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Post by woodside on May 10, 2014 22:08:25 GMT -5
What's going on, everyone? The board seems pretty dead lately.
I'm enjoying some current comics. Uncanny Avengers is exciting. The soon-to-be-cancelled Brian Wood Star Wars book is really groovy. Not the biggest Star Wars fan, but it's engaging. Saga is my all-time favorite comic right now. Just a phenomenal comic. Uncanny X-Men and All-New X-Men by our boy Bendis is surprisingly good! Batman Zero Year is pretty bangin' too. Scott Snyder's got it.
Brian Wood's X-Men isn't living up to its potential and I'll be dropping it. And my favorite writer right now - Jason Aaron - is leaving Amazing X-Men, so I think I'm done with that.
Original Sin # 1 was pretty good, though.
What's everyone else reading?
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Post by starfoxxx on May 11, 2014 12:27:49 GMT -5
Hello woodside.....(echo...echo....echo.....yes it's been VERY dead lately....)
Right now the ONLY comic on my pull-list is Uncanny Avengers. I've been reviewing the new issues, with response from bobc, Shiryu, Marvel Boy, and spiderwasp (unless sw has given up on new books by now).
I was thinking about checking out the new Star Wars stuff, but as a Star Wars fanatic, I seem to ALWAYS be underwhelmed by the comics.
I'm also considering checking out Original Sin, and I'd like to hear some feedback from the AA boards about it. (Then wait until it hits the dollar-bin next year, ha-ha).
Hopefully the AA boards will pick up with all the new movies coming up (especially X-men).
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Post by Marvel Boy on May 11, 2014 20:56:19 GMT -5
Hm, what am I reading.....
Well, I'm still hanging in there with the main Avengers title, Avengers World and Uncanny Avengers (with UA being the best of the three). Spencer's co-writing with Hickman on AW has helped that book somewhat, it's not as dense with trippy ideas as Avengers can be.
As for the individual members of the team, I'm reading both Aaron's Thor and Gillen's Iron Man. Aaron has been doing rather well with Thor and the art has been phenomenal. Ribic's depiction of Future Galactus (who is currently giving King Thor some fits) is spectacular and terrifying. I still maintain that Gillen is writing Marvel's most underrated book in Iron Man. The new twists on the Mandarin rings have been fun as has been the person currently seeking them all out. (Hint: Aaron just had Thor and the League of the Nine Realms try and apprehend this malicious being only to see him ascend to the throne of his native elven people).
As for the X-titles *sigh* I wish I could enjoy the core X-books but I agree with some other hardcore X-fans in that Bendis is doing his usual tricks of ignoring canon, mis-characterization, and stilted dialogue. He has his moments but they are few and far between. Thus, I've been reading some of the other titles. Claremont is off to a decent start with Nightcrawler. Aaron's run on Amazing X-Men was great fun with some terrific art by McGuiness. I hate to see him leave, but Kyle & Yost are set to take over; I've liked their work in the past (as long as they keep Firestar around). Cullen Bunn is doing some very strong work on Magneto's solo title, seeing how reflections on his past continue to influence Eric's mission today. I was planning to get Rucka's Cyclops solo title as well just because it's Rucka and my favorite X-Man. Also looking forward to Greg Pak's upcoming Storm solo series.
Beyond that, it's Daredevil (still great), IDW is re-releasing Walt Simonson's Star Slammers series which I've never read but it has been pretty good so far (Simonson's upcoming new solo title 'Ragnarok' is coming soon from IDW as well). And Rucka's Lazarus title is the best new title I've come across in recent memory, the main character Forever Carlyle is one of the strongest female characters in the market today.
As for DC, it's only the Flash. The new creative team of Robert Vendetti and Van Jensen (along with Brett Booth) have finally introduced Wally West into the Nu52 with some...changes. Have to wait and see how those play out.
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Post by wundagoreborn on May 12, 2014 12:03:12 GMT -5
I'm sorry to have contributed to the deadness. Been tied up with other things for a month or two. Still likely to be very irregular visitor, but not vanished forever. Always glad to know this board is here.
Currently reading Cap, Moon Knight, and She-Hulk. She-Hulk is a joy. The others are good too, but they don't make me beam from ear to ear.
Also getting X-Files and Star Trek, which are spotty but I love the franchises too much not to get them.
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pym
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Post by pym on May 12, 2014 16:11:30 GMT -5
Not reading anything right now…just thought I would say hello.
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Post by humanbelly on May 12, 2014 19:57:46 GMT -5
Like pym, I haven't been reading anything new for, gosh, could it be a couple of years now? Surely that much time can't have passed-- maybe just one year? My last dwindling subscription or two finally gave the terminal gasp w/ the first issue of A vs X, IIRC.
While I would never (truly, never ever) encourage anyone to abandon any current books that they're clearly enjoying, I do have to say that after the initial withdrawl, I've found a surprisingly comfortable sense of peace.
What I have been reading most recently is the entire run of JSA (from '98-ish?), to be followed by it's re-boot of JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA immediately after. For the most part, an excellent, excellent title-- although it falls victim late in the run to the industry-wide event-mania that destroyed cohesive story-telling for individual titles.
BUT. . . the thing that's kind of taken recreational reading's place for me at the moment is sort-of measured binge-watching of television shows via our public library's collection. Cannot BELIEVE what a great free resource that's proven to be-! Over recent months, I've been enjoying SMALLVILLE, BABYLON 5, OUTER LIMITS, DOC MARTIN, GRIMM, BONES. . . and w/ HBGirl have had a deee-lightful time watching PSYCH, DOCTOR WHO, and MONK. Definitely reverting to the disturbing TV-aholic that presided over my formative years. . .
HB (trying to remember what the sun looks like. . . )
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Post by ultron69 on May 13, 2014 14:20:00 GMT -5
I haven't been here in a while, myself. Life just gets in the way sometimes. I almost never read new stuff, but I'm reading the JLA Trinity of Sin story. I'm not too impressed with it, but I'll stick it out. Every hero has an attitude, and talks tough, spouting action movie cliches, and they tend to slug it out with each other rather than do anything else. Maybe I'm just getting old.
I've also read issue 1 of the Hercules 2005 series. It's not bad, but not neatly as good as the two Bob Layton Hercules miniseries from the 80's.
Really, for the past 5 years I've almost exclusively read comics from the 60's through the late 80's, and mostly Bronze Age at that. I plan to go back to that, as those comics give me the most pleasure. As I said, I mighty just be getting old.
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