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kingrockwell ([info]kingrockwell) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-19 19:45:00
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Current music:Spoon ~ "The Way We Get By"
Entry tags:char: power man/luke cage, char: rhino/aleksei sytsevich, char: spider-man/peter parker, char: storm/ororo munroe, char: tigra/greer grant, creator: horacio domingues, creator: paul tobin, group: avengers, publisher: marvel comics, series: positive comics week, title: marvel adventures avengers

Marvel Adventures: Avengers #39
So, after gathering up my pulls this week, I noticed I had a couple bucks to spare. I'd been thinking about picking up Blackest Night: Superman, but man, with Pet Avengers over I needed something fun. Then I had a better thought.

4 pages from MA: Avengers #39


I cannot remember the last time I bought a comic book and was immediately so pleased that I did as soon as I read the first page. It's Rhino on the phone. The Leader and Abomination have coerced him into helping them break up an army base to get some satellite codes.


After Spidey and Tigra use their resources to break open the case, everyone splits up to take the bad guys down. Bringing Rhino in falls to Tigra, but it ends up easier than it might've sounded on paper.

Now, she's got every right to get mad at the unfortunate implications there, but Tigra's a trooper. I guess you go easy on the guys when they're practically surrendering.


Ultimately, all I can say is Marvel Adventures, where have I been all your life?
This is great stuff, see my childhood heroes actually acting heroic for a change and being fun and funny at the same time? They actually made Spidey smart again! They use excellent teamwork! Everyone is useful! Oh, I need to play around with my pull list and see what I can't work out here on a regular basis!

I only wish I'd had enough space to post the Cannonball Special: Luke Cage Variant. Anyone else want it? (please say yes)
Does anyone know if they've released any trades, or am I jut gonna have to track down the 38 previous issues individually?

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[info]darklorelei
2009-08-20 12:01 am UTC (link)
MA comes in handy digest format!

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-08-20 06:16 am UTC (link)
Oh I see, and how much would one of those average?

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[info]darklorelei
2009-08-20 10:37 am UTC (link)
$7 on Amazon and eligible for the four for three deal. If you want to check out the digests IRL they're pretty easily found in the kids' section of your local big box bookstore.

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[info]foxhack
2009-08-20 12:09 am UTC (link)
Tigra?

Wearing a one piece suit?

o_O

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[info]neuhallidae
2009-08-20 12:38 am UTC (link)
Her uniform's always been a one piece in MA:A.

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[info]proteus_lives
2009-08-20 01:37 am UTC (link)
Huh, I just realized it looks like a animeish Japanese girl's school swim-uniform.

Stealth dirty?

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[info]mcity
2009-08-20 03:13 am UTC (link)
That's oddly specific.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-08-20 06:20 am UTC (link)
I don't see it that way, it's really just your standard one-piece unless you're looking for it to be more. It's a funny thing I've noticed in my own stuff, how I could put a character of mine in something I'd later consider embarrassingly immodest, but compared to common comics practice is really rather tame.

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[info]proteus_lives
2009-08-20 07:32 am UTC (link)
Maybe I'm looking too closely. I just finished a season of an anime show and it's common genre trope. Maybe my was brain auto-associating.

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[info]bariman1987
2009-08-20 05:56 am UTC (link)
I really like the one-piece. Much less chance of wardrobe malfunctions while still being both sexy and functional.

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[info]unknownscribler
2009-08-21 02:21 am UTC (link)
Hotness, isn't it?

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[info]fungo_squiggly
2009-08-20 12:10 am UTC (link)
I like the couple just casually stopping to take a picture of Spiderman and Tigra.

And I love that "fight" scene, too.

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[info]crinosg
2009-08-20 12:27 am UTC (link)
And hey, Tigra not being used as snuff film bait for once, kudos to that.

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[info]endis_ni
2009-08-20 12:32 pm UTC (link)
Oh, hell yes.

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[info]aaron_bourque
2009-08-20 12:28 am UTC (link)
I'm totally a hero and everything's fine.

I want that on a T-Shirt.

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[info]leikomgwtfbbq
2009-08-20 03:32 am UTC (link)
Seconded!

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[info]roguefankc
2009-08-20 04:41 am UTC (link)
Third. And the fact that it's Tigra saying this makes it even sweeter.

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[info]bluefall
2009-08-20 12:36 am UTC (link)
I cannot remember the last time I bought a comic book and was immediately so pleased that I did as soon as I read the first page.

Marvel Adventures truly does capture the joy of superhero comics, doesn't it?

