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This Week's Moments: August 13, 2008

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    wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Considering all the time-travel involved, this whole Millar story better include
    Kang somehow.

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    Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    wirehead26 wrote: »
    Considering all the time-travel involved, this whole Millar story better include
    Kang somehow.

    We haven't seen him in a while, have we?

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    wirehead26 wrote: »
    Considering all the time-travel involved, this whole Millar story better include
    Kang somehow.

    We haven't seen him in a while, have we?

    the first Young Avengers arc I think was the last time he was used

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    Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Someone should redesign his costume. It's silly.

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    ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Lol! wrote: »
    Punisher felt kinda ehhh. Great way to tie up the last 5 years, but I was hoping for a little bit more

    I actually loved this issue of the Punisher. Kind of redeemed this final arc for me. What didn't you like about it?

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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    I don't really know. It just felt like it was missing something
    I mean, don't get me wrong it was a nice ending, but it just felt like it could've been a little better

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    LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Man

    I can't believe nobody has mentioned Wonder Woman yet.
    She fucking chopped a demon lord in half with her Airplane. AWESOME!

    Someone needs to put up a scan of that page. Cause DAMN.

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    ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I... see...

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    Mai-KeroMai-Kero Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Oh god Secret Invasion was awesome
    Maria Hill is actually badass. How did this happen?

    Also, Abigail Brand for new leader of SHIELD.

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    ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The one thing about that Maria Hill scene...
    Why did she blast her body double and not, say, Jarvis or any of the Skrulls?

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    MuddBuddMuddBudd Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zeromus wrote: »
    The one thing about that Maria Hill scene...
    Why did she blast her body double and not, say, Jarvis or any of the Skrulls?
    She did. The Skrulls shot the body double. Look at it again.

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    ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Oh, you're right, I had misinterpreted that bottom left panel.

    I guess that does make more sense. :P

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    deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Fantastic Four was absurd.

    Secret Invasion was ok.

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    Mai-KeroMai-Kero Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Motherfucker I just read Captain Britain.
    You should have brought John back, goddamnit.

    Also, 100 Bullets
    Dizzy beating the fuck out of Lono. Too bad she's probably all kinds of dead now.

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    jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Alright, my new MotW was seeing TROPIC THUNDER.

    What kind of farmer are you?
    I'm a lead farmer, mother fucker!

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    LuxLux Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    Man

    I can't believe nobody has mentioned Wonder Woman yet.
    She fucking chopped a demon lord in half with her Airplane. AWESOME!

    Someone needs to put up a scan of that page. Cause DAMN.

    No way, the best part of Wonder Woman
    Was when I realized she dragged the decapitated head of the devil with her lasso to another dimension.

    She dragged the decapitated head of the devil to another dimension.

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    Cosmic SombreroCosmic Sombrero Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Punisher was excellent. In some ways the ending was anti-climatic, but
    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?

    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 on 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 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 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.




    Epilogue

    In end, the war in Vietnam was much like any other.

    There were those who profited.

    Those it devoured.

    And then there were those for whom there are no words.

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    Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    That's the word I was looking for, anti-climactic.
    Thank you Sombrero
    Really, it felt like this arc was building to a huge showdown and then...
    Nick Fury finishes reading the book and drinks in a bar THE END

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    AlgertmanAlgertman Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Anti-Moments of the week.

    Marvel cashing in on a Turner's death. Thread starter is me.

    Recolored Hulk

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    CoJoeTheLawyerCoJoeTheLawyer Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Two quick scans that I love (spoilers)

    First from Astonishing X-Men #26...For some reason, I love this image
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    Head Go Boom!

    And from Secret Invasion: X-Men...this is what happens when you forget that the X-men are now living in San Francisco
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    You know, for having their shit together everywhere else, that's a MAJOR misstep on the Skrulls part for forgetting where the freakin' X-Men are in conjunction with your world conquering plans.

    The issues were meh, but some decent moments.

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I actually enjoyed both those issues a bunch.

    Which surprised me since I was pretty lukewarm on the first Ellis issue of Astonishing

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    muninnmuninn Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Mai-Kero wrote: »
    Oh god Secret Invasion was awesome
    Maria Hill is actually badass. How did this happen?

    Also, Abigail Brand for new leader of SHIELD.

    Really. So far this has been a MAJOR dissapointment.
    Ok so lets get all the heroes into savaga land, so they could fight and meander about for 4 issues for no reason, until Dr. Fantastic gets freed from captivity and identifies skrulls with deus ex machina RAYGUN... not to mention him geneticaly testing Brand for skrull factor, even tho its been stated again and again that such actions dont work... (so hopefully shes a skrull)

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    muninn wrote: »
    Mai-Kero wrote: »
    Oh god Secret Invasion was awesome
    Maria Hill is actually badass. How did this happen?

    Also, Abigail Brand for new leader of SHIELD.

