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do you recognize who did the art on the thor piece? i love that style...
looks like tommy lee edwards far as backgrounds but idk
ya it looks like tommy lee edwards mixed with marcos martin or javier pulido...a new artist, maybe? it looks familiar, though.
flash #1 was good... manipaul is a genius... flash taking about the car before it hit the construction workers...wow. i hope he stays around, but the surprisingly awful andy kubert teaser at the end makes that appear unlikely.
i haven't really been that into chew since the end of the first arc, i'm going to give an issue or two of the next arc but it just feels less interesting or something.
the art on batman 698 was boss as hell i thought, but the cover was fugly imo...everything about it seemed off to me as far as the perspective, i guess. the story is fairly interesting, but morrison can't come in fast enough imo
iron man legacy was bullshit...i feel like i've read this same story like 5 times in the last 5 years lol i don't need a rehashed version of it that apparently takes place pre disassembled.
unwritten 12 was good as usual but weird as fuck lol this series is a slow burn, but i feel like it could end up being sandman caliber.
havent got my hands on flash yet..was supposed to go get it yesterday and today, but ima get it tomoro..and ya that batman cover sucks to me.
Yea definitely go Scalped...very entertaining. I liked the Flash #1 and the Brightest Day0. I thought the chapter 3 of second coming was a let down after 2 good issues. I also picked up Black Widow and Green Arrow...I enjoyed the Black Widow, Green Arrow was so so. Tonight I went on a Iron Man trade spree...i got Extremis, Invincible Iron Man omnibus and The End. Have you guys read any of those?
I also finished Fables vol 7 last night. I'm still really enjoying that series. I'd go as far as saying it's my favorite right now. I'm really surprised with it I keep waiting for it to get tiresome but it still captivates me. Although my buddy told volume 13 is pretty bad.
volume 13 was horrible by fables standards but probably still around 3/5 stars or whatever...it was more a 'jack of fables' story, i don't think there are any developments in it that are relevant to the ongoing fables story, except resolving the kevin thorne thing which i had honestly forgotten about lol...i mean a bad fables trade is at least readable and decent so it's not a huge problem lol but vol 2-9 are all pretty awesome in my opinion
also before you read vol 8, you should read '1,000 nights of snowfall'...i mean it can be read whenever, but it seems to fall in there nicely imo get it regardless, it has tons of artists doing great stuff in it.
as far as the iron man stuff,i thought the end was lame, but extremis and ivincible iron man were good (extremis is excellent, especially in the first couple of chapters imo) beyond that, i would recommend 'the inevitable', 'director of shield', and 'haunted'
I read 1000 nights right after volume 6...I'm getting thme from the public library and I received at the same time as volume 6 so I read it then. That sucks that the End is shitty...I was all caught up in the Iron Man display and just went on spree before I read any reviews!!
Have you guys read Criminal or Sleeper...they looked pretty interesting. One of these days I still have to read Sandman...I bought all 10 volumes off a friend for $100...he bought some fancy hardcovers so he gave me a really good deal just to unload the softcovers. I think I'll wait till the really hot summer weather to read them!!!
damn that's an awesome deal...and criminal and sleeper are both primo, as is incognito...basically anything by brubaker/phillips team is golden.
Sandman is ill, still not done with em all
Yea I'm excited to tackle them...just getting through all the Fables right now. I figure the Sandmans will be perfect for the summer when it gets to hot to move...I can just sit in the backyard with a nice scotch and rip through them!!
After those I'm going to re-read Preacher. I only go to about the middle of it when I originally quit collecting so I want to get all the volumes and read those this summer too.
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ive actually decided im finally gonna jump into the WS universe...and also read scalped...simultaneously..eloels..we'll see how that goes.
Any thoughts on Ultimate Iron Man Armour Wars by Ellis?
i wouldnt kno^^ havent read it.
i thought ultimate armor wars was pretty good, it managed to actually do something original with the played out premise of 'international techno-criminals steal tony stark's technology to do very bad things abroad'...which seems to be the premise of every iron man story lately lol
what is the WS universe? wildstorm?
ya wildstorm, which ellis wrote alot for
LMAO PunMax was gnarly to read whilst shitting.
did you guys read the siege one shots? i was tempted to get the Loki one but my flow was getting low!!
the only one i was planning on buying was the secret warriors one because SW is the shit and maybe spider-man depending one who's doing it, but i saw the loki one got good reviews
i started trade-waiting punmax after issue 2, everytime one comes out i hear it's crazy lol
jason aaron has been killing it with punisher max and wolverine weapon x.
i'll probably pick up the siege: loki next time.
ya bad move with the punmax..eloels...and Flash was dope btw, Manapul is killin em...and wtf is that flashpoint shit??
I saw Kick-Ass last night. I really enjoyed it. I like the changes the made from the comic book. I'm glad they didn't follow the book exactly...I think it would've made the movie to predictable for all of us who've read it.
I read Criminal volume 1 this morning. Good read...I recommend it for anyway who hasn't read it. I was thinking of buying the HC...the cover looks sic!!
but most people who saw the movie did not read the comic.
