The Official Previews Thread

[KingOfDreams]

Book of Lost Souls #1
http://www.buzzscope.com/reviews.php?id=5122

Looks like a blatent copy of The Sandman to me.

 

[euroq]

Care to explain?

 

[KingOfDreams]

Well, I don't know about the story but that guy with the book looks an awful lot like Morpheus and that one page of 4 or so stacked panels w/ the lady in the Victorian dress looks a lot like some of the pages in The Sandman vol. 3...at least to me.

 

[euroq]

Well, I don't know about the story but that guy with the book looks an awful lot like Morpheus and that one page of 4 or so stacked panels w/ the lady in the Victorian dress looks a lot like some of the pages in The Sandman vol. 3...at least to me.

Uhh... so the main character's outward appearance resembling Morpheus (I don't really see it) and a lady in a Victorian dress, in a scene that takes place in the Victorian era and it looks like a blatant Sandman copy?

Ooookay.

 

[KingOfDreams]

Just my opinion.

 

[euroq]

Spider-Man: House of M #5 (of 5)
http://www.buzzscope.com/reviews.php?id=5134

Spider-Man Unlimited #12
http://www.buzzscope.com/reviews.php?id=5133

X-Men: Colossus - Bloodline
http://www.buzzscope.com/reviews.php?id=5135

Nightcrawler #11
http://www.buzzscope.com/reviews.php?id=5136

 

[Xofenroht]

If anything I thought the guy looked like Morlun. He looks nothing at all like Morpheus to me.

About Ultimate Spider-Man #86. Spider-Man has how many of his own rogues? Yet they still want to dip into the X-Men's vat and take Omega Red? What the Hell? Why not get some worthwhile Spidey villains in there?

 

[KingOfDreams]

He does look like Morlun too.

 

[deemar325]

If anything I thought the guy looked like Morlun. He looks nothing at all like Morpheus to me.

About Ultimate Spider-Man #86. Spider-Man has how many of his own rogues? Yet they still want to dip into the X-Men's vat and take Omega Red? What the Hell? Why not get some worthwhile Spidey villains in there?

Has any not figured out, that Bendis is a ****e a freaking numbers ****e, and I story hog! He has this aire of intitlement about him, as if he thinks he is the heir to Stan Lee!

Plus he knows that sticking in Omega Red and Deadpool (characters I might add he probaly has no love for.) will Triple his sales the guy is not stupid.

Just a ****ing! ****E!

 

[JewishHobbit]

To be fair,.. X-Men did grab Hammerhead and killed him before Bendis could get him,... of coarse,.. Bendis is throwing him in the new arc anyhow,.. but

 

[euroq]

X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1 (of 6)
http://www.buzzscope.com/reviews.php?id=5138

 

[cqb101]

I love that Silvestri cover.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

More Pheonix stuff?

 

[euroq]

I was going to get this since it's Brubaker but I'm not so sure anymore. House of M did a good job of making me not want to read any X-books. No more Astonishing for me either, I'll just get PAD's X-Factor and that's it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Why no Astonishing? I'll still check it out whenever Whedon returns, I think.

 

[mightiest_mortal]

I was going to get this since it's Brubaker but I'm not so sure anymore. House of M did a good job of making me not want to read any X-books. No more Astonishing for me either, I'll just get PAD's X-Factor and that's it.

lol, same here X-Men wise.

 

[euroq]

Why no Astonishing?

Because I'm protesting against what was done with HoM? And Whedon's second story was only mediocre at best.

I'll still check it out whenever Whedon returns, I think.

If I hear really good things about it, then I might too.

 

[Langoth]

Ugh. Astonishing's first arc was good, I liked it, but the second was fantastically bad IMO. I'm not coming back for year two, it just doesn't seem worth it, especially given the setup...

"I love you Scott, I'll betray the HFC for you!" is going to be the theme -.-

Either that, or Emma is crazy, and they are all delusions made by herself, in which case, thats even lamer.

 

[Harlekin]

They just can't leave the goddamn Phoenix alone, can they? I wanted a deadly secret from the X-Men's past!

 

[Dread]

Saw the preview for Deadly Genesis, and I'm iffy. The art is so-so, and I don't care for this artist's rendition of "cat-beast". And something about the return of a "Sentinals can fly over NYC and blast random mutants in broad daylight, and no one but mutants gets irked" strikes me as not only outdated, but unrealistic.

If Bush came out with a robot that could, with 100 % accuracy, hunt and kill ONLY terrorists, would the public not have some big outcry? No. Hell, Clinton avoided assasinating Osama in the 90's because he feared the backlash, and he was a Democrat (who control, like it or not, 90% of the media). There's no way the public's ever-complaining rights groups would allow the justified policing of an ethnic group, even ones as seemingly "dangerous" as mutants.

Also, while I am reading USM via TPB so I am always one arc behind, but I have to ask; why is Ultimate Omega Red (and eventually Deadpool for that matter) debuting in Ultimate Spider-Man? He is an X-Men character (and one focused exclusively on Wolverine to boot). Bendis is writing SPIDER-MAN. One would assume that he should be spending more time trying to "Ultimicize" actual Spider-Man characters for the new millenium, yes? It's not like he could have POSSIBLY run out of rogues; he's not even through the A-listers yet. Just because Austen chose to debute Hammerhead, a C-List Spidey rogue, in UXM doesn't mean we LIKED it, or that it was a smart idea. Hell, if not for Gambit, those two fill in issues would have been completely forgotten (Kubert covers regardless). I get that Ultimate is a bold, new universe, I just figured that a Spider title should have Ultimate versions of Spider-characters, and X-Titles having Ultimate versions of X-characters, and Ultimate Fan 4...and so on. So, what's the deal?

 

[Muze]

X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1 (of 6)
http://www.buzzscope.com/reviews.php?id=5138

hey look. they created a new mutant.

 

[Dread]

hey look. they created a new mutant.

I think the hype is that whoever is here is an OLD mutant from the past that we have never met before. Or something. I'll probably give it a look in the store at least.

However, some interesting tidbits:
1). As anyone reading CAPTAIN AMERICA knows, Brubaker has no qualms about breaking the rules about who to resurrect, so long as he feels his story is "good" (I put that in quotes because it is subjective, not to be a jerk about something I've read little of), and doing so under the guise that it may be some new character with past ties.

2). In WIZARD #170, Brubaker mentions that it was kind of a gyp that the original Thunderbird died, and that "something should be done with him".

3). Marvel devoted GIANT-SIZE X-MEN #4 to the original, deceased Thunderbird, both with a new story and some reprints. Plus, it's not like he wasn't in that Neal Adams story from GIANT SIZE X-MEN #3.

Not a solid theory yet, as the first issue of this is not even out. Simply calling it a possible point of interest. I may be wrong, and that theory may not fit the preview art in WIZARD #169 for this series, although the assailant the X-Men were facing was not fully shown.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I am teh double-posting n00b.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Something was done with the original Thunderbird, kinda. He was one of the founders of the Exiles and went out of that title taking down Galactus, of all people.

Because I'm protesting against what was done with HoM? And Whedon's second story was only mediocre at best.

How does House of M influence Astonishing X-Men beyond having the same characters? I haven't been reading HoM.

And yes, the New Cerebro--er, I mean, "Danger" arc was crappy. It picked up a little bit near the end though.

 

[euroq]

How does House of M influence Astonishing X-Men beyond having the same characters? I haven't been reading HoM.

Surely you've heard of the "Decimation"?

I have no idea how it will affect Astonishing X-Men but I hate the fact that Marvel is turning the clock back 40 years with their mutant line, and the best way to show it is not giving my money to them anymore.