I really have no idea why they just didn't give him a variation of his Teen Titans outfit, which is considerably less blue and orange with pirate boots (or combined the two in a way that didn't look ridiculous).

I only vaguely recall We3. I remember not being happy with whatever the scientist chick did at the end of it. Maybe it's because I went into expecting the animals were going to be smarter than they were, but I don't think I ever got involved in the story. Or it might be because I'm not good at empathizing with animals.

I read through the X-Men vampire arc they did last year, I was not too fond of it. I don't know why, but vampires just seem beyond the realm of believability to me in the Marvel Universe. Also, I was not aware of this but apparently Jubilee is still a teenager.

God said:

I read through the X-Men vampire arc they did last year, I was not too fond of it. I don't know why, but vampires just seem beyond the realm of believability to me in the Marvel Universe. Also, I was not aware of this but apparently Jubilee is still a teenager.

I sorta know what you mean. I haven't read the vampire arc, only snippets of it. I can say that I'm not a fan of vampires, and not a fan of Jubilee, but I am a fan of vampire Jubilee.

And I think Rbx5 is right, she's got to be in her early twenties?

If Storm can control the weather, she can basically do whatever she wants. She creates an extremely localized low pressure system underneath her, that's flight right there via small-scale convection current.

As for Angel, either his metal wings are constantly flapping like a hummingbird, or he flies the same way an aircraft does. The air passing underneath his wings will create lift based on airspeed, it just takes forward velocity, which I'd imagine he creates via farting a lot.

Ya, I'm super sympathetic for animals, so something like that gets me very emotional. After finished that series I had to go hug my dog and play with her for like an hour strait just to feel better.

Yep, you're a bad person.

We3 was awesome. Quitely was just the guy to bring it to life. Another animal-based comic I want to pick up is BKV's "Pride of Bagdad."

Spankminister said:

God said:

I meant her powers in general. Controlling the weather doesn't make sense to me.

You realize that none of the X-Men's powers make any sense, right? Like, conservation of energy, basic physics, etc.? Cyclops' eye beams are "kinetic" in that they have mass somehow aka. punch beams from the punch dimension?

Wolverine's powers make total sense. He's Canadian. He has free healthcare.

Exploding giraffe head. That is all.

So, DC has announced the second wave of the new 52. http://www.newsarama.com/comics/dc-bob-harras-new-52-second-wave-12-01-12.html

- Batman Incorporated by writer Grant Morrison and artist Chris Burnham, concluding the writer's Batman story;

- Earth 2 by writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott, detailing the life of the JSA as they collide "with other worlds;"

- Worlds' Finest by writer Paul Levitz and artists George Pérez and Kevin Maguire, which details the life of Earth 2 heroes Helena Wayne and Karen Starr as they are stuck on "our Earth," seemingly meaning the main New 52 Earth;

- Dial H by science fiction/fantasy novelist China Miéville and artist Mateus Santoluoco, which is a "bold new take on a cult classic about the psychological effects on an everyman who accidentally gains powers to become a hero;"

- G.I. Combat, which will have co-features: "The War that Time Forgot" by writer J.T. Krul and artist Ariel Olivetti, "The Unknown Soldier" by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray with artist Dan Panosian, and "The Haunted Tank" by writer John Arcudi and artist Scott Kolins;

- The Ravagers by writer Howard Mackie and artist Ian Churchill, which spins out of Teen Titans and Superboy.

I'm personally looking forward to Worlds' Finest, since the Huntress mini has been pretty good so far, and is laying the groundwork for the character. Also, I'm oddly excited for Earth 2, but I don't know why.

Really looking forward to Batman Inc, because the first arc was awesome on a stick, and Earth 2, because the JSA is cool and James Robinson is only good when he's writing Golden Age material, Starman, Shade, or some combination thereof. Dial H might be worth a look, the author's name vaguely rings a bell. Palmiotti and Gray on Unknown Soldier sounds awesome, but I dunno if it'll be worth the whole book. Ravagers will suck. World's Finest could be good, but seems to already be unnecessarily complicating things what with Earth 2 even existing; if anyone needed more proof that this reboot was basically Geoff Johns and Jim Lee just remaking things in their preferred image, by which I mean bringing back the Silver Age wholesale and the 90s, respectively, this is it. Still, OMAC aside, we're trading mediocre to shit books for mostly good or at least interesting ones, so not a bad change-up.

Dreg said:

Greg Rucka's run was reportedly pretty awesome. Of course, you could just start with the relaunched title as it's a new continuity anyway.

