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Currently reading Turbo Jones.
Haven't read any of the Wildcat stories since primary school so it's fun diving back into it. Art is still great and stories are enjoyable. Though I do groan at some of the points in the stories, e.g. Turbo manages to fund building of the Wildcat because luckily Loner won the Lotto and Kitty inherited money from a family member. Literally takes a panel to resolve funding problems :pac:If you can read this, you're too close!
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Currently reading Turbo Jones.
Haven't read any of the Wildcat stories since primary school so it's fun diving back into it. Art is still great and stories are enjoyable. Though I do groan at some of the points in the stories, e.g. Turbo manages to fund building of the Wildcat because luckily Loner won the Lotto and Kitty inherited money from a family member. Literally takes a panel to resolve funding problems :pac:
Have no memory of Wildcat even though it must have been out when I was about ten. This looks like fun, might pick it up, cheers0 -
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Marvel 2-in-One 1: Fate of the Four
Marvel 2-in-One 2: Next of Kin
Fantastic Four 1: Fourever - Zdarsky should be writing the main FF book cause Slott's run, at least based on the first volume, feels like the FF never left in a bad way and it's silly that Zdarksy's book had to make way for it. Hopefully it gets better as Slott is better than this and I'd rather not wait for the MCU to go "Here FF's sake, do it properly".
Uncanny Avengers 4: Red Skull
Avengers: Unleashed 1: Kang War One
Avengers: Unleashed 2: Secret Empire
Star Wars: Poe Dameron 1: Black Squadron -Enjoyed it, Marvel Star Wars finally seems to be moving out of original trilogy nostalgia (even if this series leads into Force Awakens, the original trilogy in one film
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Dragon Ball Super 4 - majinBoo potara earring fusion retcon majinboo.
Dragon Ball: That Time I Was Reincarnated as Yamcha - Apparently reincarnation gimmicks are a thing. Nice bit of fun as a one-off. The idea that Yamcha cheated on Bulma has never seemed credible, much more likely that it was the other way around or she thought he was. Also could have without the lead deciding he can use his powers to lift skirts.
Samurai Jack: Quantum Jack - Terrible title but Jack does Quantum Leap more as framing device for alternative universe stories.
Assassin's Creed Uprising 1: Common Ground
Assassin's Creed Uprising 2: Inflection Point
Assassin's Creed Uprising 3: Finale - Worthwhile conclusion to Titan's ongoings and modern day storyline of the games. I appreciate that most gamers don't even finish games, and an even smaller number will have played every Assassin's Creed game from the start of the series, and then of those you have the people that don't even like the modern day sections anyway, and this medium allows more depth than a game would allow, it's still a snub to tell people who have followed the story for ten years to go off and get the ending in another format.
Mouse Guard: Fall 1152* - Needs to be read as physical picture book, I think. Not that I'm going to, just seems reading it off a screen with an Xbox controller isn't the best way to appreciate it. I am an adult.
The StoryTeller* - Nice anthology of fairy tales and variety of art styles based on the Jim Henson series which I recently got around to watching properly thanks to Gaiman's name being attached to a TV reboot and my dealing with the childhood trauma of seeing Hans My Hedgehog. I do wish the Storyteller was more involved in the... storytelling in most of them like he is in the show. The last story is adapted from an unused script of the TV series and you can see the difference in ambition.
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Moon Knight by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev 1*
Moon Knight by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev 2*
Uncanny X-Men 2: Broken*
Uncanny X-Men 3: The Good, The Bad, The Inhuman*
Uncanny X-Men 4: Vs. SHIELD*
Uncanny X-Men 5: The Omega Mutant*
Uncanny X-Men 6: Storyville*
That's a lot of two-page spreads.
The more interesting thing on the X-Men side is off-hand mention that the general public won't make a distinction between an Inhuman or mutant attack but the series doesn't want to explore that.
