thx bro^^
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thx bro^^
peace bewiffyew
giving the ultimate comics spider-man and avengers another chance..
i'm loving ultimate comics spider-man
the 'red skull is cap's bastard offspring' twist is lame and stupid imo
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were there comics released today?
marvels site says today and tomorrow but idk
ill find out tomoro..eloels.
probably an error
is anybody buying the psylocke mini series or realm of kings #1?
Born Again Captain: Ed Brubaker Talks REBORN & Multiple Caps
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Since beginning on Captain America in 2005, Ed Brubaker has taken the character places that most fans would never have thought possible.
Not only has the writer resurrected the long-thought-dead Bucky Barnes, but he made the old-fashioned child character into one of the most admired heroes in Marvel's current line-up. As if that wasn't enough, Brubaker took things a step further and killed off Steve Rogers, the man who has carried the Captain America mantle for much of the last 60-plus years since he was created.
Now Brubaker's doing it again – this time with Captain America: Reborn, a six-issue mini-series that returns Steve Rogers to the land of the living. The heavily-hyped series is three issues into a story that has been taking readers on an epic journey through the more significant moments in the life of the original Captain America. Unstuck in time, Rogers is powerless to stop reliving his life, but other Marvel characters are starting to figure out the mystery of Cap's time displacement.
As the fourth issue of Captain America: Reborn is released this week, with a new one-shot called Captain America: Who Will Wield the Shield? scheduled for December, we talked to Brubaker about the story and what readers can expect from the return of Steve Rogers to the Marvel Universe.
Newsarama: There are a lot of mysteries here that have had readers guessing about Red Skull's intentions and what caused this whole thing. Was it always the intent to make this more epic and mysterious than just a return-from-the-dead story?
Ed Brubaker: I always intended for it to definitely have people guessing as to what was going on. I think a lot of people might think that there’s more of a plan than there is.
Nrama: You mean more of a plan on Sharon's part?
Brubaker: Yeah. I mean, the Red Skull’s plan was he was going to bring Cap back and take over his body. And then Sharon wrecked the machine and sent Steve off through time, basically. So the plan wasn’t to have him go skipping through time. The plan was to have him frozen in time, which is what they did. And Sharon sort of unstuck him in time, so that part of it wasn’t a plan really. That part of it was like what Sharon did by trying to save Steve, which a lot of people seem to misunderstand so far. I think by the time we get to the end the Reborn people will understand that.
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Nrama: Well, I think there are a lot of layers to the story, and I think people have been kind of surprised by it. When you put together this story, with some of the things that Cap is visiting, did you do a lot of research and try to make these things fit seamlessly in continuity?
Brubaker: A little bit of trying to fit it. I was trying to just sort of find some key moments in Cap’s life that would be – I mean, part of the advantage of having him unstuck in time was you could do a story called Captain America: Reborn. Like half the story or so is actually devoted to Steve and what he’s being forced to sort of live through, but it gives you a chance to sort of highlight this character, for people who maybe don’t know that much about Cap, who he is and what he’s been through. So I was trying to find those key moments.
I had to tap into my knowledge of Cap, and having read pretty much every issue of Cap comes in handy. Like I knew the scene when Namor finds him in the ice would have to be a scene in there. But actually showing it from Cap’s perspective inside the ice, I thought was a really neat twist on it.
But also because it’s Bryan Hitch, so I was also trying to find really, really cool moments that will actually be really exciting for him to draw. Bryan is the type of artist who just, you know, suddenly, if you give him three pages, he turns in like eight pages of double page spreads. So he’s a psycho like that, and so I knew if I would give him the Kree-Skrull War, he would just go nuts on it.
And the Kree-Skrull War was important just because it was a big, exciting action team. But also it gave Cap a chance to see Captain Marvel, a character who he’d been to the funeral of. So I chose moments that emphasized the whole idea that he’s sort of circling near death and trapped in this sort of non-life.
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Nrama: We've seen some great scenes with Cap's supporting cast, like Sam and Sharon and the Red Skull. But we've seen the Avengers and Reed Richards and Captain Marvel and a lot of other characters from throughout the Marvel Universe. Were you hoping to make this series more of a universe-wide story than just a Cap story?
