I like comics, How 'bout you?

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:08 pm

i LIKE this version of Deadpool who is still quite insane, but much more focused. I also enjoy the Angel/Archangel/Psylocke story involved.

But yes Fantomex and Deadpool = win

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 2:17 am

Picked up X-23 volume 2 today.
Still good work.

On an awesome note: Koen went with me today to Hastings. He looked around in awe at all of the comics and memorabilia and pulled on my hand. When I leaned down to him he whispered to me "Daddy, can I have that Superman comic?" I jumped up and yelled "HELL YEAH YOU CAN BUDDY!"

I told the cashier that Koen was buying his first comic book.

He high fived me.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:48 am

Simply put - THAT IS ****ING AWESOME.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:09 pm

Best First wrote:Simply put - THAT IS ****ING AWESOME.

If he manages to behave himself at school today, we will be having Mykals first comic book today!

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:03 pm

I absolutely adore New Mutants.

Does anyone else read it?

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 4:27 pm

Ive consdiered picking it up, but right now money is kind of tight. I am already reading 3 or 4 stories and now my boys are getting into comics. I will gladly drop a few titles if they find some of their own they like,

Post by **Best First** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:15 pm

Hound wrote:I absolutely adore New Mutants.

Does anyone else read it?

i read the bits that were part of Necrosha and Second coming. Maybe it's unfair to judge stuff that is part of a cross over, but i am not so bothered.

The original New Mutants was before my comic-y time, so they always seem like a crap X-Force to me. I love Sam but find it harder to care about the rest of them.

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:46 am

I always thought X-Force was crap New Mutants.

Until Moore, when it became like New Mutants, only older.

The current series is very good, altough probably aimed towards the fans of old one. Sadly, Welles' last issue is in January. He's supposed to be replaced by some big name who worked on X-books during last several years. I'm counting on Chris Yost, but I probably won't be so lucky, and look it here, is X-Men Forever ending in January, too? Yes, I believe it is. Crap.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:03 pm

Uncanny Xforce #1 was surprisingly good.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:48 pm

Ozz wrote:I always thought X-Force was crap New Mutants. Until Moore, when it became like New Mutants, only older.

The current series is very good, altough probably aimed towards the fans of old one. Sadly, Welles' last issue is in January. He's supposed to be replaced by some big name who worked on X-books during last several years. I'm counting on Chris Yost, but I probably won't be so lucky, and look it here, is X-Men Forever ending in January, too? Yes, I believe it is. Crap.

Are you concerned because X-Men Forever is ending or because that means a certain writer needs another book?

Chris Yost would get me onboard with New Mutants.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:09 pm

Reading 20th Century Boys, another great manga from Urasawa.

I'm telling you guys, give him a try. I think you'll enjoy the stylistic change and mature writing missing at Marvel today.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 8:36 pm

OPR: You're the best dad in town!

If I had been in the shop, I'd have hi-5-ed ya' meself!

Yaya wrote:Reading 20th Century Boys, another great manga from Urasawa.

I'm telling you guys, give him a try. I think you'll enjoy the stylistic change and mature writing missing at Marvel today.

Dunno'... every time I try a manga I always come to the same conclusion... that I don't understand it.

It's not the written language or anything, because there's so much translated stuff, it's the language of the images.
The graphical story-telling language is so different from the western ones that it feels like a wall of culture just gob-smacked me face.

I figure it's one of those things where you sit down with a lad from a neighbouring country and think yer' going to chat it up quite well, but there keeps popping up words and phrases where you just go: "HUH?!"

It takes time to learn a new language, and I'm afraid I haven't found the patience to learn this one yet.

Surprisingly enough, not that big of a problem for Animé tho'. Must be because there was a good deal of Animé's exported on the telly and the VHS here in Europe back in the 80's.

And lots of the peeps doing the actual animation on a lot of me fav' 80's cartoons where obviously Japanese. Thundercats, Ghostbusters, and a little thing called TRANSFORMERS, of course.

I guess it's true what they say, you learn languages much better when you're a wee boyo'. ( yah, ya' read that right. I luv' me some Welsh folks.)

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:37 pm

In that post, there kept popping up words and phrases that made me go "HUH?" And others that made me go, "Predabot is a Brit the way Drift is Japanese."

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:40 pm

Avengers 6 made my head hurt.

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:48 pm

Best First wrote:Are you concerned because X-Men Forever is ending or because that means a certain writer needs another book?

Slightly dreading the latter. Don't really care about X-Men Forever, but liked that it kept Claremont from regular universe.

I got a question about Marvel TPBs on Amazon UK. I know that some (all?) of them are also published by Panini (like this one), but am right to believe that this one is exactly the same as the one sold in US? And I hope they don't have rating put on them like DVDs, because it annoys me that it looks like I have Firefly vol. 12 and Serenity vol. 15 on my shelf.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:38 pm

Predabot wrote:OPR: You're the best dad in town! If I had been in the shop, I'd have hi-5-ed ya' meself!

Yaya wrote:Reading 20th Century Boys, another great manga from Urasawa.

I'm telling you guys, give him a try. I think you'll enjoy the stylistic change and mature writing missing at Marvel today.
Dunno'... every time I try a manga I always come to the same conclusion... that I don't understand it.

It's not the written language or anything, because there's so much translated stuff, it's the language of the images.
The graphical story-telling language is so different from the western ones that it feels like a wall of culture just gob-smacked me face.

I know what you're saying, but this manga is quite different. It almost seems like it has been written at Western audiences. It's not the type of manga with exaggerations in emotion and such. It's actually quite intellectual. And Urasawa impressively is both writer and artist and is super talented.

Naruto on the other hand is full of exaggerations, but I love it too.

The right manga is a welcome change to the stuff published in the West.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:20 am

Yaya, have you seen the 20th Century Boys movies?

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:09 pm

Ozz wrote:
Best First wrote:Are you concerned because X-Men Forever is ending or because that means a certain writer needs another book?
Slightly dreading the latter. Don't really care about X-Men Forever, but liked that it kept Claremont from regular universe.

I really hope he isn't given New Mutants

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri Oct 29, 2010 10:01 pm

Professor Smooth wrote:Yaya, have you seen the 20th Century Boys movies?

No, I'm afraid to. If they suck, it will ruin what's currently a fun experience for me reading the manga.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Mon Nov 08, 2010 9:58 pm

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soci ... 011053226/

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:21 am

Brendocon wrote:http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/soci ... 011053226/

Why would DC publish Iron Man and Submariner?

Dammit, they got me.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:56 pm

I blabber on about a Jeph Loeb story I actually liked. Why is it that the guy can write DC but colossally ****** up Ultimate Marvel?

http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.co ... rticle=039

Post by **Best First** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:57 pm

Dear Spencer,

Please Review Punisher Max vols 1 thru 10.

Ta like.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:23 pm

Tat's the Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon run, right?

Post by **Best First** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:54 am

Garth yes, Steve no;

Vol. 01 - In the Beginning The Punisher MAX #1-6
Vol. 02 - Kitchen Irish The Punisher MAX #7-12
Vol. 03 - Mother Russia The Punisher MAX #13-18
Vol. 04 - Up Is Down and Black Is White The Punisher MAX #19-24
Vol. 05 - The Slavers The Punisher MAX #25-30
Vol. 06 - Barracuda The Punisher MAX #31-36
Vol. 07 - Man of Stone The Punisher MAX #37-42
Vol. 08 - Widowmaker The Punisher MAX #43-49
Vol. 09 - Long Cold Dark The Punisher MAX
Vol. 10 - Valley Forge, Valley Forge The Punisher MAX #55-60

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:38 pm

You want to ship em to me? Damn library is out.

Post by **Best First** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:42 pm

i thought you could sell a kid or something.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:58 pm

I'm saving the kid-trade for all the Ultimate Spidey trades.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 12:39 am

bumblemusprime wrote:I blabber on about a Jeph Loeb story I actually liked. Why is it that the guy can write DC but colossally ****** up Ultimate Marvel?

http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.co ... rticle=039

Well, this is not entirely accurate. Technically Loeb has had ups and downs in both his DC and Marvel work.

Loebs DC-work took a very hard turn for worse with his last arc on Superman/Batman - "With a Vengeance(!)". But his Marvel-work on the colour-books, Spider-man - Blue and Hulk - Gray for instance, was nothing short of great.

His run on Red Hulk actually has almost as many fans as detractors, even though they rarely speak up. ( I'm one of those fans! The first 12 issues are nothing but pure, distilled fun!) So I suppose that was a so-so medium quality run, if you weigh the two sides against each other.

And the Ultimate books have been in a general slump in recent years, whereas I'd say Loeb is but one of several writers not pulling their weight.
I'd say even Mark Millar himself has been f***** up the Ultimate Universe recently. His recent return to the Ultimates quickly lost track, and the most recent volume is bordering on awful.

Never before have I seen such a terrible misuse of Steve Dillon's talents. :[ Why, oh why, are they putting him on books he shouldn't be on??

In fact, I'd go as far as saying the only Marvel-book I can imagine him actually being any good on, would be a Paul Cornell AND ( that's right... a team-up!) Jonathan Hickman penned Pete Wisdom.

Really... that's all I've got.

Post by **Best First** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 9:44 am

Marvel really ****ed up letting Cornell go.

Red Hulk is for c***s though. Red Hulk is the MU's version of Drift but without the cool toy.

Ultimate Spidey is still kwality and has never been anything but so as long as that as going i'll be happy. On the Loeb front Ultimate X was actually quite enjoyable (Arthur Adams helps) but seems to have stopped coming out.