nah, that walking dead hardcover already came out... not looking to shell out $100 for it either.

i read astonishing too.. just didnt list it
and i also work at the comic shop on wednesdays so i still read most of the ones that i dont pick up for myself (such as exterminators)

4/16/2006 11:21:50 PM

I don't read Walking Dead, so I wouldn't really know. If had free access to comics, I'd drop all Marvel books and only collect the books I really liked.

4/17/2006 1:15:25 AM

Quote :

"since that is ALL they appear to have been doing with his character in the last 12 months"

It seems like we've entered a new era of "grim and gritty" where ridiclously large shoulder pads and guns are substituted with ridiculously out of character history re-writes.

Whedon at least is following from Morrison's base, which he's about the only person besides Warren Ellis I'd be okay with even attempting that.

Deadly Genisis is as said earlier, one of the worst POS Marvel has done ever (I'm looking at you Infiniti Gauntlet and the Twelve, sorry I missed House of M, saw that one coming). I can't see what they were trying to do here, the story has not merit in its own right, it is totally out of left field even for something attempting to pick up dangling story lines from Nicieza/Lobdell era, as a Summers fan I feel it's especially lame (this is who I would think is the target audience but what do I know), and I'm especially pissed that they decided they'd kill off Banshee which was in no way justified.

I have no problem with stories that kill off favorite characters (which by the way is anyone besides Illyana and random characters introduced specifically to die from it still dead of the legacy virus?)or do things to my characters that I don't like if it has some artistic integrity, however this is not the case at all.

I don't know how you afford all those comics Kyle, I had to give up and focus on a few favs a while ago.

