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Is Axis worth reading? I enjoyed Superior Ironman and the Carnage and Hobgoblin minis and just did a reread of Ewing's Mighty Avengers which made me curious about it.
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# ? Apr 14, 2018 03:07 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 07:58 |
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Skwirl posted:Is Axis worth reading? I enjoyed Superior Ironman and the Carnage and Hobgoblin minis and just did a reread of Ewing's Mighty Avengers which made me curious about it. Most people would probably say no but I think it's a fun throwaway story. Most of it besides Havok and Sabretooth has either been undone or forgotten about.
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# ? Apr 14, 2018 03:26 |
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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? I'm getting rather tired of team books not being able to maintain a consistent roster for more than 5 issues.
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# ? Apr 14, 2018 03:49 |
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That's it for Soule's X-Men? I assumed the comic was gonna have all sorts of quick adventures to pair with the rotating artists, but it just stayed in that one London story for an eternity.
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# ? Apr 14, 2018 21:27 |
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Yeah it wasn’t particularly great (but not bad) and it’s ending with a Greg Land issue which is Garbo
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# ? Apr 14, 2018 22:03 |
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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. Three beefy guys and two blasty guys is not a balanced adventuring group!!!!!!
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# ? Apr 14, 2018 23:05 |
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Beast is a bard.
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# ? Apr 14, 2018 23:07 |
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Aphrodite posted:Beast is a bard. That's an acceptable, if archaic, spelling of "The Worst."
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# ? Apr 14, 2018 23:18 |
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Skwirl posted:That's an acceptable, if archaic, spelling of "The Worst." He tried taking a couple levels of Paladin when he was being all Moral Conscience Of The Team but then everyone remembered the time he nuked an underground HYDRA city and he promptly fell It's a shame, he was only a few levels away from getting that sweet Summon Warhorse power
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 08:34 |
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:He tried taking a couple levels of Paladin when he was being all Moral Conscience Of The Team but then everyone remembered the time he nuked an underground HYDRA city and he promptly fell Someone needs to read Hickman's New Avengers if you think that is anything close to the worst thing Hank McCoy has ever done.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 08:36 |
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Refresh my memory, what exactly did he do that was so terrible?
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 11:12 |
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Sentinel Red posted:Refresh my memory, what exactly did he do that was so terrible? It was an Avengers world. It was the first of many.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 14:48 |
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Skwirl posted:Someone needs to read Hickman's New Avengers if you think that is anything close to the worst thing Hank McCoy has ever done. No, that was the bit where he fell; New Avengers is when he embraced the concept and picked up levels in Blackguard.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 16:08 |
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Sentinel Red posted:Refresh my memory, what exactly did he do that was so terrible? Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Apr 15, 2018 |
# ? Apr 15, 2018 18:33 |
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Young Beast constantly owning and telling old Beast how much he sucks never gets old.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 19:00 |
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I've been firmly in favor in just replacing the current X-men with the younger ones, with the exception of Iceman.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 19:02 |
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Until Jean came back, Beast and Iceman were the only doubles left. So what you really mean is you want to replace Beast. Good call.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 19:07 |
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Aphrodite posted:Until Jean came back, Beast and Iceman were the only doubles left. Old Angel is still alive I think?
