Rolling 2015 Reading Funnybooks Thread

the all-star superman run was gooooorgeous on a tablet

also read saga partly on tablet y because it look intersting

I think X-Men is for me what Legion of Super-Heroes is for other people. I can kind of get the gist of it, but there are just too many characters I don't have a clue about to work up any degree of caring.

haha totally feel you on this

I've been off the X-Teat for a little over three years now (I'll catch up eventually), but despite having read 90+% of everything X-related up to that point, I'll occasionally look at a newer X-book and be all, 'I have no idea who these people or what is going on.' So I sympathize.

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/1705

John A Lent's book Asian Comics covers all of asia except from japan. 400 pages. Don't know if I'll ever see this in the shops but I'd like to flip through it.

Just to expand a bit on my no-ipad post, I'm all for viewing comics in pixels — not instead of ink on paper, but in addition to — I just want to maximize the experience with my big-ass monitors at home. I have plenty of no-pic prose on the ipad to keep me busy until I get back to the house.

Yeah, it's like my brain can't keep hold of any X characters that weren't in the Claremont/Byrne or Grant Morrison eras, or, at a pinch, the movies. What is a Shatterstar or Gambit anyway? If they don't have good solo stories, I don't feel like I'm missing out.

LOSH is even harder because they're mostly all jockish white/orange dudes in similar costumes!

lol true. those LOSH jumpsuits tend to make a lot of them indistiguishable; probably why I tend to remember Karate Kid and Matter Eater Lad more than the rest.
-Shatterstar is a standard Rob Liefield burly dude with swords instead of guns, but later, gay?
-Gambit is your classical super-accented Southerner created by Claremont to compliment Rogue with a dash of 90s coolness and popped collar design. definitely key to early 90s X-Nostalgia

otm, they hide gambit on tertiary books now because he's so 90s

Not that I disagree, but he had a solo title (his third, I believe?) as recently as two years ago and is about to be featured in a solo film starring Channing Tatum.

yeah, Channing Tatum of 21 Jump Street and GI Joe fame! so 90s.

well, 80s in the latter case but you get my drift

Does Gambit have to be so 90s? X-Men must be the most constantly redesigned characters I can think of.

I think Bouncing Boy is the most memorable Legion member.

besides the horseman makeover where he got darker skin, he's pretty much had the same design for 20 years, no?

ok, maybe I am underestimating his current popularity. it's the whole "MON CHERIE" thing that will forever tie him to that era for me

btw, I actually do have nostalgic fondness for Gambit in case it wasn't clear

(... xp not to mention the headgear...)

lol everyone had headgear in the 90s costumes, why because it's so cool

It was a boon to those in the '90s with excessive orthodontia who would've otherwise suffered torment from their peers.

trenchcoats and headgear. What more could you want?

Pouches. As many as possible.

The jacket has infinite pockets.

"it's bigger on the inside", he said to the ladies

lmao @ 'the x teat'

soooo looks like things are about to go kablooey in the Marvel universe...?

Gambit had more makeovers than that I'm sure. Some of these costume designs only last a few issues.

Nice that Marvel gets to do the 30th anniversary Crisis tribute

Anyone heard about Marvel founder Martin Goodman being talked into publishing in the comic industry by an IRA member? Goodman was so grateful for the idea that he sent this guy money for many years.
Is this covered in the Sean Howe book?

which crossover storyline, shakey? hickman's has been running a really long time and it seems to be reaching completion

they also (spoilers) just set up a plot bit for the upcoming SECRET WAR

I just saw a bunch of tweets from Perpetua re the following (he's at some Marvel event):

- The Ultimate universe is officially gonna smash together with the regular Marvel Universe, permanently
- The new Marvel Universe will be remade from all the pieces from Battleworld
- The Marvel Universe will be gone after Secret Wars #1, only Battleworld will remain
- Alonso says they aren't erasing the history of Marvel, that's not broken, but the new Marvel will combine many things

can I just say... BATTLEWORLD

also lol @ "permanently"

Lol at Axel Alonso's attempt to do Stan Lee-speak: "It's the most co-ordinated event we've ever done."

KIDS THE CO-ORDINATION EXCITEMENT STARTS HERE

are they going to leverage some synergy across platforms??!

that shit always sucks, never lasts and fucks up any interesting storylines but good
i know it makes a chunk of change up front but it demolishes long-term engagement. fans should boycott.

There were hints that 616 & Ultimate were going to moosh together somehow and Miles Morales was going to wind up in the "reg" M.U. -- I can't cite a source though.

Marvel has been pretty good the past few years! I feel like it'll probably be okay, or at least not suck as bad as Flashpoint.

If Jeph Loeb is involved all bets change tho

wtf

they have been introducing little bits all over the place that merge different universes/timelines in an interesting way lately and I have no idea why merging all things down to one line would be a good idea

they also gave their new time-traveling mutant a bunch of extra experience in a couple of the recent annuals and then shot her backward to talk to Xavier at the end of something last month, I think, which I figured was their way of backing out the past-X-Men from the present day

Miles Morales has already made appearances with a number of 616 characters. That much has seemed inevitable for a while.

So basically they're cancelling the Ultimate line, and that's the only change that will probably still be true three-to-five years from now, when Wolverine is merrily romping through the universe once again.

Yeah, at the worst I hope it's Bendis

if it's Loeb then I'm going to stop reading Marvel

Crisis on Infinite Secret Wars III: The Nu-616

Yawn.

The one thing I'll give Loeb mad props for is being in charge of Marvel's television projects and, by all appearances, not contributing in any way to the writing/plotting of Marvel's television projects.

Ach, this is probably editorial's last chance to do an old-school comics-nerds-only clusterfuck before the movie and comics continuities align, and the X-Men are erased from existence forever. I'm sure it'll be a solid 5/10.

It's worth noting that, prior to the Bendisification of the Marvel U in the mid-2000s, the last big line-wide crossovers were Onslaught in '96 and then Maximum Security four years later. This exhausting three or four events per year thing really only kicked into high gear towards the end of the last decade.

I mean, event-wise what are they still tying up?

That goofy Axis junk
Spider-Verse, which I think ends by then, but is already a multi-universe spanning event
Hickman's multi-year Avengers epic, which is apparently the centerpiece with its world-smashing
X-Men crossover w/the young/past X-Men visiting the Ultimate universe
Time traveling new X-Men member Eva visiting Xavier in the past
The young X-Men being in the present
Whatever the hell the Fantastic Four have been up to since I stopped reading

Oh yeah, and Spider-Man 2099 and the X-Men 2099 being real and crossing over with the present, to some extent

I guess I was being awfully conservative with the 'three or four events per year thing' thing, huh?

These aren't events, per se, they're just the current storylines packaged. If anything, Marvel is realizing that the online collection/trade paperback route is where things are going and having discrete storylines or crossovers that resolve within a few months with a collection immediately dropping at the end fits the market. You can do a multi-chapter story with several chapters per month, end it more quickly, and then sell it as a package while there's still some buzz.

It kind of beats the old days where they'd have a giant crossover that took most of the year, had one story beat per month, and the individual monthlies were just "what is the Fantastic Four doing while this is going on"

I said this was happening in (I think) last year's thread, via a Bleeding Ccol link that had characters clearly from other Earths on 616.

I hope Spider-Ham stays in 616

I would be down with that, a la Morrison's efforts to legitimize Captain Carrot.