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I know this isn't what you're taking issue with, but every time there's a "hope you survive the experience," I cringe so hard.
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ElNarez posted:And speaking of the strange whims of one Brian Michael Bendis, this is the cover to All-New X-Men #32 Is this around the same time as that Spider-Man event later in the year? If so then that's probably the explanation.
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May 24, 2014 01:12
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MY ABACUS! posted:I know this isn't what you're taking issue with, but every time there's a "hope you survive the experience," I cringe so hard.
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May 24, 2014 01:12
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Cabbit posted:Isn't Bendis at his best writing Ultimate Spidey? Maybe this is the secret ingredient that will rocket his X-Men run to new heights! I've been dieing for a All New X-Men/ Ultimate Spider-Man team up since All New was announced. This may be peak Bendis.
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May 24, 2014 01:18
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Spiderdrake posted:Actually, while I'm excited for Miles, I cringed hard at that too. Bendis is phoning this poo poo in so hard it is unbelievable. Look! A reference to a classic story! Wow! So original! It's a homage to a classic cover. It is nothing new and people do it all the time.
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May 24, 2014 05:51
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Cabbit posted:Isn't Bendis at his best writing Ultimate Spidey? Maybe this is the secret ingredient that will rocket his X-Men run to new heights! Ah, so that's what's causing all of those incursions, it's Bendis.
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May 24, 2014 09:27
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bobkatt013 posted:It's a homage to a classic cover. It is nothing new and people do it all the time. Nope sorry! It's that lovely Bendis! He's so lovely that reusing a common X-Men phrase is just another example of him making GBS threads it up. Just like Battle of the Atom was all his lovely doing even though Jason Aaron and Nick Lowe were making decisions.
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May 24, 2014 14:38
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bobkatt013 posted:It's a homage to a classic cover. It is nothing new and people do it all the time. Its still really dumb, I don't know why other people doing it makes it any less dumb.
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May 24, 2014 14:42
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CharlestheHammer posted:Its still really dumb, I don't know why other people doing it makes it any less dumb. It's not just comics, artist homage other artists all the time.
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May 24, 2014 20:37
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Codependent Poster posted:Nope sorry! It's that lovely Bendis! He's so lovely that reusing a common X-Men phrase is just another example of him making GBS threads it up. Just like Battle of the Atom was all his lovely doing even though Jason Aaron and Nick Lowe were making decisions. *Bendis brings back the dumb future X-Men people and makes it worse even after Aaron has left the X books". "Aarrrrrrrrrrrrron  "
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May 24, 2014 21:17
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bobkatt013 posted:It's not just comics, artist homage other artists all the time. I bet that's how Greg Land justifies his tracing. I'm sorry, his homaging.
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May 25, 2014 03:10
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The problem isn't the catchphrase, the problem is that the X-Men aren't all creepy and freaky looking like they should be.   Case in point.
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May 25, 2014 03:15
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That cover is seriously up there with some of the Silver Age Superman covers.  Do the X-Men beat up new recruits as an initiation rite like a loving street gang or something?
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May 25, 2014 04:12
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Racist senators stick that cover all over schools and billboards so the citizens of the MU are in a state of perpetual fear to mutants.
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May 25, 2014 05:38
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I forget what the deal totally was, but I think it was all in Havok's head or something due to a Psylocke mindscrew. Still one of my favorite covers ever.
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May 25, 2014 05:44
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Man so much of Longshot got co-opted by Gambit.
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May 25, 2014 07:24
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It's actually a fairly story-relevant cover. The story involves Havok having nightmares about the X-Men attacking him, so he goes to New York to find out why. He finds the mansion deserted, but is able to track down the X-Men by following Magneto to the Morlock tunnels. They reveal that he had been there already, but that Psylocke had mind-wiped him so that he couldn't remember (at the time, the team were trying to stay hidden from the Marauders, and were trying to protect their friends and families by not letting them know where they were). In the end, he decides to join the team to help them. The cover in question though is a direct homage to this one 
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Since the Age of Apocalypse is on sale right now at Comixology for a dollar per issue, I am wondering which issues are worth grabbing from it. So far it looking like Alpha & Omega along with Astonishing X-Men are the main parts of it, but any of the side stuff like X-Calibur, Gambit, X-Man, etc are worth grabbing?
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May 26, 2014 19:52
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Rirse posted:Since the Age of Apocalypse is on sale right now at Comixology for a dollar per issue, I am wondering which issues are worth grabbing from it. So far it looking like Alpha & Omega along with Astonishing X-Men are the main parts of it, but any of the side stuff like X-Calibur, Gambit, X-Man, etc are worth grabbing? It all tells one big story, plots from each book carry into the finale. I'd recommend getting everything except the Chronicles issues.
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May 26, 2014 19:58
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My memory is very hazy of AoA, but I have every issue, and don't really remember much being bad. Don't really remember much being great either. Amazing X-Men and Generation neXt kind of stand out as the better ones.
