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Cullen Bunn is a red flag for me. He's tanked several series and characters I've enjoyed under previous writers. Currently he's underwhelming on Uncanny X-Men despite a kickass roster.
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I think Cullen Bunn is pretty good, especially dealing with supernatural and monster stuff.
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Sep 17, 2016 00:50
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Reorganizing my comics, I found Age of Iron, and drat I forgot how good this series is.
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Sep 17, 2016 02:12
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Gods of War finished this Wednesday, and while I recall reading that a bunch of people here weren't all that fond of the recent Hercules stuff, I have to admit that I liked it a lot. I mean, I thought the guns stuff was stupid, but I thought everything else about sobering up and being disrespected was a really interesting way to do a serious take on the character.
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Sep 17, 2016 05:17
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I don't know. I think I have to side with the criticism of Abnett's Hercules that it seems like an entire book based around the idea that The Incredible Hercules was too much fun to be allowed or tolerated.
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Aforce - Elsa's cool but i really liked dazzle Thor though from the letters it seems writing her out was an order from editorial or something?  i also like the skull swearsAll new inhumans - heres your daughter we've never mentioned once the entire run, btw gorgon is healed with the push of a button the end lol Gods of war it was a dumb book but i liked seeing herc pal around with the old gods. Sad to see this one go but glad the run lasted as long as it did Mockingbird always has the best recap pages. "Where did you even get that hat? When did you change clothes?" Probably ms marvel doing some weird thing...the cover of the next issue lol Scarlet witch - kinda really dug it, liked the interviews with the ex and the nemesis and the art was good, esp the oni reveal Gwenpool - gwen trying to explain comic mechanics and the ultimate universe was fun; i do kind of agree that it seems the attempt at shooting the kid felt like a retread of the earlier issues where i thought we had already moved passed this line of thinking for her; i think the baby punisher line is important and hopefully she'll run into castle and realize how lovely his life is and go another direction; where's gurihiru??? Looks like all the excitement for the next mega event is starting in uncanny avengers oh noes red skull is controlling quicksilver too? who else???
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Sep 17, 2016 20:12
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X-O posted:I think Cullen Bunn is pretty good, especially dealing with supernatural and monster stuff. EDIT: I wanna clarify I made my Bunn red flag post under the wrong impression that Bunn had written a terrible Batgirl (Cassandra under Deathstroke's control). Just checked and I was wrong. He did however write runs Venom and Aquaman which I didn't enjoy compared to their previous writers. Red flag downgraded to mild dislike. 
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Sep 17, 2016 20:19
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Dario the Wop posted:Recommend something please. I'm a fan of supernatural/monster stuff in particular. Last I recall reading work along those lines of Bunn's was Venom, picking up from Remender's series. Sixth gun
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The Sixth Gun, The Damned, Empty Man, Harrow County, Hellbreak. I heard his Godzilla was good but I don't read those. As for good Marvel stuff, his Deadpool started out weak but has grown really strong. He had great runs on Magneto, Moon Knight, Fearless Defenders, and personally I did enjoy his Venom run. He's strongest with working with horror and supernatural stuff though which makes him a good fit for a story about monsters. X-O fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Sep 17, 2016 |
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Sep 17, 2016 21:46
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I'm coming to the realization that I do not like post Disassembled Iron Man or any of his titles.
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Sep 18, 2016 00:55
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Iron Man Iron Man Does whatever an iron can Presses clothes, makes grilled cheese, That's kinda all an iron does Look out I guess it's Iron Man
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Mr Hootington posted:I'm coming to the realization that I do not like post Disassembled Iron Man or any of his titles. I don't think I've ever liked Iron Man. Except as "flying beam man in Avengers".
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Mr Hootington posted:I'm coming to the realization that I do not like post Disassembled Iron Man or any of his titles. The book is rather messy until Fraction comes aboard.
