Comic Book Discussion Thread

a couple rest in peace shouts.

rest in peace frank castle MAX.
i will miss these stories more than most.
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...7TKYX2Myk5HIOT


rest in peace to power girls cleavage suit.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A..._fUdDnk_hmAnMg
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...lCElHJRA3hbvOI

the bitch made hoes at dc decided to replace that classic costume with a safe, mundane update.
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...wFRndbarDtU47Q

dont they realize the cleavage put the "power" in power girl?

punisher max was fucking awesome.

http://www.haloandsprocket.com/Daredevil_7.gif

http://i.newsarama.com/images/batinc-2-cov_col_02.jpg

batman inc #2



Age of Apocalypse is so terrible that I find it fascinating...I'll probably give it to my cousin when I'm finished...maybe he'll trade me his goddamn Iron Fist Omnibus

When is Batman Inc starting again?

^in may.

the AoA omni or the AoA series that just started? isn't the Iron Fist one rare?

^the AoA omni...after flipping through it and being kind of disgusted by alot of the art, I decided I would read it really quick and either trade it or sell it...hours I'll never get back lol...some of it's good, but not enough of it.
and
I bought #1 of the new series...bleh.
Manhattan Projects and Saga were good though...my pull list is being taken over by Image, and I keep dropping Marvel and DC books (dropped Venom, Uncanny, Wolvie and the X-Men, Batman and Robin, Frankenstein and Demon Knights) I wanted to keep WATXM, but with that stupid crossover coming up, I said 'fuck it'.

Yeah I guess the Iron Fist one is rare and I put off buying for literally years...I found a guy at my shop who traded me the AoA omni for the Fantastic Four John Byrne one because he wanted the variant (Joe Mad) cover of the AoA omni lol

it doesnt age well. bachalos art there is all over the place.

got back from wondercon got a sketch from humberto ramos. got jim lee to sign the x-men vol 2 omnibus. got mark waid to sign my daredevil issues and he braille stamped the first issue.

also saw the tmnt van on the way home

http://i.imgur.com/lbauJ.jpg

went back today and got some sketches

http://i.imgur.com/zKuAf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/p00LV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qcBtd.jpg

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that's pretty dope, but jean grey was never wack and the cover he showed was actually madeline pryor lol



hahahahaha it's funny scaring people with that voice...i was faded one night and blocked my #, called my dad and started harassing him in that voice..."where is she?" "he must have friends" hahahaha

copped this on lunch break

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n.../Photo0357.jpg

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n.../Photo0359.jpg

i love these things...my gf thinks i'm retarded for buying them, because i haven't read x-statix or simonson thor or the jim lee x-men ones yet.

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I want to get this but it's very expensive.

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the new x-men omnibus is being released in may. amazon has the date messed up. also waiting for the fatal attractions hc.

the aoa doesn't have these issues? X-Universe 1-2 and X-Men Chronicles 1-2.

i missed out on idw artist edition john romita sr spider-man it was about 90 bucks on amazon. the next cheapest i've seen is on the idw site for 100.

last omnibus i picked up not too long ago was this http://i.imgur.com/gdsSL.jpg

i thought x-men vol 2 in it would have been recolored but they are releasing mutant genesis vol 2 with it recolored.

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AAHH the x-men of my youth.

word^

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I want to get this but it's very expensive.

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Lol it blows...i traded mine for the John Byrne FF Omni.

I started the X-Statix Omni and that is fucking amazing...good characters, funny satire, gorgeous art...I don't want it to end.

do they still make comics with the firestorm character?

yes. firestorm has his own title, i think.

they seperated him into two versions of firestorm too. a white one and a black one.

i may be wrong on that, but i think thats whats up with him.

^yeah im familiar with both i have the '04 issue the first issue where he gets his power indirectly

I stopped buying for a bit when Marvel canceled Moon Knight again and removed him from the Secret Avengers. That Ant Man sketch that KZA posted is pretty awesome, however.

Anyone feeling the AvX books? I'll probably wait for the trade on that one if it's good.

^yuck, fuck that series lol

does anybody here read 'prophet' or 'manhattan projects'? fucking boss, mate.

Ehhhh, not surprised.
All they care about is all the tie in books. Yeah, no thanks. I learned with Civil War.

ive been waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay behind on my pull...but i jus bought Flex Mentallo... :O

^fuck i still need to get that, and the 'untold tales of spider-man' omnibus

i did get the 'amazing spider-man omnibus vol 2'...thankfully with the john romita cover...the humberto ramos one is shit, and i like the dude...i'll post pics later

danger club #1 was boss, and so is 'hell yeah'

image owns right now.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsall...1335391307.jpg
http://www.playboy.com/playground/en...e-super-psyche

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n.../Photo0438.jpg

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsall...1335391307.jpg
http://www.playboy.com/playground/en...e-super-psyche

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so fantastic lmao

can y'all help me out real quick

which series is better:

100 Bullets or Y the Last Man

y the last man is really really good.
read the whole series and its def something you should enjoy.


100 bullets i havent read, but its on my "to read" list.
i love crime noir entertainment and 100 bullets is supposed to be one of the best.

can ppl name their top 5 favorite comics... or something near that amount if you can only narrow it down to like 8, been trying to figure out some new stuff to peep

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can y'all help me out real quick

which series is better:

100 Bullets or Y the Last Man

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i personally couldn't get into either of those; i'd recommend 'criminal' or 'scalped' ahead of either.

