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radlum posted:I had no idea Harold was not an original character; I just thought he was an homage to Elliot Gould in The Long Goodbye that Fraction added to Hawkeye. He's definitely that too.
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Aphrodite posted:She turns 21 in the newest Young Avengers run. It's a plot point because the bad guy of the run can control adults. What, did they beat him by raising the age of majority?
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Sep 15, 2014 05:14
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First Bass posted:What, did they beat him by raising the age of majority? She was young at heart (And the villain was a her, at least visually, it was a multi-universal parasite that posed as Hulkling's mother and tried to drag the character back into her metaphorical womb to conquer the universe.)
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Sep 15, 2014 05:26
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First Bass posted:What, did they beat him by raising the age of majority? They had no evidence it would affect her upon her birthday, it was just a fear she had. Then when she mentioned it one of the characters pointed out they were already 21 for months.
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Sep 15, 2014 05:28
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It was one of those intentional anti-climaxes for the sake of comedy things.
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Sep 15, 2014 09:29
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First Bass posted:I picked up all of Soule's She-Hulk and now I love She-Hulk and I'm trying to get my co-workers to read She-Hulk but they can't stand the art. I agree. The art is like that you'd see on some artsy-farty indy comic; you know, the ones with a print run of about 200 copies, and you read them so you can say 'oh I was reading that before everyone else'. For She-Hulk, it just doesn't work.
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Skwirl posted:She was young at heart (And the villain was a her, at least visually, it was a multi-universal parasite that posed as Hulkling's mother and tried to drag the character back into her metaphorical womb to conquer the universe.) "YOU SHUT UP MOM!" the comic, huh? Between this and Iron Man, I think JiM might have been an accident.
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Sep 15, 2014 18:10
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Defiance Industries posted:"YOU SHUT UP MOM!" the comic, huh? Between this and Iron Man, I think JiM might have been an accident. Man, don't knock Young Avengers. It was a great book.
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Sep 15, 2014 18:11
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Defiance Industries posted:"YOU SHUT UP MOM!" the comic, huh? Between this and Iron Man, I think JiM might have been an accident. It's more about growing up and realizing you can't count on your parents for ever. I liked it a lot. It helps that the art was great. 
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Sep 15, 2014 18:18
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Lurdiak posted:Man, don't knock Young Avengers. It was a great book. Were the preview pages of every issue a fake-out? Because they were always intolerable.
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Sep 15, 2014 18:47
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Young Avengers was great. It dealt with guilt in a lot of ways which I thought held a lot of weight in its story.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:25
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Gynovore posted:I agree. The art is like that you'd see on some artsy-farty indy comic; you know, the ones with a print run of about 200 copies, and you read them so you can say 'oh I was reading that before everyone else'. For She-Hulk, it just doesn't work. Are you talking about the fill-in artist Ron Wemberly? I can't fathom that someone could not like Javier Pulido's art. It's a perfect fit and just so incredibly fun! Then again I love John Romita Jr too and that somehow seems to be an unpopular opinion around here.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:37
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Straight Outta CompUSA posted:It's a perfect fit and just so incredibly fun! Then again I love John Romita Jr too and that somehow seems to be an unpopular opinion around here. The worst thing I can say about John Romita Jr is that he is not John Romita Sr.
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Sep 15, 2014 19:38
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The latest run of Young Avengers didn't do anything for me. I didn't like the art, the pairing of Kate + Marvel Boy, the Hulkling/Wiccan stuff, the terrible "evil parent from another dimension" storyline; the only reason I stuck with that book was because Miss America was a lot of fun and I was curious to see where he went with Loki(answer pretty much nowhere). I did like the covers though.
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PaybackJack posted:The latest run of Young Avengers didn't do anything for me. I didn't like the art, the pairing of Kate + Marvel Boy, the Hulkling/Wiccan stuff, the terrible "evil parent from another dimension" storyline; the only reason I stuck with that book was because Miss America was a lot of fun and I was curious to see where he went with Loki(answer pretty much nowhere). I think my biggest disappointment with that run was how quickly Tommy got shelved. I loved the little bits of him and David Alleyne/Prodigy doing superhero day job poo poo. I did really enjoy the art and the stuff with Hulkling and Wiccan, though. The pacing of the actual plot felt really weird and I wish more had been done with Loki, since it felt like the ending of the series came kind of outta nowhere? "Oh, it's all Loki's fault!" only works if you've set up stuff to hint at that. I could just be remembering wrong and there was plenty of set-up but that aspect felt ... weird.
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Defiance Industries posted:"YOU SHUT UP MOM!" the comic, huh? Between this and Iron Man, I think JiM might have been an accident.
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I really didn't like the Mother story and was upset to see the entire run was focused around it. Overall he seemed to be writing it for Tumblr. I don't think writing for a specific audience is bad at all. It just wasn't my cup of tea. Hulkling and Wiccan was another situation where you can totally see what he was doing but it fell flat. He wanted to show that a gay teen couple can have a totally normal relationship (even if they're superheroes, I guess) but if you're not emotionally invested in the characters that's kinda really boring. But I liked his Iron Man (after the boring first "arc"), twists included, so make of my opinions what you will. I also really enjoy WicDiv. So Gillen is still tops as far as I'm concerned. Not a super huge fan of McKelvie, though, for the same reason I don't care much for Allred (and you can't hit me through the internet). They draw good individual panels but I don't like reading a comic composed entirely of them. Does that make sense? It's like an album full of songs that are pretty good but it's tiring to listen to the whole way through.
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Sep 15, 2014 20:05
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Spiderdrake posted:I've generally liked his Iron Man a great deal more than YA, which was "fine" but as a sequel to JiM actually miserable, and it felt like it had a ton of promise then ended without ever using an antagonist that was even vaguely fun or interesting. Did Iron Man pick up after the fuckawful first couple of arcs?
