The title's pretty self explanatory.
Normally I'm a Marvel guy, and the Ultron Unlimited arc from a few years back in Avengers is by far my favorite from that company. A countless horde of indestructible sociopathic robots can put a good dose of fear in any team, Norse god or no.
But I simply adore the Green Lantern arc that spanned from 101-106 of Volume 2: Emerald Knights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Knights) (and the previous two issues that had led up to the events of EK). The two arguably most famous Green Lanterns fighting side by side whilst Hal comes to terms with the mistakes he makes-- this is Silver Age Hal, mind you, not our Hal (who thankfully returned). Great character development and nostalgia... Plus it's the first comic story arc I ever collected.
I am always and forever a DC guy. I do not buy Marvel, and rarely buy other company's titles.
Favorite story arcs:
Legends, the follow-up to Crisis on Infinite Earths (which is a close second).
EK was damn good, as is the almost concluded Up, Up and Away! (in Action and Superman titles).
Justice has been good so far, as well.
From Silver Age: Green Lantern/Green Arrow/Guardian of the Universe American Road Trip!
Quote from: CYMRO of the Cabbage CabalFrom Silver Age: Green Lantern/Green Arrow/Guardian of the Universe American Road Trip!
Speedy's a dopehead! OH NOES!!!
You ever read the Green Arrow: Quiver saga written by Kevin Smith? Good stuff.
Quote from: Captain ElDoQuote from: CYMRO of the Cabbage CabalFrom Silver Age: Green Lantern/Green Arrow/Guardian of the Universe American Road Trip!
Speedy's a dopehead! OH NOES!!!
You ever read the Green Arrow: Quiver saga written by Kevin Smith? Good stuff.
Definetely!
Have you checked out Wonder Woman #1?
Quote from: CYMRO of the Cabbage CabalHave you checked out Wonder Woman #1?
Can't say I have-- I tend to avoid relaunches like the plague unless I hear good things. Then I usually pick up back issues or graphic novels.
OH! How could I forget Young Justice, the first 10 issues? Not an arc, but hilarious!
And... Well... Need I say it?
Kingdom Come.
~ElDo
I like both DC and Marvel equally. House of M was pretty good as far as recent stories go, but the best arcs ever are The Long Halloween and The Dark Knight Returns. Oh, Dark Phoenix and Days of Future Past were good too.
Quote from: IshmaylI like both DC and Marvel equally. House of M was pretty good as far as recent stories go, but the best arcs ever are The Long Halloween and The Dark Knight Returns. Oh, Dark Phoenix and Days of Future Past were good too.
Teh Frank Miller = awesome, I concur.
And I <3 Dark Phoenix Saga! DoFP was innovative and fresh, but I personally prefer Age of Apocaylpse for my alternate bleak reality.
Yeah, Age was good too... Civil War seems to be pretty good too.
Oh, so many I'm geeking out over here. Grant Morrison's recent run a couple years ago was the best thing to happen to X-Men in many , many years. Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run currently going is also amazingly great.
QuoteThen I usually pick up back issues or graphic novels.
I am
really pleased at the fact that DC (and I guess other) are reprinting the classic storylines in graphic novel form.
Haunted Tank was a childhood favorite, and seeing some of the old stories rereleased was kool.
We'll have to see. I'm a bit displeased with the aftermath of Avengers Dis-Assembled (even though it led directly to HoM), and while that was over a year ago, the re-foremd team is still smarting a bit for me.
That being said, Civil War is looking good.
Anyone here ever read Watchmen? I hear there's a movie coming out, although that frightens me a bit...
(Anyone else think that Alan Moore is mentally disturbed? He worships the Roman snake deity, Glycon. And he denounces just about every film adaptation of his work, no matter how faithful.)
Quote from: Captain ElDoAnyone here ever read Watchmen? I hear there's a movie coming out, although that frightens me a bit...
(Anyone else think that Alan Moore is mentally disturbed? He worships the Roman snake deity, Glycon. And he denounces just about every film adaptation of his work, no matter how faithful.)
Ahh, yes, the Watchmen. Disturbing guy that Rorschach. :worried:
Yeah. In fact, I dare you to find a single member of that "team" who isn't disturbing.
I'm sure that eventuallly a Watchmen movie will come out, but it's been "in the works" for several years now, and I don't have much faith for it in the form of a 2-hour movie; it should be made into a 4-part HBO miniseries or something.
