MOTW 11/19/14: it's amazing that you still think you have friends at all

TexiKen

Avengers #38, Cyclops is so cool, so is Shang-Chi:

New Avengers #26, et tu, Natasha?

Avengers World #15, Valeria rounds up some "scrubs," but they're so much better than the regular Avengers:

Superman/Wonder Woman #13, oh that couple, can't catch a break, from coffee to rain:

wirehead26

Last page of Axis 6 was really good.

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vagrant_winds

This is seriously the best Avengers run ever.

Also, Hickman needs to write more Cyclops. He understands the character very well.

Tairu

Multiversity: Pax Americana #1 was really juicy

This sequence in particular stood out to me

Also of note is how the story begins and ends (and i'm using "begins" and "ends" lightly given the nature of the narrative)

The president as an old man gets shot by a superhero, and the president as a child shoots a superhero. "Let the punishment fit the crime". I didn't expect the president to be one of the most interesting characters of the book, but it was almost all about him.

JyrenB

I'm not going to the comic shop until tomorrow, but I grabbed Pax Americana digitally because of everyone talking about it and...yeah. Yeah, I am the biggest fan of Hickman and what he does but I don't think this can be beat. They knew exactly what they were doing with this book and hit it so far out of the park. A comic about comics in the most comicy way and incredibly dense for 40 pages.

Golden Yak

Texiken nailed my MOTWs in Avengers, but I also picked up Invincible 115.

Whatever you may think of this series, if you've been following it for any length of time, this image should bring a smile to your face:

wirehead26

Golden Yak wrote: »

Texiken nailed my MOTWs in Avengers, but I also picked up Invincible 115.

Whatever you may think of this series, if you've been following it for any length of time, this image should bring a smile to your face:

I gave up the series after issue 102. How has it been since then?

wirehead26

Also how lost will I be if I just read issue 115 now after not reading anything since 102?

Golden Yak

wirehead26 wrote: »

I gave up the series after issue 102. How has it been since then?

It's been worth it to me to keep picking it up - I did feel it was starting to drag a bit but never enough to make me stop. There's actually been a fairly major overarching story from 103 onwards that just wrapped up, resulting in a new status quo for the cast - some significant events took place therein and the fallout has yet to be fully explored.

115 however is pretty stand alone - it's clear what's going on even if you're only vaguely familiar with the characters involved.

Linespider5

Pax Americana feels like a comic I need to photocopy, cut apart, and paste on giant boards and annotate with lines connecting different panels to eachother and stuff. It's really really well made. Frank Quitely might be the best artist to ever work with Grant Morrison.

That said, I'm kinda not sure I enjoyed it.

Delduwath

I was talking about this with @JyrenB‌ on Twitter: I feel like all the Multiversity comics are going to end up being a tightly-woven web of stories. Remember how in Morrison's Seven Soldiers, the seven narratives were self-contained, but they were suspended in a broader story, and at times they overlapped, and characters/objects left one narrative thread to reappear in another? I suspect that Multiversity will be like that as well. I mean, I guess this isn't even an oracular statement - they already do reference each other, and the very first issue was a "let's set up the framing narrative" issue.

@Linespider5‌, why do you have doubts about whether you enjoyed it or not? Was there something in there that didn't work for you?

Linespider5

I think maybe the whole 'Happy Days of the Golden Age Are Now Covered in Blood And The Ugliness of the Modern World' is a general theme I find tiring and useless to comics most of the time. If there's some kind of forced nostalgia where people are looking at smiling, younger pictures of themselves, I really don't go for that either.

Centipede Damascus

Linespider5 wrote: »

Pax Americana feels like a comic I need to photocopy, cut apart, and paste on giant boards and annotate with lines connecting different panels to eachother and stuff.

Golden Yak

I get that all the Multiversity books are meant to be springboards to new series and not necessarily one single story (although there's the unifying element of the 'haunted' comic) but I do hope that this run of titles is going to lead to some kind of climax that deals with the first story - I wanna know what's become of Nix and the gang from issue 1.

Mike Danger

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

Linespider5 wrote: »

Pax Americana feels like a comic I need to photocopy, cut apart, and paste on giant boards and annotate with lines connecting different panels to eachother and stuff.

At first I was laughing but then I thought this image would be one of the things on Linespider's giant crazy board

Munch

So, I picked Johnnysaurus Rex up from a local dude, and it's kind of amazing. The creator, Clint Basinger, is a dude whose work I've been following for years. I always pick up his newest book, when I see him.

But, Johnnysaurs Rex is some Paul Grist-level stuff. There's photos inserted into the pages, interesting panel/lettering tricks, and a general sense of weirdness, that's really appealing.

The story follows Johnny, the janitor at a museum, whose paleontologist parents discovered many of the museum's most valuable exhibits.



Johnny, in working for the museum, discovers a walled-off section of the building, filled with many of the oddities his parents discovered. Hidden so that people might forget the tragedy associated with them, Johnny makes his home among the forgotten curiosities; including the t-rex skeleton, which claimed his parents' lives. Every evening, he breaks one bone from the t-rex skeleton, and throws it into the tar pits, hidden beneath the museum.



The t-rex skull bonding with him, due to chemically-infused tar pits, Johnny becomes Johnnysaurus Rex. And as the tar flows up and over the various exhibits, the too, become changed.



It's a fun book, so if you have an extra $3, check it out at Comixology.