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Moment of the Year 2008
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2008 is almost over. So what were your moments of the year?
For me it was Blue Beetle #24. All of it. But especially these two moments.
and the closing pages of the issue.
Post your moment of the year 2008.
For me it was Blue Beetle #24. All of it. But especially these two moments.
and the closing pages of the issue.
Post your moment of the year 2008.
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but i think my comic series of the year is Iron Fist
PARKER, YOU'RE FIRED! <-- My comic book podcast! Satan look here!
"I've got the time. I just sitting here, waiting to kill my oldest friend.
Because he cared too much about saving the day."
Ah hell, I say the whole issue
And there's so much more beyond that - how do you choose?
Bottom line - it's a good time to be a comics fan.
Valley Forge, Valley Forge
Valley Forge, are you receiving, over?
I say again, do you read, over?
Valley Forge, we lost you, how do you read, over?
Valley Forge--
This is America.
Can you hear us now?
Our lost one hundred-ninety-two.
Our cold, dead sixty thousand.
On your firebases, your hills, in paddy
fields and rainforests, sprinting through
the streets of ruined Hue;
Dozing on the decks of Hueys, tapping
magazines to settle bullets, lighting Marlboros
off precious Zippos, smiling, scared;
Captured in the whirr of Nikons, Leicas,
in muddy footage where the colors seem
to swell and run.
By our words, could we conjure you?
Could we conjure you up, and raise you from
that rich red soil, and bring you back?
To lovers. Sons and daughters. Kin.
To friends grown old without you, puzzled by
the youths beside them in the pictures.
To the porches and stoops
where you belong.
Or will you always be that endless line of
figures clad in green; receding single file
between the sun-drenched trees, swallowed
by gloom and glare in equal measure.
The steady lope of men weighed down by
packs. Ammunition for the sixties X-ed
across the gunners' backs in bandoliers.
Canteens clumsy at your hips.
Humping the boonies forever.
Valley Forge, Valley Forge.
Standing by to receive you.
Over.
It was the phrase that the first Blue Beetle used to activate the scarab's powers. It's later revealed to be the scarab's name/serial number
I forget exactly what happened when Jaime yelled it out, though
Just read Blue Beetle because it's awesome
Awesome happened
Especially the big kiss. And Paco and his big stick.
That whole run is awesome, It's like Whedon's X-Men. I could happily post the whole thing.
Let us stop this silliness and have some more moments.
Whoa now, let's not say things we can't take back.
Come on man, you'll make somebody cry over that.
Aw yeah!
Then of course there's Iron Man and the Dark Knight, which in my opinion were better than anything printed this year.
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Bigby and Snow's wedding shot from the 8th trade (issue 50) was probably my moment of the Year. It had been built up so long I didn't even realize I wanted them to get Married until that 50th issue.
That or as others have said, all of All Star Superman 10.
Also, Daniel Way writing a Deadpool comic that doesn't suck is pretty monumental I would say.
Well, it's not being written by Grant, I guess that's a strike against it.
i need to reread the trades I have already, though. it's been like two years now since I've kept up
yes, I'd say that Darkseid moment was fantastic and should be next to the last issue of Y
Stop being such a fucking dick, kyle.
Anyway, #1 moment for me would probably be Blue Beetle #25. Reading the scans makes me depressed that they're cancelling it though...
Runners up would be Final Crisis #04, Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #01 and All Star Superman #10.
For when you feel guilty about being born a white guy.
Followed by the entire Sinestro Corps War.