Topic: Current events in comics and/or manga. Story arcs, behind the scenes, etc..... (Read 14000 times)

guy-zero32k4 · « **on:** March 14, 2006, 12:06:56 AM »

So everyone here is excited on X-men 3 , Ghost Rider (me) and (shudder) Superman Returns.Â So the question is, who here reads the comics right now.Â

I'm sure many of you read 'em, and have wanted to talk about current events, rumors, artists, writers, whatever.Â So let's make this thread the place to talk about all things comics and or manga.Â What titles are you currently reading?Â Like the direction the story's going?Â Fav current artist?Â You get the idea.Â

I'd also like to take this chance for all the people who like comic characters but only know what they've seen on the movie screen, this way they'll see how some characters have lots of depth which movies haven't been able to touch upon or new things they'll learn about a character.Â

Myself I gave up reading comics a few years ago, only coming back to read certain things that peaked my curiosity.Â Â I'm still trying to get the rest of the KOF MI comics right now.Â Its a decent read giving Duke and the gang more depth.Â Trying to get the second issue of KOF 2003 right now.Â

However one title that has my attention right now just from the buzz its caused is Marvel Zombies.Â (All that damn Resident Evil and my fancy to zombies and now Marvel characters getting turned into brain eaters?Â HOW THE FUCK DO YOU ESCAPE A ZOMBIE HULK???!!!!!)Â Story sounds really cool for a "What If?" mini series.Â Lots of surpises I heard too.Â I haven't even been able to get an issue of this it keeps selling out.Â Sold so welll the first issue has had to have a third printing, and now talks of a forth.Â Anyone reading it?Â Never heard of this one?Â Click this. You'll also note that the covers for this limited series are classic Marvel covers redone where the heroes are now zombies:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=6021

TheShoe · « **Reply #1 on:** March 14, 2006, 01:32:25 AM »

Marvel Zombies? is Iron Man all rusty or sumin in that?

guy-zero32k4 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2006, 02:10:31 AM »

Dude, he got chopped in half and still wanted to kill when I saw the preview.Â Didn'tÂ see the couple of pics in this article? Captain America gets half of his head cut off.Â Here's a spoiler highlight to read:

Villians like Magento and Dr. Doom are fighting to stay alive. Showing them not as villians, but as "anti-heroes." Remember Magento has always fought for "his people" and Dr. Doom rules his own country like a dictator, but care about his people. So in other words this will be a side readers don't get to see very often.

TheShoe · « **Reply #3 on:** March 14, 2006, 09:45:18 PM »

i bet Wolverine is gonna be like a Hunter off Resident Evil

Epsilon · « **Reply #4 on:** March 24, 2006, 07:23:51 PM »

I'm currently collecting the KOF 2003 comics, the SVC comics and the Street Fighter comics along with Tsubasa, DearS, Bleach, various Gundam titles and Negima manga. Since we're talking about current events and speculation, I'll briefly summarize things that are going on in some of the titles I'm reading.

KOF 2003: Tiny game bits are sort of fleshed out here. We see how the KOF 2002 Kusanagi character is 'recruited' by Chizuru to fight in KOF 2003. There's more details on the puppet master Botan who targets Chizuru for her own purposes. There's a cameo by Geese (but sadly no fighting) as he recruits his Outlaw team. Some good parts are a recreation of the battle between Maki and Goenitz inside Chizuru's head as Botan's strings pressure her mind and a friendly conversation between Adel and Heidern. The first three compilation volumes build up towards the KOF 2003 tourney getting started with the first match up between Ash's 'Hero' team and the Outlaw Team.

SVC Chaos: The parallel world tournament is underway and we see many fights. Sadly, there is no Dan or Goenitz yet. WTF is with that?!? Several fighters team up so that they can work towards using the wish for good while Red Arremer recruits evil guys like Bison (and subsequently his three lackeys), Geese and Demitri. Then there is another group of fighters (Iori, Akuma, Mr. Karate, Ryo, Ken, Genjyuro, Shiki) with their own agendas but nothing is revealed from them. Perhaps the coolest part in the third volume is when Vega charges up for his Exceed move and whiffs the attack by only getting Choi's hat.

Negima: Nothing special here. Festival is still continuing and Yue's the latest to admit she has the hots for Negi (and there's some emotional confrontation between her and Nodoka).

Bleach: In a desperate attempt to control the Hollow within, Ichigo approaches the Vaizairds (sp?). Since he likes to do things quickly, they sent him deep within his own soul to battle the Hollow side himself (who can also use Bankai).

DearS has little going for it. I wonder why I'm still collecting it. And yet another new world for the gang to explore in Tsubasa.

guy-zero32k4 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2006, 11:39:41 AM »

Just wondering, who's everyone's favorite writer or artist? My personal favorite artist is John Byrne. He's been around for quite awhile, been involved in several major comic events during series' runs and also writes as well.