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 19:08 |
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He's Archangel again, and if he hasn't yet will probably lose his memories again soon.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 19:19 |
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Skwirl posted:Old Angel is still alive I think? Nobody cares about angel. Aphrodite posted:Until Jean came back, Beast and Iceman were the only doubles left. Yep. My thing about Jean and Scott were that they were prisoners of story, and they could never move beyond being a couple and such, but using the younger ones lets them have stories beyond that.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 20:11 |
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twistedmentat posted:I've been firmly in favor in just replacing the current X-men with the younger ones, with the exception of Iceman. I have nothing against GLBBQ comic characters, but it feels like Young Iceman's only defining feature is being gay.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 20:11 |
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Yeah but that’s one more than old Iceman.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 20:17 |
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Teen Jean technically died (again, fulfilling her destiny as most death-prone X-Man) two issues ago in Venom, though for people who didn't read Venomverse it was soft-balled in over the course of the last issue with the kids freaking out once it sunk in their friend had been digested by a symbiote-hunting monster from another dimension, and the backup of the latest X-Men Blue has Danger create a holo-Jean to help Scott cope. Of course she's obviously going to be fine in time for eXtinction ()
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 22:52 |
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Gynovore posted:I have nothing against GLBBQ comic characters, but it feels like Young Iceman's only defining feature is being gay. Did I miss a Gay Agenda meeting where LGBTQ was replaced with something else, or is this just a mildly tasteless joke?
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 23:15 |
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Both, because it's LGBTQ+ now.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 23:18 |
Aphrodite posted:Yeah but that’s one more than old Iceman.
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 23:36 |
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Nessus posted:I don't know, I always found him to be cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHoNWwhzh3M
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# ? Apr 15, 2018 23:48 |
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Gynovore posted:I have nothing against GLBBQ comic characters, but it feels like Young Iceman's only defining feature is being gay. If you have nothing against them why pull this unfunny poo poo about an extremely easy to type acronym?
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# ? Apr 16, 2018 04:34 |
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Gee who could have possibly guessed that X was actually the Shadow King?
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# ? May 3, 2018 20:36 |
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Endless Mike posted:Gee who could have possibly guessed that X was actually the Shadow King? I was hoping against reason, but yeah. Best case scenario is that X was an unwitting Trojan horse, and that doesn't seem likely.
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# ? May 3, 2018 23:35 |
So was Professor X ever actually in the astral plane? Was it Shadow King fighting himself or just a really elaborate charade to trick the x-men?
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# ? May 4, 2018 06:03 |
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Kurt was with Xavier in heaven.
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# ? May 4, 2018 06:06 |
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Stop trying to make Post-Credits scenes in comics happen, Marvel: https://news.marvel.com/comics/88824/exterminate-the-past-eliminate-the-future/ Not really feeling Extermination based on Brisson and yet another dystopian future X-struggle storyline either. All-New Wolverine's nigh-utopian future in the final arc has been such a fun change of pace.
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# ? May 7, 2018 22:15 |
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I can't think of a more unappealing premise than "Mutants ate going extinct, this time by Ed Brisson"
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# ? May 8, 2018 00:12 |
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Metalshark posted:Stop trying to make Post-Credits scenes in comics happen, Marvel: https://news.marvel.com/comics/88824/exterminate-the-past-eliminate-the-future/ It's such a stupid concept. Marvel needs new people in their marketing department.
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# ? May 8, 2018 00:21 |
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I mean, "post-credits scenes" kinda just sounds like a silly way to say "backup story."
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# ? May 8, 2018 04:05 |
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Little Mac posted:I mean, "post-credits scenes" kinda just sounds like a silly way to say "backup story." Back up stories are generally stand alone. While a post credit is usually basically a teaser. They are completely different things.
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# ? May 8, 2018 04:16 |
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Marvel's comic "post credit scenes" are just a page at the end of the book. It's dumb.
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# ? May 8, 2018 05:52 |
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Rhyno posted:Marvel's comic "post credit scenes" are just a page at the end of the book. It's dumb. The first post-credits scene I can remember for the MCU was probably 15-25 seconds long. It was Nick Fury saying something along the lines of "Tell me... What do you know about the Avengers initiative?" I think a one page teaser is about on par with that - providing it's a good page.
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# ? May 9, 2018 06:02 |
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# ? May 13, 2024 07:58 |
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So Storm is just going to be using that hammer, isn't she? I guess it kind of makes sense since both of the Thor's lost their hammers and there's an open title now for God of Thunder. I think.
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# ? May 10, 2018 01:33 |