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[Galactus]

Some kind of shape-shifting aliens (who at one point lost their shape-shifting powers) They have been at war for like, forever, with the Kree, but that was ended at some point.

Galactus ate their homeworld.

[Jaxom 1974]

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War Skrull was, IIRC, a skrull that became on of Apocolypse's horsemen. But I might be wrong in that.

Not sure about that...but War Skrulls fought the X-Men briefly when they tried to take over the Shi'ar Empire...it was near the end of the Jim Lee run on X-Men and came right after X-Cutioner's Song (I think...this is from memory)...

Skrulls, like the Kree and Shi'ar, are the alien mainstays of the Marvel universe and have been about for so very long, that Marvel's pretty much added too much to their continuity to keep it all straight...

[Miryana Storm]

Well, now I think even less of House of M. After little more than a month, it seems that Iceman will be shown with his powers in X-Men 178 (an image has appeared on the net). He lost his secondary mutation and was too stupid to try freezing anything? Nice move, Marvel; that'll sure convince HoM doubters the changes will stick.

[Jaxom 1974]

Iceman had a secondary mutation...?  Guess I missed that... :P

[Tricon]

Anybody remember the rather short lived Continuity Comics? Armor, Megalith, Silver Streak, etc?
Loved those.


If you're good in french or german and like fantasy comics I can recomend the Black Moon Chonicles by Ledroit/Froideval. As far as I know they havent been translated into english ... but they might have appeared in Heavy Metal. Sadly, they're the obly ones who sem to care about (non porn) european comics. On the same note I would recomend Requiem, alse penciled by Froideval.

[Sandor the Irrelevant]

Spoilers abound for newest X-men book and New Avengers



I just browsed that X-men at the comic book store - I didn't really read it as I"m not following Xmen any more, but it looks as though Emma forces Bobby to freeze someone and has his body turned to ice.   I'm thinking maybe its Emma unlocking a mental block or something.


I just finished reading New Avengers and the identity of Ronin is revealed.  SPOILERS!!!





Who the heck is Ecko?  And what the heck is with drawing her like a man?  Laaaaame...  Hope they explain why she has to wear an obviously heavily padded suit that makes her look like a rather large man but every other female can run around in tights?

[Nephrite]

Sandor the Irrelevant, on Nov 30 2005, 22.12, said:

Spoilers abound for newest X-men book and New Avengers
I just browsed that X-men at the comic book store - I didn't really read it as I"m not following Xmen any more, but it looks as though Emma forces Bobby to freeze someone and has his body turned to ice.   I'm thinking maybe its Emma unlocking a mental block or something.
I just finished reading New Avengers and the identity of Ronin is revealed.  SPOILERS!!!
Who the heck is

SPOILER: Ronin

Ecko

?  And what the heck is with drawing her like a man?  Laaaaame...  Hope they explain why she has to wear an obviously heavily padded suit that makes her look like a rather large man but every other female can run around in tights?

Well,

SPOILER: Ronin

Echo is a chick from David Mack's rather boring Daredevil stories. She's like the exact opposite od Daredevil. She's deaf, and can mimic any move a person can do. That's why she's like a super-star pianist, cause she can mimic the best piano players.

So

SPOILER: Ronin

Echo

is Ronin, huh?
I guess the theory that Bendis just put a bunch of his favorite characters plus Wolvie together into a team is true. I'm surprised DD isn't in the Avengers.

[Jaxom 1974]

Hmmmmmm...that character, huh?  Well, that's just ducky...Bendis writes so many things so very well...why, oh WHY, did he kill the Avengers...???   :cry:

[Knight of Ashes]

'cause he's an asshat.
But boy, he does get mentioned a lot in the O.C.

[Nephrite]

Legion of Super-Heroes #12 - Man I love this series. I really hope that DC doesn't ruin it with adding Supergirl. The little witch is annoying, and all she does these days is get into fights with heroes. Are there no villains in DCU? And now she's gonna take her barbaric attitude into the 31st century.

But enough about her.

The issue was great. The were a bunch of great moments and lines. Karate Kid and Ultra Boy against thousands was a great scene, and Lightning Lad and Chameleon in the 5th dimension were fun.
Also Brainy brings a new (old) member of LoSH  into action against Elyson.

SPOILER: LoSH

Atom Girl. And her spalsh page introduction is just great.

I especially liked Brainy's use of Robin's slingshot.

Stuart Moore's back-up was a nice character piece.

