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Post by urrutiap on Nov 11, 2018 19:55:25 GMT -5
Comics I read half an hour ago tonight
Marvel's newer Star Wars series. issues 9 and 10
X Men Blue # 33 to 36. I take it that X Men Black sort of continues the young original X Men or whatever?
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Post by Dizzy D on Nov 12, 2018 3:42:06 GMT -5
Comics I read half an hour ago tonight Marvel's newer Star Wars series. issues 9 and 10 X Men Blue # 33 to 36. I take it that X Men Black sort of continues the young original X Men or whatever? The X-Men Black that came out (I don't know if there will be an ongoing with the same name) was just a series of oneshots focusing on various (former) villains and setting some of them up for future storylines. |
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Post by urrutiap on Nov 12, 2018 14:06:07 GMT -5
Well, what about X Men Black: Magneto and White Queen? Mostly X Men Black Magneto since Magneto was a big part of X Men Blue
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Post by Dizzy D on Nov 13, 2018 3:38:04 GMT -5
Well, what about X Men Black: Magneto and White Queen? Mostly X Men Black Magneto since Magneto was a big part of X Men Blue Haven't read the Magneto one (I've given up on Claremont years ago). I got the Mojo one (which was disappointing) and the Emma Frost one (see below)
Emma Frost: Emma meets up with the X-Men to tell them that Sebastian Shaw is rebuilding the Hellfire Club. She is no longer an X-Man, but wants to help them because Shaw is bad news. Using Emma's information, the X-Men take out Shaws allies, but Emma then steps into the place left behind and takes control of the Hellfire Club as the new Black King (yes, King, not Queen).
Edit: The backstory with Apocalypse had art I liked a lot, but I am not up to Apocalypse current state in the X-Men universe. The last time I saw him, he was dead and Evan, his clone, was at the school. |
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Post by urrutiap on Nov 14, 2018 3:17:02 GMT -5
Earlier which was Tuesday night, i read these to catch up on
Babyteeth issues 11 to 12
the previous Darth Vader comic from 2015. Issues 2 to 5. Cant believe i missed out on this series when it first came out years ago
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Post by hasan459 on Nov 15, 2018 8:23:31 GMT -5
i have read velvet lately
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Post by urrutiap on Nov 15, 2018 14:01:35 GMT -5
Earlier today I read these comics
DC Comics Dark Forge
DC Comics Dark Forge The Casting
new recent Iceman series. issue 1
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 25, 2018 22:19:47 GMT -5
I was reading some stuff I had in the pile of new comics I bought but never read.. and in the pile were the 1st 2 issues of the IDW THUNDER agents series.. they were pretty decent... anyone read the other 6? Are they worth tracking down?
Funnily enough, a web site exists that says there is going to be a movie and cartoon for them coming out in 2018 (which was last updated in 2015, probably about when the comic came out)
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 26, 2018 0:17:26 GMT -5
I'd be surprised if anything ever gets done with them considering how many different people have claimed rights to the characters over the years, but IDW is a major player, and they've probably gotten it ironed out.
Haven't read IDW's series but I liked DC's last shot at the characters in the 3rd and 4th series, 2010 and 2012.
Looks like Phil Hester was writing and Andrea Divito was on the first 4 issues and Roger Robinson did the last 4.
I'll pick em up on a sale sometime probably. The characters have always had pretty decent stories.
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Post by mrbrklyn on Nov 27, 2018 9:13:16 GMT -5
Betty and Veronica by Adam Hughes and others; it’s a thin TBP reprinting the three issues of the Betty vs Veronica story produced by Hughes recently. The art : I bought this for the art, admittedly, and to say I wasn’t disappointed would be a euphemism. Hughes really excels at “good girl art”. I’m not overly familiar with his work and have no idea if he uses photo referencing or not, but in any case the end result looks beautiful. The colors by Villarrubia are also spectacular. There are many things in there that I would never have dared draw, so difficult they must be to get right. The story : A variation on the oft-visited theme of “Big business wants to alter our good old Riverdale and close Pop’s Chocklit shoppe in particular”. Here it is used to trigger a feud between Betty (who wants things to remain as they are) and Veronica (who favors the unstoppable march of neoliberalism). Characters choose a camp and while Betty’s team tries to raise enough money to pay off Pop’s mortgage, Veronica’s team sabotage their efforts. Spoiler alert : major plot points revealed. {Spoiler: Click to show}By the end of the third chapter, it is revealed that the feud was all a sham! Both of our heroines were working to save Pop’s restaurant right from the start.
Veronica, having found out that the conglomerate wanting to evict Pop was controlled by her father, knew that the only way to get old man Lodge to back out was to cause him to lose face and lose money. The feud between her and Betty was all an excuse to organize a huge opening party for the Starbuck’s (er... “Kweekweg’s”, here) meant to replace Pop’s, an opening party that turns into a spectacular fiasco. In the end, the status quo ante is restored.
