OCH Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 I like when they do these comparison pieces. Classic colouring vs. modern. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 That's really cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 15, 2021 Share Posted August 15, 2021 DAMN X-Men is finally getting explosive again. HoX and PoX was such a fantastic re-entry for the X-Men but I feel it’s been a particularly slow burn since then (Almost 2 years ago which is frightening) and I thought the big event they had since then, X of Swords, was kind of a dud. There are important things that happen in it which impacts the rest of the X-Men but a lot of set up cushioned in a lot of boredom. Then they make it all pay off with 2 issues. Planet sized X-Men where they terraformed Mars, and Sword #6 where the mutants just claimed the solar system. Holy shit I want to link every page which I won’t but this is crazy Spoiler Impressed. Frustrated. Conflicted. Not sure what to feel. How will the X-Men ever return from all of this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 17 hours ago, Maf said: How will the X-Men ever return from all of this? Why should they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Because they're meant to be heroes and they're bribing people and changing the world with politics and force. At some point the status quo will return because it's comics and it always does but how will they tidy all this away and redeem the X-Men when they're done I don't know. I feel like at the end the core X-Men team will have to side with the world against Krakoa to win the earth back or something. The thing is every single mutant is so all in on this idea of Krakoa. I still don't believe this is the real X-Men. Something is happening to them when they come out of these pods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 The X-Men, the heroes, are in this book. That's one of the best things about the Hickman era. All of the X-books are their own thing. One about the lawyers of Krakoa, "pirates", Black-Ops, Religion etc Not all of them are B or C-List hero teams anymore, like the old X-Factor, Gen X and X-Force. The rest of the books however, such as SWORD, are dealing with the Mutants first nation and they have nothing to redeem. Mystique is going to mess with Krakoa in the upcoming 'Inferno' event. Beyond that, the status quo doesn't mean much to X-Men anymore. There have been soft resets, for jumping on points. But it has been a Very, very long time since Professor X sent a team on missions from the mansion. Not since Morrison's New X-Men, back in 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 I haven't read the new mainline X-Men book because I missed #1 due to a card payment fuck up so I'm trying to track that down before reading #2. It did seem like at the end of X of Swords that the X-Men were back properly, or as properly as they can be while being apart of Krakoa. I still don't think it's them though. I mean Storm has always been fierce and loyal but effectively conquering and ruling a planet? Being Ok with all this? She's always been very moral (After the thief upbringing stuff) and this is not moral at all. It's fascinating and weird. I like it because it's interesting, I don't like it because it's like what happened to you Storm? I agree that each X-Book having it's own lane is cool, unfortunately some of them don't really add anything to the overall Krakoan saga. Some books seem integral. X-Men, Sword, Mauraders, X-Force, Excalibuar, etc. But a lot of the X-Books are a bit irrelevant. A character will go off on a whole side quest which maybe adds one element to the overall situation. Most of the time the element that's added could have easily been folded in to another book and not need it's own series to make it happen. I guess you could argue it fleshes out the world of Krakoa. But lets be realistic, it's more just milking the situation. I like the Hickman era stuff overall but there are times when a few months go by and I read a lot of the books but start to get bored because it's so slow and they're trying to spread it out so much as an excuse to make a new series. Then every now and then you get one issue like Sword #6 where it's boom every page is like holy fuck. As far as the status quo goes. I didn't mean as literal as Professor X being in charge and all of that. I meant just a team of X-Men in a mansion or base somewhere protecting people while being hated and having adventures. I mean that was the X-Men up until 2 writers ago or something. Every comic returns to it's most normal premise at some point. They always reset back to 0. Short of rewriting reality, or this timeline being not apart of the true Marvel timeline because of Moira or something, how will the X-Men ever be likeable again? I don't know. When it is cool it's really cool, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted August 16, 2021 Share Posted August 16, 2021 Funny thing. That reveal of Storm in SWORD is a bit misleading. Mars Arrako, is now home to the other dimensional Mutants from X of Swords. The short version: They terraformed Mars and moved in. Magneto basically arranged it because, as the Arrako Mutants were aggressive survivalists, they were causing problems on Earth. As an aside, Storm has had really iffy