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[nieman]

I lurked the CBR X-Men board the other day and it seems like most of them hated X-Men Red and are mixed/lukewarm about Uncanny

I flipped through some pages of Uncanny and i think they got a bigger cast than the writer knows what to do with. Mind you i'm not really an x-men reader but they got a large cast with some interesting ones, yet there's not much for a lot of them to do.

Not to beat a deadhorse from yesteryear, but it again makes me appreciate those writers like hickman who can more/or less balance out a large ensemble with various subplots

I'm gonna start going back to CBR, but Red started off solid. Perhaps Red will read better as a trade. Havok's team was a good read, once you got past Land's tracing. Once again, I don't think the writers know what direction to go. The last time they were excellent all around was before Quesada fukked up their plans with that ANAD reboot. But they had a direction then. I am loving Kelly Thompson on Mr & Mrs though. To me, X-Men books are best when they follow a character for an arc, and explore something personal to that character and let the others play off of them. Then switch to another character. They developed characters, then relationships between characters. This team for the sake of team is when it falters.

 

[BXKingPin82]

I'm gonna start going back to CBR, but Red started off solid. Perhaps Red will read better as a trade. Havok's team was a good read, once you got past Land's tracing. Once again, I don't think the writers know what direction to go. The last time they were excellent all around was before Quesada fukked up their plans with that ANAD reboot. But they had a direction then. I am loving Kelly Thompson on Mr & Mrs though. To me, X-Men books are best when they follow a character for an arc, and explore something personal to that character and let the others play off of them. Then switch to another character. They developed characters, then relationships between characters. This team for the sake of team is when it falters.

if we're gonna keep it all the way real, pretty much all the X-Men books been poppin. shyt, Weapon X-Force is my favorite next to X-Men Red.

 

[R=G]

I lurked the CBR X-Men board the other day and it seems like most of them hated X-Men Red and are mixed/lukewarm about Uncanny

I flipped through some pages of Uncanny and i think they got a bigger cast than the writer knows what to do with. Mind you i'm not really an x-men reader but they got a large cast with some interesting ones, yet there's not much for a lot of them to do.

Not to beat a deadhorse from yesteryear, but it again makes me appreciate those writers like hickman who can more/or less balance out a large ensemble with various subplots

It's a big cast for this current relaunch of Uncanny..but usually it's just 6 or 7 characters and over the years.. they usually always fukking Cyclops or Emma involved. Of course he got took off the board right when its time to push Jean Grey back on top.

 

[Primetime]

I'm gonna start going back to CBR, but Red started off solid. Perhaps Red will read better as a trade. Havok's team was a good read, once you got past Land's tracing. Once again, I don't think the writers know what direction to go. The last time they were excellent all around was before Quesada fukked up their plans with that ANAD reboot. But they had a direction then. I am loving Kelly Thompson on Mr & Mrs though. To me, X-Men books are best when they follow a character for an arc, and explore something personal to that character and let the others play off of them. Then switch to another character. They developed characters, then relationships between characters. This team for the sake of team is when it falters.

I think that's exactly the issue I had with Uncanny. I like Bishop and Jubilee so I checked it out, but it quickly seemed like all the characters are just there with a tick box to make sure they each say their 1-2 generic lines/jokes and KIM.

Not much depth or intrigue about the characters themselves

 

[nieman]

if we're gonna keep it all the way real, pretty much all the X-Men books been poppin. shyt, Weapon X-Force is my favorite next to X-Men Red.

They were, but the past few issues of all the books been kinda down. Weapon X was good up to the Hellfire thing with Monet, and that ending should have never gone to print. Astonishing was great, and Red started off great but I it seems lost right now. I forgot that they're supposed to be living in Atlantis, and what was the point bringing in Avengers? So currently, the best books are Mr & Mrs, X-23 and...

 

[Jello Biafra]

Uncanny had promise with it's first issue but nothing that has come after has really wowed me. The cast is too big, the stuff with Nate isn't very interesting (mainly because I have always found Nate Grey to be a shytty character) and I have serious issues with the way they are trying to hammer home everyone treating the Young X-Men like babies. Armor was a member of the actual X-Men for a long ass time but now she and the rest of them are being treated like they just showed up on the doorstep of Xavier's yesterday.

