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zoux posted:Here's a Q: So I'm hype as gently caress about the Flash show and it makes me want to read some Flash comics, but DC doesn't have a digital back catalogue service like Marvel's. How come? Are their licensing issues that Marvel doesn't have or something? Seems to me like the quickest way to lose in a market where there are only two competitors is to let the other guy do something you aren't doing. well there is comixology and it has a bunch of great Wally comics.
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zoux posted:Sure, sure, but I'm talking about a subscription service. I know I can go out and buy individual books either physically or digitally but at the rate I read books it gets real expensive real fast. Marvel does it and therefore DC wants nothing to do with it. See also recap pages, a competent trade program, marriages, and more than a handful of books worth reading.
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May 15, 2014 19:31
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Zachack posted:Cage and Drew? If they aren't actually married they may as well be. Cage and Jones are married, and they got married by the best person 
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May 15, 2014 19:44
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zoux posted:Jessica's been all "OMG MY BABY WHERES MY BABY" since Civil War so I'm glad she's not around anymore. I didn't figure Bendis would let such a great character get turned into a one note bore fest but he wrote a bunch of the poo poo so I don't know! He is the only person who has ever wrote her.
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May 15, 2014 19:55
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Rhyno posted:Last time I check MA was not written by Bendis which is what my point was. Okay 5% of her appearances are not Bendis, but my point was that Bendis is the one who created her and made her a great character.
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May 15, 2014 20:07
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zoux posted:Who were they going to have get married? Batwomen and Maggie Sawyer. It is why J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman are gone.
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May 15, 2014 20:09
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zoux posted:Did they nix the marriage through killing one of the characters, or just editorially? Editorially.
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May 15, 2014 20:12
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Uthor posted:Most annoyingly, they said they would finish the arc (2-3 more issues), but DC told them not to bother and put on a new team and started a new arc before it could be wrapped up. Weren't they also building up Killer Croc in the book, and then told them they could not use him?
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May 15, 2014 20:27
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Madkal posted:Renee was an awesome character who had a big part in an awesome comic called Gotham Central. It was in this comic that it came out that she was a lesbian (thanks to Harvey Dent of all people). Anyway, she had an amazing growth as a character in that series. Then she had even more of an amazing growth as a character when she became the Question in 52, when Vic Sage died. She had a few adventures of her own as the Question, and it also came out that she used to be lovers with current Batwoman. Then Nu52 happened and she was erased from existence. Thanks now I miss Renee and Vic an how awesome they were.
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May 15, 2014 22:54
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Alien Rope Burn posted:She hasn't detectived anything since Alias ended, I'm pretty sure? She's put on her old superhero outfit a few times, but seems to have entirely given that up. She was an investigator for The Pulse.
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May 16, 2014 15:41
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zoux posted:They got Squirrel Girl as a nanny and Jessica kind of became a New Avenger for a couple of issues towards the end of the Bendis run. I think that probably anything interesting they were going to do with here got swallowed up by Fear Itself and she never really did anything. Bendis's entire Avengers run after Siege was just there. The stories all seemed like rehashes of stuff he already did and he seemed like he did not want to be writing them anymore.
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May 16, 2014 15:46
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zoux posted:I see.... Due to Age of Ultron Galactus was shifted over to the Ultimate Universe.
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May 27, 2014 16:06
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zoux posted:So does that mean 616 is currently Galactus free? He is in the Negative Zone right now so he could easily return to 616
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May 27, 2014 16:09
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zoux posted:Why does Groot go from talkative to only saying "I am Groot" starting in Annihilation Conquest? He gets burned up and when he grew back that's all he could say.
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May 31, 2014 20:50
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Uthor posted:Is it the guy writing the current series, explaining why it's not being aggressively ignored? It was Chris Claremont the guy who defined Nightcrawler and made him a popular character.
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Jun 2, 2014 18:42
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Teenage Fansub posted:AvX was bad and the Battle of the Atom event wasn't the best, but other than that, I'm fully enjoying the Bendisified X-Men. AvX was worth it for the crab whales.  
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Jun 9, 2014 17:31
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zoux posted:Are the Thunderbolts books right after Siege where Luke Cage takes over the team any good? I don't know that I've read anything by Jeff Parker before. Yes Jeff Parker is really good.
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Jun 12, 2014 20:03
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zoux posted:And then that goes right into the Charles Soule, correct? Which I've also heard is very good. No there is an awful Way run.
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Jun 12, 2014 20:10
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zoux posted:Did they ever do anything with that? I've only seen pallette swapped C&D once, and that was to get punched in one panel by Superior Spiderman. Its the fourth title.
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Jun 30, 2014 15:00
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zoux posted:Are you counting AI or AU or is there another? Avengers, New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Avengers World, and the fifth is Uncanny Avengers.
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Jun 30, 2014 15:16
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Madkal posted:As someone who hasn't read Avengers....ever, what is the difference between all these titles? Avengers is them dealing with huge threats New Avengers is the Illuminati contemplating blowing up alternate universes. Avengers world is ?? Mighty Avengers is more street level. They are dealing with vampires right now. Uncanny Avengers is a mix of Avengers and X-men. They are currently dealing with Kang and the Apocalypse twins/time travel poo poo.
