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Post by pacino on Sept 2, 2014 8:00:23 GMT -5
As a non-Futures end reader, this is looking like a complete dud for me. I will check out the Green Arrow, WW/SM/WW issues and the Batwoman issue, but I have nothing else pulled.
Is there anything else that you guys think will be self-contained enough that will merit me picking it up??? Thanks for any feedback.
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Post by majorjay on Sept 2, 2014 10:22:33 GMT -5
i am going to buy my normal ones, however agree with you.. the only futures ends stuff i get is the recap from the DCR podcast guys.. which sounds good actually.. but not interested.
looking forward to the Flash version.. as they seem to have really worked the futures end into their book.. so want to see how it works out
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Post by thephantomwelshman on Sept 2, 2014 10:31:28 GMT -5
I gave Futures End 5 issues before dropping it. I'll just pick up the normal books I've got on my pull list and hope there self contained enough to be enjoyable, which I'm sure they will be.
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Post by captainsaxon on Sept 4, 2014 18:38:31 GMT -5
I picked up Green Arrow and Action today. Green Arrow was phenomenal, but every issue of that book is. Action was fine, but as I'm trade waiting future's end, didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. It also was by a different creative team, but they did a good job matching the style/tone of Pak/Kuder's run.
I'll pick up Batgirl, Batman and Robin, Justice League, and maybe a few others.
The covers are really cool. I'm just not invested since I'm trade waiting Future's end.
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Post by thephantomwelshman on Sept 5, 2014 2:25:54 GMT -5
I didn't rate the Action issue at all, the Detective issue was ok, nothing special but I did like how it tied into Buccellato's latest run. I also picked up the Phantom Stranger issue which I really enjoyed, and had my favourite cover so far.
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Post by majorjay on Sept 5, 2014 5:33:12 GMT -5
i loved the green arrow .. so good!! fits perfectly with futures end
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Post by Czor on Sept 5, 2014 21:19:10 GMT -5
I'm skipping this month (save for JL #33 and Multiversity) completely...
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Post by iamasianbatgirl on Sept 5, 2014 22:11:55 GMT -5
Oh man, the Future's End issues for Grayson and Green Arrow were just phenomenal. Grayson had a great one-shot story that teased what's to come for the actual series and made you really excited for it. It was part spy story, part romance, part Batman and Robin, and part origin story. The creative team managed to weave them together seamlessly. It definitely requires more than one read-through but it's so worth it.
Green Arrow made me sad because it's Lemire and Sorrentino's last issue and this one promised so much. I'm probably going to pick up the Batgirl, Batman, Batman and Robin, Batwoman, and Superman/Wonder-Woman Future's End issues depending on the reviews.
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Post by Bob Reyer on Sept 6, 2014 4:01:06 GMT -5
I'm skipping this month (save for JL #33 and Multiversity) completely... Cesar, In speaking to the owner of my main LCS, there seems to be a lot more of that going around for this DC 'cover event'. Save for the customers who already collect all the DC titles, he had only one asking for the 3-D covers specifically, and most of his reserves were taking it on a per case basis, even on the the books they collect, due to swapped-out creative teams. What is everyone hearing on this as they make their way to their LCS?
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Post by Czor on Sept 6, 2014 14:24:26 GMT -5
Most of my decision on skipping this "event month" is also in part of the swapped-out creative teams but also on the fact that all these stories are kinda feeding from a weekly I don't read and also a "what-if" possible future.
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Post by pacino on Sept 8, 2014 6:42:09 GMT -5
Maybe I will have to add Grayson to my list. I have the book on my pull, but I figured a tie-in so early in the run would ruin it.
Green Arrow was amazing, great capper to Lemire and Sorrentino's story.
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Post by majorjay on Sept 8, 2014 8:14:43 GMT -5
Maybe I will have to add Grayson to my list. I have the book on my pull, but I figured a tie-in so early in the run would ruin it. Green Arrow was amazing, great capper to Lemire and Sorrentino's story. so agree with you on this one!! Green arrow futures end was the best of the ones I have picked up so far
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Post by iamasianbatgirl on Sept 8, 2014 10:09:32 GMT -5
Maybe I will have to add Grayson to my list. I have the book on my pull, but I figured a tie-in so early in the run would ruin it. Green Arrow was amazing, great capper to Lemire and Sorrentino's story. Honestly, Grayson set the bar for Future's End for me. You just needed to know the barest of details for the main event to know what's happening in it and the oneshot as whole was mostly a character study. It required multiple readings in different ways and I loved that about it. The tie-in just made me really excited about where the series will go in the future (...pun not intended, I think haha).
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Post by Tony on Sept 13, 2014 16:20:19 GMT -5
When I went to the shop to grab my books this week and I looked down and saw/was reminded that Batman wasn't actually Batman this month but was instead Batman: Future's End #1, my first reaction was, "Oh no you don't, you're not fooling me, this isn't real Batman! This isn't Snyder/Capullo! Shenanigans!!" and I walked over to where the new books are all layed out, and put it back, because I don't give two shits about Future's End; I haven't been following it at all, and I have no interest in it whatsoever, and all I want is the next issue of Batman-proper, is-that-so-much-to-ask.
Yesterday, after having read-up on the issue a bit on Thursday (reviews and such), I had a change of heart and went back and grabbed one after all, but I only did so *because* it's a Future's End tie-in in-name-only, and much more relevant to the Batman 75 Snyder/Murphy story from the Detective anniversary issue several months back, and THAT was super-crazy tantalizing and awesome, and I totally want more.
Point being, it took some real convincing and two trips in three days to the shop to get me to pick it up, such is how I feel about event months and universe-wide tie-ins and such (and Future's End, specifically, I suppose), and it was only because the Batman issue really has naught to do with Future's End proper that I eventually deemed it acceptable, and worthy of picking up. Too, that Snyder helped "plot" it, but didn't write it, and that Capullo took another month off, those were definitely both factors that initially made me wary. For me, when you interrupt the creative team on a book that I like, it makes me want to not pick it up again until the status quo is restored. That's not a hard and fast rule, but in general I follow writers and artists more readily than I would be likely to blindly follow a title or character. Does that make any sense?
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Post by CaptainSuperior on Sept 13, 2014 20:44:53 GMT -5
I've thumbed through a few, but I think I'll be skipping DC this month entirely. I'm currently only reading Batman, Batman and Robin, Superman, and Wonder Woman consistently each month, so this will leave me room to try 4 different books this month!
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