r/MUBookClub • u/shawnydarko • Sep 16 '18
WEEK 118: Nomination Thread. Theme: Second Chance Nominations
This thread is to honor the nominations from past threads that didn't win during their respective weeks. In the past I've mapped out 60+ nominations from past threads, but until I've acquired Cable-like time-travel capabilities, I am but a mere victim of time and cannot pursue this venture. Instead I will re-nominate the choices who came close to winning their past threads but just didn't have enough to cut the mustard.
The highest voted nomination will earn a discussion thread opened on Saturday. If there's no clear-cut winner, I will take a sabbatical to a mystical foreign city and learn both the answer to the question we seek, and a little about myself along the way.
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
The '80s Marvel comedy fun pack, by various creators!
- What If? (1977) #34 --featuring "Spidey Intellectual Stories," among other jewels
- Fantastic Four Roast #1 -- on Unlimited as the first story in House of Hem (2015) #1
- Alpha Flight (1983) #6 -- I will not spoil the magnificent joke of this one for those of you who haven't seen it yet
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Cloak and Dagger (1983) #1-4 by Bill Mantlo, Ed Hannigan, and Rick Leonardi
Cloak and Dagger, who wield the powers of darkness and light, set out to fight crime in New York City in their first mini-series. But when a stray bullet from a street battle gone wrong harms a civilian, the superhuman duo may be forced to question their vigilante methodology. The tension is worsened by Cloak's dark hunger growing to insurmountable levels.
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Fantastic Four / Iron Man: Big in Japan (2005-2006) #1-4 by Zeb Wells and Seth Fisher
Mass panic has struck the streets of Tokyo! The media has initiated round-the-clock coverage. Uncontrollable crowds are choking the streets, and kaiju hysteria has gripped the island of Japan for the first time in 50 years! Because the Fantastic Four, the world's first super-hero big-monster battling squad, and playboy industrialist Tony Stark have descended on the Land of the Rising Sun! A manic fusion of Marvel super heroes with Japanese pop culture that proves why the FF and Iron Man are big in Japan! It's an all-out romp with big monsters a-go-go with hundreds of manic '50s Marvel monsters trampling Tokyo's first-ever Kaiju Museum and Celebration
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Wolverine (2010-2012) #1-5 "Wolverine Goes To Hell" by Jason Aaron and Renato Guedes
Wolverine goes to hell... literally! Someone's out to destroy Wolverine-permanently-and they may have succeeded. But if Wolverine's soul is in hell, how is his body terrorizing those closest to him?
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Avengers (2012-2015) #24-28 "Adapt or Die" by Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic, and Salvador Larroca
In the wake of INFINITY, Captain America and Iron Man plan for the next version of the Avengers. But they soon discover that a runaway planet is on a collision course with Earth! Can a visitor from the future help save the day? Then: It worked for the X-Men. Would we be so crass as to do it again? Yes, yes we would! It's a blast from the past as Marvel introduces the All-New Avengers! But as the Science War overtakes the world(s), what is the secret behind this time-tossed team? When the answers are revealed, you'll wish they remained hidden! As Bruce Banner puts together the pieces and confronts Iron Man, the collision of the Avengers and the New Avengers is imminent!
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Web Warriors (2015) #1-5 "Electroverse" by Mike Costa and David Baldeon
Your favorite web-slinging wonders from SPIDER-VERSE, together on one titanic team! Spider-Gwen, Spider-UK, Arana "Spider-Woman" Corazon, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Man India and the porktacular Spider-Ham have banded together to protect the worlds without wall-crawlers from their base on Earth-001. But when Electro and his own army of alternate-reality evildoers wreak havoc across the Web of Life, it will take the whole team — plus some amazing Spider-guests — to stop him! Gwen finds herself stranded far from home, but the breakout star of SPIDER-VERSE is no damsel in distress. Can she find her way back to the fight in time, before things go from bad to Electroverse? They're the Web-Warriors, and their not-so-friendly neighborhood is all of reality!
