gonna be todays purchases (comics ed) ongoing forever thread

[reversemigraine]

TRADES
MANVSTREES
IUNNO
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN
GRANT MORRISON
ALAN DAVIS
BRAND NEW DAY
CHRIS CLAREMONT
BLUE BEETLE
FINAL CRISIS #7
MISS PIGGY
GAYS

[manvstrees]

what about intelligent commentary about the nature of myth
also gays

[endor holocaust]

JIM LEE

[reversemigraine]

SALES FIGURES
COMBINING TEKES
GAY DEER BOYS

[endor holocaust]

Star Wars is better than Star Trek.

[manvstrees]

ULTIMATE LINE CANCELLED

[reversemigraine]

MARIA HILL

That just about covers it.

Maybe the new-look HPN will draw Tetra back into the comics thread fold.

[Jugdish]

pretty good week comin up

[manvstrees]

eh
no DC books, 7 Marvel and 3 or 4 of that is X-men stuff
nothing spectacular

[smelts]

probably the only thread i really missed during the blackout

got a chance to read all of Invincible Iron Man though

hoping to get through Alias and Iron Fist by the end of the week

[j_brooks]

today i was thinking about the steve rogers appearances in avengers and iron man today and i got warm fuzzy feelings and realized i really missed the character

[Beyerstein]

i like when thor pounded the shield to jolt tony back

[endor holocaust]

probably the only thread i really missed during the blackout

got a chance to read all of Invincible Iron Man though

hoping to get through Alias and Iron Fist by the end of the week

We all forgot about Alias in our run of the decade discussion. Should definitely be up there.

[endor holocaust]

Also, I picked up Brubaker's Doom mini-series in a 50% bin this weekend. Good move?

[manvstrees]

even with all our bullshit, there's no way there's a better place on the internet to discuss superhero comics

[j_brooks]

felt like brubaker's doom mini was an absolute travesty and missed everything that was fun and cool about stan and jack's original vision of the character in favor of this garbage teen angst version

they also show him without the mask at the end and he has no face besides the skin around his eyes, he's just a bunch of robotic tubes and gristle and shit

i was totally infuriated reading the thing, it's one of the worst brubaker comics i've read and i hope it stays out of the canon forever

[scurrydog]

probably the only thread i really missed during the blackout

got a chance to read all of Invincible Iron Man though

hoping to get through Alias and Iron Fist by the end of the week

really want to get into this run of iron man, but haven't found it online yet.

[manvstrees]

director of s.h.i.e.l.d. was really something else too. really great slow building intrigue with mandarin.

[endor holocaust]

felt like brubaker's doom mini was an absolute travesty and missed everything that was fun and cool about stan and jack's original vision of the character in favor of this garbage teen angst version

they also show him without the mask at the end and he has no face besides the skin around his eyes, he's just a bunch of robotic tubes and gristle and shit

i was totally infuriated reading the thing, it's one of the worst brubaker comics i've read and i hope it stays out of the canon forever

Aw damn, should've known writing a character like Doom would play to Bru's worst tendencies.

[new blood, old hat]

Don't you hate it when people try to right Doom as a benevolent dictator and underwrite Doom's villainy by trying to make him morally grey?

Also it's been a while, but SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS wasn't the ending to Books of Doom showing an imprisoned doombot who thought he was the real Doom or some such? And the reporter lady was going to be in jail with the doom bot, yeah? I forget. SPOILERS OVER SPOILERS OVER SPOILERS OVER

[j_brooks]

see i never liked director of shield

thought the mandarin was a poor fit for the type of storyline they were doing, that his inclusion was motivated more by a need for a marquee iron man villain to be the big bad than anything specific about the character himself

also thought that basing the entire long-form story on ellis' extremis arc, right down to using it's supporting characters instead of rhodey/pepper/happy hogan/jarvis/etc. emphasized a poor grasp on the character and his world, i think even ellis probably sort of felt like the random ex-girlfriend who invented extremis was a cliche. was surprised and horrified to see her dragged out of the tidy ending ellis had given her and turned into a regular fixture of the book

[new blood, old hat]

really want to get into this run of iron man, but haven't found it online yet.

These links worked for me the other day

[manvstrees]

i wanted more from steve showing up in avengers than him popping his head in the door and saying ok let's go end this bullshit
yet i'm not too excited about reborn 5, other than that sweet sweet art

[manvstrees]

see i never liked director of shield

thought the mandarin was a poor fit for the type of storyline they were doing, that his inclusion was motivated more by a need for a marquee iron man villain to be the big bad than anything specific about the character himself

also thought that basing the entire long-form story on ellis' extremis arc, right down to using it's supporting characters instead of rhodey/pepper/happy hogan/jarvis/etc. emphasized a poor grasp on the character and his world, i think even ellis probably sort of felt like the random ex-girlfriend who invented extremis was a cliche. was surprised and horrified to see her dragged out of the tidy ending ellis had given her and turned into a regular fixture of the book

i thought the way they worked mandarin was the best thing done with the character since lady mandarin saga

[scurrydog]

really want to get into this run of iron man, but haven't found it online yet.

These links worked for me the other day

good move new guy.

[j_brooks]

doom IS a benevolent dictator, part of doom's power has always been that there's a chance the world actually would be better with him charge of it, that's why the "emperor doom" ogn was so much fun

depictions of latveria as an eastern european wasteland where women have to wear burkas and are super oppressed don't make sense to me, millar got it right in his brief depiction of ultimate latveria as a wonderland technocracy where anything's possible, robots do everything, and doom's bizarre appearance seems perfectly at home

stan and jack's doom was petty and immature but also driven, brilliant, dashing, and vain - dude would never mutilate himself like brubaker shows him doing

old fantastic four, secret wars, emperor doom, triumph and torment, those are doom

waid's unthinkable, brubaker's books of doom - totally off-base

[manvstrees]

depictions of latveria as an eastern european wasteland where women have to wear burkas and are super oppressed don't make sense to me, millar got it right in his brief depiction of ultimate latveria as a wonderland technocracy where anything's possible, robots do everything, and doom's bizarre appearance seems perfectly at home

absolutely. and i've never seen much exploration of latverian day to day.....you'd think doom's kingdom would be full of these amazing characters, but he's just show doing it all himself. of course, i haven't read the aforementioned emperor doom.

[endor holocaust]

Fraction and Romita to take over Thor

[Beyerstein]

Maybe adding thor to his plate will draw him off X-Men

[manvstrees]

i don't think that anyone would argue that he'll be better on thor. fucking great news.