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Continuing my campaign of stuff I should've read last year, I slammed through all of Alias last night and it was really good. Compared to the JJ show it was cool seeing her actually just work on random cases. Kinda makes me respect JJ even more now, since they managed to get a whole 13 hour season out of what ended up being just a 4 issue arc. One thing I wondered about that I wish I had taken a screen of since I can't remember the issue, it seemed as if in her time as Jewel she may have ran into Thor after he did... something to a woman, which is sketchy af.
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Wheat Loaf posted:As far as important X-Men characters go, I think Moira MacTaggart has been dead for more years than Jean at this point. "Important."
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Banshee's been dead for roundabout a decade by now, unless smacking his corpse with something called a "death seed" has extremely counterintuitive outcomes.
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Squizzle posted:Banshee's been dead for roundabout a decade by now, unless smacking his corpse with something called a "death seed" has extremely counterintuitive outcomes. Didn't he get rezzed with Daken?
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Nevvy Z posted:Didn't he get rezzed with Daken? Yeah, except the next time Daken showed up after he was a horseman of Apocalypse with Banshee he looked completely normal and nobody acknowledged him being a horseman and/or coming back from the dead, then Grim Reaper showed up like immediately after Secret Wars in Vision looking completely normal (only to promptly die immediately again). So he should be? Except it seems like nobody wants to acknowledge the time/reason that he came back so I guess in his next appearance he'll just kinda show up and nobody will question anything.
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So in anticipation of the deluge of requests, other than the current series, Hickman's New Avengers and the Oath, what are the essential Doctor Strange stories?
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Rhyno posted:So in anticipation of the deluge of requests, other than the current series, Hickman's New Avengers and the Oath, what are the essential Doctor Strange stories? Triumph and Torment.
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The original. Strange Tales is on Unlimited (#110's where Doc starts)
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I can't say I've ever been a big fan of Strange outside of stuff like Defenders or other crossover/team stuff. I've read the JMS, Waid, and Vaughn minis but didn't really care for any of them. The new Aaron series is fine so far but nothing great. I've head the Roy Thomas, Englehart, and Rogers Stern stuff from the '70s is good but I've not really looked into it.
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Apr 13, 2016 05:34
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Rhyno posted:So in anticipation of the deluge of requests, other than the current series, Hickman's New Avengers and the Oath, what are the essential Doctor Strange stories? Matt Fraction's Defenders is Strange-centric and very good.
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FoneBone posted:Matt Fraction's Defenders is Strange-centric and very good. Oooh, I'd forgotten that one! Good suggestion!
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I really liked old school trippy Strange from the 70s where you can tell just how much drugs the artists were taking.
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X-O posted:I can't say I've ever been a big fan of Strange outside of stuff like Defenders or other crossover/team stuff. I've read the JMS, Waid, and Vaughn minis but didn't really care for any of them. The new Aaron series is fine so far but nothing great. I've head the Roy Thomas, Englehart, and Rogers Stern stuff from the '70s is good but I've not really looked into it. You should give the Ditko/Lee originals a look, they aren't nearly as word-dense as some other early Marvel comics, the art is top-notch, and it does a pretty good job getting to the cosmic stuff instead of dorking around with local gangsters or whatever. Although Baron Mordo gets old, fast. I have the first two Showcases and will likely buy the omnibus for pretty colors.
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I'd include the old '80s Doctor Strange story where he kills off Dracula and all other vampires, although I don't have issue numbers handy.
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Oh yeah that Ennis book with zombie Vikings killing and raping their way through new york. Don't read that.
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Teenage Fansub posted:The original. Strange Tales is on Unlimited (#110's where Doc starts) To add to this they have started putting up the 70's to 80's run too. Who knows if they will put it all up. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Rhyno posted:So in anticipation of the deluge of requests, other than the current series, Hickman's New Avengers and the Oath, what are the essential Doctor Strange stories? I assume Roger Stern's Doctor Strange must be good because he wrote it around the same time he was writing Spider-Man and Avengers, and those were both very good. I believe Paul Smith drew a lot of it.
