What comic are you reading at the moment.

Tomb Raider 2: Secrets and Lies - Ugh, again with the covers of stuff that just doesn't happen. Like this and this. Stop it, it's unnecessary. Story itself is fine. Serves as a kinda sotra introduction for the antagonists of the second game.

The Thing: The Northman Nightmare* - One-shot available here for free if you want to go to the effort of making an account. The Thing does Vikings. I only got around to seeing the John Carpenter movie a little while ago, and like it but as a concept I'm not how much can be done without just being a retread of the movie which the comic is, just set in a different time period on the other side of the world. Basically someone needs to make a The Things like the Alien sequel.

Speaking of which:

Prometheus: The Complete Fire and Stone - "Alien vs Aliens vs Alien vs Predator vs Predator" What? No Predators? From the making-of info in the back of the book, the creators had to throw out a bunch of stuff thanks to a draft of Prometheus 2, which may or may not be Alien: Covenant by the time it shows up on screen. I'm hoping the rewrite is responsible for the story bringing in strand which I think I made an audible groan at. It's not like the movies can ever be undone by their spin-offs but there's a habit of people coming away from Aliens to make stories which I think have elements that undermine the original source. This does it , Aliens: Colonial Marines does it with (in my opinion) its face value appreciation of film and I've read that that Alien trilogy of novels takes Ripley out of stasis between movies so that does it whether it has a story worth telling or not.

I do wonder if the Fire and Stone reshuffling might also be responsible for the Xenomorph even showing up when it does as the Deacon could presumably fill the role. .

Can't say if I like Fire and Stone but it didn't feel like a waste of time. It doesn't resolve anything from Prometheus, although questions going unanswered is an element of the story, and the art's nice. The Predator aspect fits in as well as it can when the Prometheus film makes it more unlikely that they're living in the Alien universe off-screen somewhere. Still, it tries to raise Predator up to the level of Alien which is the right direction rather than Alien dropping down to meet the Predator as it were. Nothing against the Predator franchise, mind, I'm just of the opinion that it doesn't have much to say in comparison.

Nice to see Dark Horse is making another attempt at the crossover anyway.

Star Wars: Princess Leia
Star Wars: Shattered Empire - Yeah, what I've read of Marvel Star Wars output hasn't really been doing for me thus far. Having seen The Force Awakens since reading them, the reluctance to let go of the movies makes sense but I'm hoping now that Episode VII film has come and gone, the serieseseses will get more to do. The concern is that as Disney is putting out Anthology films, the books won't get any stories really worth telling because they're reserved for the cinema.

JLA 1 (The Deluxe Edition)* - I mostly enjoyed it at night. Mostly. The aim is to read Waid's run but it made sense to start at the beginning (plus I'm testing digital stuff out). Liking the varying story lengths and the pace more or less just jumping into the next adventure. Listened to Morrison's Fatman on Batman interviews between issues but they did nothing to make the angel story interesting (though they did offer a possible explanation for the execution ). Kyle Rayner Green Lantern's sassy kid thang gets annoying at times when he's not there to annoy The Flash and the Aztek cameo is a horrible flashback to my experience reading the tedious Aztek book. And that darn overpowered ring. It should not be able to make a functioning telephone booth. I still struggle to believe DC characters hang out together. Most of it is worth a look. Particularly that one-shot.

The Flash: The Return of Barry Allen* - Technically, I read The Flash #74-#79 but TPB names help me keep track. so it was a fun ride. Already knew certain plot details going in. Didn't really matter. That was awfully convenient. Should have been or something.

Captain America: Man Out of Time* - This be good too though I felt was a bit too easy. so the sacrifice isn't as big.

Avengers 2 (Hickman HC)
New Avengers 2 (Hickman HC) - Read New Avengers before Avengers though they've been released out of sync anyway and it really needs Infinity read alongside it. Yes to the Illuminati, no to Infinity tie-ins, Reed Richards is still the worst.

The Amazing Spider-Man Big Time Complete Collection 3 - Human Torch doing is the best. Always a pleasure when Slott puts Spider-Man and Johnny Storm together. Not like that evil Marvel making me have to read an Inhumans book to keep up with what Torch is doing.

