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Put it in the usual places please.
Read the book.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Put it in the usual places please.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
Spent most of the day reading the Sinistro Corps War.
No sir, I didn't like it.
FEARFEARFEARFEARFEARFEAR!
Tomorrow we'll see how Marvel's Annihilation was.
Thank you, Satoru Iwata
I recently read Final Crisis #1. Kind of weird, but I definitely like that Morrison hit the ground running on multiple fronts, and it all sort of feels like a ticking timebomb. I mean, when Orion of all New Gods is found dead, you know some serious shit is going down. And as for the death of Marian Manhunter, I was never crazy about the character because of the Superman-like powers (now if he kept the telepathy and invisibilty, that would have been cooler), but obviously he's a big DC character and that he was captured/killed as he did provided a big effect to what's brewing from Libra's arrival - kind of like when Ben delivered Locke's father to Locke in Lost.
And Doctor Light asking Mirror Master for Viagra hook-ups was LOL-worthy.
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Thor*9:Very intertaining. Loki is a piece of shit though.
Giant Size Astonishing X-Men:Wow.Fucking Great.
Invincible vol.9:Good as always. Nice little story progression. Duplicate still alive. Invincible is rather weak compared to Allen and the usual Viltrumites.
Hellboy Vol.8:Very Very good. I love Hellboy. I havnt checked out BPRD stuff yet. I think i will.
or bust.
Being back in a place where comics aren't $8 a book, I grabbed some stuff for the first time in a long time.
Batman RIP - got the first two issues. Meh. I keep reading people going OMGOMG on the internet but all I see is the god-damned Batman gettin' played by a ho (which we all know is completely impossible according to the fundamental rules of comics) and a bunch of twists being thrown round that are guaranteed to be undone if they're not just red herrings in the first place. I guess I'll read for another issue or two because I like Morrison's smarter comics.
52 - Read a lot of good things about this too, so I grabbed the trades. When you read it all in one go you see there are like dozens of plotholes and a lot of it is kinda corny. Also, the new Question doesn't look as cool as the old one. There were a lot of good things about it - the Nanda Parbat scenes, Ambush Bug, Oolong Island and the space beat. But Black Adam suddenly being able to beat up the entire DC universe at once seemed to stretch even comic book credibility. Not bad, but not one of the best things I've ever read either.
Booster Gold - Okay, this is actually the only reason I started buying comics again. Justice League International stands alongside Morrison's Doom Patrol as one of the greatest comic things ever, so seeing them appear got me to buy a comic again. And once I figured out there was a whole arc about Ted Kord who's pretty much my favourite character ever I went and got all the back issues too. Unfortunately the whole thing seems like a setup for "this is why you can never, ever have the good Blue Beetle back so stop asking" (he was meant to die, you see, or OMACs kill Lois Lane and like every superhero) which sucks. The series as a whole reads like a DC comics clip show except Booster Gold suddenly jumps out in the middle of The Killing Joke or silver age Flash #1. I don't know if I'll keep reading after they inevitably ditch the awesome JLI characters and return to Booster's boring supporting cast which consists entirely of Skeets, RIP HUNTER: TIME MASTER and his mentally handicapped great great grandfather whose only positive purpose is to serve as a vehicle for Xbox live jokes (his arch nemesis is his 12 year old Madden opponent).
Daredevil - DD was always my favourite Marvel guy so I picked up his book to see what's up these days. Well, I guess somebody figured Dakota North deserved to be brought back from the trash heap (not really, but I can deal) so it's like half her book. But having the Gotham Central team doing the book and focusing on the supporting cast while DD becomes a barely sympathetic self-pitying psycho works well.
DC Universe 0 & Final Crisis 1- I liked Infinite Crisis, but doing another one already seems more than a tad gratuitous. I'm not really into it so far other than cementing the New Gods status quo from the Seven Soldiers Mister Miracle series which was ten times more amazing than this his likely to be, but I'll give it another shot I guess.
I dunno about this comics thing in general anymore. I might have outgrown them, or they might just be going through a dim patch, or I might just be reading the wrong stuff, but I read a ton of stuff here and most of it just kinda fell flat for me. And I was reading a lot of it thinking that a while back this would have wowed me, but even the surprise plot twists were starting to feel rote.
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-Kyo
The one thing about Batman is that RIP is the climax of GM's run. When he first signed on till now. He's been laying the ground work and laying hints as to who the Black Glove is. Unless i misread, you just picked up RIP. You still need to pick up Ressurection of Raz, Batman and Son,and Island of Dr. Mayhew.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Thank you, Satoru Iwata
A fan of that era's Justice League, hmm? Did you check out the two mini-series about them in the last couple of years, by the same creators? One of them was called Formerly Known as the Justice League, if I recall. Can't say I read them, but maybe you would have dug them.
An excellent resource, for anyone, is the Trade Paperback List, although maybe it's not entirely up to date.
I kind of get what you're saying though, Strider. Maybe the better thing is to look for something else, that might fit in line with your tastes. Especially when singles over overpriced these days imo, comics are too expensive.
Re: the other books listed:
Morrison's Batman- it may not be consistently great, but it's good, fun stuff in a long run by Morrison. I really enjoyed a good deal of things, like the Joker prose issue which some didn't like.
52- never read any of it, eh, never felt compelled to.
Booster Gold- Haven't read any of this either. Probably a perfect title for Geoff Johns though, who is complete fanwank imo. Which can be fun and sell comics, obviously.
Daredevil- kicks ass, I actually liked Bendis'/Maleev's run for the first half or so, but eventually I got sick of Bendis' stunted decompressed bullshit work in general including on that title (despite really liking Maleev). But once Brubaker and Michael Lark took over, it's been much better again, you should definitely check out more off it imo.
Final Crisis- Honestly I'm only bumming reads (wink, wink) of this like I did with Civil War, which I still haven't bought the collection of because it felt way overedited and screwed with, despite McNiven's lovely art. Not sure if the same will happen to this, already I'm expecting the negative in terms of Jones' not making deadlines fast enough despite all the lead time and the planned break in between.
Also, I'm sorry to say I have yet to read Morrison's Animal Man, Doom Patrol, and The Invisibles. That really needs to be rectified, sigh.
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You're not very good at reading comics are you?Originally Posted by Advocate
It's obvious she was fucking with his head to keep him out of the action. Making Iron Man a skrull basically destroys everything that Civil War did for the character... it ain't gonna happen.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
You're not very good at looking at the writer are you?
It's obvious he is. Bendis is writing.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
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