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I loved that X-Force series, I feel like it never got much love but the whole story it set up with Cable having to clone himself constantly was great.
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# ? May 26, 2017 09:22 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:35 |
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I enjoyed the first issue of Cable despite it being 100% setup. But him jumping around time collecting weapons that shouldn't belong where they're at should be fun. My favorite Cable run was when he and Hope were traveling through time so I'm ready to see him jumping around again.
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 02:36 |
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I'm on Unlimited time so forgive me if their absence is explained between now and six months ago, but is there a reason Idie and Evan are MIA?
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# ? Jun 1, 2017 13:39 |
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Glad I chose Jean Grey over Generation X. With others on Blue being the better team boook. Was that the first time Hope met Jean? Obviously when Hope first appeared Jean was long dead, but not since the most recent X-force as young Jean was around then. And of Course Illyana's brain is way to hosed up for anyone want to go poking around in, even briefly.
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# ? Jun 2, 2017 02:44 |
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twistedmentat posted:Glad I chose Jean Grey over Generation X. With others on Blue being the better team book. Gen X was the one I was most looking forward to, but yeah, it's been rather mediocre so far. I really dislike the way Quentin is drawn. Also, Jubilee's definitely still a vampire, right? She definitely was like two months ago in Hellcat. But she's spent two issues so far standing around in the sunlight like it's nobody's business.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 00:38 |
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Rochallor posted:Gen X was the one I was most looking forward to, but yeah, it's been rather mediocre so far. I really dislike the way Quentin is drawn. Vampire Jubilee has some widget that protects her from sunlight I believe.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 00:42 |
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Rochallor posted:Gen X was the one I was most looking forward to, but yeah, it's been rather mediocre so far. I really dislike the way Quentin is drawn. She got a magical necklace a few years back that protects her from sunlight. EDIT: And that's what you get for reading multiple threads in different tabs.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 00:47 |
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I'm digging GenX but the Aeon Fluxx art is not working for me.
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# ? Jun 4, 2017 01:05 |
rantmo posted:I'm digging GenX but the Aeon Fluxx art is not working for me. Yeah not a fan of the art and the roll back on the bit of maturity quier picked up in wolverine and the x-men is annoying.
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# ? Jun 5, 2017 01:16 |
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Soonmot posted:the roll back on the bit of maturity quier picked up in wolverine and the x-men is annoying. I was trying to figure out why I wasn't crazy about it - and this pretty much nails it. Quire is passed all this nonsense already - it feels like a retread. Although it was nice seeing Broo again.
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# ? Jun 5, 2017 01:24 |
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That was the old Quire. He's dead now.
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# ? Jun 5, 2017 01:31 |
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I was sort of assuming that Quire is being performative, reestablishing the Quire "brand" for the new regime and all the new people. It's pure head-cannon on my part, but disproportionate pettiness is something I fondly associate with Quentin.
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# ? Jun 5, 2017 17:27 |
no, I get that. But the way he acted in Thor was pretty much perfect. He did the right thing, but he let everyone knew how beneath him it was and how dumb they were to even try it without him.
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# ? Jun 6, 2017 07:14 |
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I will never get the affection people have for that character, he was such a petty sociopathic gently caress up in his first few appearances I've just never been able to see the attraction.
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# ? Jun 6, 2017 07:49 |
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Soonmot posted:no, I get that. But the way he acted in Thor was pretty much perfect. He did the right thing, but he let everyone knew how beneath him it was and how dumb they were to even try it without him. Well Jason Aaron has been writing him for years now. The new writer on this book is basically new to not only these characters but writing in general. I'd say if you're interested in the book then give her an arc or so to find her voice for the characters.
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# ? Jun 6, 2017 07:50 |
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Mulva posted:I will never get the affection people have for that character, he was such a petty sociopathic gently caress up in his first few appearances I've just never been able to see the attraction. He got better.
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# ? Jun 6, 2017 14:22 |
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Mulva posted:I will never get the affection people have for that character, he was such a petty sociopathic gently caress up in his first few appearances I've just never been able to see the attraction. Forgot what thread this was, and thought we were talking about Damian Wayne.
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# ? Jun 6, 2017 16:33 |
Mulva posted:I will never get the affection people have for that character, he was such a petty sociopathic gently caress up in his first few appearances I've just never been able to see the attraction. It helps that I don't like much of Morrison X-Men so I don't really remember it.
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# ? Jun 8, 2017 06:24 |
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I don't think it's his appearances in Morrison's run which people like about the character. I mean, he was hopped up on Kick and completely off the rails. It's his subsequent appearances, particularly Aaron's run on Wolverine and the X-Men.
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# ? Jun 8, 2017 09:35 |
Maybe it's just the fact that I started reading X-men during the weird Australian years, but I loved Quentin for the fact that when he tried to enter the Siege Perilous, it just spat him back out again.
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# ? Jun 8, 2017 09:52 |
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Aarons Quentin is always the definitive for me. That first volume of Wolverine and the X-men is just so fantastic. Its too bad the second really screws the pooch.
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# ? Jun 8, 2017 17:33 |
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twistedmentat posted:Aarons Quentin is always the definitive for me. That first volume of Wolverine and the X-men is just so fantastic. Its too bad the second really screws the pooch. I wanted to, but I couldn't bring myself to care anymore about that series after the Carnival/Circus arc.
