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bobkatt013 posted:This should have been a bit messier. A more innocent time, when Wolverine couldn't walk off a fall from low orbit.
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I liked "The Twelve" but most people don't.
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I think she's mainly explored in JSA by Geoff Johns, I think.
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Hakkesshu posted:Is PAD's original X-Factor run actually collected? The Essentials stop right before his run starts. Yep. There's four "X-Factor Visionaries: Peter David" trades. Not sure what their availability's like, though.
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The Stern omnibus is actually the only Spider-Man thing I own at the moment. I keep meaning to get the Lee/Ditko omnibuses because they seem to be constantly republished but there always seems to be something else I want to spend my money on.
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Hugoon Chavez posted:The last thing I read that scratched that itch was Invincible and it was everything I wanted. Hell I might just go read it again. If you enjoyed Invincible, you might like Dynamo 5 by Jay Faerber and Mahmud Asrar.
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X-O posted:There's 26 issues, including the 0 issue, the Annual and the Holiday Special and then there's a five issue mini that picks up after the series. It was not yanked, it was ended by the creators but they left the door open to do more down the line. It takes place in the same universe as Faerber's Noble Causes which is not as good but still a fun but different kind of read. Faerber was working on a second miniseries with Julio Brilha (who pencilled the first miniseries) a few years ago, but nothing ever came of it. I think it was a question of the first one not doing as well as they'd hoped.
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Brocktoon posted:If I'm going to read Excalibur for the first time, is it worth reading the Davis/Delano Captain Britain series first? It's not essential to Excalibur, but Alan Moore / Alan Davis / Jamie Delano Captain Britain is very good in its own right.
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Mar 3, 2016 16:30
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B33rChiller posted:Are these recommendations further Galactus stories, or more along the lines of first appearance/origin type stories? I will check them out, but I'm really looking for good stories beyond first appearance/origin type stories. Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo did a good Galactus story when they had the book - their run as a whole is very good and definitely worth checking out if you're interested in the Fantastic Four. Maybe the second or third best there's been.
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Mr Hootington posted:Since Marvel unlimited has most of the Star Wars comics ever printed on it now I'm curious what is good? Is any of it good? Or should I just ignore all but the new books they are printing? John Ostrander's Star Wars comics were generally very good. Agent of the Empire was an entertaining James Bond pastiche which was fairly accessible. The villain of its first arc was an older EU bad guy but the story as a whole was reasonably stand-alone. My favourite weird Star Wars comic was one called Jedi vs Sith, on which I reminisced in the Star Wars comic thread a while ago.
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Toxxupation posted:Is Secret Invasion good? I'm looking for something as epic in scope as Hickman's Dark Reign to Secret Wars "run", any suggestions? Secret Invasion wasn't great, in my view, but if you want something with that sense of scope and scale, the "cosmic" run that started with the Annihilation crossover and ran through Guardians of the Galaxy by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning to Annihilation: Conquest is very highly regarded. There are several reading order charts, one of which will no doubt be posted shortly after I've made this post.  Edit: Hold on, which Secret Invasion do you mean? Do you mean the one where a bunch of superheroes have been replaced by Skrulls, or the one where Nick Fury masterminds an invasion of Latveria?
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I believe the Balder miniseries goes between Thor #369 and Thor #371 (Thor #370 was a fill-in issue, but not the one with Hercules).
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What can anyone tell me about Wally Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents?
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How is the Dynamite reboot of the Shadow?
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pancreatic cancer posted:what are the best hulk stories from the "hulk smash" era, i.e. when he was just stupid as gently caress and angry all the time. i've read all the peter david issues and it was good but he's never really stupid very much in it. i want him dumb as hell and just punching the poo poo out of modok or whatever. thanks. It'd be the Bronze Age runs by guys like Roy Thomas and Steve Englehart when Hulk would fight the likes of the Bi-Beast, the Glob, the Missing Link, Rhino, Sandman and Juggernaut. There's a Roy Thomas / Herb Trimpe story I really like where Hulk fights the Absorbing Man, and that's Hulk #125, so maybe in and around that era. Bill Mantlo Hulk is pretty good as well. He was on the book from 1980 through 1985, so there's a lot of stuff from him. The peak of it is probably Hulk #300 where Hulk fights the Avengers in New York City.
