Amph ***OFFICIAL*** Comics Thread

Okay, so hai thread.

I just bought and started reading DMZ last night. I am realllllly digging it. The art is cool in that mixed media way.

Anyone else read it? Thoughts?

 

I've heard of it but i'm not familiar with it. What is it about?

 

basically, its the second American Civil War, with the Free Armies fighting the regular US forces. Free Armies are encamped in New Jersy, US forces in Long Island with Manhattan as the DeMilitarised Zone (DMZ) filled with 400,000 civilians, AWOL soldiers, looters, crazy people, medics etc.

A rookie photojournalist gets dropped into the DMZ with a famous journo and an army team, but they all get killed by insurgents. The rookie (Matty Roth) decides to live in the DMZ and use the equipment salvaged from the crew to released news and reports from the zone.

It's kinda cool.

 

larry stroman penciled an issue of x-factor again!

he drew the deffinative longshot's hairsytle.

 

DMZ does sound pretty cool.

I dropped x factor after the last arc. I think its strayed to far from its original premis and isn't really fun anymore.

 

So what does everyone think about the Final Crisis series?

 

Did you read the Layla Miller one-shot? Best X-Factor book in a while. I wouldn't judge the book on the last arc though. It was a She-Hulk crossover AND a Secret Invasion tie-in so it had a lot going against it. I hated Stroman's art though. His style just doesn't work like it did in the 90's IMO.

 

it's deffinately not the same look anymore, but it's still very stroman.
the book even sort of had that 90s x-factor feel to it.

 

Responding to Slimy's questions about the GL status quo:

Oh, then: not much. They restarted the Corps and there's a ton of GL's again. Kyle Rayner is revered as the Torchbearer who kept the (green) light on, so to speak, while everyone else was busy being dead or insane/possessed, and he carries the Ion entity inside him (basically the GL equivalent of the Parallax entity). Some people still have issues with Hal for, you know, killing everybody.

Final Crisis is genius, so far, as are the spinoffs that I've read. Superman Beyond 3-D is like grinding up Grant Morrison's brain into a fine powder and freebasing it. Rogue's Revenge has been awesome and I have high hopes for Legion of Three Worlds.

It does make me want to go back and re-read Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle and 52, however, much like Batman R.I.P. is making me want to re-read Moz's entire Batman run.

 

I've heard that Final Crisis is really difficult to understand. And I can't say I'm surprised, I mean, it's freakin' Grant Morrison! I did the best I could to read his run on New X-Men, but for crying out loud, you can't tellt hefirst thing that's going on!

Slimy

 

Wizard Magazine 200 greatest comic book characters of all time

1. Wolverine
2. Batman
3. Spider-Man
4. Superman
5. The Joker
6. Rorschach
7. Captain America
8. Hellboy
9. Magneto
10. John Constantine
11. The Thing
12. Snake-Eyes
13. Kitty Pryde
14. Jesse Custer
15. Wonder Woman
16. Lex Luthor
17. Morpheus
18. Doctor Doom
19. The Hulk
20. Miracleman
21. Daredevil
22. Commissioner James Gordon
23. Yorick Brown
24. Marv
25. The Spirit
26. Cassidy
27. Green Goblin
28. Fone Bone
29. Ozymandias
30. The Flash
31. Tulip O?Hare
32. Gren Arrow
33. Death
34. Luke Cage
35. Conan the Barbarian
36. Iron Man
37. Barbara Gordon
38. Spider Jerusalem
39. The Punisher
40. Thor
41. Mr. Fantastic
42. Hal Jordan
43. Jimmy Corrigan
44. Jack Knight
45. Hawkeye
46. Jessica Jones
47. Silver Surfer
48. Professor X
49. Black Adam
50. Cobra Commander
51. Tara Chace
52. Bullseye
53. Nightwing
54. Darkseid
55. Captain Marvel
56. J. Jonah Jameson
57. Usagi Yojimbo
58. Bucky Barnes
59. Madman
60. Spawn
61. Herr Starr
62. The Red Skull
63. Cerebus
64. The Mist
65. Jason Todd
66. Two-Face
67. Katchoo
68. Robin
69. Emma Frost
70. Phoney Bone
71. Black Canary
72. Deathstroke
73. Concrete
74. Enid Coleslaw
75. Milo Garret
76. Captain Cold
77. John Hartigan
78. Swamp Thing
79. Black Panther
80. Renee Montoya
81. Catwoman
82. Lono
83. Doctor Strange
84. Kingpin
85. Scott Pilgrim
86. Ultimate Nick Fury
87. Lois Lane
88. Namor, the Sub-Mariner
89. Storm
90. The Human Torch
91. Hunter Rose
92. Elijah Snow
93. Hank Pym
94. Guy Gardner
95. Hopey & Maggie
96. Invincible
97. The Scarlet Witch
98. Vanom
99. The Invisible Woman
100. Agent Graves
101. The Crow
102. Eliot Ness
103. Blue Beetle
104. She-Hulk
105. Black Bolt
106. Cyclops
107. Grendel-Prime
108. Ben Urich
109. Jinx
110. Blade
111. Raphael
112. Rick Jones
113. Witchblade
114. Wesley Gibson
115. Nite-Owl
116. The Savage Dragon
117. Rogue
118. Hawkman
119. Jean Grey
120. Cyborg
121. Howard the Duck
122. The Goon
123. Bizarro
124. The Vision
125. Kabuki
126. Deena Pilgrim
127. Mary Jane Watson
128. Ted Knight
129. Galactus
130. Mitchell Hundred
131. The Governor
132. Elektra
133. Nightcrawler
134. Miho
135. Grro the Wanderer
136. Buffy Summers
137. Mr. Miracle
138. Drinky the Crow
139. The Leader
140. Doop
141. Christian Walker
142. Alfred Pennyworth
143. Loki
144. The Atom
145. Francine Peters
146. Hitman
147. Aquaman
148. Jimmy Olsen
149. Moon Knight
150. The Watcher
151. Shade
152. Black Cat
153. SuperGirl
154. Red Arrow
155. Captain Marv-Vell
156. Plastic Man
157. Agent 355
158. Grifter
159. Kyle Rayner
160. Elongated Man
161. Mage
162. Holden Carver
163. Orion
164. Deathlok
165. Sinestro
166. Wylie Times
167. The Invisible Man
168. The Spectre
169. King Leonidas of Sparta
170. Jim Rhodes
171. Dwight McCarthy
172. Uncle Gabby
173. Booster Gold
174. David Gold
175. Lobo
176. Black Widow
177. Hyperion
178. Cyborg Superman
179. Ultimate Doctor Octopus
180. Beast
181. Mirror Master
182. Deadpool
183. Seargant Rock
184. Colossus
185. Cassandra Nova
186. Braniac
187. The Tick
188. Juggernaut
189. Ultron
190. Ra?s Al Ghul
191. Timber Wolf
192. Beta Ray Bill
193. Sabretooth
194. Leo Patterson
195. Iron Fist
196. Superboy
197. Kid Miracleman
198. Twitch
199. Golden Age Sandman
200. Superman-Prime

