Darthphere
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now that's just ****ing petty.
I don't care, but I know Dread has gotten *****ed at before for doing the same thing. Dread is my friend.
now that's just ****ing petty.
Why is noone reviewing the Heralds of Galactus book today?
I don't care, but I know Dread has gotten *****ed at before for doing the same thing. Dread is my friend.
whatever.
did you get your books today? i'm trying to find someone that bought/looked at the newest iron man. i want to know if de la torre has always been this good, or if i'm just crazy. because if memory serves, i did not pick up ms. marvel initially because i thought the artwork sucked balls.
his colorist on iron man is excellent, and sibal inked it, so THAT could be the answer...i dunno...
I liked his art on Ms. Marvel.
I just saw some preview pages, and dude mustve made a deal with the devil or holding back on Ms Marvel.
i knew it!
his iron stuff is really, really good. especially his dum dum dugan.
in whatever preview you saw, did it include the 2 page splash?
FRONTLINE #11: Tying up some loose ends from CIVIL WAR #7, it benefits, as it always has, from Jenkins being a more cerebral and subtle writer than Millar is. Millar, as he said in an interview, is basically trying to appease his inner 10 year old. Other writers, like Jenkins, to some degree have grown up into men. This is a well written issue, amung the best of the series as Urich and Floyd interview both Cap and Stark and hammer down their motives for the war and in a way showcase how neither side is innocent. Most of it makes some sense. But combined it reaffirms why CIVIL WAR in a way was unsatisfying; both sides were right, and both were wrong, and both went about it in morally ambiguous ways. Cap became a semi terrorist thug out of touch with common Americans, and Stark sacrificed friendships and lives to achieve a greater good, not unlike, say, Magneto. But an ending of "everyone is bad!" doesn't leave one feeling terribly good. Oh, it's plenty "real" and all, just not satisfying. It's not Nova ripping out Annihilus' guts-satisfying. It's not Dr. Strange-saves-Wong satisfying (more later). It is just draining. I've had a year of this kind of bleak nihilism and it seems it'll be at least another few months of the aftermath, or Initiative. At least with the war over and the status quo apparently agreed upon, maybe the aftermath will be less crude as the war was. I still was irked that despite everything Sally Floyd seems to have no respect for Cap, which even if he made a bad mistake isn't justified. It also confirms that 6 superheroes died in the final battle (and of course, 47 innocent civilians), although who they were hasn't been stated. FL #10 had Typeface be one shown casualty, and ASM noted that Triathalon was MIA, but aside for that, nada. So, CW is over and in a way everyone lost. How wonderful. I'd love to read that again and again....only I'm not a masochist freak like Speedball is now. Hopefully 2007 bares more fruit from the scortched Earth.
To Be Continued
Sorry guys but i have a question bout Frontline, I 've been thinking it over but I dont understand how having Norman Osborn as a loose vigilante killing people was supposed make heroes join pro-reg. Osborn is already a known criminal and maniac, what does that have to do with anything. I know i must be missing something but I dont understand Tony's logic, can someone explain it to me?
IRON MAN #15
COVER BY: ADI GRANOV
WRITER: DANIEL KNAUF, CHARLES KNAUF
PENCILS: PATRICK ZIRCHER
INKS: SCOTT HANNA
COLORED BY: STUDIO F - EDGAR DELGADO
LETTERED BY: VC - JOSEPH CARAMAGNA
Believe it or not I'm actually going to stick up for joey q here
To say that marvel ae the only company taking the money grubbing route in light of recent announcements is frankly farcical. Didio has gone from infinite crisis straight into a year long weekly event. Seeing that the fans where willing to cough up he's decided to follow this up with ANOTHER year long weekly event. In reality DC fans who want to stay current have not been given a break. There was no gap between infinite crisis and 52, 52 leads into countdown which then will lead into yet another crossover. DC are just as guilty as marvel at the moment.
