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Post by brentlambert on Nov 15, 2011 14:09:28 GMT -5
AVENGERS by Jamie Primas
Why You Should Read It: Jamie has put together one of the wildest rosters to ever hit Avengers fanfic IMO and he makes it work, which is probably the more important part. In the first few issues, you get to see Mad Jim Jaspers invade Asgard and just imagine how much insanity results from that. Not to mention, you get a pretty neat issue where reality goes topsy turvy courtesy of about a dozen Marvel Anthology writers.
CAPTAIN AMERICA by Meriades Rai
Why You Should Read It: It's Meri. That should be all I need to write. But if you need more, you get to see Cap in character without having to be on a soapbox. Meri writes Cap as a man very much sure of himself. And unlike so many other fanfic titles (mines included) you get done-in-one stories that don't leave you feeling cheated.
THUNDERBOLTS by Des Davies
Why You Should Read It: Only one issue in and Des has made Thunderbolt Ross into anything but a maniacal Army officer and you should be extremely thankful for it. I already predict this becoming one of the best titles at the site. Catch it on the ground floor.
ASTONISHING X-MEN by Scott Redmond
Why You Should Read It: For the Jean fans out there looking for a mature characterization of her you'll find it her. And she proves that she's entirely capable of leading an X-Team. Scott is lining up some very interesting villians for the team to take on that are out of the box.
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Post by stormrage on Nov 15, 2011 23:52:55 GMT -5
Figured I'd stop lurking, come out of the shadows and join the MB. I really love Marvel Anthology and the stories it makes. I will never be a writer so I admire the imagination that goes into so much of this stuff.
Anyway....out of these four titles, the two I really like the most at this moment are Avengers and Astonishing X-Men. Jamie has a great way of making this insane ideas come to life on the page and he just really pulls me into the story. I knew next to nothing about Jim Jaspers before this story so I looked him up. Great villian! And I love Astonishing because Jean gets to be bad ass. It's good to see her stepping out of the shadow of Cyke and Prof. X and getting to be her own woman. I hope it continues for a long time to come. I really see Jean as having the potential to be up there with Cyke and Storm in terms of X-Men leadership.
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Post by Scotti on Nov 16, 2011 1:35:48 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind words on Astonishing  I'm really glad that people are liking the change of Jean in charge and cutting loose as I am too. I have some big stuff planed for her and the team and like Brent said I got some great and off the wall villains coming for them and even some really obscure and forgotten ones too. Jean definitely has the potential to be a great X-Men leader I agree. Avengers is an awesome book as Jamie just took that cast and just made it work and has taken the Avengers on some crazy rides so far in it. Meri's Captain America is really great too and like Brent said the done in one is really nice yet you can tell the book has a direction to go. I haven't read Thunderbolts just yet but I'm planning too as I've heard great things about it. |
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Post by jamieprimas on Nov 16, 2011 13:38:18 GMT -5
I return all of the high fives given to the Avengers despite the fact that I am not usually a high five type of a guy. I wouldn't be able to do it if it were not for the participation of everyone else that contributes throughout the site as their enthusiasm and output inspires my own.
Thanks to all and I hope you continue to enjoy the stuff I put out.
Hope everyone is looking forward to the Mighty Avengers spin-off that will be debuting after the climactic events of Avengers #13 as the team might be "Schismed" and and "Regenesised" into two teams...
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Post by brentlambert on Nov 16, 2011 16:35:20 GMT -5
I return all of the high fives given to the Avengers despite the fact that I am not usually a high five type of a guy. I wouldn't be able to do it if it were not for the participation of everyone else that contributes throughout the site as their enthusiasm and output inspires my own. Thanks to all and I hope you continue to enjoy the stuff I put out. Hope everyone is looking forward to the Mighty Avengers spin-off that will be debuting after the climactic events of Avengers #13 as the team might be "Schismed" and and "Regenesised" into two teams... Man I am stoked for Mighty Avengers and just looking at the dibs for the title makes me verge on squealing. Though I don't think anyone would want to hear that...so I'll refrain. |
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Post by stormrage on Nov 18, 2011 8:52:09 GMT -5
Thanks for the kind words on Astonishing I'm really glad that people are liking the change of Jean in charge and cutting loose as I am too. I have some big stuff planed for her and the team and like Brent said I got some great and off the wall villains coming for them and even some really obscure and forgotten ones too. Jean definitely has the potential to be a great X-Men leader I agree. Avengers is an awesome book as Jamie just took that cast and just made it work and has taken the Avengers on some crazy rides so far in it. Meri's Captain America is really great too and like Brent said the done in one is really nice yet you can tell the book has a direction to go. I haven't read Thunderbolts just yet but I'm planning too as I've heard great things about it.
