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X-O posted:The only floppies I've bought in the last 15 years are two or three CGC books so I can't very well look inside them. I think you should. For science. 
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I wonder if every comic in the 2099 miniseries is going to end with ”So we shipped them off to another planet. Problem solved!”
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Jan 10, 2024 14:03
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Either that or throw into the sun. These 2099 minis are kinda cool, not quite an ongoing but they're released enough to have a cohesive continuity.
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Jan 10, 2024 19:00
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ultimate spidey good
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Jan 10, 2024 19:07
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site posted:ultimate spidey good
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Jan 10, 2024 20:29
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Very good. I didn't know what all to expect but I was very pleased with what I read. Definitely in for a ride in this new universe.
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Jan 10, 2024 20:32
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As somebody with a beard who frequently wears a (KN95) mask, my real question is how Ultimate Peter is gonna make that work.
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Jan 10, 2024 20:56
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Daredevil made it work for a while.
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Jan 10, 2024 21:16
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I will never not be a little disappointed in extended hero origins, as in I wanted some Spidey action, but Ultimate #1 was cool so far. I'm guessing there is a master plan for the whole UU2 here because it's not a clean slate start but reliant on some other continuity and we get knowledge about how things "should" be.Wanderer posted:As somebody with a beard who frequently wears a (KN95) mask, my real question is how Ultimate Peter is gonna make that work. Pico! Pico! Picotech!
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Jan 10, 2024 22:27
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jjj being a positive presence in peter's life makes me so happy, peter's reveal to him in zdarsky's run is one of my all-time favorite comic moments. i'm hoping they don't touch symbiote stuff with a ten foot pole at least for a while
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Jan 10, 2024 22:54
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First Marvel thing I read in years. I guess I should've expected that a 4 part mini-series was required reading, it's a marvel thing after all. Nonetheless really good! Can always trust on Hickman, and Ben and JJJ's relationship is an immediate highlight. MorningMoon fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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Jan 10, 2024 23:23
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I don't know if it got posted or not, but Deniz Camp confirmed he is writing the new ongoing Ultimates title coming later this year. You may know him from the recent Children of the Vault mini which was awesome.
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Jan 10, 2024 23:42
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MorningMoon posted:First Marvel thing I read in years. I guess I should've expected that a 4 part mini-series was required reading, it's a marvel thing after all. Cool! What stuff from that Ultimate Invasion mini-series do we need to know for Spidey?
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Jan 11, 2024 00:45
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Heavy Metal posted:Cool! The recap page gives you the basics you need to know.
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Jan 11, 2024 00:51
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Right on, thanks.
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Jan 11, 2024 01:04
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Us Matrix Resurrections fans are eating so fuckin good with this and Alan Wake II giving us stories in conversation with their original works featuring older, bearded versions of the protagonist
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Jan 11, 2024 01:50
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srypher posted:jjj being a positive presence in peter's life makes me so happy, peter's reveal to him in zdarsky's run is one of my all-time favorite comic moments. i'm hoping they don't touch symbiote stuff with a ten foot pole at least for a while Wasn't the ultimate symbiote a science experiment that was cooked up by by Richard Parker and Eddie Brock's dad? If Peter's not even a science guy I don't know how it would come up I liked Ultimate Spider-Man okay but I keep finding myself having to go "No, but this is an alternate Ultimate universe" whenever I start thinking of things to whine about like an annoying comic book fan, like MJ and Peter getting together without Spider-Man's influence
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Jan 11, 2024 01:52
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OnimaruXLR posted:I liked Ultimate Spider-Man okay but I keep finding myself having to go "No, but this is an alternate Ultimate universe" whenever I start thinking of things to whine about like an annoying comic book fan, like MJ and Peter getting together without Spider-Man's influence Why would MJ and Peter being together be an issue? We know this is quite the curveball of a universe but if the Parkers and Watsons were still neighbours then that's a natural connection for Pete and MJ regardless Spider-Man.
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I really liked the premise of the this new Spider-Man, I think it's a really interesting idea that I want to see them explore. But the execution wasn't perfect. The last page straight up annoyed me. Why did they pull the silhouette bullshit? Either he has the Spider-Man suit on the cover or he doesn't. If he does, then you should have ended the first issue of this new Spider-Man #1with a big page showing us Spider-Man. It's the first issue, close it with a hero shot! Holding it off until the second issue is pointless since we've already seen it on the cover. If it's not the normal Spider-Man suit, then showing that would have been a good last second twist, ooh there's more to this Spider-Man journey then you thought, come back next time to find out! Either end on a hero shot or on a surprise twist. Splitting the difference and doing neither was so loving anti-climactic. Also, I'm not sure how I feel about Kingpin killing Aunt May in 9/11 2. That's pretty weird.
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Jan 11, 2024 03:16
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Gripweed posted:Also, I'm not sure how I feel about Kingpin killing Aunt May in 9/11 2. That's pretty weird. Wasn't the attack done by The Maker but made to look like Stark did it? All I can see Kingpin doing so far is taking over the Bugle
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Synesthesian Fetish posted:Wasn't the attack done by The Maker but made to look like Stark did it? All I can see Kingpin doing so far is taking over the Bugle I just assumed so because Osborn was introduced and all we learned about him was he was mad about 9/11 2, and then it's suggested Tony Stark didn't do 9/11 2 as everyone thought, and then we saw Green Goblin attacking Kingpin. So I assumed Kingpin must've been the one who did it because why else would the guy whose entire character is "mad about 9/11 2" be attacking him?
