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Comic Book Discussion Thread Vol. 10

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there are too many comisc for me to read
and i dont have enough time to read them

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Ocean Chief said:
Read the last three issues of Green Arrow and they were great. I was told the issues prior to those three were pretty terrible so I didn't even bother reading them.
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good call, Green Arrow has become my favorite title at the moment, plus Andrea Sorrentino's art is incredible right?
 
Was looking at Calvin & Hobbes stuff, and while I know this is a comic book thread, not comic strip thread, this gave me a chuckle and seemed sufficiently appropriate

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(btw, is there a comic strip discussion thread around sherdog somewhere?)
 
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So did I!:icon_lol:

Mark Miller is the only writer I enjoy as much as Garth Ennis.:cool:
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explain to me what was so fantastic about civil war other than almost every earthbound character was involved (which i don't count as a positive)? i am truly curious.
 
punkmother said:
explain to me what was so fantastic about civil war other than almost every earthbound character was involved (which i don't count as a positive)? i am truly curious.
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Personally, I liked the basic premise behind the story arc. A single, terrible act could fracture an entire society and make heroes like Iron Man and Captain America question everything they once thought was written in stone. There are obvious parallels to 9/11, the War on Terror and the trade off between security and freedom.

I freely admit that there were serious flaws in the story; Spider Man's unmasking and the the characterization of the Punisher for a start(Frank Castle is far too cynical to believe in Captain America). But all in all, I thought it was an extremely well written version of the old, The-Road-to-Hell-is Paved-With-Good-Intentions story arc.
 
KnightTemplar said:
Personally, I liked the basic premise behind the story arc. A single, terrible act could fracture an entire society and make heroes like Iron Man and Captain America question everything they once thought was written in stone. There are obvious parallels to 9/11, the War on Terror and the trade off between security and freedom.

I freely admit that there were serious flaws in the story; Spider Man's unmasking and the the characterization of the Punisher for a start(Frank Castle is far too cynical to believe in Captain America). But all in all, I thought it was an extremely well written version of the old, The-Road-to-Hell-is Paved-With-Good-Intentions story arc.
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i admitted it had a chance based on premise; and the fact that we were led to believe we would have to make a difficult decision on who to root for. the problem is they instantly fell on their face. iron man and reed richards cloning thor? aligning with and pardoning super villains that have done far worse than not registering their identities and powers? going dog the bounty hunter on their best friends and sending them to the negative zone? they went way over the top and completely botched the best thing they had going...that we were supposedly going to have to choose sides. they made it easy to choose sides and ruined the whole arc and iron man in the process. and that doesn't even include how putrid the civil rights overtones were.
 
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punkmother said:
i admitted it had a chance based on premise; and the fact that we were led to believe we would have to make a difficult decision on who to root for. the problem is they instantly fell on their face. iron man and reed richards cloning thor? aligning with super villains that have done far worse than not registering their identities and powers? going dog the bounty hunter on their best friends and sending them to the negative zone? they went way over the top and completely botched the best thing they had going...that we were supposedly going to have to choose sides. they made it easy and ruined the whole arc and iron man in the process.
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With respect, you can only say they made it easy for you to choose sides. I guarantee that at least some people who read Civil War came down on the side of Tony Stark etc. There will always be people who think the end justifies the means, no matter what the eventual cost.

For the record, I would have chosen Cap's Resistance as well. There's also I nice follow up to Civil War in the first Thor story arc, when the God of Thunder confronts Stark about cloning him without permission. After shrugging off his repulsor rays, Thor bitch-slaps Iron Man though a house.

Iron Man(trying to recover)"You've...been working out."

Thor, "No. the difference is, in this time and place, I am no longer holding back"(Fries Iron Man with a huge lightning bolt).:cool:
 
KnightTemplar said:
With respect, you can only say they made it easy for you to choose sides. I guarantee that at least some people who read Civil War came down on the side of Tony Stark etc. There will always be people who think the end justifies the means, no matter what the eventual cost.

For the record, I would have chosen Cap's Resistance as well. There's also I nice follow up to Civil War in the first Thor story arc, when the God of Thunder confronts Stark about cloning him without permission. After shrugging off his repulsor rays, Thor bitch-slaps Iron Man though a house.

Iron Man(trying to recover)"You've...been working out."

Thor, "No. the difference is, in this time and place, I am no longer holding back"(Fries Iron Man with a huge lightning bolt).:cool:
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nobody chose iron man's side. nobody. had it been better written i may have.

i did enjoy the bitchslap thor laid on iron man. and that still could have happened without them ruining iron man to do it.

and we can also discuss the technical aspects outside the written comic itself. it was a complete money grab, labeling issues and titles that had literally no need. they have an entire x-men tpb for civil war that is entirely unnecessary. it would take one panel for emma frost to state her whole, leave us alone and we'll stay out of it...which is also a major fuck up given how mutants are treated by the populace in the marvel community and the obvious parallels with super hero registration.

the whole thing was just bad. and the problem is it overshadowed an incredible marvel crossover, annihilation.
 
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punkmother said:
nobody chose iron man's side. nobody.

i did enjoy the bitchslap thor laid on iron man. and that still could have happened without them ruining iron man to do it.
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Civil War started out epic. By halfway it was mediocre, then the ending sucked.

Pretty much how Mark Millar's books are. Red Son was pretty great though. Also Hit Girl and Kick-Ass 2 were funny and not too mean spirited like most of his books.
 
prod2821 said:
good call, Green Arrow has become my favorite title at the moment, plus Andrea Sorrentino's art is incredible right?
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Yea the art is solid. I find it funny though how the comic is taking elements from the TV show and doing them a billion times better.
 
I actually think Thanos Quest was BETTER than the actual infinity gauntlet, but they are both phenomenal. I liked them alot more than Starlin's 70's stuff (Death of Captain Marvel, Warlock, ect)
 
Probably gonna stop reading Chew. Getting a little bored of the gimmick.
 
To what ill ribaldry do you allude, sir? Speak plainly now!
 
i wonder where this whole superior spiderman storyline is going, how long will doc ock be spidey?

will the real peter parker ever come back?
 
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