- Amazing Spider-Man #568 Convention Exclusive with Variant Cover, signed by Dan Slott
+Not acknowledging ASM as a comic anymore.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 sketchbook, signed by Georges Jeanty
+Lorne has a man crush on Joss Whdeon
- 50 Reasons to Stop Sketching at Conventions, signed by Stuart Immonen
+What's that?
- Penny Arcade vol. 5: The Case of the Mummy’s Gold collection
+I love PA!
- PVP vol. 1: PVP at Large collection
- PVP vol. 5: PVP Treks On collection
+Never read PVP... would I like it?
- World War Hulk: The Incredible Hercules trade paperback
+STILL haven't read WWH.
- Daredevil: Battlin’ Jack Murdock trade paperback
+How is that?
- Manhunter: Unleashed trade paperback
+Really?
- Penance: Relentless trade paperback
+I have no idea what that is.
- House of M: Avengers trade paperback
+Was that the main story?
- House of M oversized hardcover
+I love the art.
- X-Men: Messiah CompleX oversized hardcover
+Still haven't read that.
- Wolverine & The Black Cat: Claws oversized hardcover (and the artbook in the back quarter is just gorgeous)
+Never read it.
- The Immortal Iron Fist vol. 2: The 7 Capital Cities of Heaven hardcover
+Fuck yeah, Iron Fist. I love Ed Brubaker.
- Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. vol. 2: I Kick Your Face hardcover
+Really?
- X-Factor – Madrox: Multiple Choice hardcover
- X-Factor: Life & Death Matters hardcover
- X-Factor: Many Lives of Madrox hardcover
- X-Factor: Heart of Ice hardcover
+Nice.
- Avengers: The Initiative vol. 1 hardcover
+Couldn't get into it.
- Captain America: The Death of Captain America vol. 2 hardcover
+Again, with me loving Ed Brubaker
- Captain Marvel: Secret Invasion hardcover
+sshh... secret invasion!
- Thunderbolts: Caged Angels hardcover
+you and your Thunderbolts...
- Runaways: Dead End Kids hardcover
+So far behind on Runaways, but I love it so!
- Mighty Avengers: The Ultron Initiative hardcover
+Yay MA when it comes out!

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+Not acknowledging ASM as a comic anymore.
- But it was written and autographed by Dan Slott! With art by JRJr.
+Lorne has a man crush on Joss Whdeon
- Too bad. He's mine!
+What's that?
- 50 Reasons to Stop Sketching at Conventions is a book of cartoon strips by Stuart Immonen. One goes "I'm taking a 30 minute break." "WAIT! Can't you just do one more?" "I'll be back." "I won't be here. Please!" "Why don't I just take it with me and do it on the back of the toilet?" "Okay. Should I wait here or come with you?" "... (thinking - back away slowly, or run like hell?)"
+I love PA!
- 'Cause it's awesome.
+Never read PVP... would I like it?
- They have some good stuff. These are collections of the Image stuff, not all of which is available on the website (I think). There's some really good stuff where they crossover with Liberty Meadows and Savage Dragon. The Liberty Meadows stuff is especially awesome. Frank Cho draws his characters, Scott Kurtz draws his, and they make a lot of boob jokes.
+STILL haven't read WWH.
- The Hercules stuff is the best part.
+How is that?
- Just awesome. You don't even see DD, but this take on the origin really gets in Jack's head and goes in depth on everything leading up to Battlin' Jack's death.
+Really?
- Yes, really. I love Manhunter.
+I have no idea what that is.
- Penance is Speedball, post Civil War, as a member of the Thunderbolts. In this mini-series he hunts down Nitro.
+Was that the main story?
- No, this was a mini that was done just last year. It's about Luke Cage's crew and what they go through prior to House of M #3. There's also a House of M: Civil War mini starting soon. I love all the House of M stuff.
+I love the art.
- I love all House of M everything.
+Still haven't read that.
- Messiah CompleX was okay. Worst part was the ever-changing art. It was a crossover between some 5 different series.
+Never read it.
- Claws was a mediocre story wrapped in Joe Linsner's fucking gorgeous art. Put him in a room with Frank Cho and have them do a draw-off and it would be just as good as lesbian porn.
+Fuck yeah, Iron Fist. I love Ed Brubaker.
- I just love the names of the other warriors. Green Mist of Death and Bride of Spiders and Fat Cobra. Just awesome.
+Really?
- Yes, really. I would have bought Nextwave vol. 1 too, but I couldn't find it in hardcover. I love Machine Man.
+Nice.
- Yeah. I needed everything X-Factor. The first one is the Madrox mini that preceded it, which was also great.
+Couldn't get into it.
- It was okay. I liked Justice and Rage and Slapstick dealing with the deaths and reputations of the other New Warriors.
+Again, with me loving Ed Brubaker
- I have never loved Captain America as much as I do now.
+sshh... secret invasion!
- You're missing the point, and the point is Captain fucking Marvel. I love Mar-Vell, Genis Vell, Phyla Vell, Marvel Boy, and anything related. And this series was great.
+you and your Thunderbolts...
- Second best series ever!
+So far behind on Runaways, but I love it so!
- This is Whedon's story. It was okay.
+Yay MA when it comes out!
- Ultron's a naked Wasp drawn by Frank Cho! The nerd in me meets the pervert in me!

