Comic Book Thread: Combined for greatness

[KoalaTrap]

I love Prophet. It's such a trippy SciFi mindfuck. I wish someone would make an in-depth wiki for it. Other non superheroes I'd recommend would be Manhattan Projects for a lot of fun super science revisionist history action, Fatale for a horror crime noir, and Rachel Rising is a cool black and white undead horror story. There's tons of great indies out now doing great stuff. I could list tons of books. Even Godzilla has a great miniseries out by Stokoe and IDW.

[grantlogan]

Speaking of Stokoe, check out Orc Stain. Fun story and great art. I hope Stokoe continues the story.

[KoalaTrap]

Orc Stain is really cool. I love his art style. Honestly, at first I was kinda doubtful about Godzilla: The Half Century War cause it was taking him further away from Orc Stain but I read the 4 out of 5 issues that are out and was like.. "Well that was worth no Orc Stain." I decided to check it out after it made some end of year top lists cause a Godzilla comic isn't really on my radar.

[Krandor]

Anything Vertigo can fill the non-superhero bill pretty well, and being a DC imprint they're pretty easy to pick up.

Preacher and Y The Last Man are probably my 2 favorite comic series of all time, and Hellblazer has had some really good shit over the years. And as mentioned, Fables is freaking awesome.

[Epysian]

Saga is a little weird for me, but the art is gorgeous and the universe Vaughn created is really cool. I was lucky enough to find the first trade at Midtown Comics signed by Vaughn and Fiona Staples, and it was still only $9.99. I'd definitely recommend the series to anyone who isn't going to be put off by bad language or sexual content.

[Kyo]

Anything Vertigo can fill the non-superhero bill pretty well, and being a DC imprint they're pretty easy to pick up.

Preacher and Y The Last Man are probably my 2 favorite comic series of all time, and Hellblazer has had some really good shit over the years. And as mentioned, Fables is freaking awesome.

Im going to pick up fables and Y the last man trades soon, just went on a saga spending spree, bought all 7 just issues first print for $125.

[Kyo]

Thanks everyone for your recommendations as well.

[Blackice]

First off, my apologies for the short post and off-site link. IDW is working on bring X-Files back into comic form. Fuck yeah.

http://www.comicvine.com/news/idw-pu...-files/145905/

[Delirium]

Spec Ops 6 is live, Havok being the reward
You can also get magnetic lockboxes from Spec Ops 6. Obtaining 1 gets your a comic book cover. If you collect 8 different ones, you unlock Magneto. You can also buy lockboxes for 1 gold, but there is a 7% chance of a comic book cover in those, instead of the 100% from Spec Ops drop.

[grantlogan]

I like how the 2nd task in spec ops is to get a distress call(not really). Gotta wait until tomorrow to continue. I read on the forums you can get duplicates of the Magneto covers so good luck on getting all 8.

[Delirium]

I like how the 2nd task in spec ops is to get a distress call(not really). Gotta wait until tomorrow to continue. I read on the forums you can get duplicates of the Magneto covers so good luck on getting all 8.

if you buy enough gold, you have a better chance!(thats how these games make money).

[Vagrant]

I guess it will just give me incentive to actually play the spec op a bit longer than I normally do. I'm usually able to get through them pretty quickly and then don't touch them again so that by the end of the spec op period I have over a thousand untouched ISO.

[Kyo]

Gave Fables a go as well as Y the last man, read the first 5 issues of each. Y was pretty awesome, didnt much care for fables.

[grantlogan]

It looks like there are 6 extra tasks that award Magnetic Lockboxes. I dunno how to get them, prolly will be found out tomorrow.

[Vagrant]

It looks like there are 6 extra tasks that award Magnetic Lockboxes. I dunno how to get them, prolly will be found out tomorrow.

There is some big task in mission 2 that I think is treated as an epic battle that involves them. Don't have the full details though as I stopped doing anything until tomorrow when I can pick up the distress call for task 2.

[AzazaelFenrir]

So to unlock everything (epics included) you need Nightcrawler, Phoenix, Tigra, Deadpool, and Beast. F. . .M. . .L. . . (as a newer player that blows)

[Delirium]

Again, playdom does that on purpose so people buy gold.

[Kyo]

Gotta stick with Fables past the murder mystery plot. Once they start getting into The Adversary it's amazing.

Ok, I'll stick with it, the first set of stories was very slow and not very good imo.

