comics rock. talk about them here. now. or just go to the "corn" section and wack off. i'll understand. i'll just sit here and read my spider-man comics.
jjreason wrote:They can always get Spidey to renege on his "coming out" - which they will as well. I'm tired of Civil War, and I want it to end.
well, you've got one more pointless issue. i hope they all get off the island and can reassemble grimlock.
i see a dark path for spidey - not just because he's wearing the black and white costume again in a month, but because we've been told over and over again how much they're gonna make his life suck. when i picked up my books yesterday, the owner of the store was like, "here's the next installment in the demise of your favorite character."
Civil War: The Return. Uhhmmm. Yeah. So, for apparently no reason whatsoever, they decided to open a wormhole in time or something and Captain Marvel popped out and he's running the prison for Iron Man and Reed Richards in the negative zone. The actual Captain Marvel. Who died. Of cancer. No backstory or basis for it whatsoever. Just POP. "Oh. Hey. Captain Marvel from the past before he died is here. Can you run our prison? thanks."
It makes me want to scream and cry and punch Joe Quesada in his fleshy manboobs. Now, I'm all for bringing back dead characters. Bucky coming back has been one of the better stories of the last five years. But this...this has no sense at all...
"Say Jim! WHOOOO! That is a bad outFIT! Whooo!"--Pimp, Superman The Movie "You're an idiot, Starscream." --Megatron,Transformers: The Movie
Eternal Padawan wrote:This is my theory. The Age of Marvel's 50th anniversary is coming up in 2012. They are trying to deconstruct every last one of their main titles, X-Men, Avengers, Iron Man, Captain America, Daredevil, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, etc into such disarray far enough in advance that this mess will become the "Standard" for the Marvel Universe, until the huge anniversary where everything will somehow miraculously get reverted back to the Classic Marvel.
Y'know, you might be onto something. They could even say that the 50th is 2013. Reason I bring this up again: Did you know that, according to the Mayan calendar, the world will end sometime in December 2012?
Of course, this would imply some actual knowledge and planning on the part of the dipshits at Marvel.
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Well, with Hulk apparently ready to come back and lay the super-smackdown on all things heroic, that might be a start. Hulk should be mean and nasty when he's angry, that goes back toward the original concept anyhow. I just hope they don't deal with him by blasting him off into space again for Planet Hulk 2.........
If I was writing this, I'd have him skip over the heroes and smash Joe Q, then prop up Jim Shooter as the next Marvel head honcho. That'd teach 'em.
It was a simpler time. A time where everyone tossed aside their torn denim for flannel, burned their Poison records and blasted Nirvana cassettes, and kept on hating everything and everybody because it was cool to do so. We're talking, of course, about the early 1990s.
At Marvel Comics, the 1990s are returning. Another relaunch of X-Force is one of the company's best-selling titles, Peter David is back on X-Factor, and a retread of the ultimately pointless "Acts of Vengeance" crossover is poised to launch in a few months. Also, Iron Man's incredibly 90s sidekick, War Machine, is returning from limbo.
We asked Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada about these developments, and he told vynsane.com, "Back then, I was cool. Fuck you ever seen Sword of Azrael? Even I think that's the bull's balls, though I go around making unfunny jokes at DC's expense all the time now. I wasn't huge back then, but people dug me. Now I'm famous, and everyone hates me. They say you can't go home again, but you know what? Fuck 'em. I'm in charge. Marvel is going back to the 1990s. I want to be cool again. Think I can make another guest appearance on Colbert?"
One of the best-kept secrets involves the new Punisher title, launching in two months. Though it's not obvious from the previews, Frank will again be undead, as he was ten years ago. However, to fully encompass the 1990s vibe, he will also be black AND sport a mullet.
Other titles that will soon be returning include classics like Motormouth, NFL Superpro, Fantastic Force, Force Works, and that version of Nick Fury where he looked like Cable with an eyepatch. Also, when the Invisible Woman returns from the dead in July, she will be dressed like a whore.
When asked about titles that were actually popular AND good, Quesada said, "No. Darkhawk, Sleepwalker, and the Michael Collins Deathlok are gone forever. Unless you read some book about teenaged kids or some stupid shit."
I'm gonna make this the defacto bitch about Marvel NOW! Topic, much like the DC Relaunch topic bitches about the New 52.