Also while Joey Q has gone back on his word about no major events at least he hasn't been flat out lying to fans in order to tell a more surprising story. Joey Q said from the start that there was no villain behind civil war. By sticking to this vehemently I would argue the ending of civil war suffered as a result. Didio on the other hand told people that:
ralph wasn't on the gingold (sp?) LIE
booster's story was over LIE
By introducing world war hulk Joey Q has actually given the fans of pak's work on planet hulk WHAT THEY WANTED. He's listened to the fans of annihilation and is in the process of getting a sequel ready. He's giving marvel readers the answers to many nagging questions and a clearer idea of how the new marvel u will opperate in the initiative, WHICH IS NECESSARY given the extreme changes going on. Essentially all these events ARE GIVING THE FANS WHAT THEY HAVE ASKED FOR.
How many DC fans honestly want to shell out for another weekly book a soon as the current one finishes? Didio has seen that he can extract a lot of money from DC's readership with the weekly format and decided to go for broke with a second one.
DC are just as bad as marvel in this respect, the difference being that most of the marvel books are what the fans wanted. He's breaking his promise in order to GIVE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT. Ironic given the lesser of two evils take on civil war that the section focussing on tony in frontline discusses this very week.
In short I dub thee Doc Destruction Mk2. Marvel are bad at the moment but don't let your traditionally marvel-centric views, and anger at what you see as being ripped of by the company you support, blind you to the fact that DC are doing the exact same thing to their own readership as we speak.
Damn...writing these uber-long posts is harder than dread and brianwilly make it look
I agree. I mean, WWH is something everyone wanted to see. I know I would've been pissed if Hulk just stayed on the Planet chilling.
Also, if we want to play semantics here, Joey Q was talking universe wide crossover event. WWH is a pretty big event, but nowhere near the scope of a Civil War.
EDIT: I aslo wanted to add that I've never in my whole life have been picking up so many comic books from both companies, and really were getting what looks to be some quality stuff coming out of CW and from DC. I will gladly put down my money every week for comics that I CHOSE to buy and enjoy.
Before you get *****ed at further, I see no reason for that Dr Strange The Oath spoiler in a CW Frontline review, especially if someone is specifically avoiding spoilers from that title.
It's a pity I can't find the .mp3 fromCan anyone post a scan of Sobek owning Osiris?
That explains it photojones. Man that looks nice.
except that it's de la torre, not zircher.
that solicit is wrong.
Really? I haven't got the issue yet. Whatever drugs he's on, I want some, his stuff looks totally different. Tons better.
TONY STARK: NOW AND FOREVER, A TOTAL JERKWAD
For months on end and over a seemingly countless number of crossover books, Marvel has straddled the fence on Tony Stark's and Captain America's characterizations throughout Civil War, ensuring that neither could be presented as strictly the "hero" or the "villain"-until now. Paul Jenkins, in wrapping up this 11-part Civil War tie-in series, completely blows that ambiguous distinction out of the water when reporters Ben Urich and Sally Floyd present incontrovertible evidence that Stark-in a move reminiscent of Vice President Dick Cheney's alleged involvement with government contractor Haliburton during the second Iraq war-manipulated events to not only cause the Civil War, but to profit from it and improve his standing in the United States. According to the reporters, Stark helped rush the registration law through confirmation; purposefully built a harsh mega-prison in the Negative Zone to coerce heroes into helping him; enlisted costumed supervillains to aid his cause; manipulated Norman Osborn and caused him to try and murder an Atlantean political delegate (then covered up his own involvement); profited off the near-assassination by manipulating the stock market and funneled over $90 million into a secret Swiss bank account, which he then used as a trust to provide help to rescue workers (and registered heroes); and he risked war with Atlantis because he concluded the U.S. would win because of its growing ranks of registered heroes. Yet despite all this so-called proof, Floyd and Urich simply walk out of Stark's office with the lamest excuse-and biggest insult to investigative journalism-ever written for a comic book: "We'd never jeopardize what you're trying to accomplish." Somewhere, Woodward and Bernstein are throwing a fit at this journalistic oversight. But that's not even how the story ends: Tony Stark stares out the window, then breaks down into uncontrollable tears and throws his Iron Man helmet in a petulant fit, ostensibly because he's been caught?!? Kind of like what I did after reading this incomprehensible story.
RUNAWAYS #24: The Second great BKV Marvel book on the list, and no accident either. Strangely solicted as being double sized by some sources, this is a normal issue and apparently the last by BKV, Alphona and inker Criag (who drew a mean "RUNAWAYS #150" cover with adult Molly)
No, I think you just like reveling in the fact you enjoy a comic almost everyone on here hates.