C2E2 X-Men Panel
-July 2010: Whilce Portacio artist on Uncanny X-Men. Leonard Kirk comes on New Mutants.
-July 2010: These are the X-Women by Chris Claremont.
-New Mutants Forever by Chris Claremont and Al Rio in August 2010.
-Mutants vs. Vampires. A new X-Men #1 from Gischler and Medina.
-Wolverine Weapon X will be no more.
-New series, Wolverine by Jason Aaron and Renato Guedes. Wolverine is sent to hell in September 2010. We'll see what happens when Wolverine isn't around to control his own body.
-Daken: Dark Wolverine in September 2010: Way, Liu and Camuncoli are the team. They pronounce Daken like Dokken. In their dreams, it's still the same.
-X-23 in September, by Marjorie and a secret artist. She's been set loose from X-Force and is on a journey of self-discovery. It's going to be a dark, intense book.
-Next: X-Force as you know it is done after Second Coming.
The new X-Force by Rick Remender and Jerome Opena. They show an image with Wolverine and other characters blacked out. This will be in October 2010. This is a totally different team; they call it "subversive", "really awesome". They'll be taking on Apocalypse. He's back in a big way.
-Coming up with X-Factor: David says, "we've got some really nasty stuff." David riffs on some old-school Marvel tropes, and says that X-Factor will be the go-to MU detective agency. They are the anti-X-Men in that they're out there for anyone who needs them . . . as long as they have the money. They've carved out their little niche because they're out there, they have a published address, and if you need them, you hire them. X-Factor figures then that they're immune to the grief the X-Men get; however, they will get targeted by the Mutant Response Division.
-The X-Men will be much more integrated into the Marvel Universe. There's a reason that the traditionally non-X-Men characters are in those images.
a new x-men series in july
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dude all of those ideas sound fucking terrible, and the creative teams are even worse (gischler? remender? fuck that shit)
that medina image looks atrocious with fat x-man and wolverine...and fuck x-man too, he's trash lol
that adi granov picture is fucking awesome though.
am i just being a negative asshole or did literally none of those ideas sound good and in fact sounded horrible...why cancel weapon x? an x-23 ongoing that'll probably not make it to issue 10?
jesus christ, marvel does not want me buying their comics lol
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"X-Men Legacy" will continue with Mike Carey despite other changes to the line, Singh confirmed in response to the first question.
wolverine weapon x is suppose to end around in sept and jason aaron is going to do another wolverine series. i dont get why not just continue wolverine weapon x. the name sounds cool also.
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also the teasers they did with jubilee and blade. there doing some vampires vs mutants in the future.
^^^ya that's the gischler and paco medina series, which i seriously don't see lasting...they're rolling out a new x-men book with such a mediocre creative team...honestly all of these new series being announced at c2e2 reminds me of the 90s when i stopped reading comics for a while lol...the x-line needs to get more streamlined not made more bloated but of course that's just my opinion, but even look at the batman solicitations that just came out, there's like 15 books and maybe 5 of them will end up being good lol
this is pretty awesome though
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CBR News: Joe, you guys have been teasing this for a few weeks now, so I guess the best way to start this is just the very basics: what is "O.M.I.T.?"
Joe Quesada: I heard a fan say this, and I thought it was great: One More Internet Teaser. [Laughs] It stands for "One Moment In Time." And it also stands for "Omit."
What you're dealing with in the issue is "What happened on the day Peter Parker and Mary Jane on the day they were supposed to get married." How do you step into that premise? Is this a straight-up, linear story told in the past?
http://www.comicbookresources.com/as...7259.jpg&w=250The story of "O.M.I.T." unfolds in "Amazing Spider-Man" #639
The story actually takes place in current continuity. It starts with a conversation. Actually, I take that back. It starts with "One More Day," and then we go into current continuity. And then from there, we flash into the Wedding Annual, actually using a tremendous amount of material from the wedding annual and then dancing between those raindrops. People will see as the book goes along. And if you haven't read the Wedding Annual, or you've forgotten what the Wedding Annual was all about, there are actual pages there. There are scenes that either end and then we continue them, or there were moments where Peter and MJ went off to do different things, and we tell what those stories were. We elaborate a bit more on the Wedding Annual and make everybody feel like they're jumping into the middle of a story and going, "I don't remember reading that story" or "it's been so long, I never got it." Hopefully, it will get everybody immersed and knowing exactly where we're going.
Did you have this name in mind, and the fact that it lined up with an omitted piece of history in anagram form was a lucky coincidence, or were you looking for a title that really spoke to the story in two ways?
It was serendipitous, but it does have a tremendous amount of significance. I was looking for a title that played upon "One More Day" - because I'm a whore. [Laughs] But I started toying around with things, and "One Moment In Time" fit the story. Then when I did the anagram thing, it was like, "Whoa! Look at that. It's perfect." So it was complete happenstance, serendipity, magic...whatever you want to call it. But there you have it.
Ever since "One More Day" came out, people have been asking questions. "What was whispered? How does the past work?" At that time, did you know what all those answers were, or did you really have to go back in and find what was going to be official after the change was made?
