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I fell asleep last night

who won in the west coast vs east coast 5v5

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~Zen

watching she-hulks that aren't combo fiend is painful

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AWESOME

can't stand dark phoenix

rooting for Combofiend tomorrow

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Battlefield Earth should be #1

what an awful movie

EVERYTHING filmed at a dutch angle. WHY

I only got like halfway through before I wanted to kill myself


also Green Lantern wouldn't have been as bad if it had less Blake Lively and more Green Lantern doing fun and creative things with his ring. the original draft of the script I read was so much better than the final product.

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the scene with the poorly animated CGI dog robot jumping around the room kicking people in the face made me want to bury my shame in spy kids aroma cards

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Time listed their worst hollywood blockbusters ever

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2084801_2084599,00.html?iid=moreontime

20. The Last Airbender
19. Knight and Day
18. Hudson Hawk
17. Avengers
16 Transformers: Dark of the Moon
15. Stealth
14. The Haunting
13. Howard the Duck
12. Speed 2: Cruise Control
11. Green Lantern
10. Pearl Harbor
09. Catwoman
08. Wild Wild West
07. Waterworld
06. Godzilla
05. Batman and Robin
04. Battlefield Earth
03. Sex and the City 2
02. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
01. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

No wonder people used to treat comic book movies like crap and still kinda do!!

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agree on both accounts

american flag doomsday is worth 11/10

I like to read IGN reviews but I don't take them seriously. it's hard to find "professional" weekly scored reviews like they have

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THE GREATEST

you should watch it and try to finish it before Season 2 (WITH THE FANTASTIC FOUR AND DOCTOR DOOM AND THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY) starts up

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Here's some highlights of IGN's reviews this week that I finally got to:

Action Comics #903 - 3.0/10 - http://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1184657p1.html
Detective Comics #880 - 9.0/10 - http://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1184675p1.html
Gotham City Sirens #25 - 5.5/10 - http://www.ign.com/blogs/gingitsune23/2011/07/27/gotham-city-sirens-25-review/
Green Lantern Corps #62 - 5.0/10 - http://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1184661p1.html
Teen Titans #98 - 7.0/10 - http://www.ign.com/blogs/gingitsune23/2011/07/27/teen-titans-98-review/
Amazing Spider-Man #666 - 8.5/10 - http://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1184608p1.html
Secret Avengers #15 - 6.0/10 - http://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1184655p1.html
Uncanny X-Force #12 - 9.0/10 - http://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1184647p1.html
Venom #5 - 8.0/10 - http://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1184678p1.html
X-Men Schism #2 - 7.5/10 - http://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1184551p1.html
Invincible #81 - 8.0/10 - http://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1184665p1.html

More here: http://comics.ign.com/articles/118/1184502p1.html

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hey is doom patrol any good

I was sorting the D books at the shop today and we had tons and tons of Doom Patrol nobody wants. The covers for the latest series look cool. I vaguely know the characters from Brave and the Bold and that one episode of Teen Titans.

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oh man I miss physical preorder bonuses

now if you want them you gotta get limited editions for like $30 more

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BUT KOOLAID

WHAT WOULD EB GAMES HAVE FOR THEIR PRE-ORDER BONUS IF YOU COULD SIMPLY UNLOCK SOMETHING THAT SACRED

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I hope Batman Arkham City doesn't fall prey to the current trend of gaming



boooo stop with all the preorder bonuses

back in the day you'd be able to unlock all these outfits or maybe used a cheat code to get them!! I LOVE CHEAT CODES I NEVER SEE THEM ANYMORE

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GO READ SOME CURRENT X-FORCE

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oh wait that's a UK exclusive

NOOOOOOOOOOO

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Batman Beyond!

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is that seriously the art now

*takes X-23 off pull list*

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yes

and john won't stop hearing it for at least 20 more years now

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You're done with Season 1 already? What did you think?

It doesn't have a release date as far as I know BUT IT DOES HAVE ROCKET RACCOON







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THAAAT'S FREAKY

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I really need to re-read Immortal Iron Fist. I read it during the initial run and just didn't "get it" I think because I was younger.

How many issues did it get through? Maybe I'll read the trade during work tomorrow.

