Happenstance

@Hero-of-Time have you read any Generation X? I haven’t but have got their first Epic Collection preordered for later this month and I’m debating cancelling it to put the money towards some of these other X books.

Looks like it’s stuff after Fatal Attractions. That’s last Uncanny issue is 304 and Road to Onslaught is Uncanny 322-332 (with other books peppered in).

I think the fact that it leads into Heroes Reborn (shudders) is enough for the link. Thankfully vol.2&3 are a lot easier to get but I’ll have to start working on finding Road to Onslaught next.

Managed to find a copy of X-Men/Avengers Onslaught Vol.1 on ebay so ordered that. If it's the correct version then I'll order the rest later this week. It's a shame these complete versions are harder to find. If I just wanted the X-Men sections of the book then it's a lot simpler (and cheaper!).

After our conversation earlier I decided I'd give the current Hickman era of X-Men another try. I'm not really collecting any ongoing stories at the moment so it'd be nice to be relatively up to date with the X-Men. Other than some preorders which are mostly Epic Collections I think this'll be it for comics this month. Already spent quite a bit! It's an expensive and addictive hobby. EDIT: Unless those Onslaught books come back in stock, then I might let myself get those as some are hard to find.

If Sackboy controls the way he did in Littlebigplanet games then it’s not you, he’s always had these weird floaty controls that nobody liked.

Looking at my collection the last modern era X-Men book I bought was Second Coming. I kept up with most of the stories digitally going forward from that but I’ll have to rebut them all at some point. Other than getting the Epics whenever I can I’m now focusing on the late 90s/early 2000s trades. Some should be easy enough to get but some are out of print already.

Have you read much of this new X-Men era? I know it’s been really popular with people but I haven’t enjoyed it at all. Nobody seems to be in character at all and it’s making the stories unbelievable (or at least more so for a world with god like mutants 😆).

I almost bought it a few weeks ago as part of the X-Men Milestones line but I decided to wait a bit to see if it appears later as an Epic Collection. For the most part the Epic Collections are just supposed to collect the vol.1s of their respective titles, roughly 1960s-1990s and then the Onslaught Saga ended a lot of books initial runs but ones like X-Men just carried on going so it’s not really known yet how far they’ll go as Epics.

Starting to use these Epic Collections now to fill in gaps not only in story history but book and character history as well. A lot of these characters I never read their initial runs and am just familiar with them in more modern comics. The Spider-Man book has been out of print for a while and just came up as back in stock on the 20th. We'll see if that order gets fullfilled or not though as no reprint has been announced so I don't know where Amazon are getting their stock from. I did also get half way through ordering the three volumes of the Onslaught Saga as that's basically where all these Epic Collections end but the one site that had vol.1 at a reasonable price now has it as out of stock because I had to go change something during checkout so I'm waiting for them to re-list it lol.

Never matters how well we are doing, Pickford always leaves me worried.

I'd always heard great things about Peter David's run on Incredible Hulk but never had a chance to read any of it. Annoyingly all the Epic Collection's of his run are now out of print but I at least managed to get this one on ebay for a reasonable price.

It was one of those challenges where to be honest I could see it going either way with a red or a yellow.

Yeah after finishing the Dark Phoenix Saga again I was planning on going back and rewatching the animated series episodes but decided to just watch the whole show all over again lol. It was a pretty faithful adaptation if I remember right.

I can’t remember if I’ve actually read it before or not. I read a lot of the main X-Men stories digitally a few years ago but not sure on the more crossover heavy ones like X-Cutioner’s Song. Looking forward to getting into it anyway. Just finishing off reading the last X-Men Epic Collection I got which included both Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past. Been great re-reading those.

Pay day yesterday so ordered some new Epic Collections that I needed.

Not a great game but glad to see we took our chances.

Never had any issues with rest mode on my end

Sure sure

Definitely not like spider-man where I could stomach the slower FPS for the gorgeous 4k textures. FFVIIR feels so much smoother now in performance mode.

Bought the Yuffie dlc so I’m just waiting for that to finish downloading then I’m gonna start the game. Really looking forward to playing it through again on PS5.

You know what, fuck it. I’m already remembering why I didn’t like Andromeda playing through that first mission again. I’m not forcing myself to play a game I don’t like because I like the universe. FFVIIR it is.

I’ve played both before. FFVIIR was my game of the year, Andromeda I got bored playing and never finished.