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Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 6:28 pm

I have just finally sat down and read the first six issues of X-Men Legacy.

I take back everything bad I said about it. It's good.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:11 pm

Legacy is really enjoyable. I hope Chamber gets a bit more screen time.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 4:50 am

So the Orson Scott Card Superman story has been put on hold.

And it got me thinking about Freedom of Speech...and about how people who would rather die than give up that right...don't care enough to learn what it means.

I made the mistake of checking out the comments on the story on Bleeding Cool. And I remembered, VERY quickly, why I don't venture into the comments sections of comic book websites. The bile could strip the paint from your kitchen wall.

Anyway. Boycotting the book, complaining to the publisher, and trying to get the guy taken off the book is not "violating freedom of speech" it's the very definition of "practicing freedom of speech." The point has been missed entirely.

Freedom of Speech, as spelled out in the US Constitution and upheld by the US Supreme Court says that the government can not stop/punish you from expressing yourself (with certain admitted limitations).

That's it. That's all it does. You have the right to say pretty much whatever you want. And everybody else in the world has the right to tell you that you're talking ****.

The droves of people who called up, wrote letters, and emailed their displeasure at DC Comics paying a guy who has been known to use his own money in the interests of groups trying to uphold discrimination against millions of people are expressing their beliefs in a fully legal way.

But then again, let's be honest, the people who bitch the most about their "freedoms being violated" are usually the ones who are trying to use those freedoms to take away those of others. "I have the right to free speech and you have the right to shut the **** up if you disagree!"

Amiright?

Post by **Best First** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 9:24 am

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:48 pm

I'm the only one here who's reading Bedlam, aren't I?

Hubcap · Post by **Hubcap** » Thu Mar 07, 2013 10:10 pm

Post by **Best First** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:38 am

affirmative

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Mar 08, 2013 2:58 pm

Last two columns are up. Here's Adventure Time and Avatar:

http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.co ... rticle=064

Here's my last chance for a while to blather on about how awesome Roberts is:

http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.co ... rticle=063

Post by **Best First** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 8:39 am

i am just going to restate how much i am loving All New X-Men.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 1:48 pm

Great last-page crossover boom.

And with the last page of Cable/X-Force #6, we have a theme for the week.

Also Tabby. Yay for Tabby. Though boo for a Tabby who isn't written by Warren Ellis. There should be laws passed about that sort of thing, post-Nextwave.

Also: Saga. Just yes.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:23 pm

Yes we d indeed have a theme for the week - though first couple of issues of Cable and... were a bit poop but the last few have rapidly improved bar Poitr's ridiculous excue for not telling Wolverine what is going on.

Totes agree on Boom Boom.

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 5:30 pm

Boom Boom <3

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 3:52 am

Angela?!?!

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 11:21 pm

Much behind everybody else, I have just finally negotiated the Black Dossier.

What a gloriously batshit ridiculously difficult piece of genius.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 11:37 pm

Oh god, the Black Dossier is horrible and wonderful.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:00 pm

I'm not sure I've ever encountered anything that manages to be so fantastic and also so ******* painful.

So, so painful.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed Apr 10, 2013 6:35 pm

I am Shadrak, god of tits and wine.
I am Shadrak, god of ZOMG.

#ThorFTW

Post by **Best First** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 8:41 am

Young Avengers.

That is all.

Oh, except YOUNG AVENGERS!!!

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Apr 26, 2013 9:15 am

Come with me if you want to be awesome.

That's the same as your first plan.
Yes, except this time I'm not trying to trick you.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 02, 2013 7:54 am

The first TPB of Bedlam is out now. You should buy it, because it's probably quite cheap. (£7.50 in Forbidden Planet).

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sun May 05, 2013 4:22 pm

Time to argue.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.co ... ster-list/

Do we all have collective amnesia as to how wretched Maximum Carnage was? I keep seeing it on 'best-of' lists.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Sun May 05, 2013 6:40 pm

So just finished 20th Century Boys, as it comes to it's end. Brilliant. Hands down the best comic/manga work I have ever read.

Ever.

Post by **Best First** » Wed May 08, 2013 8:51 pm

Brendocon wrote:
#ThorFTW

Oh yes.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sat May 18, 2013 3:36 pm

Just ploughed through DC's tasty hardcover of Ellis/Hitch's Authority run. Any excuse eh.

It's aged a tiny bit, but is still fab. Also nice to have the Elllis stuff in a distinct set to Millar's run, rather than the half/half TPB versions. Underlines the change in era nicely.

Snarler · Post by **Snarler** » Sat May 18, 2013 3:58 pm

So just finished 20th Century Boys, as it comes to it's end. Brilliant. Hands down the best comic/manga work I have ever read.

Ever.

20th Century Boys is definitely an amazing manga. It was largely responsible for getting me interested in psychological thriller mangas rather than action/adventure Shonen ones I was initially enamored with. Monster from the same writer is awesome too.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 23, 2013 4:47 pm

X-Men Legacy #11.

BOOF. Now that's a reveal.

Also, I've been holding off on reading Journey into Mystery but think I may have just royally spoilered myself with Young Avengers #5. But YA is SO awesome that I don't even mind.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 30, 2013 9:05 am

Am I imagining things or is this new volume of Uncanny X-Force complete and utter tosh?

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Thu Jun 06, 2013 12:26 pm

Brendocon wrote:Am I imagining things or is this new volume of Uncanny X-Force complete and utter tosh?

It's pretty average. It's a shame as visually I love it. The costumes are fantastic.

The censored swear words drive me nuts. X-Men books have had far darker and grittier story lines without needing that ****.

X-Men #1 was the nuts though.

Sunyavadin · Post by **Sunyavadin** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 3:42 am

I just completely gave up on it this month. A waste of a few quid, as most of my friends were smart enough to ditch it last month.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 12:02 am

Avengers Arena. Holy Cow. Didn't see that coming.

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