Thanks, I'm gonna check out Greg Rucka's, which I think is called The Hiketeia? Seems interesting

Minotaur guy, eh? I'd better do more research

If you want a Thanos story, I recommend The Life and Death of Captain Marvel! Thanos wants to have sex with Death. He thinks the Grim Repear is hot.

It's not really a Thanos story but Annihilation was damned good. Infinity Gauntlet was fun but end it there, the rest if the Infinity series' weren't all that great.

I liked X-Force/X-Statix a lot! Also Peter David's Captain Marvel from the early 2000s was super fun if you like the modern Marvel cosmic stuff.

Was the Ms. Marvel series any good? Comixology has issues 1-17 (don't know if that is the whole series) and 1-8 of House of M. for $.99 each.

kaazuwulf said:

Bought a few trades today. Got 'Kingdom Come', cause I hear it is fucking amazing, and I got Marvel's 'The Infinity Gauntlet', since I've never really read any of the Thanos stories. I also have Hellblazer 'The Devil You Know' I still need to read through.

Good man, I think this are the first things mentioned in the thread that I've read. I pretty much will read anything with Thanos or drawn by Alex Ross, if only he wasn't tied to DC those things could come together.

I think that IS the only reprint of them.

Rbx5 said:

Also, the art is basically the only truly great thing in Kingdom Come, which I enjoyed the first few times I read it, but time and commentary by others has basically revealed it to me as the ur-Silver Age fanwank that just so also happens to be two angry old guys shaking their fists at the young folks to get the hell of their lawns.

I re-read it recently, and while I didn't find it as earth-shatteringly epic as I did when I was a young teenager, I still think it was really, really good.

I have to disagree that it's a complete ur-Silver Age fanwank. There's certainly the theme that the new generation of superheroes are lesser, and lack the responsibility of the Silver Age heroes. But what really stuck with me was how you're really shown how each of those older heroes has lost his or her way: Green Lantern, Flash, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and obviously, The Spectre.

A reader's reaction to Kingdom Come depends a lot on how much they knew of DC history before reading the book. If you kinda knew who the Justice League was, then KC was cool. If you had been a regular comics reader since forever, then KC wasn't anything really new; it seemed like the same old "tired heroes" story we'd read like a thousand times.

Picked up some Daken/X-23 trade (Collision), despite the fact that Daken aka Wolverine's angsty son never interested me very much. I do like the direction Marjorie Liu took X-23 in, and the art in that sadly cancelled title was gorgeous as well. In any case, there's a pretty dark story in there with Wolverine's two "children" teaming up/trying to kill each other. They provide a pretty good counterpoint to one another: both have suffered some pretty horrific abuse, but X-23 is sort of set on her path of redemption due to meeting friends who changed her perspective, and Daken having turned to a criminal kingpin, having experienced no such intervention. The tale that follows is pretty gory, but not gratuitous. X-23 faces revulsion in having to compare the killing machine she is to the person she'd like to be; Daken questions whether or not he is worse off for not having a conscience about the things he does. The thing I liked best about this is it didn't result in the usual cheap ending where the "good cop" in the team-up talks the "bad cop" in the team-up out of killing the supervillain. Any discussion of morality happens within the context of the fact that they're both pretty nasty assassins, and the people they're tracking down can't be turned in to the authorities.

I can't really say whether or not I'd recommend this: I have a pretty big bias towards stories about people who live in the shadow of A-list heroes, Robin/Red Robin/Batgirl/Spoiler stories are up my alley, for instance. In any case, I'm definitely sad X-23 was cancelled... urban fantasy is firmly in Marjorie Liu's wheelhouse, and it was an interesting book in the lineup.

Yea, I read the whole thing, I liked it a lot before the Beechen stuff at the end sort of ruined it. It wasn't just interesting to see Cass grow from this oddball into a member of the team to a member of the Bat-family. It also brought out really interesting dynamics in Batman vs. Oracle essentially arguing as surrogate parents that I must have talked about at some point. But yeah, that story really went off the rails when it started to be about if Cass's power level was over 9000, or when she had to fight Nora Fries resurrected as a sludge zombie.

When I find a male superhero I like, everything's fine. When I find a female superhero I like, I wonder how long it'll be before they're killed off or their book is cancelled, regardless of quality/sales.

Hunh, I need to check out Avengers Academy, then. I was a fan of both Miller and Nicieza's runs on those books. There was an exchange between Tim and Steph that made me laugh out loud, just because it was a couple of petty insults between ex-es, just interspersed in a conversation about thwarting supervillains.

Wait, Christos Gage is writing it? Fucking sold. G.I. Joe: Cobra by him and Costa was so good, I'll give anything by him a chance.