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I dislike events because I have no interest in buying 20 books a week to get w full complete story. I will buy a self contained book each time it comes out, but I'll wait for entire events to be on Unlimited before I'll read an actual event.
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LordPants posted:What are the great Marvel books right now? I'm out of the loop and instead I'm reading terrible X-Books. Are you reading Wolverine? It's pretty good. Otherwise, Mockingbird, Ultimates, Black Widow, Spider-Woman, Silk, New Avengers, Squirrel Girl and Hellcat are all books I look forward to reading each month (well, 2 of them only have 1 issue, but they're awesome). Spider-Man, ASM, ANAD Avengers and Power Man & Iron Fist are like one tier below.
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Mar 20, 2016 00:46
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New Avengers is probably my favorite Marvel book right now anything Al Ewing writes is gold
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Captain Marvel is my favorite, but Contest of Champions and Ultimates are in my Top 5 as well (along with Amazing Spider-Man and Spider-Woman),
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Captain Marvel is good now? That's nice to hear. I'm way behind and haven't been paying attention to current stuff.
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Mar 20, 2016 03:38
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Aphrodite posted:Captain Marvel is good now? Yes. Plus having Puck as a supporting character doesn't hurt.
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Mar 20, 2016 04:01
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CM also made all of Alpha Flight awesome.
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Mar 20, 2016 04:54
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I have been informed by someone in the know that "Marvel hasn't been any good for at least 15 years and their sales prove it, they're doing worse than they ever have." He then cited the female Thor as an example of driving readers away.
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Yeah, I've seen a couple of people bring that up, most of whom were salty over Sam as Cap, Jane as Thor, Laura as Wolverine, or Miles in the 616. http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2016/2016-02.html Actual data seems to indicate that Marvel's doing rather well, and that Jane as Thor sells respectably. Marvel's market share obviously owes a great deal to Star Wars books, but even without them, they'd command a sizable chunk of the market. I suspect that for every older fan who's annoyed over the current Marvel line-up, there may be a new reader or two to take his or her (but probably his) place.
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http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2016/2016-01.html Quick google shows comic sales for january, the last full month. It takes until position 8 before a DC book comes up, and that's loving Batman. Its pretty much all Marvel books until 24 which is Batman and TMNT. Basically, unless its a Batman book or Batman related, and its DC, its after pretty much everything Marvel puts out, and lower than Image stuff like Walking Dead. Anecdotally, I'm seeing this in my store and in my friends store. Lots of people are dropping DC stuff from their pulls, except for Batman stuff, but Marvel stuff is still on there. EDIT: haha, same idea there. But most of my customers and generally people I talk to outside of SA about comics, they love the crap out of the new characters they've introduced. It probably helps that Jane and Laura's books have been super strong. I'm not the only one who doesn't care if they ever return to the old ways. I admit I would like to see Steve as Cap again, but I know that's coming, but It's not something I would get upset about. Speaking of Jane Foster Thor, in the last issue, is that Ultimate Thor's hammer in old Asgard that I figure Odinson was trying to get? What's the story there? twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Mar 20, 2016 |
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twistedmentat posted:http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2016/2016-01.html Read Secret Wars: Law and Hammers
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bobkatt013 posted:Read Secret Wars: Law and Hammers Cracka-doom Cracka-doom!!!! I need to grab that. It's the only SW book I wanted to pick up but didn't because I already had too many on the go.
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Mar 20, 2016 06:49
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Although all that aside, the prices on the books cannot be helping. Individual issues just aren't a good value for money, regardless of how fun they are to read, and you can definitely see that reflected in the general sales.
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I was worried about Marvel not having Hickman, Remender, or Fraction, but they are doing insanely well. Not a dud in the bunch besides maybe the X books.
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Mar 20, 2016 10:44
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Nah Hercules is for sure a dud. At least the writing is, the art is pretty great though.
