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Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Villains

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    This was an alright issue, full of setup. I dunno, Guggenheim isn't really one to be quick out of the gate. His best stuff tends to slow burn, and even his shorter story arcs really only start paying off about halfway through. I fully expect next week's issue to be pretty good.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Hrm. Right then. Why does he have both shooters back? Did I skim over something?

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I dont think it would be that hard for him to make another one

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    He lifted it off the Spider Mugger's corpse.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Or that

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I liked the new issue quite a bit.

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  • bobgorilabobgorila Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I really dug this week's, especially the opening pages with Spidey singing the mighty mouse theme!

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Anjin-San wrote: »
    Hrm. Right then. Why does he have both shooters back? Did I skim over something?

    Because he only moved half as fast... and ran out of web fluid... ah yes, web fluid... the cause of, and answer to, all of Spider-Man's problems...

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    When I was a little kid, I always pretended I was the hero,' Skip said.
    'Fuck yeah, me too. What little kid ever pretended to be part of the lynch-mob?'
  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    NO! I refuse to be squashed by "U!" made me laugh pretty hard

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  • grim123grim123 Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    ok I'll admit the writers seem good, but they've been hamstrung by some stupid mandate that spider man must be put at a disadvantage at the beginning of every story by running out of web fluid. then he has to spend the rest of the story complaining about how he's too poor too be able to buy the things he needs to make any more. and we all know from back in the ben rilliey(sp?) days that you can make web fluid for under thirty bucks so just how poor is peter?

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I'm pretty sure the running out of web fluid stuff is not an editorial mandate, thats a pretty silly assumption

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  • VirralVirral Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    You aren't seriously expecting a rational discussion about the current status quo of Spider-man with someone who has a "save the marriage - boycott spider-man" banner in his sig are you?

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  • Mr PinkMr Pink I got cats for youRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Yeah really.

    I wonder where he stands.

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  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Doesn't seem like his boycott is too successful.

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    SageinaRage wrote: »
    Doesn't seem like his boycott is too successful.

    In so much as he appears to be buying and reading the comic.

    Man, if you can't follow your own boycott, what hope is there in this world?

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    When I was a little kid, I always pretended I was the hero,' Skip said.
    'Fuck yeah, me too. What little kid ever pretended to be part of the lynch-mob?'
  • SalmonOfDoubtSalmonOfDoubt Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Maybe he's reading it without buying it.

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    killing children would be hilarious
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    Man, I don't want to read about this lady's broken vagina.
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    I am sitting here trying to come up with a tiered system for rating child molesters.
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    cock vore is fuckin hilarious
  • AlgertmanAlgertman Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure the running out of web fluid stuff is not an editorial mandate, thats a pretty silly assumption

    You sure? making deals with Satan was editorial mandate.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Got my issue today. It was good, just as I anticipated. Guggenheim's got a good handle on Spidey in my estimation.

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  • Mr PinkMr Pink I got cats for youRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I'm thinking about adding this into my pull, is the most recent issue good to jump in on, or should I try to get the whole BND run while it's still short?

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    you really should get the Slott/McNiven issues, since they are so good.

    But if you don't want to, today's issue is actually the 2nd part of an arc, so you'd want to go back at least one issue anyway.

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  • Mr PinkMr Pink I got cats for youRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Alright, thanks.

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  • NoelVeigaNoelVeiga Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    wwtMask wrote: »
    Got my issue today. It was good, just as I anticipated. Guggenheim's got a good handle on Spidey in my estimation.

    Agreed. Despite being Spanish myself, I don't care for Larroca's art. He should really go back to having his art inked and go away from that "digital coloring over pencil" thing. It doesn't suit him.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    His preview art for Iron Man looks great though, much better than his Spidey stuff I think.

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  • NoelVeigaNoelVeiga Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    His preview art for Iron Man looks great though, much better than his Spidey stuff I think.

    I haven't seen it. I hope so. He's good, it's just the coloring he's been using gives his art a fuzzy feel that is so wrong for his facial expressions. Maybe the sharp lines of Iron Man's armor will help him feel more solid, I don't know. Inking would certainly do the trick.

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I've just read through the Slott singles and to be honest I'm not sure what to think about them. They're quite good, undoubtedly, and Mr Negative seems to be a well thought-out villain. I don't know, I think I ended with this nagging feeling that Slott was almost trying a little too hard? As if everything was 'turned up to 11', so to speak.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I think it's more of a side-effect of such a huge tonal shift in the book.

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  • NoelVeigaNoelVeiga Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    I think it's more of a side-effect of such a huge tonal shift in the book.

    And probably of getting all the different writers in the same tone. That's gotta be hard to pull off, probably leads to everybody trying to hit the same notes a bit too hard for the first few issues until they get the feel for it. It's working nicely so far, though.

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Possibly. I'll give it a little longer, but as I say there's just something I'm not feeling about this one. :|

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    So I was just over at the Bendisboard ASM thread and someone there pointed out that the Sara Ehret who Spidey visits at the end of the issue looks an awful lot like one of the teases from the end of OMD.

    The woman who says "I'm surprised you didn't think to ask about me, I'm another possibility yet to come."

    I'll try and post the pics when I get home from work, but it seems like this Jackpot thing is a lot less simple than most of us assumed.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Freak is pretty gross guys

    also I hope this means Conners shows up.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
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    Let's hear it for Bob Gale, ladies and gentleman!

    Bob Gale, knockin' another one out of the park!

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  • augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Someone call Alan Moore and tell him to hang it up - his career is over.

    I'm just kidding. Alan Moore dosen't have a phone.

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Err....

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    hokey dialogue aside I didnt think it was too bad Anjin

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Gale is terrible.

    He cannot write good comics.

    If you doubt me, take a look at his Daredevil arc.

    Wait don't.

    I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    I'm talking this issue specifically

    I mean yeah that page is really dopey, but on a whole it wasnt bad.

    I liked the design of the cocoon thing, it was really gross/cool looking.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Didn't mind the issue, but you could really tell the difference between his take on Spidey and Slott and Guggenheim's takes. There's a lot more consistency between the first two arcs than what we've seen so far of this one.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    But...Back to the Future!

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2008
    This issue felt a lot more like an old-school Spidey comic.
    By old-school, I mean, Peter hasn't even started dating Gwen yet old.
    It just didn't feel right when I read it after the last months' issues.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited March 2008
    Got the new issue today. I dunno, I'm not feeling this arc as much as the first two. It doesn't quite fit in with the style of the others. Also, Councilman Hollister is being presented pretty similarly to a certain presidential nominee. It was almost weird reading the page where Hollister is giving his speech announcing his candidacy.

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