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Powder 05-10-2010 04:58 AM

Marvel Noir
 
I just read up about the series & its caught my interest. I've been bored with marvel for a while now, a good 5 years at least... These any good? X-men noir seemed the most interesting to me...


What say you, drome?

Powder 05-17-2010 07:06 PM

Im surprised, no one here has read any of it? I guess I'll just have to try nabbing some issues for sampling...

Samhain 06-30-2010 09:02 PM

Just saw this thread. Im digging the whole concept, I must admit. Spidey, set in the great depression. I just love the whole arc of the series.

Spitfire 06-30-2010 09:14 PM

I want to check this out actually. I've been waiting to get some cash so I can buy some of the trades.

I'm also very interested in this Shadowland story arc.

joe-eyeball 07-01-2010 07:39 AM

Punisher Noir was just alright. I will probably check out some of the others. I heard that the iron man one was pretty cool.

Powder 07-01-2010 07:54 AM

Thanks, fellas. Its good to finally see some input here, a month & a half later LOL.

Samhain 07-01-2010 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Powder (Post 784824)
Thanks, fellas. Its good to finally see some input here, a month & a half later LOL.

Heh, I would posted sooner had I seen this thread. Sucks tho, I think this section sometimes gets forgotten.

Spitfire 07-06-2010 08:52 PM

Just finished Spider-man Noir. I loved it. They finally took his character in a different direction. They weren't afraid to change his morals which is what really made the book for me. I also thought it was really clever. I plan on reading the X-men one next.

pl212 07-08-2010 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spitfire (Post 784732)
I'm also very interested in this Shadowland story arc.

Same here :D
Has anyone read it yet ?

Spitfire 07-09-2010 02:33 PM

I asked a local shop to pull every Shadowland related book for me. I don't know when they start coming out but as of last week they didn't appear to have any, they might have started coming out this week or they sold out.

pl212 07-09-2010 04:10 PM

It was released this week around my way

Slap-Happy 07-13-2010 12:55 AM

I am looking forward to Deadpool Noir. It looks awesome.

Spitfire 07-13-2010 06:54 PM

I figured it was only a matter of time before he got one. I just bought the 2nd Spider-man book as well as Wolverine, and Punisher. When I can I'll probably end up getting the others. I don't even like Luke Cage but even his sounds interesting.

I'm reading the X-men one right now. I don't know as much about X-men as Spider-man so some of the name drops are flying over my head but I like where it's going so far.

Brodie 07-13-2010 08:49 PM

What kind of characters are getting name dropped? I wonder if they're going obscure with Noir, and using really strange ones...

Spitfire 07-14-2010 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brodie (Post 787268)
What kind of characters are getting name dropped? I wonder if they're going obscure with Noir, and using really strange ones...

So far the names I didn't recognize are Unus the Untouchable, Sean Cassidy, Anna-Marie Rankin, Steven Lang, and Eugene Judd.

By looking them up I discovered most of them are just the identities of characters I do know, like Rogue and Puck. I just never knew their real names.

Brodie 07-14-2010 09:13 PM

Sean Cassidy is Banshee, the others though, I wouldn't know their alternate identities. Strange. It seems like a neat kind of pandering to fans, but so obscure that it might not be as good as they hoped.

Spitfire 07-14-2010 10:09 PM

It gets a bit hard to understand too cause some of the story assumes you know who they're talking about. I think it worked better in Spider-man cause it was less obscure for one and they didn't require you to know about a characters previous background.

Slap-Happy 08-04-2010 10:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spitfire (Post 787516)
So far the names I didn't recognize are Unus the Untouchable, Sean Cassidy, Anna-Marie Rankin, Steven Lang, and Eugene Judd.

By looking them up I discovered most of them are just the identities of characters I do know, like Rogue and Puck. I just never knew their real names.

Stephen Lang was Quartich in Avatar. Lol

Just finished the Spider-Man Noir series. I liked it a lot.

Brodie 09-30-2010 04:44 PM

I just picked up the X-Men Noir book for $5, and passed on the SPider-Man hardcover for $10. But I haven't dug into it yet.

I know this is a bit old, but I know Spitfire and Powder were gonna look into these. Did you guys?

Thoughts?

Also, did you guys get single issues or the collected volumes?

I noticed the Hardcovers were normal format, but the book I picked up for X-Men is just a bit bigger than digest size, in terms of height/width.

Venom 10-01-2010 12:21 AM

I've read Spider-Man and loved it. Alternate takes on mainstream characters are always fun for me. I've dickered around about checking out the others even though they interest me greatly.

You can find most of them in the $1 bins at you LCS...at least I can anyway.
That and Tales Vol.2 issues/minis if anyone needs anything.


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