Marvel Comics Thread

Brubaker is still the king, yes. Secret Invasion entertains me, which is about all I can ask for from a crossover crisis war thing. It’s just too bad it’s $4 per issue. Across the board, I think the Marvel superhero books are still more readable than DC’s. But you’re right, there’s probably more chaff than wheat right now. Now that you’ve joined Team TRADES, BABY, you don’t have to worry about any of that junk. Just go back and read all the treasures you might’ve overlooked when they were released as issues.

Stop smoking crack, buttmunch, a lot of Marvel’s books have been pretty good so far-
Nova
Ghost Rider
B. Panther
X-Force
X-Men (current Wolverine arc excluded though)
Hercules
Stephen King-based comics
Eternals
Guardians of the Galaxy (recent SI-tie-in excluded)
Ultimate Spidey
Astonishing X-Men looks to be picking up the pace soon, so there is this
Power Pack minis
Ms. Marvel
Daredevil
Captain America
Criminal
Captain Britain & MI13
DeadPool

…and that’s to name a few.

agreed all those have been great, and If you add mighty avengers, avenger initiative, and New avengers She-Hulk and all the lil SI mini’s. (xmen/Inhumans/Runaway/Young avengers) Si is pretty epic in scale and great the way it ties all the way back to books from 5 years ago.

Oh yeah Ult FF is great as well.

  1. Ghost Rider: I just cant get into it ever since i read the WWH tiein
  2. X-Men Legacy: yeah the wolverine arc (another one in the x-books:rolleyes:) is kind of annoying to me. Im sorry Sano and others but i may have to do it again regarding the original sin crossover or whatever it supposed to be.
  3. Ms marvel: i gave it a chance again and i dont know i have to get the rest of the SI tiein to make sure if i want to add it to the pile.
    Eternals: is Neil Gaiman writing this?

The top

  1. SI:Inhumans
  2. SI:Black Panther
  3. SI: Avengers:TI

The bottom 3
SI: Fantastic Four
SI: Young Avengers/Runaways (it was too short imo)
SI: New Warriors

The Ms. Marvel SI tie-in was crappy. The Infiltration series was awesome. Ms Marvel 18-27 is worth reading.

And everyone forgot about how Swierczynski (or whatever) has actually kept Immortal Iron Fist a good story.

LOL to be honest Lady Sinister creeps me out. :rofl:

You see that what got me interested in MSM in the first place again. I had the CW tie-in and it was solid. I even gave it chance after with rogue showing up and i was very disappointed.

Isnt he still on Thor?

you’re not the only one. Just by Dakan kissing her/him alone just creeps me out. Im just not in the mood to get wolverine origins, and the original sin book to fill in the blanks. It is like they are pausing the story to determine more about Wolverine’s past:rolleyes:

Hey, stop smoking Marvel cock and realize a lot of those books are ass. Those are the only books that are actually good, btw. I don’t read every title for the sake of reading them. I actually read them because I like the style of writing.

I gave up on X-Men because it’s just a dumb series of books.

The Eternals ongoing series isn’t by Gaiman. He wrote the miniseries that brought them back to prominence, but I believe the ongoing is by Charlie and Dan Knauf. They were writing Iron Man for a while, but I’m not sure if they still are.

Yes, that was scary… :wasted:

Favorite Marvel books for me right now are Wolverine with the Old Man Logan arc, the X-Men/Spider-Man mini, Spider-Girl, Spider-Man Family and Deadpool. Yeah still a Spidey/Mutie guy I suppose… :looney:

Well it should because he did a fairly decent job on it.

What got me interested was Aaron Stack being an all-around beast. It’s no coincidence that he shows up in #18 and leaves in #27. But that block of Ms. Marvel, IMO, was really, really good. But the current story about Ms. Marvel, pre-powers, is shaping up to be pretty good, too.

He’s doing “The Mortal Iron Fist” story in the Immortal Iron Fist right now, which has been pretty damn good outside abysmal art. He also wrote one of the best one-shot comics I’ve ever read in Orson Randall and the Death Queen of California.

Ghost Rider has gotten a lot better since Daniel Way is no longer writing it. Jason Aaron has been doing a superb job, even brought back Danny Ketch, in at least an entertaining way, although Blaze is still the focus.

You are thinking about J. Michael Straczynski. The current writer of Immortal Iron Fist and unfortunately a woefully disappointing Cable run (IMO), is a Duane Swierczysnki. I literally at the very least like him on everything but Cable, since it really strips Cable down to being a badass time traveler with big guns and the art is…

Iron Fish is still a really good book…probably my favourite comic to read month-to-month (versus in TRADES, BABY) next to FAAAAAABLES!!11111.

I absolutely love Travel Foreman’s pencils - it’s like a cross between Leinil Yu and Damion Scott. This is the new Marvel hotshot, I’m calling it. Come 2011 or something he’s going to be penciling the next big money-sucking-universal-bullshit Marvel crossover…Ultimate Secret House of Infinite Civil Crusade: The End

…X.

…2099.

Come to think of it, I don’t think there’s been a big kung-fu comic that I haven’t absolutely loved. It’s how guys like Chuck Dixon and Scott McDaniel became my comic book gods.

Batgirl, Richard Dragon, Way of the Rat (remember CrossGen!?!), Iron Fist, all the various ninja-related Daredevil mini’s and arcs…even UDON’s Taskmaster…loved them all, wish there were more. Although there have been some stinkers lately…generally anything with Green Arrow in it.

Comic books need to develop the kung-fu genre better.

