Comic Book Discussion Thread V.15

[Schoolboy Q]

I wish I still had all my X-men comics, when I moved out of my moms place, she had a garage sale and sold roughly 2 bins of my comics for fucking 20$. My jimmies definitely got rustled.

 

[GSP_37]

I wish I still had all my X-men comics, when I moved out of my moms place, she had a garage sale and sold roughly 2 bins of my comics for fucking 20$. My jimmies definitely got rustled.

Years ago, there were DVD collection PDF's of Uncanny X-Men, Avengers, Spider-Man, maybe Fantastic Four, Thor, but I think they stopped selling those and started doing the digital rights versions. Amazon has the DVD's super expensive. I never would have guessed the prices for these would have gone up so much. I should have bought the Spider-Man DVD collection back then.

iTunes has a whole bunch of various X-Men arc collections, but I didn't see X-Men vs. Teen Titans which I had as a kid. They seemed to have the Claremont/Byrnes X-Men Phoenix Saga broken up into various collections, but maybe kinda expensive. From what I've seen of the newer stuff, it's super crisp and vivid and the advertisement pages were omitted.

 

[Doughbelly]

I wish I still had all my X-men comics, when I moved out of my moms place, she had a garage sale and sold roughly 2 bins of my comics for fucking 20$. My jimmies definitely got rustled.

I never understood this kind of oblivious mom who would sell their kid's childhood for a buck.

It's like the yard sale in Toy Story 2. Somehow Woody ends up on the table by accident and Al the unscrupulous toy collector tries to buy him for increasing amounts of money. The mom is like, "Fuck off, fat boy, toy's not for sale!"

That's what a Real Mom does.

 

[Ocean Chief]

First, really glad you took the time to read Claremont's excellent run on Uncanny X-Men.

It's funny you mentioned that you are going to stop at issue 245. If you look at the first page, my UXM recommendation stops pretty much there also (issue 247 specifically). But since you are already at #245, I suggest finishing off the two-part story #246 and #247. It's a kick-ass story involving Master Mold. Everything turns to shit after #247 with the stupid Siege Perilous reboot.

I would have liked my UXM recommendation to stop after "Fall of the Mutants" (the last awesome Claremont X-Men story) but there were a few good issues afterwards that I had to include in the reading list (Colossus in Limbo, The Brood on Earth, the introduction of Genosha).

Yea I went ahead and read those two other issues and they were decent, but after skimming through some other issues I almost want to keep reading just to see how the fuck Banshee got his power back or how Forge ended up on the team, even though I know I'm asking for pain.

I grew up reading Madelyne Pryor, from her mysterious introduction to her romance with Scott and so was very fond of the character. I hated the fact that they resurrected Jean Grey back in 1985. Not only did it lessen the impact of the Dark Phoenix storyline, it was also a slap in the face with the way they discarded Madelyne after that. I really wished many times back then that they should have just given Madelyne Jean's powers and then have her join X-Factor instead with Jean still dead.

I understand now why some people have such a hate boner for Jean Grey. A hate boner I now have too. Her story really should have ended with the Dark Phoenix stuff. Or even with what Grant Morrison did with her in New X-Men. I now see Bendis bringing back young Jean as a brutal slap to the face of long time X-Men fans. This is a character that just needs to fucking GO AWAY FOREVER. And the character assassination done to Cyclops was especially bad.

They had the poor bastard abandon his wife and kid and then barely even care when they went missing just so he could be a whiny bitch around Jean.

First run of Peter David's X-Factor is really good but not as great as his run on 2005. Larry Stroman's art takes some getting used to but I liked it immediately.

I just read the first few issues of his original run and I already like it a lot. The character interactions are great and genuinely funny. I'm kinda surprised the writing is this good given the era of Marvel X-books this was written in.

First volume of X-Force isn't really worth reading. First few issues with Rob Liefeld sucks naturally. But the book was pretty decent when artists Greg Capullo and later on Adam Polina took over.

I saw some recommendations for Fabian Nicieza's run on X-Force, but I think I'm just gonna stay away from it. I've already read Rick Remender's run so what's the point of reading an infinitely lesser run?

 

[Schoolboy Q]

Years ago, there were DVD collection PDF's of Uncanny X-Men, Avengers, Spider-Man, maybe Fantastic Four, Thor, but I think they stopped selling those and started doing the digital rights versions. Amazon has the DVD's super expensive. I never would have guessed the prices for these would have gone up so much. I should have bought the Spider-Man DVD collection back then.

iTunes has a whole bunch of various X-Men arc collections, but I didn't see X-Men vs. Teen Titans which I had as a kid. They seemed to have the Claremont/Byrnes X-Men Phoenix Saga broken up into various collections, but maybe kinda expensive. From what I've seen of the newer stuff, it's super crisp and vivid and the advertisement pages were omitted.

Man this is awesome, I imagine my whole collection is in there!

 

[God_Emperor_Of_Mankind]

Ah dark gods from avatar has finally released.

Was looking forward to this from earlier this year.

 

[Frylock]

Most of my recommendations are usually stories that are pretty much standalone. Old Man Logan is set in an alternate future where the bad guys have finally won and took over the United States. Logan is old and a pacifist.

Just finished Old Man Logan.

HOLY S***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That run was F**king insane. Just crazy, great art, exciting, violent, no holds barred awesomeness.

 

[JasonTodd]

Looks like injustice: gods among us

I believe that is the latest issue of Superman/Batman

 

[GSP_37]

Man this is awesome, I imagine my whole collection is in there!

I think the X-Men PDF DVD collection had the normal Uncanny X-Men + annuals, but not the limited series, one shots specials, crossovers, etc. It's really convenient.

 

[GSP_37]

Could someone summarize if the current Marvel Universe with black Nick Fury is the same as the older Marvel Universe with white Nick Fury? Do the current characters have the same origins and continuity as the ones like from Uncanny X-Men #175?

 

[minute bull]

Could someone summarize if the current Marvel Universe with black Nick Fury is the same as the older Marvel Universe with white Nick Fury?

It's not.

The "regular" Marvel Universe is referred to as the "616" universe. Black Fury is a product of the "Ultimate" universe. The former's name is derived of an in-fiction notion there are many universes and Marvel's standard is the 616th, whereas the latter is marketing umbrella where "Ultimate" indicates athletic and explosive versions of the standard 616ers.

 

[airic_15]

Reading these, first time reading anything with JLA, really like it

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Could someone summarize if the current Marvel Universe with black Nick Fury is the same as the older Marvel Universe with white Nick Fury?

Adding to what Three Gun Fish said.

Due to the popularity of Sam Jackon's Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and as to not confuse or alienate new readers, Marvel Comics has retired white Nick Fury from the 616 Universe and officially introduced Black Nick Fury named Nick Fury Jr. (the son of white Nick Fury).

 

[minute bull]

"They retired White Fury???"

A sentence I did not plan on....

 

[Michaelangelo]

I await Gray Fury.

 

[minute bull]

Nobody ever wants Brown Fury....

 

[prod2821]

so we prefer White Fuhrery

 

[Anung Un Rama]

 

[Ocean Chief]

Marvel is letting the movies dictate what happens in the 616 universe. This is not a good thing. Also another male character is being replaced with a female: THE JUGGERNAUT.

 

[blink_man182]

Marvel is letting the movies dictate what happens in the 616 universe. This is not a good thing. Also another male character is being replaced with a female: THE JUGGERNAUT.

I really don't like the idea of the movies dictating the comics either. But it seems with the popularity and them canceling certain runs it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.