Doktor

Just read the 1st issue & it is REALLY good. Like all the best parts of the Ellis-era WSU distilled down into something new & great. Tightly written but with enough easter eggs to old-school WSU fans & just enough of a hint of what is to come. Like this little taste of everything quintessentially Wildstorm that is just waiting to explode into a half dozen or so titles down the line. Little hints at Cray. Little hints at the Authority. References to StormWatch. A taste of the original WildCats mixed with Version 3.0 and the I.O. connection that ties the universe together as the more black-ops, semi-evil version of this universe's SHIELD. 

I'm already foaming at the mouth for issue 2

Just now, The Brain said:

Thanks. Who is the artist then??

Jon Davis-Hunt

You can google to get an idea of what the art looks like. It's pretty solid art.

3 hours ago, The Brain said:

Will Jim Lee be on this book long term?? 

 

Been looking for a new read. Like both writer

 

and artist.

Lee is only doing variants for the first few issues, as of now. Maybe he keeps doing variants? only the first few issues have been solicited so far & they all have a Lee variant.

1 hour ago, FutureFlash said:

I liked it a lot...my LCS didn't have any of the Lee covers for some odd reason. I need to track one down. Also I need to get in gear and read Vol2 of Stormwatch (and Authority).

You're slacking. It's amazing.

I have it coming via DCBS but I might still make a trip to the LCS this week and grab another copy just because I want to support this book so much.

12 hours ago, Hey Kids, Comics! said:

I was surprised that the 3 book unsigned sold out, but the signed sets are still available at only $6 extra per book. Seems cheap for a sig. Maybe less of a shot for a 9.8 on signed books?

If they were still available, then it was because a few people cancelled orders. Because even the signed 3-book set was sold out in under 3 hours on Saturday.

I don't think that having 3 of almost every character is really ideal. There's 2 wasps, 4 or 5 spider-men, like 4 spider-women, 2 Wolverines, Captain Marvel pulling a Wolverine impression circa 2004 where she's on every team, about as many Hulks as usual, 2 thors, 3 Iron people and more. Not to mention that it prevents ANY of these newer characters from stepping out of the shadow of the character that popularized the names in the first place & becoming their own thing with their own following.

discount code was definitely good on any version of the book. Signed or unsigned. 1, 2 or 3 packs. I used it on the 3-pack unsigned. And at 10:59am eastern (8:59 mountain, 7:59 pacific... since he is based out of denver), the page wasn't even available. It was a 404 page error that cleared itself up at exactly 11:00am eastern. 9 mountain. 

2 hours ago, SquareChaos said:

I was a fan of the New 52 for around 18 months, and then it started to go off the rails - I don't recall the exact count, and I don't know what it is now as I don't read any DC books anymore, but I think we had like ... 11? of the 52 books involved in the Bat universe. A lot of different, fringe books were killed for falling under an arbitrary sales line. Phantom Stranger and Dial H were my two favorites, but because they couldn't maintain.. and don't quote me here, I'm going on memory....12,000 sales month after month, they were killed.

How can anyone not think such a system is going to do anything but result in a centric / generic universe full of Batman and Superman books? I just don't understand the thought process. These companies need to have high level strategic planning, but it always looks tactical to me... like they're thinking just over the horizon and no further. They need better people at the helm, people who aren't hired / fired based on a quarter's worth of sales numbers so that they can afford to think strategically.

The thing is, 15 years ago, 12k was about 10k below the cancellation point on even big-2 imprint books. Not even main universe titles. Wildcats Version 3.0 got cancelled with 23k per month sales. 

2 hours ago, ComicConnoisseur said:

Do you think they should do a major reboot like DC did with Rebirth?

I think their best bet might be a time reset back to the pre-AvX continuity. Wipe out the Marvel NOW!, All-New Marvel NOW!, All-New All Different Marvel, and All New All Different Marvel NOW! phases and have someone go back, prevent AvX from happening & wipe out all of the legacy garbage that's happened since, including Civil War II, Secret War, etc. Essentially wipe out the past 5-7 years of stories & keep going with the old, legacy-character-free continuity. 

1 minute ago, Patriot6 said:

I have yet to read #10, I just picked up my bag from my LCS. Please don't be done! It and Aquaman are all I have left!

I haven't seen it on the solicits in a few months. Sorry dude. 

19 hours ago, Patriot6 said:

No it is still going. I like it. I thought it was refreshing because of the 90s art and that particular lineup.

Are you sure? I thought #10 or something was the final issue? It was on my pull list & I haven't seen it in a few months. 

37 minutes ago, Patriot6 said:

X-Men 92' is good. 

I think X-Men 92 is over though. I read it. It was OK. Too intentionally cheesy & obviously didn't take itself even slightly seriously, which kinda made it feel a little dumb. 

The 3-book set (un-signed) is sold out already.  But the signed set is still available.

