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[Delta1]

I had high hopes for DC movies when I heard they were going to be making a Flash movie. I've always liked the Flash and couldn't wait to see him on the big screen. I even heard about how David Goyer submitted a script to DC, but they ultimately rejected it and now there are just rumors of a Flash movie, nothing for sure.

lol for 4 months after i read infinite crisis, flash's "demise" was so heroic that he literally became my favorite hero. I trained legs 2 times a week with sprinting and high intensity cardio just so i could improve my speed and be more like flash lol.

[Ultimate_Cap]

lol for 4 months after i read infinite crisis, flash's "demise" was so heroic that he literally became my favorite hero. I trained legs 2 times a week with sprinting and high intensity cardio just so i could improve my speed and be more like flash lol.

LOL! That's awesome! Yeah, I loved Bart's run as Flash and I wish they would have kept him. I remember when he was first introduced as Impulse. I have to agree with you about Countdown as well. Unfortunately it felt like a countdown to wasted money. I just ended up not caring about the main characters in it, like Jimmy Olsen. Hopefully Final Crisis will pull through.

[JBDW]

i have a torrent for marvel event chronology. it has basically everything

i'll post it tonight

PM?

[SmellySkunk]

So I just spent the day reading The Walking Dead issues 1-49. Bad ass.

[Weightaholic]

Anyone mentioned "The Spectre" yet. There was a stunning run of 60 comics from 92-97 by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake.

Comic perfection....

[Jenkins1997]

Anyone mentioned "The Spectre" yet. There was a stunning run of 60 comics from 92-97 by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake.

Comic perfection....

The Spectre is a really cool character sometimes, he is the most powerful character in the DC world next to "The Source".

[Weightaholic]

The Spectre is a really cool character sometimes, he is the most powerful character in the DC world next to "The Source".

If you never read the series I mentioned, I highly recommend it as one to pick up, if you can find it. It showed the humanity that was often at war with the power held within him. Truly great stuff.

[Jenkins1997]

If you never read the series I mentioned, I highly recommend it as one to pick up, if you can find it. It showed the humanity that was often at war with the power held within him. Truly great stuff.

I'll try and pick it up, Spectre is usually one of those characters I stumble upon, I have one issue of him Blasting Darkseid to a pile of ash with one blast which if anyone knows who Darkseid is they know what an amazing feat that is.

[mwblind]

is it just me or are marvels events (starting from civil war) way better than DCs?
infinite crisis was great and so were the OYLs and 52, but countdown and final crisis are just so all over the place. Every issue of countdown followed like 4-7 characters at once, it was just so hard to follow (not to mention the art wasnt the best). world war hulk was WAAAY more fun to read than countdown will ever be. And now with secret invasion? marvel is on a roll. Final crisis is pretty good too (rip j'onn j'onnz), but its just not as good as secret invasion so far. what do you guys think?

Yeah Marvel puts a lot more thought into it, Like with secret invasion they have been quietly setting it up for like four years or something... DC's 52 is the only big event I have read from them but it was such a convoluted mess that I havent even wanted to read any DC material outside of Batman and even that has gotten stale until recently..

Did they kill off Martian Manhunter?

[KennyK]

So I just spent the day reading The Walking Dead issues 1-49. Bad ass.

i've heard really good things about that book.

anyone read DMZ?


thinking about getting into it.

[KennyK]

Yeah Marvel puts a lot more thought into it, Like with secret invasion they have been quietly setting it up for like four years or something... DC's 52 is the only big event I have read from them but it was such a convoluted mess that I havent even wanted to read any DC material outside of Batman and even that has gotten stale until recently..

Did they kill off Martian Manhunter?

The secret invasion is getting pretty good. They said it goes all the way back to the Kree/Skrull war in the Avengers

[Ultimate_Cap]

Did they kill off Martian Manhunter?

I don't mean to spoil this for anyone, but yeah. They killed him in the first issue of Final Crisis.

[omnicore]

is it just me or are marvels events (starting from civil war) way better than DCs?
infinite crisis was great and so were the OYLs and 52, but countdown and final crisis are just so all over the place. Every issue of countdown followed like 4-7 characters at once, it was just so hard to follow (not to mention the art wasnt the best). world war hulk was WAAAY more fun to read than countdown will ever be. And now with secret invasion? marvel is on a roll. Final crisis is pretty good too (rip j'onn j'onnz), but its just not as good as secret invasion so far. what do you guys think?

52 was just meh.

[mwblind]

i've heard really good things about that book.

anyone read DMZ?


thinking about getting into it.

DMZ is awesome. Highly recommended.

[Vegetto991]

i have a torrent for marvel event chronology. it has basically everything

i'll post it tonight

pm it to me if you dont want to ;post it in the thread

[mwblind]

I have been rereading the Hellsing Manga... They also have a crtoon out now.. Awesome if anyone wants to check it out.

[ACslatering]

whats DMZ? google gives me something random.

[KennyK]

whats DMZ? google gives me something random.

? Midwestern militia groups revolt against their local governments in protest of rampant U.S. adventurism overseas and, in the absence of the National Guard, are able to gain far more ground than they thought possible. Small insurgent groups pop up in towns and cities across the country, and a sizable force, the Free States Army, pushes toward Manhattan. The city proves too big for them to take, and also for the U.S. Army to defend. The war stalls there, a stalemate, neither side being able to shift things.[3] ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMZ_%28comic_book%29


and if anyone wants it I found it on isohunt
seacrh marvel even chronology

[mwblind]

whats DMZ? google gives me something random.

Its a comic in the Vertigo line... Its set in a future where civil war has broken out in the states... Manhatten bocomes a demilitarized zone (DMZ) and serves as a buffer between the two sides... Right now in the series its pretty much at a stalemate and Manhatten has become a ghetto / Ghosttown ... The main character is Matthew Roth who is a reporter stuck inside the ghetto, and he ends up being the only journalist within the DMZ and begins to report to the outside world. Its a pretty good book if you like human stories and such.. Which I do.

vvvvv Couldnt help myself vvvvvvv

[q-theman]

Anyone mentioned "The Spectre" yet. There was a stunning run of 60 comics from 92-97 by John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake.

Comic perfection....

If you never read the series I mentioned, I highly recommend it as one to pick up, if you can find it. It showed the humanity that was often at war with the power held within him. Truly great stuff.

Hey haven't chimed in a while. Oh yeah, this was a great series during the Ostrander/Mandrake era, great art work, great storylines. One of my favorite covers ever was the Glow in the Dark issue. I remember it hanging on my wall at night and I would lay there staring at it. I highly recommend this book, does anyone know if they put this into graphic novel form?

[Delta1]

Yeah Marvel puts a lot more thought into it, Like with secret invasion they have been quietly setting it up for like four years or something... DC's 52 is the only big event I have read from them but it was such a convoluted mess that I havent even wanted to read any DC material outside of Batman and even that has gotten stale until recently..

Did they kill off Martian Manhunter?

their killing off like, everyone. i think batman is next (read final crisis #2, batman is in a heap of ****).

[mwblind]

their killing off like, everyone. i think batman is next (read final crisis #2, batman is in a heap of ****).

Supposedly Grant Morrison is killing him in his own book soon, or maybe just reinventing him in a big way...

[caj]

is it just me or are marvels events (starting from civil war) way better than DCs?
infinite crisis was great

Infinite Crisis (along with Identity Crisis) ruined DC Comics for me.

Marv Wolfman took four great characters (Alex Luther, Superboy Prime, Superman & Lois Lane of Earth 2) and gave them a very fitting happy ending twenty years ago. Infinite Crisis reserected these characters just to destroy them. Complete waste.

[War Machine]

Supposedly Grant Morrison is killing him in his own book soon, or maybe just reinventing him in a big way...

Spoiler warning if you follow the link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_rip

In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Grant Morrison explained that what's going to happen to Batman is "so much better than death. People have killed characters in the past but to me, that kind of ends the story! I like to keep the story twisting and turning. So what I am doing is a fate worse than death. Things that no one would expect to happen to these guys at all. This is the end of Bruce Wayne as Batman."

[mwblind]

Spoiler warning if you follow the link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_rip

In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Grant Morrison explained that what's going to happen to Batman is "so much better than death. People have killed characters in the past but to me, that kind of ends the story! I like to keep the story twisting and turning. So what I am doing is a fate worse than death. Things that no one would expect to happen to these guys at all. This is the end of Bruce Wayne as Batman."

Im gonna be pissed

[kappakai]

just started getting into comics.... yah... at 30. lol.

friend of mine brought a bunch of comics on a trip to hawaii. i read girls by the luna brothers, and it blew my mind. social commentary, gender issues, killer sperm, and hawt naked girls. it was fukkin awesome. lots and lots of twists and plot turns to keep the pages moving.

working on y the last man. unfortunately, B&N doesn't have volume 6. so, i gotta wait before i can get that. my friend also recommended ULTRA, walking dead, ex machina (which looks sick... not enough $$ to get into it though...) and wanted. any opinions on these? i like comics with endings... i think thats why i didn't get into comics before. i want resolution, some kind of conclusion.

[Ultimate_Cap]

Im gonna be pissed

Agreed! Bruce Wayne is Batman!

[mwblind]

just started getting into comics.... yah... at 30. lol.

friend of mine brought a bunch of comics on a trip to hawaii. i read girls by the luna brothers, and it blew my mind. social commentary, gender issues, killer sperm, and hawt naked girls. it was fukkin awesome. lots and lots of twists and plot turns to keep the pages moving.

working on y the last man. unfortunately, B&N doesn't have volume 6. so, i gotta wait before i can get that. my friend also recommended ULTRA, walking dead, ex machina (which looks sick... not enough $$ to get into it though...) and wanted. any opinions on these? i like comics with endings... i think thats why i didn't get into comics before. i want resolution, some kind of conclusion.

Ex Machina is pretty good. Y: The last man is in my top 10 of all time. Has one of the best endings in any comic in recent memory.

[War Machine]

Agreed! Bruce Wayne is Batman!

Maybe not much longer.

The rumor is the new Batman will be (spoiler warning...) either Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, or maybe even Tim Drake. Personally, if Bruce is dying, I'd like to see Nightwing (Grayson) graduate so to speak.

[martinezwallace]

j-jason todd? When did they bring that *** back to life?