The story works for a while, and I admit that I believed it... I just wondered how it would end in a way that would not damage Betty and Veronica’s friendship forever, because this is no Lucey- or DeCarlo-era bickering... Veronica acts like a complete monster! Honest! The comic is even uncomfortable to read at times, because these are characters we care about and to see them attack each other so viciously is painful.
The big revelation at the end, alas, does not solve everything the way it’s doubtless supposed to. Sure, Betty and Veronica were just pretending. Veronica is off the hook,
as her despicable attitude throughout was just an elaborate ruse... But the rest of Riverdale is as scarred as the American electorate torn between Democrats and Republicans. If your leaders reveal that they were kidding all along, it doesn’t change the fact that the rank and file was quite serious about hating the other gang.
This is particularly damning for Reggie and Kevin, who didn’t get many lines but were squarely behind Veronica. She might get a pass for having done what needed doing under false pretences, but these two guys were honestly trying to run Pop out of town. How does a character recover from that?
Good thing these are just make-believe stories in an expanding line of What-if? and alternate realities of zombies, werewolves and adult versions! But even as a stand-alone story, it suffers from the lack of acknowledgement of the dire consequences that such a massive deception would entail. People could have died, folks! The book : The three B&V issues not being enough for a TPB, we get a reproduction of all the alternate covers used to sell as many issues as possible. We also get an issue of the new Jughead mag, which was... how to put it kindly... not at all what I was looking for here. It’s a story drawn in an extremely cartoony style, akin to what one sees on TV shows like Teen Titans Go. It spends an inordinate amount of time inside a video game, and I hate video games. It has preachy pages on how people can’t just put things on the internet without asking permission, and how gender-traditional roles are wrong. I probably could have done without this issue and a reduced price tag! A mixed bag, then, although the Adam Hughes art (and his humour, which I didn’t mention) makes this worth getting. It is really hysterical how they have remade PEP comics! |
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 30, 2018 3:08:05 GMT -5
Just read this week's new releases of both the Fantastic Four and The Terrifics.
Both solid, but I can see The Fantastix spinning off into their own series. That's one thing I really hate about Marvel constantly doing this. DC's pretty bad about the Bat-titles too, which mostly turns me away from them as well.
This issue of The Terrifics had a different artist that was styling after Art Adams (or maybe it was the inker, not sure) but it dampened the story for me.
Read The Terrifics Annual # 1, which was very enjoyable; 3 short stories but they all worked and stood well on their own.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 15, 2018 2:06:24 GMT -5
I got this from the library a few days ago and finished it this morning. It's Justice League: Origins, the first six issues of the New 52 Justice League, from 2011 to 2012. It's not good. Everybody is awful, in one way or another. Especially Green Lantern. The New 52 Universe didn't need Guy Gardner because it had Hal Jordan being awful and insufferable. Everybody was fighting with each other and just generally being obnoxious for no reason. And the villain is Darkseid. I used to be a little more tolerant of modern comic book writers using Darkseid way too often, but a few years ago, I got one of the Fourth World Omnibuses from the library. so much great Kirby! And seeing these characters the way they are supposed to be highlights how badly they have been used in recent years. The New 52 Justice League makes the much-maligned Justice League Detroit look like Fantastic Four #36 to #65. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 15, 2018 5:33:41 GMT -5
I'm not a Jim Lee guy but I liked it. Very "action movie" in it's pacing and construction.. You can really see John's film background on the page. JLA has been pretty rough since the turn of the Millenium or so, and this was my favorite interpretation since 2000.
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 15, 2018 10:33:25 GMT -5
I'm not a Jim Lee guy but I liked it. Very "action movie" in it's pacing and construction.. You can really see John's film background on the page. JLA has been pretty rough since the turn of the Millenium or so, and this was my favorite interpretation since 2000. I should have mentioned that the art was nice. The characterizations were just so relentlessly unpleasant. Hal Jordan calling "dibs" on Wonder Woman like she was a piece of meat was particularly repulsive. And they should give Darkseid a rest. The JLA has a long history of goofy villains that could actually benefit from an overhaul. Somebody like Despero or Amos Fortune or Starro would be much more satisfying as the villain in a new JLA origin. OK. Maybe not Starro. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 20, 2018 16:03:54 GMT -5
I also got this from the library, read it and returned it a few days ago. I liked it a heckuva lot more than Geoff Johns Justice League. Jane Foster is Thor and she's also dying of cancer. Meanwhile, Asgard is in disarray because Odin has gone off his rocker and imprisoned his wife Freyja. Also Loki has a very icy reunion with his father Laufey. (Get it? "Icy?" because Laufey is a frost giant?) And Malekith, the king of the dark elves, is expanding his kingdom at the expense of the non-dark elves ... and he's recruited the Enchantress! There's more than enough here for five issues. Which is the only drawback because this TPB ends with most of the various plot threads unresolved and the library doesn't have any further issues. Very nice art! |
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