Amph ***OFFICIAL*** Comics Thread

@Jedi Ben - I was happy to see that too.

 

Well, perhaps this is next Marvel comic I try. The Punisher relaunch coming in August. Haven't read much with Frank since Rucka and Chechetto (it depends on the creative team and the direction for me). Vishanti willing, all will be back to status quo here long before then.

 

This week:

Action Comics #1000, two covers. Cool huh? Issue #1 was way back in 1938.
Tales of Suspense 104/Hawkeye and the Winter Soldier Red Ledger part 5. So, there appears to be some kind of clone/mind upload for bringing Natasha back to life. However, they did say memories and it read like it might not really be her?
Batman 45
The Brave and the Bold 3
Avengers 689
X-men Gold 26, "Til Death do us part", a wedding issue.
Iron Fist 80, literally fighting for his soul in the Damnation tie-in.
Deadman 6
Daredevil 601
Free Marvel preview.

 

Those Gold issues never not make me angry.

 

Nick Spencer is taking over Amazing Spider-Man after Slott

https://news.marvel.com/comics/87802/nick-spencer-amazing-spider-man/

Isn't Spencer the one who made HydraCap? Ah well, I won't hold that against him, I heard Cap was actually pretty great before Secret Empire. Besides, we've already had Doc Ock Spidey so can't see Spencer doing that again.

 

Uh, what? A potential clone?!? CBR forum folks mentioned something about clones of Yelena -the replacement Black Widow; that makes sense given Yelena’s reaction to Bucky in one of the earlier issues. I wouldn’t put that past the Red Room.

Just realized that the writer of Tales of Suspense is also writing Frank Castle. All I can hope for is better characterization than what I read of TOS. I know the art will be great though, so at least there is that.

For me, Spencer should have shown the door along with Axel, so hopefully he will avoid doing something that bad with Peter.
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I don't actually mind Spencer. Superior Foes and Ant-Man were both fun, and while I didn't read Secret Empire, it's not like Cap hasn't been brainwashed into being a Nazi before. And between Injustice, Parallax, Dominus, Jean Grey, Locutus of Borg, etc etc it's not like the story is unprecedented.

What I am angry about is how apparently the X-writers have forgotten that the most famous Jewish comic book character, who has defeated Dracula with faith in Judaism even, is Jewish.

 

So, it was supposed to be a blank slate, and there were already others. But the real Black Widow was reborn. The ending is well done.

Having now read Action Comics 1000 I may decide to keep getting them. Once again they are going to tweak the destruction of Krypton it appears. This did remind me of why i do not like the way Superman is handled. He doesn't really have super strength. He has iconic strength. There is no set limit, if an author needs Superman to throw a spaceship casually through a wormhole he just does it.

 

To be fair, Krypton's destruction was already tweaked with the revelation that Jon Osterman took Jor-El away from Krypton and placed him on Earth. This might be another byproduct of the good doctor's tampering. As to super strength, he has had limits. But given that Clark was fused with his younger counterpart, who could bench press the weight of the Earth, I'd say that he definitely has an upper limit to what he's had going back to "Secret Origin".

 

Vid interview with John Byrne

I thought his remake at the time was ok. I was always mixed on Byrne. His contributions are legendary, but not always good. The Galactus goes to Apokolips was worthless.

 

Ah, okay. Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying. Blank slates are good.

I did see the "letters" she wrote

Spoiler

Clintasha will never be a thing again I suppose.

But since it looks like the new Captain America team will be using the Brubaker regular cast as support, I can understand why the writer chose the letter revelations he did.

 

Wait, when did Magneto fight Dracula? Or are talking about the Thing?

I guess that you are talking about Kitty (what codename is she using now?), what have they done now to her?

 

"Man Of Steel" wasn't too bad and did open up a lot of the foundation for what exists today. But he was wrong in trying to get too far away from certain iconic aspects of the lore. That's why we've had to shift through "Back To Krypton", "Birthright", "Secret Origin" and "Superman & The Men Of Steel" in order to reintroduce those elements. Especially since they've worked in other media.

