I only read Reborn, then began Steve Rogers: Super Soldier and Secret Avengers.
To me, it doesnt seem like I missed a lot...
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I only read Reborn, then began Steve Rogers: Super Soldier and Secret Avengers.
To me, it doesnt seem like I missed a lot...
Oh, and read Nemesis #3
WOW! truly, truly messed up! Not sure if this is what Millar set out to do, but....
me and everyone I know who reads think Nemesis is the biggest douche and cant wait to see him taken down!!
I loved the early Brubaker stories but I was getting a bit restless as a reader with the "new" Captain America. With my budget tightening I think Captain America might go.
one of the things i have tired with marvel.. is the constant event stories
from civil war -> secret invasion -> Siege -> whatever is happening next,
it was all too much to handle and there was no real development of the individual character titles cap was the shining title Iron Man was great Thor too... but alot of the others were dullish and needed the event title books to make sense of.
The amount of Deadpool books is a joke itself
and the absoulte butchering of The Punsiher is absurd..... good to see him popping up in shadowland normally...
i myself recently had a MASSIVE cull of my titles chopping almost 25 books off my list from Hulk to some Avenger titles transformers didnt get the chop yet, probably in the vain hope it will get better and we get some good stories...
i wonder if we will se a drop in the comic prices......
Nothing is happening next with Marvel. Seige and Heroic Age were the goal (hoepfully)
Would you have preffered Frank remain dead and sliced up into peices at the bottom of an alley?
For what he had his sights on, Osborn and The Hood (a little too much for even The Punisher), it really couldnt have gone any other way.
Remender knew what he was doing, and did it quite well, even if you only read issue 21, you will understand....
He had his family ressurected only to have to incenerate and kill them himself!
they were not bastardised versions either, they were the real deal.
Frank lost it, thought too big, and died as a consequence. Absloute fun seeing him run around with a bunch of Super Hero tech, the way he used Pym Particles, amazing!!
i picked up my first DC comic the other day Batman: Confidential #49 i liked it i'll keep going with it to see how it goes
Will be getting back into Amazing Spiderman, with issue 648: Big Time
My 1st since ditching it when OMD - BND began.
Spidey, Avengers, new costume and an X-Men back in New York crossover makes very happy :D
Really looking forward to Big Time as well though I still don't quite feel for the neon green highlights of the new costume.Quote:
Originally Posted by gantz
I'm actually quite enjoying the current Origins of the Species arc. Last thing I truly enjoyed from Amazing Spider-Man was the Rhino's portion of The Gauntlet arcs, everything else has been pretty average.
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Originally Posted by piratescratch
i actually dropped spidey mid way through grim hunt, it was just crap they were putting out poor art poor story i couldnt justify spending that much a month on something that hadnt really produced cnsistant good story
i will agree that the rhino portion of gauntlet was the best story in that whole arc
Big Time was great IMO. Loved it.
OK, bit of a slow friday on the Boards, so thought it may be fun to post our standing orders (or at least what you get monthly etc.)
Mine:
X-Men Legacy
Uncanny X-men
X-Men: To Protect & Serve
Uncanny X-Force
X-23
Generation Hope
Avengers (Secret, New, On-going)
Punisher (Remender)
Secret Warriors
Deadpool
Hack/Slash
Velocity
Childrens Crusade
Morning Glories
Osborn (yet to be released)
I think there is more....
Transformer Titles
Avenger Titles
Deapool Titles
Cap
Thor
Punisher Titles
Iron Man Titles
Farscape
thats what i can think of at the moment
Mine has become a very short list:
Transformers Ongoing
Transformers Sector 7
I'm very close to ending my standing order over the weekend though and sticking with the trades for everything going forward.
Last time I did have something other than TF books on my standing order it was in the days of New X-Men, X-Statix, and X-Treme X-Men.
Oh, Paulbot, X-Statix was an amazing comic, I will buy the trades one day as I was on and off that title (un-employed)
Sharky, is Farscape good? Have seen a few issues on the stands and did really love the tv series.
i like it sometimes the art is sketchy but i loved the show... and the stories fit in well. you can read/imagine the manerisms of the characters which makes it more enjoyable i guess...
