twiztor Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 so apparently MiracleMan: the Silver Age #1 was pushed back to April. wish i'd known that before i went to my local comic shop today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Standoff thoughts. No spoilers for the issue itself, but boxed in for the very sensitive: Cap-related, more or less generic and relating to Steve's geriatricity: So since they bloody announced it in the papers etc, I guess it's pretty obvious how Steve Rogers gets de-aged. Kobik is going to "fix" him. Cap-related (specifically the Sam Wilson series and the Whisperer plot): Nick Spencer has now done two Ed Snowden/Wikileaks analogue stories with Cap in five years, the first being in Secret Avengers in 2011. The statute of limitations has not yet run out. Also, I really don't like the reveal that it's Rick. More MU related and general: This HAS to be the point where Maria Hill goes rogue, right? She's crossed so many lines in the last 15 years, but this time it really feels like they want her to go heel by the end of the arc. I still want to know what happened to the Zemocarrier. A truly stealth helicarrier with a Wikileaks-sized database should have been something you build a story out of, not something you forget after a series ends or gloss over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Standoff actually is sounding interesting to me right now. Is it worth picking up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 The opening two issues were both decent. Whether it'll hold up the the 37 issues by different authors before the final bookend, I don't know. But I'm genuinely excited to see the series launching afterward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Spencer's Maria Hill dialogue kind of hurts me. There's a fine line and it sort of stumbles over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Yeah, I liked her talk with "Jim" quite a bit in the first issue, but in the second she went into full parody mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Spencer in general has had the holes in his game exposed way more than any other hyped creator of his generation. When fully in his element, he can do great stuff (Morning Glories, Secret Avengers mk. 1, THUNDER Agents) but a lot of his superhero stuff just reads...off. And not in a Warren Ellis "Fuck you I'm just doing my thing." way. I dunno. It's hard to define, but I'm super wary of Spencer on flagships. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLaw Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 They should have just named Kobik Layla. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I found myself utterly unable to care about the "Steve is old now" storyline. Some of his writers still had him kicking people's asses anyway, despite now being an elderly man with zero superpowers, which is a nice way to make the whole thing feel completely meaningless. And the comics industry nowadays is so bad with their This Will Change Things Forever (but it'll be completely forgotten within two years) retcons that, as soon as I heard about Rogers aging, my very first thought was "huh, how long will they stretch this out before taking it all back and making him young again?". It's especially galling with this specific character, considering that Cap's "death" somehow managed to blatantly rip off the details of BOTH Superman and Batman's fake death storylines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 It was really weird when the Captain America and Batman "death"/return storylines were running at nearly the exact same times, and telling really specifically similar plots, too close to one another that it could possibly have been anything other than coincidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I found myself utterly unable to care about the "Steve is old now" storyline. Some of his writers still had him kicking people's asses anyway, despite now being an elderly man with zero superpowers, which is a nice way to make the whole thing feel completely meaningless. And the comics industry nowadays is so bad with their This Will Change Things Forever (but it'll be completely forgotten within two years) retcons that, as soon as I heard about Rogers aging, my very first thought was "huh, how long will they stretch this out before taking it all back and making him young again?". It's especially galling with this specific character, considering that Cap's "death" somehow managed to blatantly rip off the details of BOTH Superman and Batman's fake death storylines. Marvel's pretty much taken an approach of "This will freshen things up for a while" instead, tempered with "If it sells or gets buzz, we'll stick with it longer". They're pretty self-aware about this sort of thing now. It's a trope. It's a tool. They use it as such. I'd think a reader would have to be pretty delusional to expect anything else at this point. It's not the destination that matters so much as the journey and how many good and fun stories they can get out of what everyone knows is a temporary status quo change. With double shipping, even something that lasts a year or two can have a big footprint and cover a lot of ground. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 What's been going on in Spiron-Man? Anything interesting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 What's been going on in Spiro-Man? Anything interesting? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireThunder Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is a joy to read. Sadly, Unlimited doesn't have any issues past the first eight before the All-New reboot, so I'll either have to hoof it to my local shop and see if he's got any of the back issues squirreled (HA) away somewhere or wait a month or two for them to post more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 The Peter Parker as Tony Stark book, Matthew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 7, 2016 Author Share Posted March 7, 2016 Longtime Marvel (amongst others) artist Paul Ryan passed away age 66. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 FUCK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainmakerrtv Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 I enjoyed his work on X-Men, lovely clean style. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 His run with Waid on Flash is legit one of the things in 1996 that first got my attention and turned me from a super sporadic comics reader into a Wednesday warrior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Just read a bunch of Miles Morales books up until the start of Secret Wars, and realized we're never gonna get answers about how Ultimate Peter Parker came back. Damnit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 I thought it was basically the same as the Green Goblin. Oz makes its users virtually unkillable/will resurrect them from most physical injuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Finished reading everything DP up through the Way run, including Remender's Uncanny X-Force, which was pretty great. Took a break from that to read Annihilation, but now I'm back in X, reading 2008 Cable. What can I say, I grew up on the cartoon with Cable and Bishop and time-travel, I guess I'm a sucker for it. Must like it too, just read twelve issues straight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 You just reminded me. I enjoyed Cable in the 90's cartoon but never read anything with him really until Cable & Deadpool. I'm curious what other worthwhile stories does he have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 I thought it was basically the same as the Green Goblin. Oz makes its users virtually unkillable/will resurrect them from most physical injuries. That's what Green Goblin said...... right before he got killed. So that kinda went out the window right away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Just read a bunch of Miles Morales books up until the start of Secret Wars, and realized we're never gonna get answers about how Ultimate Peter Parker came back. Damnit. I didn't know Ultimate Peter Parker returned. I gave a very positive review here to Ultimate Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man ages ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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