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need to read ultimate universe
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Jan 11, 2024 03:35
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site posted:need to read ultimate invasion Isn’t the whole point of Ultimate that it’s largely self contained stories for new readers?
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Jan 11, 2024 03:37
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turns out that when you launch a new universe with a 4 issue mini and then a one shot that sets up the whole thing if you want to know the setup you gotta read the setup
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Gripweed posted:Isn’t the whole point of Ultimate that it’s largely self contained stories for new readers? this is loving Marvel lmao it's never gonna be taht simple again
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Jan 11, 2024 03:41
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think of it like this, you're reading hickman's x-men 1 without reading hoxpox first
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site posted:turns out that when you launch a new universe with a 4 issue mini and then a one shot that sets up the whole thing if you want to know the setup you gotta read the setup But I don’t care about that stuff I just want to read Spider-Man.
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Gripweed posted:But I don’t care about that stuff I just want to read Spider-Man. Too bad.
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Lobok posted:Why would MJ and Peter being together be an issue? We know this is quite the curveball of a universe but if the Parkers and Watsons were still neighbours then that's a natural connection for Pete and MJ regardless Spider-Man. So much of their (616) relationship is couched in MJ being Peter's confidant re: Spider-Man things I have a hard time imagining them having much to do with each other otherwise But in the Ultimate universe they were childhood friends so it's neither here nor there I was gonna make some played out jokes about someone being able to afford an apartment for four in Manhattan on a reporter's salary but given that 9-11 2 happened in this universe maybe the news business is hopping
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OnimaruXLR posted:So much of their (616) relationship is couched in MJ being Peter's confidant re: Spider-Man things I have a hard time imagining them having much to do with each other otherwise They were off and on again for years before she knew he was Spider-Man. And the main reason for the off parts were complications due to him being Spider-Man and hiding that from her.
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So I just saw some panels from the new ultimate spider-man and I just have to ask is it good? Will I be able to read a spider-man story that doesn’t piss me off something I haven’t been able to say in like 15 years
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Mohawk Potato posted:So I just saw some panels from the new ultimate spider-man and I just have to ask is it good? Will I be able to read a spider-man story that doesn’t piss me off something I haven’t been able to say in like 15 years it's really more of a Uncle Ben story than a Spider-Man story, but it's a good Uncle Ben story so take that as you will.
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Mohawk Potato posted:So I just saw some panels from the new ultimate spider-man and I just have to ask is it good? Will I be able to read a spider-man story that doesn’t piss me off something I haven’t been able to say in like 15 years It's very good and I love the new reason why Peter becomes Spider-Man in this universe. Also come on Gripweed. You don't even need to have read everything before this issue to see what was going on. Harry is mad that he lost his parents. We don't know who the Green Goblin is. We don't know why he attacked Kingpin. We do know that Tony Stark was blamed for what happened, and that's all you really need to know. The stuff before this will give you the background to it all and you can see it was the Maker who was responsible for all that and Tony got the blame, and you can see how Tony got the device that was delivered to Peter. But everything else you need to know is in the issue. Codependent Poster fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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Agree that Ultimate Spidey was good. I also really like McKay's Avengers so far. It feels rare these days to get what is essentially an entire issue fight scene that also contains characterization, intrigue, and legible action rather than a couple of impressionistic panels.
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nemesis_hub posted:Agree that Ultimate Spidey was good.
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it seems pretty clear to me. the bugle actually investigated 9/11 2 instead of repeating the official line (wildly implausible, i know), then fisk took it over and put a stop to that. if you are starting from the basis that there is a coverup, fisk is very obviously involved.
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Nessus posted:I'm not trusting that series until Bats gets the Avengers spot he deserves Unlike lesser, flightier heroes, Bats has the true commitment to stay dedicated to one great book at a time. 
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Codependent Poster posted:Also come on Gripweed. You don't even need to have read everything before this issue to see what was going on. Harry is mad that he lost his parents. We don't know who the Green Goblin is. We don't know why he attacked Kingpin. We do know that Tony Stark was blamed for what happened, and that's all you really need to know. The stuff before this will give you the background to it all and you can see it was the Maker who was responsible for all that and Tony got the blame, and you can see how Tony got the device that was delivered to Peter. But everything else you need to know is in the issue. Yeah, I read Ultimate Spidey without reading anything else and sure enough it was easy to follow. People love to throw around that meme about Western vs. Japanese comics where you've got to do all this stuff to read any Western character but honestly you can just jump in anywhere like we all did I'm sure and Ultimate Spider-Man #1 makes it dead easy.
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Yeah it didn't seem particularly complicated to me or feel like any other book was required reading. The little paragraph does enough to set it up, bad guy did a thing, they're living in that world without knowing he's running things, that's probably going to become the focus over the course of the larger story but they'll tell you what you need to know as it builds to that, in the meantime this Spider-Man is going to be doing some Spider-Man poo poo.
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, I read Ultimate Spidey without reading anything else and sure enough it was easy to follow. People love to throw around that meme about Western vs. Japanese comics where you've got to do all this stuff to read any Western character but honestly you can just jump in anywhere like we all did I'm sure and Ultimate Spider-Man #1 makes it dead easy. As someone who didn't like the lead in stuff at all, this is definitely true. It is dead easy to get what is going on. In fact they say it, "A terrorist attack killed a lot of people". They how and why is beyond the knowledge of what the main character has, and if it matters it will come up normally in the course of the story. Books that require you to read any significant amount of earlier works and present themselves as the start of something are poorly written. Same thing for reading any Marvel events, if it is actually important it will be in the main mini. A single page of text at the beginning should be all you need.
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