Venneh Posted May 6, 2012 Report Share Posted May 6, 2012 I just reread it and got it. But, still, WHA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted May 8, 2012 Report Share Posted May 8, 2012 Love this- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omjySV9M7wo Sums up the comics nerd vs the rest of the world attitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 The latest New Avengers bring Leonardo Da Vinci into the Marvel universe beyond just the awful Shield book. Not only did he fight off Galactus and all that BS, he also met the Iron Fist and Phoenix. Urgh. Avengers vs X-men was already a terrible event but this is the tipping point for me, where they take that other book and make it something that you can't just ignore. I think I've reached my jumping off point with major Marvel stories. I'll just stick with Amazing Spider-man and that'll be it. Oh and they just brought Captain Marvel back again for another inevitable fake-out. I've still not lost the bad taste from his last rebirth when the writer confessed to not even reading the Life and Death of Captain Marvel, one of the most important trades in comics history. For the first time in years, I'm reading more DC and Image than Marvel from here on out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Evil Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 What, really? Did they not realise it would have been much, much wiser to just bury that mini-series and pretend that it never happened? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 I'm intrigued by AvX for one simple reason: It's apparently Marvel's Showgirls in that it's terrible but it's good terrible.... okay, let's call it Marvel's The Room instead. Just realized I'm the only one who would get excited by a Showgirls comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 I read the first two issues. Bendis is REALLY overdoing the prose. It's distractingly bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 No, it's marvel rehashing Marvel vs DC with only their own characters. Who cares about fights without any sort of clear motivation? Who would win tournaments are SO 90's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 My biggest issue is the way they're painting Cyclops. He seems psychotic. If this isn't Emma and Magento's doing, by the end of the series, they'll have done to him what they did to Iron Man in Civil War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 The thing is, we all know how this ends. Jean Grey comes back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Evil Posted May 10, 2012 Report Share Posted May 10, 2012 Seems appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prez Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 My biggest issue is the way they're painting Cyclops. He seems psychotic. If this isn't Emma and Magento's doing, by the end of the series, they'll have done to him what they did to Iron Man in Civil War. Agreed. Cyclops is batshit insane the whole time and all the X-Men are like, "OK! It's way easier than thinking for myself!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted May 22, 2012 Report Share Posted May 22, 2012 Marvel Comics announces ‘X-Man’ Northstar to have same-sex wedding; DC Comics to out super hero as gay: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/marvel-comics-announces-x-man-northstar-same-sex-wedding-dc-comics-super-hero-gay-article-1.1082606#ixzz1vclbz5Kl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted May 24, 2012 Report Share Posted May 24, 2012 Preview of Batman: Death by Design OGN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted June 4, 2012 Report Share Posted June 4, 2012 Reading the first Spawn trade. Started humming Linkin Park. Yup, that's what this is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Evil Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Preview page of the second series of Ichabod Azrael which should be starting soon in 2000AD. Looking forward to this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Evil Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 How did I miss this?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Is that upcoming? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Paolo Rivera on ending his Marvel exclusive contract after 10 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 I know this isn't really news to anyone, but Alan Moore is batshit insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Evil Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 I've actually read the book and this article is entirely reactionary and stupid. It also contains a huge spoiler for the latest League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, so don't click it or read the rest of my post if you don't want to be spoiled. Yes, the Antichrist is Harry Potter and it actually makes a lot of sense given the way 1969 ended. Potter himself is representative of the problems with culture, specifically pop culture these days where franchise and adaptations have taken such huge priorities that little original work seems to be created and nurtured. I mean, seriously look at this It's not just a matter of Harry Potter becoming an anti-psychotic abusing, overgrown wizard raging against the education system that failed him, the whole of the world of the League seems to be decaying. Hyde Park is shuttered off, with the statue of the Martian tripod rusting, Hyde's bones and other artefacts of the League's earlier exploits lay languishing in the back of the British Museum, Malcolm Tucker's style of spin and bullying is coming back into vogue and the biggest show on television is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3012CfPIyPU. In America the nuanced and intelligent administration of Jed Bartlett is being replaced by the brazen and reactionary administration of David Palmer, who are introducing a CTU that promises to fix all of the world's major problems 24 hours at a time. The neonazis who made their presence felt in 1969 with double x graffitti seem to have much more power here as it seems they are affiliated with both the Freemasons and the Police, the latter of whom have become red-eyed monsters, constantly wielding batons and riot shields. The League has and always will be both a loving tribute to and a damning indictment of the culture that it is stealing from. It's not like Moore has treated everyone entirely reverentially except for Harry potter, after all the Invisible Man was first shown raping teenage girls, Allan Quartermain was found pissing his life away in an opium den, James Bond was a violent, thuggish pawn of the US and Billy Bunter became a sad old man living in the ruins of greyfriars. I've really enjoyed Century, even if it has been somewhat more cynical than the previous League books, and I'm really looking forward to what Moore and O'Neill do next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 That sort of sounds like what Miller did with The Dark Knight Strikes Again. It tried to be a satire of modern culture, but went way too far with it and just ended up being ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 It can "sound like" anything the article wants it to sound like. Mr Evil Gannon has sat down and read the book, digested its contents and then set it against the previous body of Moore's work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Being struck by lightning sounds like it hurts. But I'm no expert on the subject, so feel free to contradict me. By technical definition, "that sounds like" literally means "it sounds like," not "it is, absolutely." Wasn't trying to declare myself the authority on all things Alan Moore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Being struck by lightning sounds like it hurts. But I'm no expert on the subject, so feel free to contradict me. I have no idea what this means. By technical definition, "that sounds like" literally means "it sounds like," not "it is, absolutely." Wasn't trying to declare myself the authority on all things Alan Moore. I didn't say you were trying to declare yourself an expert on Alan Moore. What I said was that you were juxtaposing the article with an example of Frank Miller bat-shittery and implied, albeit not definitively (hence the "sounds like"), a correlation. Such a correlation didn't really address the post directly above yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted June 23, 2012 Report Share Posted June 23, 2012 Being struck by lightning sounds like it hurts. But I'm no expert on the subject, so feel free to contradict me. I have no idea what this means. It means that although I haven't directly experienced something, I can infer from others' information and comment on what it "sounds like" it is, based on said information. All I was saying was that, based on the article and KE's post, it sounded (to me) a bit similar to what happened in DKSA. I'm not even sure what we're debating here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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