[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;44785778]prolly the ö in the hellboy quote, i *think* postal has said that's what usually causes it[/QUOTE]
Yeah you're right. I never would have guessed that. Thanks!
[B]Comic Review:[/B] Wolverine #6, All-New X-Factor #7, Silver Surfer #2 and She-Hulk #4
In this issue, Wolverine gets a rose tattoo, has a few 'deep' conversations, battles with Thor for apparently no reason and the overall plot sits on the corner wondering when it's gonna get the attention it (thinks it) deserves.
I'm dropping this one, sorry. You guys give it a read, see if something about it entices you... but the art-style is just ugly (for me) and this whole plot of him being mortal has sucked out the fun of the character. Instead of the cigar-chomping deadpan snarker, this Wolverine has deep, 'meaningful' monologues about his regrets and roses and stuff.
Meanwhile, All-New X-Factor continues to be a fun issue highlighting heroes who, in my opinion, don't get that much attention in other books. The characters are entertraining and have a great dynamic which doesn't suffer thanks to the plot- although some questionable choices were made in this issue. I definitely recommend it to someone looking for something a little different.
Now if you want something truly different, go for Silver Surfer. This beast has a completely unique art-style (it looks like pop-art had a baby with the art style of the first Marvel comics of the 60's) and not only has a very interesting story, but it also has fantastical locations and characters up the wazoo, so if that's your cup of tea, pick this up. It's on its second issue, so you should have no problem catching up. Oh, and did I mention that it's really pretty? There's this page where Silver Surfer sees all possible futures, and it's [I]really[/I] well-done.
And to close out this jumbo comic review, there's the latest She-Hulk issue. I don't know what to say. I thought I liked the character, but this series has made me like her even more. It focuses more on her being a lawyer, like some of the previous She-Hulk series I've read, and it has this minimalistic (I'm gonna call it that, I may be wrong) art style that's just the bee's knees.
So those are my recommendations. A thumbs-up for Silver Surfer and She-Hulk, a 'maybe, depends on what you like' for All-New X-Factor, and a thumbs-down for Wolverine.
I'm really liking doing these, and you guys should do some too, I'd love to get some recommendations. Now off to read some comics from DC...
This might be quite an unpopular opinion but Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? is nowhere near one of the best Superman stories ever told and probably not Alan Moore's best one either.
It's got great stuff in it sure, the Curt Swan art is great yeah but imo, the quite unimaginative way of[sp]killing off a lot of the important characters in the Superman mythos[/sp] as a way of saying 'goodbye' to the Pre-Crisis Superman wasn't very good at all.
And I'm beginning to suspect that Alan Moore's descriptions of Superman in action and his writing of that character in general has a lot of eerie similarities to Elliot S! Maggin. But eh, that's not a bad thing at all tbh.
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Has anybody read All-New Ghost Rider 2014 yet? Don't know much about it other than the new ghost rider, his muscle car and the great artwork.
[QUOTE=kimchimafia;44786456]his muscle car [/QUOTE]
He has a motorcycle though.
[QUOTE=Katatonic717;44786655]He has a motorcycle though.[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure the new one has a car.
[t]http://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/9/a0/5318ca7b2e78e.jpg[/t]
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Or does his car transform into a motorcycle??
help
[QUOTE=kimchimafia;44786663]I'm pretty sure the new one has a car.
[t]http://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/9/a0/5318ca7b2e78e.jpg[/t]
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Or does his car transform into a motorcycle??
help[/QUOTE]no, he has a car. that's his new thing
This is the better Ghost Rider
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/Ghost_Rider_1.jpg[/img]
I suspect Marvel's choice of Ghost Rider getting ride of his bike and etc was an attempt to modernise him and bring him out of the 70s. So now he's in a car and he's a street racer(?) which I guess is Marvel trying to reach out to the Fast and Furious crowd but I think even that is a little late. Should have done that back in the early 2000s if they really wanted the rider in a car.
