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Skwirl posted:Also, Nick Fury is asking for Strange when they capture the mindless one, when Strange is off in some other dimension, although that could just be Fury playing his cats close to his chest. You know they could actually fit him in this. His company had access to the Mindless One as well. Plus the story already pulling characters who haven't been seen in years as villains.
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# ? May 24, 2014 02:50 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 07:08 |
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Skwirl posted:Wait, I just remembered, doesn't Dirk Anger have a comically oversized gun that would use bullets of whatever caliber those giant green slugs are? Dirk Anger has many comically oversized guns, I'm sure.
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# ? May 24, 2014 03:27 |
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Rirse posted:You know they could actually fit him in this. His company had access to the Mindless One as well. Plus the story already pulling characters who haven't been seen in years as villains. Cabbit posted:Dirk Anger has many comically oversized guns, I'm sure. I posted this in the image request thread already, but I figure I'll say it here, Can I get a Dirk Anger picture avatar sized?
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# ? May 24, 2014 03:58 |
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I just realized something that really bothered me about this story is that Emma has her telepathy back when that's something she's not supposed to have post-AvX. DOPPELGANGER, SKRULL, or just Jason Aaron not bothering to keep up with X-titles? YOU DECIDE. (its the last one but it still just irks me)
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# ? May 24, 2014 04:21 |
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Wouldn't a skrull be a doppelganger?
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# ? May 24, 2014 04:23 |
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TwoPair posted:I just realized something that really bothered me about this story is that Emma has her telepathy back when that's something she's not supposed to have post-AvX. DOPPELGANGER, SKRULL, or just Jason Aaron not bothering to keep up with X-titles? YOU DECIDE. (its the last one but it still just irks me) She never lost her telepathy, just like every other character affected by it they just can't control their powers.
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# ? May 24, 2014 04:34 |
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TwoPair posted:I just realized something that really bothered me about this story is that Emma has her telepathy back when that's something she's not supposed to have post-AvX. DOPPELGANGER, SKRULL, or just Jason Aaron not bothering to keep up with X-titles? YOU DECIDE. (its the last one but it still just irks me) Yes, Jason Aaron has not been keeping up with the X-Titles, especially the "Phoenix Five lost control of their powers" subplot, which started a year before he left two major X-titles and was the main plotter of a crossover directly involving his titles and the title with that character, not to mention being one of the main plotters of the original story which led to her being in this condition.
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# ? May 24, 2014 04:51 |
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Senor Candle posted:She never lost her telepathy, just like every other character affected by it they just can't control their powers. Wasn't her first issue that she couldn't stop reading everybody's mind and couldn't pick a single mind out of the chaos?
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# ? May 24, 2014 04:55 |
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d00gZ posted:Yes, Jason Aaron has not been keeping up with the X-Titles, especially the "Phoenix Five lost control of their powers" subplot, which started a year before he left two major X-titles and was the main plotter of a crossover directly involving his titles and the title with that character, not to mention being one of the main plotters of the original story which led to her being in this condition. Oh yeeahhhh. Egg on my face then.
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# ? May 24, 2014 05:28 |
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SirDan3k posted:Wasn't her first issue that she couldn't stop reading everybody's mind and couldn't pick a single mind out of the chaos? It keeps changing from her not being able to control if she was reading people's thoughts or projecting hers. It is the same thing with Cyclops and Magneto.
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# ? May 24, 2014 15:31 |
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TwoPair posted:I just realized something that really bothered me about this story is that Emma has her telepathy back when that's something she's not supposed to have post-AvX. DOPPELGANGER, SKRULL, or just Jason Aaron not bothering to keep up with X-titles? YOU DECIDE. (its the last one but it still just irks me) Maybe the eye popping released knowledge of how her powers work? That'd be convenient, and it would explain the reawakening of onslaught that the next crossover will use.
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# ? May 24, 2014 20:05 |
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Sithsaber posted:Maybe the eye popping released knowledge of how her powers work? That'd be convenient, and it would explain the reawakening of onslaught that the next crossover will use. Unslaught was reawakened in the first arc of uncanny avengers
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# ? May 24, 2014 20:36 |
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bobkatt013 posted:Unslaught was reawakened in the first arc of uncanny avengers I should have said "further"reawakening of Onslaught.