I dont even want to read it at all regarding Bishop suddenly becoming a sellout. And now they are doing a mini in why he did it. :rolleyes:
X-Men: The times and Life of Lucas Bishop

Its not so much on Bishop being a sellout. The guy is willing to kill a kid on the off chance that MAYBE his future will change for the better. Not to mention that he almost got the X-men killed using those nanites on the Sentinels.

Oh, how I’ve missed your awesome comic book forum posts, Clinty. That Canadian humor is quite the bomb - very reminiscent of the sardonic wit as established by Jenkins in the seminal Origin miniseries.

Yesterday when you dropped your posts, it was like the most awesome day ever. But for you, I guess it was just Tuesday. I’m glad you’ve beheld Satan once more.

@Sano- That’s Miss Sinister to you, good sir!

Jason Aaron (Wolverine: Get Mystique) has been writing Ghost Rider for the past year, that should be reason enough to get back into it.

If you mean skipping on the Original Sin arc, that’s OK, I’m skipping it too

Read it from the start (first TPB)

Nope, forgot who the writer is but it
has

Spoiler

Clark’s Super Argentine Backbreaker; HCF+K

I disagree the Ms. Marvel SI tie-in was awesome, a lot of action and Carol spreading the hate on the Skrulls

My list is actually proper, and I have read those books and THEY ARE good, Nova for example, has yet to disappoint, and IS well written . Great art and action, and a lot gets done in one issue.
Plus the Galactus arc was made of win.

Which reminds me; MARVEL ZOMBIES 3 IS KICKASS!
Aaron Stack beasting on undead fools is too good.

X-Men 218 was good too, despite being an Original Sins tie-in, some good action in there and Xavier.

War Machine #35 was good

[details=Spoiler]Huh that was fast…issue begins with Skrull Scientists trying to disect Rhodey, one of them approaches his face, but Rhodey kills him with a laser beam from his mechanical eye. However, that attack used up most of his body’s power. Fortunately, the armor is nearby (Skrulls sure seem to be in a rush or something…), Rhodey suits up and starts killing the Skrulls on the ship he’s in.
He manages to take control of the ship with Suzie’s help by using his armor as a proxy for Suzie to control the ship.
They manage to destroy 3 battle ships. Rhodey goes to help out the Guard. Transmissions to Dynamo reveal why the Guard left him to the Skrulls last issue. Dynamo goes all ‘fuck them’ and helps out Rhodey.
They manage to defeat the Skrulls and prevent detenotion of the warheads. Issue ends with Dynamo help Rhodey out of Russia.[/details]

Overall a good issue, though if it were double-sized, it could have shown how Rhodey got his body and made extended his escape from the Skrull ship.
Next time- War Machine #1!

Uncanny 504- LAND ISN’T THE ARTIST IN THIS ISSUE!

[details=Spoiler]Ah Dodson’s art is really nice!
Issue begins in THE MOJOVERSE! We see Pryor talking to someone on a table, attempting to recruit her to the Sisterhood, we then see the one on the table being what looks like a robot with the letters ‘CiQ’ on her chest being operated by Spiral!
Cut to San Fran, where Piotr is trying to get a tattoo, but keeps breaking the equipment as his skin turns to steel when the ink is applied. Enraged, he goes to speak with Nightcrawler, but Cyke interrupts them and tells Piotr that he needs to get over Kitty’s death.

Piotr goes for a walk in San Fran and stops by a Russian restaurant for some food, as he’s about to leave, he hears some noises from within the restaurant. As he approaches the voices he sees a man talking in Russian with tattoos on his body which he uses to read the restaurant’s owner’s mind.
Piotr gets a flashback; he has seen the man years ago when he was a child. The tattooed man was threanting his father as well. Piotr vows vengance upon the guy.

Cut to Argentina, where Warren and Hank are talking to Dr. Nemesis who created the original Human Torch, after an attack by some supernazis, Nemesis agrees to help them.

Meanwhile, Emma has felt that Cyke hasn’t been well since the last issue, and so Cyke lets her probe his mind to find out why, but it doesn’t help much.
Karma informs them of a news event wherein Simon Trask has revealed footage of the attack on the Alaska town back in Messiah CompleX to the news.[/details]

I felt some disjoint in the flow of the stories in this issue, but it was OK.

Young X-Men #8 was OK

[details=Spoiler]The team inform Ink that he isn’t a mutant and leaves the team.
Roberto and Dani talk to the man that gave Ink his tattoos and thus his powers. They find out he had given tattoos to an Eric Gitter, who used the powers from the tattos he got to free some people from a prison. The team (now consisting of Anole, Rockslide, Dani, Roberto, Dust & Graymalkin) find out where he is staying and go to aprehend him.
They find him hanging out with the people who broke out of prison and attack them. However, he and his buddies have gotten tattooed and now have powers as well…and BACK-UP!
Issue ends with Cypher meeting Ink.[/details]

Thunderbolts 126 in a nutshell

Spoiler

Norman’s cleaning house by disbanding the Thunderbolts. So far they’ve gotten rid of Robbie and Dr. Chen. Now Bullseye is about to take out Songbird

Ghost Rider 29

[details=Spoiler]Danny and Johnny fight it out, but Danny eventually gets the upper hand and almost succeeds in killing Johnny! Sara manages to save him though and go into hiding in Nepal.
Sara tries to convince Johnny to get back up and stop Zadkiel, but the fight against Danny his affect him emotionally. Issue ends with 2 Ghost Riders appearing in their hiding places to join them in the quest to stop Zadkiel![/details]

Interesting interview with Millar. He talks about aging characters in comics and compares Marvel to DC a bit. Also talks about the ties between Fantastic Four, 1985 and Old Man Logan. There’s a spoiler about a character who dies in FF right there in the title so if you don’t want that spoiled for you look away look away…