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:manny: it happens..


I miss the Thanos/Skreet dynamic.

Cosmic Marvel was firing on all cylinders while DnA was over it.
 

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Iron Man #3
I liked the first issue of this book but now I am not really feeling it. The only character I give a damn about is Jocasta and I would rather be reading a Jocasta solo comic where her exploration of living in the human world while staying an AI rights advocate. And also delve into why she chose a black woman as the human face she would like to have.

Magic Order #3
People have been shytting on this book since jump but I love it and I am not even a Mark millar fan like that. This issue ratcheted things up several notches.

Justice League #6
Best Justice League book in a long time despite being confusing as fukk with all the cosmic mumbo jumbo.

Pearl #1
Indie vibe, non-superhero comic Bendis has always been my favorite Bendis and the first issue of this book intrigued me enough to want to see more.

Infinity Wars #2
I don't like anything about this book.

Doctor Strange #4
I continue to be surprised by how much I am enjoying this one because I loathe Doctor Strange as a character.

Batman #53
People can hate Tom King's Batman all they want but dude is doing an incredible job diving into the psychological core of Batman/Bruce Wayne. The lengths Bruce has gone through to get on the jury that is deciding Mr. Freeze's fate to make sure Freeze gets acquitted is showing just how messed up the aborted wedding has made Bruce and how it has even started effecting his work as Batman.
And that comparison of Batman to God while Bruce was arguing for a not guilty verdict was :jbhmm:.

Astonishing X-Men Annual #1
This book showed all the reasons why Beast and Iceman should be moved out of the X-Universe and into the Avengers books and never allowed back. Beast and Iceman are not X-Men characters anymore at their core.
Regardless of how hard writers try to write Beast as being as sufficiently angsty as every other X-character it comes across as hollow and diminishes the character when compared to how he is written outside of the X-books. And Iceman is too damn happy for the X-books. Dude should be on an Avengers team as the wisecracking jokester/comic relief guy instead of being constantly surrounded by the sturm un drang of the X-Men.
And back-from-the-dead Charles Xavier needs to become a Magneto style shades of gray villain because he works so much better in that role based on this one issue.

Extermination #1
Didn't like this one either. The art was good and I was ecstatic with what happened to the stupid alternate dimension vampire Storm but this story feels like a million past X-Men stories all crammed into one unnecessary event.

Aquaman #39
This was a fun one. It is the second part of a crossover between Aquaman and The Suicide Squad (the first part was in last week's Suicide Squad #45 which was hilarious and felt like one of the OG John Ostrander Squad stories).
 

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I actually enjoyed that first issue. If we're being honest the X-men universe is kind of a mess right now (although X-Men Red is pretty good), they kinda need to reset things.

They should have gave SW3 a longer build up.. and planned out a hard reset.
 

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I actually enjoyed that first issue. If we're being honest the X-men universe is kind of a mess right now (although X-Men Red is pretty good), they kinda need to reset things.

Yea, I only scarcely follow the xbooks but I swear they just had an "extinction level" exercise with the Inhumans. So it's already time for another go-around?

Plus, I see Prox X is back (or something), Cyclops still dead, young Cyke alive, 3 different Jean Greys, 2 Storms (or not), several "wolverine returns" minis, and a few other scattered plotlines with all the other characters.

It's like, ok.. :patrice:
 

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Iron Man #3
I liked the first issue of this book but now I am not really feeling it. The only character I give a damn about is Jocasta and I would rather be reading a Jocasta solo comic where her exploration of living in the human world while staying an AI rights advocate. And also delve into why she chose a black woman as the human face she would like to have.

Magic Order #3
People have been shytting on this book since jump but I love it and I am not even a Mark millar fan like that. This issue ratcheted things up several notches.

Justice League #6
Best Justice League book in a long time despite being confusing as fukk with all the cosmic mumbo jumbo.

Pearl #1
Indie vibe, non-superhero comic Bendis has always been my favorite Bendis and the first issue of this book intrigued me enough to want to see more.

Infinity Wars #2
I don't like anything about this book.

Doctor Strange #4
I continue to be surprised by how much I am enjoying this one because I loathe Doctor Strange as a character.

Batman #53
People can hate Tom King's Batman all they want but dude is doing an incredible job diving into the psychological core of Batman/Bruce Wayne. The lengths Bruce has gone through to get on the jury that is deciding Mr. Freeze's fate to make sure Freeze gets acquitted is showing just how messed up the aborted wedding has made Bruce and how it has even started effecting his work as Batman.
And that comparison of Batman to God while Bruce was arguing for a not guilty verdict was :jbhmm:.

Astonishing X-Men Annual #1
This book showed all the reasons why Beast and Iceman should be moved out of the X-Universe and into the Avengers books and never allowed back. Beast and Iceman are not X-Men characters anymore at their core.
Regardless of how hard writers try to write Beast as being as sufficiently angsty as every other X-character it comes across as hollow and diminishes the character when compared to how he is written outside of the X-books. And Iceman is too damn happy for the X-books. Dude should be on an Avengers team as the wisecracking jokester/comic relief guy instead of being constantly surrounded by the sturm un drang of the X-Men.
And back-from-the-dead Charles Xavier needs to become a Magneto style shades of gray villain because he works so much better in that role based on this one issue.

Extermination #1
Didn't like this one either. The art was good and I was ecstatic with what happened to the stupid alternate dimension vampire Storm but this story feels like a million past X-Men stories all crammed into one unnecessary event.

Aquaman #39
This was a fun one. It is the second part of a crossover between Aquaman and The Suicide Squad (the first part was in last week's Suicide Squad #45 which was hilarious and felt like one of the OG John Ostrander Squad stories).
I read the spoilers on Extermination #1..lol@the deaths and a young version of that miserable was brought around? Yuck. Was Domino even in it for the death?

And who is writing Iron Man these days? Where is Riri?
 
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