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DigitalRaven posted:Did Iron Man pick up after the fuckawful first couple of arcs?
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Sep 15, 2014 20:41
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Was it Young Avengers where Kate wonders aloud if she is the only straight person on the team?
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Sep 15, 2014 20:47
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bobkatt013 posted:The worst thing I can say about John Romita Jr is that he is not John Romita Sr. Beyond that, yeah, he is not JRSr. is about the worst I can say.
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MH Knights posted:Was it Young Avengers where Kate wonders aloud if she is the only straight person on the team?
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Sep 15, 2014 21:10
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Pfft, Miss America caught Kate checking her out. Also, Scarlet Mom.
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Straight Outta CompUSA posted:Are you talking about the fill-in artist Ron Wemberly? I can't fathom that someone could not like Javier Pulido's art. It's a perfect fit and just so incredibly fun! Then again I love John Romita Jr too and that somehow seems to be an unpopular opinion around here. Pulido's faces in She-Hulk are heinous. Just heinous. Everything else is gorgeous, I feel, but I just can't look at anyone.
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Pulido can't seem to go one panel without drawing She-Hulk's eyes all wonky. I swear I was being trolled when there was the one absurd Double Spread close up of just her eyes...and they were still out of alignment. I love Soule but Pulido's She-Hulk faces are a big turn off and I keep wishing the cover artist would just do the interiors as well. AFoolAndHisMoney fucked around with this message at 05:10 on Sep 16, 2014 |
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AFoolAndHisMoney posted:Pulido can't seem to go one panel without drawing She-Hulk's eyes all wonky. Goddamn I would go into bankruptcy just to get Kevin Wada to do interiors.
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AFoolAndHisMoney posted:Pulido can't seem to go one panel without drawing She-Hulk's eyes all wonky. I actually really liked the double page eye spread and enjoy all the faces! Hellcat in particular has some great expressions. I don't even get the eye thing everyone seems to obsess over, they look completely fine to me. The fill-in guy I thought was just awful though, everything looked so ugly. There was some piece on comics beat or a similar site raving about the fill-in art, so different strokes I guess. I really wish Marvel and DC could go more of an Image route and just do breaks between arcs to let the artist catch up instead of this constant fill-in BS. Honestly Pulido is more of a draw for me than Soule, I absolutely adored his Hawkeye Annual too.
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December solicits are out, and man what is with Ales Kot's constant namedropping: BUCKY BARNES: THE WINTER SOLDIER #3 ALES KOT (W) • MARCO RUDY (A/C) Variant Cover by Christian Ward “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU’RE DONE?” • Winter Soldier meets his match. In fact, he meets two. • Mer’z’bow is a planet of many surprises — amongst them telepathy, romance, and space drugs. • Fast forward two hundred years: what happens when the job is done? The answer will reveal to you the Marvel Universe as YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE! It seriously makes his stuff unreadable. I really wanted this to be good. Hopefully we can still get Marco Rudy on a Dr Strange ongoing closer to the movie.
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Sep 17, 2014 02:24
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So.. Why should I hate this book?
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Straight Outta CompUSA posted:December solicits are out, and man what is with Ales Kot's constant namedropping:  i've literally spent the last five minutes sounding that out every way possible and still nothing redbackground fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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Sep 17, 2014 03:52
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redbackground posted:I...I don't get it I think its a reference to a Japanese musician. Since its a reference its bad and not something that writers have been doing since the beginning of time.
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Sep 17, 2014 03:56
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The only thing I've read by Kot is his recent Secret Avengers and I like it so I'll be tuning in despite this reference to something most people, including myself, will have no clue about.
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bobkatt013 posted:I think its a reference to a Japanese musician. Since its a reference its bad and not something that writers have been doing since the beginning of time. I don't know the author, but it's kinda on the nose when you just name the planet after the band/artist (like, it's not even a subtle reference to a song or something) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGzrL8J0t-c
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Sep 17, 2014 04:15
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They can't all be as clever as Rocket Raccoon.
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The Modern Leper posted:I don't know the author, but it's kinda on the nose when you just name the planet after the band/artist (like, it's not even a subtle reference to a song or something) It's probably because I just started reading JoJo, which includes a bad guy literally named Red Hot Chili Pepper, but I find it cool to name stuff with bands in fiction. The latest issue of Secret Avengers was kinda bad imo, but i'm still liking Kot.
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bobkatt013 posted:I think its a reference to a Japanese musician. Since its a reference its bad and not something that writers have been doing since the beginning of time. It wouldn't be so bad on it's own but with Secret Avengers plot currently featuring French philosopher Jacques Derrida as the main villain, and half the team traipsing through South America to track down a reference to Jorge Luis Borges (Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius keeps showing up and the new issue just had a bunch of goons named after it and they just visited his birthplace for some reason), I really doubt it's gonna be as "subtle" as just naming a planet Merzbow. I was really enjoying Secret Avengers until the weird references became the actual plot and then that unforgivably awful Deadpool issue happened. I fully expect Bucky to have to actually fight Japanese noise musician Merzbow for some dumb reason.
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That sounds a lot like Wild Children, where Kot literally cut and pasted bits of The Wire and The Invisibles into his book to invest it with cultural significance or something. It was pretty dumb.
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Picked up the newest Elektra and didnt know that Mike Del Mundo was no longer doing the art. I havent read it yet, but it still looks cool. Del Mundos art was my favorite thing about the series though, so it makes me sad to see it go. Is he doing any other series regularly right now? Or have older stuff that I can check out? I have looked him up before and it seems like he has mostly done random covers and an issue here and there, but very little steadily. I hope I am wrong though. WinnebagoWarrior fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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