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Rhyno posted:The book is rather messy until Fraction comes aboard. Yeah I'm starting his run and it is better, but still not great. Maybe modern iron man isn't for me. Edit: I'm very disappointed in this since I like the character concept and the movies. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Sep 18, 2016 |
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Sep 18, 2016 01:26
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Mr Hootington posted:Yeah I'm starting his run and it is better, but still not great. It's a decent book until Fear Itself where it kind of falls apart. Gillen has a fairly decent run but he sort of leaves without really wrapping his arc up and it then becomes Superior Iron Man which also ends without real closure. Bendis' run starts out sooooo good but then he lost his fantastic artist to CW2 and the book's been a mess since. I don't think modern Iron Man is for anyone.
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Sep 18, 2016 01:31
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Lurdiak posted:I don't think I've ever liked Iron Man. Except as "flying beam man in Avengers". Maybe what you need is some solid dick from an iron man. (Yes, I know it's a photoshop.)
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Sep 18, 2016 01:34
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I'm still digging Iron Man. Knowing that two post Tony Stark Iron Man books are coming up helps a bit.
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Sep 18, 2016 01:42
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Die Laughing posted:I'm still digging Iron Man. Knowing that two post Tony Stark Iron Man books are coming up helps a bit. Most of my gripes with the book come from the Deodato art. The new IM books do sound awesome though.
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Sep 18, 2016 01:44
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I used to like Dedato when his poser stuff wasn't so obvious. The guy was really good at dramatic lighting.
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Sep 18, 2016 01:45
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Lurdiak posted:I used to like Dedato when his poser stuff wasn't so obvious. The guy was really good at dramatic lighting. He's gotten progressively worse over the years.
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I really enjoyed Extremis and Hypervelocity. Other than that though...
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Sep 18, 2016 02:19
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Speaking of Hypervelocity, Iron Man is basically the exact corner of the MU you want Adam Warren for. Bullshit technobabble, pouty lipped love interests, giant robots and lasers.
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International Iron Man has been kinda ok.
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Yeah, the plot in International Iron Man is at least kind of interesting. The plot in Invincible alternates between boring beyond belief and slightly incomprehensible, and it isn't helped at all by the absolutely atrocious art. I laughed my rear end off at the last issue that included blatant traces of Cecily Strong and loving Rand Paul as Dr. Doom.
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Sep 18, 2016 03:21
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Deodato has always consistently used Vincent Cassel as his Doom model, not Rand Paul. The only reason that doesn't bother me is because in a movie that's loving amazing casting for Doom. Though there is a slight resemblance there.
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Sep 18, 2016 03:35
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Reading 2004 tentpole series Marvel comics, the number of exclamation marks writers will use in dialog makes these comics virtually unreadable. ed: It's weird seeing old 2004 Tony Stark where he's basically an amalgam of Every Industrialist Ever and comparing his design then to now where he's Literally Just Robert Downey Jr NieR Occomata fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Sep 18, 2016 |
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Sep 18, 2016 04:19
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Toxxupation posted:Reading 2004 tentpole series Marvel comics, the number of exclamation marks writers will use in dialog makes these comics virtually unreadable. I'd make fun of you for that being a problem for you, but I can't read Cormac McCarthy because he doesn't use quotation marks, so I guess I sympathize.
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It's more that it gives all the dialog this weird breathless, attention-deficit air that ruins character voice or tone, and it's not like when Lee/Kirby did it where it honestly feels like everybody's shouting all the goddamn time, it just feels like sloppy and slapdash character writing.
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Wanderer posted:I'd make fun of you for that being a problem for you, but I can't read Cormac McCarthy because he doesn't use quotation marks, so I guess I sympathize. Hey, it works for Hickman. Just have characters keep saying extremely profound and dramatic things without any tone or emphasis. /edit somehow I read your post as 'exclamation marks'
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Sep 18, 2016 04:56
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When I read 60's and 70's comics, I just treat one exclamation mark as a period, and two exclamation marks as one.
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Sep 18, 2016 05:00
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Teenage Fansub posted:When I read 60's and 70's comics, I just treat one exclamation mark as a period, and two exclamation marks as one. This is the correct way to read them.
