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So Robert Kirkman just dropped a surprise release today:
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Marvel has announced a new series of "What If?" one-shots for October.
"What if... the X-Men lived in a digital world?"
"What if... Flash Thompson was Spider-Man instead of Peter Parker?"
"What if ... Spider-Man became the Punisher?"
"What if... Ghost Rider came into the Real World?"
"What if... Thor had been adopted by the Frost-Giants as a child?"
"What if... Magick had no problems harnessing her powers?"
"What if... the X-Men lived in a digital world?"
"What if... Flash Thompson was Spider-Man instead of Peter Parker?"
"What if ... Spider-Man became the Punisher?"
"What if... Ghost Rider came into the Real World?"
"What if... Thor had been adopted by the Frost-Giants as a child?"
"What if... Magick had no problems harnessing her powers?"
Well, the X-Men and Ghost Rider ones sound a bit like they were desperate to find an angle, but otherwise they sound like good old "What if?" fun.
The Spider-man as Punisher one has me interested the most followed by Magik.
I watched the entire Back to the Future cartoon series on DVD. I believe they did keep the science segments in Season 2 but I can't entirely recall if they still had Bill Nye doing them. Minor trivia: The live action segments in Season 1 were directed by Peyton Reed, who is now best known as the director of the Ant-Man movies.
Don't you be forgetting my girl Gwen, now!
I don't read a lot of comics but I occasionally pick up some random stuff. I recently read all 6 issues of My Big Break by Philip Haldiman. He's the actor who played Denny in the infamously bad movie The Room. The comic series is basically an autobiographical story about the making of the movie. The best parts though are some of the random stuff in the back, like interviews with the other actors and Haldiman giving us some more of Denny's backstory that he came up with as part of his acting process. There's also an advice column by Claudette, Lisa's bitchy materialistic mother from the movie.
Has anyone here been keeping up with Dark Horse's Angel comics? Last time I was reading them, it was Angel & Faith but now it seems like it's just Angel again with Fred/Illyria as his sidekick. What happened to Faith? I picked up a trade of the opening arc of Season 11, which has Angel & Fred traveling back in time to when Illyria was a giant Lovecraftian horror ruling the area now known as California. It was OK but I mostly just picked it up because it had more of Illyria's backstory.
I finished up the digital collection of The Dresden Files: Down Town, my third Dresden comic. This was my favorite one yet, it really felt the most like it the novels, and I loved how heavily involved Molly, Mouse, and Marcone were.
After that I was still in a comic book mood, and I wanted something new and different, so I started the digital version of Queen of Plagues, the first volume of Gail Simone and Walter Geovani's Red Sonja series. I'm only 10 pages into the story and I'm loving it already. I've been on a bit of a fantasy kick lately, and this is exactly what I was looking for.
My only other experience with Gail Simone's writing was one issue of the Sensation Comics with Wonder Woman anthology series from a a few years ago, so this will be my first full series written by her. I've heard good things about a lot of the stuff she's written, so I'm looking forward to reading something more in depth from her. This is my first Red Sonja story. I love badass, kickass women and Red Sonja seems to be one of comicdoms' biggest, so I've been curious about her for a while.
After that I was still in a comic book mood, and I wanted something new and different, so I started the digital version of Queen of Plagues, the first volume of Gail Simone and Walter Geovani's Red Sonja series. I'm only 10 pages into the story and I'm loving it already. I've been on a bit of a fantasy kick lately, and this is exactly what I was looking for.
My only other experience with Gail Simone's writing was one issue of the Sensation Comics with Wonder Woman anthology series from a a few years ago, so this will be my first full series written by her. I've heard good things about a lot of the stuff she's written, so I'm looking forward to reading something more in depth from her. This is my first Red Sonja story. I love badass, kickass women and Red Sonja seems to be one of comicdoms' biggest, so I've been curious about her for a while.
Gail Simone is awesome. I loved her Red Sonja run, which is impressive because I loathe Conan and everything related to him (including every Red Sonja book not written by Gail Simone).
If you ever want more Gail Simone stuff, she's had great runs with DC/Marvel, some of my favorites being
Deadpool
Wonder Woman
Birds of Prey
Secret Six
Secret Six and Birds of Prey are my favorites (she didn't start the BoP book, and it was pretty good even before she was on it, but her two runs with it were really good). Secret Six is probably my favorite comic she's written, which is saying something. There was a New version of the 52 Secret Six by Simone as well, but I don't think its as good as the original run. Simone's Wonder Woman had a few mixed issues in my opinion, but was overall pretty good. Her Deadpool run, and a spinoff to it called Agent X that she wrote, were funny, and worth reading if you like Deadpool.
Also, if you like non-Big 2 stuff, Simone's Welcome to Tranquility is one of my favorite creator owned comics. Basically, its about a retirement town for superheroes and their families. There are also the two Megalopolis mini series by Simone, about what happens if a city full of superheroes (not connected to the Tranqulity books) went insane (its a bit zombie like, but the insane heroes still have personality and I found the two minis to be really good).
If you ever want more Gail Simone stuff, she's had great runs with DC/Marvel, some of my favorites being
Deadpool
Wonder Woman
Birds of Prey
Secret Six
Secret Six and Birds of Prey are my favorites (she didn't start the BoP book, and it was pretty good even before she was on it, but her two runs with it were really good). Secret Six is probably my favorite comic she's written, which is saying something. There was a New version of the 52 Secret Six by Simone as well, but I don't think its as good as the original run. Simone's Wonder Woman had a few mixed issues in my opinion, but was overall pretty good. Her Deadpool run, and a spinoff to it called Agent X that she wrote, were funny, and worth reading if you like Deadpool.