I knew what the beats were in continuity and the science of how everything was going to go down after "One More Day" was done. What I didn't know was that I was going to write this, so I didn't have a three-act structure or the narrative structure of how it would play out. Once I decided I wanted to write the story and started having some more ideas towards it, that's when I said, "Let me put this into a structure that makes sense. It's also a tough story to tell because you're going back in continuity and back in time, and you want to make it conclusive so that if anyone hasn't read the Wedding Annual from back in the day and doesn't know all of Peter Parker's history, it will still make some sort of sense to you. And if you haven't read "One More Day," it will still make sense to you. It's still a linear story. That was the trick in doing this, and I didn't start thinking about that until about a year after "One More Day."
Paolo Rivera has been making comics for a long time, creating so many of the "Mythos" books with Paul Jenkins over the past few years, but the past year or so seems to have drawn a lot more attention to his work. What led to him being the one to take on this project?
I think Paolo - his painted work is beautiful. It's spectacular. But the problem with the painted work is that it's taken longer to do. And his pen and ink work and his brush work are just as beautiful, if not more so. There's something about it. I don't want to call it "retro," because it has this modern approach, but it has a bit of a classic feel to it. His characters are fun and really attractive.
His storytelling is absolutely spectacular. More than anything, the reason I needed Paolo on this is because I needed someone who really could tell a story. And the only two guys I could think of at that moment were John Romita, Jr. and Paolo. John's busy doing other things, but I also felt with Paolo, his stock has been rising at Marvel, and this is a project - love it or hate it - that was going to get a lot of attention. I think people are going to read it, and they're going to love what he does on that book.
I'm someone who has actually never read that annual. How do those original pages by Paul Ryan mesh with what's happening now in "O.M.I.T.?" How does Paolo bridge that gap visually?
He actually alters his style just a little bit so that it's relatively seemless. If you're not an astute comic book reader, you may not be able to tell the difference. You might think it's just one continuous tale. It's pretty beautiful. I can't say enough about Paolo, and he's such a joy to work with. It's made the project that much more fun.
You've been talking about "One More Day," well, ever since "One More Day" happened. Nonstop. Do you think this will satisfy all the questions readers have had about this, or does it open up the past for even more?
It answers every question. I believe I have all those boxed checked. I'm pretty sure I did, and I've had all my editors look it over, and I think we completely answered every question. It doesn't leave openings, and it doesn't make you go, "Aww, I can't believe you just did that to us." It answers all the question I intended it to. The trouble for me was that it took this long to get to it. I would have liked to have gotten to it earlier, but it is what it is. I think the timing works out this way for it's own reasons.
Are there other stories to tell? I personally feel this is a bit of a trilogy. There's another story for me to tell but not because there's a dangling question. There's just one more story I could tell around this. Maybe it would take me another two years to get to it, but I'll probably get to it.
The #1 question you've gotten since "One More Day" seems to be "C'mon, Joe...when are you going to let Spider-Man and Mary Jane be married again?" What do you think you'll get asked once "O.M.I.T." is out?
You know, I honestly don't know. It's such a relief for me to get this story off my chest because I've been living with it for so long. All I know is that I'm satistfied with it. People will have questions for me, and I'm sure that there'll be those that get their answers and won't be happy with them, so they'll ask again - that happens with every book we publish. There will hopefully be those that read it and are happy with the outcome.
What's interesting about this book is that, we talk so much about retconning pieces of Marvel history to fit a story, and this entire story in actuality operates as a big retcon. How do you keep it from just being a reason for explaining something away and make it a worthy story all its own?
I just did my best to make it a compelling and emotional story. There were parts of it that were a little tough to write, and there were some parts that were also me doing continuity math. That was the fun part. When we talk about the word "Omit,"it leaves people wondering, "Well, what does get omitted? What's no longer there?" But it answers a lot of questions and shows what's possible when one little thing happens and how a cascade of dominos can fall down in a way that nobody expects. And that's kind of what the story is really about.
ya i saw that...i don't know man...they still haven't explained how everyone forgot spidey's identity...almost every announcement/interview at that convention has disappointed/frustrated me
im not impressed either
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the avengers stuff sounds good to me. but all the x-men shit just dont sound like my thing. and canceling weapon x is just stupid. but, they like getting those extra #1 sales.
its a shame they canceled "wolverine and the x-men". i actually thought that was a pretty good show. i was looking forward to the story continuing. oh well.
i downloaded season 1. I was just watching the last 3 episodes. the cliffhanger into next season with age of apocalypse.
it will never see the light and spectacular spider-man as well. both were probably the best marvel cartoons.
i could never get into spectacular spider-man because the character designs were ugly and off-putting imo
wolverine and the x-men was pretty good though, it just seems like marvel's cartoons always have inferior animation compared to the dc/warner stuff imo
did anyone catch the batman: brave and the bold with joe chill, the spectre and the phantom stranger? show's very hit or miss for me but that episode was awesome.
mexican train nuhs
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nice cover^
ya the quietly one is inexplicably ugly lol...this'll be the first time i cop the variant instead of the regular cover
eloels, owned.
this is lol too
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in honor of 4/20
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