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Another wave of Marvel Now books down, time for another thread. Marvel Threads in BSS           General Marvel Discussion Thread Rules
Some good new Marvel Now books which only recently started. Black Widow  Natasha Romanov is a spy for hire. Nathan Edmonson and Phil Noto bring a low key spy book to life where Natasha kills a lot of dudes without there being RED IN THE LEDGER. Elektra  Haden Blackwell and Mike Del Mundo brings everybodies favourite assassin back to life after Zeb Wells had to bail from the book. I shouldn't need to really say any more then Mike Del Mundo art to be honest. Ghost Rider  Robbie Reyes is a young guy trying to make ends meet for him and his younger brother. Unfortunately he happens to get murdered and his car is the Spirit of Vengeance. Has all the makings of being a pandering kids book but Felipe Smith and especially Tradd Moore's art work make it a really fun book. Iron Fist: The Living Weapon  Kaare Andrews writes and draws the ninja adventures of Danny Rand, The Immortal Iron Fist. He punches and kicks a lot of dudes. Expect things to get weirder as the book goes on. Loki: Agent of Asgard  How do you capitalize on Loki's film popularity? You get Al Ewing and Lee Garbett to create the secret agent adventures of sexy Loki as he hacks the internet, writes fan fiction and generally be mischievous. Moon Knight  Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey and Jordie Bellaire bring their A game as they reboot Moon Knight so to speak. Incorperating all of his past and personalities into one book it constantly changes tone and strives to be fresh, striking and violent book. Ms. Marvel  G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona bring the story of Kamala Khan, a regular teenage Muslim who one day happens to get super powers. Taking after her role model Carol Danvers she dons the name of Ms. Marvel as she tries to deal with being a teenager and fighting bad dudes. She Hulk  Lawyer and writer of a million books Charles Soule teams up with Javier Pulido to finally do a Marvel lawyering book. She Hulk punches guys, does a lot of lawyering, hangs out with HellCat and gets stuff done. Silver Surfer  Within the Waterhaul fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Apr 24, 2014 |
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Apr 21, 2014 14:23
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Also everybody should buy Elektra because Mike Del Mundo has to stay on this book for as long as physically possible.
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Apr 21, 2014 14:27
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Waterhaul posted:Also everybody should buy Elektra because Mike Del Mundo has to stay on this book for as long as physically possible. That's some crazy loving good art. 
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Apr 21, 2014 14:40
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The Punisher, Moon Knight, and Ghost Rider are some of my favorite books of all time already. I think if most people were making a "best of 2014 so far" list though, Ms. Marvel would probably take the spot of The Punisher. I like it, but I'm probably just gonna wait for the trades from here. God of Thunder and Indestructible(which is now canceled and replaced by an equally bland-and-uninteresting based off the first issue Hulk) used to be two of my favorites but their latest arcs have really been a drop. I have faith GoT will get better and I'm riding it out for now, but I'm disappointed Indestructible Hulk ended on such a down note, quality wise.
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Apr 21, 2014 14:40
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Waterhaul posted:Also everybody should buy Elektra because Mike Del Mundo has to stay on this book for as long as physically possible. I have never been sold on a book based on a bunch of variant covers before, but I've also never seen a picture of Electra made out of blood and ninjas.
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Apr 21, 2014 15:35
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I like how this barely mentions Inhumanity. Remember when Inhumanity was supposed to be this huge loving game changing status quo and now it seems to be almost forgotten?
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Apr 21, 2014 15:42
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notthegoatseguy posted:I like how this barely mentions Inhumanity. Yeah, Marvel wants to have a group they can use in place of the X-Men for their movies, but it really stumbled when they lost Fraction. I'm glad they're just letting it lay low or maybe die right now instead of rushing to force it down people's throats.
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Apr 21, 2014 15:47
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StumblyWumbly posted:Yeah, Marvel wants to have a group they can use in place of the X-Men for their movies, but it really stumbled when they lost Fraction. I'm glad they're just letting it lay low or maybe die right now instead of rushing to force it down people's throats. Is there any source to this, or just speculation? I can't imagine Inhuman rights are that cut and dry, given they originated in FF.
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Apr 21, 2014 15:58
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EVGA Longoria posted:Is there any source to this, or just speculation? I can't imagine Inhuman rights are that cut and dry, given they originated in FF. The only part that isn't speculation is that Fraction says he left Inhuman because he and editorial wanted the book to go different ways. Inhumans just occupy such a similar space to mutants that it doesn't make sense to make the world more complicated by adding space mutants, except for the rights angle.
