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Jedi posted:Sadly, I think those days are gone. You're not going to have any build up to something in the future because that's not the way comics are written anymore. That buildup was primarily because there was a single writer driving the book for so long. Yes, it got a little ridiculous with the constant dangling plot lines - but when it paid off, it usually paid off in spades. With a constantly shifting creative team, that can't happen. They had Dan Slott on Spider-Man forever, Jason Aaron has been writing Thor since 2012, and before that wrote Wolverine and The X-Men for 54 issues. The major barrier would be getting caught up in the endless crossovers, Which Thor and Spider-Man mostly avoided, but were a bigger issue in Wolverine and the X-Men.
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https://twitter.com/CBCebulski/status/981171926566621184
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So no more multiples of the same X-Men probably.
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Apr 3, 2018 19:45
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So Cyclops is coming back right?
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I would be sad to see these kids go, especially young Cyclops, but to be totally honest it probably should've been done a year or so ago.
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Apr 3, 2018 20:00
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That's a cool cover. The tagline is silly, but that cover is nice.
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Apr 3, 2018 20:38
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"Eliminate the future?" Messed up that they're going to kill off all the 2099 characters.
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Apr 3, 2018 20:43
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If we're luck they'll just merge/overwrite each other so we can get rid of Dick Beast.
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Iceman and Angel aren't really interesting, but I would hate to lose young Cyclops, and, to a lesser extent, Hank and Jean. Now that they've backed off on Beast being the worst and brought Jean back, though, they're not that necessary. Has Brisson ever written anything good, though? I don't think I've liked a single thing of his.
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Give blue-skinned Archangel those fiery space wings, please and thank you.
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Yeah, Jean, Hank and Scott have been fun and I'd like to keep them around. Certainly, this Hank > Regular Hank for sure.
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Has anyone else been reading and enjoying Rogue and Gambit? It's really quite good.
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Little Mac posted:Has anyone else been reading and enjoying Rogue and Gambit? It's really quite good. Oh, it's ridiculously good. I'm a huge fan of both characters, and of them both being together, but I'm confident in saying that Kelly Thompson absolutely gets what makes them great, allowing Rogue to be funny, Gambit to be charming, and their chemistry is crackling. The main plot is interesting enough, but the way that flashbacks are being used to enhance their history while moving them forward is sublime, and Pere Perez and D'Armata are killing it on the art, changing from the past to present while keeping it cohesive, and featuring many, many different costumes and selling the subtle expressions to make every moment sing. As I said, I'm 100% the target audience, but it's drat good comics regardless of your investment in Rogue and Gambit. It's also a sexy, comedic & romantic comic, which you don't see often at Marvel. It also has the most glorious depiction of Remy's balls in a speedo you will ever see. 
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Metalshark posted:It also has the most glorious depiction of Remy's balls in a speedo you will ever see. This made me miss the Marvel Heroes game where we'd have long discussions about each hero and costume's genitalia depiction.
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Hey davebo, Marvel Strike Force has Wolverine.
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Re: X-Men Red, I'm so, so sick of "villain kills mutant children at the Xavier School to establish their credentials". It's hokey and cynical and shallow. I miss when they just beat up on Wolverine. I guess it's in character for Cassandra Nova, but it's also not the most interesting thing she could have done. Her evil deeds in New X-Men were always more elaborate and harrowing than outright shock violence.
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I was like "well that's cute" until I got down to the SUGAH part and then I genuinely liked it.
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Aphrodite posted:Hey davebo, Marvel Strike Force has Wolverine. Yeah, I told myself I wasn't gonna do mobile games, but I couldn't resist. Fortunately it doesn't even load on my phone, just stalls at 42%, so I've been playing the past couple nights on a pc droid emulator. I don't like it, but I'm dedicated to at least accessing Wolverine. Also borrowed a friend's copy of the X-Men Grand Design compilation last night and enjoyed it. Definitely a rushed pace since it's trying to cram a decade into two issues. One thing I didn't understand is the whole time there are all these people trying to find where the Phoenix Force is going to land but nothing like that was in the comics back then, right? They didn't allude to the phoenix years before it showed up right? I assumed that was a bit of artistic license.
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davebo posted:I assumed that was a bit of artistic license. Of course, but that is also part of the objective. Giving those hundreds of comics a more coherent order and tying them together with a new interpretation, in the eyes of the artist, and less randomness or improvisation.