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Mar 20, 2016 10:58
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I dunno. After a few years of Hickman, I'm missing something really compelling in the Avengers books. Pleasant Hill sure ain't no Infinity. I like a few things. I love Vision. But I'm definitely not feeling for ANAD what I was at the start of the Now! era. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Mar 20, 2016 |
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Mar 20, 2016 11:06
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X-O posted:Nah Hercules is for sure a dud. At least the writing is, the art is pretty great though. That's gotta be on the chopping block. I think what I'm trying to say is that Marvel currently has some good editors. They're a well oiled machine while DC is trying to reinvent the wheel.
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Mar 20, 2016 11:59
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X-O posted:Nah Hercules is for sure a dud. At least the writing is, the art is pretty great though. Hercules is better than Amazing. I can't believe anyone would top 5 that book, except Slott himself. I don't even really hate the idea of successful Peter Parker, but ugh. Hercules has some missed but I like someone trying to do American Gods in comic form in the Marvel U.
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Well I caught up with Captain Marvel based on the response here and yeah it's good. I was initially annoyed by all the "HURM HUR ALIEN DIPLOMACY BOOORING DESK JOB JUST WANNA PUNCH THINGS DUR" but that's just for the first issue and it already has good hook to it and most importantly, unlike anything KSD ever did on the book, it has a strong supporting cast.
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PaybackJack posted:Hercules is better than Amazing. I can't believe anyone would top 5 that book, except Slott himself. I don't even really hate the idea of successful Peter Parker, but ugh. Hercules has some missed but I like someone trying to do American Gods in comic form in the Marvel U. Have you been keeping up on it? I'm Dan Slott hateboy #1 and even I love it. Silver Surfer is still bad though. Aside from the art.
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All I want from Civil War II is someone telling Carol that she doesn't know what Snapchat or UFC are. Bendis' events have mostly been bad, House of M was just sort of badly paced, Secret Invasion was pretty disjointed and just really unsatisfying, Siege was at least short.
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Rhyno posted:Have you been keeping up on it? I'm Dan Slott hateboy #1 and even I love it. No, no, no. Noo. If you 'love' it, we're taking your membership card. gently caress Dan Slott.
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Mar 20, 2016 20:12
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Veg posted:No, no, no. Noo. If you 'love' it, we're taking your membership card. He's clearly back on his meds dude.
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Creative team on Vote Loki is Chris Hastings and Langdon Foss, and for anyone worried Hastings didn't read the Ewing run:Chris Hastings posted:So much of a presidential campaign is about perception and narrative. Truth can get muddy depending on context or lost details, and sometimes the truth even gets flat out ignored by the media and the people because there's an easier narrative that's slightly less true but easier or more attractive to follow. Loki isn't just the god of lies, he's the god of stories. Manipulating narrative will be what this is all about. quote:We want Loki to remain mysterious and keep some tricks up his sleeve throughout this story, so we're framing it from the point of view of a political journalist who reports on Loki throughout the campaign. She has a voice the reader can trust. It sounds pretty great.
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Mar 20, 2016 21:52
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PaybackJack posted:Hercules is better than Amazing. Well that's just wrong.
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A complete and detailed run of how all of Marvel's current books are: Good Current Books: ANAD Avengers, Daredevil, Ms. Marvel GREAT Current Books: Mighty Avengers, Squirrel Girl, Red Wolf TERRIBLE Current Books: Old Man Logan, Punisher, Silver Surfer REAL TERRIBLE Current Books: All-New X-Men, Illuminati, Thor BONKERS Current Books: Hercules, Black Widow, Gamora MAKES ME WANT TO PISS STRAIGHT IN THE AIR Current Books: Ant-Man, Agents of SHIELD, Power Man & Iron Fist BLOODPISS INDUCING Current Books: Guardians of the Galaxy, Spidey-Man, Spider-Woman, Hulk NOT EVEN BEING PUBLISHED CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW WHAT THE gently caress Books: New Avengers, Captain Marvel, All-New Wolverine vvv EDIT:Forgot about Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man, and Howard the Duck.There's all solid Ds out of 5s Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Mar 20, 2016 |
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Mar 20, 2016 22:34
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I don't read spider-man anymore but Hercules is worse then anything I endured clinging to Spidey under Slott's garbage work. Before anybody starts telling me how I should pick up amazing because it's better, I don't care get off mah porch.
