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Heathen posted:In the decade plus that Harry Potter was hot poo poo I don't recall Marvel ever trying to cash in on that. Doctor Strange as Dumbledore, Doom as Voldemort and a menagerie of guest stars as guest lecturers. Scarlet Witch, Magik, etc... You'd think a magic version of the Xavier School would be a no brainer. Wolverine and the X-Men, maybe? Although the fad was a bit past its prime when that happened.
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Dawgstar posted:Wolverine and the X-Men, maybe? Although the fad was a bit past its prime when that happened. I think they meant making a book like that, but about Marvel magic characters. But there's not that many kid magicians.
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Skwirl posted:I think they meant making a book like that, but about Marvel magic characters. But there's not that many kid magicians. Dennis Hopeless has talked about how his original pitch that became Avengers Arena was supposed to focus on the Braddock Academy and introduce a bunch more 'schools for young supers,' one of which (I think, I could be mistaken) was meant to be pretty magic-focused and Hogwarts-y; characters from each school would be kidnapped by Arcade and set up to go all Battle Royale and the editor he was dealing with pointed at that bit, intended for issues, like, 8-12, and said "no, this right here is the story we're interested in." EDIT: Come to think on it the book that introduced one of the waves of New Mutant Students (Academy X, I think? The one where Hellion and Rockslide and Elixir all came from) had a sort of Hogwarts-ish setup, what with the students being divided into
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Rip wasp, so good marvel editorial hated you to the point it brought you back to cancel you out of spite
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:
This was such a good book and I curse Kyle and Yost for what they did to it.
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Jul 19, 2019 16:57
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Beerdeer posted:This was such a good book and I curse Kyle and Yost for what they did to it. They made the best out of a bad situation, the editorial removal of most mutants.
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Rhyno posted:They made the best out of a bad situation, the editorial removal of most mutants. I always wondered whose notion it was to have their inciting incident be 'teenagers stacked like cordwood.'
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Jul 19, 2019 19:07
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Academy X was terminally boring and consisted of reams of bad teenager plotlines ripped right from lesser episodes of Degrassi. The thrilling two parter about a nonsense future vision where Prodigy was an evil president was the only attempt to do anything remotely suyperheroy, and it stank too. The popular characters from that generation with the exception of Surge and arguably Hellion (Elixir, Prodigy, Anole, Rockslide, Pixie) didn't have anything resembling motivations or personalities until Kyle and Yost took over. Blockhouse fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Jul 19, 2019 |
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Jul 19, 2019 19:51
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Blockhouse posted:Academy X was terminally boring and consisted of reams of bad teenager plotlines ripped right from lesser episodes of Degrassi. The thrilling two parter about a nonsense future vision where Prodigy was an evil president was the only attempt to do anything remotely suyperheroy, and it stank too. Who the gently caress is Surge? (Tellingly I actually know who every single other person you mentioned is).
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Jul 19, 2019 20:41
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Skwirl posted:Who the gently caress is Surge? (Tellingly I actually know who every single other person you mentioned is). SOmething about caffeine activated mutant powers?
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Skwirl posted:Who the gently caress is Surge? (Tellingly I actually know who every single other person you mentioned is). Japanese girl, blue hair, metal gauntlets, electricity powers. She was a fairly prominent part of that whole group. 
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Jul 19, 2019 20:58
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Surge was in a video game - which, granted, was X-Men Destiny a very bad video game but still - which recognizability-wise still puts her above pretty much everyone else from the Academy X generation except Pixie (who was also in that game and appeared on the Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon) and X-23 (obviously)
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Jul 19, 2019 21:30
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Amazing Mary Jane https://www.newsarama.com/46139-face-it-tiger-you-re-getting-an-amazing-mary-jane-title.html
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Roth posted:Amazing Mary Jane Kinda weird this hasn't happened before, and can't help but wonder if it's in response to DC putting out Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen comics. Edit: Also meant to say that new Leah Williams comics is a good thing. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jul 19, 2019 |
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Jul 19, 2019 21:52
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Skwirl posted:Kinda weird this hasn't happened before, and can't help but wonder if it's in response to DC putting out Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen comics. Wasn't interested until you said Leah Williams was behind it.
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Roth posted:Amazing Mary Jane  I'm digging this.
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when's MJ gonna start vaping
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Parallax posted:when's MJ gonna start vaping She already quit smoking, so hopefully never.
