Comics, etc.

So I'll hate that I liked it and resent the hell out of it in 30 years?

oilypenguin wrote:

So I'll hate that I liked it and resent the hell out of it in 30 years?

Possibly, who can say.

But i was thinking more about the craft of it, particularly when viewed without knowing the endgame. It has very deliberate style and narrative choices which you can see are carefully chosen for a particular reason, but i have very little idea what that reason is. Or maybe i'm just getting suckered by the 12 issue limited run and strict 9 panel pages into making the comparison.

apparently that's the cover for Cable #153.

one of the things that annoys me the most about marvel is their constant re-numbering shenanigans... Marvel Legacy has reached peak bullsh*t with it and it's completely turned me off from the entire thing.

And other questions. Like why aren't you reading Mister Miracle? It's amazing. At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I wonder if this is what it felt like to be reading Watchmen by the issue in 1986.

I'm trying! I didn't realise it was written by Tom King until it was sold out everywhere. Now single issues of 1 and 2 are selling for $25 and upwards, and the few places who will ship them are US sellers who charge $50 on top to send to AUS.

I've got issue 3 and onward ordered, but might have to resort to digital for those first 2

I think i saw the artist say on Twitter that the first two were being reprinted and should be in shops today, so you may be able to find a decent price on 2nd or 3rd editions. I love it to pieces but $25 is nuts.

Yeah, I'm keeping my eye on it. Local comic shop said it was unlikely he'd be able to get any more in, but hopefully eBay prices drop with the second print.

Is it that good? I was going to trade wait on it and then shelve it next to Vision.

I’ve been digging Warren Ellis’ Wildstorm reboot, mostly because it’s increasingly seeming to just be a thinly veiled Authority reboot.

Is anyone else reading Hi-Fi Fight Club?

Side note since we're talking Blink: Exiles was one of the best things to come out of Marvel in a long time. I need to go back and read the newer stuff.

Yup, I really enjoyed the Exiles. Also, check out "The Gifted" show it seems that Blink will be at least one of the main characters.

I'm away on a job, and have been reading Aaron's Dr. Strange run and Hickman's space opera of Infinity & Avengers. I adore both for very different reasons, but I just love Bachalo's art in Dr. Strange, as well as the character of Strange himself, always wide-eyed and astonished by what is happening to him. Aaron's inventiveness with the story is astonishing.

Aaron's Dr Strange run is one of my favourites! It was one of the first comics I bought getting into the whole 'scene', and it consistently excited me each month. Next to Vision, it's easily the best of the ANAD Marvel stuff IMO.

Aaron's God Butcher run with Thor was absolutely incredible as well. Very much recommended.

Ugh. I can't stand comic crossover events.

This time it's All-new X-men that I picked all the trades in the Kindle Marvel sale recently. I was super stoked to have a complete series for a really good price. I'm reading along, enjoying the story, then all of a sudden, there's a jump. I was able to piece it together what I missed in the Battle of the Atom event well enough, but suddenly everyone's in new locations, with new allegiances. It's like starting a new series, almost. Whatever. It's all collected in a trade for the event, as it turns out.

I'm reading along again, only to find out later that 3 whole issues are missing from my "complete" set of trades because they were with a Guardians of the Galaxy event and are collected there. Now, there's characters suffering trauma, completely missing, or new ones added that I never met. And no signal in the trades that issues 22-24 are collected elsewhere and I really should be looking to that before I move on.

I know it's mostly an issue with the big names, but I just want to read a good X-men series without having to follow some obtuse guide to follow the story as it gazelle's from title to title.

/rant

That's one of the main reasons I cut back on a lot of my Marvel subscriptions. DC does this to an extent, but it's often within reason, or a tasteful offshoot.

With Marvel, it's horrible. Miss one crossover and the rest of the series will be full of subplots you don't understand. It's not always bad, but it feels like a cheap way to get more money, and doesn't strike me as fair to the consumer. I loved Spider-Gwen before the big crossover event, it was my favourite comic. As soon as they demanded I buy 10 other issues from other series, I lost interest because I had no clue what was going on.

Sorry, you hit a nerve there. I'm still a bit annoyed.

I definitely would quit if I were paying new issue prices. Cut and run for sure. As I payed like $2 for each trade on the kindle sale, I’m way more bothered by the effort I have to put in to hunt down what’s missing.

Of course, I doubt I will hunt down the extras, and it’s coloring my whole experience with All New X-Men in a pretty negative way. Compare that to Astonishing X-Men, which I loved all the way through and can recommend in a heartbeat.

I quit the Big Two a couple years ago and I haven't missed them at all. That said, it was a natural progression of mixing in non-cape books over time, not really intentional. The stories in the creator-owned books I was reading were almost always so much better than the writer of the year's take on whatever superteam.

Now, if someone writes a great superhero run like Hickman's FF, or Hawkeye, I can always go back and read it, but at my convenience. There's no time pressure when you're not trying to keep up with a whole universe.

Antichulius wrote:

Ugh. I can't stand comic crossover events.

This time it's All-new X-men that I picked all the trades in the Kindle Marvel sale recently. I was super stoked to have a complete series for a really good price. I'm reading along, enjoying the story, then all of a sudden, there's a jump. I was able to piece it together what I missed in the Battle of the Atom event well enough, but suddenly everyone's in new locations, with new allegiances. It's like starting a new series, almost. Whatever. It's all collected in a trade for the event, as it turns out.