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can ppl name their top 5 favorite comics... or something near that amount if you can only narrow it down to like 8, been trying to figure out some new stuff to peep

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current series?

saga
manhattan projects
daredevil
prophet
fatale
batman incorporated (starts a new series later this month)

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can ppl name their top 5 favorite comics... or something near that amount if you can only narrow it down to like 8, been trying to figure out some new stuff to peep

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Daredevil
Batman
Animal Man
Swamp Thing
Amazing Spider-Man
Wolverine and the X-Men

Just wondering if there are any artists on here willing to submit some fan art to my website, [url]www.comicsthegathering.com

Sign up is simple, a username and password. Then hover over the community tab and a menu will drop down. Submit any art to the fan art section. Thanks in advance to anyone that submits.

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Daredevil
Batman
Animal Man
Swamp Thing
Amazing Spider-Man
Wolverine and the X-Men

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i second all of these, except maybe wolverine and the x-men (the first 7 or so issues are great, i dropped it because of the AvX silliness)

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i personally couldn't get into either of those; i'd recommend 'criminal' or 'scalped' ahead of either.

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me too. i recommend scalped above most.

and pandemic, incognito by brubaker & phillips. have you read it? and if so what would you rate it on a scale of 1-10?


and i know im supposed to be all cynical and nitpicky. but i just read the first chunk of avengers vs xmen and i gotta say.......i enjoyed it. good jam session between writers who grew up on 80s marvel continuity and are just expanding on/playing with all that.

yes. most of these heroes are acting WAY out of character for this thing. but as far as colorful cape comics go, its a lot matchups your inner child might enjoy reading. and honestly jrjr's art is great to me. reminds me of his old x-men stuff from back in the day.

^i just can't get over how irrational everyone's acting, i can see the 'seams' or the 'puppet strings' way too much to enjoy it, it all seems forced...i'd rather read claremont/jrjr 80s x-men than this, which ironically featured wolverine attempting to kill rachel summers because she had the phoenix force (of course she went on to have the phoenix force for years and it wasn't a big deal to anyone, even when it left her it was treated as a minor plot point)

to me it feels less a jam session and more like editorial/marketing gave them some bullet points they needed to hit and they had to develop a story around it.

i'd give the first incognito a 8.5/9 and the bad influences an 8, i guess...

i don't think i'm that difficult to please, but compare brubaker's writing on any of his creator-owned stuff to his marvel stuff and it feels like he's dumbing it down (that goes for bendis and hickman too...i can read aaron's marvel stuff and not feel like he's insulting my intelligence, and his stuff manages to be a lot more whimsical and 'out there' than the other guys involved with the AvX stuff)

cool. ima probably get that ultimate incognito hc they got coming out. bru & phillips are the shit.


i have a theory about a vs x. emma frost is controlling not only cyclops, but also captain america. hence why they're acting totally out of character.


and claremont/jrjr x-men = my personal favorite x-men run of all time. his wolvie is only second to jim lees.

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to me it feels less a jam session and more like editorial/marketing gave them some bullet points they needed to hit and they had to develop a story around it.

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damn it.

why you gotta always be right. lol

^in this case i wish i wasn't lol

you should also check out "sleeper" if you haven't already

and the claremont/paul smith/jrjr era of uncanny (160s-210s) is awesome...i didn't even read most of it until i was in college in the 'essential x-men' books and i love it so hard.
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources...PM-620x954.jpg

how can you not fuck with that?
http://www.wolverinefiles.com/Images...-x-men-210.jpg


http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.../1stabby-1.jpg
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.../1stabby-2.jpg
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.../1stabby-3.jpg

hell yeah.

a personal favorite.
http://x.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/...a01/detail.jpg
http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chron...Juggernaut.JPG
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0...60vf_super.jpg

not much fucking with that.

^yeah that issue was really good, even though piotr is a pedo.

also, the issue where they're in japan and fight a dragon is good times.

uncanny x-men vol 1 is the shizz. ive been collectin those for yrs.
currently fukkin wit

uncanny x-men vol 2 and wolverine and the x-men they str8.

on a side note the new TMNT series is peace too.

is the book life and death of superman any good

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i personally couldn't get into either of those; i'd recommend 'criminal' or 'scalped' ahead of either.

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me too. i recommend scalped above most.

and pandemic, incognito by brubaker & phillips. have you read it? and if so what would you rate it on a scale of 1-10?


and i know im supposed to be all cynical and nitpicky. but i just read the first chunk of avengers vs xmen and i gotta say.......i enjoyed it. good jam session between writers who grew up on 80s marvel continuity and are just expanding on/playing with all that.

yes. most of these heroes are acting WAY out of character for this thing. but as far as colorful cape comics go, its a lot matchups your inner child might enjoy reading. and honestly jrjr's art is great to me. reminds me of his old x-men stuff from back in the day.

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Thanks y'all, i'll check that series out.

lol "colorful cape comics"
I'll always love them first & foremost
As for Avx, i agree this series is trying to tackle those childhood "VS" debates... but personally i cant stand JRJR... he is stoic and very 1,2 structured... he reminds me of an untalented Frank Miller.

Daredevil & Uncanny X-Force is where Marvels at...
Then Justice League Dark, I-Vampire & Wonder Woman take my top 5... WW for some reason has caught my attention this time around... maybe i've just always hoped she'd have a better series to somehow justify her membership on JL.
Speaking of-- anyone read Spaceman??

Lots of good stuff tho, Amazing Spider-Man is good Swamp Thing/Animal Man is good in conjunction with 1 another... I dig Supergirl a lil too