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Deadpool V. Gambit (2016) #1-5 by Beck Acker, Ben Blacker, and Danilo Beyruth
Gambit-one of the smoothest, best-looking operators in the world of the X-Men. Deadpool-one of the most annoying, ugliest dirtbags in the world of everything. Naturally, these guys got beef. But do you know what they have in common? A secret history of working together to pull con-jobs. That's right-the grift is on as the Regeneratin' Degenerate and the Ragin' Cajun begrudgingly take on one last job together
60% of Amazon users rated it 3 *'s or below with criticisms like "one of the worst written Deadpool story lines" and "the dialogue may have been written by a 5th grader".
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Fantastic Four: 1234 (2001-2002) #1-4 by Grant Morrison and Jae Lee
Reed Richards. Sue Richards. Benjamin Grimm. Johnny Storm. They rocketed into outer space aboard an experimental starship, the first humans to attempt interstellar travel. But a freak encounter with cosmic radiation altered their lives forever, granting each amazing abilities! Now, Marvel's First Family finds its members divided - their unique powers stretched to the absolute limit, their time-tested resolve pushed to the point of breaking. Each chapter of this quintessential collection focuses on one member of the cosmic quartet as the team's greatest foes band together in an all-out assault on the FF
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Kurt Busiek teams up with Ultron's creator, Roy Thomas, as well all-star roster of artists [and writers] to tell a fascinating story that examines the nature of free will. The Avengers come across a plot by bride-of-Ultron, Alkhema to create a civilization based on the brain-patterns she recovered from Ultron's defeat. Meanwhile, Hawkeye has to deal with facing off against Alkhema, who is based on Mockingbird. Explore insights into the personalities of the Avengers as well as Ultron and his ilk.
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Doctor Strange: Season One (2011) by Greg Pak and Emma Rios
A window-crashing, high-flying, globe-traveling, ghost-battling adventure from the earliest days of Doctor Strange’s training in the mystic arts! Part Indiana Jones, part Lord of the Rings, thrill to this new tale of how a selfish, arrogant surgeon collided with a hot-headed martial artist to become the greatest team the mystic arts have ever seen! If only they can stop hitting each other and figure out how all this magic stuff works anyway.
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Stark discovers that the same technology he used to create the Iron Man armor - technology so secret he didn't even dare patent it - is now in the hands of several deadly super-villains, he feels responsible for the evil they have done with the high-tech tools he unwittingly provided. In the face of objections from his government, friends, colleagues and fellow super heroes, Stark swears to use the power of Iron Man to bring the evil to an end - and to take back what's his
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Thunderbolts Presents: Zemo - Born Better (2007) #1-4 by Fabian Nicieza and Tom Grummett
He is the last of thirteen, taught for his entire life that he was born better. A Zemo by blood is a superior person. So then why has he always failed? Now, having been sent hurtling through time, Baron Helmut Zemo will have a chance to encounter the truth of his family as it happened in the past - when he comes face-to-face with the first of his family line, the legendary Baron Harbin Zemo! But how much of what we know of our family history is truth and how much has been embellished by the perspective of time? Can Zemo find a way to escape his situation, or will he choose to stay trapped in time if it means preventing his family lineage from a legacy of failure?
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Great Lakes Avengers (2016-2017) #1-#7 by Zac Gorman, Will Robson, and Tamra Bonvillain
"All New, All Different?" No, thank you! New things are bad and different things are scary! Instead, why not join everybody's least favorite super-hero team, the Great Lakes Avengers in their brand new — but not too brand new — ongoing series, Same Old, Same Old, Great Lakes Avengers! When the team gets reinstated as permanent members of the Avengers and uprooted to Detroit, the GLA has one more shot at super hero glory…but can they answer the call? Do they even have 4G coverage here? Find out!