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Let's play

ZEN TALKS ABOUT SUMMARIES OF COMIC BOOK FANFICTION FROM FANFICTION.NET


Iris of Asgard by reapersama101
*Runs with Thor movie/Spoilers* What happens when Jane and Thor have two children, Loki and Iris? And what about Earth? Jane decides to send her children to Earth, however not to New Mexico; to La Push, Washington.

This one is a crossover of Thor and Twilight. You know the downside of casting the sexy Chris Hemsworth as Thor? TEEN GIRLS ARE GOING TO WRITE CROSSOVERS OF THOR AND TWILIGHT.


The Untitled GleeKickAss Slashfic Crossover by GeniaTheParadox
Random Finn/Kurt one-shot. Foul-mouthed, badass Kurt, aka Hit Boy. Finn, aka Kick-Ass, falls for him. Kurt's having none of it. I really fail at summaries, but it's a bit of fun so give it a go. It'll make me happy.

There's not one, but FOUR M-rated crossovers of Kick-Ass and glee. And it randomly has Kick-Ass as a gay kid, even though half the plot of the book revolved around him pretending to be gay just to get laid. Also, it's a crossover of Kick-Ass and Glee.


Spidey's Harem by West Mountai
Peter gets doused pheromone booster and is now attracting various women sexually, will he conquer this latest trial or be smothered by various females. Peter X multiple girls including Gwen, MJ, Felicia, Kitty ,Natasha, X-23, and Emma Frost.

So Peter gives into temptation and ends up raping several girls, including one that's probably 16ish. Actually, if Gwen is still alive, then X-23 must be like... an embryo.

Creepy.


Against all odds by SilverCat-22
A song fic about Superman pushing away Wonder Woman..

A what?

"Shhh, Kal there is nothing to forgive…."

So take a look at me now,
'cos there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me,
just the memory of your face

"Diana for the sake of my marriage with Lois I think…. I think its best that we don't come near each other unless it's a Justice League matter… I… I hope you understand."

Diana blue eyes filled with pain but she understood, "If that's what you think is best Superman, I will no longer bother you." She walked out of the room… unknown to him that would be last he would see of her.

wat


the storms by brosis2717
susan is feeling her pre-wedding pressure, luckickly she has her brother here to help her out with a warm back massage... and more?

WELP

I'm done.

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oh I forgot the Flashpoints!

Flashpoint, Batman and Deathstroke are for me

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I've liked Spider-Man as of late. Cut out One Moment in Time and it's hard a pretty good run recently.

I still like him with Mary Jane, though. Carlie is alright but she doesn't seem to have much personality other than BADASS NERD WHO DOES COOL THINGS LOOK HOW COOL SHE IS LOOK HOW NERDY SHE IS

you know pete won't ever get close to her like he has with MJ so why bother

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wiki says "#648-"

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pull list next week:

DC Comics
Secret Six #36

Marvel Comics
15 Love #3 (I LOVE THIS SHUT UP)
Avengers Academy #17
Herc #6
Punisher #1 (eh why not)
Thunderbolts #161
Ultimate Comics Fallout #4
X-23 #13
Marvel Previews #96

Other
THE INFINITE #1 FEATURING BEAUTIFUL ROB LIEFELD MASTERART


might also get the Rocket Raccoon hardcover

Anything anybody want me to add?

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ZEN'S COMIC OF THE WEEK:

TERMINATOR/ROBOCOP: KILL HUMAN #1

This comic was EXTREEEEEEME! It has the two GREATEST CHARACTERS using GUNS to SHOOT each other

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hello

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same

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If things had turned out differently, one of America's most famous superheroes could have been racing across our screens this fall. But the gods were against Wonder Woman, NBC's superhero show. And it's easy to see why.

We've seen the unaired Wonder Woman pilot, and it's actually kind of worse than we expected. It's bad in the ways that we were all expecting, but it's also bad in other, more fundamental, ways.

The funny thing is, you sort of expect this show to have a lot of soppiness and a lot of "working woman juggling career and personal life" trauma — because it's David E. Kelley, and he's built in the concept that Wonder Woman has two secret identities. So she has her "corporate bosslady" identity, dealing with meetings, and then her "lonely single woman" identity, whose biggest problem is creating a Facebook profile for herself.

