What comic are you reading at the moment.

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Accepted wisdom is that it's the absolute worst. It was a pain for me to read...

A total pain, it made no sense.

Avengers: Ahhh the Phoenix is coming, the world is over nobody can control that.
Me: Couldn't Rachel Grey?
Scott: No one could before but Hope will be able to. She looks kinda like my dead wife who couldn't/then kind of could/then merged with it and lives on a higher plain with it but isn't part of it for the purposes of this story/or something. But Hope definitely can. I just know it.
Me: What about Rachel, your sort of daughter?
Avengers: We don't believe you Scott, we need to take Hope for reasons.
Me: Maybe someone could call Rachel?
Wolverine: If Jeanie could handle it then Hope can't. I'll kill her if I have to.
Me: Rachel?
Rest of X-Men: We stand with Scott. There is no other member of our ranks who knows anything else about this.
Me: Did Rachel die or something?
Disney: We can use this to split up Black Panther and Storm as we want to make a BP movie and Fox have the rights to Ororo.
Me: Fine, it was weird that you retconned their whole past into all Africans just knowing each other anyway, tiny underpopulated continent that it isn't.
Hope: I'll try my best to control the Phoenix even though I'm nervous as nobody else has ever done so.
Me: So maybe Rachel went off to some other dimension and no-one remembers she existed?
Rachel: Ummm I controlled the Phoenix just fine.
Me: At last, some continuity.
Avengers, X-Men and the whole event completely ignores this major flaw in the whole ****ing story and continue of to make no sense so Marvel/Disney can make all the money.

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Of all the tv/movie versions of comics floating around at the moment, I really think Fox is missing a beat with not creating an X-Factor show.

Second. Even if Madrox was the only mutant in it, you'd think X-Factor would get a look-in as a TV premise well before Legion.

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Legion's getting a show?! How did I miss that...?! Is it gonna be canon with the movies?

Legion's occupying a parallel universe or something and Hellfire's seemingly in limbo (not that one).

http://comicsalliance.com/tags/legion/
http://comicsalliance.com/tags/hellfire/

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Singles the last couple of weeks:



X-Factor vol. 3 The Many Lives of Maddrox - I really like this run. It feels like no one should ever write this book except Peter David. Of all the tv/movie versions of comics floating around at the moment, I really think Fox is missing a beat with not creating an X-Factor show.

It was a great run. Jamie really does belong to him now.
It's one of my favorite series to reread.

The walking dead volume 3 and it's quite different of what happens in the tv series.

And I'm also reading Sex Criminals

DragonBall 1 through 5 (VizBig Editions) - Re-read to scratch an itch that came about after the DBZ: Resurrection 'F' DVD release. I don't care for the book name-dropping the sequel series cause it puts a question mark on what else has been altered and not just translated. Such as Bulma asking if Goku is an alien ( in Jaco the Galactic Patrolman). Toriyama still has a thing for poop jokes and the inconsistent censorship of the art for what few black characters there are - and Mr. Popo - is mildy irritating. Personally, I think the art should be preserved with a warning.

Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring - Epilogue to the series with the next generation of ninja. I liked it.

Batman: Knightfall 3: Knightsend - Took me about four years to get around to reading this as the previous volumes which I read around Dark Knight Rises weren't clicking with me. I don't know if it's the time passed since then or the suspicious gap in collected issues between volumes two and three (they're the less comprehenive, older editions) but it wasn't as unpleasant a reading experience as the others. Kinda wish Valley's red Batsuit had come into Batplay Batsooner. The blue one works as a counter to Bruce Wayne's costume, the red one is just more Batappealing to mine eye for some reason. I would Batargue that the ending with means that his Batman hasn't really come out on top. ? There's a brain over brawn thing in there I suppose.

Batman: Arkham: The Riddler* - Why would you later retcon his real name from Nigma to Nashton, you monsters? Interesting to see the changes over the years and what's contradicted between issues.

Mark Waid (and Chris Samnee) Daredevil 4 HC

Avengers World 1: AIMpire
Avengers World 2: Ascension - Feels too slow for me. To be honest, I'm far more interested in the politics of a Chinese equivalent of SHIELD and Euroforce being led by an American than Avengers teams scattered across the world.

Nick Spencer wrote:

"Obviously we've seen the Avengers make a pretty big statement about this world being under their protection and them being the representatives of our world. So it felt like it was time to do a book about what that planet looks like; not just Marvel New York or Marvel Space, but what does Marvel Europe, Asia and Africa look like right now?"

Maybe it'll change Before Time Runs Out™ but the book doesn't seem to be that to me. I've seen what Madripoor , I haven't really seen Marvel China function. Marvel Europe's probably just filled with boring Celtic magic stuff though so I don't need to see that.

