I have been a fan forever, I may spend too much time in this thread. :lol:
I know a lot of folks are DC around here so someone may need to start a thread for that.
Currently, I am reading the Wolverine TPB because he has a huge fight going on with Sabortooth. They were fighting during the Mutant Massacre in '85 when I started reading comics so I have a soft spot for them :pirate:
05-08-2007 07:19 AM
Rjeso
I always was into the idea of comics and I like the characters, but I never really did read them. I heard that there's some huge X-Men hardcover book with, what, all the Ultimate issues in it? I want that.
05-08-2007 07:24 AM
Matt
My kid got a Ultimate X-Men graphic novel for Christmas from my ex (his mom). It was really cool to read. I love the fact that he is old enough to get gifts I would be interested in borrowing from him. :lol:
05-08-2007 01:34 PM
Nerak
There are "other" Marvel comics?!?!
LOL j/k
05-08-2007 01:43 PM
Matt
:rofl:
I know, its very hard to believe.
05-08-2007 02:10 PM
OchrisO
The most recent marvel stuff that I have read was the Civil War stuff. I have been too bsy to dig into much lately. :(
05-08-2007 02:12 PM
fernandito
Has anyone read the Marvel Zombies series yet?
05-08-2007 02:13 PM
OchrisO
I actually haven't, though every comic fan I know tells me taht I need to. I just haven't found time. Robert Kirkman actually came to campus here at EKU a while back, but I didn't get to go meet him.
05-08-2007 03:18 PM
Matt
I haven't heard of it. We're lucky to get X-Men out here in bodunk town.
<--also can't get the new Gunslinger comic. :arg:
05-08-2007 03:25 PM
BlakeMP
Marvels Zombies is really quite entertaining. It's not your typical zombie story -- the zombies retain their human intellgence, for one thing -- but it's a unique comic and really a hell of a lot of fun. I'd recommend it if you're looking for an offbeat horror story.
05-08-2007 04:38 PM
Aaron
Oh shit! I'll have to check those zombie comics out. I wonder if that was the series that Will was telling me about...
05-08-2007 05:56 PM
fernandito
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Originally Posted by BlakeMP
Marvels Zombies is really quite entertaining. It's not your typical zombie story -- the zombies retain their human intellgence, for one thing -- but it's a unique comic and really a hell of a lot of fun. I'd recommend it if you're looking for an offbeat horror story.
I just ordered the first volume :dance:
06-02-2007 06:19 PM
Matt
I'm so glad Fever was the last to post.
So, you're sig is the one shot cover for Marvel Zombies and it turns out there is an entire arch dedicated to it. 5 issues that have already been bundled I think.
Matthew found out on the net that at some point the Silver Surfer comes along and the marvel zombies finally beat him, take his power inside and then unite to fight Galactus. :o
And win....
:unsure:
Anyone else here about these?
06-02-2007 08:52 PM
Jimmy
Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt
I'm so glad Fever was the last to post.
So, you're sig is the one shot cover for Marvel Zombies and it turns out there is an entire arch dedicated to it. 5 issues that have already been bundled I think.
Matthew found out on the net that at some point the Silver Surfer comes along and the marvel zombies finally beat him, take his power inside and then unite to fight Galactus. :o
And win....
:unsure:
Anyone else here about these?
Saw it with my own two eyes. There's a really funny scene when zombie Wolverine slashes at the Surfer. I won't say what happens, but it's classic.
06-03-2007 06:35 AM
Darkthoughts
A friend lent me the X-Men - Age of Apocalypse collection - its pretty damn good. I'm generally more of a DC girl though...well, just Doom Patrol to be precise.
