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Xinder posted:Am I an outlier for enjoying Spider-Verse? I've heard mostly negative things about it but I really enjoyed it. It was a really fun bit of fanservice bringing back all the weird old alternate spideys. It wasn't a particularly good story but it was fun and that's what matters to me. I haven't even dipped into it yet. It seems like it could be cool, but I loathe the Morlun character with a passion.
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Red posted:I haven't even dipped into it yet. It seems like it could be cool, but I loathe the Morlun character with a passion. There are some good parts, but they're very much on the periphery of the overall story, mainly the ones really focusing on the alternate Spider-Men interacting, rather then the main plot (which has plot holes large enough to drive a Spider-Mobile through. But yeah, if you hate Morlun Spider-Verse (at least the main plot) is not for you.
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Spider-verse is like Secret Wars in that it's very easy to ignore the dreadful main book and enjoy the wacky side one-shots and limited series. Spider-Punk was one of the coolest things I've read in recent years, even though it was just a few pages long. Lurdiak fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Aug 17, 2016 |
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Lurdiak posted:Spider-verse is like Secret Wars in that it's very easy to ignore the dreadful main book and enjoy the wacky side one-shots and limited series. Yeah, the side stuff was very fun. I read the main plot as a dumb excuse to do all the weird fanservicey fun stuff which is probably why I was able to wring so much enjoyment from it anyway. Because the main book was pretty awful from a narrative perspective, and I won't defend that.
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Aug 17, 2016 20:19
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Morlun is just so awful, the main storyline is crap as everyone has said. I wish they had used something like the multiverse of Electros in Web-Warriors or anything else more fun and clever than Morlun.
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Tato posted:Morlun is just so awful, the main storyline is crap as everyone has said. I wish they had used something like the multiverse of Electros in Web-Warriors or anything else more fun and clever than Morlun. Fun and clever isn't what Dan Slott does.
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Aug 18, 2016 21:18
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One thing I used to like about Spider-Man was his concept not being diluted by so many other derivative characters or a "Spider-Family". So many Super people, Flashes, Green Lanterns, etc. Now it seems like every character has their own imitators or legacy characters. So even if Slott was incredible I'm not looking forward to that storyline as I power through Amazing on Marvel Unlimited.
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Aug 19, 2016 00:56
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Lobok posted:One thing I used to like about Spider-Man was his concept not being diluted by so many other derivative characters or a "Spider-Family". So many Super people, Flashes, Green Lanterns, etc. Now it seems like every character has their own imitators or legacy characters. Not sure if you are referencing Silk and Spider-woman but... both are pretty quality books though, better than what I've read of Amazing. Spidey is pretty fun also.
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Aug 19, 2016 04:23
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Lobok posted:One thing I used to like about Spider-Man was his concept not being diluted by so many other derivative characters or a "Spider-Family". So many Super people, Flashes, Green Lanterns, etc. Now it seems like every character has their own imitators or legacy characters. I used to feel that way, but Spider-Man is such a fluid concept that you can make so many variations of the character without losing what we love about the original. The Spider-Verse tie ins do a great job of showing it. The main Spider Verse story was just the bone that all the meat was attached to.
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Aug 19, 2016 04:50
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Lobok posted:One thing I used to like about Spider-Man was his concept not being diluted by so many other derivative characters or a "Spider-Family". So many Super people, Flashes, Green Lanterns, etc. Now it seems like every character has their own imitators or legacy characters. It's not really Slott's fault there. We've been bombarded with Spider-Families since Venom and the Clone Saga.
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Aug 19, 2016 04:57
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Yost's movie projects are all wrapping up, right? think we got a chance to complete the Spider-Family and get some Scarlet Spider action once the Clone Re-Saga ends?
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Yost's movie projects are all wrapping up, right? think we got a chance to complete the Spider-Family and get some Scarlet Spider action once the Clone Re-Saga ends? I wish but probably not, it just didn't sell well enough.  I really just want some sort of resolution to Aracely, even if it's just Nova going "oh, hey, I just got off the phone with my friends the New Warriors who all retired to a farm in Iowa to plant tomatoes." It's depressing having the last time you see the character being wrecked by Morlun and then Kaine never even acknowledges it.
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Lurdiak posted:Fun and clever isn't what Dan Slott does. Hey there was that panel of Miles and the cartoon Spider-Men driving up the side of a building in a talking Spider-Mobile along with a Spider-cowboy on a Spider-Horse (complete with mask). But then again, they immediately cut back to the 'real' story. But in all seriousness, Spider-Man/Human Torch was amazing, and it breaks my heart that the guy who wrote that has fallen so far. ImpAtom posted:I wish but probably not, it just didn't sell well enough.
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Aug 19, 2016 09:59
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ImpAtom posted:It's not really Slott's fault there. We've been bombarded with Spider-Families since Venom and the Clone Saga. Not really assigning blame. Just worried about the quality of the storylines with this particular author now that it's happened again. I've heard some of the characters in their own books are quite good (and I even liked the most recent Kaine Scarlet Spider books) but it's always going to bug me a bit that Spider-Man is just not nearly as unique anymore. The Spider-Family proliferated over the last few years. Anyway, that's just me being a(n old?) crank.
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Aug 19, 2016 12:36
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Lurdiak posted:Fun and clever isn't what Dan Slott does. It's odd, because I loved his She-Hulk stuff. It's the same guy!