Should have just stuck to the retro 70s grindhouse feel imo but I haven't read the new one yet so maybe it's better there.
[QUOTE=kimchimafia;44786763]I suspect Marvel's choice of Ghost Rider getting ride of his bike and etc was an attempt to modernise him and bring him out of the 70s. So now he's in a car and he's a street racer(?) which I guess is Marvel trying to reach out to the Fast and Furious crowd but I think even that is a little late. Should have done that back in the early 2000s if they really wanted the rider in a car.
Should have just stuck to the retro 70s grindhouse feel imo but I haven't read the new one yet so maybe it's better there.[/QUOTE]
Nope.
The new one is supposed to be a Dia de Los Muertos art style mixed with the story of a Hispanic teen down on his luck who was to take care of his mentally disabled brother. He works on a mechanic taking care of cars when he spots this really nice one, and decides to use it for an illegal street race so he can get some more money to help with paying the bills and all that. During the race, he starts getting chased by what we think is the police, but it turns out to be some secret people who are after what's in the trunk. They shoot up the teen, and he 'dies' in an alley, but comes back with the Spirit of Vengeance, and he uses the car.
It's pretty cool. The story and the art style mix pretty well. And it doesn't smell of 'trying to cash in the Fast and the Furious crowd' because the illegal street racing is there for, like, a ridiculous small amount of pages.
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The only 'cashing in the hip' thing in the comic is that (I think) the character slightly resembles a member of One Direction or something and it's more because the guy is a huge comics fan and he begged Marvel to let him write an issue of something.
Oh good. Like I've said, haven't read it yet but I'm very glad it didn't the go the way I thought it would. It sounds much better than the mediocre-to-crap that came after Jason Aaron's run.
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Gonna check it out now thanks
The new Ghost Rider actually sounds good as fuck.
I guess I know what comic I'm buying next week.
I've heard good things about the new Ghost Rider.
I love the design, muscle cars are fucking sick looking.
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[QUOTE=usaokay;44786761]I also read up on this book in a bookstore once.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1e/Batman_Noel_cover_art.jpeg[/img]
It's pretty much A Christmas Carol, but with the goddamn Batman. Batman is Scrooge, two Gotham civilians are Tiny Tim and Bob, [sp]Catwoman[/sp] is the Ghost of Christmas Past, [sp]Superman[/sp] is the Ghost of Christmas Present (wtf is he doing in Gotham in the first place), and [sp]Joker[/sp] is the Ghost of Christmas Future.
The art style is pretty good.[/QUOTE]
I FUCKING LOVE THIS BOOK.
Seriously, it's so good.
The art is gorgeous and it's got my all-time favorite Catwoman costume:
[URL=http://s1189.photobucket.com/user/BanthaFodder95/media/catwomannoel_zpscdbae164.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z424/BanthaFodder95/catwomannoel_zpscdbae164.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Lee Bermejo is crazy good. Has a way of making things really realistic and yet very stylistic at the same time. His stuff in Joker and Lex Luthor: Man of Steel is great too.
[t]http://simplysupermanbatman.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/lex-luthor-man-of-steel-05-page-24.jpg[/t] [t]http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpr2fxhBYV1qavva4o1_1280.png[/t]
beautiful
Speaking of Batman, Batman Eternal is a great current comic series. It's taking a look at some other faces in the Batmanverse, with the plot revolving around [sp]Commissioner Gordon having shot an unarmed man (which he saw as armed in his head) and causing an accident in the Gotham subway.[/sp]
On the same line, the current arc in the Batman comic book, Zero Year, is pretty cool too. And it has the Riddler as the bad guy, which you don't see a whole, whole lot these days. It's always the Joker this and the Joker that.
