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Anung Un Rama wrote:I still won't buy more Spidey until they retcon One more Day.
You already getting new avengers!
Yeah, my brother and I still read that one. It started before OMD and thankfully they almost don't mention it at all.
Remember that one time Daredevil went nuts and Spider-Man, Cage, Iron Fist and more heroes met in the park in civilian clothes and talk about it. Man, those were the days.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
"According to Robot 6, Doom Patrol, JSA All-Stars, Freedom Fighters, R.E.B.E.L.S. and The Outsiders will all draw to a close"
..hmm.... can't say I'm too surprised. I hope we'll see some D.P. trades still though.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
It was pretty good at first. A lot of his stuff is sadistic, but in a funny way. It's bit like Preacher. Very violent, but in a ridicoulus Shoot 'em up kinda way. What you have to watch out for, is the point where Ennis decided to stop writing funny and only do completly serious Punisher stories, which basically killed the series.
Plus, you'll have to live with Steven Dillons artwork. I hope you like the first male face you'll see in that comic. Because that's the only one he can draw.
So the thing about Marvel and DC is that they are old. They can't change things up to much with their big IPs. Basically what I'm saying is the more things change the more they stay the same.
So you know what's pretty good lately; sometimes. Marvel's Ultimate pocket universe. Once upon a time they just wanted to tell stories of spider-man when he was young but it got popular and next thing you know it was its own fully developed universe. But after 10 or so years it started to defeat the purpose of its existense which was to be just about The Marvel universe when it was younger. It started to get bogged down in its own continuity and basically it was just Marvel U 2. They figured out that what's the point of having a second continuity if its just only slightly different? Let's this thing up, and in Ultamatum they killed everyone! And then they killed a bunch of people after that! And the most crazy thing of all is when they get killed they stay dead! Lately it seems to me they are trying to make it as different from the main uni as possible including having The Thing metamorphosize into a new superhuman type guy, having Reed Richards go evil and become that universe's main supervillian (and a scary one at that) have JJJ know Spidey's true identity and actually protect spider-man.
Anyways, I bring this up because they are now doing an event called "The Death of Spider-Man" and I wonder if its his actual permanent death? If so I think they would probably have to close up shop in the Ultimateverse after that.
I'm actually surprised that Wolverine is dead-dead in the Ultimate Universe. Ultimate Spider-Man is pretty fun though (and, once again, helps me getting my Spider-fix without touching anything OMD-related). I've also read the first two stories of the new ultimate Avengers, they were pretty good as well.
Anung Un Rama wrote:I'm actually surprised that Wolverine is dead-dead in the Ultimate Universe. Ultimate Spider-Man is pretty fun though (and, once again, helps me getting my Spider-fix without touching anything OMD-related). I've also read the first two stories of the new ultimate Avengers, they were pretty good as well.
Yep, he is dead-dead. It's funny how we're in a place in comics where its shocking when somebodies is actually dead. As in "You mean he's actually, really dead!?". The other day Kingpin was thrown out a skyscraper window and after his smooshy splat it like "Whoa, they actually killed Kingpin". That was post-Ultimatum where they killed someone on every page. Ultimate X looked like it was going to be interesting with his son but I guess it's in delayed shipping hell now.
..looking alright I think. Always going to be an odd one to film, really unsure as to how this will then translate to The Avengers film later.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
Yeah, its good. Not sure where you are in the timeline but like I was saying before the main problem with the two now is that the teams are indistinguisable except for Luke Cage being the main dude in New Avengers.
The last issue I read was Siege, so after that there's one more and then the Heroic Age starts.
Thing is, New Avengers got really boring after a while. But I love Romitas artwork (not as much to make me buy anything post-OMD Spider-Man though) and that really got me interested.
btw. how's Heroic Age Iron Man?
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I'm not sure what the Heroic age is supposed to even mean other than 'The Dark Reign is over". IIRC New Avengers restarts around then. I still like it and "Avengers" too.
That's pretty much it. Heroic Age means that after Civil War, Secret Invasion and Dark Reign we're finally back to some good ol' fashioned Superheroing. It's the current status quo for the Marvel Universe as was Dark Reign before that.
I can't stand the Skrulls, so Secret Invasion was pretty boring to me.
Also, the Butler did it.
Because Deadpool was in it, I recently read Messia War. By Gork, stories with Cable are stupid. And look at X-Force. There so violent and brutal and edgy. Did we end up in the 90s again?
Yeah I'm reading Uncanny X-Force right now and its pretty good. I like the idea of a mutant black-ops kill-team so i probably should have gotten on board with it earlier but the new team has a good roster.
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
.... 
this thing up, and in Ultamatum they killed everyone! And then they killed a bunch of people after that! And the most crazy thing of all is when they get killed they stay dead! Lately it seems to me they are trying to make it as different from the main uni as possible including having The Thing metamorphosize into a new superhuman type guy, having Reed Richards go evil and become that universe's main supervillian (and a scary one at that) have JJJ know Spidey's true identity and actually protect spider-man.