characterisation for the last decade or so (although Beast has had it worse). It took until X-Men #21 (Hickman's last) before they even named a team of X-Men. Essentially, there wasn't a defacto team of X-Men until that point. This new volume, is the first outing of the X-Men proper since the House of X reboot. All the stuff you were asking for, is in this book. The whole running missions from a base in New York stuff. There have always been a lot of ...third tier books with X-titles. Not every one is a winner. I doubt the book with Angel's law firm, for example, will last very long. Fallen Angels was already quietly cancelled a while back. Personally I only get the mainline X-Men book and Hellions. The rest, I'm not really interested in. Oddly enough, the current issue of Hellions features the council of Arrako and probably explains how Storm takes over as leader. X-Men has had two reboots that I can think of, in recent times. Morrison's New X-Men and House of X. Neither of them returned the plot progression to 0. They just start anew from a fresh perspective. That's how all the young Mutants like Kitty, Jubilee, Cannonball etc have been allowed to grow up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 I’ve been reading comics all day. Mostly really good ones. But there was this fight in Batman #110 between Batman and a new character called Peacekeeper 01 who is basically a psychotic Robocop that was especially good Drawn by Jorge Jimenez so it looks incredible. Spoiler Blowing up buildings in morse code 🤣 this was a really good issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Wait, did they retcon the retcon or why is Barbara Oracle again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 I don't remember. It's been that way for a while. Quick Google says she gave the mantle of Batgirl up during Joker War. The page looks familiar, but I completely forgot about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Ugh, so that whole miracle healing thing that always rubbed me the wrong way was ultimately pointless as well. The panel where she sits down is really clever though, the way she's hunched and positioned her legs makes it look like she's paralyzed again. I love it when they put that much work in seemingly unimportant details. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Comic books. They always reset to 0. Especially DC lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 I thought since it’s trailer day I would post a bit from one of my favourite Spider-Man stories. Spider-Man: Hollywood. This is a story where Sam Raimi makes the first Spider-Man movie and real Spider-Man is really mad about it Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 They’ve started doing the movie timeline thing for the comics lol It doesn’t quite hit the same way when you don’t know what any of it means 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 The font of the first one suggests a Daredevil event. Hopefully better than Shadowland... Avengers Forever... I think they've used that name a few times now? So that in itself is meaningless. 'Timeless' looks like a big deal. A Wolverine event... Pass She-Hulk, it depends which version they use. A FF event might be interesting. Hopefully with a new writer to replace Slott. A potential event around Moon Girl/DD seems a bit of a stretch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 3, 2021 Share Posted September 3, 2021 6 moments that make Superman the ultimate superhero 1. An ultimate S.O.S Spoiler 2. It’s never as bad as it seems Spoiler 3. Wow! Cool costume! Spoiler 4. I have to put you down Spoiler 5. Fear needs hope Spoiler 6. Are you going to help everyone? Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted September 8, 2021 Share Posted September 8, 2021 Participated on a kickstarter thing for the first time in forever (it was only 2018 but still feels like forever ago) for this little Witcher-themed manga: Looks nice enough and it's not too expensive in case it all goes to hell. Should be done by early 2022 already too which I think is a reasonable deadline (that also shouldn't be affected by the usual shortages because it's just, well, paper). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 I'm currently 'Off The Grid', as my friends & family know it. Basically two days after surgery, Gilbert's Syndrome kicked in and I'm currently rotating between internal pain and throwing up. So I become unreachable, until the bout passes. Good Times. That said, I got a new load of comics this week and one cover in particular, I needed to point out. Due to it's significance. Doesn't get more 90's than Onslaught! 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maf Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 Take 1# The thing is you can have someone retcon adventures and fill in the blanks for Peter because Peter is the real Spider-Man and his adventures build who he is. Ben Reilly was a stunt that - even though I loved at the time - is long since done. His value is over and you can’t increase the impact of or recapture the stunt by adding more to it. Take 2# Good Spider-Man comics are so few and far between I’ll take what I can get cuz I’m a sucker that way 😓 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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