Comics are Awesome II

[Gomess]

A Robot Master is a boss. That's really it. The rest is all semantics. For me, "Robot Master" is interchangable with "Boss you can choose from a select screen" in Mega Man games. Just like every boss in a MMX game is a Maverick.

That's silly. What do you call the bosses in X5 *before* they go Irregular? =| The generic term for bosses in Mega Man, and *any* game series, is... "boss". But, hey, each to his own. You say tomato, I say Super Robot.

[Onslaught Six]

Simple; I don't play after X3 because every game after that sucks balls.

[Gomess]

Aww dude don't spoil it, I've got X8 unopened under my desk, and I'm really looking forward to / terrified of playing it. I hear it's good! But I won't be surprised if it isn't. X7 hurt me bad. I liked everything before that, though. 3D can be bad news, is all.

Anyway, comics?

[Ursus mellifera]

Simple; I don't play after X3 because every game after that sucks balls.

I agree with this statement.

[Ursus mellifera]

Looks like the compilation for the first four Mega Man issues is available on the website.

NO EXCUSES NOW, DOM.

[Onslaught Six]

Looks like the compilation for the first four Mega Man issues is available on the website.

NO EXCUSES NOW, DOM.

Amazon has it for a whopping $8.44:
http://www.amazon.com/Mega-Man-Ian-Flyn ... 444&sr=8-2

That is a deal. (Seriously, that's at least half of what you would pay if you bought them individually. And knowing these will be collected quicky and easily makes me kind of wish I'd stop buying them individually, like, right now. But I want this book to succeed, so floppies it is!)

[Sparky Prime]

Also, all the Robot Masters from Rockman & Forte all have KGN numbers because they're King's robots, not Wily's or Light's. Do they not count as well?

Well King we find out was built by Wily originally... It's possible Wily could have built those robots for him, or at least count by proxy as all part of Wily's plan. Plus Tengu Man and Astro Man were borrowed from Mega Man 8.

Just like every boss in a MMX game is a Maverick.

Web Spider, Storm Owl, Slash Beast and Frost Walrus from Mega Man X4 weren't actually Mavericks. The Repliforce army was mistakenly labeled as Mavericks due to a a situation manipulated by Sigma.

What do you call the bosses in X5 *before* they go Irregular?

I don't see it really matters for that game, as they were Mavericks for the boss fight.

Simple; I don't play after X3 because every game after that sucks balls.

X6 and X7 are terrible and the others aren't as good as the first 3, but they aren't that bad either.

[Gomess]

What do you call the bosses in X5 *before* they go Irregular?

I don't see it really matters for that game, as they were Mavericks for the boss fight.

Admittedly my memory's a little foggy, but I'm 99% sure you're wrong about that. The whole point about X5 is that each boss has like four(?) different dialogue options, depending on whether you need the part they're guarding and whether they've gone Irregular. I expressly remember Crescent Grizzly wanting to fight Zero simply because he was the one responsible for his missing hand; but then on another playthrough he just went nuts and started babbling about destruction like any other Irregular.

...Anyway, point being, "Robot Master" and "Maverick" don't cut it as generic terms for MM bosses, I think Sparky and I can agree on that?

[Sparky Prime]

Admittedly my memory's a little foggy, but I'm 99% sure you're wrong about that. The whole point about X5 is that each boss has like four(?) different dialogue options, depending on whether you need the part they're guarding and whether they've gone Irregular. I expressly remember Crescent Grizzly wanting to fight Zero simply because he was the one responsible for his missing hand; but then on another playthrough he just went nuts and started babbling about destruction like any other Irregular.

You're right there are different dialogs but I'm sure all of the bosses are supposed to already be infected. Grizzly Slash tells X that he's already infected and wants to fight as himself, before the Virus takes control. He might have a different motivation for fighting Zero but that doesn't mean he isn't infected for Zero's game play.

...Anyway, point being, "Robot Master" and "Maverick" don't cut it as generic terms for MM bosses, I think Sparky and I can agree on that?

Actually Robot Masters I would say works as the generic term for the bosses in Mega Man. But Maverick doesn't cut it in Mega Man X as not all of the bosses in that series are infected with the virus.

[138 Scourge]

You guys know Dom ain't buyin' that compilation on Amazon. C'mon now.

So I got a bunch of neat comics yesterday.

Secret Avengers #16: I wanted to like this book when it came out (I think Brubaker was writing it, right?) but just didn't keep up with it. This issue, though, is the tits. Warren Ellis writing, Jamie McKelvie drawing with this beautiful clean artwork. So nice. Also: Single-issue story. No kidding. So this issue has Cap (still in his head of S.H.E.I.L.D. suit), Beast, Moon Knight, and Black Widow infiltrating an old Secret Empire base and discovering a weaponized Von Doom time machine. Ellis writes, I swear, the best god damn Beast of anyone since Morrison, for one thing. For another, god damn is this book pretty. And clever. Like, the Secret Avengers here are using guns, which shouldn't be good, but it's guns that shoot non-lethal shells that "would put a healthy young bull in a chemical coma for six hours" and shoot tiny projectiles shaped like each character's symbol. Cap's shoots tiny versions of his triangular WWII shield, Moon Knight's shoots tiny crescent moons). It's a combination of crazy cartoon imagery and somewhat reasonable fake science behind it. And the description of the base, and what's being built there, are simple but brilliant. Ending's a bit of a downer, but it, again, makes sense for the situation, and I feel like it was handled well enough, if briefly. But seriously, full story in one issue? Even if it's part of an arc, this thing is a complete story in 22 pages. Worth it just for the novelty value alone.

Herc #6.1: Zeus finds out that someone (Hercules) has raided the god's stash of weapons and treasure, and sends Hermes out to find the thief. And holy crap, lookit here. Another single issue story (which, I guess the .1s are jumping-on or intro things?) It helps if you know the background of this series, but everything's laid out well enough that I think one could follow what's up fairly quickly: Hercules isn't a god anymore, he lives in Brooklyn now, he recently restored all of the Olympian gods to life when he had full-on head of pantheon powers, and he really enjoys his liquor. This book's really been up at the level of the previous Herc book lately, meaning it's one of my favorite books right now. Of course it's cancelled.

Amazing Spider-Man #668: Holy crap, this issue's amazing. Dan Slott's really thought this whole "Spider-Island" premise through, because he does great things with the concept this issue. And I'll be reading Amazing Spider-Man for the foreseeable future based on this issue. This is one of my favorite Spider-books in years, it's just so damn much fun, and has pretty fantastic Humberto Ramos art besides.

Vision Machine: This is kind of great. Nice-sized completely free comic written by Greg Pak. Like, small TPB size. It's a really neat sci-fi story that takes current social media tech and extrapolates to fifty years from now. Nice big well-written comic with really nice art for completely free at your local comic shop or for free download.. I mean, no reason not to check it out, right?