4/17/2006 10:06:19 AM

i mean

~~~~spoilers alert~~~~

in the span of like a year, we've seen charlie proven to have kept a sentient alien prisoner to teach his kids and that he left his second team to die trying to save his first team

and who knows what else i missed...

4/17/2006 10:11:52 AM

He killed his twin sister in the womb? (or did that end up being wrong or something?)

4/17/2006 10:27:13 AM

OH GOSH THATS RIGHT...

what ever happened with that? which continuity was that in?

MOTHERFUCKING CHARLES XAVIER WITH A FUCKING PISTOL

SHIT AIN'T KOSHER

4/17/2006 10:36:24 AM

Can't remember, I missed some issues between the end of that arc and the riot at Xaviers...

4/17/2006 10:58:10 AM

Cassandra Nova(Xavier's twin) is in the new Hellfire Club, for what it's worth. Only God and maybe Joss Whedon know how she got there.

Walking Dead does have paperbacks that are definitely worth tracking down if you can. The hard cover is pretty nice, and I only plopped the money down for it because I get a massive discount at my local comic shop(and figured it would be cheaper with my discount than getting all the trades at a different store...I can rationalize like a motherfucker).

4/17/2006 1:58:34 PM

Quote :

"and who knows what else i missed..."

well, in ultimate spiderman, deadpool was revealed to be xavier in disguise

though it's probably just an image inducer

BUT WE DONT KNOW YET

4/17/2006 2:07:13 PM

Quote :

"Only God and maybe Joss Whedon know how she got there."

I figured Frost is just going insane and is making shit up in her head.

4/17/2006 3:45:41 PM

frost could make shit up in my head

4/17/2006 3:47:21 PM

Dork

4/17/2006 3:55:16 PM

what comic book shop do yall go to? i swear i have to know some of you guys, at least by name

4/17/2006 11:20:37 PM

I got to the Capital Comics on Hillsborough Street.

4/18/2006 4:27:57 AM

4/18/2006 4:36:28 AM

Ultimate Comics in Durham. I both love and hate that place. I love that they take care of me, I hate that they know what I like so well that they can keep pointing me towards more books that I'll like so they can make $texas off of my dumb ass.

4/18/2006 9:32:33 AM

i may be a n00b, but has anyone read street angel?

4/18/2006 12:09:11 PM

i worked fulltime at that capital comics all last summer until i found a real job

now i just work at the other one on wednesday mornings

4/18/2006 3:51:19 PM

I've always wanted to work at a comic shop.

4/18/2006 9:37:12 PM

Show me a comic book shop that offers benefits, including vision/dental, and I'll show you a mecca for any fanboy who wants to live the dream.

4/19/2006 12:34:38 PM

Damn this thread....my money pit has shifted from buying DVDs to buying comic books again. More expensive and a lot nerdier, thanks guys.

4/19/2006 2:00:40 PM

We aim to please.

4/19/2006 2:23:41 PM

^^My comic habit helped me kick my smoking habit that way. For serious. Comics saved my life.

4/19/2006 4:15:48 PM

They're super-heroes. It's their job.

4/20/2006 1:40:39 AM

^quality post.

4/20/2006 2:08:01 AM

Quote :

"Show me a comic book shop that offers benefits, including vision/dental, and I'll show you a mecca for any fanboy who wants to live the dream."

I would think vision and albuterol inhalers would be the most important things to cover.

Quote :

"They're super-heroes. It's their job."

nice

4/20/2006 7:01:59 AM

Civil War #1 and Infinite Crisis #7 both out today.

One disappointing mega-crossover ends, one (hopefully) awesome mega-crossover begins.

5/3/2006 12:41:50 PM

OH SHIT

CIVIL WAR IN THE HIZZZZY

5/3/2006 12:59:31 PM

whats the civil war crossover about?

5/3/2006 1:11:09 PM

Saw the movie... makes me wonder if the comics any good?


I figure I could maybe get into it since the last comic I was interested in was the nightcrawler one which had plenty of demon/supernatural evil stuff going on.


[Edited on May 3, 2006 at 1:19 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2006 1:15:36 PM

^^during a conflict, some innocent people die like collateral damage
because there were super heros involved

the gov't wants to register all metas

well

the super heros basically split on the issue

with two sides
one in favor of liberty (captain america's squad)
one in favor of security (iron man's squad)

5/3/2006 1:21:15 PM

welp, i'm gonna go hit the comic shop and pick up that one then

5/3/2006 1:25:34 PM

Civil War is basically the last chapter in the Marvel mega-crossovers of late(Disassembled, House of M, and to a lesser exent Secret War being the first chapters).

The premise here is that the government wants all super powered good-guys to turn in their secret identities and work for S.H.I.E.L.D. Some heroes will support the measure(a group led by Iron Man) and some will be actively against it(Captain America's team, maybe) leading to a clash between former friends and other high-drama awsomeness.

Millar is writing the main story, so it will either be amazing or fall flat on its face. But I can promise that it's not going to be "just okay" the way Infinite Crisis turned out to be.

[Edited on May 3, 2006 at 1:26 PM. Reason : or, you know, woodfoot could type out before me]

5/3/2006 1:25:42 PM

i'm still not exactly sure what happened with infinite crisis. i'll wait til they combine them into a graphic novel and just read that.

5/3/2006 1:28:56 PM

^ Yea, same here.

I'll probably wait till Civil War goes to TBP as well.

5/3/2006 3:39:52 PM

secret war???

5/3/2006 3:50:18 PM

Not the original Secret Wars. And not even Secret Wars II.

Bendis did a 5-issue mini called Secret War that started storng and just petered out. It was about Nick Fury getting together some heroes to take down the government of Latveria for secretly funding super-criminals.

5/3/2006 4:01:29 PM

ehh
that and it took about half a year to get the final issue out

5/3/2006 10:10:31 PM

free comic book day is Saturday, y'alls, FYI

http://www.freecomicbookday.com/

5/4/2006 2:24:35 AM

Infinite Crisis in an unfairly reductive nutshell (spoilers follow):

Superboy Prime punched reality. It shook out some loose threads from the pre-Crisis multiverse, giving DC editorial an excuse to kill them off while bilking a whole lot of money out of me.

Infinite Crisis in a less reductive, more accommodating nutshell (spoilers follow):

At the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Alex Luthor led Superman and Lois Lane of Earth-Two and Superboy of Earth-Prime (our Earth, funnily enough) into a strange dimension in order to save them from the final destruction of everything in the antimatter universe following the defeat of the Anti-Monitor. He wanted to save these heroes' lives in reward for their courageous service during the Crisis, and it was a swell way for DC to preserve some real fan favorites.

