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Ultimate Spider Man #13. Miles is not having a good time being Spider-Man. It's hard to tell right now, but he may be responsible for his deviant uncle's death.  
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I think what I love about that Death of Spider-Man cover is the word bubble they gave Ben. "You did good, kid."
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Aug 2, 2012 22:10
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Waterhaul posted:The new series of Hawkeye started this week and straight away introduces Hawkeye trying to save the life of an injured dog. Oh gently caress you, Fraction. Making me buy a doggone Hawkeye comic in 2012.
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Aug 3, 2012 01:02
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Waterhaul posted:Carney-man Adventures I love how the first page has Hawkeye in the hospital with an almost identical laundry list of injuries.
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Aug 3, 2012 01:06
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Arrow is good name. Arrow is a good dog. Good dog, best friend.
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Aug 3, 2012 05:48
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Gnome de plume posted:Arrow is good name. Arrow is a good dog. Arrow<Thori
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Aug 3, 2012 05:52
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Now I really want Thori and Arrow to join the Pet Avengers.
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Aug 3, 2012 06:15
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TwoPair posted:Now I really want Thori and Arrow to join the Pet Avengers. Thori has to be the villain they stop.
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Aug 3, 2012 06:42
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bobkatt013 posted:Arrow<Thori Thori is gonna die fighting Surtur.
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Aug 3, 2012 06:43
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Terror Sweat posted:Thori is gonna die fighting Surtur. YOU TAKE THAT BACK YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD 
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Aug 4, 2012 02:07
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This next sequence might seem silly to some, but it really got to me.      Atomic Robo: Real Science Adventures #4, by Brian Clevinger and Zack Finfrock.
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Aug 5, 2012 02:36
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If only there was a writer around now a days great enough to save us from the million grim and gritty Rob Leifeld books that have taken over comics and bring us back to the glory days of 40 years ago.
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Aug 5, 2012 12:25
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Waterhaul posted:If only there was a writer around now a days great enough to save us from the million grim and gritty Rob Leifeld books that have taken over comics and bring us back to the glory days of 40 years ago. The comic is set in 94 and it's sad because Robo doesn't age but things he cherishes fade away or change irreversibly.
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Aug 5, 2012 12:31
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Lurdiak posted:The comic is set in 94 and it's sad because Robo doesn't age but things he cherishes fade away or change irreversibly. Everything said about the 90s "Dark Age" can be applied to the current state of the industry.
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Aug 5, 2012 12:42
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Waterhaul posted:Everything said about the 90s "Dark Age" can be applied to the current state of the industry. And it's in such great shape nowadays.
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Aug 5, 2012 13:11
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I thought that scene was kinda unfair. It cheery picks the worst cases, exaggerated them to the extreme, and ignores everything else.
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Aug 6, 2012 02:58
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Waterhaul posted:Everything said about the 90s "Dark Age" can be applied to the current state of the industry. Well, except that almost every comic sells under 100,000 copies now.
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Aug 7, 2012 01:24
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Waterhaul posted:Everything said about the 90s "Dark Age" can be applied to the current state of the industry. Show me a recent die-cut cover smarty pants! No don't, I can't handle the idea of those coming back.
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Aug 7, 2012 02:49
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Rhyno posted:Show me a recent die-cut cover smarty pants! While they might be lacking in chrome and 3-Dness there is a bit of a resurgence in the variant cover market.
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Aug 7, 2012 02:57
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Madkal posted:While they might be lacking in chrome and 3-Dness there is a bit of a resurgence in the variant cover market. Variants never really went away but thankfully most stupid cover enhancements did. Marvel tried with their new Chromiums but there was so much negative feedback and tons of them were damaged in shipping so they backed off of them.
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Rhyno posted:Show me a recent die-cut cover smarty pants! We have QR code covers now, they're a lot cooler.
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Waterhaul posted:We have QR code covers now, they're a lot cooler. At least they're not MS's QR code knockoff.
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Well at least Liefield's not still...oh, oh right.
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How has it taken two days for anyone to post anything from Spider-Men #4 here? The lead-up: Peter Parker has ended up in the Ultimate Universe. After briefly teaming up with Miles and dealing with Nick Fury, he swings off because he's not sure if this is real or just Mysterio messing with him. He finds out that Ultimate Peter died and goes to his home to confront Aunt May and Gwen. He unmasks and they attack him, thinking he's just some heartless rear end in a top hat until Miles shows up to calm them down. Peter beats himself up because he realizes it was unfair for him to even show up like this and much of the issue is based on the four of them talking to each other and comparing notes on their worlds. Also, Gwen calls up MJ to tell her what's going on. Finally, Nick Fury arrives and they're off to finish the plot.     I think one of the best things about this sequence is that by the end of it, even Fury is smiling. He feels like Peter's death is one of his greatest failures and even he is into the closure of this situation.
