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mrbasehart posted:Apologies if this isn't the right thread to ask, but does anyone know how often the Marvel Universe app adds old stuff to the catalogue? Inconsistently. For a while it was every week along with new stuff, but now sometimes it's weekly, sometimes it can go a month with nothing.
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drat. There goes my hope of reading all the old Alpha Flight comics in a row. Thanks!
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Apr 7, 2021 21:29
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GPTribefan posted:Yes and it’s not even close. Between his Amazing and Spectacular in the 70s and his return to Spectacular in the 80s and 90s, he’s far and away the best. Uhmm, are you forgetting about Stan Lee? I love Steve Ditko art but Stan was clearly the driving force on that comic. I loving loved Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four and got bored with it pretty quickly once Kirby Left, barely noticed when I read Amazing and Ditko left.
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Apr 7, 2021 21:36
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I've been reading the old Amazing Spider-Man and I think the reason why I didn't miss Ditko (who got way better as his run went on) when he left is because John Romita is so great himself.
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Apr 7, 2021 21:38
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mrbasehart posted:I've been reading the old Amazing Spider-Man and I think the reason why I didn't miss Ditko (who got way better as his run went on) when he left is because John Romita is so great himself. JRSR also replaced Kirby on FF
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Apr 7, 2021 21:44
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Vince MechMahon posted:Inconsistently. For a while it was every week along with new stuff, but now sometimes it's weekly, sometimes it can go a month with nothing. Yeah, the app started slacking off way before COVID. Skwirl posted:I love Steve Ditko art but Stan was clearly the driving force on that comic. I loving loved Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four and got bored with it pretty quickly once Kirby Left, barely noticed when I read Amazing and Ditko left. This also feels like it does a disservice to Roger Stern, who was amazing and wrote one of the best Spidey stories ever with 'Nothing Can Stop The Juggernaut!'
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Apr 7, 2021 21:45
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mrbasehart posted:drat. There goes my hope of reading all the old Alpha Flight comics in a row. Thanks! drat it sucks man
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Apr 7, 2021 21:57
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Skwirl posted:Uhmm, are you forgetting about Stan Lee? And Romita jumped in with that iconic Green Goblin two parter.
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Apr 7, 2021 22:00
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JM DeMatteis taking over for Conway on Spectacular was top notch, too. Especially with Sal Buscema on pencils. And of course there's also Kraven's Last Hunt.
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Apr 7, 2021 22:09
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I would honestly rather read one of Conway's endless subplots about like a Bugle reporter who is dating a werewolf than the third or fourth time DeMatteis did a psychological breakdown of a guy who is a rat
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Apr 7, 2021 22:31
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Open Marriage Night posted:And Romita jumped in with that iconic Green Goblin two parter. Right, but he also jumped into FF when Kirby left and it was terrible. Kirby was clearly the greater creative force on FF and Lee was clearly the greater creative force on Spider-Man. Not to discount Ditko's work on Spider-Man, or especially not other stuff he did for Marvel (Dr Strange struggled a lot for a while after he left). But I think Spider-Man was Lee's baby more than anything else at Marvel.
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Apr 7, 2021 22:47
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Karma Tornado posted:I would honestly rather read one of Conway's endless subplots about like a Bugle reporter who is dating a werewolf than the third or fourth time DeMatteis did a psychological breakdown of a guy who is a rat I actually really like DeMatteis, but is there anyone that actually thought Vermin was a good character?
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Apr 7, 2021 22:52
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GPTribefan posted:Yes and it’s not even close. Between his Amazing and Spectacular in the 70s and his return to Spectacular in the 80s and 90s, he’s far and away the best. Where would you put stern?
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Apr 7, 2021 22:56
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DeMatteis really had a problem where every storyline he did ended up feeling like Kraven's Last Hunt but with increasingly weak characters
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Apr 7, 2021 23:00
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Blockhouse posted:DeMatteis really had a problem where every storyline he did ended up feeling like Kraven's Last Hunt but with increasingly weak characters There's worse wells to keep going back to though.
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bobkatt013 posted:Where would you put stern? Maybe “not even close” was an exaggeration. I love Lee’s stories and he obviously set the tone, but I feel Conway had a better overall body of work. The Stan Lee stuff can sometimes get a bit repetitive and comes off a bit dated sometimes. I’d put him and Stern right behind Conway. Roger Stern is my all time favorite Avengers writer and isn’t far off from Conway, but he wasn’t allowed to stick around as long unfortunately. The Hobgoblin stuff was fantastic and the Juggernaut 2-parter was an all-timer. I just have a soft spot for Conway’s Spectacular work and he also wrote “The Night Gwen Stacy Died”, which is one of my absolute favorites.
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Apr 8, 2021 10:21
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King in black reads like a bad venom fanfic, it's just so goddamn terrible.
