I like comics, How 'bout you?

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:21 am

Brendocon wrote:
I have just ordered Ocean and the complete run of Scott Pilgrim books. Yay?

Yay! Scott Pilgrim is great fun. Can't quite put my finger on why, though. Maybe because, even though the characters are all the kinds of people I actively avoid, it's written in such an unpretentious way. It's aimed at a certain audience, but not in a "we're too cool for anybody else," kind of way.

I just caught the movie the other day. Events play out much differently, but both are really enjoyable.

Post by **Best First** » Sun Aug 29, 2010 10:35 am

My very nice comic shop (Avalon Comics, Battersea rise, London) are sending me a volume of Scott P a week.

Altho i just got back from hols so i have vol 4 but vol 3 is at the post office - frustration!

The x-box arcade downloadable game is fun as well - in a Turtles in Time kind of button mashing way.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:22 pm

Nice Smallville rip;

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.co ... itics-129/

Also very much enjoyed the latest issue of T-bolts with one-armed, one-legged walker kicking the stuffing out of a load of escaped Prison inmates.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 10:49 pm

Picked up an issue of One Moment in Time and read it while in line at the pharmacy ("ye olde apothecary" for the Brits).

What would it take to dethrone Joe Quesada? Bob Harras ****** up Spider-Man royally and was kicked out. Why hasn't Marvel done the same to Quesada?

What were Quesada's big ideas?

1) Civil War. Good idea. Made the whole MU a nasty place for a while. Now it's all been undone.

2) M-Day. Mmm, it's provided some good stories, but Morrison showed that a surfeit of mutants makes for just as good a story with good writing.

3) One More Day. People who had been reading Spidey for thirty years dropped it across the board. Easily one of the most reviled stories of all time.

The only good thing Quesada did was attract top talent to Marvel. He accomplished far more by putting Straczynski on Spidey and Morrison/Whedon on X-Men than he did by his ridiculous story dictates.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Sun Sep 12, 2010 12:06 am

Didnt Quesada do "Depression"? (the Fallen Son story about Spider Man vs Rhino)?

I just reread it and thought it was amazing.

Spectacular even.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Sep 22, 2010 4:49 pm

Just picked up X-23 #1. Apparently it is going alongside Wolverine and Daken: Dark Wolverine in the "Wolverine goes to hell" story arc.

I highly suggest this title. The art is superb, the story is superb. It even gives a pretty thorough synopsis of X-23's life at the end of the book, told by Logan.

I would give it at least an 8/10. The main drawbacks are mostly my hatred of Wolverine and the even douche-baggier Cyclops in the post M day world.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:00 am

Darkwing Duck's 4-issue mini-series concluded this week. Amazingly. Considering everything that happened by the end of the book, I'm wondering if a title change might be in store for future issues.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sun Sep 26, 2010 3:54 pm

One Moment in Time. Don't know why I flipped through this at the comic store, but it features a big fat middle finger to the fans at the end, in which Mary Jane says, "if you don't get over me, Peter, you'll never find the right person for you."

Post by **Best First** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 8:10 am

If you don't get over Spiderman you'll never find the right comic for you.

Dante! Dante! Dante!

Just read volume 1 of Invincible - seems quite good.

Ennis's Punisher Max gets better and better through volume 1-10. Can't receommend enough.

Waiting on vol 6 of Scott Pilgrim.

Also enjoyed first 2 volumes of Fraction's Ironfist.

Also caught up on X-Academy New X-men on ipad , some of the best X stuff i have read in years. the x-23 mini's as well, better than i was expecting.

But sad therefore that these guys seem to have faded into the background.

Heroic age has made me realise how bloody sick i am of 6 issue arcs what with so many kicking off at once across Avengers and X-Men titles - even when the art and writing are solid, a la New Avengers with the awesomeness of Immomen, the fact is you know that you are not gonna get an answer to whatever the central mystery of the story is for half a freaking year

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:39 am

Best First wrote:Just read volume 1 of Invincible - seems quite good.

Read vol. 2, get blown away. Or maybe it was in vol. 3? Don't remember now.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:17 am

Best First wrote:

Ennis's Punisher Max gets better and better through volume 1-10. Can't receommend enough.

The latest run is unbelievable. If you liked the previous stuff, you have to check out the new series.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 11:59 am

Yeah i am reading it - the Kingpin and then Bullseye arc right? Super stuff.

The bit with the Kingpin's kid! Jesus.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Sep 29, 2010 12:13 pm

I had seen Punisher Max at Hastings, but did not know if I should give it a try or not. Same with Xacadamy. I think I will give them a chance.

And I told ya, X23 was really good stuff!!

