I am kind of wanting to pick between Atlas, which I have no real background on and had a kind of weak 'this-is-definitely-just-a-soft-relaunch' thing going on, and Thunderbolts which has a brand new fresh start with a new team and status quo that I could probably get into more easily.
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I read Parker's short lived Exiles run last year, and I loved it, so I want to follow at least one of his books.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
edited May 2010
Just stick with Thunderbolts (which really was new reader friendly, that's how you do it), pick up the first trade of Agents of Atlas and see if it floats your boat. I can't really recommend the new stuff right now, you could just trade wait.
If you never read X-Men First Class, give it a go. The same with Mysterius: The Unfathomable.
I am kind of wanting to pick between Atlas, which I have no real background on and had a kind of weak 'this-is-definitely-just-a-soft-relaunch' thing going on, and Thunderbolts which has a brand new fresh start with a new team and status quo that I could probably get into more easily.
Suggestions?
I read Parker's short lived Exiles run last year, and I loved it, so I want to follow at least one of his books.
Personally, I'd lean more towards Thunderbolts. It had a better first issue, and honestly, if you're going to invest yourself in a book, it should probably be one that's likely to be around or more than a year.
So Hawkeye and [strike]Moonstone[/strike] Mockingbird #1, was it streets ahead or streets behind?
It was pretty good I think.
They're trying to start the series off by reintroducing some tension between Bobbi and Clint , just something for them to overcome right out of the gate. They also have them being set up to showdown with Crossfire and a new Phantom Rider.
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Yeah, I thought the first issue was good. You get a good sense of Hawkeye's personality, as well as how he's grown, get to see the titular heroes beat up bad guys, Dominic Fortune guest stars to out-asshole Clint, the two Caps pop up, one villain's introduced and a new one's created, and Mockingbird's counter-terrorist organization gets a little screentime, also setting up some future conflict between her and Hawkeye.
It felt like it really opened with a lot of action, with interesting characters and plots being set up. And McCann managed to make the main characters' repartee fun to read. Oh, and the art's really awesome. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone that likes Hawkeye.
I'm not sure that opening with a story that recalls Mockingbird's rape is really the best way to open a Heroic Age story, but aside from that I really liked it.
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edited June 2010
Well, rape and murder are all the rage in the new comics, I guess.
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edited June 2010
So Young Allies #1, a good first issue. Toro kind of feels like he should have been from Africa given his origin, but the word for bull in Somali probably doesn't sound as cool as Toro does.
Arana wasn't annoying, Gravity was cool and should totally become Punisher Jr., Firestar was fine but seemed to be too young, at least in how Baldeon's drawing her, and Bucky was cool.
The Bastards of Evil are really annoying and kind of bring up the point that even if this is the Heroic Age, the punks deserve to die because while they're basically a parody of villains that seemed more in place a few years ago. It's just in trying to show the extremes between young hero and young villain, McKeever is really making the point that just beating them up and putting them in jail won't solve anything, so what do you do instead? (the answer is have Gravity crush their heads in).
A good first issue though, I'm dropping Iron Man and Uncanny and replacing them with this title.
Huh, I just found out Marvel's 2009 FCBD issue will be put in the main Siege hardcover coming out next month. You know we never did find out what happened to the Twilight sword but maybe it will show up in a future Avengers story.
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edited June 2010
Or maybe Secret Avengers with Ares coming back to totally cut Mars in half with a sword and axe, and then Valkyrie's all holding on to his leg while he poses for an Iron Maiden cover with Eddie.
Or maybe Secret Avengers with Ares coming back to totally cut Mars in half with a sword and axe, and then Valkyrie's all holding on to his leg while he poses for an Iron Maiden cover with Eddie.
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Freedom from pants.
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Suggestions?
I read Parker's short lived Exiles run last year, and I loved it, so I want to follow at least one of his books.
If you never read X-Men First Class, give it a go. The same with Mysterius: The Unfathomable.
He's going to get more work very soon, he has to.
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bet you love that he had a series called Giant-Size Man-Thing
.....there's something there for a sex psychology paper, I just know it.
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no, wait
And Man-Frog is obviously slang for a clitoris.
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Too busy fighting zombies in alternate realities with Machine Man
if you read the story, it's actually very damn good
Manny avenges the death of a high school student
Though I did not enjoy the JRJ art in Avengers, I like some of his stuff but it looked weird in this for some reason
1 page from perfection.
He draws women's faces really weird
Word furu, word. They look like junkies or men.
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You should see his Matt Murdock from his DD run, it was absolutely bitchin'. Man the 80's were so great.
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.......that's streets behind.
But H&M (ha!), is it basically Marvel Green Arrow/Black Canary, minus the amazons?
It was pretty good I think.
It felt like it really opened with a lot of action, with interesting characters and plots being set up. And McCann managed to make the main characters' repartee fun to read. Oh, and the art's really awesome. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone that likes Hawkeye.
I'm not sure that opening with a story that recalls Mockingbird's rape is really the best way to open a Heroic Age story, but aside from that I really liked it.
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Arana wasn't annoying, Gravity was cool and should totally become Punisher Jr., Firestar was fine but seemed to be too young, at least in how Baldeon's drawing her, and Bucky was cool.
The Bastards of Evil are really annoying and kind of bring up the point that even if this is the Heroic Age, the punks deserve to die because while they're basically a parody of villains that seemed more in place a few years ago. It's just in trying to show the extremes between young hero and young villain, McKeever is really making the point that just beating them up and putting them in jail won't solve anything, so what do you do instead? (the answer is have Gravity crush their heads in).
A good first issue though, I'm dropping Iron Man and Uncanny and replacing them with this title.
Awesome. This needs to happen.