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Yeah if exclamation marks bother you you're going to have a problem reading some of the greatest comics of all time.
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Well, I finally finished the main Avengers Dissassembled arc and what's really weird is how much and how obviously Brian Michael Bendis has influenced modern-day Marvel. I'm reading all the Avengers Disassembled tie-ins (and, man, it's loving weird to see Kirkman writing Captain America let me tell you) and as I aforementioned they're very Bronze Age-y stories with a lot of stifling text boxes and everyone speaks in breathless, exclamation mark-laden sentences. I even saw a thought bubble or two and it all reads as insanely dated. But then I'm reading Bendis' Avengers story and it just feels timeless and still current with current conventions of storytelling, with character moments that read as that sort of casually conversational, quippy sort of dialog that the MCU movies completely and utterly trade in. I got that same feeling when I did a complete USM readthrough a couple of months ago - where you can very clearly see the DNA of the way stories are told that modern Marvel, especially the movies, now use - but it's the fact that Bendis is writing these issues at the exact same time as I'm reading these Thor Disassembled issues that feel like a bad Simonson ripoff, and his impact and the way he approaches character voice and his focus on relational, emotive character work comes off as an even more impressive revelation. BMB is just doing stuff that nobody else who's writing alongside him is really doing at the time he was doing it, and his increasing focus and ascendancy up the creative chain at Marvel is a big reason why Marvel, on the whole, is in such a good place creatively right now. At least, from where I'm standing. X-O posted:Yeah if exclamation marks bother you you're going to have a problem reading some of the greatest comics of all time. If you're talking about Silver Age Marvel, I can read them just fine (and I adore early Spider-Man intensely). It's both very clearly a product of its time and there's an honest sense that Lee/Kirby are meaning for every character to sound constantly amazed/in complete and utter shock at all times, that sort of heightened and whacky overemotional storytelling that reflects the storytelling conventions of the era it was written. I'm more just saying that reading 2004 comics where every other sentence ends in an exclamation point, it definitely comes across as the author not knowing what tone they're attempting to impart in the dialog so just threw some random punctuation in there to mix it up. It comes across as this weird, very schizophrenic tone. NieR Occomata fucked around with this message at 05:46 on Sep 18, 2016 |
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Rhyno posted:It's a decent book until Fear Itself where it kind of falls apart. Gillen has a fairly decent run but he sort of leaves without really wrapping his arc up and it then becomes Superior Iron Man which also ends without real closure. Bendis' run starts out sooooo good but then he lost his fantastic artist to CW2 and the book's been a mess since. Yeah I really liked Gillen's Iron Man but it just ended without even really trying to set up for the next writer. I guess they told him "Hey we're doing Original Sin DEAL WITH IT" and he just slapped together a lovely sort-of ending. Superior was a great ride though. Man I miss Didn't Give A poo poo Man®
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TwoPair posted:Yeah I really liked Gillen's Iron Man but it just ended without even really trying to set up for the next writer. I guess they told him "Hey we're doing Original Sin DEAL WITH IT" and he just slapped together a lovely sort-of ending. He got the Darth Vader gig and he made no secret that Star Wars one of his dream jobs.
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X-O posted:Deodato has always consistently used Vincent Cassel as his Doom model, not Rand Paul. The only reason that doesn't bother me is because in a movie that's loving amazing casting for Doom. Though there is a slight resemblance there. Thank you i could not think of this dudes name for the life of me and it bugs me every time I see doom
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I hope the new shehulk series won't make hellcat depressing through osmosis
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Booooooooooooo. I want She-Hulk to fall in love with a apples, not this garbology.
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site posted:I hope the new shehulk series won't make hellcat depressing through osmosis Whoa whoa what's all this? Is someone going to make a bummer series? Who? Why?
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TwoPair posted:Whoa whoa what's all this? Is someone going to make a bummer series? Who? Why? Doh, sorry shoulda linked http://www.cbr.com/marvel-announces-new-jennifer-walters-hulk-series/
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