Uncanny X-Men/Iron Man/Nova: No End In Sight* - Certainly felt like it! It's X-Men w/ Iron Man featuring Nova, really. And it's cosmic X-Men which means I'm going to push against it cause more often than not I don't get on with X-Men in space stories. To copy paste the house to Astonish review: "The X-Men get their win, in as much as they track Cyclops down and rescue him. But the wider story notionally ends simply with the guy who put the bounty on Havok’s head turning out to be a very old man who dies when he falls over while trying to reach a high shelf." It's supposed to be unsatisfying part of a wider musing about comic characters not getting a resolution unless they're fortunate enough to stay dead, though it's probably the intention to be more make-u-think than the chore to get through that it was for me.
Fantastic Four Omnibus by John Byrne 2 - Been reading this thing shulk on and off for years. Had to laugh when Reed Richards, who is the worst, died, his wife just gets on with leading the team instead: when every other member is killed - has to be on a list of tropes that FF writers tick off when they take over the book (like mentioning sight to the blind Alicia Masters who is without the ability to see) - there's been a period of mourning. It's one shulk that Nick Fury can tell when they've travelled back to '30s New York, it's another that he tell it's specifically 1936. So he of course decides he should assassinate Hitler. Well, that's going to mess with the timeline so of course the FF needs to stop that. Lucky that Ben Grimm, who has long been replaced by She-Hulk, isn't around to offer an opinion the matter. They also bring along a black guy whose life they saved just in case he was supposed to die so kidnapping him and heading off to Nazi Germany makes total sense to avoid his survival affecting the future.They're in his coma and Richards is alive in a messy resolution, unfortunately.
Book also includes Sue Storm's turn as Malice and that one-shot where a kid accidentally burns himself to death to be like his hero following a dodgy neighbour poorly chosen words. And so Johnny Storm feels bad for... the rest of the issue. After I read it, I did wonder if "Hero" took influence from Roger Stern's "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man" from a couple of years earlier but couldn't really find a more overt connection then the omnibus just happens to include a Byrne Marvel Age interview in the extras where he references the issue as one that impacted him with regards to a question about what makes a good comic. Human Torch is still better than Spider-Man, obviously.
I did enjoy the book, in particular one panel where She-Hulk's arm and foot are stuck in an expanding energy field so she saves Tigra, trying to pull her out, by booting her out of the way of it. I don't think the "Scat cat!" and image of an orange cat woman tumbling towards the 'camera' would work if if the writer and artist weren't the same guy. Lot of memorable moments.
It is another run where Byrne just stops working on it rather than bring it to a close. One joke from the omnibus which isn't his that everyone should remember: "I am Uatu. Men call me the Watcher. Women call me Peeping Uatu.
Superman: The Man of Steel 3*
Star Wars: Age of Republic - Heroes
Star Wars: Age of Republic - Villains
Star Wars: Age of Rebellion - Heroes
Star Wars: Age of Rebellion - Villains
Flash Gordon on the Planet Mongo - Takes about a year for Alex Raymond to realise doing it more photorealistically is the way to go at which point the strips become a better read. Tad funny that Raymond rewrites events from the first strip in the second so Gordon's more heroic.
This is the only good picture of Dale Arden, an otherwise useless character.
Dragon Ball Super 5
Dragon Ball Super 6
The Power of the Dark Crystal 1*
The Power of the Dark Crystal 2*
The Power of the Dark Crystal 3*
The script really wants the Skeksis, more specifically the Chamberlain, in this sequel to the film but the story doesn't.
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What was your take on these? It's either these or FF by Hickman next on the reading list.
Well, Moon Knight's a quicker read. Twelve issues compared to stuff going on in Hickman's FF run which will continue through Avengers books and pay-off in Secret Wars.
Moon Knight's fine. Juggling his split personality while being an Avenger where a superhero presence isn't the norm (not New York, basically) but I haven't read enough Moon Knight to have much of an opinion. He's supposed to be taking on something out of his comfort zone so and yet he's the resurrected avatar of the Egyptian moon god.
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Well, Moon Knight's a quicker read. Twelve issues compared to stuff going on in Hickman's FF run which will continue through Avengers books and pay-off in Secret Wars.
