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Lurdiak posted:You just made me remember the guy from Smallville who got slight nerve damage in his hands from a car accident that made it harder for him to paint, but also gained telekinesis from the same incident, and he felt that was apparently a bad trade and went on a murderous revenge spree. Dude just wanted to fit in with the rest of the ~*METEOR FREAKS*~
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Last night's episode of Limitless (a surprisingly fun, clever, creative show, especially considering it's a procedural on CBS) had several comic artists contributing animated art for different flashbacks and fantasy sequences, including Nick Pitarra, Annie Wu, and Babs Tarr: http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/02/18/limitless-new-sands-centric-episode-gets-comic-booky
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I subbed to Marvel Unlimited for a month and have no idea what to read so I just clicked all of the things in the Discover tab and added random books that sounded interesting is there any external website that has 'playlists' for particular runs that aren't covered in the events tab?
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Feb 24, 2016 22:06
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KoldPT posted:I subbed to Marvel Unlimited for a month and have no idea what to read so I just clicked all of the things in the Discover tab and added random books that sounded interesting Yeah tons. Do what I did when I first subbed and just google "what to read on Marvel Unlimited" there are a bunch of posts and blogs out there. My personal, continuity-light favorite runs are Immortal Iron Fist and Thor God of Thunder.
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zoux posted:Yeah tons. Do what I did when I first subbed and just google "what to read on Marvel Unlimited" there are a bunch of posts and blogs out there. I feel like i've read most commonly mentioned runs, but i'll take a look so far, highlights: - planet hulk is good - world war hulk was ok, the tie-ins were terrible - my younger brother wanted to read deadpool and he ended up just reading GOTG pretty much - gonna read all of fraction's stuff!
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Feb 24, 2016 22:10
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Read Jim Starlin's Warlock and Walt Simonson's Thor, I think those are both complete on Unlimited
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Feb 24, 2016 22:14
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KoldPT posted:I feel like i've read most commonly mentioned runs, but i'll take a look Don't forget!  It's a huge pain in the rear end up front, but whenever you decide to tackle some huge event or cross run, just grab your reading list and go through and put the books into you library one at a time. It gets ordered by date so it's much less in a hassle (once the initial hassle is over) Also whenever you inevitably think "hmmm what if I just read all the X-men books from the beginning...." it's missing a ton of stuff in the 80's and 90's for all the X-titles.
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Feb 24, 2016 22:17
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KoldPT posted:I subbed to Marvel Unlimited for a month and have no idea what to read so I just clicked all of the things in the Discover tab and added random books that sounded interesting Thor God of Thunder.
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I'm a big fan of the reader's club for finding new stuff. I don't listen to the associated podcast, but I generally check to see what it's recommending.
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KoldPT posted:I feel like i've read most commonly mentioned runs, but i'll take a look
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CapnAndy posted:No, then we end up killing the good ones who fund useful causes and invent cool poo poo too. I'm willing to bet Zuckerberg votes Democratic and I'd have zero issue gutting him from his taint to his jaw bone.
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Is it possible to crowdfund Land's permanent retirement from the business?
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Feb 25, 2016 00:38
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Make Ramos a stretch goal please.
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RevKrule posted:Don't do this. Don't do this at all. Fraction did have some interesting stuff with Marvel (knife gun!) but his Uncanny X-men was middling at best and constantly torn down by Greg Land art. Also he wrote Fear Itself. That alone should keep you from reading everything he did for Marvel. To be fair it probably wouldn't have been that bad as the original Cap/Thor story it was envisioned as. I mean, "evil god makes (basically) a bunch of evil Thors" sounds good on paper. But then Marvel had to event it up, as they are wont to do.
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TwoPair posted:To be fair it probably wouldn't have been that bad as the original Cap/Thor story it was envisioned as. I mean, "evil god makes (basically) a bunch of evil Thors" sounds good on paper. But then Marvel had to event it up, as they are wont to do. I think it would've made a pretty good contained event but also Fraction was running pretty meh in his Thor run before Fear Itself so I'm not sure he would've handled it amazingly. Fraction has done some great stuff and some of his all time best has been at Marvel but he never got a good voice for Asgard at all. But yes, I agree he got screwed worse and basically setup to fail when they wanted to push a Cap/Thor line wide event because they had a couple movies coming out.
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RevKrule posted:Don't do this. Don't do this at all. Fraction did have some interesting stuff with Marvel (knife gun!) but his Uncanny X-men was middling at best and constantly torn down by Greg Land art. Also he wrote Fear Itself. That alone should keep you from reading everything he did for Marvel. Fraction's Iron Fist, Hawkeye, and Iron Man are all high points of Marvel to me. His other Marvel stuff though... If I'd only read Uncanny X-Men and Fear Itself, I'd swear off his books by reputation alone.
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Space Fish posted:Fraction's Iron Fist, Hawkeye, and Iron Man are all high points of Marvel to me. Remender is pretty hot and cold for me as well. As for fraction and FI: how much can you blame someone for an event series, I mean isn't editorial all over them all the time?
