[amphibian]

ABYSS, read the Weird World stuff illustrated by del Mundo. It's amazing.

This post has been edited by amphibian: 21 July 2016 - 04:28 PM

[Alrin]

Abyss, on 21 July 2016 - 03:12 PM, said:

Reading SECRET WARS (2015) on the Marvel Unlimited Crack App...

Read the first two core books, all good, but got distracted reading the byblow series. These are generally better than I was expecting...

OLD MAN LOGAN despite a neat start, was him just bouncing between worlds, but was a fun read even so. The Old Logan character gets some solid development to separate him from the usual Wolverine.

INHUMANS ATTILAN RISING was filler. Meh. Even Kamala Khan and a steampunk Ghost Rider couldn't make this more than ok. Semi-saved by solid art.

SECRET WARS 2099 was weak on story (Peter David can do so much better than this), but great on character concepts.. the Avengers and Defenders 2099 were fun.

MODOK ASSASSIN... is fucking hysterical and has no right being as funny and entertaining as it is.

Gillen's SIEGE and Aaron's THORS were the two tie-ins that really fed into Secret Wars, each showing scenes either lifted from or leading straight into panels from the main book.

OLD MAN LOGAN, despite its repetitive nature, was probably my favourite tie-in though. The first 8 issues of Lemire's second volume have been outstanding (his Extraordinary X-Men far less so, but most of the X books are a bit of a mess these days. Here's hoping the Death of X starts to set things right).

All in all, Secret Wars is best read as a continuation of Hickman's F4/FF run. It's a Reed/Doom story, after all.

Now if only we could get those final two S.H.I.E.L.D issues....

[Abyss]

amphibian, on 21 July 2016 - 04:27 PM, said:

ABYSS, read the Weird World stuff illustrated by del Mundo. It's amazing.

Will, of course. Del Mundo could make a cat using the litterbox look breathtaking.

Alrin, on 22 July 2016 - 05:25 AM, said:

Abyss, on 21 July 2016 - 03:12 PM, said:

Reading SECRET WARS (2015) on the Marvel Unlimited Crack App...

Read the first two core books, all good, but got distracted reading the byblow series. These are generally better than I was expecting...

OLD MAN LOGAN despite a neat start, was him just bouncing between worlds, but was a fun read even so. The Old Logan character gets some solid development to separate him from the usual Wolverine.

INHUMANS ATTILAN RISING was filler. Meh. Even Kamala Khan and a steampunk Ghost Rider couldn't make this more than ok. Semi-saved by solid art.

SECRET WARS 2099 was weak on story (Peter David can do so much better than this), but great on character concepts.. the Avengers and Defenders 2099 were fun.

MODOK ASSASSIN... is fucking hysterical and has no right being as funny and entertaining as it is.

Gillen's SIEGE and Aaron's THORS were the two tie-ins that really fed into Secret Wars, each showing scenes either lifted from or leading straight into panels from the main book.

OLD MAN LOGAN, despite its repetitive nature, was probably my favourite tie-in though. The first 8 issues of Lemire's second volume have been outstanding (his Extraordinary X-Men far less so, but most of the X books are a bit of a mess these days. Here's hoping the Death of X starts to set things right).

All in all, Secret Wars is best read as a continuation of Hickman's F4/FF run. It's a Reed/Doom story, after all.

...

Yeah, I'm working my way through the self-contained spinoffs first, saving the closer tie ins, SEIGE, THORS, A-FORCE for when I crunch down and read the rest of the core SECRET WARS LS.

I was initially reading everything in chron order but when I realized the spinoffs were self-contained I decided it was more fun to read them straight through.


You're right about Hickman's F4/FF connections, but it also draws heavily on his work on various Avengers titles (which also featured Reed n Doom). Nicely too. The guy is a masterclass writer... EAST OF WEST is one of my favorite ongoings right now.

[polishgenius]

Has anyone here read The Wicked + The Divine? I'd read the creators' previous effort, Phonogram, which is excellent- a musically themed urban fantasy of which the first volume at least requires a knowledge of '90s Britpop to really get but which is smart and sharp. Wicked + Divine seems a more co-ordinated effort to make a real epic saga and flicking through it in the shop it looks the business, anyone tried it?

[QuickTidal]

I got to about issue 6 of THE WICKED + THE DIVINE....and meh? It was cool to start out but by issue 6 I was sick of the meandering plot.

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 21 July 2016 - 03:12 PM, said:

Reading SECRET WARS (2015) on the Marvel Unlimited Crack App...