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Oof, token X-woman and Greg Land*: https://twitter.com/AshcanPress/status/984827070890086400 Can't say that I'm excited for the next era of Astonishing with Rosenberg's mixed track record, unless he brings it and the mystery team member is someone cool. Don't know if Weapon X is ending, but at least Warpath is getting another appearance and I love Dazzler, but her getting Land'd again is harsh. Colossus is so dull to me and needs a rest, Beast has been better in recent Avengers than he's in the X-Books for ages and Havok has been awful since Axis so a lot of this lineup need something big to get me invested. *Could be a mercy in light of this.
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So Havok is going to be good again and get his face fixed? Cool
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pubic works project posted:So Havok is going to be good again and get his face fixed? Cool Yeah, that's probably a relief (not least because I'm working my way through the 90s and he's evil due to Dark Beast atm where I'm at), but I've only ever really liked Havok in an X-Factor context (mostly him with Polaris), though I've not read his older stuff yet.
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Yes please put Land and Rosenberg together on a book I stopped reading so I can ignore their existence
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hope and vaseline posted:Yes please put Land and Rosenberg together on a book I stopped reading so I can ignore their existence This.
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Bring back Dazzler Thor. I feel like Rosenberg and I share a lot of sensibilities when it comes to comic books, I just haven't read anything he's written that's really clicked with me.
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howe_sam posted:Bring back Dazzler Thor. I'm still annoyed that Dazzler didn't pick up that hammer.
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Metalshark posted:Oof, token X-woman and Greg Land*: https://twitter.com/AshcanPress/status/984827070890086400 Can't say that I'm excited for the next era of Astonishing with Rosenberg's mixed track record, unless he brings it and the mystery team member is someone cool. So much for Professor FantomeX, I guess.
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Cabbit posted:So much for Professor FantomeX, I guess. Isn't there a new UXM coming out? He's probably moving over there.
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Is Guido in any x books recently? I know he took over hell but I believe that ended..
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Is Guido in any x books recently? I know he took over hell but I believe that ended.. He had a brief cameo in a flashback in Rogue & Gambit.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Is Guido in any x books recently? I know he took over hell but I believe that ended.. He's in New Mutants: Dead Souls, but it's been a mixed portrayal for me so far. Wasn't a fan of the first issue, liked him more in the second issue personality-wise, but the way his powers were demonstrated wasn't right to me in both as he seemed to take hits and not get rid of the energy at all, and certainly not very quickly. Otherwise, he was in Secret Warriors for an issue or two, but not in such a way it's worth seeking out. Rosenberg seems to like him, but he's very hit & miss with characters for me. He's doing great stuff in Tales of Suspense with Bucky and Clint, and his Boom Boom is great fun, but he tends to take characters to extremes so your mileage may vary depending on whether it jibes with your tastes.
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Is it just me or is the whole approach of "let's shuffle the 100+ characters from the X-universe around willy nilly onto like five books with different colors and adjectives on the title once and a while and call it reinvigorating the franchise" approach to these series not really working anymore?
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They're just trying to find the mix that makes the least people made their waifu was ignored and retains sales.
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BrianWilly posted:Is it just me or is the whole approach of "let's shuffle the 100+ characters from the X-universe around willy nilly onto like five books with different colors and adjectives on the title once and a while and call it reinvigorating the franchise" approach to these series not really working anymore? They've been doing the same with the Avengers. DC is doing it with the Justice League.
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Rhyno posted:They've been doing the same with the Avengers. DC is doing it with the Justice League. To be fair, DC is doing it using rejected Pokemon Go player faction names.
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I guess it would be too ridiculous to just have X-Men Blue, Gold, Red, Pumpernickel, and Chartreuse.
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Oh. I've actually been really enjoying Astonishing, but I'd rather take a nail through the foot than read a book starring Havok and illustrated by Land.
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Am I wrong in thinking that Havok has been shown as not evil anymore since Axis? He's pretty clearly still a bad guy in this week's Blue.
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Rochallor posted:Am I wrong in thinking that Havok has been shown as not evil anymore since Axis? He's pretty clearly still a bad guy in this week's Blue. Nah he’s been pretty consistently villiany since Axis.
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