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 9:22 am

Anybody pick up the latest issue of Action Comics? It's worth doing.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:54 am

bumblemusprime wrote:One Moment in Time. Don't know why I flipped through this at the comic store, but it features a big fat middle finger to the fans at the end, in which Mary Jane says, "if you don't get over me, Peter, you'll never find the right person for you."

Did you read the giant interview with Joe Q over OMIT at Comic Book Resources? It was quite interesting, with two main points. One, Joe basically throws JMS under the bus regarding the bag of dung that was OMD (although he does admit that as the EiC, ultimately the buck stopped with him). Two, (and I didn't read it, so tell me if I missed something) Joe intones that OMIT plays out such that MJ's whisper essentially retconned OMD from existence, even though MJ's whisper was in OMD itself, and Joe thinks he's SUPER F***ING CLEVER for doing so.

Post by **Best First** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 8:47 am

i can't read that stuff anymore, i get too wound up.

sounds exactly in keeping with what i have read up til now though.

So he is now trying to say that Spidey is not a gUy who made a deal with the devil? Sorry man, i have the issue in question. The stinky stinky issue in question.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:02 am

Joe Q's one of only two people in the comics industry that I legitimately dislike.

Throwing JMS under the bus? Without JMS, Spider-Man would never have recovered from the Clone Saga.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:37 pm

Um, what the hell has happened to Johnathan Hickman?

Seriously, this guy's lost his friggin mind. He went from the best writer at Marvel to weirdest.

Aside from his Shield series, which hands down gets the vote for Weirdest Comic of the Year, his Fantastic Four and Secret Warriors titles are total clusterfocks. They are neither here nor there, each have about ten subplots that have zero relevance to each other, and they make less and less sense as they move forward.

I'm thinking the guy might seriously be losing his mind.

Which leaves me to enjoy only the Shadowland stuff and whatever Diggle writes. Dropped Bendis. Dropped all the Avenger stuff (except for Secret Avengers, which is still pretty good). Not buying the X-Men crap and staying the hell away from the Red Hulk garbage.

Probably the least I've spent on comics in five years.

But thoroughly enjoying Mouse Guard: Winter. Lovely stuff.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:17 pm

You dropped all of Bendis' stuff? Even Ultimate Spider-Man? But it's great! And has been for like an entire decade. Except for that one short arc with Drif...er...Poochi...er, Geldoff. Ah, Geldoff...

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:00 am

Actually, just starting to get into the Ultimate stuff.

Yeah. I know. Little late.

But Millar is the best there is, so I have to jump in.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:03 am

Bendis's collective works far outshine Millars IMO. Ultimate Spidey alone does.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:57 pm

Best First wrote:Bendis's collective works far outshine Millars IMO. Ultimate Spidey alone does.

Millar apparently has a talent for selling stories that would appeal to the movie-going audience. I mean, he had at least one studio trying to buy Nemesis before anything other than, "what if Batman were the Joker," was known about the series.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 7:22 pm

YOU ******!

I WAS GONNA READ THAT!

Sprunk goes on and on (and on) about One Moment In Time:

http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.co ... rticle=038

Post by **Best First** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:29 pm

glorious as ever

now i need to go and read Thor Disassembled...

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 6:51 am

Best First wrote:glorious as ever

now i need to go and read Thor Disassembled...

I thought Hercules handled that in Civil War.

/bad pun launched

Post by **Best First** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 1:47 pm

That was Clor dissambled.

However if you are ever going to read one Herc/Thor story - i cannot recommend 'The Reaplacement Thor' enough.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 3:19 pm

Blood Oath was really good for a Thor/Herc fight. What was the Replacement Thor story? Are we talking the Simonson story? Or their fight during the Jurgens arc?

Post by **snarl** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 9:17 pm

I Started reading Ultimate Spider-Man on Sunday.

About half way through it, its great.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:37 am

got Uncanny Xforce today. Good stuff.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 8:54 am

bumblemusprime wrote:Blood Oath was really good for a Thor/Herc fight. What was the Replacement Thor story? Are we talking the Simonson story? Or their fight during the Jurgens arc?

No it was much more recent - part of Van Lete's run on Herc. It is priceless.

Agree about Uncanny X-Force, belting first issue and i am always a bit of a sucker for the main villain, even though he has as many resurrections as Mr O Prime of Ark Villas. Plus Fantomex and Deadpool in the same room is all sorts of lovely. And the art was superb.

Also can't get enough of Immomen's art on New Avengers - even if the story itself is a little padded (altho the end of latets issue bodes well for the next).

Reread Punisher Max: Mother Russia again yesterday "And don't swear in front of the kid" - priceless.

Buffy now just confuses the hell out of me - very dissapointing given how strong it was to start.