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Green Lantern 5 was a fantastic end to this arc. And from the outcome of it it seems like Johns might "clean up" all his toys before he finishes.
Amazing Spider-Man 677 was pretty good, Spider-Man and Daredevil freefall race.
Batman and Robin 5 gives us the backstory on Nobody, and Bruce has a Tron Batmobile
Wolverine and the X-Men 4 was a great breather issue, Deathlok as a guest teacher was great!
And while I was a bit underwhelmed with the ending of the Arc, Ultimate Comics X-Men 6 continues to have fantastic dialogue.
"Ride or Die?" asked Goku
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
edited January 2012
Secret Avengers #21 is the Ellis/Immonen issue, not Nextwave wackiness, more somber, but still pretty:
Scarlet Spider #1 was also a decent first issue, I have some qualms about the Houston geography and the setup for the scene below, but it's a good start to Kaine realizing not everyone he interacts with has super strength. This Stegman guy is really good, in the same vein as Barberi and Medina.
Typical cloned New Yorker, yelling at an innocent old lady (in Downtown Houston old people don't walk the streets, it's businesspeople and bums). The nice thing is that the crazy driver got flung out of the car and was roughed up pretty bad, serves him right.
Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #1 is basically Transformers: Regenesis, and while a few things went over my head and some characters do look similar, it's rather funny and feels like there's a new direction.
Prowl's a jerk.
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AriviaI Like A ChallengeEarth-1Registered Userregular
My MotW was my stack of floppies finally graduating to needing a short box. It lives!
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AriviaI Like A ChallengeEarth-1Registered Userregular
edited January 2012
My actual MotW was probably the entirety of Northanger Abbey #3. I'd been really down on it and not quite looking forward to it, as the plot was just lost in Bath and there was no sympathy between the really glib, nice artwork and the Gothic parody Austen had originally been searching for. In #3, however, it seems to have all come together, with the plotline dragging itself out of the Pump House at quite a speed and the caricatures adding so much to the growing disarray Miss Morland is finding herself in.
It's living up to my hopes from when I originally had put it on my pull list, and that's just wonderful.
edit: #4 is gonna be the box scene. oh god, I can't wait give now plz.
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #1 is basically Transformers: Regenesis, and while a few things went over my head and some characters do look similar, it's rather funny and feels like there's a new direction.
you picked exactly the page I was going to use
Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #1 has great art, snappy writing, expressive characters, but also a dark, dark cliffhanger.
Oh man, I thought I was kidding when I earlier said comiXology will bankrupt me but after today I have to really, really be careful on how much I spend on that damn site. The fact that I can start going to single titles again without filling up comic bins doesn't mean I should get ALL OF THEM.
Although I will probably end up getting all the A vs. X-men titles that are available on the site. Sigh.
I have a second credit card I never use, think I'll use that just for comiXology and pay it off weekly. It will drive my credit rating up if nothing else...
X-men Legacy 260.1 was really good, can't wait to see what Gage has planned for the series.
The fact that Evan is such a nice kid who really evokes sympathy from me makes the fact that Fantomex shot the original Evan in the head even more horrible. Which is good, I guess.
I haven't picked up any books this week so my moment is this headline:
"Boss of costumed NYC crime ring gets 9 to 18 years"
"NEW YORK — The leader of a crime ring that combined old-fashioned pickpocketing, modern-day identity theft and an array of costumes to steal more than $700,000 from banks was sentenced Monday to 9 to 18 years in prison.
Disguising himself as a construction worker and doctor — complete with stethoscope — as he lurked around banks to watch his minions carry out fraudulent transactions, Arthur Franklin was the key player in a complex scheme that encompassed 15 people in two states, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.'s office said."
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
why didn't you pick up More Than Meets The Eye YOU MONSTER
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AriviaI Like A ChallengeEarth-1Registered Userregular
I didn't pick up More Than Meets The Eye because Dark of the Moon was one of the movies I really enjoyed this summer. :rotate:
I trade wait extensively and I might get it in trade
you may live for now
pick up RID #1 whenever it comes out though, I can't swear that Barber will write something as good as Roberts
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AriviaI Like A ChallengeEarth-1Registered Userregular
That's the thing I am a casual enough TF fan that I don't want to read the comics, I got my fix.
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
This book makes dark of the moon look like trash
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AriviaI Like A ChallengeEarth-1Registered Userregular
I am sorry I do not believe in the Touch that much. : (
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
you are KILLING ME
the book is the most interesting it's been in years
no Optimus, no Megatron, no Galvatron
this means that PERSONALITIES can shine through instead of just WE MUST DESTROY THE DECEPTICONS or WE MUST SMASH THE AUTOBOTS or WE MUST TAKE CONTROL OF CYBERTRON
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AriviaI Like A ChallengeEarth-1Registered Userregular
But I like Optimus! And Galvatron is like Megatron except double-cool, right?
If missing Optimus is wrong then I don't want to be right : (
I've only read The Activity #2 and Shade #4, both are awesome in and of themselves, so I don't have a MotW just yet. However, I think it was a genius move for Shade #4 to account for Hamner being not-monthly by saying, "We have a story set in 1944. Who should draw it? How about Darwyn Cooke. BRILLIANT!"
I still wish that video had the scene of Ultra Magnus getting blown up. Then it would have all the best scenes in that movie (with some douche blocking the shot of Optimus wrecking shit when he arrives on Earth).
I could go on about Transformers and my hatred of nostalgia and how this is different, but that's not for here.
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I don't even remember Ultra Magnus getting blown up! I guess I need a VHS player and my tape.
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
the junkions fucked his shit up
but then they rebuilt him because they can fix anything and they managed to resolve the situation peaceably with the autobots
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AriviaI Like A ChallengeEarth-1Registered Userregular
Junkions didn't kill him. Galvatron's forces hit him with like a dozen missiles as he futilely tried to open the Matrix.