06-03-2007 07:46 AM
Matt
:o
The Age of Apocalypse is one of my most favorite Marvel story lines ever. Its really good, I used to have all 28 of them or however many it was. :lol:
06-03-2007 08:31 AM
Spencer
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Originally Posted by OchrisO
The most recent marvel stuff that I have read was the Civil War stuff. I have been too bsy to dig into much lately. :(
Damn, Civil War. I got turned off right away when, yet again, Alan Moore's Watchmen was ripped off, (the government regulation of superheroes thing, which is only background setup info in that book), to create an entire storyline, just as it's been done before in the X-Men movie and in at least one X-Men comics storyline (I THINK Operation:Zero Tolerance, but I could be wrong). I stuck with it, and was totally disappionted with the ending. Tony "Iron Man" Stark is a totalitarian asshole, Steve "Captain America" Rogers acts like a true hero for most of the series, and then...
Spoiler:
The wrong guy wins the damn thing, (Tony should have gotten HIS comeuppance, not Steve), and in the aftermath, to make a bad ending even worse, Steve Rogers is killed.
In my opinion, possibly the worst, just plain WRONG ending to a comics story ever.
06-03-2007 01:12 PM
OchrisO
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rorschach
Quote:
Originally Posted by OchrisO
The most recent marvel stuff that I have read was the Civil War stuff. I have been too bsy to dig into much lately. :(
Damn, Civil War. I got turned off right away when, yet again, Alan Moore's Watchmen was ripped off, (the government regulation of superheroes thing, which is only background setup info in that book), to create an entire storyline, just as it's been done before in the X-Men movie and in at least one X-Men comics storyline (I THINK Operation:Zero Tolerance, but I could be wrong). I stuck with it, and was totally disappionted with the ending. Tony "Iron Man" Stark is a totalitarian asshole, Steve "Captain America" Rogers acts like a true hero for most of the series, and then...
Spoiler:
The wrong guy wins the damn thing, (Tony should have gotten HIS comeuppance, not Steve), and in the aftermath, to make a bad ending even worse, Steve Rogers is killed.
In my opinion, possibly the worst, just plain WRONG ending to a comics story ever.
Spoiler:
I kind of like when the wrong guy wins from time to time, because it shows taht anything is possible, and taht you shouldn't expect anytyhing. I'm a pretty big fan of Civil War, dspite the Watchmen ripoff. Comics constantly rip each other off anyway. I'm used to it.
P.S. I started the Ultimate FF comics that lead into Marvel Zombies today. I'll give my verdict later. :)
06-03-2007 09:01 PM
Spencer
I do agree with a lot of what of what you say there Chris. You can't always have a happy ending, as a matter of fact, it's the unhappy endings that are the most memorable sometimes, and, though I may not have liked it, it certainly was memorable, and I DID buy the books, after all. :lol:
06-03-2007 11:19 PM
Jimmy
Yeah, because Tony Stark would clone Thor, but would never ever clone Captain America and have the clone killed in public, all while the real Cap is sitting in the Negative Zone prison.
He isn't dead, not by a long shot.
06-04-2007 07:30 AM
BlakeMP
I hated Civil War with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. So many complete bastardizations of character, pointless moments of shock value that meant nothing, and an utterly disappointing ending.
In other words, everything I've come to expect from Mark Millar.
06-04-2007 04:29 PM
OchrisO
Haha, that's comics in general, haven't you caught on yet? :P
Everything in Marvel and Dc since Superman wasn't really dead after Doomsday killed him has been moments of shock value that meant nothing. I just take it as being the nature of the beast now, unfortunately.
06-04-2007 07:36 PM
BlakeMP
I don't agree with that at all.
There are a lot of good, quality comics out there that actually have substance. The Superman titles are both really strong right now, and the stuff with Justice League and Justice Society is spectacular. Dan Slott's work with She-Hulk has been consistently entertaining, and Annihilation and 52 were both tremendously successful at making me feel engaged and involved with B or C-list characters that didn't matter before.
There's always good stuff out there. You've just got to look for it.
06-04-2007 07:39 PM
OchrisO
I didn't say there wasn't good stuff, there's tons of good stuff. I thought that Civil War was good stuff. I just said that mainstream comics have been full of moments of shock value that meant nothing ever since they didn't really kill Superman.