Here you go (http://imdb.com/title/tt0409459/)
Yeah, but that's been in pre-production, casting stages, change-of-directors' stages, etc multiple times now. The only way you'll find any real info on that movie is to check out
www.superherohype.com
Speaking of Superhero hype, Are any other NC residents going to the Heroes convention?
It is June 30 - July 2 at the Charlotte Convention Center.
They have a good guest list lined up.
Check it oot at www.heroesonline.com
Not I... I stay away from conventions. But I'm sure it'll be good.
Quote from: IshmaylNot I... I stay away from conventions. But I'm sure it'll be good.
This will be my first convention in aboot 15 years, and that was a restaurant convention. :chef:
:chef:
A friend of mine, who is a VP at Wachovia, found out Rosario Dawson will be there, and bought us passes.
Oh man, this is so weird, i was just thinking of starting a thread about favourite comics story arcs/serieses/authors/artist just this morning and not this thing has shown up.
As for me, i read some DC, some marvel, some other.
DC i love batman stuff and anything from the vertigo imprint. I have yet to read anything Vertigo that i didn't love. For Batman stuff: Dark knight saga, non man's land, and war games are some of my favourite stuff. Superman usually pisses me off, but Superman: Red Son and Lex Luthor: Man of Steel are two of my favourite stories.
From vertigo: Sandman, 100 Bullets, Fables, Lucifer, The Invisibles, and Alan Moore's Swamp thing run. One of the best story arcs ever though is Brian Azzarello's run on Constantine - that stuff is disturbing.
From Marvel, i mostly read the Ultimate Universe books, but i aslo liked House of M and Sentry and i like where the Civil War story is going.
Image comics is amazing. Invincible, Walking Dead, Powers and Jinx is some of the best stuff out there.
All of the Wildstorm stuff i have read is great. Specifically the Authority, Planetary, and Sleeper.
Yeah, I completely forgot about Powers. Bendis is a genious at that stuff - especially character dialog.
Seven Soldiers!
prepare a lynch mob:
i thought the clone saga had plenty of potential. its was, IMHO, the perfect nameless one-shot villian to be brought back from the dead.
Are you talking about the Spiderman Clone saga? :confused:
If so, I hate to say it, but that was the one thing that drove me away from comics in the nineties. It took Grant Morrison's "New X-Men," and Strazinskyk's "Amazing Spiderman" to bring be back.
I'm all about marvel - I find DC to often be black and white more than Marvel. (then again, most of the comics I've read are from the 70s, so the lable could have changed in the 30 years since then.
My favorite all time is the Dark Pheonix saga, which is why I hated X3, the movie. Butchered Dark Pheonix in the show, they did: no Hellfire club, no Shi'ar, no eating a star and destroying an entire intelligent race, and no death at her own hands. :censor: :wtf1: :bulls: :disgust:
Well, Shi'ar may have been a bit much to throw in for the casual watcher that knows nothing of the comics, but I agree that not having Hellfire was just ridiculous; not to mention, she never even once used the phoenix fire!!
ok, so the Shi'ar would have been overkill. Still, they made Pheonix seem very...mundane, in the movie. I mean, it wasn't an extradimensional force...just Jean's power. And Wolverine killed her, where in the comics she had to kill herself, which was SO much cooler.
Not to mention, in the comics, it was Scott there in the end that saved her and brought her back to her senses, instead of just being dead the entire movie...
the more i hear about it, the more x3 sounds like one big giant cameo after another.
Yeah, it really is. I dunno, I was really pissed off after watching X3...but that's just me. I'll stop before I rant, it would be easy.
Quote from: Xathan, Hobo AlchemistYeah, it really is. I dunno, I was really pissed off after watching X3...but that's just me. I'll stop before I rant, it would be easy.
Everyone I know who saw it has been disappointed.
I will save my money and see
Superman Returns instead.
Yeah brainface, that's pretty much what I thought... but don't forget that it stars Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, who will be featured in every single scene whether he's necessary or not!!
I can't go on with this, I've been disappointed enough just thinking about it. I just wish Singer had stuck around with X-Men. I mean, sure, a great Superman movie will be awesome, but I would have just rather seen another awesome X-Men movie to wrap things up.