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Mar 20, 2016 22:36
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Edge & Christian posted:A complete and detailed run of how all of Marvel's current books are: Why don't you go bloodpiss somewhere else if you're that bothered.
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Mar 20, 2016 22:38
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What does any of that even mean?
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Rhyno posted:What does any of that even mean? It means he doesn't like people talking about liking or disliking books unless they can write a 2000 word post on why they do or don't like something.
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Mar 20, 2016 22:40
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I think that's wrong, but I respect your opinion.
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Mar 20, 2016 22:41
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X-O posted:It means he doesn't like people talking about liking or disliking books unless they can write a 2000 word post on why they do or don't like something. Oooooh, so same poo poo as 10 years ago. Got it.
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Mar 20, 2016 22:43
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Edge & Christian posted:I think that's wrong, but I respect your opinion. Nah, I think it's right. You always pull this really passive aggressive whiny poo poo when people just want to express to their opinions in some offhand way. You do it all the time. I'm sorry that you think everyone should have to defend every one of their opinions down to the last detail but they don't. Sometimes people want to say what they think in a short concise way and move on. An opinion isn't any less valid because it's not backed up by three paragraphs of reasoned arguments. If you don't like that kind of conversation then that's just too bad. It's going to happen on any forum whether you like it or not. And bitching about it passive aggressively with bullshit posts like the above is likely to have the opposite effect you want it to have. There are times when people will want to discuss things in detail and times when they won't.
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I feel like there's a happy medium between "2000 word posts" and "it is good", like "literally providing a sentence or sentence fragment describing what you like or dislike about something" but it's not up to me.
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Now, is wanting to piss straight into the air a good, bad, or neutral thing? <has clipboard out, pen uncapped, wears jaunty fedora with 'PRESS' card wedged under brim>
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Question from the audience: "Pissed straight into the air" is a reaction described by noted wrestling journalist/dad Bryan Alvarez upon seeing a wrestling match. I do not remember if he ever clarified what it meant, but it stuck with me. I believe it means whatever the viewer wants it to mean, which is how the best reviews work.
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Wanderer posted:Now, is wanting to piss straight into the air a good, bad, or neutral thing? I guess it all depends on if you can determine how much blood will be in it before you start.
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Edge & Christian posted:I feel like there's a happy medium between "2000 word posts" and "it is good", like "literally providing a sentence or sentence fragment describing what you like or dislike about something" but it's not up to me. I get that. I also think there's a happy medium between just ignoring the parts of the ongoing conversations you don't like and posting poo poo like this: Edge & Christian posted:A complete and detailed run of how all of Marvel's current books are: I mean just let people have their opinions and jump in when you have one of your own or want to ask them expound on something they posted. You don't have to post garbage like this that helps nothing.
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X-O posted:I get that. I also think there's a happy medium between just ignoring the parts of the ongoing conversations you don't like and posting poo poo like this: I mean just let people have their opinions and jump in when you have one of your own or want to ask them expound on something they posted. You don't have to post garbage like this that helps nothing.
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Edge & Christian posted:I feel like the alternatives are "just don't read the forum" (which I realize is probably the logical one) and "post multi-sentence opinions that are just ignored" and you're right, neither of them are "post garbage". Well I don't want you to go with "just don't read the forum" because I generally actually enjoy the things you post about. The thing is, it's kind of hard to reconcile the person that posted that above is also the person that posts something great like: Edge & Christian posted:The "TV season" model was actually a thing a lot of creators talked about circa 2000 or so. I mean I love reading the stuff you post when you're not doing that passive aggressive poo poo. So I'd rather "just don't read the forum" not be your chosen alternative.
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