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[info]midnightvoyager
2009-08-20 12:45 am UTC (link)
Even if I have never read from a Marvel Adventures comic that I see in a store, I still know that I will experience great joy upon reading it after purchasing it. Every time.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-08-20 06:29 am UTC (link)
Oh, definitely! The only thing that disappoints me is that the scene on the cover (Spidey posing heroically while wearing Thor's cape, Wolverine's mask and Cap's shield while the three of them look on exasperatedly, as presented by Casey Jones) never happened in the issue. Given what did happen in the issue, it hardly seems fair to hold that against it, though.

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[info]neuhallidae
2009-08-20 12:41 am UTC (link)
Best fake fight ever. I'm gonna cry when the team gets the changeup.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-08-20 01:34 am UTC (link)
"Arrgh! Such power!"

^_^

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[info]roguefankc
2009-08-20 04:42 am UTC (link)
I know.

It's like an example of what Dragonball Z narration would look like in a Marvel comic, only the fights actually finish in one issue. XD

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[info]proteus_lives
2009-08-20 01:38 am UTC (link)
MA rules!

I'm sooo glad I just bought the first four volumes of MA Avengers on Amazon!

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[info]thandrak
2009-08-20 01:59 am UTC (link)
Hmmm. So... what else do these guys write? Perhaps there is older stuff that is very good that we are not aware of. Ahem! Someone! Spidey! FF! Avengers! Iron Man! Let's start digging!

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[info]darklorelei
2009-08-20 02:00 am UTC (link)
Tobin is fantastic.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-08-20 06:31 am UTC (link)
And apparently a member of a vast group of comics creators named Paul. Seriously, when I was tagging this I was flabbergasted at how many we have.

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[info]leikomgwtfbbq
2009-08-20 03:34 am UTC (link)
There is no Marvel universe but the Marvel Adventures Universe.

I can keep pretending that, right?

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-08-20 06:33 am UTC (link)
I actually have more icons of Marvel characters than Marvel books I buy each month. Other than Cap Reborn I could not possibly care less about 616.

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[info]leikomgwtfbbq
2009-08-20 08:24 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I used to be a big Marvel fan, but then the amount of books I read by them started dropping like flies. Now the only Marvel things I read are... The Stand's comic-ization, the Dark Tower side-stories, and Marvel Adventures. Nothing involving 616 at all.

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[info]kirke_novak
2009-08-20 12:32 pm UTC (link)
Yup, I used to read around 10-15 Marvel titles. Now I'm down only to Marvel Adventures: Avengers and Superheroes.

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[info]joysweeper
2009-08-20 04:55 am UTC (link)
Marvel Adventures is win and love and a hint of meta. I haven't seen this one yet, but I need it.

MA comics get collected a few at a time into "digests", which are about manga-sized. Sometimes they're collected into larger ones. Check the children's literature section.

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[info]hyaroo
2009-08-20 07:20 am UTC (link)
That first page? Easily the best moment I've seen in superhero comics all year... Just a few panels, and I'm reminded just why Spider-Man and Tigra used to be among my favorite comics characters.

The Tigra/Rhino fight is great too.

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[info]psychop_rex
2009-08-20 08:10 am UTC (link)
I love how, once Tigra realizes what's going on, she's all 'oooh, this could be fun', and gets all into it. This version of her is a total cutie-pie. Also, the Rhino is a TERRIBLE actor.

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Aren't the comics being cancelled?
[info]jazzypom
2009-08-20 08:36 am UTC (link)
No lie, I love the Marvel Adventures line. I try to buy everything in trades, even the Incredible Hulk one - and that's a character I don't really like in 616.

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[info]jazzypom
2009-08-20 08:46 am UTC (link)
Does anyone know if they've released any trades, or am I jut gonna have to track down the 38 previous issues individually?

All are in trades. It's a better buy than the floppies, and the art is too, too, too cute.

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[info]scottyquick
2009-08-20 01:47 pm UTC (link)
Hehehe. I think I love Tigra.

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[info]qob
2009-08-20 04:57 pm UTC (link)
I am kinda jazzed, my guy Chris Jones (of Batman Strikes fame) is gonna be drawing MA's Spider-man!

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[info]iambickilometer
2009-08-20 06:04 pm UTC (link)
MA is made of all that is good in Marvel, it's true.

And, um, I would be very very interested in the Luke Cage variant. Very.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-08-20 09:02 pm UTC (link)
I've already posted four pages, so someone else will have to take it!
(Luke Cage clubs Abomination with Wolverine!)

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