Marvel Unlimited: Subscription streaming comics on PC/Mac/iPad - Complaints, thoughts, series recommendations

Reading' some early Thor...

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lol

Their "Spotlight" section is a bit better than it was previously. I do keep getting a weird glitch where I'll click on an issue I should be able to see all of and it'll let me see the first three or four pages, preview-style. I think that's an issue with how they have the book uploaded.

Also, how did I not know this new Cyclops miniseries is written by Greg Rucka?!?

Ha - I assumed he was a DC lifer

he very publicly and explicitly quit DC over editorial/labour issues, started his comics career in B&W indies, has kept doing creator-owned work alongside his superuniverse books, and has been writing for Marvel since 2001

yeah, I know him a lot more for his own stuff and only recently caught up on his DC work

I wouldn't presume to say he's just going Marvel stuff for the paycheck, but Lazarus (from Image) seems to be his real labor of love right now. The new issue of Cyclops isn't by Rucka.

Yeah, it looks like he just did the first six. And Lazarus is excellent.

Should I be reading this Kaare Andrews Iron Fist series? I'm thinking... yes

first 6 issues were a lot of fun and very very different from nearly anything else marvel is putting out right now

Finally did the Kieron Gillen run of Journey Into Mystery, aka the Ballad of Kid Loki. Totally awesome, and built very well on top of the work JMS did on Thor beforehand.

Very much so! Leads into al's very good Loki run.

I still gotta read that Loki run! And catch up on Thor, too. I want to know how he got the Cable arm.

Due to my chronic insomnia reaching new heights, I probably got a year's worth of MU reading done in the last month, probably reading a few hundred issues - just about every X-Men/larger event comic or spinoff from 2008-2014. Good times?

Last week I went through the Jonathan Hickman Avengers/New Avengers run up through Time Runs Out (right before Secret Wars starts). Amazing, truly blockbuster stuff, a lot of fun. Totally get now why he's such a big deal. Will go back and check out his earlier FF run later.

Also love how a million books were doing time travel/interdimensional shenanigans leading up to Age of Ultron/Infinity/Secret Wars during this time, as the stress of every hero being careless with the time-space continuum comes to a head. Much better than Superboy punching a wall!

Seems like in the past three years they split the reins of the big books between Bendis (All-New X-Men/Age of Ultron), Remender (his X-Force run/Uncanny Avengers/Axis) and Hickman (New Avengers/Infinity/Secret Wars). Not counting Spider-Man, I still have to catch up with that - gonna jump into the Brand New Day era (2008-ish?) at some point.

Wacky find: X-Treme X-Men vol. 2 (2012) - a follow up from Greg Pak's arc on Astonishing X-Men, it's basically Exiles 2.0 with a (even more amoral than usual) detached Xavier head in a bubble leading an interdimensional team with 616-Dazzler and a gay Wolverine to murder a bunch of rogue alternative universe Xaviers. Naturally it ends with one or two universes being destroyed.

good god the connectivity on this app on ipad is hot garbage. half the time it works, the other half it sits there spinning and never loads the rest of the pages.

yep

Agreed! I'm cancelling my subscription for a while, I have too many paper comics and GNs to catch up on.

Nhex, the Fantastic Four Run is great, and (I think) much better than the Avengers run.

I liked it at least as well as his Avengers stuff. Certainly the best FF run in ages.

Agreed, the FF run might be the best attempt at having a long game for a title while passing through shorter storylines.

I guess I should say Fantastic Four/FF since "FF" was a separate title for part of the journey