 

[Black Nate Grey]

Been behind on comics. Nothing really grabbing me anymore.

Breh, Justice League is absolute fire. They are bringing in a ton of multiversal, cosmic shenanigans.


Still waiting on Doomsday Clock, that stuff is just magnificent.

Someone recommend me a good Marvel comic because they are all trash right now. I was hyped for the return of Sentry and Nate Grey in Uncanny but am left disappointed. How is Nate dying, again, when the entire reason he got that X on his chest was to prevent his body from overloading on his power? Infinity Wars was trash except for Adam Warlock returning. Iron Man's series is aight. I want to follow up on Thor but the art is cancer.

 

[parallax]

Breh, Justice League is absolute fire. They are bringing in a ton of multiversal, cosmic shenanigans.


Still waiting on Doomsday Clock, that stuff is just magnificent.

Someone recommend me a good Marvel comic because they are all trash right now. I was hyped for the return of Sentry and Nate Grey in Uncanny but am left disappointed. How is Nate dying, again, when the entire reason he got that X on his chest was to prevent his body from overloading on his power? Infinity Wars was trash except for Adam Warlock returning. Iron Man's series is aight. I want to follow up on Thor but the art is cancer.

read immortal hulk

 

[Neuromancer]

Breh, Justice League is absolute fire. They are bringing in a ton of multiversal, cosmic shenanigans.


Still waiting on Doomsday Clock, that stuff is just magnificent.

Someone recommend me a good Marvel comic because they are all trash right now. I was hyped for the return of Sentry and Nate Grey in Uncanny but am left disappointed. How is Nate dying, again, when the entire reason he got that X on his chest was to prevent his body from overloading on his power? Infinity Wars was trash except for Adam Warlock returning. Iron Man's series is aight. I want to follow up on Thor but the art is cancer.

DC bores me. I'll check it.

 

[Black Nate Grey]

read immortal hulk

Yeah, I've heard some good things about it. I've been avoiding it because I don't like the Hulk, but i'll check it out.

 

[Jello Biafra]

Breh, Justice League is absolute fire. They are bringing in a ton of multiversal, cosmic shenanigans.


Still waiting on Doomsday Clock, that stuff is just magnificent.

Someone recommend me a good Marvel comic because they are all trash right now. I was hyped for the return of Sentry and Nate Grey in Uncanny but am left disappointed. How is Nate dying, again, when the entire reason he got that X on his chest was to prevent his body from overloading on his power? Infinity Wars was trash except for Adam Warlock returning. Iron Man's series is aight. I want to follow up on Thor but the art is cancer.

Immortal Hulk is great and after a rocky start the new Avengers comic is really good.
West Coast Avengers, Domino, Runaways are all good too.

 

[Black Nate Grey]

Immortal Hulk is great and after a rocky start the new Avengers comic is really good.
West Coast Avengers, Domino, Runaways are all good too.

I tried with the Avengers comic, Celestial stuff was bad but the Namor bit was just fantastic, dude gives no fukks anymore, now it's meh again. I'll check out the other stuff.

I don't know, DC is putting out much better quality right now, both stories and art. Even Bendis is writing Superman in a good-ish manner.
DC's stuff seems more focused, and Marvel's is chaotic and convoluted.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

Whoever said west coast avengers is funny wasn't lyin i'm halfway through I enjoy the writing SO much...


Which reminds me... I gotta finish Matt Fraction's hawkeye






EDIT: just finished. This book is weird...

 

[Emoryal]

I tried with the Avengers comic, Celestial stuff was bad but the Namor bit was just fantastic, dude gives no fukks anymore, now it's meh again. I'll check out the other stuff.

I don't know, DC is putting out much better quality right now, both stories and art. Even Bendis is writing Superman in a good-ish manner.
DC's stuff seems more focused, and Marvel's is chaotic and convoluted.

Idk bro you justice league is good but marvel is convuluted

 

[GunRanger]

Massive comic sale on comixology now. Getting immortal hulk vol 1 for 3d ollars