Really? I view new volumes of my manga/poison of choice with, at this point, more of a sigh of resignation. I’m going to get it because I want to know how shit ends but I would have preferred if shit had ended years ago. I’ve been reading Battle Angel since I was in fucking middle school. -_-
There should be a hard limit on how many iterations or spin-offs a character has.
A few here and a few there are fine, but they’ve really stretched the gamma thing thin.
Let’s see of the Gamma Mutates of note(current and former) we have Hulk, Shulk, Rulk, Shrulk, TA Hulk, Lyra, Doc Sampson, Leader, Cosmic Hulk, a new bootleg Ross/Rulk, Abomination, A-Bomb, and most recently Teen Abomination.
Actually you know what, I’m pissed, I want Skaar back.
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I really want him to go back into space and do more Space barbarian shit.
And more art by Ariel Olivetti too, love his art style:
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A real shame what happened to him, I mean he still has his other powers, but it’s not the same.
Yeah i’d rather they just pushed Sif or Valkyrie to the front.
I would say they should have pushed Skaar(he is a teenager technically) instead of hulking out Cho, and just had Cho be on the team as the Prince of Power again.
But then they’d have Skaar being more PG that i’d want. I mean it’s not like he was slicing dudes in half towards the end of his prominence either, but still.
The Wanted movie was the greatest comic book movie of all time. There has been no other comic book movie that’s been more accurate and true to the original source material. The fresh plot, pacing, the dialogue, the exquisite cinematography with its revolutionary “bullet-time” effects - no one has ever topped that in the years since it was released. Not only that, but it was James McAvoy’s breakout work and the only reason he still gets jobs - just living off that one classic movie.
The 1987 Silver Surfer series would be a great TV series (cartoon or real life).
Guggenheim on X-Men Gold. Kitty Pryde is leading, Rachel Summers is changing her name to Prestige and Kitty is putting their headquarters smack dab in the middle of Central Park.
Can’t say I’m sold on the book yet but I’m happy that it at least seems like Marvel is going to stop acting like the X-Men don’t exist.
Just finished the Deathlok 2014 run.
So damn good, and I never really cared about any of the Deathloks before
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“Mustang” has a cool sleeper agent dynamic and all of the actions scenes are pretty cool. It’s a pretty great origin story IMO. Only problem is Marvel fucking axed it after a big set of cliffhangers, and its been three years and he’s only been in SHIELD books really. I really want to know how those things resolved.
Looking forward to the Gundam Wing manga the Glory of Losers. It retells the story from the TV anime but replaces the mecha with the mecha from Endless Waltz. Since Endless Waltz says the mecha always looked that way (the designs in the show were not popular). So it should be more official than the TV anime, at least visually. It should drop in the Summer.
Some artwork from The Amazing Spider-Man Renew Your Vows issue 6 featuring 90s X-Men. Hype!
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It is like I stepped back in time by nine years, wassup fam.
I’ve only been reading old stuff mainly. Lately it has been Morrison’s JLA for the most part.
Nice. Somehow, we’re keeping the Comic Book Forum alive. Barely.
They may have all left with what you said about that Wanted movie.
Currently reading:
X-Men: X-Corps tpb - this collects Joe Casey’s run on Uncanny that took place while Morrison was writing Adjective-less. It’s a pretty strange group of stories with an oddball team made up of Archangel, Iceman, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Chamber, and a new girl.
Catwoman vol. 1 by Brubaker - The Darwyn Cooke one-shot that started out the book was pretty solid, first few issues of Bru are promising.
Prophet vol. 5 - sad to see this crazy series finish up
Tom King (current Batman writer) rates the combat skill of the Batfamily.
https://twitter.com/TomKingTK/status/833702769487917057
that’s…the worst list I’ve ever seen.
I think the top 5 is accurate. Bottom 5 is when things get murky. There’s no way that Tim is bottom.
Prime Time!
Finally reading Casey’s Uncanny run, I see. Good stuff, P.Gabby. It didn’t get enough love when it was coming out. Seems like in the past few years, its reputation has somehow improved. I’ve been a fan since the beginning. The thing that mars the run is the uneven (and lousy) art, particularly in the early issues. Issue 400, the annual, and the last few issues are some of the best X-Men comics of my lifetime. I guess Casey wasn’t really feeling it, though. Uncanny, especially the Sean Phillips issues, kinda feels like a proto-Wildcats, especially with the stuff about Archangel’s company that Casey sort of hinted bigger things for.
Rest in Power, COOKE. We will always have Catwoman. I still flip through and reread that run every so often. “Relentless” is one of the most exciting and emotionally intense arcs, and the three-parter after it (“No Easy Way Down”) remains one of the boldest and illest indie comics masquerading as a superhero comic.
I need to read the end of Prophet. That was a crazy, creative series. Every individual issue was a cosmic delicacy, a true cornucopia of wild science fiction and offbeat but emotional storytelling.
Agree. Tim’s been getting the shaft since New 52 de-aged him.
Invincible is getting movie produced my Seth Rogen.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. Seriously. With all the lore Invincible has built, I’d prefer a well done television show.
The Great Lakes Avengers 2016 run is pretty fun.
I really wish Mr. Immortal would get a solo series, I just find the concept of him great.
I, for one, am excited as all heck. Seth Rogen is the ultimate definition of a double-threat: 1) He is a screenwriting savant, as made evident by his inimitable screenplay for the recent classic The Green Hornet, and 2) He is an emotional chameleon (also evident in his legendary starring role in The Green Hornet) capable of exhibiting the full spectrum of human sensations through his adroit body language, timely facial expressions, and masterful vocal modulation.
Translating Invincible into a movie will be no problem for one of Hollywood’s greatest living maestros. Plus, he’s clearly an avowed comic book fan himself. In addition to The Green Hornet, he also produced the Preacher TV series. I expect the Invincible movie to quickly spin off its universe into a sprawling group of franchises including Guardians of the Globe, Battle Pope, Tech Jacket, The Astounding Wolf-Man, etc. Seth Rogen would be a perfect Allen the Alien.