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Tor Lugosi said:
The Annihilation saga is probably the only worthwhile comics Marvel has produced in the last twenty years. A shame that its finale, The Thanos Imperative, felt fairly rushed.

I also hate that the original Annihilation event has never been properly collected with Keith Giffen's Thanos work, which sets up a ton of the stuff used in the event.
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yeah the Annihilation stuff tapered off and the remaining plot threads were finished in Hickman's F4 and various 2010s era GoTG things.
 
Oh wow, Tom King is back with a new mini-series! This time, he's taking on the high-stakes, pulse-pounding adventures of the Human Target!

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...and its about a depressed middle-aged man.
 
jspit2.0 said:
Legion Lost by Abnett/Lanning, Great Darkness Saga by Levitz.
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The DnA Legion reminds me of how badly DC screwed the Legion over by needlessly rebooting the team in 2004. The overall quality of "Threeboot" didn't justify it. As for the Levitz Legion from 1980-88, nothing tops Great Darkness, but Levitz was a master of weaving plot threads and subplots. Eye For An Eye (vs a revived and expanded Legion of Super-Villains) is another classic that was a swan song for one of my favorite Legionnaires, Karate Kid. Despite the mortal injuries Nemesis Kid inflicted on him he makes an honorable sacrifice to save his wife's home planet as his dying act. Projectra's confrontation with her husband's killer was extremely well written. I swear Nemesis Kid shit his tights before she snapped his neck.

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Am I crazy for thinking the SW6 Legionnaires title was underrated? The first arc where the team battles a revived Fatal Five was actually quite excellent. I loved little details like how Sun Boy/Inferno's assholery inadvertently created a new Emerald Empress and how Legionnaires like Ferro got a little more fleshed out as his predecessor died shortly after joining the team. Plus, it had Chris Sprouse on pencils. His work had an anime-like look to it and the costume design was excellent enough to be carried over into the reboot. It's also worth noting that Adam Hughes also pencilled an issue or two as well.
 
Jetpack Himmler said:
The DnA Legion reminds me of how badly DC screwed the Legion over by needlessly rebooting the team in 2004. The overall quality of "Threeboot" didn't justify it. As for the Levitz Legion from 1980-88, nothing tops Great Darkness, but Levitz was a master of weaving plot threads and subplots. Eye For An Eye (vs a revived and expanded Legion of Super-Villains) is another classic that was a swan song for one of my favorite Legionnaires, Karate Kid. Despite the mortal injuries Nemesis Kid inflicted on him he makes an honorable sacrifice to save his wife's home planet as his dying act. Projectra's confrontation with her husband's killer was extremely well written. I swear Nemesis Kid shit his tights before she snapped his neck.

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Am I crazy for thinking the SW6 Legionnaires title was underrated? The first arc where the team battles a revived Fatal Five was actually quite excellent, and I loved little details like how Sun Boy/Inferno's assholery inadvertently created a new Emerald Empress. Plus, it had Chris Sprouse on pencils, and his work had an anime-like look to it and the costume design was excellent enough to be carried over into the reboot. It's also worth noting that Adam Hughes also pencilled an issue or two as well.
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YES. Jeckie snapping that bastard NK's neck was one of the highlights of the early-mid 80s LOSH. Dude had it coming.
 
Stab You in the Back said:
Oh wow, Tom King is back with a new mini-series! This time, he's taking on the high-stakes, pulse-pounding adventures of the Human Target!

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...and its about a depressed middle-aged man.
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I was actually excited when I saw Human Target was coming back, hadn't heard any announcements or anything, just saw the #1 issue was out. Was about to buy it when I saw Tom King was attached and instantly changed my mind. Didn't even bother glancing through it because I figured it'd be the usual King story, and, well, nice to see I wasn't mistaken.
 
Aight I want to start getting into comics and shit.

What are the best runs on Deadpool and Spider-Man respectively? I’ll probably start with those.
 
BeepBoopBeepBoop said:
I honestly hate Magneto's redemption because even before all this bullshit he literally was an abusive fuck to his children, not knowing they were his, but he beat the fuck out of Quicksilver and basically was going to let Toad or Blob rape her if needed. He's better off as some villain rather than a Jew whining about how he can oppress others because Uncle Adolf was mean to him once. Niggas go on about how the X-Men don't make sense in Marvel when they opened their arms to the biggest cunt in Marvel, who the fuck wouldn't hate them.
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Doesn't almost every X-Men villain get "redeemed" at one point or another regardless of how many thousands of people he has killed? Almost as if there is some racist message right there.
 