JSA CLASSIFIED:
The Fall and Rise of Vandal Savage!
I just remembered the Avengers story arc about the religious cultists called the Triune Understanding.
Ah... good times.
yes, i did mean the spiderman clone saga. i will admit, it came out much worse then it could have, but i still say it had plenty of potential. the biggest problem with comics in the 90s was that the creators expected hip new costume designs to carry the titles. from superman red/blue, to scarlet spider, and from armored daredevil to the whole exoskeleton batman.
that said, the idea of "hey, lets bring back that clone of spidey" has more potential then "hey, why dont we kill off superman?"
The costume changes were only the symptom of a bigger problem for 90's comics, which you touched upon: The Rise of the Gimmick.
The Death of Superman.
The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Parallax.
The countless costume changes of all heroes.
When Bane broke the Bat.
Did I mention the Death of Superman?
Hypertime.
Spiderman's "Identity Crisis".
The Onslaught crossover.
The X-Men "bubble"- the countless X-related spinoffs, no matter how inane (any grouping of mutants could expect at least a 20-issue run).
And, of course, the Death of Superman.
I know I'm forgetting countless more. Let's not forget variant covers galore and other marketing gimmicks that were usually cheesy or inane.
not to mention the expansion movements of both JL and the avengers.
but do you truely think gimmicks were strictly a phenomenon from the 90s? claremont and byrd had the x-men leaving earth in the 80s, neil adams had green arrow and green lantern making political statements in the 70s, and stan lee had flawed superheroes in the 60s.
the fact that gimmicks were used wasnt the problem, its how poorly the gimmicks were used. the gimmicks used in the 90s were used more as marketing devices then story devices. death of superman was something that could only be used as a marketing device, but the clone saga had potential to be used as a story device.
Notice it was the "Rise of the Gimmick", not the "Birth of the Gimmick". There were plenty of gimmicks in previous decades, of course. But as you said, the skill behind the 90's gimmicks was-- lacking. The fact that you could expect every year several high-end crossovers and sales gimmicks was the key cause for the fall of the comics industry (and the increased availability of substitute mediums).
New Flash series today, as well as the second isue of Shadowpact, and the last Sgt. Rock.
A lot of people like the current Daredevil run; I'm not reading it, but if any of you have an opinion on it, I'd like to know.
A couple of the employees over at Heroes are trying to lure me into reading a new Cpt. America series. But I am strong. I am resisting.
i havent read any new comics in quite awhile, now...
is it true that wolverine now has a sword? and if so, then why?
pleasepleasePLEASE dont tell me its because the sword can cut through anything....
Well... I'm not a huge comic book fan (at least as franchises go) but I've always loved Batman. And Batman the animated series was, IMHO, the best American animation EVER. I also have some fond memories of the reaper.
Besides that, Hellboy has always been fun.The whole "reluctant dark messiah" thing is always fun.
I despise superman for some reason, and toyman, as a villain, could have been done better (so many toy themed villains in batman did so much better). Even though I disliked Superman from an early age, his death didn't really do much for me.
The Up, Up and Away story arc just concluded in Action 840.
Very well done. Some nice finetuning of Superman's power.
Justice 6(of 12) is out. I love the art, as well as the plotline.
Just got back from the last day of the Heroes Con.
I actually bought a couple of Indies.
Deadmen Tell No Tales, from Arcana Comics, really impressed me.
And Crumpled Planet from Torc Press was just plain weird. But good.
I picked up a lot of old GLs, and found a Guy Gardner #1 for $.40.
Saw Rosario Dawson (from Sin City). She is doing an independent comic next month.
Thought I'm not talking about the comics here, this seems a good place to put this:
Superman Returns is Amazing. This is definitely the way to bring back a dead franchise. The casting ended up being perfect (I was a bit worried about both Routh and Bosworth ... never worried about Spacey, though ;) ), the script was perfect, and the special effects... perfect. This is no Matrix, and it's really not even a Spiderman 2... the action scenes revolve more around Superman doing awesome stunts rather than fighting equally tough opponents, but still, great effects. And damn, Kevin Spacey will STEAL a scene!
I have yet to see it, but it is on my to do list.
I have heard good things about the story. Glad to here a good review!
meh. I was actually REALLY disappointed with Superman Returns. REALLY disappointed.