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# ? May 24, 2014 20:52 |
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Wait, Onslaught is back? Isn't he literally Professor X and Magneto smashed together? How is that even possible?
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# ? May 24, 2014 23:52 |
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OldTennisCourt posted:Wait, Onslaught is back? Isn't he literally Professor X and Magneto smashed together? How is that even possible? I think it's supposed to be the new Red Skull who has a little bit of the ol' Professor in him (possibly bringing out the Onslaught in him).
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# ? May 25, 2014 01:46 |
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RevKrule posted:I think it's supposed to be the new Red Skull who has a little bit of the ol' Professor in him (possibly bringing out the Onslaught in him). Nah, it's pretty straightforward: New Red Skull has Chuck's brain grafted to his. They've always implied that Professor X has bits/all of Onslaught locked away in his head. New Skull doesn't have the control Professor X had, so..Redslaught? Onskull?
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# ? May 25, 2014 02:59 |
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That moment Fury had with his flying car was amazing, and reminded me why I read comic books. Coincidentally, while waiting for the MTG Game Day tournament, I picked up the latest issue of Nova, having never read the title before, and thought it was a really sweet, touching story until I got to the end, and he was referring to his friend on the Moon. My heart crept up into my throat, and then I saw the last panel.
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# ? May 25, 2014 04:04 |
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First Bass posted:That moment Fury had with his flying car was amazing, and reminded me why I read comic books. If you liked that issue, then you really should track down Original Sin #0. The story is pretty much just Nova and the Watcher, but even without being familiar with any of the back story you should be able to understand the dynamics of their relationship pretty well.
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# ? May 25, 2014 16:27 |
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If you liked that issue, pick up the rest of the current Nova series. It's been solid all the way through.
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# ? May 25, 2014 16:44 |
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I'm really enjoying Original Sin so far, I like how drat goofy it is, and it's always great to see some Morrison characters doing stuff. It's hyped and the covers are so serious and it's got Deodato but at the same time it's really silly. I enjoy that blend a lot.
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# ? May 26, 2014 05:24 |
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So my question is we see some dude the Orb is helping a dude who looks like the Thing. We know there's a dude who is dressed in the original Iron Man armor. These are all some kind of reflections of our heroes?
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# ? May 27, 2014 02:30 |
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Gatts posted:So my question is we see some dude the Orb is helping a dude who looks like the Thing. We know there's a dude who is dressed in the original Iron Man armor. These are all some kind of reflections of our heroes? Read Marvel Boy
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# ? May 27, 2014 03:45 |
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Gatts posted:So my question is we see some dude the Orb is helping a dude who looks like the Thing. We know there's a dude who is dressed in the original Iron Man armor. These are all some kind of reflections of our heroes? That's the same person. Dr. Midas.
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# ? May 27, 2014 04:27 |
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Gatts posted:So my question is we see some dude the Orb is helping a dude who looks like the Thing. We know there's a dude who is dressed in the original Iron Man armor. These are all some kind of reflections of our heroes? There Morrison characters so yes. Midas goes from a "golden age" Iron Man to a combination of the Fantastic Four.
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# ? May 27, 2014 08:47 |
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I realized I was confusing people because I was saying Dr Mobius, not Dr Midas. Also, big green bullets are kryptonite made for killing Superman. The killer is Lex Luther.
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# ? May 28, 2014 00:27 |
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So Deadpool just confirmed that the eye exploded and just gave everyone in the area Watcher's memories. Also Avengers are going even further in time.
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# ? May 28, 2014 20:43 |
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And Mighty Avengers tackled the question of "So what happened to the Watcher's wife and unborn child". And the coloring's good enough to make up for the Land art, too!
