Most memorable comic book moments
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Annihilation Conquest was garbage in my opinion and can be skipped. The original Annihilation Saga was an epic in itself. I"d suggest trying to read Meltdown. That was a great 2 part comic.
Yeah I second the original Annihaltion saga. Got all 3 hardback editions for it. Just Nova and Drax kickin ass and taking names.
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Any Thor fans should pick up the Ancient Asgard trilogy. Not sure it"s an official trilogy or just three one shots that fit together, but I guess there"s no difference. It"s
Thor: Ages of Thunder
Thor: Reign of Blood
Thor: Man of War
Tells the story of why Odin banished Thor from Asgard and made him live as Donald Blake. Basically he was a real cocky prick and Odin got sick of his bullshit. So he armored up and whipped his ass, then sentenced him to learn some humility and humanity. It"s quite well done and we don"t often get to see Thor being a true asshole. Came out last year.
Thor: Ages of Thunder
Thor: Reign of Blood
Thor: Man of War
Tells the story of why Odin banished Thor from Asgard and made him live as Donald Blake. Basically he was a real cocky prick and Odin got sick of his bullshit. So he armored up and whipped his ass, then sentenced him to learn some humility and humanity. It"s quite well done and we don"t often get to see Thor being a true asshole. Came out last year.
If you want something relatively new, check out Wolverine: Old Man Logan. Set in the future, evil forces of the marvel universe have aligned and defeated the "good" guys. They divided up the U. S. among them, and Wolverine chose not to fight in the cataclysmic war, and has been relatively invisible since those events.
The art is great, and it"s fun to see the bad guys win once in a while.
The art is great, and it"s fun to see the bad guys win once in a while.
Both of those scenes in recent history were very awesome. Best parts of both series/events. Another memorable scene is in the HORRIBLE Ultimatum story where the Blob eats Wasp alive and then Henry Pym picks up Blob and bites off his head.
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Archaic issue #5. When Kosice Drakonov"s friend/protector/only acquaintance is slain he unleashes his power unknowingly and burns out his own eyes in the process.
Absolutely badass series that never got finished=/ God damned shame, dunno if they"re ever planning on picking back up or what.
Absolutely badass series that never got finished=/ God damned shame, dunno if they"re ever planning on picking back up or what.
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didn"t see it mentioned elsewhere in the thread, so here"s Hal Jordan"s last hurrah as Parallax. Out of all the crap that came out of superman"s death and return, I thought Hal Jordan going nuts was pretty good, although there are large parts of it that I haven"t read, so I could be wrong. At any rate, I"ve always been a major sucker for the redemption of the bad guy, especially the selfless sacrifice. Here is the last third of the ending to The Final Night.
Hank Pym has had 2 recent memorable comic book moments, first in Old Man Logan, when they are driving across the country, Logan asks Hawkeye why they called the road Pym Falls:
Secondly, in Ultimates 3, shortly after biting the head off of the Blob, Madrox makes a million copies of himself and starts suicide bombing shit up:
Secondly, in Ultimates 3, shortly after biting the head off of the Blob, Madrox makes a million copies of himself and starts suicide bombing shit up:
Reading Civil War series now. Questions:
1) What happened to Jean Grey? I guess she"s been gone a while for Scott to be with Emma? Did she die in M-Day?
2) What"s up with Archangel? His wings are real and his blood has "healing powers"?
3) Where is Xavier? I assumed he was dead but then we see him at Ororo"s wedding?
4) How did Wolverine get an adamanatium skeleton again?
1) What happened to Jean Grey? I guess she"s been gone a while for Scott to be with Emma? Did she die in M-Day?
2) What"s up with Archangel? His wings are real and his blood has "healing powers"?
3) Where is Xavier? I assumed he was dead but then we see him at Ororo"s wedding?
4) How did Wolverine get an adamanatium skeleton again?
1. dunno, Jean dies so often that her deaths have started to blur together in my mind.Jean Grey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediais the last time I remember her dying but Wiki says she came back a couple times so I"m not too sure.MrGraham said:
2. I think his metal wings can take the form of his real wings now and his healing powers are a result of his secondary mutation that some writer decided to randomly give him.
3. dunno
4. Apocalypse makes Wolverine fight against Sabertooth, who has an adamantium bonded skeleton at this point, in order to see which one would be his next Horseman of Death. Wolverine agrees to the fight because he knows that Sabertooth would actually enjoy being set loose as a killing machine and Wolverine thinks that he might be able to resist it. He beats Sabertooth and Apocalypse takes Sabertooth"s adamantium and rebonds it to Wolverine"s skeleton.
Xavier"s on an extended hiatus from the X-men after he knowlingly put the entire team in danger after the danger room gained sentience. Cyclops is team leader and is extremely disinfranchised with Charles for a) putting the team in such grave danger and b) forcing the danger room computer to continue to be a "slave" when Charles knew it was a living being.Peacecraft said:
At least I think that"s the situation during Civil War. That X-Men run was like 20 comics over 5 years.
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Xavier was in space during the Civil war (after the events you mentioned). The Rise and Fall of the Shi"ar empire is the arc.The Ancient said:
And another big chunk of the X-men was in Breakworld I think (Astonishing X-men).
Despite having almost no presence in the Civil war, the X-men series has my favorite scene. When Ms. Marvel comes to the mansion and asks for help. Emma promptly asks where the "superheroes" were when M-day happened and where they were when their children were being buried left and right from terrorist attacks. Pretty much tells Ms. Marvel to fuck right off with her Civil war after all the shit the mutants had been through in the year leading up to it.