I just picked up issue #1 of Identity Crisis.
Does that series tie into Infinite Crisis, or should I just not waste my time?
Also, is this "House of M" shit gonna be cool?
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I just picked up issue #1 of Identity Crisis.
Does that series tie into Infinite Crisis, or should I just not waste my time?
Also, is this "House of M" shit gonna be cool?
I DL'ed a torrent of Identity Crisis and I did like it.A lot of major stuff goes down in it, so if you're a DC fan its worth your time. And by the story's end it seems like it kind of set's up a major storyline involving Batman and how some of the League totally fucked him up. (Batman vs. Justice League?)That and you get to see Deathstroke at his best making a bunch of the Leaguers his bitches in a throwdown fight in like the third issue or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korly
I have no idea what this Infinite Crisis thing is so no clue on storyline tie ins.
Identity ties into Crisis somehow, as the Countdown to Crisis book highlighted the fact that Batman KNOWS what the League did to him. I'm not positive, but I think Ident. Crisis setup the Calculator in his new "knows-everything"-behind-the-scenes-villain role, which continues into Countdown to Crisis. Hell, Donna Troy coming back, Jason Todd coming back and Hal Jordan coming back supposedly all tied into Infinite Crisis. Not sure how, but supposedly all will be revealed...eventually.
And you can check out a six page preview of House of M at Newsarama. Ties back to the end of the Avengers series. Btw, when did Magneto come back to life??? Last I saw, Wolvie had decapitated him...
I didn't read it, but Identity Crisis was their big crossover last year. That lead to Countdown, which leads to four mini series that just started this month - OMAC, Day of Vengeance, Villains United and Rann-Thanagar War. Those four minis are what leads into Infiinite Crisis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korly
If it's anything like the Avengers Disassembled story it's spun from, no, it'll be horrible and make you reconsider buying comics. I'm gonna skip it, it looks bloody expensive, and I only need so much superhero stuff.Quote:
Also, is this "House of M" shit gonna be cool?
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess it's about: Scarlet Witch goes crazy, changes reality and alters all superheroes into new, different and exciting forms, forgetting their old past. Everyone blames her and/or a villain - but get this - s/he's really the pawn of a bigger, eviler villain! Every superhero comes together and flies at the big giant villain at the same time, Reed Richards does what he should've done on the first page and invents an Invincible Villain destroying ray in 2 pages, everyone joins hands with the power of heroicness, Hawkeye comes back to life and the world is saved. But the Marvel Universe will be changed forever! Or until editorial changes mean everyone forgets about the story in 6 months. Artwork looks nice though.
Marvel sucks now, don't bother with House of M.... Magneto came back after Grant Morrison left Marvel (they basically tried to undo everything he did for them). He is in Excalibur with Prof. X where they are on Genosha doing shitty and boring things that no one cares about written by a shit writer. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolffen
I friend of mine picked up the latest Excalibur, (the one with the chick holding Angels body) and it had like, the worst comic art I've ever seen.
However, at the end there was some chick in black talking to a shitload of ghosts, and Magneto saying something about his daughter. His daughter is Scarlet Witch, but I don't think Scarlet Witch wears black, does she?
Also, the story of "house of M" involves Magneto helping Scarlett Witch, but keeping all of the heroes occupied by somehow putting them in alternate realities (or something) where all of their dreams came true. IE: Spiderman is loved by all, is a super-wrestler, famous scientist, etc. I read about some of this in Wizard magazine. And, I think I read something about the Magneto that Wolverine decapitated being a fake Magneto. Or something. Figures.
Please stop bringing back the bad memories :) hehe... Basically after Morrison's run, they said that the Magneto posing as Xorn was a fake, so all the stuff that happened that we thought was Magneto, was actually an imposter and not the "real" Magneto. Then Prof. X goes to Genosha to burry the body, and the real Magneto helps him do so, says it was an imposter, and then when Prof. X asks Magneto how he survived the bomb blast that supposedly killed him originally (along with everyone else on Genosha), his reply was simply "it does not matter." and then he changed the subject. Morrison actually does some good for the series, and Marvel just fucks it all up, and undoes it all to say "fuck you" to Grant Morrison since he went DC exclusive, instead of being good business people and doing what the FANS wanted. Claremont is such a hack now too, nothing like his early days on Uncanny, so F him too. I don't read eXcalibur, and I'm thinking of only reading Astonishing and Ultimate X-Men now since they're the only ones worth reading.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korly
I got Uncanny #455 and Psylocke (my favorite of all time) is back.
That's awesome.
Not another reason why Joe Q. is a hypocritical bastard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Korly
Pretty much.Quote:
Originally Posted by StriderKyo
Some fans think that things have gotten too dark in the DC Universe and I agree only to a certain point but Identity Crisis really made me care more about DC heroes and villains. Moreso than any other major DC book in a long time as a matter of fact.
It feels almost Marvel'ish in that superheroes have weaknesses in different ways as well as showing both sides of the coin with regards to super-heroes/super-villains
Heh well, I could definitely understand your trepidation about the House of M series, especially after Avengers Disassembled but Bendis hit the ball out of the park with New Avengers. This event more or less a New Avengers/X-Men crossover since both teams are major players.Quote:
If it's anything like the Avengers Disassembled story it's spun from, no, it'll be horrible and make you reconsider buying comics. I'm gonna skip it, it looks bloody expensive, and I only need so much superhero stuff.
In usual Marvel way you only really need to buy the actual bi-weekly book to see whats really going down but you can buy the branching books if you so desire. It's basically looking like AOA but switch Apocalypse with Magneto and expect some other radical changes.
I plan on getting most if not all of it to see how the whole event goes down and how good the stories are that stem from House of M. I'm also a sucker for some good art which the Spiderman:HOM, actual HOM series among a few others will have plenty of :D
I hear that there will be ongoing ramifications from the event but Marvel is being very vague about what exactly will stay and be picked up by other writers.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess it's about: Scarlet Witch goes crazy, changes reality and alters all superheroes into new, different and exciting forms, forgetting their old past. Everyone blames her and/or a villain - but get this - s/he's really the pawn of a bigger, eviler villain! Every superhero comes together and flies at the big giant villain at the same time, Reed Richards does what he should've done on the first page and invents an Invincible Villain destroying ray in 2 pages, everyone joins hands with the power of heroicness, Hawkeye comes back to life and the world is saved. But the Marvel Universe will be changed forever! Or until editorial changes mean everyone forgets about the story in 6 months. Artwork looks nice though.
I wouldn't be surprised if that came true as that what it seems to be but I'll check it out. It's one of the biggest things coming out of Marvel that could be good (I'm REALLY buying into the hype these days I guess) and I like seeing DC and Marvel having side-by-side huge megacrossover events during the summer which are also the times for blockbuster movies and fun in the sun.