His last words should have been "Oh shit," but then the damn Junkions fixed him. I thought it was so fucking weird that Robert Stack did his voice because I only knew him from Unsolved Mysteries, and my six year old brain was like, "Him? Really?"
/Has the movie committed to memory.
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
my mistake
i forgot that he just DIED on junkion and wasnt KILLED by junkions
It wasnt 'oh shit' it was "OPEN! Damnit! Open!" and then he sploded.
However that scene was edited out past i think the first release of the movie on cassette.
Shade #4 was great. It was Darwyn Cooke drawing a pulp adventure in 1944.
The Activity #2 was my favorite, though, because it's just exactly what I love reading. I especially liked Mitch Gerads' art, and the team's actions when they find the missing operative that they were sent for.
Oh, and I just recorded my appearance on War Rocket Ajax. So nyah! That will definitely be my moment for next week when it's up.
EDIT:
OH MY GOD! I forgot to mention JIM 633!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The Fear Lords meeting was my MOTW, specifically the Straw Man because it reminded me of Kieron's comment about writing people vs. abstracts in Phonogram: The Singles Club #5, where he made a sick burn by writing
This actually works pretty well for the Gods, but when dealing with human beings, turning someone into an embodiment of a philosophy... well, you may as well be Ayn fucking Rand. It's terrible writing. It's propping up straw men and bashing the living shit out of them.
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Scarlet Spider #1 was also a decent first issue, I have some qualms about the Houston geography and the setup for the scene below, but it's a good start to Kaine realizing not everyone he interacts with has super strength. This Stegman guy is really good, in the same vein as Barberi and Medina.
Typical cloned New Yorker, yelling at an innocent old lady (in Downtown Houston old people don't walk the streets, it's businesspeople and bums). The nice thing is that the crazy driver got flung out of the car and was roughed up pretty bad, serves him right.
Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #1 is basically Transformers: Regenesis, and while a few things went over my head and some characters do look similar, it's rather funny and feels like there's a new direction.
Prowl's a jerk.
It's living up to my hopes from when I originally had put it on my pull list, and that's just wonderful.
edit: #4 is gonna be the box scene. oh god, I can't wait give now plz.
you picked exactly the page I was going to use
Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #1 has great art, snappy writing, expressive characters, but also a dark, dark cliffhanger.
Although I will probably end up getting all the A vs. X-men titles that are available on the site. Sigh.
Marvel made twitter accounts for all the Jean Grey School students, including my favorite X-Men character
https://twitter.com/#!/SANTORULES
my birthday has come early
X-men Legacy 260.1 was really good, can't wait to see what Gage has planned for the series.
Where is the Broo account!? Where!?
https://twitter.com/_Broodling_
It's pretty much entirely him being a huge kiss-ass
https://twitter.com/_Broodling_
Don't worry. Found it through Quire's.
and they make me feel even more sad for poor idie : (
Ironfist: "I always wondered what would happen if I Iron-fisted a Hulk."
I couldn't stop laughing and I'm still not sure if it was intentionally meant to be funny.
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
"Boss of costumed NYC crime ring gets 9 to 18 years"
"NEW YORK — The leader of a crime ring that combined old-fashioned pickpocketing, modern-day identity theft and an array of costumes to steal more than $700,000 from banks was sentenced Monday to 9 to 18 years in prison.
Disguising himself as a construction worker and doctor — complete with stethoscope — as he lurked around banks to watch his minions carry out fraudulent transactions, Arthur Franklin was the key player in a complex scheme that encompassed 15 people in two states, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.'s office said."
well
I trade wait extensively and I might get it in trade
THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER AND MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE IS GENUINELY GOOD HARGLEBARGLE
you may live for now
pick up RID #1 whenever it comes out though, I can't swear that Barber will write something as good as Roberts
This book makes dark of the moon look like trash
the book is the most interesting it's been in years
no Optimus, no Megatron, no Galvatron
this means that PERSONALITIES can shine through instead of just WE MUST DESTROY THE DECEPTICONS or WE MUST SMASH THE AUTOBOTS or WE MUST TAKE CONTROL OF CYBERTRON
If missing Optimus is wrong then I don't want to be right : (
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I want Declan Shalvey myself, based on this drawing he did ten years ago (from yesterday's CA article on Dec).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tiynTPuUUM > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYRxf13tIg
I could go on about Transformers and my hatred of nostalgia and how this is different, but that's not for here.
but then they rebuilt him because they can fix anything and they managed to resolve the situation peaceably with the autobots
Oh okay I thought that might be it but I was all like why would the nice Space Mongols kill him
they absorb earth culture but they sure as shit don't want to share what they have
His last words should have been "Oh shit," but then the damn Junkions fixed him. I thought it was so fucking weird that Robert Stack did his voice because I only knew him from Unsolved Mysteries, and my six year old brain was like, "Him? Really?"
/Has the movie committed to memory.
i forgot that he just DIED on junkion and wasnt KILLED by junkions
mixed up that with the dare to be stupid scene
However that scene was edited out past i think the first release of the movie on cassette.
And once again this makes me feel very old.
The Activity #2 was my favorite, though, because it's just exactly what I love reading. I especially liked Mitch Gerads' art, and the team's actions when they find the missing operative that they were sent for.
Oh, and I just recorded my appearance on War Rocket Ajax. So nyah! That will definitely be my moment for next week when it's up.
EDIT:
OH MY GOD! I forgot to mention JIM 633!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The Fear Lords meeting was my MOTW, specifically the Straw Man because it reminded me of Kieron's comment about writing people vs. abstracts in Phonogram: The Singles Club #5, where he made a sick burn by writing