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Edge & Christian posted:All of the talk about Mister X (who I do not remember at all) I mainly recall Tieri writing a Mr. X issue of Deadpool Team-Up. Like half of the series, it was an issue of a writer trying to get traction for their pet character by placing them next to Deadpool (the worst offender is the US-Ace issue). Even though putting the guy who can predict his enemy's movements vs. the guy who is unpredictable is a great dynamic (see also: Deadpool vs. Taskmaster, Midnighter vs. Joker), it was still a giant dud. Then I remember how Tieri was one of the all-time worst Deadpool writers and gave us the, "T-Ray is not the real Wade Wilson because............reasons," story. Tieri also wrote all the endings for Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Ryu's ending has him meeting Iron Fist in a Madripoor fighting tournament. A sign in the background says that the next fight will be Ken Masters vs. Mr. X. Because of course it did.
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Starsnostars posted:I liked the time in the Siege issues of Thunderbolts when Mr X gets absolutely taken apart by Quicksilver. Yeah, the only exposure (X-posure?) I had to the character was in Thunderbolts and I pretty much despised him there, so having him get clowned by Quicksilver was fun. Of course, I'm old enough that every time someone mentions "Mister X" I think of a bald architect in sunglasses...
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https://twitter.com/Nick_Hanover/status/1104471693949575168 When Larry's Comics is on your side, you know it's the wrong side.
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Bummer to see donny cates in there i liked his work rip
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Aw. And Jamal Igle just had his own think where EVS tried to play Internet Tough Guy with him. LOL at this sudden outpouring of Tieri as some creative genius, though.
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Ethan Van Sciver before Captain Marvel: "This frowning bitch is going to KILL MARVEL! Watch it bomb opening weekend! DEAD MARVEL!" Ethan Van Sciver when Captain Marvel set to bring in $160 million opening weekend: "This is why these SJWs take over big franchises, so they can make all the money and never fail!!"
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https://twitter.com/renfamous/status/1104566879866089472 This is loving hilarious
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Nick Fury washes dishes! This is an attack on men!
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X-O posted:They're threatening his life because they ship Eddie and the Symbiote (they call it SymBrock instead of, well you know Venom, because they're crazy) and the Symbiote was just revealed to be manipulating Eddie into staying with him by doing some really terrible stuff. But that... that's the symbiote's whole thing, it's a horrible relationship made into a goop that can take over your body. I know this is late, but it's not even recent, it's the very first thing he was other than "a suit". Spidey starts acting unlike himself, realizes it's his relationship with his new pants, gets out of it.
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Skwirl posted:https://twitter.com/renfamous/status/1104566879866089472 Ah yes, that's the site whose articles my phone LOVED recommending to me because of my interest in [any number of comic book topics]. I finally blocked it but the recommendations for "MARVEL IS DOOMED" articles just keep coming and I can only block specific websites, or block Marvel as a topic, but not chuds. Thanks Google!
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Argue posted:Ah yes, that's the site whose articles my phone LOVED recommending to me because of my interest in [any number of comic book topics]. I finally blocked it but the recommendations for "MARVEL IS DOOMED" articles just keep coming and I can only block specific websites, or block Marvel as a topic, but not chuds. Thanks Google! Even for comic book news sites, Cosmic Book is really terrible. They've predicted Captain America will die just about every Marvel flick past, oh, Winter Soldier. It's been entertaining to watch the chuds try to rationalize the Captain Marvel into a flop.
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Nothing to do with anything really, i just came across this while reading the kree-skrull war arc just now and it reminded me of the comics used to be non political refrain and it made me chuckle
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site posted:Nothing to do with anything really, i just came across this while reading the kree-skrull war arc just now and it reminded me of the comics used to be non political refrain and it made me chuckle The sad thing is that you could make a book out of all the explicitly political panels of old comics and make those guys read them and they still wouldn't change their mind because that would require them to admit that they're the ones screaming in rage at tiny black children going to school and not Patrick Henry saying "give me liberty or give me death!"
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Puppy Time posted:The sad thing is that you could make a book out of all the explicitly political panels of old comics and make those guys read them and they still wouldn't change their mind because that would require them to admit that they're the ones screaming in rage at tiny black children going to school and not Patrick Henry saying "give me liberty or give me death!" I usually just post the Captain America 1 cover when people complain about comics suddenly becoming political
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The narrative is quickly shifting to "there were never any anti Captain Marvel trolls, Disney and the SJWs made them up to artificially boost sales".
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Lurdiak posted:The narrative is quickly shifting to "there were never any anti Captain Marvel trolls, Disney and the SJWs made them up to artificially boost sales". It was a False Flag you see.
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site posted:that's a helluva sentence It's pretty accurate for Warren Ellis though.