Thing is, though, Alex chose poorly. While searching for a possible escape from the antimatter universe, he peered into two dimensions. One looked like Heaven, and one looked like Hell. He went with Heaven. "Heaven" turned out to be a strange crystal prison in which the trio was doomed to watch events unfolding in the new, unified universe.

Put yourselves in the minds of Superman 2 and Superboy Prime. Your universe isn't just GONE, it NEVER EXISTED (in fact, since WE'RE on Earth-Prime, this is actually true for you). You have no place on the new Earth, and there is no Krypton for you to return to. You are utterly alone. And your best option winds up being stuck in a timeless prison from which you must bear witness to the "darkening" and corruption of this new Earth.

Alex, being a piece-of-shit Luthor no matter WHAT universe he's from, convinces Superboy Prime—pretty much the strongest entity ever—to try to smash the walls of the crystal prison. Each blow ripples across all of reality, revealing inconsistencies in the constitution of the new, unified universe. Changeling remembers his ties to the original Doom Patrol...who never existed! Power Girl is pretty sure she's really Kara Zor-L, Supergirl of Earth-Two! Krypton-Two! Whatever!

Anyway, the whole stupid thing is a backdrop to a grandiose ol' battle of good vs. evil, with the Secret Society of Supervillains breaking open every metahuman prison on the planet and staging this huge superhero vs. supervillain war, and the whole time there's some kind of stupid cosmic war between Rann and Thanagar (surprise) featuring a cosmic anomaly that shifts the center of the universe away from Oa, and for some reason Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman all lose their powers and take vacations and shit, and now all the regular continuity is ONE YEAR LATER, and the missing year will be explicated in a weekly series called 52, and...fuck, man, not even the Legion of Super-Heroes escapes intact, with Kara Zor-El (of Argo City [I think] of...the new, unified, post-Crisis New Earth or whatever the fuck it's called now) somehow appearing in the 30th Century (or the 31st, I don't even know anymore), and holy God can you believe I'm still writing about this?! P.S. Superboy Prime isn't dead, but Superboy of the Teen Titans is. I think. I don't know, a lot of people are dead, but it's not gonna matter because they didn't even kill off fucking Superboy Prime and it'll all be undone in three years anyway WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE KIDDING DC

HOPE THAT HELPS

5/4/2006 9:24:10 AM

^Pretty accurate. A retcon of this retcon of a retcon is certainly going to be forthcoming.

Civil War #1 was a really, really good read. Much better than IC's finale. Also much better than the crappy buildup from the Fantastic Four and the mediocre-at-best buildup in Amazing Spider-Man.

5/4/2006 11:11:38 AM

Civil War #1 was fuckin' sweet. Commander Hill, acting head of S.H.I.E.L.D., asks Captain America how he thinks the superhero community is gonna respond to the federal goverment's superhero registration and employment plan. Cap says he thinks it'll split them down the middle, with most of the resistance coming from street-level heroes like Daredevil and Luke Cage.

Hill says, "So nobody you can't handle?"

Cap goes, "Excuse me?"

Hill says, "You heard."

No fuckin' shit! She explains that the government expects Cap to keep the Avengers in line to set an example for the other supers...and for the Avengers to likewise act as the enforcement arm of the registration act. Cap says he ain't down with that, saying the government would start telling people who the supervillains are.

And Hill's like, "I always thought supervillains were guys in masks who didn't obey the law." And all these badass soldiers trained to take down superheroes surround Cap. Cap knows it's fuckin' tense, but he makes a judgement call—my man's gotta do what's right!

HE KNOCKS THE DUDES OUT

CRASHES THROUGH A WINDOW

DID I MENTION THEY WERE IN A S.H.I.E.L.D. HELICARRIER SIX MILES ABOVE NEW YORK

MY MAN LANDS ON A FUCKIN' JET AND ORDERS THE PILOT TO FLY OFF

CAPTAIN AMERICA IS A GODDAMN FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE, SON

[Edited on May 4, 2006 at 11:23 AM. Reason : ...]

5/4/2006 11:20:26 AM

Brubaker is writing Captain America, and I've resisted getting the title anyway. But after Civil War #1, yeah, I finally care enough about Captain Freakin' America to buy his title. More $texas of mine that Marvel will be getting.

5/4/2006 12:49:07 PM

I don't expect Brubaker to deliver the same Captain America as Millar does in Civil War. I mean, did you read that Winter Soldier storyline? Brubaker wrote that, and it was pretty fucking tedious, in my opinion. I mean, the motherfucker brought back BUCKY. You don't do that! YOU DON'T DO THAT.

5/4/2006 12:51:43 PM

I'm willing to forgive Brubaker for that based solely on how fucking amazing his first 3 issues of Daredevil have been.

Also, I'm just now starting to care about Captain America so I'm a long way from caring about Bucky. Now if Peter David is actually bringing Uncle Ben back, I will fucking quit comics forever.

5/4/2006 1:02:07 PM

Does anyone here read Preacher? I bout the first trade yesterday and got half way through it. The artwork is amazing and the story started out strong but I put it down half way through just because it was getting too ridiculous. Are the other trades worth investigating?



[Edited on May 4, 2006 at 2:04 PM. Reason : asdf]

5/4/2006 2:02:20 PM

I loved Preacher. Stick with it and you won't regret it. Other trades?

Transmetropolitan(so much fun to read)

Sin City(if you can stomach the nerds behind the counter scoffing at your needing a movie to catch on)

Y the Last Man(it's wrapping up in the next few issues, I think, so the whole series will be out in trade pretty soon)

Those are just the ones I can think of that won't lead you into buying new comic books monthly.

5/4/2006 2:10:44 PM

Thanks for the synopsis, Frosh. Happy Birthday too.


i'll be picking up Civil War in about 30 minutes.

5/4/2006 2:12:37 PM

Does anyone know the name of a comic book that occurs in different cities and each one is a new story, but the same girl/boy makes an appearance in every story? A friend of mine said I should pick it up but I can't for the life of me remember the name.

5/4/2006 2:17:46 PM

i was into comics for about a year once. right around the time spawn started and superman died. i got the first couple of issues of spawn and that series of superman/doomsday comics. i thought they were amazing at the time. have those raised value at all?

5/4/2006 2:18:13 PM