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Post by Action Ace on May 23, 2014 21:21:45 GMT -5
Watchmen #11 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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Post by Icctrombone on May 23, 2014 21:41:00 GMT -5
One of the classic scenes of all time.
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Post by Action Ace on May 23, 2014 22:02:20 GMT -5
One of the classic scenes of all time. I've set you up for the next death scene #20 to well more than 20
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Post by the4thpip on May 24, 2014 1:23:33 GMT -5
Why didn't Hawkeye take that burning bundle off his back?
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2014 1:37:32 GMT -5
Why didn't Hawkeye take that burning bundle off his back? Because then Bendis wouldn't have met his quota of shocking deaths to kick off his run of Avengers and properly dismember..um I mean disassemble them to get the team he wanted. I really like Bendis indy stuff, but his Avengers run was not my cuppa. -M
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Post by the4thpip on May 24, 2014 1:47:44 GMT -5
Why didn't Hawkeye take that burning bundle off his back? Because then Bendis wouldn't have met his quota of shocking deaths to kick off his run of Avengers and properly dismember..um I mean disassemble them to get the team he wanted. I really like Bendis indy stuff, but his Avengers run was not my cuppa. -M Just think: If that death had been permanent, we never would have met Pizza Dog!
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Post by Crimebuster on May 24, 2014 2:43:14 GMT -5
Why didn't Hawkeye take that burning bundle off his back? Because then Bendis wouldn't have met his quota of shocking deaths to kick off his run of Avengers and properly dismember..um I mean disassemble them to get the team he wanted. I really like Bendis indy stuff, but his Avengers run was not my cuppa. -M I think you misspelled "was a complete pile of utter dog vomit."
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Post by Icctrombone on May 24, 2014 6:16:53 GMT -5
New Avengers was just different from the Old school Avengers, not worse.
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Post by the4thpip on May 24, 2014 7:55:15 GMT -5
New Avengers was just different from the Old school Avengers, not worse. Different in a way that made it impossible for me to read through an entire issue. I tried several times, but I was just so bored by it. The only other time that happened was with Ben Raab's Excalibur. I was working at my LCS and could read them for free, but after 1/3 of an issue it was "put down the book or develop narcolepsy."
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Post by Crimebuster on May 24, 2014 12:32:23 GMT -5
New Avengers was just different from the Old school Avengers, not worse. No, it was worse. Not worse than all of the old Avengers; after all, with 40 years of publishing history there were bound to be some dogs. Avengers #376-402 was very bad. The Liefeld Avengers was terrible. Chuck Austen's run on Avengers, which directly preceded Bendis, was horrible. So those were about as bad as new Avengers. New Avengers was, however, worse than everything else in Avengers history. #16 might be the worst single issue of Avengers I've ever read, with the Xorn arc probably being the worst Avengers arc I can remember reading. I finally quit during the Civil War tie-ins when I realized that all the "he has a long term master plan, be patient, everything is building up for something awesome" was, in fact, complete and utter hooey. The only positive thing for me to come out of New Avengers was that it freed me from the love of Marvel I had had for the previous 20 years, allowing me to quit buying their books and saving me a lot of money and bad stories in the years since. So thanks, Bendis!
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Post by Icctrombone on May 25, 2014 5:50:50 GMT -5
The only thing I really didn't like about The New Avengers was that it lost that Closed family feeling and they just let anyone join.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 25, 2014 5:58:11 GMT -5
Fantastic Four # 73. This might be the only time that Thor and the Thing mix it up.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 25, 2014 9:45:55 GMT -5
New Avengers was just different from the Old school Avengers, not worse. No, it was worse. Not worse than all of the old Avengers; after all, with 40 years of publishing history there were bound to be some dogs. Avengers #376-402 was very bad. The Liefeld Avengers was terrible. Chuck Austen's run on Avengers, which directly preceded Bendis, was horrible. So those were about as bad as new Avengers. New Avengers was, however, worse than everything else in Avengers history. #16 might be the worst single issue of Avengers I've ever read, with the Xorn arc probably being the worst Avengers arc I can remember reading. I finally quit during the Civil War tie-ins when I realized that all the "he has a long term master plan, be patient, everything is building up for something awesome" was, in fact, complete and utter hooey. The only positive thing for me to come out of New Avengers was that it freed me from the love of Marvel I had had for the previous 20 years, allowing me to quit buying their books and saving me a lot of money and bad stories in the years since. So thanks, Bendis! Marvels still paying him to write comics? You'd think his online behavior would be enough. And to think his forum was the first I joined and was a great place. Ultimate Spidey was the first Spidey I enjoyed since the 90s clone saga. Time really changes things.
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Post by Action Ace on May 25, 2014 15:24:05 GMT -5
One of my favorite Marvel panels of all time. This is also about the point when I finally start liking the Avengers series.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 25, 2014 16:57:20 GMT -5
One of my favorite Marvel panels of all time. This is also about the point when I finally start liking the Avengers series. This is a period of The Avengers - #44 to #70 - that I don't know that well. But this story was reprinted in the 1970s in a Marvel Treasury Edition and it's a memorable panel from a memorable story. (Those issues must have been in everybody's mind when they were putting together those giant-size reprint editions. I've also read the first Vision and the marriage of Yellowjacket in the same format, but not much else from that period.)
I would love to read all of them. All that John Buscema art! I think it's mostly inked by Tom Palmer. But my stupid library system has Essential Avengers, Volume 1 and 2 and 4, but not Volume 3. I bet they had it but it just fell apart from being read so much. (They're also missing most of the Romita Spider-Man volumes. Grrr!)
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