Board 8 > Comics Topic 5: Where the "A" stands for AMERICA, F*** YEAH!

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i just finished reading Flex Mentallo and i've got this huge smile on my face

thank god for Grant Morrison and his love for superheroes

time to start reading DOOM PATROL!

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Grant Morrison you say?

What's Flex Mentallo?

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Pretty sure the A stands for France.

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Flex Mentallo is THE MAN OF MUSCLE MYSTERY

it's a four issue mini-series that comments on the whole crossover multiversity and canonicity of comics, the trend of superheroes going "grim and gritty" at the time, and how the very idea of superhero comics can SAVE HUMANITY

it's pretty awesome

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I spent the entire X-Force run thinking there was a guy named Kyle Yost

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LTM, do you have AIM?

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Its things like this that make you wonder why the company that makes M&Ms don't make butter

Yes I do.

Dai Kamina

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Haha oh god

You weren't kidding about Kyle and Yost getting down and dirty with the deaths, Koolaid.

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late tag

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I'm posting Anri's list here. Hopefully he's okay with that!


New X-Men - Academy X #1-6
NYX #1-7
Uncanny X-Men #450-451
X-Men #161-165
New X-Men – Academy X #7-9
Gambit #1-6
Uncanny X-Men #452-454
X-Men #166-170
X-Men – Age of Apocalypse (One shot)
X-Men – Age of Apocalypse #1-6
Gambit #7-12
New X-Men – Academy X #10-12
X-Force #1-6
X23 #1-6
Uncanny X-Men #455-459
X-Men Phoenix Endsong #1-5
New X-Men – Academy X #13
Uncanny X-Men #460-461
Rogue #7-12
X-Men #171-174
New X-Men Academt X #14-15
Kitty Pryde – Shadow and Flame #1-5
X-Men #175
Black Panther v4 #8
X-Men #176
Black Panther v4 #9

lol NYX though.

And this is a lot to read uggggh.

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What list is that specifically

Because it stops kinda short!

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I don't know, Anri emailed it to me. I don't think he's completed it yet.

And he's not responding to my text message, so he's probably sleeping already. What a lamer.

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This M-Day sure sounds like one big pile of ****.

What's the point if every mutant that matters is still around?

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From: KimPilgrim | #163
What's the point if every mutant that matters is still around?

Well, Jubilee lost her powers!

I can't remember anybody else important who lost them though. Just seems like a way to retcon all the cool Mutant culture/Mutant Town stuff Morrison was doing.

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Wolverine just flat out said X-23 was his sister.

Sorry Halo.

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And the Xorn stuff happened in House of M, too, right?

Do i even want to read this trash? It just sounds like another Countdown to Final Crisis.

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From: KimPilgrim | #165
Wolverine just flat out said X-23 was his sister.

Sorry Halo.

What?

They have mentioned countless times that Wolverine is X-23's father.

I AM RAGE.

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~Halo Live, fight, survive, as a family.
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The only important thing about House of M was that Scarlet Witch is crazy and "No More Mutants" happen and all the unimportant mutants lost their powers.

Also, Jubilee

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It will launch for $350 with some Wii Sports s***. I bet my life on it. Damn, that KoolAid guy is awesome - NGamer64

And a bus full of kids died

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SNIPED

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Dude

Chris and Yost are ********

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SCHISM

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Finished reading CARNAGE.

I liked it. Liked the whole mini. The art was fantastic. And I've always loved Carnage, so I'm glad he's back. This was also the only time Iron Man was shown to be badass after his reformation into a hippie. It was cool, I like Iron Man being awesome and blowing s*** up, that's what he's supposed to be like. I wish he did more stuff like that nowadays.

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~Halo Time to rock, Scott Pilgrim style.
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So I'm thinking of reading Immortal Iron Fist. I've never been interested in his character, but now I'm under the impression that maybe that series will get me to like him a lot more.

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From: KimPilgrim | #161
What list is that specifically

Because it stops kinda short!

He said he wanted a list starting where X23 comes in.

And yeah it stops short. That is just the beginning of the list.

I'll keep adding to it.

From: ShadowHalo17 | #173
Finished reading CARNAGE.

Yeah me too.

Pretty good.

Not REALLY good like I thought it would be.

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I love Manly Guys Doing Manly Things

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Woops, every time I said Chris pretend I said Kyle.

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From: HeroDelTiempo17 | #176


I love Manly Guys Doing Manly Things

Ha, excellent.

That suddenly makes me interested in the new season of Ugly Americans again.

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~LtM
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"I wanted to talk to you guys about the Registration Act."

UGHHHHHH

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http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/06/27/%E2%80%9Cswords-and-sorcery-and-superheroes%E2%80%9D/

Oh man

In short:

More confirmed Wildstorm characters: Jenny Q and The Enginerr

Demon Knights is 100s of years AFTER Camelot

VANDAL SAVAGE is on the Demon Knights team

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So far the most consistently awesome character in all of these X-Men books has been Beast.

