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Reply #25 on: September 09, 2011, 06:17:58 AM
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So who has the latest issue already?

I do! :) Liking this new arc so far.



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Reply #26 on: September 11, 2011, 02:15:09 AM
I don't have issue 5, but I'm hoping that they'll send it to me since I ordered the twelve month subscription. Although I'm curious about how they're handling Time Man and Oil Man. Were they still creations of Light that were incomplete and Wily finished them during the first saga or were creations of Wily period? 


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Reply #27 on: September 11, 2011, 02:37:54 AM
I dunno if they can be all-Wily 'bots if they're DLN Numbers. Wily finishing them would be interesting, and explain their loyalty to him if he didn't just reprogram them.



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Reply #28 on: September 11, 2011, 03:50:05 AM
I don't have issue 5, but I'm hoping that they'll send it to me since I ordered the twelve month subscription. Although I'm curious about how they're handling Time Man and Oil Man. Were they still creations of Light that were incomplete and Wily finished them during the first saga or were creations of Wily period? 

Exactly what you just said actually.


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Reply #29 on: October 17, 2011, 05:10:26 AM
Well, I have received issue six of the comic (Yaay it finally came in the mail. I was about to go buy it too. XD )

Spoilers ahoy.

[spoiler]Issue 6. Time Keeps On Slipping Part 2: Unresolved Issues

Cover: Cover was done by Patrick Spaziante, I have to admit, it's nice to see him still doing something for this comic. I loved his work in the first four issues, although Chad's style is growing on me. The cover features Mega Man fighting CWU-01P. Oddly enough, Bomb Man is there along with Cut Man and Mega Man.

The last issue, Dr. Wily managed to escape from the police convey with a distraction by a sniper joe and Time Man using his powers to stop everyone (Including vehicles and momentum with it). Roll ends up being kidnapped by Oil Man. Only took five issues.

We begin with Agent Stern accusing Dr. Light of assisting in Wily's escape. Roslyn Krantz tries to be the voice of reason between the two men, and Light allows them to take him into custody in order to prove his innocence. He tells Mega Man to go home and wait until things are sorted out.

When our Blue Bomber arrives back at Light's Lab, he finds a note left by Oil Man about Roll's kidnapping written by Wily of course, and threatening to dismantle her if he goes to the authorities.

We shift scenes over to Wily's lab. Time Man apologizes over the state of the lab, blaming Oil Man who had just arrived with Roll (who is oddly bound by ropes. She oughta be able to break those you would think.) I have to say, Time and Oil seem to have a 'Bert and Ernie' thing, with Time overly serious and Oil the mellow guy. I have to laugh at the part where Oil rang one of the bells on Time's head. They are about to get into a fight when Wily just smashes their heads together. Roll asks about Time and Oil and Wily explained that they were highly experimental, makes a powered up reference, and as Light didn't feel they were ready, Wily worked on them behind his back.

We shift back to Mega Man and the other Light robots. Mega Man explains the situation to them and they decide to split up as they were in the middle of cleaning up their mess from the first four issues. Cut Man and Ice Man join Mega Man to Wily's old fortress and make their way back to the Copy Robot's boss room (Which Cut and Ice talk about how they ruined to Copy, and even began fighting over the trashed helmet, while Mega Man looks a little disturbed by th exchange). From here we connect to the third stage of the Wily fortress. Complete with the flooding tunnel, which Ice Man tried to hold back to no avail which lead to the line that made me laugh;

Cut: Well you failed miserably! (About Ice trying to seal off the water)
Ice: Well, maybe you should've tried to cut the water! I'm sure THAT would've worked!

I admit I giggled.  Ice's face was priceless with it.

Of course, CWU-01P appears on the very last page. Which is why I find the cover odd in that Bomb Man is there and not Ice Man. [/spoiler]

Chad's style is growing on me as I said. There was a nice pace going with this unlike the first issues which seemed to move too quickly, I like the seriousness of agents in investigating Dr. Light's possible involvement in Wily's world domination attempt and escape, intermixed with the humor. The interaction between the characters is actually nicely handled, Wily's character is spot on as the crazy bastard we all know and love. Oh and Cut Man eased off the puns a little. There're still there, just not constant. XD


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Reply #30 on: December 08, 2011, 12:23:53 AM
Well, the second arc has concluded; just read #8.

