SomTervo Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 Anybody read Saga? I haven't read it yet, but just ordered the first five issues. Brian K Vaughan is my favourite comics writer. Can't hyperlink from iPad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saga_(comics) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted August 3, 2012 Report Share Posted August 3, 2012 BKV is my nigga. I'll definitely be checkng it out. That and the Massive I'm waiting on some trades. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted August 4, 2012 Report Share Posted August 4, 2012 That TV adaptation of Powers is taking its time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted August 7, 2012 Report Share Posted August 7, 2012 Got the first ish of Saga in the post. I don't like how the dialogue is more standard-fare-comic-over-the-top-ness, but I guess nowadays he has to be more readable for a bigger audience. While reading it I was thinking, 'this is disappointing', but then when I finished it, I realised how good the universe is and how well he introduces us to it. It just all happens incredibly fast, it's like a whole universe's introduction and history in, like, 20 pages, with character and plot development in there, too. This makes me happy when I actually think about it, because it clearly means there is a lot to introduce and develop and change as the series progresses. It'll prolly be another 50-70 issue run like Ex Machina or Y: The Last Man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pirate Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 I got a pal who's a comic junkie and he let me borrow this issue. I'm into creepy stuff, and I really loved this art style. Has a lot of mix of sci-fi and generic horror, and the jokes are pretty good. I recommend this one for those with a dark sense of humor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 So folks were raving about that Deadpool Kills Marvel. It's a rather short and not at all satisfying read. Most of the time it's just him decapitating people with very little creativity in the kills. Maybe. I'm just more used to the DC stuff, especially with Batmans "if jla go bad" list. All it really hammered home is how easily folks could kill each other in the marvel universe, just writers step in. And I know it's Deadpools thing, but the 4th wall stuff, especially the end, 2as pretty lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Okay folks i need some recommendations. I'm looking for a Graphic Novel to read after i finish I Kill Giants. Watchmen has been on my list for a while, but i'm probably going to buy that for my next holiday. I'm open to anything genre wise, just as long as its good. Hit me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 On 8/23/2012 at 6:42 AM, LittlePirate said: I got a pal who's a comic junkie and he let me borrow this issue. I'm into creepy stuff, and I really loved this art style. Has a lot of mix of sci-fi and generic horror, and the jokes are pretty good. I recommend this one for those with a dark sense of humor. I really dig Templesmith. I assume you've read Fell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pirate Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 @Hot Heart Actually, no, I haven't. I went ahead and googled it and it looks just as intriguing. As soon as I'm finished reading through Wormwood I'll give that one a read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted September 1, 2012 Report Share Posted September 1, 2012 Back to more mainstream comics... From reading X-Force vol. 3, I get the feeling that X-23's tracking abilities and senses are sharper than that of Wolverines (like how she seems to always assess situations correctly, and always asked for status reports)... So I wikied it and found out that that's not actually the case (this is what I originally thought, but the comic kinda changed my perception of how it was). I guess it's because Wolverine's too busy raging/arguing/telling people to shut up to actually pay attention to his surroundings. Seriously, he almost always tells someone to shut it whenever they get deployed somewhere. For a hit squad, they sure are chatty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Been on a bit of a binge of late with the What Ifs. Superman Inc: Superman ends up as Darryl Suderman. Becomes a top athlete and bussinessman. It kinda sucked. Especially as with most of the Superman what-ifs he ends up as Clark Kent/Superman anyway, which pretty much becomes the cliche at this point. It implies an over arching destiny that he will always be Superman, even if it's a brief spot of something else. Superman - Darkside: Superman lands on Apokolips and trained by Darksied as his ultimate weapon. He ends up destroying New Genesis but in process exposed to Source Wall and is given his destiny as a saviour. Was pretty good (and doesn't quite hit the "ends up superman" cliche either) Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow - Covers Supermans last days. One of the classic, if not the first, what ifs. Son of Superman - Superman is long dead and the government has subverted the law and order into control, of which JLA are accomplice (and on pay check). Along comes the son of Lois Lane. It was good but not stellar. Currently reading Superman: Last Son of Earth - Jonathan Kent (the astrophysicist) discovers an asteroid heading towards Earth. He and Martha send their child off to space where passing through a wormhole he lands on Krypton. Reveal hidden contents Where he ends up discovering a Green Lantern ring as a sort of archaeologist, and also saves Krypton from being destroyed. It's quite good as you get to see Krypton a fair bit more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Finally caught up with AvX, after reading X-books starting from Messiah CompleX (that's a lot!). I mostly read Uncanny X-Men anyway, and a few books from crossover events (like X-men Legacy, and recently the regenesis books). Anyway, now that AvX is ending next week (MAJOR SPOILERS follow): Reveal hidden contents I'm pissed that the X-Men, or at least Cyclops, is being portrayed as this mad, power hungry being now. Well, I guess it's not Cyclops per se, but Phoenixed-out Cyclops. After all he's done for Mutantkind, I'm pissed that now Mutants have rallied against him (led by Professor X). I also hate that the Avengers (admittedly I have my bias here, as I don't really particularly care about this group as much as I care about the X-Men) are now underdog heroes, when it was them who provoked the Phoenix to act like villains in the first place. It fucking sucks. I also hate how Wolverine is one of the people who Hope is depending on. The one who's helping Hope with controlling the Phoenix. After his attitude towards her in Second Coming and Gen Hope, all this guy really wants is to kill her. It seems to have started really well I think, with Cap not trusting Wolverine in #3 after disobeying orders and shoving him off a plane in Antarctica. But now he's back together with the group again, after betraying Hope by contacting the Avengers. I really hate this guy now. Glad Domino and Sunspot called him a traitor in I think #2 because that's what he is. A traitor many times over. I haven't read the other books, just the main AvX series. I'm gonna go read the rest of the tie-ins after I read #12 I guess. So as to see what the other mutants/heroes thoughts are on this Phoenix thing. I've read Reed of the FF was pretty much on the X-Men's side, that's interesting. But yeah, seriously, I hate this arc. Cyclops is being trashed here, and I wonder what will happen to him as this ends. Hopefully, this won't cause Wolverine to have more followers because I really hate this fucking hypocrite... Some super villain should just burn down his school and embarrass him. AAAAAAAARRGH I really hate this guy it's sad... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 I think Dean shared an article (SPOILERS) a little while ago and it's everything I'd come to despise about mainstream Marvel stuff and part of why I stopped reading. It's just Bendis with some interesting idea that gets turned into a major crossover arc, but the actual substance to it lasts for about two or three issues before it devolves into lots of superheroes punching each other. Maybe this is a bit different but I just lost the appetite for any of that. And describing it as Shakespearean? What a dick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 On 9/30/2012 at 1:23 PM, Hot Heart said: I think Dean shared an article (SPOILERS) a little while ago and it's everything I'd come to despise about mainstream Marvel stuff and part of why I stopped reading. It's just Bendis with some interesting idea that gets turned into a major crossover arc, but the actual substance to it lasts for about two or three issues before it devolves into lots of superheroes punching each other. Maybe this is a bit different but I just lost the appetite for any of that. And describing it as Shakespearean? What a dick. Reveal hidden contents Someone who just wants to be left alone, since the very beginning, forced to do villanious actions by being poked repeatedly, "murders" his own father. Yeah right. Since the beginning, the Avengers were interfering in matters that shouldn't concern them. Why take Hope? Why not leave her in Utopia and work with the X-Men? Just awful. Cyclops' X-Men are being cast in a very bad light, when they're the ones being diplomatic about the whole situation. And they're the ones who have experience with dealing with the Phoenix in the first place. The Avengers have no clue how to go about it, and who do they ask for advice? Fucking Wolverine. One whose solution to everything is killing, as Cap had mentioned right in this Arc! As for Xavier, he's really largely irrelevant to the X-Men story for a very long time. The only ones whose going to be shocked by his death (how horrible!) are the ones who don't follow the X-Men story at all! And as mentioned in the comments of that article, he has died multiple times before, the latest he was dead for 1 issue... His death here is just to punch in how much Cyclops has lost it, which sits really really bad for me and to those who have been following Cyclops side in the X-Men storyline... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 That sounds...not good. I think Civil War was an example of exactly how bad and unbalanced the storytelling can be. I think even Marvel: Ultimate Alliance II did some elements better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Would I be considered a comic book geek if I read exclusively comics from the mature line? Aka Dark Knight Rises, Watchmen, Preacher, Transmetropolitan, Fables and Sandman to name some? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 I don't see why you wouldn't be. That's what I read, too. Never got into the more Superhero-y stuff all that much besides having a New Avengers phase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 All right cool. I have a friend of mine who is WAY too into Marvel and it irritates me how he once said I need to read more of superhero comics before I could be considered one. But I'd just rather read a novel over a simplistic story. Not to say all of the Vertigo comics are literature gold though. Also forgot to mention Y The Last Man which I figured out recently is decently divided on the internet opinion-wise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Quote which I figured out recently is decently divided on the internet opinion-wise It is? Did BKV get too famous or something? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 I suppose it does fall into those 'gotta keep watching/reading to uncover the big mystery' concepts, and I guess that's got to disappoint some people when it's revealed. Not saying I'm one of those people, but I could understand why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Well decently divided among the io9 crowd which is usually my sample group for nerd-related stuff that isn't video games. And yeah, the mystery wasn't that big of a pay-off, but the rest of it is a must read. I honestly can't remember the last time I got into a Vertigo comic. I tried to read DMZ [i think that's what it is called] but it never caught my eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 I really liked DMZ. Its strength wasn't so much the overarching story but the small stories contained within. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted October 4, 2012 Report Share Posted October 4, 2012 Has anyone read the recent 'Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe' series? Some people seem to think its the best Deadpool comic around, whilst some think its utter crap. I've not read any Deadpool, but i'm really excited about these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eleven Posted October 4, 2012 Report Share Posted October 4, 2012 I think Dean was reading it few pages back. From what I remember of his post it was rather meh. Also, PSA, do not read AvX if you like the X-Men. Nope. Not even to see what happens to Hope's story that started with Messiah Complex. Shitty, shitty event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Kick-Ass is short. Like a fair bit shorter than the movie and nowhere near as fleshed out. For that reason I prefer the movie. I prefer the Kick-Ass of the comic book though. And yeah Deadpool Kills Marvel is pretty meh. Too much of a missed oppurtunity and ended with an exceedimgly cliche punchline. I'm not a massive Deadpool guy though, so not much for me to get hyped over like a fan would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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