Prehaps I should make this topic into a sticky in the entertainment section?

Epsilon · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2006, 05:38:24 PM »

Favourite comic book artist? Koichi Tokita, the man who drawn many a Gundam manga and who had a nice clean art style which could match up to anime art easily. And he does Chibi funny strips too!!

Shadaloo · « **Reply #7 on:** April 11, 2006, 02:36:08 AM »

Where did you get those SVC comics? I've looked all over the net and I couldn't find a thing.

Rockaway · « **Reply #8 on:** April 11, 2006, 04:27:01 PM »

Artist? Falcoon. I'm kinda surprised he's a stocky guy...

Shadaloo · « **Reply #9 on:** April 18, 2006, 09:39:10 PM »

I heard about a Marvel series called Civil War coming out in May I think. Anyone know anything about that?

Mizuki · « **Reply #10 on:** April 24, 2006, 03:32:22 AM »

I kinda want to see Marvel make a MvC comic, I liked how Marvel did Capcom's characters.

MOTORKILL81 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 28, 2006, 04:47:42 AM »

Man I haven't read a comic in years.I used to collect them like crazy when I was younger but comics over the years have just gotten to pricey for me.$2.99 for x-factor aka not good enough to be in x-men :huh:no thanks.

Fav artist?I love Jim Lee's stuff.His stuff back in his Marvel day's when he was doing Punisher then later X-men were great,and his recent BatMan stuff is good too.BatMan hasn't look that bad ass since Frank Miller drew him.

Venom_Monkey · « **Reply #12 on:** May 16, 2006, 02:01:15 PM »

Quote from: jin_long on April 24, 2006, 03:32:22 AM

I kinda want to see Marvel make a MvC comic, I liked how Marvel did Capcom's characters.

Long while ago, Marvel did make a X-Men VS Street Fighter comic. I've only seen page scans of it, though. As for comics, I've recently been reading Kingdom Come. It's a great DC comic. Before that, I hadn't read comics in a long ass time. But I had to buy Kingdom Come because I had heard wonderful things about it. It's really good, so far.

masta-Dante · « **Reply #13 on:** May 16, 2006, 03:23:20 PM »

Quote from: guy-zero32k4 on March 25, 2006, 11:39:41 AM

Just wondering, who's everyone's favorite writer or artist? My personal favorite artist is John Byrne. He's been around for quite awhile, been involved in several major comic events during series' runs and also writes as well.

Have to say Gareth Ennis, i loved Preacher and what he done on the Punisher.

guy-zero32k4 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 17, 2006, 06:51:53 AM »

Here's some info on Marvel's Civil War series.Â Sounds interesting.Â Here's the info copied from various comic sources:
THE STORY

The story opens with a reckless fight between the New Warriors, filming a reality television show, and a cadre of villains. The battle goes awry for the heroes, resulting in villain Nitro creating an explosion that takes out a local school, the surrounding neighborhood, and all but one of the New Warriors.
This event crystallizes a government movement to register all super-powered beings as living weapons of mass destruction. The subsequent Registration Act will divide the heroes into two camps, one led by Captain America, the other by Iron Man. Iron Man takes the side of supporting the Super-Human Registration Act, and Captain America will be against. Other heroes have also taken sides as well.

During the Civil War, Marvel will unveil its version of GuantÃ¡namo Bay, enemy combatants, embedded reporters and more. The question at the heart of the series is a fundamental one: "Would you give up your civil liberties to feel safer in the world?"

THE SIDES

Heroes that support the Superhero Registration Act:
Iron Man - Leader of the Pro-Registration movement
Bishop
Colossus
Goliath
Ms. Marvel
Mr. Fantastic
Sentry
She-Hulk
Spider-Man
Heroes against the Superhero Registration Act:
Captain America - Leader of the Anti-Registration movement
Black Bolt
Cyclops
Dr. Strange
Human Torch
Invisible Woman
Namor
Wolverine

Sounds interesting.Â Also there's a buzz that Marvel may kill off Spider-man's wife Mary Jane.Â WTF?

Read this from a recent issue of Wizard magazine:
WIZARD: What's the biggest problem with Spider-Man right now?

QUESADA: I've said it before: that darn marriage to Mary Jane. It has been one of the biggest problems writing Spider-Man stories for new and younger readers. Let me put it clearly - Spider-Man is one of the greatest, if not the greatest teen superhero ever created. He's supposed to be a young, viable single character. And over the course of 40-some years, as writers grew older and got married and stuff, they took Peter Parker along for the ride, forgetting about the fact that there were always gonna be 9 year olds who wanted to get into Peter Parker in the same way they all did, which was as a young guy. Peter grew old and married a supermodel. Peter became Billy Joel.

