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Just caught up on All-New X-Factor #2 and #3. It's not bad, but not terribly good either. I'll give it a couple of more issues, but if it really doesn't pick up I'll be dropping it. Actually, I tell a lie. The reveal of Snow being kinda evil felt a bit ham-handed. I'm not sure if it would have had more impact being revealed later, or if we were supposed to just assume he was evil.
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Suben posted:I am so loving happy to see Aaron finally gone from the X-Men and in favor of Yost to boot! Now if only Bendis could leave and Marvel brings back Carey to replace him.
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Mar 10, 2014 23:41
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So apparently Gambit has the power to restore robots memories by kissing them. Also, 
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Mar 25, 2014 16:18
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SynthOrange posted:Magic hole. Stuff goes in, stuff comes out different. Sometimes it even comes out asian.  Red posted:Didn't Claremont say (in writing) that those who enter are judged? Judged by whom? Shawn posted:I remember being a kid and trying to wrap my head around the Siege Perilous, where it came from, how it worked, why it worked that way and always failing. I always just assumed there was some issue out there that I hadn't read. As I got older and filled in my X-men collection I realized that Claremont had simply painted himself into a corner with Fall of the Mutants and the Outback Era and needed a Deus Ex Machina for a magic out.
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Apr 1, 2014 11:58
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I'm still not sure if I'm reading X-Factor just because Doug and Warlock are in it, or if I'm actually enjoying reading it.
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Apr 18, 2014 11:32
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Yeah the colouring really bothers me, it looks so bland and washed out. I don't think the art's great, either, though.
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Apr 18, 2014 14:29
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I thought Gillen's X-Men was incredibly bland and I didn't particularly like how he wrote most of the characters. I only read the 2nd half of it though (Vol. 2).
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Apr 18, 2014 20:14
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Yawn.
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Apr 25, 2014 14:45
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If they're going to use this to end the Schism, I'd much rather they kill off Cyclops. What's going to happen to Wolverine's multiple ongoings, I wonder?
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Apr 25, 2014 15:11
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bobkatt013 posted:X-23. As for the eating of comic I will if Wolverine remains dead longer than 6 months. Oh I am going to regret this, aren't I? 
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Apr 25, 2014 15:55
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Waterhaul posted:When did they announce a Storm ongoing? I don't think having a one shot of a character is taking a chance, especially when they've already done it for a million other characters.
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Apr 25, 2014 20:59
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IUG posted:No one talks about the other books a whole lot. Not one person posted in this thread that Doug Ramsey appears to be dead again. I hope that girl has some powers that make guys want to help her or something because this issue was kinda weird, I don't know why Lorna went along with it.
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May 16, 2014 10:56
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twistedmentat posted:So whats up between Rogue and Magneto? Every time I see them together Erik is awkwardly flirting with her, and she doesn't seem to mind. I was reading Legacy last night and Magneto straight up asks her to marry him in the middle of AvsX.
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May 16, 2014 20:32
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Schneider Heim posted:Messiah Complex, Second Coming, Dark Phoenix Saga and Schism collections are on sale in Comixology. What are the good ones?
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May 20, 2014 09:47
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The logical point for him to leave would be just before he actually did - before he launched the 2nd X-men title. He had pretty much wrapped up all the plot threads he'd been working on at that point anyway. I guess after Uncanny #200 would have been a good point too, although it would have left the next writer with a status quo of Xavier on his deathbed and gone to space, Magneto in charge of the X-Men, and the originals forming X-Factor. Simonson writing the 3 books (X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutants) might not have been bad.
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May 20, 2014 22:50
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It's actually a fairly story-relevant cover. The story involves Havok having nightmares about the X-Men attacking him, so he goes to New York to find out why. He finds the mansion deserted, but is able to track down the X-Men by following Magneto to the Morlock tunnels. They reveal that he had been there already, but that Psylocke had mind-wiped him so that he couldn't remember (at the time, the team were trying to stay hidden from the Marauders, and were trying to protect their friends and families by not letting them know where they were). In the end, he decides to join the team to help them. The cover in question though is a direct homage to this one 
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May 25, 2014 17:20
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MY ABACUS! posted:Speaking of Blink, what is 616-Blink or AOA/Exiles-Blink up to these days? It would make sense to stick one of them in a book since she's a character in the new movie.
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May 27, 2014 10:02
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twistedmentat posted:So, why was Rachael Grey always drawn to look like a stereotypical lesbian in the 80s and 90s?
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May 29, 2014 19:02
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Excalibur had the best covers
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May 29, 2014 19:34
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radlum posted:So Excalibur did what Exiles was about years before? You got me; is the series collected as Essentials or just TPB? There is a series of Excalibur Classic tbps, no Essential volumes for it though.
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May 29, 2014 23:39
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I read it for the first time recently and it's not too bad. It's very 90s in a lot of ways, but the story is pretty good. I do kinda like X-tinction Agenda too, though.
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Jun 9, 2014 14:18
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X-Cutioner's Song is better than Battle of the Atom, things actually happen in it between the 1st and last issues.
