Marvel Universe

[Rollo Tomassi]

I think not. Part of the fun of collecting for me is "the hunt". I realized that derived great enjoyment when I first started collecting in the late 80s slowly piecing together runs of IronMan, Cap, Batman, etc.
So finding books you don't have is always part of the enjoyment. There's nothing wrong with that.

And Siege takes place over a very short amount of time. Mere hours. So most of the oneshots and tie-ins are taking place simultaneously. There was a prelude book called The Cabal. Read that first. But the main book, the Embedded series, the five oneshots, and the ongoing tie-ins are all just taking place on different parts of the battlefield. In fact, key events from the main series are seen several different times in different books.

[jjreason]

Thanks for the tips on Siege. Luckily I did have the Avengers books and at least one Dark Reign one shot to get started.

Caught up Hickman's FF - my only complaint is that it's obviously "written for the trade" or whatever you want to call it, picking up one of these issues would just have you scratching your head. I also found that I was using the synopsis blurbs, even though I had just read the comic... just to make sure I didn't miss anything.... lots going on there. They read & look beautiful though, talk about a glorious oversized hardcover....

The Secret Avengers stories starting after Fear Itself were nothing to write home about. The Ellis work smacks of his work on Planetary in the same distasteful "whoa, I've REALLY seen this before" manner that Ultimates smacked of The Authority. Not even thinly veiled. The New Avengers annual with Wonder Man going offside was actually a really good comic, but the issues themselves revolving around Norman getting busted out weren't all that great I didn't think.

Back to mental health. The sad part about "the hunt" now, is that it basically money-limited. When I was a kid, comics were like locally-grown food - your shops had what they had, and only rarely did you ever get any opportunity to expand what was available - they either got a new collection to piece out & you were in good standing with the shop owner and got a call OR you got to go out of town & found a new shop.... OR a new shop opened up, which happened to us once - it was a giddy few weeks perusing the new (to us) back issues.

These days, you just click & find... any issue in any condition is a 5 minute search away. Don't get me wrong - I LOVE finishing runs - but the thrill of the find isn't there anymore, shit's too easy to find.

[Rollo Tomassi]

That's why love the dealer shows when they come around 4 or 5 times a year. Yeah, I can find a book I 'need' online in five minutes. But it's imminently more gratifying to find that same book for 20 cents in a guys discount bins.

[jjreason]

And it's also why I'm usually willing to pay a bit more if I find something I really want "in real life", it's just so out of the ordinary to actually seek & find something I don't mind a little premium.

Finding shit for 20 cents though, that would take the cake. I wouldn't even know where to get the information that some opportunity like that was coming someplace close by.

[Rollo Tomassi]

I found mine by chance in the newspaper's upcoming events section. After that I got on the guy's mailing list. So now he sends me a postcard whenever he has a show coming up and I bring the card so he knows i came to that show and sends me a postcard for the next one.
Some comic shops will let people post fliers in their shops of they're also getting a table at the show. Other than that, I guess some kind of Internet search? I don't how'd you narrow it down though.

[anarky]

Help me out here.

What the fuck is the appeal of Squirrel Girl?

[jjreason]

There is no appeal. She is, I'm quite sure, the result of someone losing a drunken bet.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Help me out here.

What the fuck is the appeal of Squirrel Girl?

She's defeated Dr. Doom and had intimate relations with Wolverine.

[jjreason]

God, I cannot imagine lifting that tail to look for the honey pot & finding the nut-ridden remnants of her last bowel movement stuck in that bushy tail. Talk about a turnoff.

[anarky]

At least it appears it's not something in the water.

She seems like a one-off gag that was silly, and has gone way overboard.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Sam Wilson's superhero 'schtick' are his wings, right? Which is just a hi-tech flight harness designed by T'Challa. So why don't they just give wings to ALL the Avengers? They'd be more effective in combat if they all had the option of flight at their disposal. And they'd never have to have the flying Avengers carrying the non-flyers on their backs(which is just stupid). And if not T'Challa's flight harness, then some kind of basic repulsor tech designed by Stark.

[jjreason]

But then the Falcon would be out of a job, creating a character with no "use" on the Avengers or within the Marvel Universe, and they can't have that very well can they?

[vynsane]

yeah, giving everyone the same technology as one of the other members just makes them the back-up band, like if everyone had stark tech armor, as they almost went with iron man and iron spidey, it just makes it 'iron man and the iron avengers' (which actually sounds really cool in immediate retrospect).

[anarky]

Just looking at what are usually considered the "basic" Avengers, they'd all have Iron Man armor with phasing power, and could change size at will.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Just looking at what are usually considered the "basic" Avengers, they'd all have Iron Man armor with phasing power, and could change size at will.

And personal teleporters.