[spoiler]* FALSE ADVERTISING A-GO-GO. Megaman DIDN'T fight all eight Light RMs in #8 (though all things considered, it'd probably be OC for him to); rather, they weren't actually reprogrammed, and turned on Time and Oil. While making his 'bots tamper-proof was a good move on Light's part, it really feels like a cop-out when taking the cover into account. (Hell, every cover of this arc but the first was false advertising. Archie seems to have a major problem with this)

* Rosalyn is badass; hope to see more from her.

* Wasn't expecting Proto's cameo; dunno if they'll keep using his super-quiff.[/spoiler]



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Reply #31 on: December 08, 2011, 12:51:52 AM
[spoiler]Looks like they are ready to move on Mega Man 3.. unless they have unfinished business with the MM2 Robot Masters and some are quite still out there.

Rosalyn will stick around; knowing my experience with the Sonic the Hedgehog comics, origionals tend to stick around longer than their intended purposes, see Scourge.[/spoiler]

And that's that, for now. Are there any available scans of Rosalyn?

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So its about ass now huh? EVEN THE ASS HAS 'EXCEEDED'!

One mention of LEGENDS and everyone goes batshit.  :\

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Reply #32 on: December 08, 2011, 01:10:39 AM
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And that's that, for now. Are there any available scans of Rosalyn?

IGN's #8 preview has a couple.

By the way, there's gonna be a reprint of #1 for Free Comic Book Day (May 5th); Chad Thomas's alternate-cover sketch finally got inked and coloured. Anyone besides me wants to get that?



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Reply #33 on: December 10, 2011, 04:59:34 AM
You know, it occurs to me, the fact that Oil Man wears his scarf over his mouth in the comic is probably Archie's way of making sure that they don't have to recolor him.  We all know what happens to dark-skinned humanoid caricatures with big lips (see Jynx and Mr. Popo).

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Reply #34 on: December 10, 2011, 05:02:55 AM
Haha, that only occured to you now? =P

Hopefully I can grab the comic tomorrow.


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Reply #35 on: December 10, 2011, 05:03:46 AM
Well, within the last week or two, yeah.  What can I say, I haven't been discussing the comic on the internet that much. -u-'

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Reply #36 on: January 01, 2012, 01:25:26 AM
Got #9 earlier than expected.

[spoiler]The RM powers come with malware. Hoo boy...[/spoiler]



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Reply #37 on: January 24, 2012, 11:25:48 PM
Im too poor to afford these.

Can someone spoil it for me? I want to at least know what happened so far

Posted on: January 01, 2012, 12:40:58 AM
I dont mean to necrobump this, but has anyone noticed this?  8D




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Reply #38 on: January 25, 2012, 12:55:46 AM
A lot of people noticed, I think. (Not a necopost, but you might want to merge your posts)

Bit old, but here's two interviews with Mr. Flynn regarding the comic: one by Destructoid and another with TMMN.

Among other things, Capcom is oddly supportive of the comic (given their apparent disdain for MM). Probably because it's selling well. There's going to be some SAR- and World-related stories in the future, with #13 apparently setting up for the former and MM4.



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Reply #39 on: January 27, 2012, 12:45:49 AM
So I was reading comments on Protodudes blog, related to the "Megaman issue 13" and its introduction of Light's sweetheart.
I [tornado fang]ing hated every moment of it.
Aside from few people, most of that [parasitic bomb] was:
MARY SUE!
MARY SUE!
ARCHIE IS KNOWN FOR MAKING MARY SUES!
MARY SUE!
I HATE THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT!

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?! Oh yes, I forgot. Fantards.

I personally love when new things are introduced, especially in a comic that SO FAR was mostly a rehash of things we've seen. ANY EVERYONE COMPLAINED ABOUT THAT!

I don't mind Light having a sweetheart. I don't mind those other new characters introduced. I trust Ian will do a good job with them.