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Fraction for me is one of those writers where he'll write like five books and I'll really dislike three of them and really love the other two. He's the very definition of hit and miss for me. Sometimes even in the same title. For instance I loved the majority of Hawkeye but once he split them up and did the Kate goes to LA stuff the book just took a nosedive. Not helped by the massive delays. In the good pile I'd throw in the first 2/3 of Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist, Fantastic Four/FF, The Order, The Defenders, and Sex Criminals. And in the bad pile I'd throw in everything else I've read by him including some Iron Man, some X-Men, some Thor, Fear Itself, Punisher, ODY-C. X-O fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Feb 25, 2016 |
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Defenders only lasting twelve issues is loving criminal. It had poo poo sales for a book with such a good creative team.
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Fear Itself was the first big event that I, a comics noob who was just uncritically enamored with the medium, thought was really bad. However, Gillen's tie in is a great book in spite of the art. Did he ever write any other runs, there are some real iconic moments in those books especially for just being a tie in to some halfassed crossover.
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zoux posted:Fear Itself was the first big event that I, a comics noob who was just uncritically enamored with the medium, thought was really bad. However, Gillen's tie in is a great book in spite of the art. Did he ever write any other runs, there are some real iconic moments in those books especially for just being a tie in to some halfassed crossover. Journey into mystery and uncanny x-men after schism
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Space Fish posted:Fraction's Iron Fist, Hawkeye, and Iron Man are all high points of Marvel to me. To be fair, he also wrote Sensational Spider-man Annual, and that was fantastic.
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zoux posted:Fear Itself was the first big event that I, a comics noob who was just uncritically enamored with the medium, thought was really bad. However, Gillen's tie in is a great book in spite of the art. Did he ever write any other runs, there are some real iconic moments in those books especially for just being a tie in to some halfassed crossover. Now here is where you start reading his non-marvel work. 
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Way ahead of you.
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bobkatt013 posted:Journey into mystery and uncanny x-men after schism He also had a brief run on Thor between JMS and Fraction that made me really sad that they didn't just promise Matt a Thor miniseries or something and leave Kieron on the main book. SWORD was also a super-fun short-lived book by Gillen and Steve Sanders (and stop whining about how Beast looks, I can hear you already).
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I didn't want to say this in the funny pictures thread and ruin their fun but man Squirrel Girl is the comic book version of those YouTube videos where a quirky white girl plays a ukulele cover of a metal song or gangsta rap.
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Travis343 posted:I didn't want to say this in the funny pictures thread and ruin their fun but man Squirrel Girl is the comic book version of those YouTube videos where a quirky white girl plays a ukulele cover of a metal song or gangsta rap. Wow reductive and inaccurate, it's the perfect chat thread fight starter.
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Who reads Squirrel Girl besides like five nerds..."Entertainment Weekly's best super hero comic of the year!" See!? Nobody likes Squirrel Girl!
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Travis343 posted:I didn't want to say this in the funny pictures thread and ruin their fun but man Squirrel Girl is the comic book version of those YouTube videos where a quirky white girl plays a ukulele cover of a metal song or gangsta rap. Oh man, I feel this way about roughly 75% of the comics that are forum darlings on here. Good luck!
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Travis343 posted:I didn't want to say this in the funny pictures thread and ruin their fun but man Squirrel Girl is the comic book version of those YouTube videos where a quirky white girl plays a ukulele cover of a metal song or gangsta rap. I was just thinking the same thing, except in my mind the voice saying this sounds much dopier and dumb.
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The pro takedown would be "written like a Pomplamoose cover sounds", workshop your drat hot takes more people.
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Squirrel Girl is good and cool.
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I really like Nina Gordon's cover of Straight Outta Compton.
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I'm glad people like Squirrel Girl. I don't want to put people down for liking it. Just had to get that off my chest. As long as I'm here, Deadpool is like the comic book version of Old GBS.
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Patsy Walker Hellcat is ukelele covers and you know it! Or whatever the hell that thing is where they cover songs in old styles? Post-modern jukebox?
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trashbuilder posted:Patsy Walker Hellcat is ukelele covers and you know it! My least favourite LMFAO track.
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trashbuilder posted:Patsy Walker Hellcat is ukelele covers and you know it! Or whatever the hell that thing is where they cover songs in old styles? Post-modern jukebox? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUnGn8jpN00 It's Patsyyyyyy, Patsyyyyyy. I really want to be your friend and hope this day will never end.
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Also, random point, but I really, really wish Michael Bay had decided to make the Transformers movies centred around Rachael Taylor instead of Megan Fox and The Beef. Well, not REALLY, because she wouldn't be Hellcat, but still.
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Travis343 posted:I'm glad people like Squirrel Girl. I don't want to put people down for liking it. Just had to get that off my chest. I agree, actually. Same with Batgirl.
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Die Laughing posted:Who reads Squirrel Girl besides like five nerds..."Entertainment Weekly's best super hero comic of the year!" See!? Nobody likes Squirrel Girl! Last year someone suggested (seriously, as far as I can tell) that Squirrel Girl was designed to fail so that Marvel didn't have to keep making stuff with a female lead.
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