*Digital version

Just finished X-men - Messiah Complex, Messiah War and The Second Coming..

Fairly grim and hard hitting stuff... The x-men ard mutants in general are having some difficult times. I hadn´t read recent x-men stories before, so there were a lot of new characters I had to deal with.

I enjoyed it immensely. I downloaded it, so viewing it on a tablet is becoming the norm for me. I can also quickly wikipedia who is who when I`m a bit lost...

L.S.F wrote: »

Just finished the final book of Secret Wars, a slight bit of confusion as it is the only current thing I read since Doc Ock was Spidey.

The way I took the end after

Reed was given Doom's power was that he's creating planets/solar systems and sending the heroes back to them? Staying on Battleworld (or his own planet) doing this with his family but not bringing Ben or Johnny back (or could he even?).

When the Spider-men were sent back to New York is this 616 or a completely different timeline? I cam to the conclusion that the Ultimate universe (Earth-1610) is no longer?

Only got back into Marvel/comics after a 10+ years hiatus through the Graphic Novel collection so didn't know much about Thanos' crew or The Maker

Is this just Reed Richards from a different timeline?

but what I didn't get was why did he

de-evolve Reed before he got pizzaed?

Have only read each one once, so it's over a long time span so possibly forgot a lot of the story but enjoyed it. Currently reading AvX but know the main part at the end and have Civil War to read too and I know the bones of this storyline.

To help you with some of your questions:
616 is no more. The Ultimate Universe and 616 both ceased to be at the end of Secret Wars #1. Inbetwene there was Battleworld and now there is Earth-Prime, which is where both Spider-Men were at the end of that issue.

As for the Maker, he's actually Ultimate Reed Richards. Started off as a good guy in Ultimate Fantastic Four #1 (Mark Millar) a few years ago and slowly progressed into a bad egg as the Ultimate Universe developed. It was actually Hickman that had him take on 'The Maker' persona during his own stint on Ultimates a few years back.

Hickman built toward this through years of other books; Avengers and New Avengers, Ultimates and Fantastic Four. Taken as a epic tale, it's quite an achievement, in my view.

e_e wrote: »

Continually impressed by Image Comics. Not just the quality of writing but the lack of ads, each comic having its own unique aesthetic and even the quality of paper it's printed on.

SNAP! You said it, Image is seal of quality these days. I don't know anything about Cry Havoc but after the likes of Southern Bastards, Paper Girls and Injection I'm finding myself jumping on for most issue #1s just to make sure I don't miss the boat on a great series.

CastorTroy wrote: »

courtesy of humble bundle

There have been some great humble comic bundles of late. Picked up all of Mark Waid's Irredeemable just before Christmas and Image's recent treasure trove of comics to boot. Great stuff.

Gonna Start 100 Bullets tomorow and probably Preacher after that need to step out of the Marvel/DC bubble

Howdy,

Not sure if this is worth starting a separate thread over so I'll just ask here:
Has anyone here ordered comics with forbiddenplanet.com via parcel motel in the past?

I put an order through two weeks ago and am getting a ancy at this stage. It's my first time using either service.

Used the recent Image Humble Bundle to branch out from the be two and try some new books. Have loved the diversion of genuine Sci-Fi from my usual super hero diet.

Low and The Injection have completely caught my imagination and I'm going to be egerly awaiting the next collections.

Jupiters Circle and Bitch Planet were both also really enjoyable but They didn't seem as intriguing to me.

Still tonnes of stuff left to read, best bundle in ages, absolutely unbeatable for $20, practically free at that price.

Chew volume 9, with Volume 10 waiting for me afterwards.

Only 2 more volumes to go after these 2, since only 60 issues planned.

Making my way through the Spider-Man series printed in the Panini/Easons "collection". Each book has two comics of modern era and one of yesteryear. Just finished the American Son story and how
Enjoying the who story tho, picked up after the events of civil war, some issues are a bit forgettable and some are very good. 100+ issues to go now When I'm finished these I'll go back and read the classic arc as found trying to follow both at the same time not as enjoyable