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Reply #40 on: January 27, 2012, 12:52:51 AM
I don't think everyone there was calling Dr. Lalinde a Sue, but yeah. Urgh.

Me, I hope she'll be a decent character (and if she's a villain like people are predicting, then that she'll be an effective one).



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Reply #41 on: January 27, 2012, 02:10:24 AM
Knowing Ian, he won't make Dr. Lalinde another Fiona Fox, but boy I need to catch up.

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So its about ass now huh? EVEN THE ASS HAS 'EXCEEDED'!

One mention of LEGENDS and everyone goes batshit.  :\

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Reply #42 on: February 02, 2012, 05:01:08 AM
So, how about that psychotic Mega man in issue 10? This issue made my week. So good.



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Reply #43 on: February 11, 2012, 06:39:18 PM
Loved issue 10. Mega Man becoming more insensitive every time he absorbs the powers of the fallen RMs is an interesting view to take. Kinda liked the double-edged sword feel it gives. I loved how Crash Man was written, going beserk when the lack of his hands was mentioned and Ben Bates got that crazed expression just right. Apparently issue 11 Mega's taking on the remaining four, or Archie is lying about their covers again.

As for the next arc being original? Flynn wanted to build up on the world, I see nothing wrong with that at all. Actually I like it when authors/ artists build upon the world their characters are involved in, makes it feel more real.

Also heard that some people are complaining about Dr. Cossack and Pharaoh Man showing up too soon.  ::)


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Reply #44 on: February 12, 2012, 02:19:58 AM
Just because they show up, doesn't mean they have to be evil. IMHO them showing up makes things more interesting for when they do turn on the heroes.



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Reply #45 on: February 12, 2012, 02:39:59 AM
Also heard that some people are complaining about Dr. Cossack and Pharaoh Man showing up too soon.  ::)

It's called the foreshadow effect. It's what happens when a character appears sooner than intended. This has happened a lot of times. It's more likely they did that so that they can show the scientific community a lot larger than it was shown in the classic games, and more than likely buildup to the Mega Man 4 story arc, the way I see it.

Has anyone spotted background/crowd scene cameos as of yet in the past few issues?

Workshop/DA/YT/Photobucket なにかんがえてるの!?
So its about ass now huh? EVEN THE ASS HAS 'EXCEEDED'!

One mention of LEGENDS and everyone goes batshit.  :\

Yep, every time when someone mentions that game people get energized for an apparent reason whatsoever. It's like this everywhere else, trust me.

It got really messy to find my sprite and comic topic, so it's in my sig.


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Reply #46 on: February 12, 2012, 11:15:29 AM
And noone complained about Neige appearing in this comic. Now THAT is some foreshadowing effect :P


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Reply #47 on: February 18, 2012, 06:58:31 PM
Archie unveils their first original robot master: Quake Woman!

http://www.rockmancorner.com/2012/02/cover-and-solicitation-for-archies-mega.html

What do you guys think of that? I'm looking forward to this story arc, it seems likes its the first deviation from the Mega Man story where we'll get to explore deeper things, such as "Do Machines have souls?" which I think is one of the cooler themes underlying the entire Mega Man Lore.

If Archie continue to do more original stories in between the offical game plots, I think it'll continue to be a fun and exciting comic. Mega Man games don't usually explore the personalities and motivations of the characters in the series. This is a fine insight into how Mega Man and the others think and feel.

And thank heavens for things like Comixology. Without apps on Android Smartphones, there would never have been any other way for me to get ahold of the Mega Man comics. Except for waiting many many months for each Graphic Novel.



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Reply #48 on: February 18, 2012, 08:44:37 PM
In general I think the "do machines have souls" theme is overdone, but in Megaman it's pretty interesting because it's established that yes they do, and in fact, we know that THEY do but still dunno about humans. Though it's never really touched upon in-game.



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Reply #49 on: March 09, 2012, 10:59:49 PM
Received and finished #11 today. Without going into major spoilers--and unless I missed something--Stern and Krantz are nowhere in the issue itself despite being on the cover (albeit not as large a place on it as the RMs). >.>