That actually got me hyped. Seems a good match / concept for X-Factor and it kind of reminds me of the Peter David's era.
Marvel reveals ‘X-Factor’ creative team and more, out in August 2024
Set in the X-Men's upcoming From the Ashes era, X-FACTOR by Mark Russell and Bob Quinn brings back the iconic government mutant team.aiptcomics.com
Not exactly, but disapointed it is not evolving properly. It could have been much better (I mean after Hickman left. Maybe more Gillen / Ewing, less Gerry)
My local Chinese place is way too greasy. It's like a once-every-six-months type of meal. PF Chang's is my shit.
pf changes needs MORE grease. it's like chinese food made by an asshole.
i do like those lettuce wraps tho
Really? The standard dishes like Sesame / Orange / Sweet and Sour are all fuckin' delicious. And that fluffy brown rice..... yum. 😋
Yup, starts about 2 years before his death. That whole era of late 80s through his death and the four replacements was really solid, IMO.
mmm I only remember trying to Mongolian Beef and Kung Pao Chicken before. which of those three should I try the next time I go?
Depends on what you're looking for. I like Post-Crisis Superman up until 1994, still reading it right now. It hits snags here and there but it's good classic comics.
Finally got to read the FCBD Ultimates issue. Still amazed how much I've turned around on this new line and universe, by far the most I've been excited for a new comic.
Really intrigued how Cap is going to be characterized as we go deeper into this.
Really intrigued how Cap is going to be characterized as we go deeper into this.
Anything I buy is independent of browsing on Amazon. Just stuff I hear about or usually read anyway. This week was Ain't No Grave.
I do kind of miss being able to browse all the weekly releases on CMX but I do save a lot of money this way. There was a time I was spending $30+ on comics every week. That money could be going to PVC anime tiddies.
I love it, personally. It's not perfect (but then again what era of Superman comics is), but it's a fun ride overall.
There's also a new, 1300+ page omnibus of the first year of the Triangle Era coming this September too :)
I genuinely have nothing against the man personally, but even his personal blog is so dull to read, huh.Gerry Duggan has a neat Krakoa X-Men retrospective type exit write up on his Substack
End of an era.
Also I think he got the dates wrong a bit there, he was reminiscing about February 2019 and said 2 days later, the pandemic hit. I'm pretty sure he was talking about 2020.
I try not to think about it and enjoy the little time we have left but they sure make it hard
Eh. I feel like it ran it's course. I haven't really been into it since before Fall of X anyway.
He still could, but it'd cost you all the other Super-books.
It did lose a bit of special sauce after Hickman left but it was still enjoyable
Man lol
That's fair
I'm not much of an omnibus collector, but that's a good deal. Only a bit more than $1 an issue.
It is, I'm still reading it, I just think it could have been much better even without Hickman. Even Gerry had some very good moments, like Planet Sized X-Men, the Forge three parter and X-Men 25, but FotHoX is not working imo. RotPoX is very good though.
Yea It looks like he's doing some sort of Wolverine and Captain America project. Probably the next event after BLOODHUNT!
That's like the old "If a tree falls and no one is around to hear it..." type of question.
"Note to collectors: the new series kicks off with a key first appearance and a major addition to the lore of Wolverine!"
LOL
New Batman outfit for the upcoming fight. Not a fan tbh.
Batman Gets A Brand New Look In Batman #147 (Spoilers)
Batman #148 has a cover with a new look for Batman, grey with dark blue highlights, gloves, cape, and Bat logo looking like Dark Knight.bleedingcool.com
Not trying to see any of that in Detective Comics lol
my feelings are more complicated than that.
i'm not sad the era is ending. the quiet council, orchis, robot moira, enigma dominion, CIA beast, and resurrection protocols needed to end. those plot lines have worn out their welcome. Fall of X has been mostly awful and it needs to be put out of its misery.
i am upset that Krakoa and Arakko as mutant homes are being scrapped. extremely wasteful and unnecessary. it's like getting rid of Wakanda or Atlantis.
i am grieving over the best writer at Marvel, Al Ewing, no longer being involved in X books. Gillen will be missed to a lesser extent too.
i have zero faith in Tom Brevoort as an editor. never had interest in his Avengers work and everything he's said about From the Ashes has either turned me off or outright annoyed me. just a terrible fit for mutants, imo. every time he says "the real world" i want to cancel all my pulls.
i do like the creative lineup for the From the Ashes titles and will be giving the books a shot.
Yeah agreed. That's not really how it works. Every writer is constantly introducing "major additions" and those are almost all promptly forgotten. By now just about every character has had long lost siblings, childhood friends, ex-lovers turned villains, etc... It only matters if it's a character still around in a few years. If I were a betting man I'd say the chance of that happening is pretty low.
Reading your thoughts, I think I realized that I too will miss the island of Krakoa, Arakko and what they represented as well more than any story we got during the era(except HoX/PoX). We could've just gotten new storylines that continued to incorporate them instead of what we're getting now, which does few like a step back. The mutants earned Krakoa, they should've kept it around
Comic newbie looking to get into Spider Gwen. If I buy the below am I getting all the comics or am I missing a chunk of the story?
SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST-SPIDER MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION: EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE
SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST-SPIDER OMNIBUS
SPIDER-GWEN: GWENVERSE
SPIDER-GWEN: SHADOW CLONES
SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST-SPIDER MODERN ERA EPIC COLLECTION: EDGE OF SPIDER-VERSE
SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST-SPIDER OMNIBUS
SPIDER-GWEN: GWENVERSE
SPIDER-GWEN: SHADOW CLONES
Just buying this list you'll be missing a decent chunk of her first and arguably best series. The Epic Collection collects the beginning of it, though It's missing the big Spider-Verse crossover (which I think is a mistake but it's how Marvel's chosen to collect these Modern Epics unfortunately) but you can get the gist of it with the context provided without truly needing the pitstop. There's a second volume too, and they'll need a third volume to wrap it all up - there's an omnibus for the run that collects all of it but I believe that omni is currently out of print. The second volume you'd want is Weapon of Choice. The regular sized trade Unmasked should get you to the finish line of the original run alongside these if you're looking to get the full story immediately and you'll only double dip on issue #24 in the format switch up.
The Ghost Spider omnibus is for the second era of her ongoings - after her original creative team was no longer working on it. It's much more of a sequel to the Spider-Verse crossover of that era, Spider-Geddon and has more tie-ins to other books. In for a penny, in for a pound - I'd probably recommend reading Spider-Geddon alongside the first few issues in this run.
The best thing I can say about the Gwenverse/Shadow Clones/Gwen Smash mini-series are that the David Nakayama cover art is great. They're very superfluous and don't really connect much to anything else, so you could pretty much treat them as filler and skip them or take them as stand alone recent stories. Her upcoming ongoing book doesn't seem to have any connection to them as far as I can tell.
Well the shitty part is its clearly directed to speculators. Readers can give a shit we just want good stories.
Great job covering everything!
I'll just note that if you compare that Spider-Gwen Epic Collection to the Spider-Gwen Omnibus, here are the issues that make up the difference between the two --
SPIDER-GWEN (2015B) #9-34
SPIDER-GWEN ANNUAL #1
ALL-NEW WOLVERINE ANNUAL #1
SPIDER-MAN (2016) #12-14
I'll also link this Reddit post, which does a great job listing all of the important Spider-Gwen material, as well as her appearances in other lines and events. It's a couple years old now, but should still cover all the important stuff.
Thanks! I will order those 2 as well and read them after the Epic Collection right? Also more generally what news/product sites do you use to keep up with new comics for spider Gwen? I saw on Amazon there is a new (?) Series releasing later this year but I figure must be a better way to keep track.
Top 10 Non-Cape Comics of the Week
1. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #6 (Patrick Horvath) - IDW
2. The Last Mermaid #3 (Derek Kirk Kim) - Image
3. Masterpiece #5 (Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Meleev) - Dark Horse
4. Crocodile Black #1 (Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Somnath Pal) - Boom!
5. The Deviant #5 (James Tynion IV and Joshua Hixson) - Image
6. The One Hand #4 (Ram V, Laurence Campbell, and Lee Loughridge) - Image
7. The Sacrificers #8 (Rick Remender, Max Fiumara, and Dave McCaig) - Image
8. Ain't No Grave #1 (Skottie Young and Jorge Corona) - Image
9. Night People #3 (Chris Condon and Artyom Topilin)
10. Geiger #2 (Geoff Johns and Gary Frank) - Image
Beneath the Trees continues to be a must-read for anyone with the stomach for horror and gore. It's exceptionally unsettling. The Last Mermaid may very well be the sleeper hit comic of the season. Bendis' Masterpiece is the comic that fans of his Daredevil run have been wanting for years. And the rest of the list is packed full of star-studded talent creating beautiful indie work that is well deserving of your attention. Especially watch Chris Condon, whose previous work includes The Enfield Gang Massacre and That Texas Blood. He's growing into a star before our eyes.
1. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #6 (Patrick Horvath) - IDW
2. The Last Mermaid #3 (Derek Kirk Kim) - Image
3. Masterpiece #5 (Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Meleev) - Dark Horse
4. Crocodile Black #1 (Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Somnath Pal) - Boom!
5. The Deviant #5 (James Tynion IV and Joshua Hixson) - Image
6. The One Hand #4 (Ram V, Laurence Campbell, and Lee Loughridge) - Image
7. The Sacrificers #8 (Rick Remender, Max Fiumara, and Dave McCaig) - Image
8. Ain't No Grave #1 (Skottie Young and Jorge Corona) - Image
9. Night People #3 (Chris Condon and Artyom Topilin)
10. Geiger #2 (Geoff Johns and Gary Frank) - Image
Beneath the Trees continues to be a must-read for anyone with the stomach for horror and gore. It's exceptionally unsettling. The Last Mermaid may very well be the sleeper hit comic of the season. Bendis' Masterpiece is the comic that fans of his Daredevil run have been wanting for years. And the rest of the list is packed full of star-studded talent creating beautiful indie work that is well deserving of your attention. Especially watch Chris Condon, whose previous work includes The Enfield Gang Massacre and That Texas Blood. He's growing into a star before our eyes.
So what's beneath the trees? I certainly hope they told you by issue #6.