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# ? May 29, 2014 08:01 |
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KaosMachina posted:And Mighty Avengers tackled the question of "So what happened to the Watcher's wife and unborn child". Land art is fine when he isn't drawing women. Harold Fjord fucked around with this message at 14:51 on May 29, 2014 |
# ? May 29, 2014 14:48 |
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Land's art is consistently terrible and manages to be stale, static and without any redeeming factors besides 'there's lines, I guess' regardless of his subject. That he traces pornstars and other artist's work pretty much the only interesting thing about his current output.
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# ? May 29, 2014 14:54 |
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Thanks for the stock Land speech, but he did alright on this latest issue. The Were Chickens, and the scene on the moon were much better than his usual output.
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# ? May 29, 2014 15:42 |
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Thanks for the stock apologia.
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# ? May 29, 2014 16:33 |
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It is not as bad as when he was on Uncanny X-Men with Fraction; maybe he realizes he is a punchline or maybe it's the coloring, anyway, I enjoyed this issue of Mighty Avengers, the were chickens are amazing.
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# ? May 29, 2014 17:10 |
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Might be that he's using better stock photos for Blue Marvel, and that half the characters in this issue didn't look human.
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# ? May 29, 2014 17:47 |
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Can someone summerize what is happening with the Watcher's family? I'm not going to pick up that issue regardless of Land's art, but I'm curious.
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# ? May 29, 2014 17:48 |
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IUG posted:Can someone summerize what is happening with the Watcher's family? I'm not going to pick up that issue regardless of Land's art, but I'm curious. Blue Marvel is the Watcher's kid's godfather and blasting him with radiation because that's how you become a grown up Watcher. Also Ulana isn't that sad about Uatu's death because Watchers don't experience grief the same way humans do.
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# ? May 29, 2014 18:19 |
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Was the Deadpool tie in any good?
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# ? May 29, 2014 18:57 |
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twistedmentat posted:Was the Deadpool tie in any good? If you like the new Deadpool series, yes. If you're just looking for a tie in to Original Sin, not really because it barely ties in.
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# ? May 29, 2014 19:03 |
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If you like decent art, god no.
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# ? May 29, 2014 19:18 |
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You know what struck me about Original Sin so far, about why it's good? Because the Tie-In makes sense. Like Tie In's to events are a tough thing to balance normally, particularly so when the main story is a mystery. You can't have the Tie In's further the mystery because there's a good chance that one of the writers will just cack-handily spoil the mystery, so normally they just aren't related to the story at all. (See the Identity Crisis tie ins where the Teen Titans decide to track down Lex Luthor's armour.) But OS figured out a way to have organic tie ins by focusing on the overall theme of long buried secrets coming to light. But the reason it's working for me is the secrets all feel like mysteries their books were going to deal with at some point (Cap's mind wipe, what happened to Sam's dad in Nova, where does Angela come from) or they are exploring themes that the books wanted to go with anyway (Tony re-examining his past, Bruce Banner's jealousy/feelings of inadequacy towards Tony, Dr. Bashire friendship with the Watcher,) So far, I'm really enjoying this event and I think the Tie In's are good. Plus I loved the speech that Ulana gave about how Utah was damned for doing too much and for doing too little. (and including Scott Lang was a nice dig too.) Oh one minor thing that I don't think anyone will bring up. In a Quasar story years ago, Watchers all started dropping dead from this mystery disease. It later turned out that the virus wasn't biological, it was a theory based disease. (Essentially the Watchers started realizing that the act of Watching changes an event. So by Watching they were interfering. As a result Watchers entered into a paradox loop and started killing themselves.) Quasar then made the argument that Watchers dying necessitated other beings intervening so that too was interfering. Since the Watchers were damned if they do and damned if they don't, they may as well Watch since there will always be SOME level of interference. At which point one of the dead Watchers stands up and basically says "the human raises a good point." and then the other Watchers just come back to life. Because for Cosmic beings like them, dead is more of a State of Mind then a permanent thing. I can't see the story ending like this, but it would be funny.
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# ? May 29, 2014 21:27 |
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After previously insisting that I didn't give a poo poo about this event, I think I'll need to pick it up because of all the praise it's getting.
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# ? May 29, 2014 22:14 |