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Joe Kelly will be writing Amazing Spider-Man for a few issues. I will be reading it even though I no longer acknowledge ASM as a comic.

I'm not going to be second best to Joss Wehdon again, dammit!

Sooooo would I like PVP or not?

I'm going to read WWH, I swear!

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Kelly's totally underrated. I shall look forward to that. The latest issue was interesting Peter was surprised for a second that Norman no longer remembers his secret identity, but then he remembers what "they" did. So it looks like they're gonna make it so that the deal with the devil isn't entirely responsible for the fucked up continuity, like no one remembering his identity. It'll probably be Dr. Strange now or some shit.

lol. After Serenity, it's hard not to love him.

I think you would like the trades or Image comics. I tried reading the webcomic last night and it's not as enjoyable.

It's really okay if you don't. Just read the issues of Incredible Hulk/Hercules that tie in. That's the good stuff.

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Joe Kelly is underrated! Thank you!

I love Serenity. I don't know if we ever discussed how wonderful Firefly is.

OK - maybe I'll check it out via tradepaperbacks.

I know we have all the WWH stuff. I just haven't read it.

You should come online.

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Who wrote Battlin' Jack?

So you are the person who reads Manhunter??

Speedball should not be angsty. He's like the Impulse of the Marvel Universe.

I loved issue #7. The exchange between Hawkeye and the Scarlet Witch was fucking amazing.

I hate changing art. It ruined the last arc of Rising Stars.

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Hot Linsner-on-Cho action! I like it. I think they should make out and draw me pictures.

Didn't Warren Ellis write Nextwave?

Captain America brings tears to my eyes it makes me so happy. :)

Captain fucking Marvel blah blah blah... who is writing it?

And best series ever is...?

New issue of Runaways was out today. Terry Moore is writing it.

I didn't realize the nerd and the pervert in you hadn't met before.

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Warren Ellis did write Nextwave. But it's still funny. You have to think of it as out of continuity though.

I agree. Brubaker is the shit.

This series was written by Brian Reed, who has been behind every issue of the current volume of Ms. Marvel. He's also doing a lot of Secret Invasion tie-in stuff.

Best series ever, for me, is Captain Marvel vol 3 and 4 by Peter David. I wish they would collect that in trades or hardcovers so I could read it over and over again.

I haven't read the new ish yet, but I feel it has potential. Humberto Ramos is doing the art, and I usually don't mind his stuff, but it doesn't always work well.

They have. All too often.

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I want to punch Warren Ellis in the face.

Ooooo right, we've been getting that. I knew that.

Best series ever? Really? Ever?

You said ish. You are such a fanboy geek.

And wtf is your icon?

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And I would be just fine with that. I like some of his writing. I don't like him as a person.

