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ASK ME NOT, WHIPPY: THE THREAD (General Comics Questions Thread)

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    wwtMask wrote: »
    Oh, well that's easy. Hulk beats the shit out of everyone who steps up. The end.
    Well, obviously not, because at some point, the crisis goes away.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Yeah, I'm imagining Hulk getting bored with bitch slapping everyone and then setting up shop in Africa or something.

    That, or Squirrel Girl rocks his shit and he runs away.

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Maybe he'll go up to Canada and eat Omega Flight. I mean, they've had a team for a few months now, they're probably due for an eating.

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Maybe he'll join Omega Flight!

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Hell, if the entire Warbound joined Omega Flight, it still won't sell enough to avoid cancellation.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    wwtMask wrote: »
    Hell, if the entire Warbound joined Omega Flight, it still won't sell enough to avoid cancellation.
    The Beat wrote:
    41. OMEGA FLIGHT
    04/07 Omega Flight #1 of 5 - 71,205
    05/07 Omega Flight #2 of 5 - 57,239 (-19.6%)
    06/07 Omega Flight #3 of 5 - 55,695 ( -2.7%)

    It's doing very well for a B-list team scribed by relatively unproven creators.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Yeah, but the best character is now gone.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Munch wrote: »
    wwtMask wrote: »
    Hell, if the entire Warbound joined Omega Flight, it still won't sell enough to avoid cancellation.
    The Beat wrote:
    41. OMEGA FLIGHT
    04/07 Omega Flight #1 of 5 - 71,205
    05/07 Omega Flight #2 of 5 - 57,239 (-19.6%)
    06/07 Omega Flight #3 of 5 - 55,695 ( -2.7%)

    It's doing very well for a B-list team scribed by relatively unproven creators.

    Oh shit, numbers. I lose so hard.
    I'm actually just kidding, I'm glad the book's doing well. I was just under the impression that jack shit was happening in it.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Yeah, but the best character is now gone.
    Was it Beta Ray Bill? I heard something about him getting offed or something. What happened with that?

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Munch wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Yeah, but the best character is now gone.
    Was it Beta Ray Bill? I heard something about him getting offed or something. What happened with that?
    He's fighting the demons that the Wrecking Crew summoned in some random dimension.

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    If they'd killed USAgent I predict sales would've been better.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    God Omega Flight was utter crap.

    The only redeeming features were Beta Ray Bill and USAgent.

    "But USAgent is a douche!" you cry.

    Yeah, I know. And those idiots in the book needed some good douching, let me tell you.

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  • BriareosBriareos Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Omega Flight was a massive disappointment for me. However, they did kill off all the Alpha Flight characters I liked except Sasquatch, thus the chances of me finding Omega Flight appealing were slim. Unfortunately, the haphazard, disjointed story did nothing to persuade me that my expectations were wrong. Marvel sucks for killing Heather Hudson, goddamnit.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    this may be a silly question, but I haven't read a main Spider-Man book since the 90's, save House of M Spider-Man, but does he still have the spider tracers?

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    They've been seen as recently as the FCBD Spider-Man comic, and the Fraction's Spectacular Spider-Man annual, so unless something changed really recently, he does.

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  • ScooterScooter Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Not like he couldn't just keep making more whenever he wanted.

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  • KreutzKreutz Blackwater Park, IARegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I don't know who the hell came up with the idea of splitting the Extinction story up into chapters and adding them to the ends of like 5 books, but I'd like to slap them. I'm not buying a bunch of shit I don't want (X-Factor excluded) just to follow your next HoM fallout story.

    Also, stop making HoM fallout stories already.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I dunno, I was ready to get back in to the mainline X books anyway, so it wasn't a huge problem for me. Except now I'm having to cut my pull list in half, and Adjectiveless and Uncanny have to go, since I can probably go back and get the back issues when my money situation brightens again.

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  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    edited August 2007
    Kreutz wrote: »
    I don't know who the hell came up with the idea of splitting the Extinction story up into chapters and adding them to the ends of like 5 books, but I'd like to slap them. I'm not buying a bunch of shit I don't want (X-Factor excluded) just to follow your next HoM fallout story.

    Also, stop making HoM fallout stories already.

    I'd be more upset, but I'm only adding one title for it (New X-Men, which isn't bad) and the backups are actually really good.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I'm waiting for the trade for the backups and then just buying the main series when it starts.

    I just can't justify adding 5 new books to a pull list.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Also when the hell does that Suicide Squad mini start?

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited August 2007
    next month, I believe

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2007
    and in november, the showcase presents trade of the suicide squad comes out

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I know!

    I have that shit pre-ordered already.

    Same with The Question Volume 1 in October.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    uh TLB if you are talking about Messiah Complex there is no main mini, it's an X-book crossover.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    FNSM was pretty sweet.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Balefuego wrote: »
    uh TLB if you are talking about Messiah Complex there is no main mini, it's an X-book crossover.

    Yeah, I know.

    But I'd rather buy the books if the entire thing is the story, not just a little backup.

    So, I'm waiting for that.

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  • IrohIroh Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Can they even fill a trade's worth of pages with those backups? I only kind of skimmed through the ones in my copies of X-Men and New X-Men, but they looked like they might make up half a book when put together.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Well, there's also the one shot.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Iroh wrote: »
    Can they even fill a trade's worth of pages with those backups? I only kind of skimmed through the ones in my copies of X-Men and New X-Men, but they looked like they might make up half a book when put together.

    they are 8 pages each and there are 17 in total, plus the one shot (32 pages I think?) that makes up a decent sized trade.

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  • IrohIroh Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Yeah that should do the trick. A lot of trades are six issues, and that one makes up a little more than five books' worth of issues, I think.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    168 pages.

    That is actually pretty nice for a trade.

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  • Mmmm... Cocks...Mmmm... Cocks... Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Hey guys, I actually have a thread over in H/A. I was wondering, I haven't read comics in ages but was really wanting to get into a series focusing on Wolverine. The thread's right here.

    Thanks gents.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Is...is this a serious question?






    I'll assume it is. Wolverine and Wolverine: Origins are the "Wolverine only" books, but he's also in New Avengers and Astonishing X-Men.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    It does not help that any book currently being produced now with WOLVERINE in the title is terrible now

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    TLB I was about to bitch at you but its because I thought you meant Wolverine in the book and not just his name in the title.

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  • Dex DynamoDex Dynamo Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    There's a real shortage of books focusing on wolverine nowadays.

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  • grendel824_grendel824_ Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Lux wrote: »
    Dear Not-Whippy,

    What the fuck is up with Death of the New Gods?

    It can be debated that Starlin is right in saying there's been a lot of bad New Gods stuff out there, but killing an entire part of the DC mythology doesn't make sense. Something is up, right? They're not really just killing off Jack Kirby's best contribution to DC, are they? As far as I can tell, it's no Elseworlds.

    Part of any story about heroes, if done correctly, involves death and returning from death. This is many orders of magnitude more prevalent in any stories about gods. And double that if it has ever had anything to do with Jack Kirby.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Balefuego wrote: »
    TLB I was about to bitch at you but its because I thought you meant Wolverine in the book and not just his name in the title.

    be honest. you just try to find reasons to bitch at me.

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2007
    We all know about Rip Hunter's little "No one can know my real name" thing. However, with him being a star of Booster's new series I'm betting that we're gonna find it out eventually.

    My theory?

    He's part of the Carter family line. Probably not Booster or Daniel, but one of their sons or grandsons.

    Anyone else have any ideas?

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