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Wear tights, get in fights.
2016 brings us:
Captain USA the revolutionary war
Deadstroke
Nightman vs Dayman
X-Men Popcornlips
Suicide hotline
Professor Strange
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and I even made that thread before but spent a minute or two just adding some more to it
same time stamp and everything
that's cold, man
Nah seriously it is great and I really think more people should read it
definitely Kieron Gillen's best work IMO
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Like, for a while now.
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It can be a rough ride, and as such probably won't be to everyone's tastes, but Gillen is working in the Miracleman vein of "superhumans exist, this is what they can do and how the world reacts to that" and then dropping it into the middle of a particularly unpleasant period of history. It is not a story where the plucky hero stands up to impossible odds and wins through grit and courage.
The only place he really compromises an otherwise fairly "realistic" (within the rules laid out in the story) approach is that a higher number of historical figures than would be statistically likely turn out to have the potential for superhuman enhancement. The stated odds that a person is compatible are something like one in a thousand, so even a few major figures would be surprising.
That said. It gives moments like this, so I'm okay with it (colossal spoiler for Uber #27)
Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender
Thor: God of Thunder
Yes absolutely
read this comic
Yeah one of my favourite things about Uber is that, as Kieron says, in regular comics Spider-Man can fight Galactus and win because he's the hero and he's got what it takes. But in Uber, he would die. He would die in a split second. Because the world does not work like it does in regular superhero comics. War isn't fair. Sometimes, the brave and the courageous and the true get chewed up and spat out.
It adds a degree of, how to put it, maybe edge? to the series that regular superhero comics really lack, IMO. Not to say that they should all be like Uber, but I think there's something the genre has lost to be rediscovered there.
e: Hmm, I have an Iron Man omnibus by Matt Fraction, and intend to pick up a Hawkeye omnibus. Also there's a Thor omnibus by him that I'd like to get. Hmmm. Fraction Avengers Omnibuses?
So, this will be a thing made for NYCC.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
The Sander's should have been in tights that were patterned after suits.
Yep. People complained his New 52 costume was too busy so DC was like "fuck you, you don't even know busy" and gave him that costume
Fuck me.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/marvel-teases-civil-war-sequel-for-spring-2016
Maybe they should just take a year off
There's definitely a better way to that sort of thing
I think people do tend to prefer overarching story lines rather than one shots that alot of comics tend to be (or more accurately short stories told over several episodes). So it comes down to more, people buy events because they are more in depth storylines with "consequences".
I am curious how sales fair in regards to events like, Superior Spiderman, where it was a long event driven storyline, but restricted to that one comic line.
I don't even mind when they're, like, Infinity scale events, where it's the Avengers crossing over
But these big line wide events are boring and most of the tie-ins end up just being a waste of time