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MOTW 01/11/12 - Remember, No Fear

UltimateInfernoUltimateInferno Registered User regular
edited January 2012 in Graphic Violence
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.
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Amazing Spider-Man 677 was pretty good, Spider-Man and Daredevil freefall race.
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Batman and Robin 5 gives us the backstory on Nobody, and Bruce has a Tron Batmobile
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Wolverine and the X-Men 4 was a great breather issue, Deathlok as a guest teacher was great!
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And while I was a bit underwhelmed with the ending of the Arc, Ultimate Comics X-Men 6 continues to have fantastic dialogue.
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"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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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Secret Avengers #21 is the Ellis/Immonen issue, not Nextwave wackiness, more somber, but still pretty:

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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.

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    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.

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    Prowl's a jerk.

    TexiKen on
  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    My MotW was my stack of floppies finally graduating to needing a short box. It lives!

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    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.

    Arivia on
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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited January 2012
    TexiKen wrote:
    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.

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    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.

    Antimatter on
  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    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'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!!!
  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    My moment of the week?

    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

  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    Rockslide had a few pages of power development in Legacy today. Baldeon's art was really pretty.

  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    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.

    I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!!!
  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    Furu wrote:
    My moment of the week?

    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

    Where is the Broo account!? Where!?

    "Go down, kick ass, and set yourselves up as gods, that's our Prime Directive!"
    Hail Hydra
  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    Matev wrote:
    Furu wrote:
    My moment of the week?

    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

    Where is the Broo account!? Where!?

    https://twitter.com/_Broodling_

    It's pretty much entirely him being a huge kiss-ass

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    Matev wrote:
    Furu wrote:
    My moment of the week?

    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

    Where is the Broo account!? Where!?

    https://twitter.com/_Broodling_

    Don't worry. Found it through Quire's.

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    my god these twitter accounts are all adorable

    and they make me feel even more sad for poor idie : (

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    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.

  • SatanIsMyMotorSatanIsMyMotor Fuck Warren Ellis Registered User regular
    The New Avengers:

    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.

  • UltimateInfernoUltimateInferno Registered User regular
    I think with a little brighter colors, Emma Rios would make a great artist to rotate with Paolo Rivera on Daredevil to replace Martins.

    "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
  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    Yes. ASM #677 was great.

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  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    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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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    why didn't you pick up More Than Meets The Eye YOU MONSTER
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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    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:

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I didn't pick up more than meets the eye because

    well

    I trade wait extensively and I might get it in trade

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Arivia wrote:
    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:

    THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH EACH OTHER AND MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE IS GENUINELY GOOD HARGLEBARGLE
    Solar wrote:
    I didn't pick up more than meets the eye because

    well

    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

  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    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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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    :|

    This book makes dark of the moon look like trash

  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    I am sorry I do not believe in the Touch that much. : (

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    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

  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    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 : (

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  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    Arivia wrote:
    I am sorry I do not believe in the Touch that much. : (

    : o

  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    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 think with a little brighter colors, Emma Rios would make a great artist to rotate with Paolo Rivera on Daredevil to replace Martins.
    I want Declan Shalvey myself, based on this drawing he did ten years ago (from yesterday's CA article on Dec).
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    Crimsondude on
  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    desc wrote:
    Arivia wrote:
    I am sorry I do not believe in the Touch that much. : (

    : o

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tiynTPuUUM > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYRxf13tIg

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    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.

    Crimsondude on
  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    I don't even remember Ultra Magnus getting blown up! I guess I need a VHS player and my tape.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    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

  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    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

    Oh okay I thought that might be it but I was all like why would the nice Space Mongols kill him

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Junkions are xenophobes

    they absorb earth culture but they sure as shit don't want to share what they have

  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    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.

    Crimsondude on
  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    my mistake

    i forgot that he just DIED on junkion and wasnt KILLED by junkions

    mixed up that with the dare to be stupid scene

  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    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.

    Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum
  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    Oh, that's right. That was the one thing that got me; not Optimus dying but characters cursing.

    And once again this makes me feel very old.

  • RedDeliciousRedDelicious Registered User regular
    The final page of this week's Invincible has me looking forward to the future of the series.

  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited January 2012
    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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