6 minutes ago, starlord86 said:

Did it go on sale early? I thought 9 AM PST. Thanks to you I saw your comment and ordered the set as well. Thanks! Hope I get 9.8 candidates

No. It was Mountain Time. Not Pacific. So 11am eastern. 8 pacific.

Ordered the 3-issue set of the Elektra.

It just dawned on me though... the new Netflix-inspired Elektra costume is almost identical to Silk's costume without the webs in the front. Like they both bought the same basic costume & threw different emblems on the chest. Like a minor league hockey team.

And to repeat it for the 4 billionth time, get Brevvort back to just being the company continuity cop. Stop letting the guy have say over things involved in publishing. He's the one that had the brilliant idea of books having "seasons" like it was a tv show. And go back to legacy numbering. I'm tired of buying freaking divider cards every time X-Men or ASM or whatever decides it needs to relaunch into volume 37 or whatever it is these days. For 45 years, nobody was "scared" to jump onto a book just because it was issue 368. They just had a learning curve to catch up on & if the writers had any talent at all (and this was before "recap pages" existed), they could use a panel or 3 to pretty much cover all the relevant info on the characters in the book for anyone who was picking up their first issue. It might seem a little like useless exposition to longtime readers, but nobody ever got that upset over it. And within 2 or 3 issues, they were totally following 99% of what was going on.

5 minutes ago, SquareChaos said:

It's very difficult to have happy times and still convey a real sense of conflict I think. 

Hence the need for cultivating a new crop of competent writers & not just a bunch of hacks that happen to have a bunch of tumblr fans. A good writer can do that. Most of the current writing staff at Marvel aren't good enough to do it.

14 minutes ago, SquareChaos said:

I sort of agree on the political bent... but it's pretty difficult to write the complicated modern stories that most readers expect these days without involving politics on some level. I agree that no one wants to see Captain America Hail Hydra (except for Nick Spencer apparently), but at the same time I don't see a real appetite for going back to the super simple stories of yesteryear... and that often means a world stage, and large scale human interactions will be a central part of your story. Maybe it's better to say we don't want to be a captive audience while someone forces their personal views onto a beloved comic character... but maybe I'm only speaking for myself. I do find stories with realistic political dynamics interesting, but that's just my 

 

Also, +1 Marvel going out and actually discovering / grooming new writers. DC took a chance on Snyder - someone who really had no plans to go into comics, but he couldn't really find work writing elsewhere - and it has paid off in a big, bad way for them. 

I think there's a line between having a political bent to the stories with analogous storylines that aren't bordering on a "ripped from the headlines" Law & Order SVU level ham-fisted brow beating of their politics. Basic morality lessons & more vague & subtle analogies to current events is one thing. Turning anyone that disagrees with the writers politics into a villain is just ham-fisted schlock.

Marvel had a period in the early 00's where they found a lot of up-and-coming writers from Image and Wildstorm that weren't really being given a legit shot at DC & said "here, go wild". That's what turned Brubaker into the guy that did Gotham Central with Rucka into Ed Brubaker. And he's not coming back. He's said repeatedly that he's done with Superhero comics.

Fraction isn't coming back anytime soon either. He's having too much fun writing a fictionalized version of he & Kelly Sue's sex life at Image.

Ellis is going to be busy running the Wildstorm re-launch at DC.

Hickman just really really wanted to go & do nothing even related to the Marvel universe for a while after essentially directing it for 3 years.

And Millar is busy taking Fox's money for coming up with a new comic & optioning it to them 6 months before the first issue even hits stands.  

So they need to go find & curate a new crop of young writers. And I stress writers & not just their buddies or people whose politics they agree with. 3 years ago, the most political thing anyone knew or cared about from Quesada or Bendis or Brevvort was that Quesada's dad died of cancer so he banned smoking by heroes in his comics. They might want to get back to us not knowing or caring what their philosophical bent was outside of "make good comics". (And yes, they can have a political bent without being ham-fisted schlock)

I'm going to be buying that Elektra 3-variant set. I kinda dig all 3. The new-Netflix-inspired costume, the classic & the sketch are all killer.

On ‎2‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 10:43 AM, Gunnz said:

 

Omg I forget about magneto!!!

He could totally make a sweet lawn ornament outta that blob! With or without Wolverine inside. Preferably with.

Basically, the idea that the molten adamantium jump-started his healing factor would be essentially the ending of the story that Claremont proposed with the Dark Wolverine Saga way back in the day. Except instead of Deathstrike ripping out his heart to jump-start it & then him getting turned into the Hand's assassin ala Enemy of the State, Mags ripping the adamantium shell off of him would just skip all the rest of that stuff. You gotta figure, pretty much all of the bones of all of the reset of Claremont's unused Wolverine plans have been picked clean by other writers, so why not use this little morsel of tissue left on those bones?

7 hours ago, Architecht said:

Please see the Account Merge announcement at the top of every page.

Already wrote a thread from the OTHER account

Do I have to do anything more than that? 

My other profile.

and now somehow it appears all of my old account info vanished. WTF?