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Like 911, do superpowered terrorist explode giant symbolic pillars
of comic book lore that thereby stay destroyed forever?
Or do broken symbolic pillars always return?
I hate that.
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"...he could never understand the sense of a contest in which the two adversaries agreed upon the rules." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Actually pretty sure Asgard's still destroyed.
But does anyone care?
edit: snarkier than I intended.
Meant for it to be a play on "when a tree falls in the forest..."
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KamikazeCanuck wrote:
Actually pretty sure Asgard's still destroyed.
But does anyone care?
In real life or Marveldom? In Marveland: yes very much so. Not sure the shining city can be rebuilt. There's a debate whether it should be rebuilt by Asgardians or Humanity. Asgardians (except Thor) think it should be by Asgardians while Thor think's the humans should help out because it'll help god-human relations and stuff. Let's just say he's fond of humans.
Iron Man thinks it'll be a good job creation project for America (The remains of Asgard are in Broxton, Oklahoma.....don't ask).
Real Life? Idunno, people care as much about it as anything else that happens in comics I reckon.
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Manchu wrote:Comic book things are not totally frozen at creation but let's say it takes them a long time to thaw even just a little bit.
That's probably what I can't stand.
I like series that have a beginning, middle and end.
100 Bullets.
Sandman.
Hitman.
I can't follow storylines forever.
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@Anung about House of M and Malfred about Civil War and storylines
House of M -> Civil War -> Secret Invasion -> Dark Reign -> Seige actually forms a pretty coherent storyline. Then Fear Itself kinda sucks the momentum out of all of it but it was good up till then.
I had forgotten Azzarello wrote 100 Bullets. I quite liked it (though I have quite a tolerance for Vertigo's stuff), but Azzarello's certainly no Alan Moore. I shall be giving this cynical exercise a miss.
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Yeah, I've been reading both: the Classics and the new TPBs. To be fair, I still enjoy the new 'pool. Sure, he's not nearly as deep or compelling as Joe Kelly's version, but the stories are still tons of fun and I love Carlo Barberi's art.
Last Classic I read was book 4, where the whole arc with LL&L and the Alien Messiah was wrapped up. Got a bit complicated in the end, but it's still really good.
All I remember is that in the end he has a big fight with T-Ray (I think his name was) then ends up hallucinating that Death was talking to him. Then subsequent writers seemed to take that literally and made Death like an actual character. It's been a while....
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It's a suspense thriller type comic that supposes that Russia left
sleeper agents in Cuba whose children are now ready to infiltrate
America.
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I've just started Kevin Smiths Bionic Man.
It's quite good so far.
If the thought of something makes me giggle for longer than 15 seconds, I am to assume that I am not allowed to do it. item 87, skippys list
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Started reading Infestation. So far we have Transformers fighting Zombies, G.I. Joe's Cobras fighting Zombies and Kirk, Spock and Bones fighting Zombies. But all of them in their seperate stories. I thought I bought a crossover
And it ended with Ghostbusters fighting Zombies and then another story about IDW's stupid vampire black ops unit defeating the zombie threat.
The Ghostbusters and Star Trek stories we're fun. The writers at IDW seem to have a good grasp on the characters they're using. But I am still pissed that I didn't get a real crossover.
Sure, I've got a crossover between said black ops unit and the different universes but I was really expecting a crossover between the worlds.
Product Description IDW''s first-ever mega event is collected in this hardcover collection as something goes horribly awry in the IDW universe: a dimensions-spanning zombie outbreak of epic proportions, which threatens to tear many of IDW's biggest realities asunder! The infestation spreads into the Transformers universe as Galvatron crash lands on Earth, and it falls upon our ''Bots-in-blue to run to the rescue of... well... EVERYONE to fight off not just Galvatron, but the zombie horde spreading through Las Vegas! It continues when a robotic arm of unknown origin has been discovered and both G.I. JOE and COBRA race to discover its secrets. Little do the two sides know that the arm has its own agenda - assimilating the world''s military technology into the Infestation fold! It then crosses over into the Star Trek universe as a routine visit to a colony world takes a horrifying turn when Admiral Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy find themselves surrounded by hordes of the undead! And, thanks to a plague of poltergeists that resist long-term storage in the containment grid, the Ghostbusters are dealing with a surplus of work... and their job is only going to get harder when Britt''s zombies try to take a nibble out of the Big Apple! Finally, Britt has returned, armed with new technology that will spread the Infestation across all known realities. The zombie apocalypse looms and the remaining members of CVO are running out of options...
Also, Snake Eyes is not in this book. I hate it when covers lie to me.
Automatically Appended Next Post: And speaking of IDW, let's hope this will be as awesome as it looks:
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So, is anyone else Reading Atomic Robo? I just finished volume 6, and it was a blast. Robo is always the best combination of funny, punchy, and SCIENCE!
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DarkDrgon wrote:So, is anyone else Reading Atomic Robo? I just finished volume 6, and it was a blast. Robo is always the best combination of funny, punchy, and SCIENCE!
marv335 wrote:I've just started Kevin Smiths Bionic Man.
It's quite good so far.
I've been enjoying it. It's apparently based on his movie script from a decade or so ago. I think it does a good job revamping the character but staying true to the important basics. Must be selling okay, as an ad for a spinoff ran in the last ish...
So about Justice League. I want to like the book. It has a lot of solid elements and good people behind it. But why does it seem like they don't add up to make it the book it should be?
Spoiler:
The primary problem might be that the pacing has been poor. I don't mind a slow pace, and I appreciate what Johns was trying to do with establishing the characters and their relationships...not just for this book, but for the whole DC universe, really. But nothing much happened for too many leisurely issues (and note that JL/JLA has traditionally been kind of a dense book due to the many characters involved). Then in the latest ish, we get what felt like a rushed battle with Darkseid that didn't live up to the buildup. It felt a bit like the original Doomsday arc in terms of the overly simplistic plot, but without 3 issues worth of slugging it out toe-to-toe between the principal characters.
I kept thinking about how Grant Morrison's JLA book was more action-packed and interesting from the get-go, although of course he didn't have to deal with the not-insignificant burden of a universe reboot. Maybe we'll see a more traditional JL book going forward now from Johns since the original story is told.
Back on the latest issue, Apokolips looked about the same, but the monstrous-looking versions of DeSaad and Steppenwolf were certainly interesting and a change. And I assume the daughter of Darkseid is in fact Pandora? She's apparently got a box...so a Father/Grandfather/Ancestor Box? And are we headed for an "unreboot"? I'm starting to wonder a little.
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For JLA ,it feels like a introductory let's-get-this-over -with story arc. Whereas, I think they should be taking it slower and really enjoying this reboot.
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Is there evidence that the re-boot got them new readers?
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I'm starting to wonder a little.