Just a couple off the top:

Wolverine might place 6 through 10 but not top five.

Why is Hellboy in the top ten while the likes of Daredevil and Iron Man are not?

 

Faces of evil

Realistically and practically, ?Faces of Evil? came about as a means to give our villains a chance to shine. We know the villains of the DC universe are extremely popular, and have had success with other stories that have focused on those characters, and we wanted to do this across the line which will get a sense of excitement going in the books for what?s to come in 2009... You always hear from writers that some of the best characters to write are the villains because they don?t perceive themselves as villains, and you can play their machinations ? and the reasons for their machinations - in so many different ways. This allows them to really cut loose and have the villain play the lead role in the book and the story, and let the hero take the back seat.


I love that idea, especially after the superhero novel I read this past year which puts you in the story from the villains viewpoint.

 

I sincerely hope that list is in no particular order, and the very fact that Cassandra Cain isn't on it makes it defective on it's own.

 

Any list of great comic-book characters that excludes Jim Starlin's Warlock lacks credibility.

 

Amazing superheroes you've never heard of #1

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Kitty Pryde (who I LOVE as Whedon's XMen muse) is the HIGHEST RANKED FEMALE?

WHAT!

Deadpool at 158? WHAT! Spider Jerusalem and Bucky Barnes and Yorick Brown should be HIGHER.

At least Scott Pilgrim is in there.


But UGH! UGH I say! I am in Andalite-Bandit style outrage here.

 

Also:

Warren Ellis's Astonishing X-Men 2-parter: Ghost Boxes

Delicious delicious steampunk preview art!

 

Final Crisis #4 is out. Nice read, everything falling apart. The internet and all gadgets plugged into it become humanity's downfall as the anti-life equation is broadcast everywhere. I have seen the written down anti-life equation and persoanlly I;d rather someone had made up an actual math equation rather than "Alienation + fear + despair + etc".

Iron Fist # 19 next week.

 

Glad that Superman-Prime made it on the list.

 

I've caught up with my Immortal Iron Fist reading, and it's still good, despite the creative team change. I'm loving Travel Foreman's art, and whomever is doing the colouring is doing a great job.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions for a decent online Comics release resource?? I am trying to find something that lets me keep track of what issues of what comics were released when most specifically. Not just this week or this month but for several weeks/months preferably.

Since the Facebook changes, Comic Books Beta has been on the fritz and frankly doesn't work like it used to. It was so useful as it not only told me when issues were being released and was fairly up-to-date with various companies releasing their upcoming solicitations, it also let you organize and keep track of what you want to collect (not just everything), what you have collected and what you have most enjoyed. It was a pretty thorough resource for me, and cut out a lot of the nonsense of series i am not interested in collecting, publishers or brands I don't typically collect, and TPBs/Omnibuses I don't need. Best of all it would send me weekly emails each Tuesday to remind me of my specific pull list for that week.

Yes I realize that I could have just made up a pull list at a local shop but I didn't thing it was fair to the shop owner since I have a tendency to drop series when I lose interest and can be months at a time between shop visits.

I could visit the company websites specifically but lately they have been giving me problems, I have to weed through all the comics I don't want to buy, and would have to visit multiple sites in order to remind myself of what I need to grab. A one stop resource would be incredibly handy.

Any suggestions??

 

The above post is mine because these fantastic forums logged me off as I posted.

 

Hello emissary from /co/

 

Emissary from /co/, heh heh heh. I use a name on there, thank you very much.

My LCBS tried to charge 5 bucks per ring with blackest night number 1.

 

I've just read New Avengers 56 - Stuart Immonen's Artwork is superb. The characters look right, the lighting is good, and the action is easy to follow.