Also, if you like non-Big 2 stuff, Simone's Welcome to Tranquility is one of my favorite creator owned comics. Basically, its about a retirement town for superheroes and their families. There are also the two Megalopolis mini series by Simone, about what happens if a city full of superheroes (not connected to the Tranqulity books) went insane (its a bit zombie like, but the insane heroes still have personality and I found the two minis to be really good).
Simone's runs on Birds of Prey and Wonder Woman are pretty high on my list.
I've already got more than enough superheroes in the Marvel, DC, and Valiant books, so if I decide to go for her creator owned stuff, it'll probably be Clean Room.
I've already got more than enough superheroes in the Marvel, DC, and Valiant books, so if I decide to go for her creator owned stuff, it'll probably be Clean Room.
Simone also wrote a pretty good Wonder Woman/Conan crossover last year.
I never read Clean Room (since I'm not a non-hero comic reader outside of one or two exceptions) but it gets high praise from what I've seen.
She also has a Red Sonja/Tarzan comic coming out right now. I haven't read either, because I loathe Conan and dislike any Tarzan that isn't Disney's, so even having Simone on those books isn't enough to make me read them (but they seem well liked by people who like the characters).
She also helped write a crossover between red Sonja and a few other Dynamite licensed characters (some weird mostly naked woman from the John Carter stuff and, I think, Vampirella) but I didn't read that for the same reason I skipped her WW/Conan and RS/Tarzan books.
While on the topic of kickass ladies, what do guys think of Bitch Planet, The Pretty Deadly, and Rat Queens? I've heard really good things about all three.
I already have the first collections of all three, so I'm going to read them no matter what, I was just curious what you guys thought of them.
I already have the first collections of all three, so I'm going to read them no matter what, I was just curious what you guys thought of them.
I finished up Queen of Plagues this afternoon and I loved it.
Was this a reboot? The whole way it was presented really felt to me like it was a reboot that was reintroducing Sonja.
I was surprised how much of it was devoted to Sonja's backstory. I really liked her, she was a great, badass hero.
Black Annisia was really cool,
Was this a reboot? The whole way it was presented really felt to me like it was a reboot that was reintroducing Sonja.
I was surprised how much of it was devoted to Sonja's backstory. I really liked her, she was a great, badass hero.
Black Annisia was really cool,
and I'm sad that she died at the end, by the end I was really hoping she'd at least pop up as a recurring character.
The reveal of the bad guy at the end was a pretty nice twist.
The reveal of the bad guy at the end was a pretty nice twist.
I'm pretty sure every new Sonja series is a "reboot". They take basic elements, but ignore anything the last run did that varied from the very basic stuff. The Red sonja comics after Simone's run, for example, don't seem to so much as reference her run. I doubt anything from her run is "canon" to any other published RS comic that she wasn't involved in, even including the other Dynamite published books. Its why I stopped after her run, because I only like the version of Red Sonja that Gail Simone wrote, and after Simone was gone Sonja is reset back to her basic traits and the writer basically makes a new character from the same few core elements. Its disappointing, but it seems to be what Dynamite does with almost all of their licensed characters, instead of having a consistent continuity with them.
Good to know, I'll probably at least check out Marguerite Bennett's run, since she seems to be right up there with Gail Simone when it comes to women comic writers. For those unaware of her, Bennett is the writer of Aftershock's Animosity, Marvel's A-Force, Marvel's Angela series, DC Comic's Bombshells, is the current Batwoman writer, and has written a whole bunch of stuff.
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Read Amazing Spider-Man: 24/7 this week and really enjoyed all three stories in the collection.
The stuff with the Spot was pretty cool in the standalone issue that opened the collection. This was my first story with him, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect.
The 2 parter, Face Front was really good. The stuff with the time dilation the Macroverse and the whole thing with aliens worshiping the was pretty good. I was surprised that Human Torch actually remembered that he used to know Spidey's real identity, I would have expected the mindwipe to have completely erased all of that. I can't blame him for being mad, that would have to be aggravating, especially when you realize that your friend was responsible for it. I did like Peter showing the FF his face at the end, that was a nice moment.
24/7 was really good too. The whole story with JJJ(Jr.) becoming Mayor of NYC was a lot of fun. I liked a lot of the stuff they had Spidey doing, especially him webbing the obnoxious cell phone guy's mouth shut, and making people web umbrellas.
The new Vulture was pretty creepy.
Michelle Gonzales's introduction was funny.
JJJSr. and May's relationship was nice.
The stuff with the Spot was pretty cool in the standalone issue that opened the collection. This was my first story with him, so I wasn't quite sure what to expect.
The 2 parter, Face Front was really good. The stuff with the time dilation the Macroverse and the whole thing with aliens worshiping the was pretty good. I was surprised that Human Torch actually remembered that he used to know Spidey's real identity, I would have expected the mindwipe to have completely erased all of that. I can't blame him for being mad, that would have to be aggravating, especially when you realize that your friend was responsible for it. I did like Peter showing the FF his face at the end, that was a nice moment.
24/7 was really good too. The whole story with JJJ(Jr.) becoming Mayor of NYC was a lot of fun. I liked a lot of the stuff they had Spidey doing, especially him webbing the obnoxious cell phone guy's mouth shut, and making people web umbrellas.
The new Vulture was pretty creepy.
Michelle Gonzales's introduction was funny.
JJJSr. and May's relationship was nice.
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