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# ? Jun 8, 2017 17:44 |
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twistedmentat posted:Aarons Quentin is always the definitive for me. That first volume of Wolverine and the X-men is just so fantastic. Its too bad the second really screws the pooch. I just ignore the second volume. It was all bad.
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# ? Jun 8, 2017 17:55 |
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I'm just popping in here to say that I like X-Men again and it is cool and good.
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# ? Jun 8, 2017 18:39 |
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redbackground posted:I wanted to, but I couldn't bring myself to care anymore about that series after the Carnival/Circus arc. Yeah, that carnival Arc came out of no where, and was aggressively bad. Which is unfortunate because the rest of the run is really good. I believe even the phoenix 5 event gave us crab whales!
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# ? Jun 8, 2017 19:54 |
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S.W.O.R.D. Agent posted:Yeah, that carnival Arc came out of no where, and was aggressively bad. Which is unfortunate because the rest of the run is really good. I believe even the phoenix 5 event gave us crab whales! There's a weird thing with X-men and circuses, but then half of Marvel's silver age characters were all carnies, so who knows? I did like Kitty being really confused on why she was dressed like a cowgirl for most of the issue though.
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# ? Jun 8, 2017 21:15 |
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twistedmentat posted:There's a weird thing with X-men and circuses, but then half of Marvel's silver age characters were all carnies, so who knows? That's sort of funny, because I've never really thought too much about it, but now that you mention it I did find an issue of X-Men featuring Obnoxio the clown at a Half Price Books, and picked it up out of sheer curiosity. Edit: This one
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# ? Jun 8, 2017 21:28 |
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I think like Blob's first appearance was as part of a carnival of crime right? And then after the new team gets introduced, Mesmero mind controls them all into circus freaks before they're kidnapped by Magneto for some ageplay. Kalli fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jun 8, 2017 |
# ? Jun 8, 2017 21:34 |
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Kalli posted:I think like Blob's first appearance was as part of a carnival of crime right? Yep, that was exactly what I was thinking of. I forgot about the Obnoxio issue though.
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# ? Jun 9, 2017 00:10 |
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Kalli posted:I think like Blob's first appearance was as part of a carnival of crime right? I would love to have those posters in the background as actual posters.
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# ? Jun 9, 2017 17:40 |
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S.W.O.R.D. Agent posted:I would love to have those posters in the background as actual posters. Might wanna avoid the one with the phrasing "Black Devil". HTH
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# ? Jun 9, 2017 18:38 |
Speaking of Quentin Quire, how old is he supposed to be, anyway? I ask because he kissed Idie during the hellfire Academy arc, and she's 14, and i had him pegged closer to 18, so you know, creepy. Of course the same arc had her dressed in leather dominatrix gear.
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# ? Jun 9, 2017 21:02 |
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He, and all the other characters of the Marvel universe, definitely has an age, yes. To try and tease out any more specificity is a road to madness.
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# ? Jun 9, 2017 21:26 |
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Speaking of Quentin Quire, how old is he supposed to be, anyway? I always assumed he was like sixteen. He looked a little older in his first appearance because he was drawn by Quitely.
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# ? Jun 10, 2017 06:25 |
Also, I guess he did spend several years as a being of pure energy, so that probably set him back some age-wise..
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# ? Jun 10, 2017 12:57 |
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I have head cannon ages for a lot of people, like Scott, when he went nuts, was 38. Kitty is 25, the New Mutants are for a most part between 21-24, though Sam was 26. School kids were all 16-17, as are the time displaced X-men. It is weird when the comics explicitly say someone age, like in the most recently Scarlet Witch series, she was said to be 26.
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# ? Jun 10, 2017 16:21 |
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Poor, poor, inconsistently-drawn Anole. His whole thing was he had a bad case of one-big-arm for like a decade, then in Extraordinary X-Men Apocalypse Wars he got drat near burned to death and regenerated (off panel as part of a montage to show a year passing) into a jacked lizard-man badass who was like 8 ft tall. Then with no explanation, post-Apocalypse Wars, still in Extraordinary, he was a head shorter than Glob again. Still though, he was built like a teenage superhero, up through the end of the title. Now he shows up in Gold #5, scrawny as me, wearing a drat long-sleeved sweater implying he's not even covered in spikes anymore. Fuckin' no respect for one-half of Marvel's preeminent mutant crimefighting duo.
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# ? Jun 11, 2017 19:56 |
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Anole and Rockslide both deserve more respect, in the comics and out. I mean, they were full-fledged X-Men before that weird time-travel stuff from Apocalypse Wars and now they're back to just sort of hanging around.
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# ? Jun 11, 2017 20:20 |
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Kalli posted:I think like Blob's first appearance was as part of a carnival of crime right? The Magneto baby prison stuff is really, really weird and probably emblematic of the worst excesses of the Claremont years. Like, man could write a comic, but sometimes things got flat out wonky.
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# ? Jun 11, 2017 22:20 |
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Android Blues posted:The Magneto baby prison stuff is really, really weird and probably emblematic of the worst excesses of the Claremont years. Like, man could write a comic, but sometimes things got flat out wonky. You don't say. Here's a chunk of that sequence minus the parts where you get flashbacks to Storm revealing she was raised as a thief: End of #112 #113 and then a few pages later...
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# ? Jun 11, 2017 23:05 |