|
StumblyWumbly posted:When did Spider-Man have organic web shooters? Was that during JMS? Yeah, he got them during the Avengers Dissasembled event and then kept them through OMD.
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 05:21
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 11:52 |
|
|
A friend of mine that I've encouraged to get more into comics hates Nova and Young Avengers but loves Superior Spider-Man and actually claims Dan Slott is a genius. Where did I go wrong? 
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 05:52
|
|
|
Well, Nova is poo poo and Young Avengers, while great, is a love it or hate it kind of book. Now, if he hates Hawkguy then there's no hope. \/\/\/I tried Nova again with the issue 100 special after seeing a bunch of stuff in the Funny Panels thread. It is still bad and I hate the art. Soonmot fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jan 7, 2014 |
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 06:11
|
|
|
Hating Dan Slott? I love Young Avengers, but I really understand it's not to everyone's taste. Nova is... well, how've Zeb Wells and Gerry Duggan on that? I admit I didn't know Loeb was off it, and Loeb hadn't done much to sell me on the series.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 06:11
|
|
|
He refuses to read Hawkeye because he hates the idea of the archer hero and hates the idea of Hawkeye being able to hack it with the Avengers. Even after being told Hawkeye's book is all about the stuff he does outside of the Avengers. I should have known his opinions on comics would be 100% terrible when he announced that he hated Gunnerkrigg Court.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 06:18
|
|
|
I'm... I'm sorry. Maybe try Saga or East of West? Or is he one of those people who only read super heroes? Sci-Fi Romeo & Juliet with tits and swears or Post Apocalyptic Alt-history Western are pretty interesting premises?
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 06:29
|
|
|
Another friend got him to read Saga and he really liked that. I haven't read it myself so I can't confirm whether or not it's the exception to his terrible taste rule (because these things have no room for differences, you see).
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 06:33
|
|
|
There is always Tarot. Or those Brothers Grimm comics I see at the LCBS that seem...interesting...?
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 06:44
|
|
|
One thing I like about Hawkeye is that it reads really well digitally because there isn't a tremendous amount of detail hidden away on my smaller Nexus 7 screen. Any other books that work well digitally worth picking up? I've been thinking of reading Saga and The Manhattan Projects digitally as well. I love physical books but I literally get no use out of my Nexus 7 other than to read digital books.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 07:23
|
|
|
Soonmot posted:Well, Nova is poo poo and Young Avengers, while great, is a love it or hate it kind of book. Now, if he hates Hawkguy then there's no hope. Nova is good, you just clearly dislike fun and/or whimsy.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 08:26
|
|
|
Nope, that single issue hit a different annoying teen hero trope on every page. It's fair to say that I'm still annoyed that Dick Ryder is in limbo with this new kid flying about and the Nova Corps no where to be found, but I gave it an honest shot based on the FP thread and goon acclaim. It's probably not as bad as the Loeb issues (I didn't even give those a shot), but it is still not good.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 08:47
|
|
|
Soonmot posted:Nope, that single issue hit a different annoying teen hero trope on every page. It's fair to say that I'm still annoyed that Dick Ryder is in limbo with this new kid flying about and the Nova Corps no where to be found, but I gave it an honest shot based on the FP thread and goon acclaim. If Richard is not around then there is no Nova Corps. He took it all with him, except for Sam's dads.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 09:19
|
|
|
I sure am glad we still call the previous Nova "Dick Ryder", that joke is never going to get old!
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 09:22
|
|
|
Soonmot posted:Nope, that single issue hit a different annoying teen hero trope on every page. It's fair to say that I'm still annoyed that Dick Ryder is in limbo with this new kid flying about and the Nova Corps no where to be found, but I gave it an honest shot based on the FP thread and goon acclaim. The Loeb issues were actually really good too and a fun kid in space story without the usual over reliance on "shocking" reveals.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 09:34
|
|
|
bobkatt013 posted:If Richard is not around then there is no Nova Corps. He took it all with him, except for Sam's dads. The black Novas run seperate from the Corps. Sam has found at least two of their helmets so far, one killed by Proxima Midnight's daughter and the other by space spiders, and absorbed some sort of energy from them. Really fun book. I hope it's catching on with the younger readers.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 09:43
|
|
|
Sundowner posted:One thing I like about Hawkeye is that it reads really well digitally because there isn't a tremendous amount of detail hidden away on my smaller Nexus 7 screen. Any other books that work well digitally worth picking up? I've been thinking of reading Saga and The Manhattan Projects digitally as well. I love physical books but I literally get no use out of my Nexus 7 other than to read digital books. How about the stuff built for tablets like Batman 66?