I'm reading along again, only to find out later that 3 whole issues are missing from my "complete" set of trades because they were with a Guardians of the Galaxy event and are collected there. Now, there's characters suffering trauma, completely missing, or new ones added that I never met. And no signal in the trades that issues 22-24 are collected elsewhere and I really should be looking to that before I move on.

I know it's mostly an issue with the big names, but I just want to read a good X-men series without having to follow some obtuse guide to follow the story as it gazelle's from title to title.

/rant

I ran into the same thing but was at least saved by the fact that I was reading on Marvel Unlimited and was able to jump over to the other relevant issues and pick up the story. Battle of the Atom was pretty cool and it involves Bobby Drake as a full on D&D Ice Wizzard.

Radical Ans wrote:
Antichulius wrote:

Ugh. I can't stand comic crossover events.

This time it's All-new X-men that I picked all the trades in the Kindle Marvel sale recently. I was super stoked to have a complete series for a really good price. I'm reading along, enjoying the story, then all of a sudden, there's a jump. I was able to piece it together what I missed in the Battle of the Atom event well enough, but suddenly everyone's in new locations, with new allegiances. It's like starting a new series, almost. Whatever. It's all collected in a trade for the event, as it turns out.

I'm reading along again, only to find out later that 3 whole issues are missing from my "complete" set of trades because they were with a Guardians of the Galaxy event and are collected there. Now, there's characters suffering trauma, completely missing, or new ones added that I never met. And no signal in the trades that issues 22-24 are collected elsewhere and I really should be looking to that before I move on.

I know it's mostly an issue with the big names, but I just want to read a good X-men series without having to follow some obtuse guide to follow the story as it gazelle's from title to title.

/rant

I ran into the same thing but was at least saved by the fact that I was reading on Marvel Unlimited and was able to jump over to the other relevant issues and pick up the story. Battle of the Atom was pretty cool and it involves Bobby Drake as a full on D&D Ice Wizzard.

Yeah, MU makes crossovers much better. I picked up these 40 Years of Uncanny X-Men and 40 Years of Avengers DVDs from Amazon maybe a decade or so back, they were all just pdf scans of comics. Basically, imagine very-focused Marvel Unlimited back before Marvel Unlimited existed. I read through them like crazy, at least until the 90s came along and there were so many crossovers I had no idea what was going on. Particularly with X-Men, where stories would constantly intertwine through three or four separate titles. I quite.

Avengers was more of a single connected story in that title alone outside of major crossover events. Then again, that might have made it worse, since I stuck through it longer and endured things like Black Knight wearing a bomber jacket, riding a sky cycle (ATOMIC STEED!), and using a laser sword. Man, were the Avengers awful in the late 90s/early 00s.

Yeah I'm at 1994 in my all things X read through. Just finished the Phalanx Covenant, and I'm only like 4 or 5 issues (per series mind you, so like 28-35 actual issues) from Age of Apocalypse. 90's X events are relentless.

Lots of publishers are having horror sales on Comixology right now, FYI.

Since it's Halloween, I'm reading lots of horror. I finally re-read Locke & Key - SO good. SOOOOO good.

I'm also, as with every year, reading old Creepy comics.

I read Mike Mignola's The Doom That Came To Gotham, but it didn't satisfy, despite my love for Batman and Lovecraftian horror.

I read the first volume of Nailbiter, a mystery about serial killers, as I'd gotten it in a Humble Bundle some time ago. I absolutely loved it, and happily, the subsequent volumes are part of the Image Horror sale on Comixology, so I may end up getting the whole thing. Nice timing!

pyxistyx wrote:

Looking at the covers I kind of always assumed that *WAS* a XXX version of Alice in Wonderland!

Covers always lie
No wait, except for Lady Death in Lingerie #1, that one was spot on.

Being almost Halloween, I should probably read that old Vampirella collection (like actually black and white, not Dynamite reboot) sitting merely feet away.

RolandofGilead wrote:

Being almost Halloween, I should probably read that old Vampirella collection (like actually black and white, not Dynamite reboot) sitting merely feet away.

Is that the old Warren Vampirella? Same publisher as Creepy and Eerie.

http://www.comicsbeat.com/a-year-of-...

Three free* Thor kindle/comixology graphic novels if you're an Amazon Prime member. Good ones, too

Love me some Walt Simonson Thor! Beta Ray Bill is just the coolest!

"The God Butcher" is quite good as well.

I noticed amazon also had some free comics for prime users but some were only for kindle but you could use the kindle app. They had vol 1 of Jane Foster Thor goddess of thunder.

Radical Ans wrote:

Love me some Walt Simonson Thor! Beta Ray Bill is just the coolest!

"The God Butcher" is quite good as well.

Quoted for truth! Aaron's God Butcher is sick! How does he manage to make an actual GOD feel so threatened and puny? I was constantly grinning at how he kept raising the stakes.So, so good.

And hey, gotta love some Beta Ray Bill

Anyway, was just dropping by to say I finally found issue 1 (second print) and 2 of Mister Miracle. $15 and $22 each. Bit pricey, but King has been the best thing about DC lately, so I'm willing to buy his stuff at an inflated price.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

I noticed amazon also had some free comics for prime users but some were only for kindle but you could use the kindle app. They had vol 1 of Jane Foster Thor goddess of thunder.

Yeah, i think they cycle what's available to borrow every so often for prime. They do the same with novels and audiobooks too.
On the corporate consolidation plus side, the Kindle app has integrated comixology's guided view for the last few GN I've tried in it.