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kali921

All Available Ass: Kicked - Wednesday version

Jun 10, 2009 07:49

Beloved flist, I promise to stop spamming you with oversized comic images.

But if you're not somehow reading Agents of Atlas, you're missing out on an almost one hundred percent fun reading experience.

Why? Forget the actual content. Yeah, I was and am upset with Jeff Parker over his racefail that will become apparent in issue #7, but the recap ( Read more... )

artgasm, epic smackdowns, avengers, recap request, awesome, marvel

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tavella June 10 2009, 16:20:49 UTC

Eh. AoA has the exact same problem with me as pretty much anything at Marvel: it buys into the whole neocon structure of the place. Either you are aligned with the authoritarians, or you are rebelling against them futilely. At this point, there's only two sides; the authoritarians of Tony's faction, and the authoritarians of Norman's faction. No one is allowed to point out that Tony created Norman, and that is exactly why he was wrong in the first place.

The only one I'm still buying is Thor, because JMS writes it as basically irrelevant to Thor -- he's working on another level of power entirely.

kali921 June 10 2009, 17:01:57 UTC

See, I think that AoA are the one group that has no alignment in Dark Reign. They're not with Tony, they're certainly not with Norman, and they're deliberately withholding themselves from most of the bullcrap currently extant in the MU. That's why it's one of the few Marvel books that I'm still enjoying.

tavella June 10 2009, 17:17:16 UTC

I picked up and looked at the first issue in the store, as I do like Parker's stuff in MA. A few pages in, and there was Norman. I quickly put it back on the shelf. And from the bits I've seen in scans_daily, the succeeding stories have been All About Norman: making deals with him, undermining said deals, and so on.

outlawpoet June 10 2009, 17:59:27 UTC

Wait, which Avengers are they fighting there? It looks like Ronin, Spidey, the real Wolverine, and Carol, Is she part of the secret Avengers now? Or does Norman's Avengers have a normal coloured Spidey and Ronin equivalent?

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kali921 June 10 2009, 17:00:21 UTC

I don't think that they're going to be hosting the Phoenix Force anytime soon. :-)

outlawpoet June 10 2009, 17:57:13 UTC

The Phoenix Force seems to like inhabiting sexy telepaths with difficult personal relationships. Bob is a perfect fit.

frankie23 June 10 2009, 21:37:57 UTC

I am loving the series so far, especially the latest issue, but I'm getting a wee bit tired of every fight ending by Venus-song k.o. I know it makes sense, it's just getting repetitive. I do hope Namora sticks around though, she's been far too awesome to lose.

kali921 June 10 2009, 21:42:47 UTC

That's one thing that I've been thinking about, too - if they have Venus, why even BOTHER to fight? Just have her pre-KO everyone. Although obviously some people are going to be immune to her power.

Namora has rocked so hard in this series that it's ridiculous. As has Jimmy, Ken, and Bob. (You don't want to know about my crush on Bob Grayson. What is it with me and bishie blondes lately? I don't even LIKE blondes!)

frankie23 June 10 2009, 21:50:31 UTC

Well, if Namora and Ken didn't get a chance to get their hands dirty now and then, I suspect they'd get rather grumpy. :) Plus, really she *should* be used as a secret weapon, but they're doing a horrible job of keeping her a secret.

The idea of you swooning over Bob has me giggling to myself at my desk. :D

'Kay. Confession time. I am blushing SO HARD right now. kali921 June 10 2009, 22:17:52 UTC

It's...I look back over my catalog of new fictional crushes over the last three years, and I'm noticing a disturbing pattern manifesting of me being pervily sweet on TOTALLY TWISTED non-conventional dudes. Like Ragdoll, and now Bob, his bishie hair, his penchant for lounging around sans vestments, and his Magic Esophagus of Inside Outing! Plus, you know that once you were alone with Bob, if he could stop staring at the sea anemones and the Jell-O parfait, it'd probably be five-alarm saucer-breaking rumpus time. It makes me wonder what ELSE the Uranians did to his physiology.

AHEM.

I am blushing SO HARD right now.

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lokasenna June 11 2009, 01:34:50 UTC

I have to admit, I was on the fence at first about picking up AoA (because my pull list is pretty grievous enough as is) but I'm soooo glad I did. It's become a lot more enjoyable than some of the other titles I've been reading.

...who, by the way, are pretending to be evil while secretly running trying to make sure that Dark Reign will hurry up and be over.

I also have to admit, I've been rather enjoying the whole Dark Reign theme. But otherwise, for a lot of people, it's a cause that can be rallied behind.