Comicbook buffs, and or fanatics!
Which are you going to sink your money into this summer?
Civil Wars- A true cross over event, while I'm still trying to get over House of M, the event was good, though nothing truely major happened, other than the fact that the mutant population was servely reduced, and Professor X and Magnus were depowered I thought it was a pretty good limited series, while I didn't think it deserved a whole company wide crossover, it was a pleasant break from the somewhat boring 616 setting. Now we seem to have an old goodie from the 80s, and early 90s resurfacing. On one side we have Iron Man leading the fight for super powered registration and on the side against we have Captain America!
It has potential though it does seem to be preachy, with the whole Justice for Daimen bullshit in the first issue. Also when did Stark become such a tool? (Stopped reading most Marvel after House of M) Now Rogers, I can see being the leader of the resistance movement, since he's all about what makes this country great, Freedom, though I think hating the new Commander of Shield has something to do with it. Overall I think it'll be on my DCP list, since its a crossover and I can't afford every comic in the Marvel line, art is pretty though.
52- Simply a weekly comic, mainly deals with what happened during the whole year gap, between the end of recent Infinite Crisis, and the start of the new DC comic series. We see that the big three are missing, (Superman, Batman and Wonderwoman) and the rest of the remaining metahumans have to fend for themselve, Booster Gold has returned armed with knowledge of the future and corporate sponsors, trying to take the place as Metropolis's man of steel in his absence. The heroes that went to space return but not as whole as when they left.
Overall it seems to be a pleasant weekly comic filling in what happened between point A and point B, while not really stepping on any toes. However not truely a crossover event, as its going on for a whole year! It seems to be atleast at this moment a much intriguing story that keeps me wanting more. Though being a whole Crossover event makes me want to buy and read it, not simply download it.
New Age Bane fucked around with this message on 06-09-2006 at 09:49 AM.
Thoughts? Opinions? Am I just a DC fanboy?
*waits for flames about how this has been posted already, or a Deth essay, or something about how bane is a loser and a complete waste of space, or was a genius before he started to do drugs*
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A sleep deprived Blackened stammered:
Didn't read the thread, but after that infinite crisis bullshit I'll be following Civil War
I'll agree with Infinite crisis was trying way too hard to be Crisis on Infinite Earths, but Civil War is seems to be just more of the same bullshit that Infinite Crisis was, though not on the whole grand scale of trying to find the perfect Earth, and making Alex a villian. (what did they do to you Alex... 
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Aren't you sick the whole registration act crap thats being going on at Marvel since the 80s? Its a different telling of it yeh, and Cap being on the side of fighting to keep identies a secret is cool, but Reed on Tony's side, he fought against the first Superhuman registration act back in '92.
Though Spider-man's role in the whole thing seems to be interesting.
I'll be happy with it, if people stay dead and never come back again, that and Strange better kick some serious ass.
okay i went off on a rant again and never really made sense New Age Bane fucked around with this message on 06-09-2006 at 10:05 AM.
As for Iron Man vs Captain America...well...let's be honest. Tony and Steve haven't ever seen 100% eye to eye. Wizard did a whole article about it in the last issue I picked up. The biggest thing I remember was that "Operation Galactic Storm" thing where Cap wanted to bring the leader of the Kree empire to justice and Tony backdoored him and went off to assassinate said leader. Tony's always kinda run the Avengers with the idea that it was, because it was funded by him, mainly an extension of his own personal agenda. Cap always ran it more as an extra-system agency for the defense of the planet. So I think the dynamic of it will prove VERY interesting.
Plus to be honest, DC is leaving a wicked bad "Juan Valdez' Mule shat in my mouth/Coke Blak" taste in my mouth these days. They have some git with a Napoleon complex running things over there and I'm finding myself caring less and less about characters I used to have a mad-on for. It's the end of an era, and I'm not okay with it at all. So I'll wait a year or two for 52 to be pulled into collections (it WILL happen, I'm sure) and read it then to catch up. For now, I'm laying down my active interest in DC.
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quote:I think Strange already stated he wanted nothing to do with any of the registration bullshit, and in a particularly badass way. Not too positive though, I seem to have forgotten where I read something like that.
New Age Bane.
that and Strange better kick some serious ass.
Ah, found it.
And how can you not want to read Civil War after this:
Yes, that is Captain American surfing away on a S.H.I.E.L.D. jet. Blackened fucked around with this message on 06-09-2006 at 10:30 AM.
not like either company is getting my nonexistent funds, well not until the tradebacks New Age Bane fucked around with this message on 06-09-2006 at 11:11 AM.
Sorry I'm going to stop posting and sleep, sorry to disrupt everyones day with Bane ramblings, and thus propelling the whole Bane is a waste of space theory.
Well now like proven fact, but thats been the case for a while now. New Age Bane fucked around with this message on 06-09-2006 at 11:17 AM.
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Blackened had this to say about dark elf butts:
Yes, that is Captain American surfing away on a S.H.I.E.L.D. jet.
And then he took the pilot out for a hamburger. 
It's not something people hear about.
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Even though I have no idea what happens in infinite crises, the premise of a weekly addition of the same comic is too nifty to pass up.
Ultimate FF Trade 5 has a couple of scenes that are a couple of richter points off, but still near, captain america in that issue. Mmm, alternate earths!
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I still havent gotten around to reading infinite crisis (Im on the last month of a 6 month deployment to the middle east) so certain suprises like my beloved flashs fate were a bit of a shock when I read about them on here. Still, I got supergirl issue 4-6 yesterday from this tiny little hole in the wall in hong kong (which has the strangest 4 story building that has over 30 stores dedicated to comics, anime, action figures, and ccgs, but each store looks more like a middle sized closet with a cash register and everything crammed in like crazy. Very cool.
Sons of El, city in lockdown? WTF? The superman religion thing I see in 52 is weird enough but... what? Kryptonian blood, female nightwing in a Batman Beyond style suit?
Im confused :-/
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Except for LOSH. Come give daddy some sugar, 
It's not something people hear about.
Looks like you were absolutely correct about Civil War, though. Granted, still opening shots, but things are shaping up nicely. Spidey's angst about whether to reveal his identity or not is cool.
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It's not something people hear about.
Mutants were, ironically, becoming exactly what Magneto said they were. They were literally everywhere. And like Scott and Emma indicated in the Wolverine Civil War element, it would have been very easy for this to be turned against mutants. Which, on the other side of the 4th wall, would have ruined things. We just had the big "mutant storyline" we were due for. Marvel's been VERY careful of late, I've noticed, to try and not make everything about mutants.
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