EDIT: One more thing, just found out in X3, the Juggernaut is gonna say a very special one liner to Kitty Pride. For REAL, NOT A JOKE: "Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, BITCH!" when Kitty drags him into the floor.

TheShoe · « **Reply #15 on:** May 17, 2006, 07:33:41 PM »

Quote from: guy-zero32k4 on May 17, 2006, 06:51:53 AM

EDIT:Â One more thing, just found out in X3, the Juggernaut is gonna say a very special one liner to Kitty Pride.Â For REAL, NOT A JOKE: "Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, BITCH!" when Kitty drags him into the floor.

OMG, i'm gonna cheer my ass off when i see that next weekend!!!

Epsilon · « **Reply #16 on:** June 15, 2006, 09:57:29 PM »

Forgot to post this a while back but I recently picked up the first Darkstalkers compilation volume from Udon comics. It was a good read and allowed a guy like me who has minimal knowledge of the franchise get into it a bit more. Of course, there were some elements that differed from the game plot but we all know about creative liberty and all that.

When I get time, I will get my hands on Marvel Zombies.

Kaiserwolf · « **Reply #17 on:** June 16, 2006, 04:00:03 PM »

I just picked up the new issues of Street Fighter and there still amaing, Udon has done incredable job and I hope they continue the good work, and if anyone hasn't read them i suggest you do!!!

P.S.-I can't wait untill Akuma kills Bison!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

masta-Dante · « **Reply #18 on:** June 17, 2006, 12:27:01 PM »

I was reading this on another forum.

"Marvel comics has come under fire from superhero fans for unmasking one of their stars at a fictional press conference. Enduring crusader Spider-Man unexpectedly takes off his mask in front of awaiting reporters and snappers at a Washington publicity call in Marvel's latest edition, revealing the identity he has battled to keep secret for 44 years. Peter Parker agrees to the unmasking after federal legislation requires super heroes register and reveal their identities in a crackdown inspired by the deaths of hundreds of children at an elementary school when a battle between heroes and villains spills onto their grounds. But Marvel's editor-in-chief Joe Quesada reassured disgruntled fans on Wednesday that the unprecedented move is a positive step for the comic adventures. He said, "It is arguably the most shocking event in comic book history. It can be very intimidating if you don't know where the story is going or how it ends; we do, so we're just excited about where it takes us and the story possibilities it offers." "

Mizuki · « **Reply #19 on:** June 24, 2006, 05:31:01 AM »

I haven't been reading much manga lately, but one of my long time favorites is Gunslinger Girl. I think it's the 3rd vol. still.

I recently got my SF2 comics done by udon, I think it's 2 and 3. udon has been working their assess off to get 4th out. I just picked up SvC#1, I can't find the 2k3 comics ANYWHERE.

guy-zero32k4 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 30, 2006, 06:04:19 AM »

HOLY MOTHER FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Udon Announces Rumor Of Final Fight Comic

http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?t=115682

If this is true, I WILL buy this shit. Especially if they could even show events that lead up to the first Final Fight.

Venom_Monkey · « **Reply #21 on:** July 10, 2006, 10:57:15 PM »

Yeah, so I recently got the the first issue of Rival Schools: United by Fate. Even after all the bad things I had heard about it online, I ended up buying it because of my love for Rival Schools. Let this be a warning: Avoid the thing like the goddamn plauge. It's HORRIBLE! The art is horrendous, it's in black and white, and the stupid thing costs FIVE BUCKS! Five Bucks for a black and white comic? Like hell! And the artist draws Kyosuke like some weird, fat headed alien thing. Ugh, it made me sad. All that potential, wasted. So just avoid the thing. You'll thank me.

masta-Dante · « **Reply #22 on:** July 10, 2006, 11:12:28 PM »

Sorry for sounding a killjoy here but i avoid EVERY comic to do with games, The mortal kombat comics were bad, the Street Fighter comics were just boring (In My Opinion) and it looks like the same with Rival schools.....Final fight....i hope you change it around

Venom_Monkey · « **Reply #23 on:** July 11, 2006, 12:28:06 AM »

Street Fighter's actually pretty good, as is Darkstalkers. And Rival Schools is made by the same people who did Street Fighter and Darkstalkers, so it's a damn shame that it turned out so bad. As for good comics based on games, try reading Silent Hill or Metal Gear Solid. I've only read a bit of Castlevania, and that's not too bad. But not all comics based on games suck.

masta-Dante · « **Reply #24 on:** July 11, 2006, 12:50:43 AM »

Well yea my views are abit biased but thats on my opinions.

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