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Apr 21, 2014 16:12
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WickedHate posted:but I'm disappointed Indestructible Hulk ended on such a down note, quality wise. I dropped it after ten issues, it became clear within the first three that it wasn't going to play into the larger MU in anyway meaningful way. Even if the "Stay Angry" evil Banner, Jason Aaron run was dumb, it was at the very least a new idea for the character. This felt like a holding pattern of Hulk/Banner is back to being on the side of the good guys but we don't want to do anything important with him so he's going to run around not really doing anything. Going by the first issue here, this series isn't going to be any better.
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Apr 21, 2014 16:14
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I liked the science team angle of Hulk and the sending him in to take care of things SHIELD can't but yeah, the book just never went anywhere. I gave it way too long to get good and there was no payoff.
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Apr 21, 2014 16:31
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It's a few weeks on and I still don't know if I liked Iron Fist: The Living Weapon. The art was great but Danny was just so unlikable in it compared to every other book featuring Iron Fist that I've ever read. I'm not saying Kaare Andrews has to stick to what the Fraction and Brubaker did in their Iron fist run and Fraction's Defenders but those were the books that introduced me to Iron Fist and it's what I'm used to and what I enjoy.
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Apr 21, 2014 16:36
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I don't think there's really a place for "Immortal Iron Fist" while Hawkguy is around as they are effectively the same character. Iron Fist, while not a perfect book, I appreciate for just deciding to distill the character to their essence and go in a new direction regardless of whether it lines up with any other books. It's actually what I want from a Hulk book too. Waid on Hulk is too concerned with trying to make Hulk/Banner superheroes working with the Avengers/SHIELD/SWORD and it's really boring when it could be a great, crazy book about a monster or a human dealing with a monster and just go off into it's own corner and really push the concept. Waid's attempting to take his successful Daredevil reboot and attach it to Hulk without understanding how fundamentally different the characters are. EVGA Longoria posted:Is there any source to this, or just speculation? I can't imagine Inhuman rights are that cut and dry, given they originated in FF. Without delving too deep into film stuff (and understanding that Marvel Studios talk constant poo poo) but an Inhumans film is on their agenda depending on how Guardians does and Marvel really wants to push the Inhumans in the books in preparation for that.
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Apr 21, 2014 17:00
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Man that Fantasticar really does look like a penis. Edit: I think I asked this in the old thread, but does Inhumanity even count as an event anymore? Did it ever become one? Fraction dropped out before it even got going, and as far as I can tell the only books that even deal with it anymore is Soule's Inhuman and a little bit of Ms. Marvel. So all we got was two issues of Inhumanity, a one-shot that I forget what was called, and a bunch of books with the .INH numbering that didn't focus too much on the event to begin with. Avengers Assemble kind of dealt with it as well, but that book is over now. Meanwhile Original Sin starts tomorrow, so I think it's fair to call the whole thing a wash? Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Apr 21, 2014 |
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Apr 21, 2014 17:01
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PaybackJack posted:I dropped it after ten issues, it became clear within the first three that it wasn't going to play into the larger MU in anyway meaningful way. Even if the "Stay Angry" evil Banner, Jason Aaron run was dumb, it was at the very least a new idea for the character. This felt like a holding pattern of Hulk/Banner is back to being on the side of the good guys but we don't want to do anything important with him so he's going to run around not really doing anything. I thought the first few arcs were fun adventures, but then it really nosedived. The new series is just garbage right out the gate.
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Apr 21, 2014 17:13
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I dropped Indestructible like a hot turd about halfway through the time travel arc. Raise your hand if you're NOT so sick of time travel that you have to suppress the urge to tear apart and eat a book when it introduces it into a story.
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Apr 21, 2014 19:27
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Diet Poison posted:I dropped Indestructible like a hot turd about halfway through the time travel arc. Raise your hand if you're NOT so sick of time travel that you have to suppress the urge to tear apart and eat a book when it introduces it into a story. I'm not really bothered by it.
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Apr 21, 2014 19:32
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I thought it was a boring book, and I dropped it, but not because of time travel.
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Apr 21, 2014 19:38
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I thought it was boring; I absolutely hate time travel (although this was a better time travel story than usual), and didn't drop it until the relaunch.  Since it was Waid I was hoping that it would turn around, but alas, it did not.
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Apr 21, 2014 20:14
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not very big on time travel stuff because its frequently used as a deceit in a plot. They go do a time travel thing and gently caress up lots of story elements but fix it all with time travel. Thus, you just sat through a pointless time travel story.
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Apr 21, 2014 20:25
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I enjoyed it for what it was: an excuse to write a Simonson's Thor tribute book where you could use Simonson-era Thor and just go nuts.