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Fantastic Four #57-60.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Serious question: has a Simonson had a bad run on anything? I'm afraid so - it was his brief Avengers run in the late 1980s. Definitely not up to his usual standard.
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I think that might have been either Bob Harras or the very short Larry Hama run (which also introduced Rage) in between them.
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Schneider Heim posted:What are some good runs for Captain America? I've read most of the Brubaker run and loved it. Roger Stern (w) and John Byrne (a) from the early 1980s; pretty short run but it's got the Cap for President story and the one where he teams up with Union Jack to fight the Nazi vampire Baron Blood.
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obi_ant posted:Finally collected Geoff's three omnibuses for Green Lantern. Just wondering was there something else I needed to pick up before I jump in. Not specifically Johns, but if you enjoy his GL, definitely check out the concurrent Green Lantern Corps series, variously written by Dave Gibbons, Peter Tomasi and others.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Which Elseworlds collections do I positively have to have? I have my eye on the Batman collections they just released, especially the first one. I'm intrigued by the Supes collection on the way but am worried the premises are the best part and the stories are dogshit. I'm also eyeing up that big trade that celebrates Mignola's work for DC. Anything else? How's the Justice League one? JLA: The Nail / Another Nail.
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joehonkie posted:I really need to read Another Nail. The Nail was so good. It's not as good as the Nail but it's Alan Davis at the top of his game as an artist and it's worth it for that alone.
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I've read a lot of comics with Batman in them, but they're mainly issues of Justice League or Superman in which Batman appears. I've never really been a Batman reader. Therefore, could I ask for some Batman recommendations? I am obviously aware of Morrison Batman and everything after but that's much bigger and wider than I feel like getting into for the time being. So stuff from before that. Maybe pre-Hush stuff generally.
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Covok posted:There is also an 80% off sale on Star Wars comics. Does anyone know any good reads? Most of John Ostrander's stuff is pretty good. I would personally recommend those Rise of the Sith and Clone Wars Epic Collections but that's probably just my own preference. Agent of the Empire was a fun James Bond pastiche.
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I believe Rucka began as a novelist before he wrote comics. How are his novels?
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Skwirl posted:It's genre stuff, but good genre stuff. So fantasy, science-fiction or...?
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Gaz-L posted:Mostly spy/crime fiction, actually. I like that sort of thing, much more so than science-fiction and fantasy, actually.
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canyonero posted:If I really loved Invincible, what should I read next? I binged the whole series pretty hard and didn't really notice a drop off in quality that people here talk about. Jay Faerber wrote Noble Causes and Dynamo 5 for Image; they're not dissimilar to Invincible. Sometimes Invincible characters have cameo appearances in them. Unfortunately, Dynamo 5 was never finished.
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Does anyone have recommendations for non-superhero "adventure" type stories? Not necessarily in a "period" setting like Indiana Jones, but that would be a potential bonus since it aligns with my interests. Something where the hero is a sort of globetrotting sort, like a spy or a journalist or a researcher, who travels to exotic locations where they thwart villains and solve mysteries, that sort of thing. I know there are European comics like Modesty Blaise and Tintin that are all over this, so I'm happy to take whatever, just so long as it's something I can get hold of (ideally legally). Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Jun 28, 2018 |
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Gaz-L posted:Athena Voltaire is a series I always mean to check out and it looks like it's that exact vibe, but I can't vouch for it's quality. I've seen that one. Haven't read it either myself.
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zoux posted:However the whole red blue Superman thing happens in the middle of it so suddenly you’re trying to figure that out. Much worse is the ending of the first or second issue of the Rock of Ages arc, where the League and the Injustice Gang both detect something mysterious approaching from outer space then the next issue ignores it and continues the JLA storyline because that cliffhanger had been setting up the now-forgotten John Byrne miniseries Genesis.
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I think most people liked Geoff Johns's run on Wally. It has some stuff that's a bit "Johnsian Literalism" in retrospect (Captain COLD was abused by his father, a COLD man, which left him with a COLD heart, and now he wants the rest of the world to be just as COLD as he is; also, the only place he felt secure as a child was his uncle's ICE CREAM TRUCK, because it was COLD) but on the whole I think it's very good, probably one of the best things Johns has written.
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I liked Dynamo 5 while it existed.
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