What I think I like the most is the off color villians. Because it puts the X-Men into situations they don't often find themselves in. Seeing Magneto and Sinister show up again and again gets repetitive. Not that they're bad villians, but everyone needs cooldown time. |
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Post by jamieprimas on Nov 18, 2011 12:40:29 GMT -5
Astonishing X-Men is great stuff. It's good enough for me to overlook the death of a certain character that I enjoy in the Weapon X crossover. Great crack all over the page.
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Post by Scotti on Nov 18, 2011 15:26:42 GMT -5
Thanks guys, I'd recently been questioning much of my writing and the words help I assure you no Magneto or Sinister will be in this book as villains anytime soon. I have a whole slew of villains that are not usual X-Men foes lined up with one or two threats that are usual X-Men fair but hopefully done in a way that keeps them from being seen as 'been there, done that'. There will be a blast from the past joining the team at some point related to one of the X-Men's big villains. And I'm not done by far with the character that was killed in the Weapon X Crossover. No ressurrection as I don't like those most of the time and deaths mean more when set in but I have more stories I want to tell with Firestar from the past and such and some developments that will spiral out of her death to propel a few characters into areas you've never seen them and never could have expected to see them. Justice is a major one. |
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Post by brentlambert on Nov 19, 2011 19:58:23 GMT -5
Thanks guys, I'd recently been questioning much of my writing and the words help I assure you no Magneto or Sinister will be in this book as villains anytime soon. I have a whole slew of villains that are not usual X-Men foes lined up with one or two threats that are usual X-Men fair but hopefully done in a way that keeps them from being seen as 'been there, done that'. There will be a blast from the past joining the team at some point related to one of the X-Men's big villains. And I'm not done by far with the character that was killed in the Weapon X Crossover. No ressurrection as I don't like those most of the time and deaths mean more when set in but I have more stories I want to tell with Firestar from the past and such and some developments that will spiral out of her death to propel a few characters into areas you've never seen them and never could have expected to see them. Justice is a major one. I think it can be easily agreed that the death of Firestar was the most powerful death coming out of the Weapon X crossover. So I look forward to how it affects her friends and family. I'll have Speedball addressing it at some point. |
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Post by stormrage on Dec 2, 2011 9:34:40 GMT -5
Thanks guys, I'd recently been questioning much of my writing and the words help I assure you no Magneto or Sinister will be in this book as villains anytime soon. I have a whole slew of villains that are not usual X-Men foes lined up with one or two threats that are usual X-Men fair but hopefully done in a way that keeps them from being seen as 'been there, done that'. There will be a blast from the past joining the team at some point related to one of the X-Men's big villains. And I'm not done by far with the character that was killed in the Weapon X Crossover. No ressurrection as I don't like those most of the time and deaths mean more when set in but I have more stories I want to tell with Firestar from the past and such and some developments that will spiral out of her death to propel a few characters into areas you've never seen them and never could have expected to see them. Justice is a major one. I think it can be easily agreed that the death of Firestar was the most powerful death coming out of the Weapon X crossover. So I look forward to how it affects her friends and family. I'll have Speedball addressing it at some point. It would be cool to see Speedball and Justice hook up at some point. I smell an X-Factor/AXM crossover... |
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Post by scottenkainen on Dec 2, 2011 10:58:02 GMT -5
If someone put Marvel Boy and Speedball back together, I'd read it!
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