If we're discussing superhero stuff I'd like to recommend Invincible:
[IMG]http://media.aintitcool.com/media/legacy/images2007/comics/column508/invincible50.JPG[/IMG]
It's a really good superhero comic and plays a lot of homages to spiderman which it's mainly inspired by, it's very well written.
i picked up a bunch of stuff these last 2 months, mainly:
hellblazer
52 (series not new 52)
new 52 stuff
infinite crisis
countdown to final crisis
final crisis
sandman
also if you're looking to get into dc stuff, i'd recommend
[t]http://i.imgur.com/52ZP9fP.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/38IrXRk.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/Rqhq4Io.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/v6GHKFL.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/p7Doxle.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/u5cb9qr.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/syCQ1OM.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/z7cstyo.jpg[/t][t]http://i.imgur.com/IszrrPC.jpg[/t]
Wait a potato; is it just me or has there been no mention of
[img]https://i.imgur.com/7O8h0BD.jpg[/img]
[B]Transmetropolitan[/B]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/vWpfvvf.jpg[/img]
[B]Planetary[/B]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/4uzK5bc.jpg[/img]
And [B]Ocean[/B]
[img]https://i.imgur.com/Zuj80rT.jpg[/img]
While just a passing remark about [B]The Sandman[/B]
Wow.
0/10 thread, I want my money back.
Also, because I'm offended,
[img]https://i.imgur.com/iQStHIq.jpg[/img]
[B]Paperinik New Adventures[/B]
My favourites, PKNA from back when I was more of a kid (still cool), while Transmetropolitan and Ocean got me into reading the stuffs again after I had become less of a kid.
I liked Miller's Batman: Year One better. His Superman is friggin terrible though.
It's a damn shame Frank went fucking insane.
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I almost want to see Zack make MOS2's Kal into the TDKR's Government lackey Superman and Batman the one man who needs to take the alien down and teach it a lesson.
Almost. Just to see the reaction.
[QUOTE=usaokay;44789111]It kinda became sidelined in that scene where Superman destroyed the U.S. Military's drone though.[/QUOTE]
Well I wasn't talking about the possibility of it actually happening since Zack keeps saying that TDKR is going to have supposedly minimal influence on batman/superman.
It'd still be a hilarious thing to do though just to screw with the fans.
I picked up a tablet for digital comics and other shit, [URL="http://horobox.co.uk/u/Jojje_1399967184.jpg"]I have a small library on comiXology[/URL].
Red marks for those I've not yet read, reading through Hellblazer right now
The Darkness one is actually the compendium, #1 through #40, it's huge, filesize wise
I'm going to try my hand at one of these here comic review things, if you guys don't mind.
[B]DEADPOOL: Dead Presidents #1[/B]
In this issue, an overly-patriotic necromancer resurrects the corpse of Thomas Jefferson in an attempt to try and make America great again. However, in doing so, the presidents lose their humanity and become hell-bent on wiping the country clean- By way of hellfire and death. Thus, the newly super-powered dead president uses the necromancer (who is now more of a slave at this point) to resurrect the rest of the dead presidents. After SHIELD realizes it's just not good publicity for captain america or any good popular heroes to go around murdering presidents, they call on Deadpool, who had just finished carving up godzilla with the help of Thor to clean up this mess.
The comic itself is very well made, with some great art dotting the pages. The humor is pretty much what you'd come to expect from a deadpool comic: snappy witty one-liners relevant to how he's getting his face caved in at the moment, humorous moments with the dead presidents (Teddy Roosevelt uppercutting a bear, anyone?) and a lovely bit of 4th wall breaking, where he asks you to put on some pantera for a president-killing compilation. Also, there's a bit where deadpool sets an elephant on fire.
[IMG] http://filesmelt.com/dl/Deadpool_sets_an_elephant_on_fire.jpg[/IMG]
Makes a bit more sense in-context, but I won't spoil it. There's some golden moments inside this one. If you've ever seen the image where deadpool tosses some kid his mask and it's just filled with blood, this is the source material. In the end though, before you get all huffy that D.P. has no character development, his dispatcher [sp]dies, and her spirit is put inside his head by the necromancer[/sp]. He has a very batman-sulky moment at the end, and then it leaves on a nice cliffhanger for next time.
10/10.
[QUOTE=imadaman;44787954]
Also, because I'm offended,
[img]https://i.imgur.com/iQStHIq.jpg[/img]
[B]Paperinik New Adventures[/B]
My favourites, PKNA from back when I was more of a kid (still cool), while Transmetropolitan and Ocean got me into reading the stuffs again after I had become less of a kid.[/QUOTE]
Oh yes, Super Duck! This was the shit back when I was young. That, and a comic which featured the Disney characters as horror monsters.
In terms of New 52 stuff, I'm only reading Flash, Detective Comics, Action Comics, Batman, Superman, Batwing, Superboy and Green Lantern (although I may drop the latter two since they're not interesting me as much as the others).
The only comics I can wholeheartedly recommend are Batwing, Batman and the Flash. The others are good, but not as good. Wonder Woman has been getting [I]glowing[/I] reviews, but the fact I'd have read to 30+ issues to catch up has driven me away from the book.
[QUOTE=Zuimzado;44790795]Wonder Woman has been getting [I]glowing[/I] reviews, but the fact I'd have read to 30+ issues to catch up has driven me away from the book.[/QUOTE]
Wonder Woman is great, but IIRC it's ending in a few months (news sites say the creative team is leaving soon-ish and the July solicit promises the "beginning of the end") so I'd almost recommend waiting and then reading it all once it's all wrapped up.
I bought the first volume of the new Wonder Woman run, and it was really good. Very easy for new readers to get into, and manages to sort out the convolutedness of Wondy's origin. There's a lot of focus on the mythology aspect of the character, and it's finally given Wonder Woman she's needed for a long time: a good nemesis. Chang's art is really good and really compliments the action, and Wonder Woman looks like a real Amazon, a good mix of strength and femininity without falling into the traps that some others fall into.
Is [url=http://thething.wikia.com/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World_(comic)]the comic sequel of The Thing[/url] any good?
I've been reading a lot of comics lately after getting back into them thanks to Winter Soldier and showing Justice League to my boyfriend.
I mainly know DC stuff, an comparatively little about Marvel though. I read Annihilation, and I'm working through Conquest, and then Guardians of the Galaxy after that. Is there any other stories that I just have to read in the Marvel universe? I've only really read that and Infinity Gauntlet, the rest of my knowledge comes from cartoons and movies.
when i first started getting into marvel comics, i read Avengers Disassembled first, then House of M, they were pretty good. set the precedent for future crossovers IMO.
dunno what everyone else here thinks but they were pretty awesome to me, u should check them out.
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btw, any here been reading Ultimate Marvel? I stopped reading around when Cataclysm was beginning, don't even know what's going on anymore.
I've heard about them, and they're probably a decent place to start with.
I've heard some not very good things about House of M though.
Also, I forgot about this: I did read Civil War and did not like it.
[QUOTE=Krinkels;44791236]Is [url=http://thething.wikia.com/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World_(comic)]the comic sequel of The Thing[/url] any good?[/QUOTE]
iirc it's pretty crappy.
[QUOTE=cluelessidiot;44791472]btw, any here been reading Ultimate Marvel? I stopped reading around when Cataclysm was beginning, don't even know what's going on anymore.[/QUOTE]
I'm reading some recent books from Ultimate Marvel- Ultimate FF and Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man- with no previous basis. On the former, we had them recovering from some huge attack or something. And on the latter, it was right after Peter Parker's death (but he's actually alive, oooh, what a tweest). MM: USM is a great jumping on point, by the way, not a lot of things you need to know before reading, and it's a good comic.
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[QUOTE=xxfalconxx;44789305]
[B]DEADPOOL: Dead Presidents #1[/B][/QUOTE]
Awesome review! Have you read the recent arc they did with Deadpool rescuing an undead princess [sp]and falling in love with her?[/sp] I liked it, and Shikrah is a nice foil for Deadpool. [sp]Plus, I actually felt like there was some genuine romance between them, which is always a plus.[/sp]
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