I think it's 12 issues.
Cool, 'cause there was a thing on the letters page about "Concluding Issue 6" or some such.
Am I right that it's a new title that will go on after his run?
Tara: Do you have any books on robots? Giles: Oh, yes, dozens. There's a lot of research to be done in order to--no, I'm lying. Haven't got squat. I just like watching Xander squirm.
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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 24, 2004 5:25:50 pm PDT #6048 of 10000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
sumi - Sep 24, 2004 5:34:26 pm PDT #6049 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Maybe this arc is concluding in Issue #6 and a new one is starting in #7.
I don't know if this title is continuing after this.
Gris - Sep 24, 2004 8:36:27 pm PDT #6050 of 10000
Hey. New board.
There's definitely a trade coming out with the first six issues, right? Seems likely that they'll make it arcy then do something new for the last six. That's how the Ultimates work - arcs for 5-6 issues, and a trade for each arc.
Kalshane - Sep 24, 2004 10:37:28 pm PDT #6051 of 10000
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Well, I'm sure if the sales are good and Joss wants to keep doing it, Marvel will sign him on for more issues.
Mr. Broom - Sep 25, 2004 8:11:16 am PDT #6052 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
The most surprising thing about the return of Colossus is that no one saw it coming from Joss. He's said before that Peter was one of his least favorite characters. Not that I'm complaining, mind, just surprised. I figured that Joss of all people would let that particular plot thread be.
Polter-Cow - Sep 25, 2004 8:16:52 am PDT #6053 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
So I caught an episode of the X-Men animated series this morning, which I hadn't seen in a while (I did watch one stand-alone about Scott and Corsair at home, but before then, nope). I don't think I'd seen it before. It was after Bishop stopped the assassination and went back to his own time to discover that inevitably, something else had gone wrong, and now he had to go back and save everyone from the mutant plague. And introducing, Cable.
My question is, what's Apocalypse's deal? Like, what is he supposed to be ? Where did he come from? I love him, cause his name's Apocalypse and he's a megalomaniacal badass, but I've wondered about him.
Thomash - Sep 25, 2004 8:57:12 am PDT #6054 of 10000
I have a plan.
Polter-Cow - Sep 25, 2004 9:03:03 am PDT #6055 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Thanks, Thomash.
Comics are weird.
Thomash - Sep 25, 2004 9:05:01 am PDT #6056 of 10000
I have a plan.
I'll say. I stopped reading X-men regularly around the time they introduced that character, so I didn't know half that stuff.
Mr. Broom - Sep 25, 2004 9:06:03 am PDT #6057 of 10000
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
I'm once again in awe of Wikipedia. That was remarkably concise, absolutely correct, and avoided all sorts of tangents and plot entanglements. Sady, I think Apocalypse is just as impossible to get rid of as Magneto. It's gotten to the point where "killing" either of them is anticlimactic as hell, because no reader really believes it'll be the real end of the character.
An aside: Apocalypse is also an External, which isn't a group so much as a term they use to define any mutant whose powers include immortality. Cannonball is one as well, or has been referred to as one at one point when someone "killed" him and he didn't die. I don't know if the Externals are canon anymore, though.