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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: clips on March 08, 2004, 09:53:43 PM
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anybody here collect them? i haven\'t bought any in years until recently,..the real last set of comics i bought was the x-men with the story line "the age of apacolypse" which was truly a great story line & the artwork for the uncanny x-men back then was stellar.
i loved the wildcats when jim lee used to draw them and the early witchblade comics.
recently i just picked up the x-men book titled "new x-men" with mark sylvestri (spell) drawing the book..i like his artwork as well, i loved his work on cyber force when he used to draw them.
i also just picked up the new secret wars comic by marvel..it seems it\'s different than the first secret wars book they put out years ago.,but the book is painted..& it\'s incredible!..i know you have to have skills to draw in the comic world, but to do painted work is just so much harder...i forgot the name of the artist but his work is stunning.
anyway just wanted to know if any of you cats in here collect..i go through a phaze where i buy a bunch then i just stop..i\'am going to follow this new secret wars & mark sylvestri\'s x-man tho.
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This thread will be 10 pages long....
Oh, and I used to collect X-men comics... then I turned 12.
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nope, never did because I was cool.
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Originally posted by SwifDi
This thread will be 10 pages long....
Oh, and I used to collect X-men comics... then I turned 12.
if you two clowns (theomen included ;) ) are going to say that then you shouldn\'t even be playin\' video games..some comics can have a mature theme just as much as some of those mature video games..in the same aspect there are some comics that cater to the younger generation. the same can be said about video games.
video games & comics go hand in hand so for you to make that statement is kinda ignorant. ;)
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For some reason I got into X-men cards in the late 90\'s then just stopped. I wound up with a very valuable Spiderman hologram card but my friend tricked me and traded some cheapy card for it.
I did it mostly because it was cool artwork.
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Video games and Comics go hand in hand?
alrighty.... DOn\'t see it, but as long as you do and you are happy then all is well in the world.
Don\'t care for comics myself.
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I used to collect the GRAPHIC X-men / Spiderman comics etc.. Still have a shit load of them.. atleast i think i do.. The cartoons are nothing compared to these.
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Originally posted by videoholic
Video games and Comics go hand in hand?
alrighty.... DOn\'t see it, but as long as you do and you are happy then all is well in the world.
Don\'t care for comics myself.
what i mean is that in general both comics & video games are seen as a kid novelty,..video games have come along way since the atari 2600 & have gotten a very small amount of respect,..comics too..back in the day comics were all happy go-lucky,.. good -guy defeats the bad guy...you\'ve never seen scantily clad women back then..& now some have some very mature themes to them. i\'m just tryin\' to point out that both mediums have come a long way.
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Gotcha.. I\'m just not into comics I guess...
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When I was much younger, I used to collect a ton of comics and never really took care of them and as I got older, I stopped collecting and stopped bothering not so much because comics "weren\'t cool" -- and you\'re an idiot if you stop reading anything because it\'s not the "cool" thing to do, but moreso because the medium at the time was in a huge slump with stories and art. There just wasn\'t anything good being put on shelves and prices were jacking up on a monthly basis because the art was more prized then the story and people were buying to collect rather then to read and that\'s a waste in my opinion.
This past summer however, I went ahead and decided to post in some comic book threads on another forum (GAF) and found that a lot of people on there actually have a great deal of respect for the medium and they pointed me in the right direction for what\'s great, what to avoid, and what to look into. Since then, I\'ve picked up so many great stories that I\'ve been able to get Rya, her sister, and two of our good friends into reading them almost religiously. There\'s just so much really good stuff out there that it\'s sad that plenty of them are being ignored.
I even figured with the influx of comic book based films that the medium would take off once again, but I suppose with the few culturally tainted out there, it\'s still not the "cool" thing to do and that\'s pretty dissapointing. Even Road to Perdition came from a comic book wether you realize it or not and there are plenty of other books with stories and characters just as or more intriguing then that.
Anyways, here\'s what I currently read --
Y The Last Man - About the sudden unexplained death of every last y-chromosomed being on the planet except for one human named Yorrick and his Colobus monkey, Ampersand. Intriguing because it examines the world as a whole and its reaction to such a crisis.
Batman
Detective Comics
The Flash
The Pulse - The Dialy Bugle is losing readership by the day and somehow, it needs to keep up with the times give the people what they want, coverage on superheroes by superheroes.
Daredevil
Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultimate X-Men
Ultimates
Fables - A catastrophic event causes the make-believe world of Snow White, Beauty and the Beast and several others to leave their own realm and come, in secret, to the living world of man where they must secretly live in New York as regular human beings with a few surprises here and there.
4 - What if super heroes, like anyone else, needed jobs too? That\'s what this story explores as the Fantastic Four are now evicted from their homes and forced out onto the streets to be productive citizens, not just productive super heroes.
Fantastic Four
Gotham Central
The Sandman - A series of dream-like mature stories fit for any reader interested in the medium. It\'s won several awards for it\'s take on many different aspects of society and the human psyche.
Batman\\Superman
Hellboy
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I used to collect comics in the 70\'s. I had Blade, The Wolfman, Dracula and the usual cast (Batman, Fantastic Four, Spiderman etc).
I even had some old Cowboys and Indian type comics I found that dated from the 60\'s. I can\'t recall how I acquired them. Probably through trading. I stopped collecting comics before the start of the 80s.
Until "Return of the Dark Knight" broke all the traditional comic books rules in 1986. Man, I bought those series like a drug addict! I sold them 10 years later at about $50 a piece. :)
Now I have nothing left....except that old box from the 70\'s. Have no idea what\'s it there. Probably all rotten from insects and whatnot.
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from about 78-86 I collected comics I still have them all in nice little plastic protectors and all are in mint condition. I have:
Web of Spiderman (issue number 1-80)
The amazing Spiderman (issues unknown)
Peter Parker is Spiderman or something like that.
Also I have some GI Joe and Teen Titans during those years and the whole series of Marvel Universe wich was like a dictionary of all the marvel superheros about 12 issues.
my favorite item was a grapic novel I got in about 85.
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F64.177.163.72%2Fshared%2Fhooky.jpg&hash=97c51624772adddf331a9349a487b584d46ce086)
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I haven\'t done much in the comic realm since 1995, when I was.. eheh.. 11.
I have a lot of Ghost Rider comics, including the entire 23-issue series of Ghost Rider and Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance which kicked ass up until issue 13 and went slowly downhill from there.
Right now I\'m reading Watchmen and I\'m enjoying it a lot.
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I stopped collecting and reading comics when I hit 13 in the late 80\'s,still got them all though.
These are what I have in my collection:
Spiderman (Amazing,spectacular and web)
Wolverine
X-men
Punisher
But my favourite comic is my What if.... Kraven the hunter had killed Spiderman.
He digs his coffin up and starts eating Spiderman\'s corpse.
Edit:Todd Mcfarlane (sp?) was my favourite artist.No one could draw Spiderman like him.
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ryu,..i\'m not gonna quote you on everything you stated above but it was on point! i see you\'re reading sandman,..i was wondering who makes title? Is it dc under the vertigo brand?
skyrider666- what year is that what if comic with kraven the hunter?
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More like Vertigo under the DC brand. Vertigo is just what DC brushes off as the more mature reader line of comics. Marvel has the same thing, but they call it Marvel Knights. Sandman is written primarily by Neil Gaiman.
For a look at all the released Sandman books, go here (http://www.tplist.com/).
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Originally posted by Ryu
More like Vertigo under the DC brand. Vertigo is just what DC brushes off as the more mature reader line of comics. Marvel has the same thing, but they call it Marvel Knights. Sandman is written primarily by Neil Gaiman.
For a look at all the released Sandman books, go here (http://www.tplist.com/).
thanks bro..i\'m gonna have to pick up a couple of those books. And it just dawned on me that i have book from the vertigo series..100 bullets..i have the story arc that was released some years ago involving a puerto rican girl that just came out of jail & had some issues with her brother..great story.
i also picked up the new silent hill book..i was kinda iffy about it but the story line is decent,..i\'m gonna give it a chance and see if it evolves.
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100 Bullets is a great pulp comic. The creative team behind that series is currently drawing and penciling the most recent Batman story arc starting with issue 620, now on 625. :)
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I was reading about the 100 Bullets game that is coming out and it made me look for info on the comic. Seems like comics are a lot better than when I was last reading them (Back when Image first came out and Marvel trading cards were popular).
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This may come as quite a shock to some of you but I actually collect comics. Yes me I\'m a comic geek.
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Originally posted by Skyrider666
I stopped collecting and reading comics when I hit 13 in the late 80\'s,still got them all though.
These are what I have in my collection:
Spiderman (Amazing,spectacular and web)
Wolverine
X-men
Punisher
But my favourite comic is my What if.... Kraven the hunter had killed Spiderman.
He digs his coffin up and starts eating Spiderman\'s corpse.
Edit:Todd Mcfarlane (sp?) was my favourite artist.No one could draw Spiderman like him.
You and I are almost exactly alike except for the kraven part........ and yes Todd was the BEST IMO.
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I was reading about the 100 Bullets game that is coming out and it made me look for info on the comic. Seems like comics are a lot better than when I was last reading them (Back when Image first came out and Marvel trading cards were popular).
Which is about when I stopped. At that time, nothing being produced was worth a damn except for the art with Jim Lee on WildCats, the atrocious Rob Liefeld on Youngblood, Wilce Portacio on Wetworks, and Marc Silvestri on Cyberforce with Todd McFarlane on Spawn. All art, no substance. Does anyone even read Spawn anymore? I\'m surprised I even read the (third) volume of WildCats. Amazing.
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Clips: The What if... was 1990,so I must have still been buying them when I was 14.My bad.
Cyrus:Great minds think alike. :D
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I had a bunch for about a year and a half...
I think the only ones I still have are my Sandman comics... #1, and a few others... I just held onto those cause they are worth some money, but the rest I gave away.
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I used to buy Archie comics and loved them...
Anyone who calls me gay will be banned...
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Originally posted by Ashford
I used to buy Archie comics and loved them...
Anyone who calls me gay will be banned...
You\'re gay.
I no longer collect comics, but I use to. If I had room to store them, I would still, but space for comics is something I don\'t have.
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Buying the collections is a great idea. No need to worry about single issues, plastic bags, boards, anything like that -- just the book itself and they\'re abundant and available everywhere and don\'t necessarily damage all that easy. Try a single desk drawer and see how that goes and fill it with stuff that\'s great to read. I\'d be happy to offer suggestions if you\'re at all interested.
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Are MAD Magazine considered comics?
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No, but they are sold in comic book stores.
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THey still make MAD? I remember I got those all the times as a kid when I went on road trips.
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Indeed they do and the covers are still really funny as well as the fold-ups in the back.
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i\'m still waiting for the jla/avengers 4th issue..story line is alright..kinda been there done that type story..picked up 1 through 3 so might as well finish out the series. (spoiler) in the series they had superman beat thor..which i\'m kinda skeptical about..i mean just how strong IS superman? it seems nobody can defeat him end spoiler.
on another note they had a superman vs spiderman super huge comic back in the 70\'s. I can understand spidey not beatin\' sups, but i think he actually fought the hulk & while the hulk was hittin him (superman) he just stood there taking all of the blows! sorry superman is not that strong..i think they cater to him too much in the super-hero world.
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Are you kidding? The only man, and this is man mind you, not meta-human, not mutant, not alien -- regular man -- that could ever beat him was and is Batman. Batman, on every occasion has beaten Superman to within an inch of his life, but for mitigating circumstances, decided against finishing the job.
Clips, if you\'re going to read any new comics other then that atrocious JLA\\Avengers crap, I recommend picking up Superman Red Son, The Ultimates volume 1 (which collects issues 1 - 6), Green Arrow: Quiver, and Y-The Last Man book 1. Every one of those comics will surprise you and make you a very happy comicbook fan. Trust me.
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:laughing: yeah i must admit that jla/avengers is on the crappy side. :p Next time i go down to the shop i\'ll pick up the books you recommended. Oh and also about how batman defeated superman,..i\'ve never seen it but i\'d figure the batman would outsmart him some kind of way..with a little help of the ol kryptonite..no?
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Batman has lots of ways to effectively put him out of commission. Kryptonite does work, of course, but that\'s not the limit of what Batman could use to effectively hurt him. Simply placing Superman into the light of Red star for example, or at least the simulated light, would make Superman a normal person because his powers would be completely nullified. And, not to put too fine a point on it, Superman doesn\'t exactly cope well when Batman is dishing it and he lacks his precious invulnerability.
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Y The Last Man - About the sudden unexplained death of every last y-chromosomed being on the planet except for one human named Yorrick and his Colobus monkey, Ampersand. Intriguing because it examines the world as a whole and its reaction to such a crisis.
Dude, I swear a porno starts out like this.
I read Over the Hedge, Some Homocidal Jack or something, my mind just spaced out. Name?
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You\'d think so, but there are lots and lots of women out there who would be extremely happy for this change and would want this last little piss-ant done away with as well so women could inherit the Earth.
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Man, its us guys who work in the factories to make their dildos. Shit whats gonna happen then?
[glow=pink]Licking Fantasies[/glow]
;)
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... Rinse, wash, and repeat?
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Wolverine and Spiderman would own Batman. IMO
I read a Wolverine vs Conan,and he cut off Conan\'s hand.
There was a Wolverine vs Hulk battle also,hulk beat the shitters out of wolverine and then they became friends???
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Originally posted by Skyrider666
Wolverine and Spiderman would own Batman. IMO
I read a Wolverine vs Conan,and he cut off Conan\'s hand.
There was a Wolverine vs Hulk battle also,hulk beat the shitters out of wolverine and then they became friends???
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:p yeah i remember both issues not sure if the conan book was a what if (because conan exists in his own time period)--but the hulk vs wolverine was in that issue of the hulk in which wolverine made his first appearance..i think wendigo was in that issue as well...
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yea i\'m keepin\' this thread alive! :D anyway just picked up the superman/batman comic #8 with michael turner doin\' the artwork. decent storyline..but it seems that superman is batman\'s biatch when it comes to intelligence i dunno it seems batman talks down to him when they speak.
i think batman does that to everybody tho..there was a batman/spidey crossover a few years back & he spoke the same way to spidey! :p. i also picked up the latest new x-man by marc sylvestri..decent title,..excellent artwork! i can\'t believe they killed jean grey..AGAIN..meh they should leave her dead this time..no-more coming back from the dead via the phoenix force..just let her die & let cyclops move on.
ps:note to self: pick up superman red sun..
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picked up the superman/batman joint with the continuation of the supergirl storyline..it\'s alright kinda on the weak side..michael turner\'s artwork is the only thing keepin\' me on it..
i also picked up punisher "the end" great book.the artwork isn\'t the greatest but it\'s refreshing to see what the characters would be like at the end of their life...very interesting indeed.
i also picked up wolverine "the end" this was a good read as well as wolverine is at his last days still wondereing about what happened to him & the weapon x program..quite a big shocker at the end as well...now i\'m tryin\' to get hulk "the end" but nobody has it..cat at the shop told me to check ebay for it..says it\'s runnin\' bout thirty bucks, so it seems that\'s the route i\'m gonna have to take..
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If you like books with a twist, buy Red Son. I promise you\'ll love it. Also, if you\'ve taken a liking to New X-Men, buy the hardcovers volume 1 and 2, and then buy the trade paper backs Assault on Weapon Plus and Planet X (volumes 5 and 6 respectively) and that will finish out what\'s worth reading. Probably one of the best stories on the X-men... ever. Grant Morrison really knows what he is doing with these guys.
Daredevil is also a tremendously good read. If I were you, right away, I\'d hit up Amazon for the New X-men stuff I mentioned (Since they have a great dicount via free-shipping and no tax) and pick up the Daredevil hardcover volume 2 which collects issues 26 - 37. It\'s quite possibly one of the best superhero reads ever. It\'s the hardcover that got me back into comics a year ago. It will floor you.
A couple other recommendations for you is the first Ultimates trade called Super Human (there\'s only one and was printed in abundance and a second is coming in June called Homeland Security which will get you fully caught up), Y the Last Man trade called Unmanned just to get you started on that book and see if you like it. There\'s also another book called Fables and the first trade is called Legends In Exile. Also a great read.
Another book I highly recommend, almost as much as that Daredevil hardcover, is the entire run of Alias collected in like 4 trades at this point in time and the series is complete. Go ahead and pick those all up right away as its some of the best adult material to ever be published about superheroes.
If you want more in-depth descriptions of any of this stuff, go ahead and use my holy grail of all trade paperback information sites at the following link (http://www.tplist.com/).
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I used to collect plenty of Cracked magazines. Then I got a bunch of old N64 gaming mags... Now I have a horde of Stuff and Maxim mags, and a few PS2 mags here and there...
Not many comics overall, a few for when I was younger. All of them are X-men of course.
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^^thanks for the info bro...yea i\'ve just taken a liking to the new x-men since silvestri did a short run on it...and i have taken into account all the titles you\'ve recommended & look forward to a speedy purchase. i use to read daredevil a few years ago and when i did i think it was from the marvel knights issue of it..i forgot the name of the cat that was drawing it but it was extremley written well..i\'m gonna have to dig into my chest to find that one..there\'s another book i picked up & it\'s from an independent co..it\'s penciled artwork & the story is interesting as well i\'ll post it once i remember the name of it..again thanks..i appreciate the info.
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Its actually pretty interesting to flip through some of my old N64 magazines and get all nostalgic...
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Not a problem. Just trying to help steer you in the right direction and away from the crap that\'s out there. :)
And Swif, I agree. Nothing beats all those EGM issues with the N64 hype and those early SGI pics of Final Fantasy and the Link vs knight pictures for Zelda 64.
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I was actually just looking through one that was full of Perfect Dark hype... I remembering taking that mag with me where ever I went.
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with all the super hero talk, let me share my recent purchases...
just bought the jim lee superman comics 204- 206 i have always loved his artwork since the wildcats days...i haven\'t read any of these yet...
purchased wolverine the end pt 2 of the storyline..artwork is decent and the story line is interesting..
of course i \'ve been keepin up with this new secret wars joint by marvel ..the painted artwork is done extremely well & it\'s a no brainer that this series will be worth a lot of cash some day...
and finally i\'m keepin up with the superman/batman comic by michael turner..if only for the artwork,..cause to me the storyline so far has been dull...
i\'ve also been keepin up with the new silent hill book...it\'s actually pretty good..i was real skeptical when i bought it & the painted artwork to me isn\'t that great..but they have kept the themes tru like in the game with a few new twists to it...a real shocker & good read...
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I cant remember the last time i bought a comic.... wait. Yeah i can. But i cant remember the last real time i did. I bought some Johnny the Homicidal Maniac comics around christmas but before that i cant remember. If you consider mangas comics then i bought a book or two about a year or so ago.
Comics seem so dead now. I guess thats become so common to say now, but they really used to be big. There were a lot of good ones. The newest ones that i got into i guess were the Gen 13 ones.
*shrugs*.
I never got obssesed over them though. None of that, "never take it out of the plastic" bull.
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Comics only seem dead because people aren\'t buying them en masse, but I promise that if people actually listened to my reccomendations -- an believe me, I know comics far better then movies when it comes to what\'s hot and what\'s not -- they\'d be happier for it. There\'s so much good shit out there that I could throw at you, but you\'d be none the wiser if you simply ignored it all. If you think Gen 13 was good, then my friend, you have another thing coming as Gen 13 by comparison to what\'s out today is total crap.
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<*hugs* his first apperance of Sabertooth
I don\'t buy comics now\'a\'days, because I can\'t find a place to put them, but I remember back in the day paying out the ass for some true collectors items.
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oh forgot to add i also picked up the new firestorm...he\'s black now..;)..and there was some controversy behind it...but the book was ok..i\'m not sure if firestorm is being handled like how they do green lantern..y\'know different people have been green lantern so maybe this is what they are doin with him..
it\'s funny hearing white folks complain about it..it honestly makes no difference to me as to some degree i feel some heroes have to be white..ala captain america..;)
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That would be pretty damn funny to see a black Captain America *thinks and shakes head*.
RYU: Gen13 Crap to what is out TODAY? Maybe ive underestimated this "new" comic age. Then again, some people thought Gen13 was crap to begin with.
*shrugs*
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i thought gen 13 was ok...i thought it was images answer to marvels mutant teenage book *forgot the name* but it had jubilee & others & white queen as the leader...i liked campbell\'s artwork when he worked on it...
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small update...recently picked up the latest storyline with the avengers starting at 500...pretty decent read..finch is doin the artwork and bendis the writing...they really are shakin up the avengers world tho...i have issues 500- 503..and i won\'t spoil anything, but one one avengers gets knocked off in this series...some where upset about the decision..but i feel it was a decent shake up...
i mean we all know that certain characters are not going to die from the jump...but these new writers that are coming onto the scene, are totally different from writers of years past, and to me it\'s a good change of pace,..no character is basically safe from being killed..dc is doin something simliar with the whole indentity crisis storyline as well...
speaking of dc i just recently bought the superman book by jim lee and i gotta say..it\'s a pretty boring story, i mean this thing has dragged on, for about 5 - 6 issues now..the only saving grace is lee\'s artwork..and even this artwork is mediorce...i don\'t know it just seems he\'s going through the motions when he\'s doin it...
meh i absoultely loved lee\'s artwork when he did his wildcats book...that was truly some of his best work...
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Wasn\'t there a black Captain America book? I remember seeing something like that and I wanted to get it because it seemed like a good story. I remember it was about the black guy who they tested the super serum on before giving it to Capt. America.
I recently read the Preacher series(beginning to end) and I have to say that it was REALLY good. I was never that big into comics but that one managed to hold my attention long enough to get into it.
I kind of wished there was a follow up to show what happened after the story was over.
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Identity Crisis is an awesome story line so far. I think the first issue is on its third printing now and the second issue its second. Amazing. I also recommend Green Lantern Rebirth, which is another great story so far about the return of Hal Jordan as the Green Lantern who has been gone since the whole Crisis on Infinite Earths saga when he became Paralax.
speaking of dc i just recently bought the superman book by jim lee and i gotta say..it\'s a pretty boring story, i mean this thing has dragged on, for about 5 - 6 issues now..the only saving grace is lee\'s artwork..and even this artwork is mediorce...i don\'t know it just seems he\'s going through the motions when he\'s doin it...
Superman is a horrible story. It\'s written by Brian Azzerello who is only good on his series called 100 Bullets. Every other superhero book he\'s done including Superman and Batman has been horrible and dissapointing. He\'s wasted talent on them.
Wasn\'t there a black Captain America book? I remember seeing something like that and I wanted to get it because it seemed like a good story. I remember it was about the black guy who they tested the super serum on before giving it to Capt. America.
Yes, I think it was called Truth: Red, White, and Black (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785110720/qid=1102190434/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2031496-9736809?v=glance&s=books) and you can buy the complete 7-issue trade now. If you like Garth Ennis (Preacher), you might want to give Punisher Born (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785110259/qid=1102190490/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2031496-9736809?v=glance&s=books) a shot. It\'s the origins of Frank Castle in Vietnam well before his family was killed, which is where a lot of fans thought Punisher was really born.
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Originally posted by Ryu
Identity Crisis is an awesome story line so far. I think the first issue is on its third printing now and the second issue its second. Amazing. I also recommend Green Lantern Rebirth, which is another great story so far about the return of Hal Jordan as the Green Lantern who has been gone since the whole Crisis on Infinite Earths saga when he became Paralax.
Superman is a horrible story. It\'s written by Brian Azzerello who is only good on his series called 100 Bullets. Every other superhero book he\'s done including Superman and Batman has been horrible and dissapointing. He\'s wasted talent on them.
yea i think i\'m gonna have to go back and pick up those issues of indentity crisis,..i\'ve been hearing nothing but good reviews about that title..and i\'m also shocked by what you say of azzerello,..i have his second printing of 100 bullets where this puerto rican chick is in the center of the storyline,..it was a great read...it seems he went from one extreme to the next when he went to the super-hero writing...heh and i never knew that little bit about the black captain america...
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I\'m reading Book 2 of Tomorrow Stories.
Pretty good stuff from Alan Moore, although he\'s much better with longer narratives. After a couple of issues I got a little sick of the short stories, especially when Moore goes out of his way to be outrageous and ironic.
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yea i think i\'m gonna have to go back and pick up those issues of indentity crisis,..i\'ve been hearing nothing but good reviews about that title..and i\'m also shocked by what you say of azzerello,..i have his second printing of 100 bullets where this puerto rican chick is in the center of the storyline,..it was a great read...it seems he went from one extreme to the next when he went to the super-hero writing...heh and i never knew that little bit about the black captain america...
Well, I said he was great on 100 Bullets. He\'s horrible on everything else.
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Originally posted by Black Samurai
Wasn\'t there a black Captain America book? I remember seeing something like that and I wanted to get it because it seemed like a good story. I remember it was about the black guy who they tested the super serum on before giving it to Capt. America.
Well there was a captain africa but it was more like a book and probably not the same thing.
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small update...just picked up avengers #3 by bendis & finch..pretty decent so far, really interested to see where they are going with it especially with spidey in the line up...and yo in avengers#2 spidey got that a$$ whooped! go get it..artworks pretty good too...no more avengers mansion,...now they all meet at tony starks enterprises, which is his high rise complex bldg...
also coped x23...she\'s supposed to be wolverine\'s daughter or somehow these scientists got hold of wolverines dna to somehow create her.(too much to explain here but it\'s along those lines) anyway it\'s ok so far, but as with any title that an origin issue it\'s starting off pretty slow, it\'s to be expected i guess for the first few issues,..judgement is still out on this one..billy tan\'s artwork is decent enough to hold my attention, so i\'ll see how this pan\'s out...
phoenix\'s endsong?..i think that\'s the name anyway i have #1 & 2 and the story\'s interesting, but how many times are they gonna keep bringing jean grey back? s**t is not even funny anymore,..everytime she comes back the xmen say "we have to kill her..it\'s not jean" :rolleyes:...i\'ll stick with it to see where it goes but this plotline has been done over so many times it\'s pathetic...keep that biatch dead...or don\'t kill her in the first place..
ugh i hate to say that i picked up superman by jim lee and sadly this book is one of thee most boring titles i\'ve ever read...i\'ve only stayed with it this far only because of lee\'s artwork and nothing else,..very dissapointing..
lastly i picked wolverines "the end" book #5 this was the last book in this story line and i don\'t know who the artist is but he reminds me of john buscema\'s artwork <------he\'s oldschool for those in the know ;) anyway good storyline that showed that wolverine had an older brother and how they became enemies yet there was still a sense of how they still cared if either one died..kinda hard to explain that without sounding gay...anywayt great story and great book, i\'d recommend this one....get the back issues of that one as well...
also picked up superman/darkness crossover... not bad i guess but this getting way too long so i\'ll cut this one short...judgement is still out on this one as well
and i coped the hulk/darkness crossover, and even tho it was a one shot, i felt i could\'ve wrote a way more better story, just seemed rushed all around... keowns artwork (PITT)..is ok but it doesn\'t save the comic from it\'s crappy storyline....that\'s all for now...
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wow..i haven\'t updated this in awhile...and yea i know there\'s not alot of people interested in this topic, but anyway...my most recent purchses
the whole house of m series- i kinda thought this was a well rounded series, i kinda thought the heroes came on kinda too strong in wanting to kill the scarlett witch after all, the only thing she did was give them what they wanted...decent series overall...i missed the other branching crossovers after that tho...
picked up avengers 16 & 17- in 16 aplha flight gets massacured by this mysterious being from outer space...in issue 17 the avengers finally confrot this mysterious person and ms. marvel somehow ends up with the phoenix\'s power when she confronts him..meh issue 16 came on strong with issue 17 bein kinda on the weak side...mike deodado(spel) did the pencils, but i\'m shocked to say that his artwork wasn\'t that great this one...i know it makes a huge difference in whoever inks your work as well, but i can clearly tell that mike wasn\'t at his best in this one...
picked an indy book called black harvest,..pretty decent artwork is kinda cartoony, but it\'s pretty interesting. can\'t comment on this cause i\'m still tryin to figure out what\'s goin on...
picked up sylvestries hunter killer...only reason why i get this is mainly because i like sylvestries artwork...the storyline is kinda like your run of the mill storyline with some guy that has mysterious powers then some group comes along to help him perfect it then uses him to hunt down others like him..etc etc...kinda weak storyline, but the artwork is the only thing savin it..
and finally picked cyber force..i usedto collect this back in the day when sylvestry used to do it, but they have type of anime artist on it now, so i really don\'t where they are going with it, but i\'ll hang around to see what happens...
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I enjoy Ultimate Fantastic Four...Ultimate Sue Storm is the hottest chick ever to grace comics. Ultimates, Ultimate Spiderman, Infinite Crisis, and a couple of Batman comics are the ones I usually try and pick up.
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I enjoy Ultimate Fantastic Four...Ultimate Sue Storm is the hottest chick ever to grace comics. Ultimates, Ultimate Spiderman, Infinite Crisis, and a couple of Batman comics are the ones I usually try and pick up.
i kinda lost rack of the ultimates books when i moved to georgia, but i did happen to cop that ultimates avengers dvd...i was highly impressed with it...and the hulk?...good lord!.... everybody\'s wig was gettin split by him..:fro:..i\'m lookin forward to the next chapter...the animation was decent too...
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I love Black Adam.
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meh, i just bought civil war # 7....and honestly it was a bit underwhelming....i mean there was no cliffhanger climax to the book, and the fight scenes?...*warning* spoiler.........and what was up with cap\'s attitude all of a sudden?.....i mean if he felt that way in that moment, there were numerous other scenarios that was exactly in the same atmosphere were he should\'ve felt like "omg this is a mistake"....that attitude change by cap seemed really forced and seemed like that they just wanted to end the storyline. i think it could\'ve had a much better stronger ending but it was lukewarm at best.....fight scenes were extremely weak as well....one thing i will say tho is that the artwork was strong throughout the whole series.
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I was really hoping Luke Cage would of said, "oh snap dawg, they cloned Mar-Vell!"
But no one even mentioned him...pretty sure he\'s appearance should of got some reaction from someone.
And how the hell were the anti-reg dudes winning...the other guys had Sentry and Mar-Vell. /fight over
The ending made sense...because the series was designed to chance the Marvel universe and it has been accomplished. But I thought the glorified fight was dumb since it really didn\'t make a whole lot of sense. Only parts I really liked were Spider-Man kicking ass and Taskmaster shooting Reid.
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^^^heh heh yea i forgot about sentry and marvel.....sentry alone could\'ve whooped cap\'s whole squad....we\'ll see what happens next...as it stands now, i\'m really lookin forward to world war hulk....I REALLY would like to see the hulk whoop some ass from those that sent him off in space. i thought the whole planet hulk series breathed new life into the hulk. i thought it was a pretty good run.