nailing that book, seems tailor made. The Darrow variant is great too.
The issues in that road to secret empire book are:

SECRET EMPIRE PRELUDE TPB collects Captain America (2012) #21 & #25; material from Captain America: Sam Wilson #7 & #8; Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill Alpha, Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill Omega; Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 & #2.
 
#comics. I didn't realise it was already planned as a mini, not an ongoing. That seems a little less sensible in my mind, to shake it up to the detriment of folks who already bought 2 issues of your 5 issue series lol.

Also, I didn't want to write anything negative since Giannis himself post and was being so nice, but that's a shame about those OCB trades being a mismatch like that! I think that would bug me to no end haha. Still, that's a great sketch you got, dude is talented.

Yeah I purposefully untagged him but I think if they ever reprint the first volume of Old City Blues they'll probably do it in the manga TPB format like the second one, which I believe is the way he wanted it printed in originally. and dude, he was doing those sketches for $45, including shipping (from Greece!)
 
Yeah I purposefully untagged him but I think if they ever reprint the first volume of Old City Blues they'll probably do it in the manga TPB format like the second one, which I believe is the way he wanted it printed in originally. and dude, he was doing those sketches for $45, including shipping (from Greece!)

Oh man, that's awesome, I had no idea! That's unbelievable, shipping won't have been cheap. Manga sized vols seem like a great fit for that book, although Boom don't really seem to put out through Archaia these days. Basically Mouse Guard & Henson stuff. I can't wait to get more of those Prophet volumes, for all the collab going on he basically covers the bulk of those two volumes and imo all the best parts are his.
 

tim1138

Member
More stuff from Flash 21 in
the Vault

Dr Fates helmet
What I'm guessing is Lobo's space pope outfit
A Kirby krackle dot (hah)
A parademon head
Prometheus' costume
A Rocket Red suit

There's a bunch of other stuff that looks familiar that I can't place.
 
More stuff from Flash 21 in
the Vault

Dr Fates helmet
What I'm guessing is Lobo's space pope outfit
A Kirby krackle dot (hah)
A parademon head
Prometheus' costume
A Rocket Red suit

There's a bunch of other stuff that looks familiar that I can't place.

I'm pretty sure the big thing in the class case near the front is
the Worlogog
.
 

error4041

Member
Rosenberg's Rocket Raccoon was so good. Rocket vs Kraven was such a great idea. The art gave the violence a grounded but at the same time slapstick feel to it. And the dialogue was fun to read and even a little self-aware at times.
 

BrightLightLava

Unconfirmed Member
The game itself is FTP (it'd better be FTP - it was like that on PC), and you'll get a pick of some heroes - but you'll have to spend if you wanna get others. Right now, they're in a sort of Closed Beta - which you can join! By buying a $17-$50 "Founder's Pack".

See that's what I thought. I'm not gonna pay the full price of the game to get 5 characters, four of which I don't actually want, just so I can play it now. That's madness.

I haven't actually read any comics yet today, but I'm pretty excited to see Quentin Quire in Thor. That's a great cover.
 

Sandfox

Member
PAD delivered with Scarlet Spider. Classic Ben fans will probably have a lesser opinion on it, but the story is interesting and the art is good. Ben is really crazy and I like how it's being used to differentiate him from the other Spiders.
 

Sou Da

Member
PAD delivered with Scarlet Spider. Classic Ben fans will probably have a lesser opinion on it, but the story is interesting and the art is good. Ben is really crazy and I like how it's being used to differentiate him from the other Spiders.

I ain't hating on it but from what little I've seen it appears to just be Joe Kelly Deadpool redux.
 
PAD delivered with Scarlet Spider. Classic Ben fans will probably have a lesser opinion on it, but the story is interesting and the art is good. Ben is really crazy and I like how it's being used to differentiate him from the other Spiders.

I can't wait to dig into it on lunch break. I read a few pages in the morning and damn,
Ben straight up robbed that woman and told her if she doesn't get more money they will have problems. But he still thinks he's a hero? Dude is bonkers.
 

Sandfox

Member
I ain't hating on it but from what little I've seen it appears to just be Joe Kelly Deadpool redux.

I haven't read Joe Kelly Deadpool so I can't comment on that.

I can't wait to dig into it on lunch break. I read a few pages in the morning and damn,
Ben straight up robbed that woman and told her if she doesn't get more money they will have problems. But he still thinks he's a hero?
Dude is bonkers.
He didn't rob her, he charged her for saving her because he has no money or home.
 