Edited by Nephrite, 01 December 2005 - 02:33 PM.

[Galactus]

Apparently they are going to turn Magician into a comic.

Linky?

Nice idea. Heck, I'd love a Magician movie.

[RedGhost]

Tricon, on Nov 30 2005, 21.22, said:

Anybody remember the rather short lived Continuity Comics? Armor, Megalith, Silver Streak, etc?
Loved those.
If you're good in french or german and like fantasy comics I can recomend the Black Moon Chonicles by Ledroit/Froideval. As far as I know they havent been translated into english ... but they might have appeared in Heavy Metal. Sadly, they're the obly ones who sem to care about (non porn) european comics. On the same note I would recomend Requiem, alse penciled by Froideval.

You have to like the drawing style and the (mostly) lack of scenario and cheesy dialogue. I'd add that Requiem is both more original and features cool graphics (even if the artist's notion of composition is still to fit as much as he can in a box).
For a better experience, try Donjon, which is absolutely brilliant (a humorous/tragic/heroic fantasy series with excellent writing and naive graphics).

[cteresa]

Donjon rulllllllllllllllllllsssssssssssssss! I love it, thanks Red! It´s pretty undescritable though,  it´s set up to be a series of 300 books? ;)  All sort of different levels from -100 to 100+ a warning, some of the art changes a lot, some of the prequels got very different art. Lewis Trondheim is a total genius.

Also french I am really looking forward for the 3rd and final volume of Skydoll, been promised for ages supposedly finally coming out this month, I want it, I adored that series, it´s cute, it´s fun, it´s brilliant, it´s got a fabulous universe,the COLOR of it, it s pretty unlike anything else and very very charming.

American comics, been reading and loving a marvel series for teens called Runaways, lots of fun.  Found out Sin City is just not my thing, but loved Fables.

Edited by Cteresa, 03 December 2005 - 08:47 AM.

[Galactus]

Runaways is good. Probably Marvel's best seies right now.

[Brady]

Runaways is excellent. Old Lace has more personality than most characters holding a solo title, and Molly never fails to crack me up.

[Galactus]

Anyone reads Nightcrawler's solo title btw. (speaking of solo titles :P) I kind of like what they did to it. "Kurt Wagner: Paranormal detective" has a nice ring to it.

[cteresa]

Brady, on Dec 2 2005, 17.55, said:

Runaways is excellent. Old Lace has more personality than most characters holding a solo title, and Molly never fails to crack me up.

Yep, love Old Lace, and you are right about that, all the characters got their personalities shining through somehow which of course makes it all a lot more interesting. And totally unrelated to quality, the price, it´s so nice, I tend to think of american comics as being expensive, but those small color TPBs collecting 6 issues for 8 dollars are pretty decent. paper quality is not brilliant, but still not a bad bargain! I can get french albuns, hardbound and lovely paper and printing for around 8 euros to 10 , but those tend to have just 50 pages or so, so in all Runaways is nicely priced.

[Nephrite]

Ultimate Fanatstic Four #25 -  Namor's comment about Johnny's hair-cut was damn funny. And the story was okay. Nothing much happened, and in a way it's disspointing cause it's only a 3-parter, and you can see, that not much is gonna happen next month to give the whole thing some meat.
It's just like the last arc that got resolved way too fast.
These days you can read Millar's UFF while in the toilet doing no. 1.
Which is sad, cause Millar's Superman Adventures were really packed, and those were one-issue stories, yet you got more out of them then these 3-parters put together.

Greg Land's art... well, I don't know. It all looks like he took pictures then messed with them in Photoshop. In a way it's too realistic. And stiff, like the characters are posing. Apsolutley no sense of movement whatsoever. And another problem is that he's characters don't look consistent. Momma Storm was different from panel to panel.
And I think she was putting a move on Reed. I guess she's turned on by superinteligence and expanding brains.

Edited by Nephrite, 03 December 2005 - 11:16 AM.

[Xanrn]

a Bit late.

But Amazing Spider-man 526, I mean shit. I re-read the thing half hundred times and its still, bang. Especially when Morlun pulls out one of Spideys eyes and eats it. I can't wait for FNSM 3.

Ultimate Vision, the one in the back of U:FF, nice spin on Galactus.

[Galactus]

She-Hulk 2: *discussing a guy who went back in time and was shot by himself* "Well, at least we can get him for attempted murder." "No, that's attempted suicide, and that's not illegal." "Can we get him for insider trading?" "You're joking! He only gave himself stock-tips."