Brubaker: Well, that was just something that I knew going in, especially once it was decided that this would be outside Cap’s actual series and in another book, I knew that it would be a big Marvel project to some degree. But also, when you’ve got Norman Osborn running what was left of Shield, and you’ve got the Red Skull in a plot with Dr. Doom, and the Avengers are all living with Bucky, and Bucky’s dating the Black Widow, it’s like the Marvel Universe sort of starts to open up more for you in a way where you’re kind of like, "well, it only makes logical sense to use this stuff."
And Cap is just as important to the Avengers as he is to Bucky and the Cap Universe itself. He’s one of the most important characters in the entire Marvel Universe, so it just made sense to use everybody that I could get my hands onto that made sense to be in the story.
Nrama: One of the things that’s often said about you is that you’re more of a street level writer. At least people used to say that about you, but this summer in particular you’re controlling two fairly big Marvel events – the 70th Anniversary Marvels Project and then this return of Captain America. And these really are more epic and less street level than a lot of what you’ve done. Do you feel like you’ve grown as a writer? Is this something that you wanted to do in particular to do, these more epic big event type books?
Brubaker: Yeah. I don’t know. I think that – I hope I’ve grown. I hope I haven’t – I know I haven’t regressed. The Marvels Project was just a cool thing; it was something I couldn’t possibly turn down. It was really just the chance of trying to do an in-continuity origin of Marvel, and just being able to take that whole world, and make all these little pieces that weren’t intended to be part of the same universe sort of fit together in our modern time. And just sort of look back at that stuff and be like, OK, which characters make sense?
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With Reborn, a lot of it is a bunch of superheroes and a bunch of supervillains fighting. So I think I’ve progressed and regressed at the same time a little bit. Conveniently, I’ve got Bryan Hitch to help me out. Whenever I regress, he makes it look good.
Nrama: Can you tell us about what’s coming up in Captain America: Reborn #4?
Brubaker: In Issue #4, we’ll see the last moments of Steve sort of skipping through in his "unstuck in time" phase, and really, we get to see the moment where Osborn and the Red Skull and Dr. Doom sort of come together on their plot. And we get to see how they’re trying to salvage something out of the remains of the Red Skull’s shattered plot.
Nrama: What's the idea behind the one-shot "Who Will Wear the Shield?" How did that come about? Is that dealing with the aftermath of Reborn?
Brubaker: Yeah, it’s really an aftermath story, and that was something that it probably, just like Reborn, could have been just done within Cap itself. But it’s sort of an epilogue book in some ways to Reborn. It gives Steve Rogers a chance to get familiarized with what’s going on in the Marvel world now that he’s come back, and we get to see how he’s viewing things after everything he’s been through. And a lot of people have been asking that question well, what’s gonna happen to Bucky if Steve comes back? So it’s like, OK, here’s a book that will tell you what happens to everybody.
Nrama: Are you surprised that people have gotten so behind Bucky as Cap?
Brubaker: Yeah, actually. It’s totally wrong somehow. [laughs] First they were mad that we brought Bucky back, and then they were mad that we killed Steve. Now they’re mad we’re bringing Steve back, and they like Bucky as Cap better.
Nrama: I think you’ve got to be patting yourself on the back a little bit for that, don’t you? Selling your readers on the idea of James as Captain America?
Brubaker: Well, yeah. I think the weird thing is they said you couldn’t bring Bucky back and we did, and then people hated that we brought him back and now he’s – I mean, I’ve got a statue on my desk of the Winter Soldier kicking the crap out of like three Hydra agents now. And there’s mini toys and he’s become a popular character. We didn't sit there and go, "Oh, he'll be popular." You can never plan that a character will be popular. They didn't say, with Wolverine, oh, this is the one who is really going to take off.
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He’s a cool character because he’s very 21st Century and he was a spy and an assassin. And he’s got this bionic arm, which, you know, is all the rage since the 90s. [laughs] So I should put together a team of all the guys with cyborg arms, with, like, Deathlok and Cable and Bucky and just call it "Left Arm."
Nrama: OK, the fact that you think he’s cool bodes well for those Bucky fans. It means you're not anxious to just kill him off or take away the shield right away.