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 09:58
|
|
|
Have I harped all over about how much I love Private Eye because it's made to be read on a big fatty computer monitor? NOTHING, not even a single webcomic, has made me feel quite so good about a 27" monitor.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 10:02
|
|
|
Dan Didio posted:What was it, the Other?
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 10:31
|
|
irlZaphod posted:No, it was an Avengers: Disassembled tie-in in Spectacular Spider-Man. It was remarkably similar to The Other though, it involved an insect-y villain called The Queen who incapacitates Peter, he ends up in a cocoon and when he emerges he has some new powers. Captain America showed up for 5 minutes too. Reminder that this, of all things, is something Slott chose to revisit as the focus of his Spider-Island event.
|
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 10:33
|
|
|
Teenage Fansub posted:How about the stuff built for tablets like Batman 66? Ehhhh I tried the free issue and didn't like it. I don't like the interactive/automated stuff. Also unrelated but I just now found out that there are a few books between Batman Vol 3 and Zero Year. Have those issues been collected elsewhere or will they be? I'm trying to catch up on Batman as best I can so my current stack (all Zero Year stuff) doesn't sit for ages unread.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 10:36
|
|
|
Lurdiak posted:Reminder that this, of all things, is something Slott chose to revisit as the focus of his Spider-Island event. Spider Island had a lot of dumb poo poo but I can't totally hate it for removing all the Other and chosen spider nonsense from Peter and transferring it over to Kaine.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 10:39
|
|
|
Waterhaul posted:Spider Island had a lot of dumb poo poo but I can't totally hate it for removing all the Other and chosen spider nonsense from Peter and transferring it over to Kaine.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 10:46
|
|
|
irlZaphod posted:Did he seriously? Honestly, one thing which started putting me off Slott was when he became the Marvel Continuity Cop. The organic shooters were literally never mentioned, and while I enjoyed the JMS Spider-Totem stuff, it also could have gone entirely unmentioned by other writers. It was part continuity cop and part bringing Kaine to a point where he could spin off to his own series. It boiled down to the Other being a prophecy/magic/whatever that totem stuff was of Peter Parker accepting to be a more violent, spider being that would kill when needs be. Peter would never be that but Kaine would.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 11:05
|
|
|
Sundowner posted:Ehhhh I tried the free issue and didn't like it. I don't like the interactive/automated stuff. I dunno what they're planning to do with 18-20. I'm guessing they won't be in a trade by themselves, or in the Zero Year collection, cause they're pretty irrelevant to that. Maybe there'll be a Damian fallout trade that 18'll slot into. No idea. #18 is about Harper Row trying out being a hero while Batman is on a crime busting rampage in the wake of what happened to Robin in Batman Incorporated. Robin is barely in Snyder's Batman and you won't even see the event spurring his rage, so if you haven't been reading Grant Morrison's books you can safely skip it, though you might be interested in Harper by then. #19-20 is a pretty inconsequential Clayface story. They aren't bad, but you could certainly just jump to 21. edit: Yeah. They're skipping them for the next trade. http://www.amazon.com/Batman-Vol-Zero-Year-Secret-City/dp/1401245080 ee: That #19 cover, though.  
Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Jan 7, 2014 |
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 11:43
|
|
|
Waterhaul posted:The Loeb issues were actually really good too and a fun kid in space story without the usual over reliance on "shocking" reveals. I found it very cookie-cutter, there were amusing moments but essentially any high school scene was  .Spider-Island was probably the last crossover I really enjoyed, it was just a fun premise and was structured really well with some really good side series. (ompare with AvX, which is a fun premise structured terribly, or Infinity, which is structured really well but wasn't at all fun.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 15:41
|
|
|
Teenage Fansub posted:I dunno what they're planning to do with 18-20. I'm guessing they won't be in a trade by themselves, or in the Zero Year collection, cause they're pretty irrelevant to that. Thanks. I'll probably just read them digitally and then pick up back issues if I ever see them. So there are some things in Morrison's New 52 version of Batman Inc. that relate? I do plan on reading those books. This is something that's still weird to me with comic books, Snyder's Batman run is taking continuity bits from Batman Inc. and yet the two books are so wildly different in scope and tone it just seems weird to make believe that they're the same Batman or that those events are somewhat concurrent. I know I shouldn't be questioning continuity in comics because that's just the way it is but it's still an odd concept to me at times like this.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 21:19
|
|
|
Sundowner posted:Thanks. I'll probably just read them digitally and then pick up back issues if I ever see them. So there are some things in Morrison's New 52 version of Batman Inc. that relate? I do plan on reading those books.
