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bobkatt013 posted:Holy poo poo Vision is killing it once again. This issue is amazing and heartbreaking at the same time. The last page.... I thought so too--that might be the best single issue of a comic I've read in a long, long time
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Waffles Inc. posted:I thought so too--that might be the best single issue of a comic I've read in a long, long time It also teaches the danger of too much Shakespeare
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Vision was loving unreal in its quality. Tom King is incredible Al Ewing needs to be writing New Avengers forever (and if you read CWII 1 and wanted more context for what happened in the Celestial fight, read the most recent issue). He's just killing it every issue on NA. After a rocky first issue (with a pretty surprising twist ending that everyone knew how it was going to be resolved), Thunderbolts has really found its footing in its second issue. I'm really digging CWII Spider-Man so far. It addresses a bunch of the hypothetical applications of Ulysses that everyone here was bandying about when he was first introduced, so if you want the more philosophical questions of "man who can predict the future with perfect accuracy" addressed pick that up. Howard the Duck was surprisingly melancholy while still being very effective. Not used to that mode, but it works - and the Lea Thompson reveal is pretty interesting. All in all a pretty great Marvel week.
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Wow, Victor Mancha was actually pretty interesting for once.Trast posted:Cyclops turning into a totalitarian rear end in a top hat is a natural evolution of a normal rear end in a top hat given super powers. Wasn't there someone who said "really? Mr Stick up the rear end became a power hungry rear end in a top hat?" in one of the post AvsX issues?
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Nothing about Cyclops is power hungry, even with the most uncharitable interpretation.
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I don't think they were consistently drawing parallels between him and Magneto for no reason. He went from a superhero team leader to head of an independent nation-state to the field commander of something he persisted in calling the "Extinction Team" within a relatively short time, and kept making bolder and more worrying moves in the pursuit of mutant freedom.
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http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/06/08/civil-war-ii-3-and-marvel-now-previews-to-ge-a-midnight-release-on-tuesday-july-12th/ A midnight opening for Civil War #3 and Marvel NOW! Previews. #2 better have a hell of a cliffhanger, I guess?
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Wanderer posted:I don't think they were consistently drawing parallels between him and Magneto for no reason. He went from a superhero team leader to head of an independent nation-state to the field commander of something he persisted in calling the "Extinction Team" within a relatively short time, and kept making bolder and more worrying moves in the pursuit of mutant freedom. That was on purpose yeah but everything he did was completely sincere towards those goals.
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Even on AvX Cyclops was 100% right.
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Man, Vision is extremely my poo poo.
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So Bendis just Bendis'd up Angela in this terrible Guardians book. I mean, yay for having Angela & Gamora: Murder Pals back but everything else was just ugh.
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I was wondering how they'd end up writing out the Black Vortex power up but 'it wears off after a while' is basically the most boring way to do it, especially after you've just time-skipped forward. ![]()
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But what about the consequences of Black Vortex?! Oh they wore off too. Oh well.
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Doesn't Angel still have his? Also, wasn't the person originally powered by the thing affected for several millenia?
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Soonmot posted:So Bendis just Bendis'd up Angela in this terrible Guardians book. I mean, yay for having Angela & Gamora: Murder Pals back but everything else was just ugh. I thought about it, considered it, and having Murder Pals back is worth it
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howe_sam posted:I thought about it, considered it, and having Murder Pals back is worth it I liked Angela & Sera: Domestic Bliss With Swords and Magic better.
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They should have a Angela, Sera, Magick and Leah team up book. ![]()
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Angela's first solo run was fine it when was dealing with the Heven stuff, but the Secret Wars and recent ones I dropped quick because I didn't care for them. I think I've liked the character most in Guardians so I'm glad she's back there.
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wombat74 posted:This whole thing just pisses me off so I read last week's Squirrel Girl. All I know is, if Carol had called her War Machine would still be alive.
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SynthOrange posted:They should have a Angela, Sera, Magick and Leah team up book. I'd read the gently caress out of that. So if Viv's mind is based on Wanda's, where do the kids minds come from? Did Vision mix the two or something? And god drat Bendis, why couldn't DC of lured him away and given him Batman to ruin rather than Tom King? twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Jun 9, 2016 |
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Yeah, in issue #1 it's explained that they're a mix and immature.
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SynthOrange posted:Yeah, in issue #1 it's explained that they're a mix and immature. I'll need to go back and re read #1 because I missed that. Oh speaking of "how things work in the marvel universe" I recently read that movie Iron Man's repulsors are compressed air, but in the comics, they seem to be more beams. I'm sure this fits somewhere around "How Cyclops's eyes work" in explanations.
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Iron Man's repulsors are actually transistor powered magnet blasts.
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SynthOrange posted:Vision's going to end in tears. No, it's going to end in the world being razed. God it's like you don't even read the book ![]()
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The part of the letters page where King acknowledged that, yeah, he tends to end issues on a downer was pretty funny.
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Toxxupation posted:Vision was loving unreal in its quality. Tom King is incredible I really liked the Spider-man tie in because, like you say it does nicely answer questions about Uyleses. Like if he's telling you "big space monsters are going to eat New York" that's a fine tip off to work on. When he's saying "this super villain that you have given a second chance to is going to betray you" it becomes very dicey. Now I suspect Spidey is going to be paranoid of the guy and his mistrust will make it a self fulfilling prophecy. As for Thunderbolts I was really turned off by this issue. Like I am a huge fan of the OG Thunderbolts. I thought that I would love this series. But this issue was nothing more than the Bolt's straight up graphically murdering Inhumans while cracking jokes. It was like some issue out of the Extreme 90's. It was such a bizarre direction to take the story.
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SynthOrange posted:Vision's going to end in tears. It's going to end with the family reading Shakespeare
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I'm still salty that the Cyclops solo book ended in a loving crossover. Thanks for reminding me of that, jerks.
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Where the narration boxes always red in Vision? I've got a weird theory that we've had a narrator change since the reveal of the original, which would cast doubt on the current foreshadowing.
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glitchwraith posted:Where the narration boxes always red in Vision? I've got a weird theory that we've had a narrator change since the reveal of the original, which would cast doubt on the current foreshadowing. The narrater is whoever is tripping balls
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glitchwraith posted:Where the narration boxes always red in Vision? I've got a weird theory that we've had a narrator change since the reveal of the original, which would cast doubt on the current foreshadowing. One issue had the old man neighbor narrating, I believe.
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bobkatt013 posted:It's going to end with the family reading Shakespeare The Aristocrats!
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SynthOrange posted:Iron Man's repulsors are actually transistor powered magnet blasts. That's such perfect Stan Lee science nonsense. Of course Sunspot would make sure his phone ring on other peoples phones would play the Magnum PI theme.
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Pretty much everything Iron Man related back when the comic started was "transistors." Transistor this and transistor that. Transistor rollerskates which also charge up his batteries.
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They were the nanobots of the 60s
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Dacap posted:They were the nanobots of the 60s Otacon Emmerich posted:Nanomachines
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twistedmentat posted:Of course Rockslide would make sure his phone ring on other peoples phones would play the Magnum PI theme.
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There's no way Rockslide knows what Magnum PI is.
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