Amph ***OFFICIAL*** Comics Thread

It's Rosa's original page art, complete with notes, erasures, alterations, etc. Like ACOD pointed out with the The Spirit collection, the goal is to accurately reproduce the feeling of looking at the original artwork, prior to its being colored, in a high quality package. Considering Rosa's draftsmanship and attention to detail is usually a selling point on his style, it should be a pretty great set.

And, yes, the Fantagraphics collections of Barks and Rosa comics have been outstanding so far. It's a good time to like duck comics.

 

This issue. It's been a long time since I enjoyed a comic this much.

 

My favorite part is when they explain the outrageous (By stereotypical Spider-Man standards, anyway) meta-plot and 60's Spidey is like "Oh, of course! Why didn't you say so?"

 

The whole issue was awesome meta fun. I just wish they had included more of the different Animated versions (well the ones that are left I mean).

 

Didn't read the Spider-Verse but tell me this: Did Ms. Lion make an appearance?

 

Yeah, been picking up a few of those Fantagraphics collections too. By the way, anyone else listen to "The Life and Times of Scrooge"? music? Stumbled across it earlier this year, apparently someone got really inspired by the comic... which isn't a surprise considering how good it is, but was still surprised someone actually wrote a soundtrack to it. Pretty good one too, I thought.

 

Um...sorta.

Spoiler

 

Ya I'd say that counts. I always liked that cartoon show and that the voice actor for Peter was the same voice actor for Bumblebee.

 

I only ever get a variant if that is the only one available. If I want the images, I can usually find them online after a while.

 

So Gerry Conway is going to be back to Spider-Man for a mini. His work in the recent Spider-Verse tie-in shows that he's in good shape, and I like what he said in this interview. I can't wait!

 

This remastering of the original Star Wars comics (1-6) coming out next year looks REALLY cool. Can't wait to see it in full.

So many of those images are permanently etched in my mind - especially from issues 4 through 6 (the only ones I owned as a kid so I read them about a thousand times). I can't wait to see the new coloring.

 

I don't want see the need for new coloring though, I think the old is just fine!

 

If you're trying to impress younger readers used to computer coloring, then that's why.

 

Picked up(Downloaded to by I-phone) Batman 37 and MTMTE 37

both great. MTMTE still probably one of the best sy-fy comics on the stands. Little slow moving this season though. A fault of Roberts going for a long form story this time around. Still issue had the original cast together, funny dialogue, and a great moment where Megatron had a time traveling phone coversation with Orion Pax(future Optimus Prime)

Batman 37, has to be one of the best Bat isses I've read from Snyder. I'm critical of him to the point of trying to find as much wrong with his work as possible, but he did great stuff here. This felt like a full issue, and worth the money. Lots of great Joker stuff.

 

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/27/50000-raised-so-far-for-norm-breyfogle-care-costs/

 

It was a good one. This arc seems to be him saying sorry for Death of the Family.

My girlfriend bought me Batman Eternal for Christmas and I finished volume 1. It's ok. I'm glad I didn't pay monthly for it, that's for sure.

 

Marvel is rebooting the entire marvel Universe?

This was a surprise to me though it kicked in a memory from a couple of month sago where the comic store employee mentioned this might happen.

 

It's been talked about for years since the Ultimate Universe started in regards to potentially rebooting the whole continuity, or then having the Ultimate continuity rolled back into 616. It's nothing new, just a case of them starting down the road that could see it happen. But until we get some actual details rather than the deliberate avoidance that they are doing right now it is just pure speculation as to what the actual end game will be post Secret Wars. All we know is that nothing will be the same again.

Which is what they say leading into every single major event.

And it's interesting to note that DC have done this 4 times in the last 24 years, whereas this would be the first time for Marvel. Which frankly lends evidence against them actually rebooting continuity. Especially during a time they are actively getting people into their properties thanks to the movies.

Given that almost every interview prior to today involved some variation on "this started out as a small event that just got bigger and bigger as we went forward" and that this is the culmination of Hinkman's Avengers run I'm more inclined to believe that this is a way for them to play in multiple sandboxes at the one time (having various universes able to interact in one go) and then the creation of a new state of play where elements of some of those universes are now fixed parts of the 616 universe moving forward, not a retrospective alteration. That has been done before in small doses with Age of Apocalypse and House of M, and Age of Ultron paved the way for some elements to with the shattering of reality that let elements bleed between universes (Angela and Galactus) so this would not be anywhere near as big a divergence for the publisher as doing a DC Crisis event would be.

 

IGN article on the "reboot" below:

http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/01/20/the-marvel-universe-is-coming-to-an-end-in-may-2015?

And TBH, this reads more like yet another healf-hearted, not-true-reboot like the Ultimate Universe proved to be. In fact, it looks quite messy. You'd think that at this point, Marvel could've done the easier, safer thing and, say, just reboot their universes into two: one featuring Spidey and all mainstream heroes (I.e. everything under the Marvel Studios/Disney flag, because you just know Marvel will eventually get back the rights to Spidey and the FF) and a separate universe for the Uncanny X-muties.

 

Marvel's not rebooting ****. Secret Wars is just like Age of Apocalypse or House of M. It changes "everything" but by the time it's done things will be more or less the same with a few Ultimate refugees.

 

Alternatively, Heroes Reborn 2.

 

Yeah, I've never understood Marvel's hesitancy to do a proper totally-start-from-scratch reboot of their line. And one that doesn't necessarily follow DC's model of every once in a decade line reboot borne out of massive intercompany crossover event. **** that ****. Just cancel all the decade long titles, restart the line with new, contemporary origin stories and take your chances with it. You can respect your characters' and company's history all you like but that doesn't mean you should forgo starting over every once in a while if necessity demands it.

 

Yeah, just more of Stan lees illusion of change. All they are doing is taking the best parts of ultimate and folding it into the regular marvel u. Sure their will be other changes, but mostly cosmetic.

Not a true reboot