Comic Book Thread: Combined for greatness

[tyven]

SHIT IM BOUT TO READ IT CANT WAIT

[tyven]

man as much as i love saga this story is getting too damn sprawling. its already reached dance of dragons sprawl and its not even 30 issues in

[tyven]

hickman just tweeted this

Jonathan Hickman ‏@JHickman 47s47 seconds ago
This panel description for the Rabum Alal reveal in this weeks New Avengers just might be my finest work yet.

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[Delirium]

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I would have loved Songbird. But then I was a big T'bolts fan before the marvel now version

[Vagrant]

Brevoort did an interview discussing the reveal today. Spoilering the bit that probably clears things up the most.

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Rabum Alal is not the Doctor Doom we've already seen in New Avengers. Kind of. He's the Doctor Doom from slightly into the future. So the guy that Namor was talking to when he tried to recruit him for the Cabal was not Rabum Alal but was Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom did not become Rabum Alal until he went on his trip with Molecule Man.

[tyven]

Brevoort did an interview discussing the reveal today. Spoilering the bit that probably clears things up the most.

Spoiler: show

Rabum Alal is not the Doctor Doom we've already seen in New Avengers. Kind of. He's the Doctor Doom from slightly into the future. So the guy that Namor was talking to when he tried to recruit him for the Cabal was not Rabum Alal but was Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom did not become Rabum Alal until he went on his trip with Molecule Man.

this is what i figured was the case. somehow i had a feeling it would be him when i started reading the issue. just thinking about everything that had been shown thus far and then not mentioned in a while

[grantlogan]

Yah, it's obvious time is wonky in this whole event from The Living Tribunal's corpse traveling back in time to the moon to Rabum Alal also going back in time to start up the Black Swans and whatever else he's working on. I always thought Rabum Alal was part of the Beyonders.

[Vagrant]

Yeah that was what I had been thinking also

[grantlogan]

After reading All New X-Men today I reached my Bendis limit. I will not read his shit anymore, I can't do it.

[lolwut]

Read it, not a fan of the reveal. After all the build up it feels like it went out on a cliche. I wasn't expecting a Thunderbolts or Runaways level reveal, but this was "Iron Lad is Kang"/"Tobi is Obito" tier lame.

Hickman's built up a lot of good will in this storyline, so I'm gonna follow it through and have faith he can pull it off.

[tyven]

wow your sig makes me miss AV. I hope he is still alive

[Kaslo]

After reading All New X-Men today I reached my Bendis limit. I will not read his shit anymore, I can't do it.

I thought ANX was suppose to be in the middle of Black Vortex... what the hell?

[Vagrant]

I thought ANX was suppose to be in the middle of Black Vortex... what the hell?

For whatever reason issue 38 which is part of Black Vortex came out before issue 37 which isn't

[Kaslo]

For whatever reason issue 38 which is part of Black Vortex came out before issue 37 which isn't

Ok that makes (non) sense.

[lolwut]

Ok that makes (non) sense.

Bendis addressed it a while back.

Issue 37 was originally to be illustrated by Miles Morales’ biological mother Sara Pichelli. as she has posted on Facebook and Twitter she had a very sudden and very tragic death in her family.

so Sara had to go deal with real life and wasn’t able to draw the issue. instead the amazing Michael Del mundo has stepped in to create fully painted artwork for the issue. I have been waiting for my next turn to work with Michael since our time on the Guardian’s infinite comics

Sara, in the meanwhile, will be gearing up for our next big project together

luckily the issue is a standalone story, it is the Jean Grey Emma Frost issue, and its effects on monthly concerns is minimal. so Marvel made the decision to ship it after the black vortex issues by Andreas Sorrentino.

frankly I was very envious that Matt and David were able to ship Hawkeye issues out of order last year and I jumped at the chance

as to why they didn’t just rearrange the numbers, it probably was an insane amount of nightmare paperwork.

The logic behind paying a guy to fully paint an already late issue that even it's writer says isn't important is a whole different matter.

[Delirium]

I love the X-Men, but their sales are shitty comapred to their heyday(% wise, everything is down money wise). If you include digital sales(which numbers are hardish to come by), Bendis x-men books are like mid tier on Marvel sales last I heard.

[tyven]

who was most successful x-writer? i hope it wasnt claremont. mainly cuz i didnt read it then. at least i dont think i did

[kuronosan]

X-Men was the best in the 90s and peaked at the Onslaught story.

[Delirium]

who was most successful x-writer? i hope it wasnt claremont. mainly cuz i didnt read it then. at least i dont think i did

X-Men #1 sold the most issues. Claremont and Jim Lee were writer and artist.

For all the hate Claremont gets(and his 2000 X-Men series deserves it), he also wrote most of the classic x-men stories.

[tyven]

X-Men was the best in the 90s and peaked at the Onslaught story.

this is more or less when i read it. stopped shortly after onslaught. i was like 10 at the time tho, have no idea who was writing it.