|
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 22:53
|
|
|
Sundowner posted:So there are some things in Morrison's New 52 version of Batman Inc. that relate? I do plan on reading those books. Only the fact that Robin died. Tomasi's Batman and Robin is way more tied to the event since it's focus is on their relationship. The books are more or less just opportunities for a bunch of creative teams to tell their Batman stories and are rarely beholden to each other beyond big status quo shifts. Whereas Death of The Family had related side issues involving Joker you could ignore, most other comic groups will require you to go from book to book in an event, so I appreciate the separateness of the titles (especially since they're not all great.) Morrison's Batman should really be read as a whole from his Batman run, Batman and Robin, Return of Bruce Wayne and both volumes of Batman Incorporated. It's a fuckin' lot, but boy, it's good. Again, it barely relates to Snyder's work, so if you're gonna, don't feel like you need to tackle it right away. Maybe there'll be a big ol' omnibus this year. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Jan 7, 2014 |
|
#
?
Jan 7, 2014 23:25
|
|
|
irlZaphod posted:No, it was an Avengers: Disassembled tie-in in Spectacular Spider-Man. It was remarkably similar to The Other though, it involved an insect-y villain called The Queen who incapacitates Peter, he ends up in a cocoon and when he emerges he has some new powers. Captain America showed up for 5 minutes too. Whoa whoa whoa. You're omitting an awful lot of details of why this was dumb, and I've only read a synopsis from a cracked article some time back. The Queen was a half lady half spider, and she turned Spidey into a real embiggened spider, solely so she could get her freak on with it. About a minute after Spider-Spider comes out of the cocoon he dies. The Queen's all upset and then just leaves. Then Peter Parker, completely naked, rips out of the spider body (Does this count as another time he's been killed?) and notices he has organic shooters on his wrists. "Huh, that's new."  then wanders off. The end.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 03:09
|
|
|
You forgot the part where he talks to some spiders.
|
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 03:22
|
|
|
Whatever happened to the old guy with spider-powers who didn't wear shoes? What was his deal?
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 03:25
|
|
Mimir posted:Whatever happened to the old guy with spider-powers who didn't wear shoes? What was his deal? Long story short, he found out about the predestined spider-powers in his youth and did some mystical malarky that gave him the same powers, and he created a huge empire of money and power with it. Turns out him contacting Peter was part of the price of his malarky: the only way for him to live was to sacrifice the proper chosen one to the spider-spirit that was furious about him usurping those powers. At the last minute he had a mindmeld with Peter that let him see that he was being a shitfuck and sacrificed himself to set things right.
|
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 03:28
|
|
|
Did someone in the bullpen lose a bet to make Spidey's powers more convoluted than the Clone Saga at the time? Sweet mother of suck.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 05:51
|
|
|
Ezekiel (was that actually his name? Jeez that's lame) had a weird role in adding bullshit to the Spider-man mythos but I really, really liked having a wizened mentor with the same powers as Peter. I remember him being likeable and fun when he was mysterious but completely forgot the end of his arc until just now and.... Eh.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 06:51
|
|
|
Choco1980 posted:Whoa whoa whoa. You're omitting an awful lot of details of why this was dumb, and I've only read a synopsis from a cracked article some time back. I didn't mind the Ezekiel/Morlun storyline, it was quiet good really. It just got bad when it was revisited with The Other.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 11:01
|
|
|
So I don't poo poo up the shipping thread with this joke:d00gZ posted:It looks like [Hawkeye] 16 is hitting before 15. Trust me, I'm as confused as you are. Well, they've gotta have SOME kind of fuckup now that their scheduling dead zone has gone and finally been passed.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 12:56
|
|
|
One more step to Fraction or Aja coming off the book  Also first proper comic book day of the year and not only that but it's also the day of a new volume of Prison Pit Johnny Ryan but out a very typically Johhny Ryan preview video where he just flicks through the entire book if you want to see what happens in it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVOK38gat68
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 19:15
|
|
|
Waterhaul posted:One more step to Fraction or Aja coming off the book Why would you want Fraction or Aja off of what is both their career best work and one of only like two or three worthwhile superhero comics being published?
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 19:44
|
|
|
I never said I wanted it to happen but it's obviously the way it's going to happen with Marvel's shipping schedule.
|
|
#
?
Jan 8, 2014 19:49
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 1, 2024 11:52 |
|
|
How is/was John Layman's run on Detective Comics? I'm a huge Chew fan so I was pretty interested when I heard he'd be taking over that book, but then I never heard anything else about it.
|
|
#
?
Jan 9, 2014 01:21
|
|