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I wonder if anything other than (arguably, probably) Ghostbusters 2016 actually 'got woke, went broke.'
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Dawgstar posted:I wonder if anything other than (arguably, probably) Ghostbusters 2016 actually 'got woke, went broke.' Ghostbusters made $100 million more than it's budget.
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Vince MechMahon posted:Ghostbusters made $100 million more than it's budget. Yeah, but it needed to make like 500 million to turn a profit and needed 300 million to just break even.
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, but it needed to make like 500 million to turn a profit and needed 300 million to just break even. That's only with bullshit Hollywood math where it counts all previous attempts to make a third Ghostbusters film in it. Also the issue with it wasn't that it was "woke" anyway, it was that it was just a really middle of the road, nothing movie.
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Dawgstar posted:Yeah, but it needed to make like 500 million to turn a profit and needed 300 million to just break even. gently caress Hollywood.
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Vince MechMahon posted:That's only with bullshit Hollywood math where it counts all previous attempts to make a third Ghostbusters film in it. The Hollywood Reporter article that claims that also has a Sony rep disagreeing with the numbers. Sooooo
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Amazing Spider-Man 2 made three quarters of a billion dollars and was considered enough of a failure Sony went running to Marvel Studios begging them to Robert Downey Junior in the next Spider-Man film.
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Oh man, Frank Tieri, that takes me back. I remember when like the first thing he did when given Wolverine was kill off a bunch of old ancillary characters with his new OC. I thought the "twist" with his powers was actually somewhat clever, but not much more than that. Also I was an actual child when I read it, so. I remember the five minutes or so Warren Ellis was on Facebook. He joined, I commented, some dude immediately saw from my profile pic that I was feeemale and tried to flirt with me, he told them off, then he was off Facebook the next day. Sorta surprised he manages to keep a Twitter going.
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Based on an exhaustive (5 second) Google search, Ghostbusters 2016 had a budget of $144M, and made $229M at the box office. As I understand it, something like half of that box office actually goes directly back to theaters and distribution costs. So even a film that appears widely successful can still be considered a flop at the producer/studio level due to this split. Basing a film’s success solely on revenue is just lovely consumer capitalist thought though.
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Marketing / PR is also typically not included in the production budget, and Ghostbusters was heavily marketed. But it could have made a billion and it would still have been a bad film.
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Skwirl posted:Amazing Spider-Man 2 made three quarters of a billion dollars and was considered enough of a failure Sony went running to Marvel Studios begging them to Robert Downey Junior in the next Spider-Man film. Yeah. And it was GB's director own saying they'd need to clear half a billion and Feig said that was conservative. Speaking of movies that made money but not enough for a sequel (400+ million over 170 million which is still not a success because it's like Puppy Time said) , maybe trying to make Alita your champion would have worked better* if her movie didn't leave about 700 theaters to make room for Captain Marvel. *Narrator's voice: It wouldn't have.
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Midnight Voyager posted:I remember the five minutes or so Warren Ellis was on Facebook. He joined, I commented, some dude immediately saw from my profile pic that I was feeemale and tried to flirt with me, he told them off, then he was off Facebook the next day. Sorta surprised he manages to keep a Twitter going.
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Ellis has a weekly newsletter than is actually really interesting, also he has a great irregular music podcast. https://spkmdl.libsyn.com/
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Skwirl posted:It's pretty accurate for Warren Ellis though. Not really, Ellis can I believe spell "antediluvian".
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Skwirl posted:Amazing Spider-Man 2 made three quarters of a billion dollars and was considered enough of a failure Sony went running to Marvel Studios begging them to Robert Downey Junior in the next Spider-Man film. Ehhhh I don't think it was that cut and dry. Sony seemed to be full steam ahead with their batshit ideas of making a Sinister Six movie and a "Spider-Man Vs Amazing Spider-Man" movie. I think it wasn't until the hack of their systems that they got an idea for how much people really wanted Spidey to be a part of the MCU.
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ASM2 failing comes down to opportunity costs and projections. It did worse than Spiderman 3 which made projections for the next film really bad. It was working with a more important license than Ghostbusters.
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Lol i had never actually seen what evs looks like but yeah that fits
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site posted:Lol i had never actually seen what evs looks like but yeah that fits Yeah, he is stock pasty bearded white dude. The wig is new. Very on fleek.
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Green Intern posted:Based on an exhaustive (5 second) Google search, Ghostbusters 2016 had a budget of $144M, and made $229M at the box office. As I understand it, something like half of that box office actually goes directly back to theaters and distribution costs. So even a film that appears widely successful can still be considered a flop at the producer/studio level due to this split. TBF Ghostbusters's only option for success was financially, because it's just a tremendously mediocre movie.
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