Brubaker: Yeah, oh, yeah, I mean he’s – there was a point where we were trying to figure out if we should even bring Steve back. My intention was always to bring him back. But Bucky really did take over the starring role of that book, and if you go back and you look, in some ways it’s been about Bucky since I started. It’s been about Steve trying to figure out if Bucky was alive, and then once he realizes he is trying to save him, and then after Steve gets killed, it’s about Bucky trying to find out who he is and live up to Steve’s legacy. So it’s been a real character-driven book for all the superhero/supervillain battles.
Nrama: So the one shot will answer definitely who is going to have that shield?
Brubaker: Well, I don’t want to say specifically. But, yeah, it’s when you'll know. Or maybe there’ll be two Caps. There’s like 85 Green Lanterns.
Nrama: That’s true. We just bought it back another Flash, so I think there’s three or four running around.
Brubaker: Yeah. How many Flashes are there? There are like nine Flashes, like 85 Green Lanterns; there were at least two Iron Men at one point. I’m not going to spoil it, but yes, it will answer the question of who is Captain America, but whether people will be satisfied with the answer is going to be up to them.
Nrama: Fair enough. Anything else you want to tell readers about this week's issue?
Brubaker: Well, I don't want to spoil too much. But there’s a flashback to my favorite year of modern Cap, which is the Steranko years. Or I should say, the Steranko issues; he did three issues. But, yeah, seeing Bryan draw those scenes, with like a billion agents of Hydra in the sewer tunnels. It’s just oh my God! And there’s a really, really great moment right before the end of the issue that I’m really happy with the way it turned out. It’s one of the key moments from Cap's entire history, and we show it from a different perspective.
That’s one of the things that’s been the most fun about it, you know, going through Cap's history and bringing a different spin on it. And getting to see Hitch draw these set pieces that have never been drawn the way he’s drawing them. And you know that the people working on the Cap movie are looking at this stuff. We always say comics don’t have a budget, but with Hitch’s pages, I say it does have a budget. It’s just the most expensive budget of all time. This is a $500 billion movie. And this next issue is filled with stuff like that.
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huh? why?
the book has been consistently good since he's been writing it...even the reborn series started out weird and has gotten progressively better...awesome art helps of course.
i am nervous about how things will play out once cap is really back though...
bought a grip of Legends of the Dark Knight issues for 25 cents apiece. The good ones--matt wagner, bryan talbot, tim sale, p craig russel, chris bachalo...
bought the criminal omnibus also. i spend too much money on comics
until 25.... no 30 something.... it was good.
Reborn has been meh but Bucky is not a great.
at all i havent been pleased with that. that broad shoulda never told him to put on the mask.
as a story teller... within the foundation of story telling... Brubaker is Brubaker no doubt.
but he feels himself a little too much.
since thats alot to read....u mind explaining that thing u said about redskull being caps son?
^^^isn't that the twist? red skull in ultimate avengers is cap's son? i haven't bought ultimate avengers because millar has disappointed me alot.
he sucks the majority of the time, even when the concepts are good...i'll avoid making a rant and just say i feel like his writing is dumbed down, same with matt fraction. it's all flash and spectacle with shitty plotting and thin characterization
he's another jeph loeb, the talent of the artists he works with tend to mask the shittiness of his writing. (granted, he's far superior to loeb)
the art in psylocke looks sick. also the art grew on me for ultimate comics spider-man lol
i completely missed the ULTIMATE part of ur post..lmao sorry, ya i guess..wouldnt kno..but i just read reborn, and wtf.Quote:
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hopefully sega doesnt make it suck and they have a couple of years to make the game
i thought the art in psylocke was ok, but not really a good fit...she never looks asian at all and while i appreicate the artist trying to use unique angles, alot of time the figure work and composition looks awkward as fuck...and the story isn't really interesting imo...does every psylocke solo story have to revolve around matsuo, body swapping and her convoluted back story?
i thought reborn #4 was good...some of the technobabble was really unnecessary and seemed out of context for a cap book though.
^ so is Psylocke worth buying? you make it sound like a no
also to KZA, those games have a lot of potential if done right, especially Thor IMO
motion comics up on hulu for spider-woman and astonishing x-men
http://www.hulu.com/spider-woman-agent-of-sword
http://www.hulu.com/watch/106671/ast...e-1#s-p1-so-i0
mua 2 dlc is up too..
hulk and iron man were ok but they really need to step it up since arkham asylum did good
finally got DP 900, and i enjoyed it...but wtf...Team Up was terrible. he really called it when he went to kill his fans in that story baker did the art for up in 900 eloels. widening gyre sucked...astonishing was ok, i hate when they do motion blurs digitally in comics...astonishing has bene using that shit to death as of late.