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Die Laughing posted:My memory is very hazy of AoA, but I have every issue, and don't really remember much being bad. Don't really remember much being great either. Amazing X-Men and Generation neXt kind of stand out as the better ones. Astonishing X-Men has the art by Joe Maduria, back when he was really good. I'd definitely recommend that alongside Alpha and Omega. X-Universe has the fantastic take on Donald Blake which has to be in the Badass moments thread. I loved Generation neXt, Weapon X, X-Man, X-Calibre and the two X-Men series. Edit: Looking at the AoA bundle on Comixology it also includes the Blink Mini series (bit of a odd choice) Some one-shots that were produced years after the series was over,and the AoA series set years later that involves the Phoenix, X-23 and Lady Deathstrike.
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May 26, 2014 21:13
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Speaking of Blink, what is 616-Blink or AOA/Exiles-Blink up to these days? It would make sense to stick one of them in a book since she's a character in the new movie.
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May 27, 2014 03:02
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MY ABACUS! posted:Speaking of Blink, what is 616-Blink or AOA/Exiles-Blink up to these days? It would make sense to stick one of them in a book since she's a character in the new movie.
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May 27, 2014 10:02
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Isn't AoA/Exiles Blink still an Exile? I liked the last series, but it had a rather sudden and open ended finale, where the characters just kept going right?
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May 27, 2014 19:11
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radlum posted:Isn't AoA/Exiles Blink still an Exile? I liked the last series, but it had a rather sudden and open ended finale, where the characters just kept going right? Yes she is still hopping dimension to dimension.
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May 27, 2014 19:14
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IMO bringing back 616 Blink was a pretty clear sign that the Exiles brand and everything associated with it is so poisoned that it's going to be a long time before we ever see the "real" Blink (which is kind of funny to think that an alternate version is basically THE version) again.
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May 27, 2014 19:29
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bobkatt013 posted:Yes she is still hopping dimension to dimension. The same fate which befell Scott Bakula and the cast of Sliders.
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May 27, 2014 20:04
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Metal Loaf posted:The same fate which befell Scott Bakula and the cast of Sliders. At least she escaped being written by Chris Claremont.
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May 27, 2014 20:14
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There should be a standard rule that no Marvel comic ever should feature a character in tentacles. The connotations are just cringeworthy.
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I've always thought that Nightcrawler was pretty cool. What are considered the essential/best nightcrawler-centric comics I should start with?
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I'd put a vote in for the original Excalibur. Kurt ends up becoming the de facto leader and he has a bunch of character development throughout the series.
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May 29, 2014 17:08
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Avian Pneumonia posted:I've always thought that Nightcrawler was pretty cool. What are considered the essential/best nightcrawler-centric comics I should start with? The Draco
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Shockeh posted:There should be a standard rule that no Marvel comic ever should feature a character in tentacles. The connotations are just cringeworthy. I think we've all wondered about May and Otto's potential wedding night.
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May 29, 2014 17:14
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bobkatt013 posted:The Draco You're a monster.
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Saoshyant posted:I'd put a vote in for the original Excalibur. Kurt ends up becoming the de facto leader and he has a bunch of character development throughout the series. It's where the swashbuckler component of his chracter is either introduced or at least developed a lot. He also became Errol Flynn: 
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May 29, 2014 17:44
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Metal Loaf posted:It's where the swashbuckler component of his chracter is either introduced or at least developed a lot. That also happened in Uncanny X-men 94-mutant massacre. He was a huge swashbuckler and he used to use his image inducer to look like Errol Flynn.
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May 29, 2014 17:48
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bobkatt013 posted:That also happened in Uncanny X-men 94-mutant massacre. He was a huge swashbuckler and he used to use his image inducer to look like Errol Flynn. Right. I've only read from 94 through to the end of the second omnibus and I haven't read "Mutant Massacre" in a while, so I couldn't remmeber where or when it started being a big part of his character. Shockeh posted:There should be a standard rule that no Marvel comic ever should feature a character in tentacles. The connotations are just cringeworthy. Claremont did that once, in X-Treme X-Men, but it was overshadowed by the villain's henchmen all wearing gimp suits and basically having BDSM as their mutant powers.
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Metal Loaf posted:Right. I've only read from 94 through to the end of the second omnibus and I haven't read "Mutant Massacre" in a while, so I couldn't remmeber where or when it started being a big part of his character. Yeah it was Mutant Massacre that Nightcrawler was injured and helped to set up Excalibur. It was then Fall of the Mutants that was another important element that created that great title.
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For maximum Excalibur Nightcrawler fun start at 42, because that's when Davis came back and started really pushing the "Captain Britain is incompetent, Nightcrawler is actually the brains behind this team" angle that Claremont toyed with but never went all the way.
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bobkatt013 posted:The Draco Who is the blue lass?
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