Moon Knight's fine. Juggling his split personality while being an Avenger where a superhero presence isn't the norm (not New York, basically) but I haven't read enough Moon Knight to have much of an opinion. He's supposed to be taking on something out of his comfort zone so and yet he's the resurrected avatar of the Egyptian moon god.
Thanks, think I'll go with FF for the holiday season
Very out of date on Avengers and Marvel events in general, may line up Secret Wars for after.0 -
Thanks, think I'll go with FF for the holiday season
Very out of date on Avengers and Marvel events in general, may line up Secret Wars for after.
If you want an intimidating reading order: https://www.comicbookherald.com/jonathan-hickman-marvel-universe-reading-order-2008-to-2016/
I got on fine going from Fantastic Four/FF to Avengers/New Avengers (the latter more an Illuminati book) to Secret Wars.0 -
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RobbingBandit wrote: »Rereading Doomsday Clock for this week it finally ends can't wait to see how they **** this up
By starting the comic in the first place? By having a really long gap between issues?
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She-Hulk 6: Jaded*
She-Hulk 7: Here Today...*
She-Hulk 8: Secret Invasion*
She-Hulk 9: Lady Liberators*
I like Peter David's bounty hunter version of Shulk but I still prefer Dan Slott's lawyer dealing with superhuman crimes.
Doctor Strange 1: Across the Universe* - Fine, I guess. Was hoping Waid would get me on board with the character. Think I'll get along with it better once Strange is back on Earth so I don't push against the combination of Strange and Marvel. In. Spaaaace. Soft reboot with Strange trying to rediscover his magic after blasting off-world in Tony Stark's space car. Deliberate parallels with his origin story.
Fantastic Four 2: Mr. and Mrs. Grimm
Fantastic Four 3: The Herald of Doom
Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson Omnibus - I do remember reading that Miller said the reason he didn't many Batman stories was cause he used most of his ideas in Daredevil assuming he wouldn't get to ever work on Batman. Didn't see much that looks like it would translate though Batman doing the cinema fight that Daredevil and Bullseye have would work great, I think. Maybe the Hand stuff would have gone to R'as al Ghul or some such but I don't much get on with the comic version of that character.
Batman: Legacy 2 - O hai R'as.
Titans 1: The Return of Wally West* - Very much a Wally West story rather than a team book. Lovely bit of Watchmen button foreshadowing with the blood spatter. Dunno how much was out of the bag at that point though.
Green Lanterns 1: Rage Planet* - That whole set up with Justice League training and Baz/Cruz having to share a power battery to learn to work together is nice and all but Justice League stuff happens in Justice League and the power battery makes little difference to whether or not the Lanterns stick together nor does that particularly impede them.
Django/Zorro* - I like that Don Diego de la Vega reminds Django of Schmidt but he spends far too much of the story playing second fiddle to Zorro in the same Schmidt dynamic from the film (though one of the seven issues is the villain's origin story). What's laughable is the WRITTEN BY QUENTIN TARANTINO and Matt Wagner throughout then right at the end story by quentin tarantino and written by Matt Wagner. If the film version gets going, I don't see it having much in common beyond the team-up.
Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor - A New Beginning* - Houser does her damnedest with little to work with thanks to the current iteration of the TV show being a chore to watch.
William Gibson's Alien 3 - Do the wooden space cathedral screenplay, guys.
Samurai Executioner Omnibus 1
Judas* - The takeaway that the Old Testamentis God's practice run for the New Testament to figuring out whether He could sacrifice His own childwould turn my stomach if I believed in it and it's not as noble as the book wants it to be but it's an enjoyable read and looks great. Judas and Satan in the underworld bitter at their preordained fall andJudas ultimately becoming the Jesus of not Heaven and Earth. Credit to whoever it was in the past two-thousand years who figured out the redemption story needs Christ to do time in Hell for all the sins of man. And to the first to give Judas a black halo. And the necklace of silver coins. When I told a buddy about the book, he just texted back Iscariots of Fire and since I'll never give him the props for that directly, I'm posting it here.
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really annoyed me the 2nd last issue and you'll all know when you read it 
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