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Apr 21, 2014 22:29
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Defiance Industries posted:I enjoyed it for what it was: an excuse to write a Simonson's Thor tribute book where you could use Simonson-era Thor and just go nuts. I found Indestructible to be pretty disappointing too. I liked the concept, the execution just really wasn't that interesting. That Thor arc was fun, though.
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Apr 21, 2014 22:31
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Yeah that one was not so good. I was wondering what the gently caress was wrong with all of you. But now I get it.
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Apr 21, 2014 22:33
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WickedHate posted:God of Thunder and Indestructible(which is now canceled and replaced by an equally bland-and-uninteresting based off the first issue Hulk) used to be two of my favorites but their latest arcs have really been a drop. I have faith GoT will get better and I'm riding it out for now, but I'm disappointed Indestructible Hulk ended on such a down note, quality wise. I'd say God of Thunder has finally picked up after that rubbish Malekith arc. We have Ribic again and Old Thor fighting Galactus at the end of the earth is pretty drat awesome.
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Apr 22, 2014 00:19
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AFoolAndHisMoney posted:I'd say God of Thunder has finally picked up after that rubbish Malekith arc. We have Ribic again and Old Thor fighting Galactus at the end of the earth is pretty drat awesome. I didn't exactly like the Malekithh arc either. If it weren't for the amazing God Butcher/Godbomb arc and the incredible "Jason Aaron accidentally writes All-Star Superman"(which is like my favorite single issue of anything ever) I'd not be reading this far. Right now the Galactus fight is all I'm liking. WickedHate fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Apr 22, 2014 |
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Apr 22, 2014 00:26
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Malekith being a bad arc didn't bother me. We had a clear hook on what the next arc would be with the SHIELD scientist, so it was obvious that Malekith was a forced story because movie synergy, a hiatus to the real comic if you will.
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Apr 22, 2014 00:51
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I can't get over the weird art for Ghost Rider is it a actually good?
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Apr 22, 2014 03:42
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The art is like 90% of the appeal to Ghost Rider, there's not a whole lot there yet otherwise.
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Apr 22, 2014 04:07
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The car stuff is awesome.
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Apr 22, 2014 04:10
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Robbie's a pretty cool guy, panels with his bro are great. But yeah, the sicknasty art's what really makes it.
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Apr 22, 2014 04:39
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AFoolAndHisMoney posted:I'd say God of Thunder has finally picked up after that rubbish Malekith arc. We have Ribic again and Old Thor fighting Galactus at the end of the earth is pretty drat awesome.  You take that back! That was the best D&D arc!
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Apr 22, 2014 05:18
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The current Thor arc where he is basically Captain Planet is the best and no one can convince me otherwise.
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Apr 22, 2014 05:21
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Waterhaul posted:I'm not going to mention the Avengers books cos they deserve their own thread Here you go. I probably shouldn't be writing these at 3:30 am. Sorry.
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Apr 22, 2014 09:05
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I'm just reading through Remenders Uncanny X-Force for the first tine and woah, issue 7 blew my mind. Issue 7 spoilers duh, holy poo poo so in the future Dethlok took over the world and APOCALYPSE is the leader of the rebellion. gently caress that is so bad rear end. And with that last page.. now I understand why the Dethloks came into the past. Starting to really like Fantomex, his sneakiness and his genjutsu powers.
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Apr 22, 2014 09:37
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Gavok posted:Here you go. I probably shouldn't be writing these at 3:30 am. Sorry. It's beautiful 
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Apr 22, 2014 12:52
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Gavok posted:Here you go. I probably shouldn't be writing these at 3:30 am. Sorry. No you should probably make more threads at 3:30 am. I nominate Gavok to write all discussion thread OPs at 3:30 am.
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Apr 22, 2014 13:27
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Gavok posted:Here you go. I probably shouldn't be writing these at 3:30 am. Sorry. You are a forums treasure, that OP is gorgeous.
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Apr 23, 2014 02:44
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So Guardians #14 which apparently was the 100th issue was a big piece of poo poo. lovely art, completely disjointed, disconnected and with 2 extra stories that make even less sense.
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Apr 23, 2014 15:03
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Yeah I'm getting pretty tired of marvel using literally any excuse to make an issue $5. At least they are adding pages and not a dumb gimmick like 3D covers though. I really liked Original Sin #0 and if you like the parts in Nova where Sam is hanging out with Uatu you'll like it too.
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Apr 23, 2014 15:12
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Senor Candle posted:Yeah I'm getting pretty tired of marvel using literally any excuse to make an issue $5. At least they are adding pages and not a dumb gimmick like 3D covers though. Yeah it made me realize that I need to read his series at some point. Waid is really good, and so far this event looks like it could be worth it.
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