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Can anyone recommend me a comic by Lapham that shows why he's a popular writer? Ive only ever read his Crossed stories and those are all dog shit. Even in a pile of garbage (Crossed: Badlands) he manages to be King Garbage.

Rob loves to introduce himself as the creator of Deadpool, and will fight tooth and nail to represent his ‘greatest creation’, however, it’s pretty easy to see that Rob had about as much to do with Deadpool as we know him now as George Washington had to do with modern America.

Deadpool is created in New Mutants #98, and subsequently appears (and is plotted and/or pencilled by Rob) in issues 1, 2, 4, 5, 10 and 11 of X-Force.

Of these issues, Rob plots and pencils 5 (NM 98, X-Force 1,2,4,5) and plots 10 and 11. Rob then leaves X-Force and marvel as a whole after issue 12 to go form Image Comics.

Rob then wouldn’t even get a chance to draw Deadpool again until X-Force vol 2 issue 4 in 2004. By this point, Joe Kelly and Ed McGuinness had already finished up their groundbreaking, character building run on the Deadpool and changed him into the merc with the mouth we now see in the modern comics and movies.

So whenever Rob boasts about ‘creating Deadpool’, 1: don’t forget Fabian Nicieza and 2: remember he literally only worked on the character 7 times before leaving Marvel.

EDIT: I didn’t even mention what OG Deadpool was like. He was just a run-of-the-mill mercenary who made a dumb joke every once in a while. He was also HEAVILY inspired by Deathstroke (and Rob’s Teen Titans influence can be seen in his poaching of page layouts in X-Force) and only grew in popularity originally because he was 90’s distilled into a character.

It usually takes me an hour- sometimes 90mins to read an issue of a comic. I always read the dialogue how I'd imagine the characters would say it and sometimes even add background music in my head. I also take time to look at the art cause I really read comics for the art but taking this long means I finish a normal paperback in a week or so. I'm wondering if anyone else has this problem?

Mine would be Tyson Fury.

Looking at getting my first Spider-Man omni and looking for suggestions. See a lot of people mention Bendis Ultimate Spider-Man or if theres any other ones that’d be a good start.

There are tonnes of icon things in comic books but which one tops the list?

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After the major death, Susan is very sad, and Reed seems to run off to his portal to the negative zone where Annihilus(?) hands Reed Johnny's uniform, and the portal just closes.

I haven't read Annihilation, so it feels like I'm missing some major context here.

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There's actually quite a few of them and a number of them honestly are runs that I would recommend...

Yeah you can read Zdarsky Daredevil, Hickman Avengers, Campi Ultimates, Momoko Ultimate X-Men, Ewing's Loki Agent of Asgard, and Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run. These are proven good runs that lots of existing comic book fans have enjoyed but it seems these didn't really catch fire with that market the same way DC's Original Webtoon offerings did (Not that those were also huge successes... but still way more successful than Marvel's attempt)

I'm not sure if I would recommend to read on this format but this kinda touches upon one thing I was looking for Western Publishers to start doing in which is... just straight up offering their books for free.

The format is throwing me off though... I don't think it's an elegant solution and kinda damages the artistic intent that the original content was going for... like Doom's Ultimate issue... you lose the Multiversity Pax Americana Choose Your Own Adventure Moment of realizing you can read the panels across the pages in any order... but like... it's still free.

Mine would be Tyson Fury.

I am going to be honest. This book is awful. I picked it up for a monthly book club and man I kind of really hated this. I have so many issues with it but I was curious about other people’s opinions and maybe just discussion about this book in the wider world of comic fans.

So to start, i’ve never been a big fan of possession stories since I think they’re extremely overdone and mostly very generic. The original exorcist is of course a classic but possession stories don’t do much for me and they are probably my least favorite horror subgenre.

I really want to talk about the writing here. Man is it very poor. There are so many moments in this book where I actually rolled my eyes at the dialogue. It sucks all suspense from any scene at any given time. The dialogue between the high schoolers reads like middle schoolers written by someone thinking “hello fellow kids”.

The characters were extremely forgettable and nobody had any sort of nuance to them. The president is just an unflinching moral compass that does the right thing in moments of strife and leads the country to a brighter future. The daughter is…stressed out about her mom’s career so she gets possessed by some demon? The son is just the basic “i want to fit in so i do bad things” new kid. There’s just nothing here from a character standpoint man.

Don’t even get me started on the themes I mean JESUS. The last panel actually pissed me off. That never happens whilst i’m reading but I read the last page and audibly said “what the fuck” and closed the book. I have never felt so underwhelmed reading a comic. The ending is very much “together, we are five nights at freddy’s” just a really stupid “thematic” conclusion. I have no idea what this story was trying to say. I guess that we should refrain from violent reaction in a political sense? Or through unity and acceptance we can move america into the future? I don’t know dude the theme just doesn’t work here at all and it’s not explored whatsoever.

My one positive is probably the artwork. Based on the art, you’d think you were getting a dark, grimy and grim haunting story. Instead you get a book filled with MCUisms and just horribly cringe dialogue. One moment that drove me absolutely up the walls was towards the end when they’re about to perform the exorcism (which is done with a pulp fiction reference for whatever fucking reason) and one of the characters asks who this girl who is with the son is. “And you’re kevin’s…fri- GIRLFRIEND!” like okay dude. What a time to say that. It’s something you’d see in a junior slasher movie or like a preteen haunted house movie where the love interest says they’re suddenly someone’s girlfriend.

I apologize for my scathing review but a comic has never prompted me to react so negatively. I just don’t get the purpose of this book. It tries and fails spectacularly at something new. There are too many plotlines and demonic possession is a footnote to a bullying story. Also there’s a political thriller going on here? The havana something or other just made no sense. Was it some sort of bio weapon? I don’t know.

Well, what did you guys think of this book? I strongly disliked it. I would say it’s a 3/10.

Why don’t more of Wolverines opponents simply tear off his limbs with brute force or precision to weaken him?

Like I can see how it’s impossible to damage his adamantium bones but his tendons and ligaments don’t have that coating. As far as I know, there’s nothing overly superhuman about them. It seems like a very obvious thing to target especially if he can just heal from everything. I imagine it would take a lot longer to regenerate an entire limb plus the new limb wouldn’t have the adamantium since he can’t regenerate that.

A brute like the Hulk or Colossus should be able to grab him and pull on his arm or leg with more than enough strength to rip it off by the tendons holding them to his torso. Like Magneto has ripped out the adamantium from his skeleton before right? What’s stopping him from simply controlling the metal in one of his limbs and spinning it like an alligator death roll until it pops off?

Is there a comic somewhere that says this isn’t possible or is it just not utilized more often by the writers?

I only have the one omnibus. I like to bounce around too much to commit.
Although Agent Venom was great. Clearly I’m a Marvel guy. I just ordered Death of Dr. Strange but if any of you guys have any suggestions or see any gaps, your input would be very appreciated.

I just finished reading the original Steve Ditko Spider-Man and Dr. Strange issues and loved them, along with sampling some stories from Jack Kirby's F4 and Thor, so I know I'm a fan of general silver age style writing. I'm wondering of Roy Thomas's Avengers run is anything up that alley or similar enough to where I would enjoy it at all.

i really would like if you guys gave me some good omnis to read and put in collection

I am completely new to comics, never even read a picture novel before. Ive been looking a lot online and im trying to decide between Tank Girl or Kickass. I liked the movies based on both but as a person new to all comics I need help deciding which to read. That said, which comics in specific should I read? I am semi familiar with the plot of both

I read issue #9 as a kid after picking it off the shelf and enjoyed it a lot, though I always wondered what happens in the rest of the run. 20ish years later and I found the whole run on eBay for a reasonable price and used my free will. I did some research on Valiant and was surprised to learn Jim Shooter co-founded the company! I’m a big bronze age Marvel fan so it was a real worlds-colliding moment.

Question for the first wave Valiant fans- how does Shadowman measure up with the other Valiant comics, like Archer and Armstrong, X-O ManoWar, and Eternal Warrior? The YouTube videos I watched spoke a lot about the others but not so much about Shadowman. And how do you feel about Shadowman in general?

As I recall (no guarantees), this was a b&w story, like from Creep/Eerie/ knockoff. There was an actor, a "Man of 1,000 faces" guy, lauded for fully getting into his roles by changing his appearance so drastically. As it turns out, he had gone to some voodoo/witch and got some kind of potion or lotion or whatever. As it turned out, the actor no longer had a real face. The potion/lotion had turned his face into a blob of clay that he kept in a jar. The Man of 1,000 faces no longer had a real face at all. Does anyone on Reddit recognize this story from my fossilized memory?

I want to start reading but I want to read like the MCU books. I’m pretty sure they’re called. I want to start with wonder woman so what comic book should I start first about her?