[Vagrant]

Task 1: Defeat 3 Hellfire Club Soldiers / 100 XP
Task 2: Get 1 Distress Call / 1,000 Silver
Task 3: Defeat a Mini Boss in Mission 1 / 200 XP
Task 4: Defeat 3 Hellfire ELITE Soldiers / 1 CP
Task 5: Defeat Dragoness / 100 XP
Task 6: Research the Pyramidion in the lab (8 Hours / 60 UISO & 100 Silver) / Pyramidion
Task 7: Use Havok's Shattering Punch 3 times / 10 Lockboxes
Task 8: Defeat Avalanche (Mini-Boss in Mission 2) / 1,000 Silver
Task 9: Get 2 Stars of Mastery in Mission 1 / 2,000 Silver
Task 10: Defeat Mystique (Boss in Mission 2) / 3,000 Silver
Task 11: Upgrade Acinaces to Spatha in the Lab (24 Hours / 80 UISO & 100 Silver) / 100 XP & Spatha
Task 12: Use Havok's Plasma Wave 3 times (2nd Ability) / 100 XP
Task 13: Complete 5 Deploys / Spec Ops Mission 3 Unlocked (Can be done outside of SpecOps 6)
Task 14: Complete 5 Flight Deck Missions / 100 XP
Task 15: Fight 5 PvP Battles / 100 XP (PvP Practice Ok)
Task 16: Upgrade the Radian Pistol to Radian Rifle in the Lab (48 Hours / 120 UISO & 300 Silver) / 1,000 Silver & Radian Rifle
Task 17: Defeat 10 M-Series Sentinels (Found in Mission 3) / 100 XP
Task 18: Get 2 Stars in Mission 2 / 3,000 Silver
Task 19: Use Havok's Plasma Spheres 3 times (4th Ability) / 100 XP
Task 20: Win 3 PvP battles / 100 XP & Scythe of Ptah (PvP Practice Ok)
Task 21: Collect 20 U-Iso / 4,000 Silver
Task 22: Collect 10 Lockboxes / 4,000 Silver
Task 23: Defeat Living Monolith (Boss in Mission 3) / 100 XP
Task 24: Complete 3 stars of Mastery in all SpecOps 6 Missions / 5,000 Silver
Task 25: Defeat Green Goblin[Epic Boss] (Found in Mission 3) Requires Deploys: Deadpool, Tigra, Beast, and (2) regular deploys / Havok Recruited



Master of Magnetism Tasks(Side Missions - Complete Task 7 from the normal tasks in order to unlock those side mission tasks)

Task 1:No Mercy: Defeat 10 Hellfire Club Soldiers - Hellfire Club soldiers are the best mercenaries that money can buy.(Found in Mission 1)
Reward: 8 Lockboxes
Task 2:Brotherhood Hunt: Defeat 5 Mutants - Toad, Blob, Juggernaut, Sabretooth, Dragoness, Mystique, and the Living Pharaoh are all mutants.
Reward: 8 Lockboxes
Brotherhood Hunt can be done outside of SpecOps:
Ch 2.5 (Juggernaut, Magneto, Mystique)
Ch 3.4 (Sabretooth, Toad)
Ch 4.4 (Magneto)
Ch 4.6 (Blob, Sabretooth, Toad)
Ch 6.2 (Sabretooth, Toad)
Ch 6.4(Mystique)
Ch 6.6 (Juggernaut, Magneto)
Ch 7.2 (Avalanche, Blob)
Ch 8.3 (Juggernaut)
Task 3: End of the Pharaoh: Defeat the Living Pharaoh (Epic Boss in Mission 2)
Reward: 16 Lockboxes
Task 4: Bot Buster: Defeat 15 Sentinels - Sentinels are built for destroying mutants. (Found in Mission 2)
Reward: 8 Lockboxes
Bot Buster can be done outside of SpecOps:
Ch 2.6 (Sentinel Alpha MK IV)
Ch 3.4 (Iapetos Sentinel, Coeus Sentinel, Crius Sentinel, Cronus Sentinel,Hyperion Sentinel, Phoebe Sentinel, Rhea Sentinel, Themis Sentinel)
Ch 6.4 (M-Series Rho MK III, M-Series Sigma MK III, M-Series Tau MK III)
Ch 7.2 (Iapetos Sentinel, Coeus Sentinel, Crius Sentinel, Cronus Sentinel, Hyperion Sentinel, Phoebe Sentinel, Rhea Sentinel)
Ch 8.1 (Eos Sentinel, Selene Sentinel, Helios Sentinel)
Ch 8.4 (Iapetos Sentinel, Coeus Sentinel, Crius Sentinel, Cronus Sentinel, Hyperion Sentinel, Omega Sentinel, Phoebe Sentinel, Prime Sentinel, Rhea Sentinel, Themis Sentinel)

Task 5: Green and Mean: Defeat Green Goblin (Epic Boss in Mission 3)
Reward: 16 Lockboxes
Task 6: Completionist: Complete 4 Stars of Mastery in all Spec Ops 6 Missions

Got this from the forums for those that were interested including the Magneto section.

[Kaslo]

I need one more mutant kill, anyone know which of these pops up quickest in a mission:

Ch 2.5 (Juggernaut, Magneto, Mystique)
Ch 3.4 (Sabretooth, Toad)
Ch 4.4 (Magneto)
Ch 4.6 (Blob, Sabretooth, Toad)
Ch 6.2 (Sabretooth, Toad)
Ch 6.4(Mystique)
Ch 6.6 (Juggernaut, Magneto)
Ch 7.2 (Avalanche, Blob)
Ch 8.3 (Juggernaut)