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Codependent Poster posted:Triumph and Torment. Word.
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Doctor Strange: Season One is worth a look. The writing feels a little paint by numbers but Emma Rios' art is gorgeous:
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Stern Strange is what got me in, then I checked out the old druggy Dr. Strange of the 70's is great too. Triumph and Torment is pretty good, but I have a hard time recommending it as a "very good book" But really if anyone is looking for comics based on movie suggestions the Aaron Strange is prob your best bet.
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Waid and Rios' mini is pretty drat good, but Rios herself is basically MADE to draw Dr Strange. Lady is awesome at doing dreamscape/otherworldly weird poo poo. The Waid story is more rooted in the status quo at the time, though, and sets up a plot thread that's never paid off. I liked the Strange/Dead Girl mini that Milligan did, as well. And the goofy Defenders mini that I think JMdM and Giffen wrote, but both of those are more comedic. And hell yes, the original Lee/Ditko run is frickin' amazing and batshit.
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Dr Strange was never better than in Gerber's Defenders but that's true for everyone in that book save maybe The Hulk.
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how's the new Aaron/Bachalo series? I'm probably gonna give the first five issues a shot for $10 since it's on sale on comixology right now and those dudes are both generally very good.
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It's not bad, but Aaron's pretty much recycling the first arc in Thor: God of Thunder.
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I'm mostly into Strange for the art. The writing's not bad, it's just not really good enough that I'd pay $4 an issue for it.
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Speaking of Dr. Strange, comixology is having a 50% off sale on the current run. First five issues for about 10 dollars if you put them into your cart and use the promo code "magic" upon checkout. Only lasts until Friday at 11pm EST.
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Gwenpool was a very pleasant surprise, and Mockingbird continues to be awesome.
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twistedmentat posted:Gwenpool was a very pleasant surprise, and Mockingbird continues to be awesome. I thought Gwenpool was pretty good too, might wait and get next month's issue before I decide weather or not to subscribe as the last page was a bit of a sudden change of gear.
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Anime_Otaku posted:I thought Gwenpool was pretty good too, might wait and get next month's issue before I decide weather or not to subscribe as the last page was a bit of a sudden change of gear. Yea, big tonal shift there. I was confused becuase the hacker dude looked way too much like Kamala's friend Bruno. Is it me or did Deadpool get drawn to look like Ryan Renyolds in ANAD Avengers this week?
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SirDan3k posted:Oh yeah that Ennis book with zombie Vikings killing and raping their way through new york. Don't read that.
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I enjoyed Moon Knight. The setup seems pretty conventional for MK but the art is incredible! Is this Smallwood the same artist from the Wood 6-issues last year? because if so how is he so much better than before? Is it just a better script
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Mockingbird was a lot of fun this week. I like that between it and Black Widow Marvel has an action thriller lady spy comic and an action comedy lady spy comic. I also really enjoyed Ben Grimm: Orbital Bombardment in GotG 
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So I just read Fractions' 2011 Defenders. Is it just me, or is it Hickman's Avengers + Secret Wars in twelve issues?
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I saw a random panel with Cap Sam, Bucky and back-to-normal-Cap. How'd that happen?
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A little child believed in him and told him to be Captain America again, and the strength of that child's naïve wish gave him back his Super Soldier juices. Also the child was a cosmic cube, in girl shape—a cosmic kid, if you will.
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Cap sure gets a lot of plot developments from Cosmic Cube wishes.
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We could also call her a "cosmic cub".
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zoux posted:Cap sure gets a lot of plot developments from Cosmic Cube wishes. Both his current partners are there due to cosmic cubes.
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Yeah I dunno about Gwenpool. That literal last-page tone shift sure is, uh...let's say...unexpected?
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