My Ever growing standing order currently has these
x-men- ( astonishing, uncanny, legacy, x-factor, new mutants, uncanny x-force, x-men, daken, x-23, wolverine, namor)
avengers ( secret, academy, new, avengers)
solo titles ( Thor, iron man, daredevil, hawkeye and mockingbird, taskmaster, incredible hulk, hulk, she-hulks, captain America, deadpool, deadpool corps, deadpool team up, amazing spiderman, thunderbolts, kick ass 2)
event books ( chaos war, chaos war Thor, chaos war avengers, chaos war x-men, shadowland, shadowland power man.
idw and darkhorse ( transformers ongoing, sector 7, angel, Buffy, Illyria, spike
I'm sure I'm forgetting something but that's pretty much my current standing order
Amazing spider-man and any minis or one shots that catch my eye
all deadpools including any apps (i have been collecting all deadpool for years and now am getting drowned in deadpool...)
new avengers
avengers
uncanny x-force
boys
highland laddie
crossed
haunt
izombie (and any other michael allred)
any thing by sam kieth
anything by luna brothers
nancy in hell
im sure there is more but cant think right now.
i also get a fair few things in trade form
walking dead
runaways
astonishing xmen
exmachina
hack/slash
and once again im sure there is more...
recently i have been buying up on back issues as my local comic store has a big selection at 3 bucks each. been just grabbing any random mini or consecutive runs that have caught my eye from the last 6 years. they had a sale the other week where all back issues were 50 for $50 so i ended up walking out of there with 200 back issues haha
Ouch! That's a lotta dough! I still remember when I used to spend that much. My standing orders gone down to about 8 comics now. It used to be more in the vicinity of 40 to 50+ per month. Instead, I'm finding my preferred means is the ipad and trades now. The ipad doesn't release the new stuff and even if it does is delayed, yes, but it's really got me to revisit some old favourites I haven't read in awhile. Not to mention, it's also cheaper and I don't have to worry about storage.Quote:
Originally Posted by swoop
Some recent highlights (old and new):
- Green Lantern (always a winner!)
- Annihilation
- Thor: Son of Asgard
- Dark Knight Returns
- Rising Stars
- Sleeper: Season One (brilliant!)
- Irredeemable - amazing book in terms of character and exploration of the superhero dynamic
- Codebreakers
- Action Philosophers - funny as hell, yet insightful. Cleverly written.
- BatmanL Year One
- Thor (2007 series) #1-12
- Immortal Ironfist
Everyone truly has a diverse range of comics, great to see!
Just finished Hack/Slash Annual 2, no SGs this time :(
Seeley is doing great things with this over at Image, had a few worries it may somehow be censored, not at all I am happy to say.
Will have to check out his Marvel mini-series Wasp/Antman
The relationship with Vlad and Cassie has evolved into them being 'one minded' in a sense. The last few issues with DDP, seemed the 2 characters had drifted apart.
And Jethro Morales art is fan-fkn-tastic!! As much as I like Daniel Leister, they should consider having Morales take over for the on-going.
Hey guys I need some help and this seemed as good-a place as any. :o
Back in the early 90's, around 92-3 I think, my brother and I found a section in our local video store that we'd never noticed before. :eek:
Now to he and I this was a truly hidden gem as this section contained all these cool looking cartoons that didn't appear to be what we'd normally see on TV, the M15+ ratings sticker may of been an indication. :p
Such titles were Bubblegum Crisis, Appleseed, Akira, Devilman... But the one that took both my and my brothers attention completely, as we were 7 and 5 respectively, was this 12 part series called... Guyver: Bio Boosted Armour. :D
We later found out that these shows were of Japanese origin and were called Anime, which were based of Japanese comics called Manga. :rolleyes::)
Fast forward 18 years and I have just finished watching the (2005) 26 episodes of the Guyver Anime and would really like to know what happens next. :cool:
As I am aware that the story continues far past where the Anime ends, I want to try and acquire, if they still exist, the Manga that the show is based off. :D
Now, I'm no idiot and I'm aware that the Manga would be natively in Japanese but I've been lead to believe that English translated copies exist and I was wondering if anyone here would be able to help me out? ;)
If anyone could bring me up to speed and/or point me in the right direction it would truly be appreciated as this series got me hooked on Japanese adult cartoons as a kid and I've loved the Guyver story and Anime ever since that first OVA way back when. :D:D:D
Used to have a larger standing order but had to drop some comics due to money... and the missus complaining...
DC
JLA
JSA
Green Lantern (always good)
The Flash (favourite is Wally... didn't think we needed Barry back)
Teen Titans (stop changing the roster dammit)
Marvel
The Avengers
The New Avengers
The Secret Avengers (a trend yes?)
The Amazing Spider-man (Favourite Superhero since I was 6 (wow 24 years?) but I kinda want to drop this... its not as good a read as it used to be... damn BND)
Everyone else
Transformers Ongoing
Still get Thor as trades. Do pick up Company wide Crossovers... unless its X-Men dominant then 'meh'...
Not as crazy as I used to be where I bought every comic connected to the Crossover (Civil War and House of M were really the last straw) so I've toned down a bit. :p
I'll help you here cos I have read Guyver since it first came out waaaaaay back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hursticon
To memory, there was a TV series... then a out-of-continuity movie and then a second series that was just a newer, better looking version of the first. It never covered the story up to the Manga cos the Manga STILL... HASN'T... FINISHED!!!!! The writer did mention that there was a higher chance of him dying before Guyver ended... -_-;
Anyway, Kronos takes over the world... Guyver 3, Agito, starts a Gorilla Resistance to retake the planet. However, heaps of people have gone through the Zoanoid conversion. So, basically, its 'what if the Secret Invasion succeeded'.
Sho has gone missing so Tetsuro and Mizuki are trying to stay hidden cos they are targeted by Kronos. Sho finally returns from being disintegrated thanx to the Control Metal and merges the Control Metal with a 'Creator' ship, creating the Guyver Gigantic which both Agito and Sho can use but its only one unit.
Agito has greater willpower and so 'steals' the Gigantic from Sho when both need to summon its power.
Within Kronos, three of the Zoalords rebel against Archanfel and kill two of the members loyal to him and then blame the Guyvers for that action.
They then battle try to capture Guyver 1 when he and an assistant of a professor that helped the Guyvers before the invasion try to save Aptom who had become a 'kinda' ally to them. It is here that we find out that Sho has been pretending to lose control of the Gigantic armour to Agito so as to give the view that he is still as weak as he was before the whole Kronos invasion. He has also become a bit of a tactician, pretending to be defeated, then transforms into Guyver and then Gigantic to kill a whole heap of Zoanoids.
Now, its an invasion of the Kronos empire by the Guyvers and it kinda enters limbo there... very irritating. Its like one volume of manga a year and a bit on average at the moment.
Hope that helped.
Cheers Gekisou, :)Quote:
Originally Posted by gekisou
Thank you for bringing me up to speed with what has transpired since Sho acquired the Gigantic ability and defeating Neo ZX-Tol. :D
Indeed, there was an OVA produced in '86 called 'Guyver: Out of Control' which didn't follow the Manga particularly well but was followed up in '89 or '90 with a 12 part OVA series which covered only so far as the fall of Kronos Japan.
This series helped to spark a wave of interest in Japanese Anime in the US though, which led to the Live Action Abortions that were the 2 US Guyver movies (Even having Mark Hamil in the 1st?:confused:) then everything started to die down a little until DBZ hit the States and a second wave of interest began which lead to the creation of the 2005 Updated 26 episode Guyver Anime series - which ended with Kronos taking over the world, Ogito leading the rag-tag resistance force, Aptom looking over the Segawa siblings and Sho acquiring the Gigantic ability after having raising the Relic Creator Ship out of Mt. Minakami. ;)
I'm glad there is at least 1 other fan of the series here, as I know that it indeed has been running for quite some time - Manga-wise it's been produced since '84 hasn't it?, but this series is so full of Awesome-sauce it's often made me look at Western comics and cartoons and think: 'Man, Japan has Ghost in The Shell and we've got what?... The X-Men '90s series? :('.
At least Transformers was a meeting of both cultures. ;):)
Do you know where one might be able to acquire any English translated versions of the Manga?
Sorry man... I read the original Japanese manga so I don't know where to get English Translations. I do know they exist cos I've seen them in passing at my local comic shop so you may want to try yours.
The 2005 anime isn't bad and I quite enjoyed it. And yes, you are right, the first US Guyver movie had Mark Hamill in it. It was bad but I loved the 2nd one cos it was closer to the book and the fight scenes were 200 shades of awesome!!!
A friend of mine in Singapore is an even bigger fan of Guyver than I am, he has ALL the action figures that got released a few years ago. :)
Sounds like I wasn't actually that much help, you seem pretty updated yourself.
Oh yeah... forgot to mention that the female Guyver in the out-of-continuity movie is now canon... she appeared in Vol. 26 I think... but not much of an explanation as to why she has a Bio Booster unit...
Mark Hamil was in the Guyver movie?!?!
Who'd he play? weeeiiirrrddddd
Not a problem at all Gekisou, a reply is welcome enough but yeah, indeed they do exist but unfortunately it looks like I'll have to travel to Sydney in order to find any as the Illawarra's retail variety is pitiful at best. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by gekisou
I was a little confused when they changed Mizuki's hair colour for the 2005 version, as well as the difference in the pronunciation of their names but I figured that the 2005 version was just trying to follow it's roots a little bit more closely. ;)
The Mark Hamil film was 'A Dark Hero' yeah? - I know I've seen that one, ages ago :p, but I can't remember if I've seen the sequel... I'll have to see if I can find it. :cool:
Your friend sounds to be quite a fan indeed, especially if he has all the figures as they fetch a considerable price tag. I myself would love to acquire figures of Units 1-3, maybe a Gregole if I can track one down but the price tag of $100AUD is a little disappointing. :o
Not at all, as I said I'm just glad there is another fan on the boards and you did help with the event post the 2005 Anime.
So they've gone ahead and made her Cannon have they? that's good because she was pretty much the only loose end in regards to continuity if I understand correctly. :)
I might have to ask if any of the Sydney-siders have come across any in their travels, especially if the series is ongoing. ;):D
He played the FBI Agent in the first movie who gets mutated into a Zoanoid at the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by gantz
And to Hursticon, The first movie was just called Guyver, its the second one that is called Dark Hero.
Yes, the 2005 anime is a lot closer to the manga actually though hair colour really only came from the covers as there is no colour in the manga itself. In fact, I think Gigantic isn't that colour accurate in the 2005 version...
The female Guyver was never a continuity issue. They had her replace the original Kronos agent who became Guyver 2 in the movie and really the only reason was so that they could do a nude tentacle rape scene when she becomes the Guyver. :eek:
No idea why the writer added her in considering how long ago that movie was...
If you want, I can check out the prices of the manga at my local comic shop but if you do go to Sydney then Kinokuniya is the place you want to be checking out... or King's Comics.
Cheers for the clarification on the movies dude. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gekisou
If you could get us an idea as to the prices that'd be much appreciated. ;):)
King's Comics I've heard of but not Kinokuniya, so I'll have to get to some sleuthing and maybe give them a call to see if they've any instock :D, of the translated versions that is. :p
Just finished up FF #587
Hickman did well with that I believe. Heart breaking :(
I am absolutley LOVING ASM Big Time :D
And cant wait for this:
http://www.imagecomics.com/gallery2/...grey1cover.jpg
i know how good is it!! after the last couple of years of the below average stuff its good to be enjoying ASM again :DQuote:
Originally Posted by gantz
I think I was saying earlier in the thread, I dropped Spidey after OND and BND, so was only reading him in New Avengers and other events.
But yeah, damn, this is what a Spiderman comic should be. And Pete's on top for change, albeit probably not for very long, but I hope they keep up for at least a while.
Not too impressed with the sound of the new villain, Massacre (too Menace-cy) but it does mean we get a new incantation of the Spidey Armour costume, so yay :)
:D My local Comicbook Store, Impact Comics :D
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/phot...wIfdORGFzB0%3D
I'm very happy to learn today that new English version printings of the complete Sailormoon series are coming, including the prequel Code Name Sailor V. The Mixx/Tokyopop versions are very hard to find on ebay except at very high prices.
I did buy Vols 1, 11 and 12 of the most recent Japanese reprinting, but I'm very happy to finally be able to get the whole series in English. And hopefully this will pave the way for a rerelease (or redub) of the whole anime on DVD.
I hope someone who frequents this thread can help me. After a long time I pulled out Ultimate Alliance 2 on the weekend and started playing through the story again. All of a sudden I have an overwhelming urge to read the marvel civil war series. Is it in a collection of TPB's? If so then what order do I need to get/read them in? I've surfed the net for a bit and I can't come up with a sold answer to my question so I thought I'd ask someone here who's opinion I can trust.
There's a lot of Civil War trade paperbacks. Lots and lots.
You can read the main story in the Civil War TPB and leave it at that.
All the stories in the other TPBs take place either before, in between chapters, in between pages, inbetween panels! or after the six or seven issues of the series collected in the Civil War TPB.
So I don't think there's any particularly good order to read the story in except to say read the main book first, it has all the important plot points, and then read the tie-ins that might interest you. (Eg there's a big status quo change for Spider-Man about two chapters into the main book, but you need to read the Spider-Man Civil War TPBS to find out how it affects him and his supporting cast).
Thank You:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
SO the main story is only in one TPB? Thats an easy starting point:)
Yep, start at the Mark Millar/Steve McNiven Civil War series.
Marvel Crossovers (and DC too looking at Darkest Night) tend these day to really be a miniseries that tell the story and the other existing books are just tie-ins. Unlike the old days when you had to read part 1 in book a, part 2 in book b, etc
Is this the one I need to start on?
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book...1794/Civil-War
Yes that's the whole main story. Just checked out the reading order on Wikipedia and it's all over the place. You are best off with just that book.
Bartrim, this may be helpful to you, any local should have a 'free' copy
http://marvel.com/comic_books/issue/...onology_2009_5
Cool. Thanks man :)Quote:
Originally Posted by gantz