But the thing you don't expect from this pilot is how tone-deaf it is about superheroes, and how smug and brutal Wonder Woman is. You get the impression, watching this thing, that nobody has ever really read a good superhero comic, or gotten the slightest idea why superheroes work. There's a lot of discussion of whether Wonder Woman is an unlawful vigilante — which she clearly is, without a doubt — and we constantly see her torturing, murdering and trampling people, without any concern for the law.

Watching the Wonder Woman pilot makes you appreciate The Cape, NBC's doomed superhero show from last year, a lot more. Both shows are trying to do similar things, but The Cape at least had some relatable characters and a better sense of humor. Not that the Wonder Woman pilot isn't screamingly funny in parts — it definitely is.

For example, there's still the infamous scene where Wonder Woman argues with her marketing team about the ginormous breasts of her action figure, which now ends with her shouting, "We are not marketing my t***!" But then later, she shows off those same breasts to a security guard who's blocking a room she wants to get into, saying "Do you like my outfit? This outfit opens doors for me."

There's also the big confrontation with the evil pharmaceutical company head, Veronica Cale, played by the glamorous Elizabeth Hurley — who looks at Diana and says, in extreme closeup, "The pharmaceutical industry has Congress by the balls, and as you can imagine, their balls come particularly easy to me." Why their balls are so accessible to her, in particular, is left as an exercise for the audience.

Meanwhile, African American women follow Wonder Woman around, worrying about her feelings and begging for her help in avenging their poor victimized sons. And everybody worries about Wonder Woman's mental state and whether she's lonesome and whether she needs a man, all the time — even when she's facing criminal charges for beating up tons of people without any justification.

And she spends rather a lot of time in her "corporate bosslady" identity, with a huge office overlooking a giant hive of worker bees, all of them apparently toiling away to merchandise her image for profit. All of the profits from her crass self-promotion go to help her beat up more people in her spare time, we're told.

It's really very jarring. David E. Kelley boils down superheroes to a shriveled core of violence, arrogance and meanness, like the worst of early 1990s Image Comics heroes. And then to humanize his main character again, he adds a stock set of "lonely career woman" tropes that are lifted directly from all his lawyer shows. We've seen some pretty odd takes on the admittedly versatile superhero archetypes from Hollywood over the years — but Wonder Woman might just be the oddest.

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I hope zombies win

I can't wait to see them try to test stuff and bring logic like CAN A ZOMBIE TURN A VAMPIRE INTO A ZOMPIRE

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so they announced at Comic Con that the last episode of Deadliest Warrior will be Zombies vs. Vampires.

Zombies vs. Vampires.

The zombie rep will be Max Brooks, the guy who wrote the Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z and those zombie comics nobody reads.

The vampire rep will be the guy who writes 30 Days of Night


this is incredible

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yeah board 8 was super boring

still is

nothing happens

we need a new contest to bring in fresh meat and fresh drama

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speaking of Alan Moore, WE GOT IN THE NEW LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN TODAY!

I actually don't read it but a lot of our regulars were super excited

I wonder which characters he used this time

maybe i'll read it

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YYNN

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she just talks about stuff

the tabloid guys make fun of jean grey dying and coming back all the time. is this stuff common knowledge in the marvel u?

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really weird Secret Avengers

Black Widow shows up at a tabloid that was claiming Bucky is still alive, they have a giant discussion about life, death and superheroes.

Halo would probably like it

also in Spider-Island peter mentioned that he's been Spider-Man since his second year in high school. just thought i'd put that out there cuz people like figuring out the marvel universe timeline

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read Deadpool Dark Reign dammit

Bullseye dressed as Hawkeye is just as good if not better

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I DID NOT KNOW THIS

OUTRAGEOUS!

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really touching issue of Venom this week, I recommend it as a good jumping-on point to one of the better books out there

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Spider-island was ok. Don't like that the Twitter hashtag is on the cover and stuff

Gonna read venom

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Reading spider-island, when did spider-girl get her powers back?

She's still useless apparently

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Invincible was good, but then it got to the last few pages and ended abruptly. Like there was no TO BE CONTINUED, it's almost like they cut off Invicible mid-sentence. Doesn't help that there are like 10 pages of ads after it so I didn't see the end coming

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eve needs to lose weight already



she's all like DURR I ARE FISH

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fine fine fine

anyone want spoilers? this is a book I know people actually enjoy reading so I won't post any unless asked

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What should I read next?! SPIDER-ISLAND?!

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