GranDuke said:
Doesn't almost every X-Men villain get "redeemed" at one point or another regardless of how many thousands of people he has killed? Almost as if there is some racist message right there.
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I mean Krakoa is literally Israel down to Magneto quoting The Learned Elders of Zion. It would great to see it burn, but supposedly X-Men Editorial fell in love with it because if the X-Men aren't being genocided for kidnapping peoples kids and turning people gay, they're being smug and facing an alternate timeline that's utterly retarded. Every X-Men event is literally bad end future, like for once just have the mutants get attacked by people who were happy to be depowered because it actually made their lives worse. Or people who find the X-Men morally repugnant, someone in X-Force goes live on television because of them realizing that the X-Men became the Brotherhood.

All of the X-Men books really have no conflict, there's no catharsis when you just have a character win and be smug about it unless the villain is equally smug. Besides that they need to retcon the line back to 2002 or before Morrison decided to throw a tantrum and his fans praise his overrated run.

Kill Kitty Pryde off, too. Her second-hand oppression is the most boring BS. I love it when writers bring up how the X-Men have always been fighting, but half the time they make their own enemies by recruiting actual genocidal monsters and the writers whitewash it by going 'muh Sentinels'. Trasks entire motivation was that the X-Men would cause a race war, and the minute his creation went rogue he tried to fix his mistake. Every Sentinel afterwords was literally mutants building Sentinels to make money besides one case where the Avengers actually helped destroy them.
 
I just need to vent for a bit...

So I got an email from 2000AD shilling their wares and one of them was dreadnoughts (didn't even go for Dreddnoughts) and it's just so normal I miss when comics were larger than life fun escapeism where you have a cripple riding a robochair shooting people

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Just look at that dullness isn't far from what you'd see on tv police action shows, even pulls the 'has cop as hostage the buddy cop shots the perp without hitting cop'.

More the below please less of the above, yours sincerely old man new fag.
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Suikafag said:
Aight I want to start getting into comics and shit.

What are the best runs on Deadpool and Spider-Man respectively? I’ll probably start with those.
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Ultimate Spider-Man #1-133 (2000) is a pretty good modern introduction of the character with them getting their powers in high school and then continuing on from there. This series was made to get new people into Spider-Man so it's a self contained story that does not cross over with 3 other books regularly like the main SM book, also one of the most consistent Spider-Man modern runs.

If you want a more mature Spider-Man with him as adult and him with his shit together (mostly) I would recommend J. Michael Straczynski's run.

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sKr0n said:
Ultimate Spider-Man #1-133 (2000) is a pretty good modern introduction of the character with them getting their powers in high school and then continuing on from there. This series was made to get new people into Spider-Man so it's a self contained story that does not cross over with 3 other books regularly like the main SM book, also one of the most consistent Spider-Man modern runs.

If you want a more mature Spider-Man with him as adult and him with his shit together (mostly) I would recommend J. Michael Straczynski's run.

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TchPiKinmup said:
Joe Kelly's original run on Deadpool is still the high mark of the character. It cemented all the things the movie then ran with.
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Thank you, I’ll read those runs. 👍
 
Suikafag said:
Thank you, I’ll read those runs. 👍
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Ultimate Spider-Man is pretty bad honestly. The OG Amazing Spider-Man isn't bad, but it's better than Bendis. Bendis recycles storylines and dialogue like no ones business. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly run for Deadpool wasn't bad, it was around 2012? It's a pretty good focus on his character that's pretty okay, not the best, but the art is good and the story is serviceable.

Once Roy Thomas becomes the editor, Spider-Man hits a really good stride.
 
Yeah, I'd recommend the original Spider-Man comics, too. I read through them all a few years back and had a great time with it. Peter and MJ's marriage even makes for a good ending spot, if you want that.

I organized all my scans into chronological order when I read through it and kept the folders if anyone wants the first one (which goes up to ASM #120).
 
Ive been hearing some good things about Saga, is it worth a read?

Edit: Turns out im a gay retard and forgot to page back to see all the Saga stuff let this edit be a monument to my shame.
 
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personally I really like saga, but I seem to be the only one here who does.
 
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