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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 25, 2018 20:56:04 GMT -5
Anyone know of any cyber Monday comic deals ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2018 14:45:11 GMT -5
Anyone know of any cyber Monday comic deals ? Bleeding Cool has a piece on comic related CyberMonday deals. -M
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 26, 2018 17:23:16 GMT -5
Anyone know of any cyber Monday comic deals ? I just posted some in the Bargain Hunters Paradise thread.
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Post by Farrar on Nov 27, 2018 23:27:55 GMT -5
It looks like the Dc label might have been stuck on at a later time. ...And on a Marvel Comic. Gotta love it
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2018 21:05:05 GMT -5
As a kid, I loved spin-off heroes such as Batgirl, Supergirl, She-Hulk, etc. In many ways, I still do.
But Marvel has "over-egged the pudding" in recent years. Spider-Man no longer feels unique because he isn't unique. Whether it be on his own earth or on countless alternate realities, Spider-Man is akin to a corps now.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 8, 2018 0:12:14 GMT -5
I think the problem is the new Marvel trend to pour every cool alternate universe character into the main MU. Miguel O'Hara is great in 2099.. he isn't in the current MU. I did appreciate the attempts to reference 2099 though with Liz Allen founding Alchemax and such. Same with Miles... and Spider-Girl for that matter. They're interesting and special in their own pocket... thrown all together is just kinda weird.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 5:45:40 GMT -5
Yes, having them all in the mainstream books takes something away from Spidey.
The early Spidey tales featured a unique character whose supporting cast was ordinary. Now, in addition to the numerous Spider-characters, the supporting cast are all less ordinary. Spider-Man no longer stands out.
That's not to say I don't enjoy the tales. Dan Slott is one of my favourite writers. But I miss the days of Unique Spidey!
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 8, 2018 6:12:16 GMT -5
The best that old time comic readers can do is ignore the stories that they don't like. I enjoyed Crisis on Infinite Earths and hated the sequel that made all the good guys into bad guys. I choose to not read that one anymore.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 8, 2018 20:52:11 GMT -5
Spare copies 50 years old in great shape (this is close to NM if not NM) will always be welcome, especially when they don't hurt my comic-book kitty. Featuring the awesome Stilt-Man. ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by Confessor on Dec 8, 2018 21:14:57 GMT -5
Featuring the awesome Stilt-Man. ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png) It's this one that makes me palm my head Yeah...the fact that there was a Lady Stilt-Man was weird.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 8, 2018 22:35:16 GMT -5
What was wrong with calling her Stilt-Woman?
Cei-U! Comics are stoopid!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 6:51:35 GMT -5
The best that old time comic readers can do is ignore the stories that they don't like. I enjoyed Crisis on Infinite Earths and hated the sequel that made all the good guys into bad guys. I choose to not read that one anymore. That is true, but sometimes one has to follow certain tales during an event. Also, here in the UK, Astonishing Spider-Man is a fortnightly comic which reprints 3 US stories per issue. At the moment, they are reprinting Renew Your Vows - and there have been issues where mainstream Spidey has felt like a guest star in his own book. The title has been running since 1995, and I am proud to buy it. But all these Spider-Characters are beginning to de-unique "our" Spidey a bit.
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 9, 2018 6:56:42 GMT -5
I've stated before that maybe comic reading isn't meant to be a 40+ year thing for some characters. Writers just run out of ideas and you start getting Spider-Gwen and the like. It seems that Marvel doesn't know what to do with Galactus, now that every story has been told.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2018 7:29:42 GMT -5
That is a good point. I don't envy the writers.
And change is good. I like Dan Slott's "Spidey as CEO" storyline. That told some fascinating new tales for Mr. Parker within a different context.
Same with the Winter Soldier. And I enjoyed the many, many changes to the Hulk during Peter David's run from "Joe Fixet" to Samson merging gray Hulk, green Hulk and Banner. It was unpredictable and a lot of fun.
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Post by Confessor on Dec 9, 2018 7:44:58 GMT -5
Spider-Man has been my number 1 all-time favourite superhero since I was 11 or so, but Spidey comics were ruined for me after the One More Day/Brand New Day clusterf**k of 2007. That said, I actually continued buying Amazing Spider-Man until early-to-mid 2016. I felt that the initially year or two of post-OMD stories were, for the most part, really lacklustre, but Slott's run was a definite improvement. However, a lingering bad taste from OMD and the impact (read "character regression") that it had on much of Spidey's supporting cast, really stuck in my craw. I finally dropped all of the Spidey books shortly after Superior Spider-Man ended, because by making Peter the playboy CEO of Parker Industries, I felt that Slott had taken the character much too far away from his roots and what it is that I enjoy about him. If I want to read about Tony Stark, I'll buy Iron Man comics, not Spider-Man ones. The advent of characters like Spider-Gwen or bringing Miles Morales into the main Marvel-616 continuity just baffles me. And change is good. I like Dan Slott's "Spidey as CEO" storyline. That told some fascinating new tales for Mr. Parker within a different context. Change isn't always good, at all. That's a logical fallacy: it implies that everything in life is already imperfect and that change -- any change-- can only improve things. That's obviously not the case. As for Slott making Peter Parker a millionaire, globe-trotting CEO of Parker Industries, while I applaud Slott's decision to accentuate Peter's scientific abilities in the comics, I felt that, overall, the new, post- Superior Spider-Man direction was a step too far. I'm not gonna argue that it might be a "realistic" development, given Peter's genius level scientific abilities, but it unfortunately took the character so far away from his core that, for me, it was the final straw which made me drop Amazing Spider-Man after being a regular or semi-regular reader for 35 odd years. It essentially turned Peter Parker into Tony Stark and I have less than no interest in that.
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