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Aug 19, 2016 13:54
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Spider-verse was a really great ride and all the different Spiders playing off each other was fantastic. I even liked the Uncle Ben spider, as ham-fisted and telegraphed as it was. Usually an alternate universe version of a hero is evil or fairly detached from the original. All these spiders, unique and special, were still, at their core, cut from the same cloth (great power/etc). The problem, like others said, was the antagonist. I might have been fine if it was just Morlun but his whole drat family was draining.
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ImpAtom posted:I wish but probably not, it just didn't sell well enough. I mean, it ran for two years unlike most comics that end in a year or even just half a year, they're bringing back ANGR (though that's probably just because agents of shield) it's not a total financial error to bring Kaine back for a solo run to finally get Aracely's story, right?
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Yvonmukluk posted:But in all seriousness, Spider-Man/Human Torch was amazing, and it breaks my heart that the guy who wrote that has fallen so far. I don't consider pre-2007 Dan Slott to be the same person as current Dan Slott. Red posted:It's odd, because I loved his She-Hulk stuff. It's the same guy! Is it? 
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Lurdiak posted:I don't consider pre-2007 Dan Slott to be the same person as current Dan Slott.
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Lobok posted:Not really assigning blame. Just worried about the quality of the storylines with this particular author now that it's happened again. I've heard some of the characters in their own books are quite good (and I even liked the most recent Kaine Scarlet Spider books) but it's always going to bug me a bit that Spider-Man is just not nearly as unique anymore. The Spider-Family proliferated over the last few years. Lobok, even back on pnmb you were a crank! Just always so negative! The spider-family is awesome.
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Aug 20, 2016 16:54
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I do actually have fun reading comics, I swear it!
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Lobok posted:I do actually have fun reading comics, I swear it! Then you're clearly doing it wrong.
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Speaking of having fun reading comics, I forgot how good Waid's Daredevil run was. I picked up the monthlies way back when it started but got out of comics for a while. Thanks to MU I'm catching up on it and every issue seems better than the last, especially when my boy Marcos Martin is drawing. I *loved* that dude on Amazing. I wish Marvel Unlimited had more Cage comics to read with his series coming out only next month. Looks like it's mostly just his time as an Avenger. Thought for sure they would have the classic Heroes for Hire available.
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Lobok posted:Speaking of having fun reading comics, I forgot how good Waid's Daredevil run was. I picked up the monthlies way back when it started but got out of comics for a while. Thanks to MU I'm catching up on it and every issue seems better than the last, especially when my boy Marcos Martin is drawing. I *loved* that dude on Amazing. They recently added some 90's Heroes for Hire series that he's in, no idea if it's any good. I bet they'll add more, the "New this week" section always has at least a dozen or so books from the back catalog.
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Lobok posted:Speaking of having fun reading comics, I forgot how good Waid's Daredevil run was. I picked up the monthlies way back when it started but got out of comics for a while. Thanks to MU I'm catching up on it and every issue seems better than the last, especially when my boy Marcos Martin is drawing. I *loved* that dude on Amazing. They have most of Cage's original 70s stuff and all of the 90's cage series.
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Mr Hootington posted:They have most of Cage's original 70s stuff and all of the 90's cage series. What's the 70s stuff under? That's what I'm most interested in but all I can find is #1 of Luke Cage, Hero for Hire. His origin story from '72. His 90s series titled "Cage" I just saw on there for the first time. Has it been on there for a while?That Nightcrawler site that scrapes MU doesn't have that listed yet.
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His book was called Power Man.
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So, I heard there was a RYV ongoing coming soon. Is there anything else featuring that Spiderfamily specifically aside from the RYV miniseries from Secret Wars?
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Pureauthor posted:So, I heard there was a RYV ongoing coming soon. Is there anything else featuring that Spiderfamily specifically aside from the RYV miniseries from Secret Wars? The recent ASM arc hinted that Peter and MJ vaguely remember the events of the mini but that is all.
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Rhyno posted:The recent ASM arc hinted that Peter and MJ vaguely remember the events of the mini but that is all. Which makes no sense, since we know 616 Peter was on the life raft.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Which makes no sense, since we know 616 Peter was on the life raft. Maybe since Peter was hanging out with the cool kid who gave him a pocket cheeseburger Molecule Man threw in a little somethin'-somethin'.
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Why would 616 Peter remember anything that had to do with RYV Peter?
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Well when Doomworld exploded, Richards had to put everyone back together afterwards using whatever bits were left
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Peter has a little bag of sand in his head where his marriage used to be.
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Newspaper Spider-Man is in the middle of a thrilling storyline.    
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Sunday is usually the bigger recap comic, right? Can the Mystery Puncher strike a fourth time? 
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I hate Newspaper Spider-Man's font so god-damned much.
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Its hand lettered you philistine!
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Lobok posted:What's the 70s stuff under? That's what I'm most interested in but all I can find is #1 of Luke Cage, Hero for Hire. His origin story from '72. I think "Cage" was a MAX series, and so won't ever pop up on Unlimited, but I also heard it traded in a lot of uncomfortable stereotypes, so maybe it's best to let it sit in the dustbin of continuity.
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SynthOrange posted:Its hand lettered you philistine! Then that letterer should be fired.
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