Cliff Hanger Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 Longshot felt dangerous and weird when I first read it. It gave me the same weird feeling in the pit of my stomach as Tom Scioli's Transformers/GI Joe stuff. Looking back now, I'm not positive why specifically, but Nocenti/Adams's version of Mojo is still utterly terrifying in a way Claremont et al. have never managed to make him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted November 9, 2016 Share Posted November 9, 2016 I agree 100% on that! Adams Mojo is just truly insane and when Noncenti wrote him his monstrosities made him a truly grand villain. Claremont just seemed to use him as a punching bag for comic relief James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerome Miller Posted November 10, 2016 Share Posted November 10, 2016 Glad to see Mattie Franklin back. Her ritual execution remains one of the more disgusting incidents of "fridge stuffing" in modern comics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 22, 2016 Author Share Posted November 22, 2016 Totally missed this coming out last week. It would look good on @J.T.'s new coffee table. Kung-fu fever had struck the United States! Hot on the heels of the breakout hit MASTER OF KUNG FU, Marvel launched the amazing oversized DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG FU magazine - headlined by Shang-Chi, Iron Fist and the Sons of the Tiger! Artists including Rudy Nebres, George Pérez, Jim Starlin and Paul Gulacy gave DEADLY HANDS their all. With stunning painted covers by the likes of Neal Adams, issues of DEADLY HANDS featured not just the comic-art adventures of Marvel's greatest kung-fu heroes - but also extensive interviews; martial-arts guides; photo features; and movie, TV and book reviews! Whatever you wanted to know about martial arts, DEADLY HANDS had a kung-fu grip on it! Collecting DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG FU (1974) #1-18 and SPECIAL, and DEADLIEST HEROES OF KUNG FU. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Blue/Gold reveals are not good. I like the Gold team fine but Guggenheim's batted about a 15% in his comic writing career. Which still beats Bunn who is writing Blue and is sub 10%. He can sort of write big dumb x-men comics though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 oh man. i just read the Mutant Massacre crossover with Uncanny X-Men and X-Factor, among others. holy shit, what a downer. like, it's seriously giving me depression just thinking about how this all went down. i guess the biggest concern for me was that the X-Men don't win. by the end of the storyline, the X-teams are beaten down and defeated. most have some sort of serious injury, they're emotionally devastated, and they still have no real idea who or why did this abomination. what a major bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 1 hour ago, Matt D said: Blue/Gold reveals are not good. I like the Gold team fine but Guggenheim's batted about a 15% in his comic writing career. Which still beats Bunn who is writing Blue and is sub 10%. He can sort of write big dumb x-men comics though. The reveals were disappointing. I really want the teen versions of the originals gone already. Its not even that I dislike the writing with them per say. I would just rather focus be on the teen character from the present era. 16 minutes ago, twiztor said: oh man. i just read the Mutant Massacre crossover with Uncanny X-Men and X-Factor, among others. holy shit, what a downer. like, it's seriously giving me depression just thinking about how this all went down. i guess the biggest concern for me was that the X-Men don't win. by the end of the storyline, the X-teams are beaten down and defeated. most have some sort of serious injury, they're emotionally devastated, and they still have no real idea who or why did this abomination. what a major bummer. Well its titled Mutant Massacre for a reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 For me the Mutant Massacre was the beginning of the end for the X-titles. I did stick around reading Uncanny until issue 300. But really lots of the time after the Mutant Massacre I would let the books built up until the stack was about to fall over. Then read them all over a weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Wow. see, for me Mutant Massacre is the start of the run of X-Factor that is my favorite X-book ever and top 5 team book ever (with Morrison JLA, Ostrander Suicide Squad, Thunderbolts v1 and New X-Men) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobholly138 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 34 minutes ago, Cliff Hanger said: Wow. see, for me Mutant Massacre is the start of the run of X-Factor that is my favorite X-book ever and top 5 team book ever (with Morrison JLA, Ostrander Suicide Squad, Thunderbolts v1 and New X-Men) See I started reading Uncanny with 129,what ever issue was the first appearance of Kitty Pryde,and got it every month from then till 300. X-factor I read the first 2 years of. THe only spinoff X-titles I read for more than say 24 issues was Excalibur and New Mutants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Mutant Massacre is when yearly event hyping for the X-Books began. As much as a downer as Massacre was it was a million times better than Inferno! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 This reminds me that I still need to go back and read more of Claremont's run along with X-Factor in general. I was reading a decent bit of it a few years ago when I was a member of unlimited for a few months. The last thing I recall offhand was a fun Dazzler vs. Juggernaut issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 17 hours ago, Matt D said: Blue/Gold reveals are not good. I like the Gold team fine but Guggenheim's batted about a 15% in his comic writing career. Which still beats Bunn who is writing Blue and is sub 10%. He can sort of write big dumb x-men comics though. I generally consider Bunn super solid. Sixth Gun was great (what I've read anyway), his Wolverine run followed well on Aaron's, and I liked the first trade of his Uncanny. Heard good stuff about Sinestro too. Differing tastes or just read different stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APO Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 The only thing Blue really has going for it is Bunn and that he'll still have Magneto in the book. Gold is just the same blah roster the gold side books have had since Aaron kicked off WaTXM post-Schism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Spent the last week or two catching up on comics. I'm not really sure why I still read the X-books at this point. I don't necessarily even find the writing itself to be particularly bad on the average. I just find the direction immensely disappointing. That said, Death of X was pretty bad. It ignored where the relationships between characters were actually left at before Secret War. The X-men were kind of made to look fairly inept. And killing off a major character in such a manner while having another go potentially irredeemably insane was just dumb. That was the most terrible and disappointing thing I've read in Marvel all year. To be fair my reading is limited so I'm sure there is worse. Ultimates continues to be good though I'm not sure why a relaunch was necessary. Also not sure I like America as the team leader though I do enjoy the idea of them working for Galactus. Thor and Black Panther continue to be the highlights of Marvel for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 I think the only x-book worth reading right now is the x-23 wolverine book. It's also pretty removed from the main x-books. gave up on black panther. Well done but not of interest to me. thor books are good. Moon Knight is great and crazy. i liked Ultimates and New Avengers. Will be curious to see how their reboots go. i should love Waid's Avengers book, but i dont think the art is right for a flagship superhero book. It worked perfectly for Weirdworld. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 I like a fair number of Marvel books right now (the Aaron books, Ewing's team books, Moon Knight, Squadron and Supreme and Scarlet Witch for the most part). But, man, I could not be less interested in anything Inhumans or X-Men, and most of what is spinning out of Civil Wars II is meh to me. I am somewhat intrigued by what Bendis is doing in Iron Man. The book has been pretty damn good since Bendis took over, and I'm willing to give the new titles a chance. Doctor Doom: Good Guy had better be a short-term thing though. And as much as I hate to be that guy, I'm really hooked by what Spencer is doing in Captain America. Cap's probably the Marvel book I most look forward to each month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 The only think i really like about the Cap books is pulling out lots of obscure characters and what not. The plots really dont interest me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Cap's not the best book I read each month. but it's probably the most entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 It feels monumental and that always helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I'm super into the Cap stuff right now too. Also echoing that the Laura Kinney Wolverine book is great. New Nova is off to a solid start too, though it made me realize how long I went without realizing that Rich could also be called Dick Rider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I liked the new Nova book well enough. I was kind of indifferent though on Sam so I never really finished his first series. I see until now he was more or less still the only Nova. Did they never explain what happened to the handful or so of members Rich had gathered to start building the Nova Corp anew? Or Worldmind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 1 minute ago, Eivion said: I liked the new Nova book well enough. I was kind of indifferent though on Sam so I never really finished his first series. I see until now he was more or less still the only Nova. Did they never explain what happened to the handful or so of members Rich had gathered to start building the Nova Corp anew? Or Worldmind? Iirc Worldmind was with Rich in the Cancerverse so the rest of the Nova Corps were cut off and sort of de facto depowered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I get that, but I thought I saw something about the Sam entering the Worldmind in the last series before this one. I thought maybe it managed to return w/o Rich. Not mention it was just sort of weird to not here anything about Robbie or the other novas returning to their planets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Out of the ongoing Marvel books, I only get Spider-Gwen and The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows. Hopefully my local library will get the Captain America by Nick Spencer and Thor books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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