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Apr 10, 2021 02:01
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frodnonnag posted:King in black reads like a bad venom fanfic, it's just so goddamn terrible. Yes, we know Donny Cates has been writing it
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Apr 10, 2021 02:08
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I bought the last two issues on a whim, and it was just so bland. Issue four made Jean Grey look like a bad rear end which was cool, and I kind of liked Silver Surfer helping the enigma force breach the barrier surrounding Earth. I was excited to see Captain Universe Venom, but it’s just Venom with his white bits glowing a little. Turning the black of the symbiote into a star field was right loving there!
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Apr 10, 2021 02:20
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Immortal Hulk 45 review: ITS drat GOOD
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Apr 10, 2021 12:59
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Quotey posted:Immortal Hulk 45 review: ITS drat GOOD I don't really understand what is happening in it. Can someone explain it to me like I'm an idiot?
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Apr 10, 2021 13:38
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Here's the part that took me a minute. I think I have it right. In the aughts, Jeph Loeb invented a new Hulk called the Red Hulk. His deal was that he was the Hulk, but Red, and shrouded in mystery. He was in a lot of not very good comics but basically he was strounger, tougher, meaner, and smarter, and it eventually came out that he was powered by a mix of gamma and cosmic energy. So when the Hulk is dead and on the ropes here and the U Foes think they're keeping him that way by pouring cosmic energy on his corpse, in fact they're charging him up with exactly what he needs to draw on this other, even scarier well of power. Hence the Red Door all of a sudden not being one-way-- they've allowed Joe Fixit to tap into the power of what was once one of the dumbest concepts in comics and turn it into something cool and terrifying: from the worst Hulk of them all to, per Joe, "The worst Hulk of 'em all!". How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Apr 10, 2021 |
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Apr 10, 2021 13:43
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Ahhh thanks for the explanation. I wasn't aware about that bit with the original Red Hulk.
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Apr 10, 2021 15:10
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yeah i actually didn't know there was a red hulk before ross either. guess i should've expected that considering this is ewing we're talking about
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Apr 10, 2021 15:42
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site posted:yeah i actually didn't know there was a red hulk before ross either. guess i should've expected that considering this is ewing we're talking about That is Ross she's talking about. Although I'd argue the Jeff Parker Red Hulk book was decent.
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Apr 10, 2021 15:46
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oh okay, the way it's worded kinda makes it sounds like it was a separate character
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Apr 10, 2021 15:49
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site posted:oh okay, the way it's worded kinda makes it sounds like it was a separate character This run has kinda done that in separating the Hulks (demon, world breaker, etc) and the human personas (Banner, Joe) as individual pieces of an overall Hulk system. It’s even expanded this to the other gamma people what with some of them currently using the bodies of others.
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Apr 10, 2021 15:56
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no i mean literally, as in not ross. like, it was a hulk form banner took in the past or something
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Apr 10, 2021 15:58
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That's my bad, I did mean Ross.
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Apr 10, 2021 16:02
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So they've done a Spider-Totem thing with the Hulk? The Hulk is part magic now?
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Gripweed posted:So they've done a Spider-Totem thing with the Hulk? The Hulk is part magic now? Yes, but a kind of lovecraftian magic deeply tied into psychology and emotional trauma. You should read immortal hulk.
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Thanks I think I got it now. So Banner has never been Red Hulk before, but Joe Fixit saw the opportunity to be Red Hulk and went for it?
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Apr 10, 2021 16:37
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the power was served up on a platter and he took it, is all.
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Apr 10, 2021 19:22
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Skwirl posted:There's worse wells to keep going back to though. While true, with maybe half a dozen exceptions dark and grim Spidey does not fuckin' work.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:While true, with maybe half a dozen exceptions dark and grim Spidey does not fuckin' work. Yeah, but if you wrote what's probably the best one...
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Apr 11, 2021 01:34
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I do not see what appeal people see in Kraven's Last Hunt. It presents itself as a very good, deep story, what with the poetry quotations and all, but the quality just isn't there imo. It doesn't live up to how it presents itself.
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Gripweed posted:I do not see what appeal people see in Kraven's Last Hunt. It presents itself as a very good, deep story, what with the poetry quotations and all, but the quality just isn't there imo. It doesn't live up to how it presents itself. I dunno. I liked it when I last read it. But that was probably 6 years ago at least.
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Apr 11, 2021 02:21
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kraven does not once play volleyball or cook a meal with exhaustive detail of what ingredients he put in and how they affect the dish, how can it be good
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That's a good point
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Alaois posted:kraven does not once play volleyball or cook a meal with exhaustive detail of what ingredients he put in and how they affect the dish, how can it be good That's funny, my copy has a recipe in it. Let me dig it up.  quote:Kraven's "Krave-Worthy" Spider Surprise How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 05:20 on Apr 11, 2021 |
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