Read the first two core books, all good, but got distracted reading the byblow series. These are generally better than I was expecting...

OLD MAN LOGAN despite a neat start, was him just bouncing between worlds, but was a fun read even so. The Old Logan character gets some solid development to separate him from the usual Wolverine.

INHUMANS ATTILAN RISING was filler. Meh. Even Kamala Khan and a steampunk Ghost Rider couldn't make this more than ok. Semi-saved by solid art.

SECRET WARS 2099 was weak on story (Peter David can do so much better than this), but great on character concepts.. the Avengers and Defenders 2099 were fun.

MODOK ASSASSIN... is fucking hysterical and has no right being as funny and entertaining as it is.

PLANET HULK - Captain America the gladiator barbarian rides Devil Dinosaur, pausing to hit Hulks in the face with a big ass axe. What's not to like?

A-FORCE - Great cast wasted on weak story, thin characterization. So much meh. When Carol Danvers is fighting a giant shark and you're bored, something isn't working.

SPIDER-VERSE - i was hoping for more of the gleeful charm that the Spiderverse crossover had even in its most tenuous sidestories. Got that, but just barely at times. Wow, Norman Osborne is nuts... What a twist.

[amphibian]

Try out the series that's about defending the wall of Doom's world from the zombies and Ultron. It's bizarre fun. I forget what the name is. Shield maybe?

[Abyss]

amphibian, on 26 July 2016 - 04:49 AM, said:

Try out the series that's about defending the wall of Doom's world from the zombies and Ultron. It's bizarre fun. I forget what the name is. Shield maybe?

Will do. I'll read them all eventually, but skim the lower end of the pool. It's Marvel, I sort of expect a range of quality in the side-crap that accompanies every major crossover.

Was just pleasantly surprised at some of the first ones I read... a plotless humour book that amounts to five issues of assassin MODOK mooning over Angela and making peoples' brains 'splode was just beyond anything I expected to enjoy.

[PLUGO]

I never finished that SECRET WARS : SHIELD series. it was a fun premise but seemed hampered by the art. I've toned down a lot of my Marvel reading once SW was over. The titles that I keep picking up all have strong artists attached: Dr. STRANGE, BLACK PANTHER, THOR and maybe another I'm not recalling.

WICKED + DIVINE is another title whose artwork is a major factor in the book's enjoyment.

Same with JUPITER'S LEGACY which has just returned to the comics shops with Volume 2. Anyone reading it? gorgeous art by Frank Quietly, who could make reading a phone book exciting.

I'm sort of lamenting the end of HELLBOY IN HELL but the B.P.R.D. series is still a fun and pulpy read. There are still a number of IMAGE titles I check out . . . anyone following the 8 HOUSE lines of series, the only on left still seeing print is MIRROR, it had a very Malazanesque epic-post-modern-fantasy vibe to it, which, of course, means the issues take for ever to be illustrated. Another comic in the line of Epic-fantasy meets Manga would be MONSTRESS . . . check that out if you haven't.

Then there's the Boots-on-the-ground story telling of post war Iraq which is happening in the pages of SHERIFF OF BABYLON, which is also stellar.

[amphibian]

I'm of the opinion that One Piece and the branches of the Mignola-verse are the finest ongoing stories on the planet.

Hellboy in Hell ended in awesome fashion and I'm interested to see what is next.

[Abyss]

PLUGO, on 27 July 2016 - 11:38 PM, said:

I never finished that SECRET WARS : SHIELD series. it was a fun premise but seemed hampered by the art. I've toned down a lot of my Marvel reading once SW was over. The titles that I keep picking up all have strong artists attached: Dr. STRANGE, BLACK PANTHER, THOR and maybe another I'm not recalling.

WICKED + DIVINE is another title whose artwork is a major factor in the book's enjoyment.

Same with JUPITER'S LEGACY which has just returned to the comics shops with Volume 2. Anyone reading it? gorgeous art by Frank Quietly, who could make reading a phone book exciting.

I'm sort of lamenting the end of HELLBOY IN HELL but the B.P.R.D. series is still a fun and pulpy read. There are still a number of IMAGE titles I check out . . . anyone following the 8 HOUSE lines of series, the only on left still seeing print is MIRROR, it had a very Malazanesque epic-post-modern-fantasy vibe to it, which, of course, means the issues take for ever to be illustrated. Another comic in the line of Epic-fantasy meets Manga would be MONSTRESS . . . check that out if you haven't.