 

John Byrne killed the Legion of Super-Heroes.

 

No, he didn't. Things were a bit difficult, but not impossible. The books have continued to do well and it was Geoff Johns who restored Superboy proper, while allowing the post "Zero Hour" reboot and the Waid/Shooter Threeboot to exist.

 

It was Byrne who insisted on cutting Superboy out, leading to the Pocket Universe thing. It was Byrne who, unsatisfied, with the Pocket Universe stuff, had them do the ****** Valor retconning in the 5YL stuff, and it was Byrne who blew up the Moon in 5YL, leading to the end of the most interesting 5YL stuff. Giffen and the Bierbaums were clear that Byrne's office demanded that they not even mention Superman, and it was ripping that core out of the Legion that led to its decline, as the Reboots were never as popular as the original.

The less said about the Deboot, the better.

 

Byrne had already left DC when the Legion's origin was changed. Byrne had left in the spring of 1988 and the Legion origin was changed in 1991. Mike Carlin was the editor in charge of Superman and he was probably the one who insisted on removing Superboy from the origin. Though, he was kinda correct because the Legion origin was in need of a reboot anyway, since everyone else at DC was having their origins changed. Wally West's origin was also being updated in 1991, so it was kinda necessary. Byrne was still using the Pocket Universe right up to his departure. Carlin was the one who wanted to take it further by not only dropping the Superboy references, but getting rid of Supergirl/Matrix as well. That was an argument that he was ultimately destined to lose. The reason the reboot wasn't popular was largely due to the way the series was going. Not that it was Mon-El who was the inspiration. Waid's reboot was better received. The problem was doing constant reboots, not the quality of stories.

 

If you ever wondered what the covers after Action Comics #1 looked like...

 

Nice article @VadersLaMent. Thanks for posting.

I may have to pick up Moon Knight this week, curious to see how this current writer reintreprets Marc's childhood. I'd like to get Doctor Strange too. I know me that would lead to double dipping for the entirety of Cates' run so I am trying to be patient.

Charles Soule posted several unspoilery bits on Twitter about the Hunt for Wolverine and how all the mini series would lead to major changes in the X Men side of things. He called them X-plosions. I goofily responded with "which may lead to many X-Pletives."

It's Monday and my Old Man Hawkeye withdrawl is fierce...

 

I believe it when I see it.

And I hope the major change is not that Wolverine Jr. go back to X-23.

 

She will have her own book.

 

We already know that All-New Wolverine is ending and Laura Kinney is getting a new series called "X-23," with part of the premise that she's quitting the Wolverine mantle. It's being advertised that she's going back to her roots as X-23 again, but it's unclear if that's figurative or literal.

 

Old Man Hawkeye 4 was great. Love how much emotion is creeping into this. There is a big reveal told subtly about why Clint is going after these specific folks. And the

Spoiler

descendants of Kraven the Hunter’s family were great fun too.

The one panel rendered in shadows was brilliant.

Moon Knight 194 - Disappointed that Bemis went where he did. I will stick with Moench’s origin for MK and hope this family angle and trigger is eventually retconned out. Will pass on the rest of Bemis’ run.

 

This week...it's a heavy one..

Marvel Free Preview..So, Amazing Spider-man will start over at #1?
Free Marvel Rising #0
Hunt For Wolverine 1, there is a Logan wrapped in adamantium cover and a claw cover. I got the latter.
All New Wolverine 34
Doctor Strange 389
The Hellblazer 21
The Invincible Iron Man 599
The Mighty Thor 706, Jane Foster on the cover. Something about some awesome destiny?
Saga 51
Thanos Annual #1
Wonder Woman 42
X-Men Blue 26 with an awesome cover
Aliens Dust to Dust #1
Avengers 690 No Surrender 16
Doctor Strange Damnation 4
Old Man Hawkeye 4
Lady Death #1, a reboot it appears I never had an previous issues.
Moon Knight 194
Infinity War True Believers #1

Just a bit under $70

 

I just picked up Exiles and Terrifics, but my Jean Grey tpb came.