    Really. So far this has been a MAJOR dissapointment.
    Ok so lets get all the heroes into savaga land, so they could fight and meander about for 4 issues for no reason, until Dr. Fantastic gets freed from captivity and identifies skrulls with deus ex machina RAYGUN... not to mention him geneticaly testing Brand for skrull factor, even tho its been stated again and again that such actions dont work... (so hopefully shes a skrull)

    Maybe if you read the issues it would help
    Reed discovered how to identify the skrulls in the first issue while examining Elektra, but was taken off the board immediatley after by Skrull-Hank, now he can finally put it to use. And trapping the Avengers in the Savage Land doing nothing was the entire point, they were the biggest obstacle in the invasion and they have been running around in a jungle fighting eachother and arguing while the Skrulls are quickly conquering the planet with minimal resistance.

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    muninnmuninn Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    muninn wrote: »
    Mai-Kero wrote: »
    Oh god Secret Invasion was awesome
    Maria Hill is actually badass. How did this happen?

    Also, Abigail Brand for new leader of SHIELD.

    Really. So far this has been a MAJOR dissapointment.
    Ok so lets get all the heroes into savaga land, so they could fight and meander about for 4 issues for no reason, until Dr. Fantastic gets freed from captivity and identifies skrulls with deus ex machina RAYGUN... not to mention him geneticaly testing Brand for skrull factor, even tho its been stated again and again that such actions dont work... (so hopefully shes a skrull)

    Maybe if you read the issues it would help
    Reed discovered how to identify the skrulls in the first issue while examining Elektra, but was taken off the board immediatley after by Skrull-Hank, now he can finally put it to use. And trapping the Avengers in the Savage Land doing nothing was the entire point, they were the biggest obstacle in the invasion and they have been running around in a jungle fighting eachother and arguing while the Skrulls are quickly conquering the planet with minimal resistance.

    Must have forgotten about the Mr. Fantastic bit. Because this event is moving at such a riveting pace. And while certain things make sense (savage land) they dont necessarily make for good reading.

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    frayfray Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Goramit, I don't get to read any of this stuff 'till tomorrow :/

    Did anyone pick up Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe, out of interest? Is it worth buying?

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    Unco-ordinatedUnco-ordinated NZRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Not even a mention of Final Crisis: Revelations?! Come on! It was fucking awesome!
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    Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I thought the confrontation between Libra and Spectre was amazing.

    He punched the Spectre in the face.

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    FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Revelations was all around radical.

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    DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I'm surprised no one is talking about Secret Invasion: Thor, because I thought it was fantastic. I feel like I'd rather have a Fraction-written Thor now than a JMS-written Thor.

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    TeaSpoonTeaSpoon Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Not even a mention of Final Crisis: Revelations?! Come on! It was fucking awesome!
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    So, just as a reminder, Doctor Light is a rapist, right? Because the past few years have not made that sufficiently clear to me.

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    DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Not even a mention of Final Crisis: Revelations?! Come on! It was fucking awesome!
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    Wait so hold up, did they for realz
    kill Dr. Light?

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Delduwath wrote: »
    I'm surprised no one is talking about Secret Invasion: Thor, because I thought it was fantastic. I feel like I'd rather have a Fraction-written Thor now than a JMS-written Thor.

    It was really great too

    It's hard for me to mention everything because literally almost everything I read was fantastic.

    The Runaways/YA issue was also fantastic

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    Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I didn't like Final Crisis:Revelations. I hated how the confrontation with Light was almost incidental and thought Renee Montoya sounded like a cliche.

    "You talk the talk, but do you walk the walk?"

    "If you hum a few bars, maybe I can fake it."

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    CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Hey, so I just realized something. The Skrulls were going to send a shot across the bow to Asgard, IIRC from an interview with Fraction.

    Was Bill that shot?

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    BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    yes

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    ZeromusZeromus Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I didn't like Final Crisis:Revelations. I hated how the confrontation with Light was almost incidental and thought Renee Montoya sounded like a cliche.

    "You talk the talk, but do you walk the walk?"

    "If you hum a few bars, maybe I can fake it."

    Yeah, I wasn't too hot on Revelations either. The art was pretty, but it was a confusing read

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    wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Balefuego wrote: »
    The Hooded Man is most certainly the mysterious "President" of the Old Man Logan universe, but today's issue of FF is the first time he's actually appeared in any of the books.

    A panel from Kick-Ass #4, referencing Marvel 1985.
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    Kick-Ass takes place in our world (the "real" world), and this panel then suggests that Marvel 1985 actually did occur in our world. We know from solicitations that a guy named Wyncham plays a part in this all too; he seems to be the central connection.

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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 2008
    Am I the only one who thinks this "one man event!" thing is somewhat egocentric?

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    Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Am I the only one who thinks this "one man event!" thing is somewhat egocentric?

    As long as it's not at the expense of other people's stories or characters, no.

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    AlgertmanAlgertman Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Am I the only one who thinks this "one man event!" thing is somewhat egocentric?

    Mark Millar has the biggest ego in the industry.

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