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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #465 on: May 27, 2016, 11:49 AM »
Yeah, I see what you're saying.  But there's really a bit more to it for Marvel.  They had Franklin dreaming up everyone's history.  So ideally it would be identical to what was before Secret Wars (minus the transplants), but it doesn't necessarily HAVE to be identical.

For example, I expect the new Punisher series will feature a Frank Castle who is a veteran Marine of non-specific Middle Eastern conflicts, not Vietnam.  That way he's not in his seventies (though the FrankenPunisher thing already took care of that... painfully badly).

So I guess I'm saying we don't know the past is canon unless it's revealed anew as canon.
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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #466 on: May 27, 2016, 12:00 PM »
So I guess I'm saying we don't know the past is canon unless it's revealed anew as canon.

Not sure where you read that.  I see it the way Brian explained and would consider all of the previous history as canon unless evidence arises to refute that.
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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #467 on: July 6, 2016, 10:29 AM »
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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #468 on: July 7, 2016, 10:41 AM »
How does she fit that hair in the helmet?
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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #469 on: July 7, 2016, 01:16 PM »
You do know that hair is soft, right?
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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #470 on: July 7, 2016, 03:50 PM »
Hair can be delicate, too. No woman with a do that nice is gonna risk it.  :P

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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #471 on: July 7, 2016, 05:51 PM »
Awesome. Its so refreshing to see Marvel completely do away with white males in any kind of positive heroic role. New Avengers lineup:

Black Female Iron Man
Black Male Spiderman
Black Male Captain America
Muslim Female Ms. Marvel
White Female Thor
Red Android Vision

I think 12 year old Nova might be on the team now, so that's almost a white "man."  And Ant Man is still a white guy I think. So I guess white males can still be tolerated in low doses so long as they're juveniles or diminished in size.  Its funny though - somehow all the white male bad guys are still white male bad guys.

Now I've got to figure out how I'm going to spend all this money that I'm no longer using to buy comics.
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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #472 on: July 21, 2017, 02:52 PM »
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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #473 on: July 21, 2017, 05:21 PM »
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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #474 on: July 21, 2017, 08:40 PM »
Whole thing was a dream. Rick wakes up from his coma for real this time. That's it...done Kirkman.

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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #475 on: July 22, 2017, 11:02 PM »
There's no way to really end it well without killing everyone.   >:D
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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #476 on: July 22, 2017, 11:05 PM »
Sure there is... somebody dies from not-a-head-shot, and then stays dead.  The zombie plague has ended, just as mysteriously as it started.
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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #477 on: September 16, 2017, 03:10 PM »
Anyone reading many comics these days? I know many here have sort of dropped out of modern comics for the most part, so feel free to post anything older you might be checking out as well. I personally cut back my list by probably 60% last month. Much like collecting, storing all those books was starting to become a pain....and with all of the prices climbing these days, it has gotten fairly expensive. I may end up cutting more shortly. I've started becoming interested in picking up back issues from the 80s. Those are what I was into as a kid, and it just seemed like you got a little more for your money then. Things this day are pretty quick reads.

Personally, I'm reading these right now:

Star Wars
Darth Vader
Amazing Spider-Man
Guardians of the Galaxy
Daredevil
X-Men
Captain America (after the "reboot")
The Flash
Batman

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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #478 on: September 16, 2017, 04:12 PM »
I no longer read them, but I keep up on the news for some reason. And I read Saga in trades.

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Re: Comic Book Thread
« Reply #479 on: September 18, 2017, 12:01 PM »
I'm contemplating cancelling.  I haven't even opened my last 4 shipments and am pretty disappointed at the storylines Marvel's been pushing lately.  Evil Cap, Lady Thor, Black Teen Iron Man, Black Spidey...I get adding some diverse characters, but its gotten pretty ridiculous.  If they're so gung ho to eliminate any presence of white men, then I'll help them out by eliminating my subscriptions. 

I'd like to continue on with Star Wars and Transformers, but that's just a gateway to hop back on board with Marvel at some point.
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