^^^ya plus the plot is flimsy as hell, c'mon ellis... the 'weaponized dead mutant' angle is already being used in x-force, and taking the majority of the issue to fight the bio-sentinel is just lazy and boring
jiminez's art sho nuff is pretty though
http://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-conte...mo-570x828.jpgThis is a sketch of an idea for an ad promo for Brendan McCarthy’s new Dr Strange/Spider-Man series. Named Fever, this give us a solid date to expect the first issues.
McCarthy is best known for his work on Judge Dredd, but also for works such as Skin, Rogan Gosh, Skrull Kill Krew and designing the TV series ReBoot.
The series will be coloured by Steve Cook.
He also did a lot of the Shade, The Changing Man covers
yess he did..wow that looks like its gonna be bad ass...that isnt the same as the Strange mini series on the way right?
no, this is out of continuity...mccarthy was supposed to put this out a few years ago
the strange miniseries looks kind of lame, the art and cover are good, but they've got him in civvies at a baseball game that gets attacked by monsters...c'mon waid.
doctor voodoo was quality though...may have been my favorite single issue i bought this week...wait i haven't read all of the shit i bought lol nevermind
can someone spoil necrosha #1 for me? i'm waiting for trade, as i tend to do with crossovers.
i thought psylocke was ok... i was lookin forward to it but from this point i can see it having 1 more decent issue then the last couple be blah.
Cap was probably the best issue so far but still wasnt great imo
flash 4 came out... shoulda had a different writer.
this post looks is outta place....................
forgot my tab was open
^^^what flash: rebirth #4?
i just bought the first one...flash needs a writer who's works are faster paced--morrison would be a good idea, didn't he write the book in the late 90s for a few months?
johns is more wordy and deliberately paced so i can see where he'd be a bad fit...his superman and green lantern is genius shit though.
if the superman: secret origin continues on the level of the first 2 issues, it would be the perfect template for a new superman film.
still have not read the inhumans masterwork...it's under some of my school books saying "read me, bitch!"
oh, poetic wun i remember you said you're a cap fan but you don't like brubaker...who else was good? i've literally never bought cap before the current volume.
Necrosha was shit..i literally stopped reading halfway..i never do that.
^^^oh man...really? (i mean that rhetorically of course)
buy that criminal hardcover...awesome packaging, i want to read this shit asap
maybe..im backed up on trades to read.
^^^same here
same here
my stack grows bigger each week lol
i wish for the twilight zone scenario minus the shattered glasses sometimes.
was in orlando with my gf for a horrendous wedding. picked up a bundle of discounted x-men trades for 30 bucks. most of them seem like shit lol
xmen vs apocalypse the twelve
xmen vs apocalypse ages of apocalypse
....these are immediately pre-morrison i guess, some alan davis art as well as liefeld (yuck) and a bunch of nobodies...some shit withprofessor x helping skrulls...these are proably not good.
endangered species
deadly genesis
ilyana and storm: magik
nyx no way home
xforce/ cable: messiah war
messiah war includes the lucas bishop miniseries which i haven't read but probably sucks lol
please tell me some of this shit is good
endangered aint bad...neither is deadly gen...messiah war was ok...idk about the rest really
messiah war was alright.
wolverine first class is a fun read lol
if deadly genesis was the one with vulcan, darwin & them thats actually some pretty good x-men.
^^^it is; i started reading it in between classes today...i'm enjoying the story but the artwork is kind of bland...i prefer the art in the backup stories honestly...and why did darwin turn into an albino by the time he's in rise and fall of the shiar empire, world war hulk:x-men, and x-factor?
kza do they release trades for wolverine first class or digest versions? that's the one with kitty pryde as his sidekick right?
oh and i've read messiah war...i thought it started great but was overall pretty awful after the 3rd or 4th issue, it got stuck in a holding pattern of bishop almost killing hope what seemed like infinite times, and stryfe whining like a pussy which he does often.