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Jun 9, 2014 19:28
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Web Jew.0 posted:Was there anything Jean Grey couldn't do?
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Jun 14, 2014 20:06
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Yeah I wish that instead of Bendis X-Men comics, we got to read about the X-Men from the Silver Age.
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Jun 22, 2014 22:01
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Hakkesshu posted:I read the monthly issues and I liked most of it, too. But I did ultimately think it was pretty disposable; I couldn't tell you what happened if you put a gun to my head. The only good thing about Battle of the Atom was Ice Gandalf.
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Jun 27, 2014 17:03
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Simonson apparently killed Doug off because she thought all the readers hated him, because they used to just get constant letters into the office about how useless/boring he was. After Fall of the Mutants, the letters changed to "I can't believe you killed off Doug! He was my favourite character!" The latest X-Force was loving amazing, holy poo poo. My only complaint with it is that the narrations are waaaaay too similar in style to David Haller's in Legacy.
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Jul 3, 2014 09:42
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IUG posted:You just have to wait for Marrow's turn to narrate again, baby. 
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Jul 3, 2014 12:39
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Benny the Snake posted:I fell for Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique in the Days of Future Past film. Has the character ever had a solo series? I can't find one in the OP. What are some good Mystique-central arcs/storylines? Mystique had a solo series between 2004 and 2006. I'm a big fan of it, it was a pretty fun spy book. Brian K. Vaughan (Saga) wrote the first 13 issues of it, then Sean McKeever took over. Unfortunately, it only lasted another 10-12 issues before being cancelled, but they were able to wrap up the main storyline at least. Oh hey, I had no idea but the whole thing has been collected! That's awesome. http://www.amazon.com/Mystique-Brian-Vaughan-Ultimate-Collection/dp/0785155112/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404460880&sr=8-1&keywords=mystique http://www.amazon.com/Mystique-Sean-McKeever-Ultimate-Collection/dp/078515521X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1404460880&sr=8-5&keywords=mystique Aside from that, she has mostly been portrayed as a villain. If you want some good Mystique stuff, you can check out the original Claremont/Byrne Days of Future Past story. She also features a little bit during the X-Men story of Fall of the Mutants. She was a member of X-Factor during the 90s, but I'm not sure if any of that has been collected. More recently, you could check out the start of Mike Carey's run on X-Men, where she was a member of the team: http://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Supernovas-Mike-Carey/dp/0785123199 You may be able to find all or some of this stuff on Comixology or Marvel Unlimited if digital is your thing. irlZaphod fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Jul 4, 2014 |
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Yeah, McKeever's Marvel work was definitely pretty good overall, for whatever reason (be it editorial interference or what) his DC stuff was fairly awful (although I only read a bit of TT).
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I think probably the only thing which "matters" is the stuff involving Rogue, since it's referenced later on when Dazzler joins the X-Men. e: Oh, and the Dazzler: The Movie OGN since it's also referenced later (although if you don't read the OGN, you can experience that later issue just like Alison does.  )
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Jul 8, 2014 09:52
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Yeah it was in Uncanny #259-260.
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Jul 8, 2014 16:22
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Endless Mike posted:The loss of The Face is truly the greatest sin of the New 52.
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Like X-Men: Legacy was, X-Force is the best X-book that you're all not reading.
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Unmature posted:What? That's actually really funny. I love the unfinished "The manager is" tweet.
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Jul 16, 2014 13:41
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"I've got Xavier's will here." "Xavier's will?" "Yeah." "Is he dead? I didn't think Xavier was dead." "Sure he's dead, he was killed by the Phoenix Five." "Xavier? Wow... Wait, Phoenix Five? I thought there was just one of them." "You don't remember the Phoenix Five? When they killed Xavier?" "Phoenix Five? Killed Xavier? Wow."
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Jul 16, 2014 16:19
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You can't probate the truth.
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Jul 16, 2014 17:00
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CharlestheHammer posted:I will be interested in how exactly they are going to end the schism.
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Jul 17, 2014 08:56
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The thing is that it wasn't just Deadly Genesis, there was some "Wow, Xavier is a bit of an rear end in a top hat" stuff in Astonishing X-Men, which was published close to the same time too, so it just seemed we got a bunch of stories revealing that Xavier had a dark and shadowy past. It's understandable that there are feelings that we don't really need another one. So, Brian Wood's X-Men just sort of...fizzled out. That whole thing, despite a reasonably promising start, was seriously just "meh".
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Aug 5, 2014 09:37
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PaybackJack posted:Other than X-Factor I'm done reading X-Men books. I started to run with Cyclops then saw that Rucka is leaving the book so no thanks. None of Bendis stuff is any good, and the other books are meandering aimless crap. Update the thread title if Bendis actually decides to write something good or if another writer of talent starts writing something good. Oh I'm still on Cable & X-Force because while it's not great, it's interesting and different.  ) It's probably the best X-book since, well, X-Men Legacy. I'm actually on the verge of dropping X-Factor because, while it's not bad, I'm just really not digging it all that much.
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