It's maybe not the best, but it's my favourite. It's fun, and a good story, and it goes all over the place and ties in with so much, but without being cheesy "and now Captain Marvel teams up with Wolverine!" It was just great. And then later when Marv went crazy it was great in a different way.

I am a fanboy geek.

My icon is a bunch of British flags flying through the air at Merlin's summoning, so that they can envelop the body of Brian Braddock and resurrect him, once again, as Captain Britain.

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That is not the icon you used. It was something with a couple of weird looking people. I know the one with the British flags--I stole it from you.

Your favorite series now or ALL TIME EVER?

I loved the ending of Captain Marvel... when they were "cancelled". It was so weird but cool.

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I have no idea what icon you're talking about. There's no icon I have with more than one person in it.

My favorite at the moment and for a while now. It could change. Eventually.

I love that final issue. So weird, and you could tell David was pissed off about being cancelled and that he had lots of plans still in his head.

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Peter David spends a lot of time being angry.

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I swear to God your icon was different before. It was like 2 Asian girls.

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I think you're seeing things. Or you just have asian girls on the brain. Which is all good, too, y'know.

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It happened to my friend Margo too. I swear to God, I'm not making it up. It's normal again.

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Zeb Wells wrote Battlin' Jack.

Yup. It's me. Have you ever read it?

I agree. You can't even tell it's Speedball anymore. But it's a Thunderbolts tie-in, so...

That is probably the best issue of the whole thing. I love Clint and Wanda.

Rising Stars was already ruined by the last arc. But with Messiah CompleX it literally changes issue-to-issue. And not even a little. You go from David Finch to Humberto Ramos.

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I know the name, but not what he's written.

I haven't. I heard it was lame.

You have a Thunderbolts mancrush. It's weird. Like really weird.

I also dug issue #1.

Rising Stars was awesome for a long time!

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Yeah, I'm not sure what else he's written either.

Manhunter is not lame. I like it.

I do. It's the first comic series I really got into, and the only one I have such a large run of.

All of House of M was awesome. Every issue.

Rising Stars was awesome for the first part when they were introducing all of the characters and going through the history and what they're doing now. Once they got into "five years later" or any of that crap I lost interest. That's like saying "Hitler invaded Poland in 1930-something. Then in 1944 the Allies landed in Normandy. Then after the year 2000 people were making Hitler jokes." You're skipping the actual story!

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I need to reread Rising Stars now that you mention it.

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I'll sooner re-read something I enjoy more. Like X-Factor.

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The first story arc was amazing.

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I still haven't read most of the books I bought, but I'm done all the X-Factors. It's all just amazing. I love the issue where he accidentally sleeps with both M and Siryn and doesn't remember it. And the issue where Doc Samson does psych evaluations of everyone.

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Those were good issues. M can be so evil. I've always loved Siryn. Ever since old X-Force days.

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I love M. I loved old X-Force and Generation X. Warren Ellis ruined them both.

I love when Jamie admits to M and Siryn that he slept with both of them and wants to make amends and apologize, and M turns to him and asks which of them was better in bed.

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M is a total bitch. I <3 her.

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According to Wikipedia, here's Zeb Wells resume:

Amazing Spider-Man #555-557
Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways #1-4
Daredevil: Battlin' Jack Murdock #1-4
Doc Samson #4-5
Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan #1-4
Heroes for Hire #7-15
Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four #17-20
Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man #14
New Warriors (Vol.3) #1-6
Peter Parker: Spider-Man #42-43, 51-57
Snake Woman #1-11
Spider-Man's Tangled Web #12, 20
Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One #1-5

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Amazing Spider-Man #555-557 - read it, but who cares?
Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways #1-4 - read it, didn't like it
Daredevil: Battlin' Jack Murdock #1-4 - love it
Heroes for Hire #7-15 - entirely forgettable
New Warriors (Vol.3) #1-6 - omg, really?! I love this series.

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Yawn. And that icon sorta freaks me out.

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I think it's funny. Even funnier that he's looking at Black Widow's butt when he thinks that.

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Who is that?

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Ares from Mighty Avengers is the one with the heart.

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Ahhhh

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