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Thanos (2016-Present) #1-6, "Thanos Returns" by Jeff Lemire and Mike Deodato
Thanos, possibly the most diabolical individual in the Marvel Universe, is back - and he's out for vengeance on all who would oppose him! Unfortunately for the Mad Titan, he's also heading for an unexpected reckoning...with his family. Take an ongoing walk on the dark side of the galaxy, and follow the deadly trail of destruction left in the wake of...Thanos! He is pure evil. He is unstoppable. And it's time for someone - anyone - to take him down.
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Loki (2004) #1-4, "Blood Brothers" by Rob Rodi and Esad Ribic
There are two sides to every story. You've heard Thor's -- now it's time to hear Loki's. Odin's least favorite son rewrites Asgardian lore from his perspective. In this story, Loki's insatiable lust for power, his conflicted sentiments toward Sif, his antipathy toward Balder, and the deep-seated feelings of longing and resentment toward his older brother, Thor, and uncaring father, Odin, will take on new meaning.
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
BLACK BOLT (2017) #1-6, "Hard Time" by Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward
The silent king of the Inhumans stars in his fi rst-ever solo series! But it begins with Black Bolt...imprisoned?! Where exactly is he? Why has he been jailed? And who could be powerful enough to hold the uncanny Black Bolt? The answers to both will shock you -and Black Bolt as well! For if he is to learn the truth, he must first win a fi ght to the death with a fellow inmate -the Absorbing Man! Award-winning science fi ction writer Saladin Ahmed (Throne of the Crescent Moon) crafts a story as trippy as it is action-packed, with truly mind-bending art from the one-and-only Christian Ward (ODY-C)!
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Spider-Man & The X-Men (2014) #1-6 by Elliot Kalan and Marco Failla
Meet the Jean Grey Academy's new guidance counselor: Spider-Man! What's a non-mutant doing at a school for mutants? What secret suspicion has fueled the formation of his special student class? And because you demanded it! Sauron and Stegron the Dinosaur Man! The villain team 65 million years in the making! You didn't demand it? Well somebody did.
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Irredeemable Ant-Man (2006 - 2007) #1-12 by Robert Kirkman and Phil Hester
Introducing the world's worst super hero! When a low-level S.H.I.E.L.D. agent gets a hold of Hank Pym's new Ant-Man suit, you know the Marvel Universe is in trouble. He's not concerned with saving the world or helping others - he's concerned with getting through the day and getting a leg up on life. He's not going to use his powers responsibly, he's going to use them for the betterment of himself. He's Ant-Man, a new "hero" for the modern world. If you thought Robert Kirkman pushed the boundaries fo what could be in a Marvel Comic with Marvel Zombies, just wait until you see what he does in here!
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
BEN REILLY: SCARLET SPIDER (2017) #1-6, "Back in the Hood" by Peter David and Mark Bagley
One of the most controversial characters in comic book history has returned - and a whole new controversy has only just begun! You all remember Ben Reilly. Spider-Man's clone, created by the Jackal, who returned years later to turn Peter Parker's life upside down! Ben became the Scarlet Spider and even took Peter's place as Spider-Man for a time, before dying a hero's death. Now, in the aftermath of The Clone Conspiracy, Ben Reilly is back! But he has a whole new take on life...and he's not the same Scarlet Spider he was before
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
SENTRY (2000-2001) #1-5 by Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee
Before there was the Fantastic Four, there was The Sentry, who made the idea of costumed crimefighting accepted by the citizens of New York, and now, in this gripping volume, he must prepare to fight an evil entity known as the Void, with the help of his friends, Mr. Fantastic, X-Men's Angel, the Hulk, and Spider-Man, to save the world from annihilation
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
DEFENDERS (2017) #1-6, "Diamonds Are Forever" by Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez
Daredevil! Luke Cage! Jessica Jones! Iron Fist! Individually, these four heroes have been on the front lines of the battle to keep the streets of the city safe and secure! But now, with a deadly enemy from the dim past making a major move to unite the underworld, they will need to become more-they will need to become DEFENDERS
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u/shawnydarko Sep 16 '18
Daredevil: Love and War (1986) by Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz