The Comic Book Thread

[Forlorn Drifter]

Yeah, things seem too complicated over at Marvel, one of the reasons I stick with DC. The New 52 reboot gave me a nice jumping on point, and DC sticks with their reboots for a good long while so I don't have to worry about that. DC seems to have their shit together right now.

EDIT: I'd actually love an HD remake of those games. I'd be all over that.

I'm not happy with the New 52 reboot over at DC, either. I've been a Green Lantern, JSA, JLA, and Superman fan for years on end. And I just feel shafted that all my characters and continuity now doesn't even matter. And this new universe isn't even nearly as good, from what we've seen of it so far.

I'm gonna be focusing a lot more on back-issues in the near future.

DC Reboot probably isn't fun in your case.

I just can't stand the constant "events" the pull into Marvel right now, let alone the fact that certain comics will reboot while the rest of the universe keeps going. Confusing shit. Its also tiring that I need to buy this Avengers comic to know what happened to so and so and in order to see what happened to them after that you need to pick up Zombie Apocalypse Deadpool 14, and then return back to the character's comic, only to learn that he died in a comic you missed.

Bleh. I prefer when I can read comics where crossovers aren't needed to get a complete story, where the comic will give you all the info you really know.

[BurningDoom]

Yeah, things seem too complicated over at Marvel, one of the reasons I stick with DC. The New 52 reboot gave me a nice jumping on point, and DC sticks with their reboots for a good long while so I don't have to worry about that. DC seems to have their shit together right now.

EDIT: I'd actually love an HD remake of those games. I'd be all over that.

I'm not happy with the New 52 reboot over at DC, either. I've been a Green Lantern, JSA, JLA, and Superman fan for years on end. And I just feel shafted that all my characters and continuity now doesn't even matter. And this new universe isn't even nearly as good, from what we've seen of it so far.

I'm gonna be focusing a lot more on back-issues in the near future.

DC Reboot probably isn't fun in your case.

I just can't stand the constant "events" the pull into Marvel right now, let alone the fact that certain comics will reboot while the rest of the universe keeps going. Confusing shit. Its also tiring that I need to buy this Avengers comic to know what happened to so and so and in order to see what happened to them after that you need to pick up Zombie Apocalypse Deadpool 14, and then return back to the character's comic, only to learn that he died in a comic you missed.

Bleh. I prefer when I can read comics where crossovers aren't needed to get a complete story, where the comic will give you all the info you really know.

Editor's notes in the yellow boxes, they were great.

[BurningDoom]

Yeah, things seem too complicated over at Marvel, one of the reasons I stick with DC. The New 52 reboot gave me a nice jumping on point, and DC sticks with their reboots for a good long while so I don't have to worry about that. DC seems to have their shit together right now.

EDIT: I'd actually love an HD remake of those games. I'd be all over that.

I'm not happy with the New 52 reboot over at DC, either. I've been a Green Lantern, JSA, JLA, and Superman fan for years on end. And I just feel shafted that all my characters and continuity now doesn't even matter. And this new universe isn't even nearly as good, from what we've seen of it so far.

I'm gonna be focusing a lot more on back-issues in the near future.

I guess I like it more because I am a big Batman fan. I think the work Snyder has been doing on Batman and Tomasi on Batman and Robin has been fantastic and I know the pre 52 Batman continuity fairly well and it doesn't seem like they've messed with it much. He seems like one character they chose to leave well enough alone with the reboot. The biggest complaint I see from Bat fans is losing Steph Brown as Batgirl and Barbara as Oracle. I guess having not read Gail Simone's Birds of Prey run with Oracle or any stories with Stephanie Brown as Batgirl it doesn't really affect me much. I was thrilled to see Babs out of the wheel chair and back in the suit as she is the classic Batgirl to me. I would like to see Cassandra Cain brought back into the continuity though as Black Bat. I feel like I really missed out not having read any of her stories pre 52

I will admit that the Green Lantern books have still been pretty good. But then barely any continuity has been changed in the GL books, so there's not really much change there. The only big change I can think of is Guy Gardner's origin, which isn't even that big of deal because it was originally tied to the original Crisis on Infinite Earths.

[Luke]

B Doom:

Movies, Scmhoovies. I think you have pretty great taste in comics.

Any interest in posting weekly Wednesday suggestions?

[BurningDoom]

B Doom:

Movies, Scmhoovies. I think you have pretty great taste in comics.

Any interest in posting weekly Wednesday suggestions?

Thanks for the compliment. I pretty much post most of my comic thoughts on this thread, already. I'm not sure my suggestions would agree with everyone else, anyways. I'm not an X-Men fan, and everyone else that reads comics is. And I don't read anything outside of Marvel and DC. Plus I'm a bigger of a DC fan than a Marvel fan, which also seems to against the grain of most comic book fans.

[Luke]

I'm not sure my suggestions would agree with everyone else, anyways.

Couldn't care less if you suggested a comic that I didn't like.

If you mentioned "Even if you're not a huge fan of 'so and so', this is worth a read" I'd give it a shot.

In comic related news, I'm half way through the Secret Wars II. It . is. something?

[BurningDoom]

Just finished this mini-series from 1999:

Contest of Champions II


An absolute turd. I should have known with how bad the first Contest of Champions was, but I thought with Chris Claremont writing this might have a chance. But I was sorely wrong. Cheesy as hell dialogue. People completely saying all their thoughts out loud, even if there was nobody else there like bad Golden Age dialogue.

Even the outcome of the battles were bogus. Wonder Man vs. Black Widow and they have Black Widow win it...against a guy that could take on Superman if wanted. Quicksilver vs. Gambit, and they have Gambit win. How in the hell could Gambit even land one of his cards on Quicksilver?! And they were boring, only a few panels long and some even being a single panel.

This was pathetic and I can't believe Claremont agreed to put his name on it. Stay far, far away from this one.

In comic related news, I'm half way through the Secret Wars II. It . is. something?

That wasn't Marvel's finest hour, lol. As cheesy as the first one was, I did enjoy that one because it almost had this b-movie charm, and it had one of Dr. Doom's finest moments. And it had the debut of Spider-Man awesome black costume. But SW II is probably best left forgotten.

[Luke]

That wasn't Marvel's finest hour, lol. As cheesy as the first one was, I did enjoy that one because it almost had this b-movie charm, and it had one of Dr. Doom's finest moments. And it had the debut of Spider-Man awesome black costume. But SW II is probably best left forgotten.

If anything SWII seemed like an advertising vehicle for Fig Newtons.

[Nintendork666]

R.I.P Franco Urru

[Forlorn Drifter]

Doing some research today seeing as Marvel has been common discussion...

Literally the only two comics I'm interested in from Marvel anymore are Deadpool and Iron Man, both of which I have no idea as where to start with. (I've given up attempting to get into Hulk)

On Iron man, I know I want to stick with newer books, so Extremis seems like the place to start. However, going from there is... questionable. The Pre-Marvel NOW Invincible Iron Man does look up my alley though. With Deadpool, I know I want to pick up The "Classic" Deadpool trades, and that I should avoid Way comics, but otherwise I'm lost.