From: KimPilgrim | #049
Oh and how is Young Avengers

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So I'm thinking of reading Immortal Iron Fist. I've never been interested in his character, but now I'm under the impression that maybe that series will get me to like him a lot more.

great book, hope you enjoy it!

VANDAL SAVAGE is on the Demon Knights team

cool.

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From: ShadowHalo17 | #174
So I'm thinking of reading Immortal Iron Fist. I've never been interested in his character, but now I'm under the impression that maybe that series will get me to like him a lot more.

All the stories you need are collected in one nice Omnibus form

http://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Iron-Fist-Omnibus/dp/0785138196/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1309202660&sr=8-3

Brilliant stuff, it will make you a fan of the character, at least it did for me and the many other readers who snatched it up.

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"Another change DC is making is that they won’t be ‘writing for the trade’ anymore. Writers have been told to write the story they want to write and not worry about the trade collecting. If they can tell a well-paced story in 4 issues, they’ve been told not to pad it to make it 6 issues. Editorial can worry about how it’s going to be collected. Going forward, books will be trade-collected depending on how the story fits. If a book has a 4-issue arc followed by a 3 issue arc, the trade will collect both. If it’s 2 4-issue arcs or 3 2-issue stories, those will get collected. As a side note, DC is looking into a new trade dress to represent the New 52 and a better spine design to call out information for fans."

This sounds good.

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~Halo Everybody run!
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VERY good.

I actually wouldn't mind varying trade sizes. Like, making a trade one story regardless of sizes and adjusting the price appropriately.

I also wouldn't mind some more Omnibuses or collection of specific writers, like Marvel occasionally does.

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Oh my God I might not have to stop buying comics because I may actually be getting a full time teaching job.

This is huge.

If get let down with this position, I'll be crying.

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Congratulations to Rafael Nadal on a Career Golden Slam. - The Mana Sword

They need to just hurry the f*** up with those Hitman trades, s***.

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New X-Men is great

This is the 2nd time I've seen Wolverine say "****ING UNICORNS!"

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~LtM
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I hate when comics end with a crossover event.

Oh well, Messiah Complex time.

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Should I read Second Coming?

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~LtM
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Messiah Complex is actually pretty darn good, although the ending leaves a bit to be desired.

Second Coming isn't that bad either, although you got a ways to go to get to that point.

Also, I recommend Mike Carey's/Chris Bachalo's X-men if you haven't read it, particularly the first story arc "Supernovas". One of the best X-men stories of the past decade.

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It will launch for $350 with some Wii Sports s***. I bet my life on it. Damn, that KoolAid guy is awesome - NGamer64

Not really, I read everything BETWEEN those 2 series that seems to be important.

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http://marvel.com/comic_books/issue/37251/15-love_2011_2

Why is Marvel publishing mango

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ShadowHalo17 posted...
"Another change DC is making is that they won’t be ‘writing for the trade’ anymore. Writers have been told to write the story they want to write and not worry about the trade collecting. If they can tell a well-paced story in 4 issues, they’ve been told not to pad it to make it 6 issues. Editorial can worry about how it’s going to be collected. Going forward, books will be trade-collected depending on how the story fits. If a book has a 4-issue arc followed by a 3 issue arc, the trade will collect both. If it’s 2 4-issue arcs or 3 2-issue stories, those will get collected. As a side note, DC is looking into a new trade dress to represent the New 52 and a better spine design to call out information for fans."

This sounds good.

Man for all that I don't care much for the creative end of DC (or DC's cowardly actions when faced with MUSLIMZ in Superman), they're kind of hitting all the right notes with me on the business end of things as of late, between this and their digital comics push.

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The Muslims in Superman thing is confusing as **** because we JUST HAD Muslims in Power Girl.

Also we have DATES.

http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/comics/?dat=20110907&sort=date

Justice League is actually the last week of August

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From: KimPilgrim | #193
Why is Marvel publishing mango

Maybe they're interested in selling produce as well. Gotta get them comic book nerds healthy somehow.

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To re-clarify, i don't have to read House of M, right?

Because it's a ****ing catastrophe?

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~LtM
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It's an event, of course it's bad!

And the fact that no-one here has read young avengers should tell you all you need to know

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"Biting is excellent- it's like kissing only there's a winner."

See this is what I was worried about

There's so much damn crossover and tie-in in X-Men it gets you sucked in

Now I've getting Young X-Men and Second Coming and New Mutants and Nation X

Ughhhhh

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~LtM
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Uncanny is the "primary" X-Men book, right?

So...what is the regular "X-Men" that started with that vampire stuff?

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