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Jun 30, 2014 16:54
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Aphrodite posted:Many of the descriptions are out of date now. However, the time travel shenanigans are due to Cap's actions in New Avengers. You also find out that Clint does get his dog back.
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Jun 30, 2014 20:58
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zoux posted:Yeah I'm reading the Bruce Jones stuff immediately before the Pak run and whoooo buddy, did that fall off a cliff fast. The first story was cool and then, ughhh. Hmmm I've analyzed the blood of this Bruce Banner clone and it is patently different from the original Bruce Banner, he doesn't have radiation and can't change into a Hulk. Of course not, says the clone, if I could change into the Hulk then the evil shadowy orginization I work for would've kept me on as a Hulk. Bruce Banner turn into the Hulk so we can have some of your blood to save Betty. No I will not turn into the Hulk in front of this guy because he might have tricks. Well, says Doc Samson, if he has tricks why wouldn't he just use them here now? Because, says Actual Bruce, you are here Doc Sampson so he might think you will tip the balance. So instead I will go off by myself with the Clone and turn into the Hulk anyways. But OH NO the clone CAN turn into a Hulk and when they come back we won't know which one survived the original or the clone because we can't do a blood test to tell the difference. The covers were awesome. The story inside not that much. 
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Jul 1, 2014 15:12
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I think its a tie in with the Spider-man event in which every Spider-man is involved.
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Jul 3, 2014 15:28
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Mr. Maltose posted:She looked like 8~10 when Steve first broke out with the baby in Cap, but a major issue is that asking a comic book artist to draw a child is such a crapshoot she might have been 5 or 15. In the very issue in question she mentions being 23
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Jul 8, 2014 05:24
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Lurdiak posted:She's not exactly human and was vat-grown, she could be 2 and it wouldn't really be an issue, would it? Like, no one would argue a girl making out with Ben Reilly was a pedophile just because he's technically 5? It's not like she looks or acts like a child or even a teen. Well they show her as a child when Ian was a baby, and time moves differently so she lived 23 years.
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Jul 8, 2014 16:14
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Unmature posted:Dude, it's mine too. I want Godzilla to gently caress up a bunch of sentinels that identify him as a mutant. Then they have to build a new sentinel called MECHAGODZILLA. I want this 
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Jul 10, 2014 19:02
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Patrick Spens posted:Wait, so Wolverine has not actually died yet, but they're releasing the comics that deal with the fallout/aftermath of him dying? Why is that happening? They released the solicitations of books they are releasing in October so retailers can order them.
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Jul 17, 2014 19:29
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prefect posted:Didn't they make Janet part-actual-wasp around the time Teen Tony was Iron Man? You can get it here http://www.amazon.com/Avengers-The-Crossing-Bob-Harras/dp/0785162038/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1406046839&sr=8-4&keywords=the+crossing+marvel
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Jul 22, 2014 17:34
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A mother box.
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Jul 24, 2014 15:07
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Leperflesh posted:Have any of the characters from Preacher shown up in a more recent comic book? No since Preacher is its own universe. They are not part of the larger DC/Vertigo Universe.
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Jul 29, 2014 17:47
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Endless Mike posted:I'm sure God has shown up here or there! God died.
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Jul 29, 2014 18:36
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Endless Mike posted:Uh, that wasn't in THE BIBLE, canon of all canon, so no, I don't think so. The preacher rear end in a top hat version did.
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Jul 29, 2014 19:26
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BadAstronaut posted:Is this a decent place to start with Guardians of the Galaxy? Yes, yes it is.
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Aug 5, 2014 15:07
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zoux posted:Sure, but be advised that this is not the team from the movie. Everyone from the movie is in it but there are also a ton of other people. Groot also says stuff besides "I am Groot". If you have the money/wherewithal try to read the Annihilation stuff as well. Also I don't like how that dude draws Rocket. I am pretty sure he does only say I am Groot in that as it was in Conquest that he "died" and returned with that trait.
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Aug 5, 2014 15:11
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prefect posted:There's a difference between the background you need and the background you might want. Or should want. Nope
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Aug 5, 2014 18:42
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lifg posted:The bundle is nice, but it's not too-great a deal. I think it's somehow cheaper to get the trades of GoG on comixology. Really? The bundle is 22.99 right now, and the trades are 3.99, 10.99, 12.99, and 10.99
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Aug 5, 2014 20:15
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SiKboy posted:Hustons run was great, Finches run was okay, Bendis shat the bed entirely*. The current run with Ellis seems pretty good so far, we can only hope that Ellis doesnt get bored and wander off before finishing it though. If you like those you can check out some of the older runs (although he has a really schizophrenic character history, hence the modern version of the character to try and explain all the different interpretations through the years). What about Daredevil?
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Aug 7, 2014 15:02
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SiKboy posted:I have to admit, i havent read much of his Daredevil. I have heard good things, but that was from someone who enjoyed his avengers run, so I didnt pay much attention. Its a character I'm not particularly fond of eing written by a writer I'm not a fan of, so I jst didnt read it. It is criticly acclaimed and one of the best runs ever on the character. His Ultimate Spider-man is also amazing and has been since issue 1.
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Skwirl posted:Who's Iron Lad? All my Avengers knowledge is post dissassembled. Read the first Young Avengers. He is a young Kang who combined with Vision.
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