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Skwirl posted:Kinda weird this hasn't happened before, and can't help but wonder if it's in response to DC putting out Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen comics. to be fair Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen comics aren't new, even if there was a hiatus and the tone has changed (at least for Lois)  
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Autism Sneaks posted:to be fair Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen comics aren't new, even if there was a hiatus and the tone has changed (at least for Lois) I absolutely knew about those, I was slightly surprised they hadn't done the same for MJ before and was wondering if the revival of those books at DC spurred this on. Like Kirby worked on Jimmy Olsen after he left Marvel so these books were contemporary with Spider-Man, I don't know if MJ was on the scene yet, but Betty Brant and Gwen Stacy had potential for solo books back then
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Jul 20, 2019 03:10
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Not exactly the same thing, but Marvel did about forty issues of Mary Jane centric comics in the mid-2000s in a series of Mary Jane mini-series and the "Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane" ongoing series. They all took place out of continuity where Peter/MJ/Flash/Harry/Gwen/etc. were still in high school. They also did a couple of YA novels around the same time that were set in the Ultimate universe but written from MJ's perspective.
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That series was mostly fantastic, I still flip through those HCs occasionally.
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Leah Williams writing a Mary Jane miniseries and Jed McKay writing a Spider-Verse one are pretty much all I needed to hear to be glad with the SDCC announcements. I'm really looking forward to both books (the Doctor Doom one written by the Halt and Catch Fire writer and drawn by Larroca has me slightly worried)
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Rhyno posted:That series was mostly fantastic, I still flip through those HCs occasionally. That reminds me for a while Sean McKeever felt like THE dude for writing teens in comics at the time before he then left to go work at some video game company.
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Oh man, he left Marvel on a hot streak and went to DC and wrote the WORST run of Teen Titans in the franchise history.
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Rhyno posted:Oh man, he left Marvel on a hot streak and went to DC and wrote the WORST run of Teen Titans in the franchise history. How loving bad is it if it's the worst titans run? That's gotta be some Sam Neil in event horizon poo poo.
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Skwirl posted:How loving bad is it if it's the worst titans run? That's gotta be some Sam Neil in event horizon poo poo. Oh my dude, you sweet innocent soul.
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Rhyno posted:Oh my dude, you sweet innocent soul. Didn't it feature Marv and Wendy being mauled by Wonder Dog?
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New X-Men titles being announced?X-O posted:https://twitter.com/JHickman/status/1152296060837982209
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Rhyno posted:Oh man, he left Marvel on a hot streak and went to DC and wrote the WORST run of Teen Titans in the franchise history. That was the run that somehow topped Johns latter half run of Titans getting amputated right? I seem to recall it was after Connor was blowed up real good in the garbage that is Infinite Crisis, and they brought in Match.
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Chip Motherfuckin' Zdarsky is now an Eisner Award winning funny book writer. And for a tiny moment all is right in the world. He won best single issue for Peter Parker #310 which is probably one of the greatest issues of Spider-Man I've ever read. https://twitter.com/zdarsky/status/1152595718734880768 https://twitter.com/zdarsky/status/1152596982038269954
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X-O posted:Chip Motherfuckin' Zdarsky is now an Eisner Award winning funny book writer. And for a tiny moment all is right in the world. He won best single issue for Peter Parker #310 which is probably one of the greatest issues of Spider-Man I've ever read. Didn’t he already win for sex criminal and jughead?
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bobkatt013 posted:Didn’t he already win for sex criminal and jughead? One was as artist on best new series and one was a team effort humor publication thing. This is the first for his actual writing.
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Jul 20, 2019 18:27
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X-O posted:New X-Men titles being announced? Awe, I was getting myself excited that they would change the name of the team to drop the "Men" out of the name.
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IUG posted:Awe, I was getting myself excited that they would change the name of the team to drop the "Men" out of the name. X-Men is way too valuable as a brand to do that.
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IUG posted:Awe, I was getting myself excited that they would change the name of the team to drop the "Men" out of the name. After almost 60 years that's just not going to happen.
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I've gotta admit, after Spider-Verse and Spider-Geddon, I was kind of skeptical of another Spider-Verse book but after Into The Spider-Verse, I'm game. Vulpes writing it is a definite selling point. Plus it's got Spiderling in it. It feels weird to be actively excited for Spider-Man books, even after a year of Spencer's run, Ahmed's run on Miles, and FNSM. Edit: also looks like the Spider-Family are getting another story in Marvel Comics #1001: https://twitter.com/TheMarvelReport/status/1152312632784744448 Yvonmukluk fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Jul 20, 2019 |
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Rhyno posted:Oh man, he left Marvel on a hot streak and went to DC and wrote the WORST run of Teen Titans in the franchise history. That's a bold statement when Scott Lobdell is in the running. What did he do?
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He created the Face.
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