Uhmm... What the hell happened to John Cassaday? He used to be a great artist, but his drawings all like people 4 ft tall nowadays. Awful. Bad enough Remender is writing this shit, but gaddam Cassaday has lost it.
Havok is the one that really stuck out for me at first. But then as my eye wandered down the page, I was "Ew." at everybody.
If you go back and look at an issue of Planetary from 1999, and then come back and look at that picture, you will cry.
Here are my impressions of Marvel NOW! so far. Part of me wants to just make this the cutoff like I did with DC last August. I probably won't, but that's in the back of my mind.
First off, I drift towards writers over artists. If its a great writer, I'll grit my teeth through art that I don't like. And artists, for the most part I don't hate. I like some better than others, and some have a style I don't appreciate, but I don't HATE them. You've got to be Sam Keith levels of yuck for me to think twice about buying the book. But for me, it's writers crafting a story which gets me back every month.
So...
Avengers. Hickman is doing TWO issues per month, plus he's doing New Avengers once a month. That's three issues of Avengers. By Hickman. Every month. Hickman is almost finished with what is by far, the most EPIC run of Fantastic Four maybe ever. Hickman has built up so much credit with me because of Secret Warriors and FF that he's pretty much a sure thing. Whatever part of me cringes at Avengers overload, is reassured that Hickman's Avengers run is going to be equally epic.
Remender is doing Captain America and Uncanny Avengers. I hate this guy. I can't see any good coming out of this, but I've got such long run of Cap, I'd hate to break it up. I may have to give him an issue or two.
Keiron Gillen is writing Iron Man. Gillen's Loki story in Journey into Mystery is my fave Marvel title hands down right now. And his Uncanny X-Men has been decent. An easy yes to Iron Man.
Matt Fraction is on Fantastic Four and FF. It'll be next to impossible to top Hickman. And Fraction is hit and miss. His Iron Man has been great. The rest of his stuff has been...eh. But he's got Mike Allred on FF so that combo is enough to get me onboard at the start.
Jason Aaron on Thor. Aaron's Wolverine was good, and I love Scalped. But his Hulk was terrible. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and pick up the series.
Mark Waid is on Hulk. He's been acing the new Daredevil book, and he's always been a solid, if not spectacular, writer. He'll get the benefit of a few issues.
Bendis is doing All New X-Men. This idea sounds both absolutely fanwank horrible and yet my interest is piqued. The O5 Teen X-Men transported to "present day" Marvel U. I'm still waiting to hear how the rest of the X-books shake out. They've got too many books with no clear distinction between them. The new X-Men Legacy is an easy pass for me. It's about David Haller, Prof X's crazy MPD schizo son with the dumbass hairdo. I think they're keeping WaX-Men, but seeing as how they dropped Uncanny, Legacy, and New Mutants, I can't see how they wouldn't also drop Astonishing and Pointless as well. If you're gonna wipe the slate clean, wipe the WHOLE slate. You drop the flagship title and the last longest running book, but leave the two third-tier titles going? Makes no sense.
Haven't heard anything about Amazing Spidey, but
My Spidey Sense tells me 700 is the final issue and it'll get NOWed by January. I sincerely hope not, but I can't see them relaunching every other Core Title they have and leaving that one untouched.
I don't remember if I've said this before here, so I'll say it, either for the first time or again:
NOW! is not the reboot.
NOW! is setting up a reboot.
The original X-Men are in the present. It's already been stated that they do not like what they see, what the world has become. It's an ongoing, but, at some point, these X-Men have to return to the past. There's no grey area. If they don't, then they're the X-Men from an alternate universe.
But if they don't go back and change what they see as a horrible future, then they suck ass as heroes, don't they?
I foresee Marvel throwing all sorts of shit at the wall. Some will be to see what might be popular in the post-NOW! world. Others will be because, well, hey, they're rebooting this shit in a year anyway, so why not kill off Wolverine (or whoever)?
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Marvel NOW! = a jumping off point for a good few books: FF, Daredevil, most Avengers, Cap.
I will be jumping ON the X-Men time shuffle, Hulk & Hickman Avengers, and sticking with ASM - going from about 10 Marvel titles a month down to 6 or so.