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That entire issue was  as hell. That being said, poor Peter having to lie to Gwen Stacy about her 616 counterpart being still alive was really awkward and i think that was the author's intention.
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Aug 10, 2012 12:34
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Plutonis posted:That entire issue was Yeah, Bendis really scored a home run with the writing this time around. I think when he's trying to write CHARACTERS instead of writing cleverness, he shines. Which isn't to say he can't be clever, just that he's better (possibly unknowingly) at emotional moments like this.
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Mister Roboto posted:Yeah, Bendis really scored a home run with the writing this time around. See also Fall-out. You could post every single scene involving May, Gwen, and MJ in this thread.
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Tinyn posted:I thought that scene was kinda unfair. It cheery picks the worst cases, exaggerated them to the extreme, and ignores everything else. I agree. Give the guy a copy of Marvels. That come out in 94. Or how about Books of Magic? Dark Knight Returns? Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Nope, we'll just make a Liefeld joke and call it a day! Content: Batman: Ego was a little one-shot by Darwyn Cooke that came out in 2000 and received little attention. Essentially, after a particularly bad night when a thug that he leaned on for information takes his own life, Wayne decides that he can't shoulder the burden of being Batman anymore. Guilt, combined with blood loss (or something bigger?) causes him to (possibly) hallucinate that the batgod spirit of fear is paying him a Dickensian sort of visit.     
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I'm just glad it looks like aunt may got some closure in spider men and she won't beat herself up for what happened to Peter.
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OK Octopus posted:I agree. Give the guy a copy of Marvels. That come out in 94. Or how about Books of Magic? Dark Knight Returns? Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Nope, we'll just make a Liefeld joke and call it a day! You realize that DKR and Whatever... came out in the 80s, right?
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Happy Hippo posted:You realize that DKR and Whatever... came out in the 80s, right? So loving what? Dude hadn't read any comics in 40+ years. Why not show him something from the 80s?
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Aug 10, 2012 21:16
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OK Octopus posted:So loving what? Dude hadn't read any comics in 40+ years. Why not show him something from the 80s? I apparently loving misunderstood you and loving thought that you were loving trying to loving list some of the better loving books from the loving 90s.
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Aug 10, 2012 21:23
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I have a feeling that he might really like Hellboy, honestly. But that's just me. 
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Gavok posted:How has it taken two days for anyone to post anything from Spider-Men #4 here? No joke, my favorite part of that is Peter's awkward "Uh ... white." And Fury basically going "poor bastard."
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Maybe Atomic Robo just visited a really crappy comic book store. The fact that for many people, crappy comic book stores became the only place to get comics is the real tragedy of the 90's.
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OK Octopus posted:I agree. Give the guy a copy of Marvels. That come out in 94. Or how about Books of Magic? Dark Knight Returns? Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Nope, we'll just make a Liefeld joke and call it a day! Or the Jack Knight version of Starman, which came out in '94 and had similar themes in it to what's being shown here.
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Tinyn posted:I thought that scene was kinda unfair. It cheery picks the worst cases, exaggerated them to the extreme, and ignores everything else. My parents delivered every comic I bought from my comic collecting youth last week. I got into comics in '91 and I got out in '93. It is three long boxes of 100% of what's described in Dark Age. "Well, you just had lovely taste!" Yes. I was 12 - 14 years old. I was also the center of the bullseye for all comics marketing! All the industry told me about were X-Men, crossovers, deaths, #1s, and swimsuit issues. Obviously, good comics were made then. No one is disputing that! Alan Moore's Supreme is just the tip of that excellent iceberg! But don't pretend it's a case of "cherry picking" to point out that the majority of corporate output in those days was hilariously desperate poo poo to cash in on the speculation and xtreme bubbles. DC's strategy was literally to do anything to get big buzz in Wizard Magazine. Think about that for a minute. I would love to have lived through the '90s comics renaissance some of you guys imagine to have existed. It sounds great.
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I think it's more that you guys are cherry picking the good stuff; for every "Marvels" there are 10 things Lifield wrote.
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Opopanax posted:I think it's more that you guys are cherry picking the good stuff; for every "Marvels" there are 10 things Lifield wrote. But that is the way comics always have been. There has been some amazing stuff and some absolute crap
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bobkatt013 posted:But that is the way comics always have been. There has been some amazing stuff and some absolute crap That's a fair point, but I'd say the crap was more prevalent and mainstream then.
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