Then there's the Boots-on-the-ground story telling of post war Iraq which is happening in the pages of SHERIFF OF BABYLON, which is also stellar.

Based on this, if you arent already, i think you need to be reading EAST OF WEST.

[PLUGO]

plugo said:

Abyss, on 28 July 2016 - 02:13 AM, said:

Based on this, if you arenit already, i think you need to be reading EAST OF WEST.

YES! totally reading EAST OF WEST (just picked up the latest issue).

Abyss said:

All good. Hickman is a frikkin genius.

REBOOTTH.... meh. if DC ever mimics Marvel and gets an Unlimited type app i'll cheerfully give them dollars, but otherwise the perpetual quality zig zag has left me uninterested is everything since SINESTRO CORPS WAR.

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 26 July 2016 - 03:22 AM, said:

Abyss, on 21 July 2016 - 03:12 PM, said:

Reading SECRET WARS (2015) on the Marvel Unlimited Crack App...

Read the first two core books, all good, but got distracted reading the byblow series. These are generally better than I was expecting...

OLD MAN LOGAN despite a neat start, was him just bouncing between worlds, but was a fun read even so. The Old Logan character gets some solid development to separate him from the usual Wolverine.

INHUMANS ATTILAN RISING was filler. Meh. Even Kamala Khan and a steampunk Ghost Rider couldn't make this more than ok. Semi-saved by solid art.

SECRET WARS 2099 was weak on story (Peter David can do so much better than this), but great on character concepts.. the Avengers and Defenders 2099 were fun.

MODOK ASSASSIN... is fucking hysterical and has no right being as funny and entertaining as it is.

PLANET HULK - Captain America the gladiator barbarian rides Devil Dinosaur, pausing to hit Hulks in the face with a big ass axe. What's not to like?

A-FORCE - Great cast wasted on weak story, thin characterization. So much meh. When Carol Danvers is fighting a giant shark and you're bored, something isn't working.

SPIDER-VERSE - i was hoping for more of the gleeful charm that the Spiderverse crossover had even in its most tenuous sidestories. Got that, but just barely at times. Wow, Norman Osborne is nuts... What a twist.

DEADPOOL'S SECRET WAR - writing Deadpool into the original Secret Wars LS. BRILLIANCE.

MASTER OF KUNG-FU - This is kind of fun. It has a neat 'classic' feel to it, nice art.

[Tsundoku]

Really enjoying 'American Vampire'.

[QuickTidal]

FINALLY got my hands on the one issue I was missing from Gail Simone & Walter Geovani's run on RED SONJA. It's a total of 18 issues, of which I had every one EXCEPT #14. They were on my pull list at my LCS, but for some reason the week #14 came out, it wasn't pulled for me. So I've been without it ever since (hell, the series ended last year in like March), and haven't read the final arc as a result.

The bitch of it was that this PARTICULAR issue was nigh unattainable. I have searched high and low for it at multiple Conventions, stores, and even online. The only places I ever found it were in the States or the UK and would have cost me over $20...(I won't pay $20 for ANY floppy) ...but last night on a Canadian site I FINALLY found a copy. Brand new. $11 including shipping.

Phew. Now I can finally read the finale of her run.

[Abyss]

Tsundoku, on 02 August 2016 - 12:48 PM, said:

Really enjoying 'American Vampire'.

Read the first 20 or so and really enjoyed. Great original take in vamps, fun storytelling.

[Abyss]

SAGA collected tpb vol 6.

Damn you BKVaughn. Damn you for all these feels.

Overall a fairly low action book but with a lot of key character stuff going on. Great fun as always and Fiona Staples could make paint drying look brilliant.

[polishgenius]

Abyss, on 05 August 2016 - 04:12 PM, said:

Fiona Staples could make paint drying look brilliant.

No, that's the colourist's job.

[PLUGO]

polishgenius, on 05 August 2016 - 05:21 PM, said:

Abyss, on 05 August 2016 - 04:12 PM, said:

Fiona Staples could make paint drying look brilliant.

No, that's the colourist's job.

IIRC Fiona Staples does the all the artwork digitally, from linework to color.

[Abyss]

PLUGO, on 05 August 2016 - 07:21 PM, said:

polishgenius, on 05 August 2016 - 05:21 PM, said:

Abyss, on 05 August 2016 - 04:12 PM, said:

Fiona Staples could make paint drying look brilliant.

No, that's the colourist's job.

IIRC Fiona Staples does the all the artwork digitally, from linework to color.

that's my understanding, hence the title 'illustrator'.