All-New X-Men 7: The Utopians* - Rubbish collection of issues. First issue is a vignette with Emma Frost and Young!Jean Grey which is fine then it's chapters four and five of Black Vortex which don't work removed from the crossover. It does cover and thankfully Bendis lets most of the art do the talking so it's a briefer read than it could have been. Then it's the last two issues dealing with AvX fallout where the Utopians ? I mean the Young!X-Men say . Notable for having Young!Iceman's coming out. Then the end of All-New X-Men is "To be concluded in Uncanny X-Men #600!" Wow.

Star Wars: Kanan - The Last Padawan 1 - Liked it. For some reason the clonetroopers are black and not Temuera Morrison and story has a natural end in issue five that gets an epilogue for issue six to lead into the next arc. Bit of an odd one.

Conan 15: The Nightmare of the Shallows
Conan 16: The Song of Bêlit
Conan 17: Shadows Over Kush
King Conan 1: The Scarlet Citadel - Man in his pants continues to stick it to the man by being unwavering in his old fashioned vew of the world somehow. He falls in love but he gets over it. Nice to see Brian Ching's art again. He seemed to just disappear after Knights of the Old Republic.

Sex Criminals 1: One Weird Trick* - Sex Cauldron?!

*Digital version

Astonishing Ant-Man #1: Decided to give this a go after a couple of good reviews elsewhere on the internet. I like how it's going and the humour is on point. Think this series has real potential.

The Preacher: I've read them all before but I'm re-reading after many years. Still remains one of, if not my favourite series.

Fysh wrote: »

Glad to see I'm not the only one who reacted to the (IMO disappointing) Resurrection F by wanting to reread the original series. I don't remember noticing any quirks in the translation last time I read it, but I'll have to keep an eye out for them. Mind you, I watched the cartoon dubbed into Spanish and I've read a few different accounts of how that version came into being (I think it was based on the weirdly-censored American translation, but I could be wrong).

There must be an article somewhere on Kanzenshuu that shows the differences between every version of the manga and anime. Of course, it doesn't help that Toriyama will alter the ending himself if need be.

The DBZ reference in DragonBall is something like "Oh no, does this mean Dragon Ball Z doesn't happen?" when Goku gets taken down. It might be in the original Viz translation because I believe they split the series based on the anime and released DB and DBZ concurrently as separate first volumes. But then again it might not cause they made ch-ch-changes between formats. NSFW warning. Probably not needed but just in case.

My set is the VizBig versions of DB 1-5 and the older individual DBZ volumes 1-26. Popo speaks in broken English in the latter. Turns out the inconsistent censorship I complained about in the previous post - which I thought because They'd left the lips on certain characters and took them off the more obvious racial caricatures - is due to their deciding to darken some the mouths to match the skintone. Makes sense. Still think you should preserve the art with a warning rather than pretending the dodgy stuff didn't happen. Or censoring it so you can still $ell it to the target demographic.

I liked Resurrection F insomuch as I can when the original series did away with bringing Frieza back in as a plot point in the best way possible. I find the way Toriyama circles around ideas similar to Dragon Ball GT pretty interesting.

Waiting on my monthly Trade purchase


Deadpool: Axis Volume 7
Superman: Earth One
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis Volume 3
The Walking Dead: Made to Suffer v. 8

I've always liked Superman, but have never read anything with him in it apart from Justice League. so I'll be grabbing a recommended TPB or GN each month for the next while to read through the stories.

I think next month also kicks off my first foray into buying singles. Setup a PList with Big Bang for the DC Rebirth launch. So along with my Trade purchases I'll be getting a stack of singles, which should keep me good for the month between paydays

Just finished Batman Long Halloween and Dark Victory. I enjoyed Long Halloween but loved Dark Victory.

Next up will be The Dark Knight Returns and Hush.

I have Planet Hulk Spiderman Coming Home and Captain America White to get to aswell.

I've started picking up a few of the Marvel and DC bi weeklies aswell

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

The Amazing Spider-Man - Basically just went back and read all of Straczynski's run, since I'd only actually read some of it. Fantastic run, some of the best Spider-Man I've read tbh. Though I completely disagree, as Straczynski did, with what happened in One More Day, it was fantastically done.

I'm not sure how much of that run I've read but at least two storylines really didn't agree with me:
The Stacy Twins and that whole Spider Totum thing. I felt both made, or tried to make, unnecessary changes to the backstory.

I much prefer Slot's lighter, more fun take on Spidy.

Currently reading the New 52 Batman arc and loving it. Snyder is a master story teller but it's Greg Cappulo's artwork that really makes these comics epic.

Nervous Wreck wrote: »

Recommended reading - Superman: Birthright.

All star superman as well.

I'm doing a X-men run, half way through Age of Apocalypse and just started X-Men '92, love the throw back to one of my favourite cartoons of all time