ElNarez

Banned
Here I was, not knowing Ultimates² would tie into Secret Empire, when BAM. Saw that preview. MotherFUCK I am not having this shit, go to fucking hell Marvel. Go. To. Fucking. Hell.
 
I ain't hating on it but from what little I've seen it appears to just be Joe Kelly Deadpool redux.
Not a bad thing to me as that is one of my favorite runs.

I haven't read Joe Kelly Deadpool so I can't comment on that.


He didn't rob her, he charged her for saving her because he has no money or home.

That was basically him robbing her. He's a strange dude who just shot somebody and is holding a gun, asked her for a hundred bucks and when she said she'd have to work to get the rest he told her if she didn't honor their deal it won't go well for her. Would have been different if he asked for the money before saving her in the first place and didn't threaten her after.
 

Sandfox

Member
Not a bad thing to me as that is one of my favorite runs.



That was basically him robbing her. He's a strange dude who just shot somebody and is holding a gun, asked her for a hundred bucks and when she said she'd have to work to get the rest he told her if she didn't honor their deal it won't go well for her. Would have been different if he asked for the money before saving her in the first place and didn't threaten her after.

Yeah, I wasn't thinking about that.
 
Here I was, not knowing Ultimates² would tie into Secret Empire, when BAM. Saw that preview. MotherFUCK I am not having this shit, go to fucking hell Marvel. Go. To. Fucking. Hell.

How could it not? We see a big chunk of that team if not all of it stuck on the outside of the shield getting hammered by Chitauri in Secret Empire 0.

It would be flat out bizarre if Ultimates just didn't mention that.
 

Messi

Member
Here I was, not knowing Ultimates² would tie into Secret Empire, when BAM. Saw that preview. MotherFUCK I am not having this shit, go to fucking hell Marvel. Go. To. Fucking. Hell.

Yes because Ewing is known for ducking events... Oh wait... He isn't he is in all of them. It's like you have never read Marvel comics before.
 

ElNarez

Banned
How could it not? We see a big chunk of that team if not all of it stuck on the outside of the shield getting hammered by Chitauri in Secret Empire 0.

It would be flat out bizarre if Ultimates just didn't mention that.

No it wouldn't. There's eleventy fucking billion books already, just stick it there. Uprising is mainly going to be a Champions story and you don't see it derailing Champions.

Ultimates² is doing something way good way beyond the little shitty nazi boring thing that I hate. Not every book has to be about your goddamn event. Fuck that noise.
 

Sandfox

Member
It's weird how Ultimates is doing a one issue tie-in. I expect Ewing to end the run after Eternity War though. I'm curious to see what he does next besides Inhumans because Legacy creates a lot of possibilities.

Anything especially notable I should pick up or avoid this week?
What are you already planning on picking up?
 
All Star Batman #9 didn't quite nail the landing for me. Probably my least favourite issue of Ends of the Earth but I still enjoyed it a lot more than the Two Face arc.

I haven't read Flash since #5 but I'm looking forward to the Button Part 2. How's it been recently? I was enjoying it, I just fell behind and never caught up.
 
Man I like where the story of Infamous Iron Man is heading with
Ultimate Reed(and boy is it fucked up he's shagging Doom's mom)
but I still can't get over Doom adopting someone else's identity and costume(especially Tony's), and he just doesn't sound like Doom. It feels like this is some completely different character calling himself Doom.
 
Jeez, how much do new heroes cost in in-game money?

Before on PC, it was anywhere from €7-20 depending on which bundles you went for. They did that infuriating thing where you have to buy their version of Itchy & Scratchy Fun Money if you want to make real money purchases so it was a little abstract. I got a 90% off coupon as a random drop and was able to buy almost the whole roster for €20 or so as the currency was already 50% off during a sale.

They do regular BOGOF sales on the PC version but the freebies you get are random. So if you buy say, Spider-Man, you also get a Random Hero Box that could be anyone. You could use spare tokens for heroes you have as upgrades for their Ultimate Power. There's also fairly regular freebies. I got Luke Cage, Doctor Strange and Iron Man for free last summer because of MCU promotions. Sadly these seem to be downgraded to just discounts these days.

You also get 400 Eternity Splinters as soon as you finish the tutorial level now (it used to be on your second login day) and you can buy almost any hero with that amount, or get two goes on the random hero boxes. I think only Spider-Man, Iron Man, Deadpool, Wolverine, Doctor Doom, Ghost Rider, Doctor Strange and Rogue are 600. The first four because the popularity tax, and the latter four because they have a lot more going on animation-wise than most of the others.
 
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