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Sentinel Red posted:Can we get a real deal Alien v X-Men crossover now please? The resurrection protocol means there should be nothing stopping us from getting some mental as anything Aliens with punch dimension heads/healing factor/paraffin glob bodies/GOLDBALLS/diamond form (Jesus gently caress) and who knows what other horrors besides. This is Brood erasure.
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https://ew.com/books/x-lives-of-wolverine-x-deaths-of-wolverine-comic-benjamin-percy-interview/ Percy confirming that the "pause" post-Inferno is the Wolverine story, which will be weekly.
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And this: https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1438548255449694212
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Sep 16, 2021 18:19
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He was in a hole so long that I forgot he was in a hole!
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Sep 16, 2021 18:51
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Meh. Sabretooth was only ever interesting when he was a good guy or the AoA version with Blink. Otherwise I just can't care about the guy. Also don't much care for the Wolverine thing so looks like I'm getting a break from X-Men for a bit.
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That's a lot of fire. . . h...ot . . . claws??Codependent Poster posted:Meh. Sabretooth was only ever interesting when he was a good guy or the AoA version with Blink. Otherwise I just can't care about the guy. AoA Sabertooth is how I hope he eventually ends up at some point.
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Rick posted:That's a lot of fire. . . h...ot . . . claws?? It's probably because it's coming out during/immediately after Inferno. How long is Inferno going?
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Anyone familiar with acclaimed author Victor LaValle who's apparently the main draw for a 616 Sabertooth mini-series?
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Saoshyant posted:Anyone familiar with acclaimed author Victor LaValle who's apparently the main draw for a 616 Sabertooth mini-series? not familiar with his work, but he's very well-regarded if the number of awards he's won and been nominated for is any indication - and he's done a graphic novel with Boom!, so he's familiar with scriptwriting. So I'm pretty hopeful.
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Saoshyant posted:Anyone familiar with acclaimed author Victor LaValle who's apparently the main draw for a 616 Sabertooth mini-series? I'm not familiar because I don't follow modern genre fiction so I can't name hardly anyone still publishing aside from people who have been doing it since the 90s or earlier. He has a poo poo ton of nominations and a decent number of wins from various sci-fi/fantasy/horror awards. They hype up the name when a successful prose writer takes on a series, and sometimes they are really good at comics and sometimes they are really bad.
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Saoshyant posted:Anyone familiar with acclaimed author Victor LaValle who's apparently the main draw for a 616 Sabertooth mini-series? He's superb. I've taught his novella The Ballad of Black Tom a bunch of times and it kills.
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How Wonderful! posted:He's superb. I've taught his novella The Ballad of Black Tom a bunch of times and it kills.
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danbanana posted:This is Brood erasure. Yeah, why else do think Disney bought Fox? 
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How Wonderful! posted:He's superb. I've taught his novella The Ballad of Black Tom a bunch of times and it kills. I read it recently and it is, indeed, very good, and it sounds like a perfect teachable book in that it's easy to take in at a gulp but full of subtext and social commentary. A quick read and a great modern treatment of Lovecraft. I have no idea what LaValle's take on Sabretooth will be, but it'll probably be good. Dude can write.
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I can't believe I am now waiting with some eagerness for a Sabertooth miniseries in the year 2021.
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Huh. A Percy-written, Wolverine-focused title would not have been my first choice for the big weekly book….but I’ll give it a shot.
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I read LaValle’s Big Machine a while back and it was good. I too do not give much of a poo poo about Sabretooth, but I’ll at least give it a shot. Also, have they not updated his costume since the Jim Lee era? Not a fan of that one but realize they aren’t going back to the OG orange one, but maybe the could have him dressed as a Canadian, like on the cover of Wolverine #10 (the one where he’s about to whack Wolvie with a tree stump)?
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They’ve changed his look plenty of times, usually some sort of black ops gear with bits of orange, but nothing nearly as memorable. They’ve been fine for a more nuanced, and team friendly Sabertooth. It’s weird if you stop to consider that it’s actually a suit he’s wearing, but when he’s going toe to toe with Wolverine you just see an animal, and I love it.
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Why're they treating the avengers visiting like its their first time? They were literally just there the day before
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Synthbuttrange posted:Why're they treating the avengers visiting like its their first time? They were literally just there the day before this time they're there as superheroes, not invited guests - they were even allowed to fly in in a Quinjet, which they weren't permitted to do at the party
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Synthbuttrange posted:Why're they treating the avengers visiting like its their first time? They were literally just there the day before DivineCoffeeBinge posted:this time they're there as superheroes, not invited guests - they were even allowed to fly in in a Quinjet, which they weren't permitted to do at the party Also the Gala was on Emma Frost's weird island just off the coast of mainland Krakoa, not on the main thing, wasn't it? I mean, I think that was still part of Krakoa, but it is a bit different.
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oh poo poo that's right, the Gala was on the little island she bought from Namor, I'd forgotten that
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Was it just me who thought Trail of Magneto was terribly written? Not just the three *sigh* in the first few pages, the dialog was horrible. Everything Stark said made me wish he was dead. I thought Magneto's whole attack was going to be done kind of misdirection or something, but no, just a dumb attack. Also he's invincible or something, every mutant on the island and a bunch of Avengers can't stop him. IUG fucked around with this message at 12:21 on Sep 17, 2021 |
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The second issue didn't quite click with me either, but I can't really say why. Maybe because things feel too mysterious and unexplained for anything to click right now. I don't understand the big deal about making sure the Avengers didn't see the body, and I don't get why Hope in particular was so insistent about this to the point that she would wake Magneto up to make sure it didn't happen, or why Magneto would rather surrender himself instead of letting them see Wanda. It feels like I missed a scene or three. The argument between Hope and Xavier also felt forced to me. Sorry Hope, it's a little late at this point to pick nits about the ethics of mind-reading, isn't it? What with there being mind-readers around every corner on this little island of yours?
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IUG posted:Was it just me who thought Trail of Magneto was terribly written? Not just the three *sigh* in the first few pages, the dialog was horrible. Everything Stark said made me wish he was dead. I am almost certain the attack was a misdirection, as it looked like Hope had influenced Magneto into doing it. I'm assuming his confession was part of that. Why Hope did that, to what end, and what her role in this whole murder is remains unanswered, as is most of the plot, but that's to be expected in a mystery.
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It was absolutely misdirection to give time for the Five to resurrect Wanda.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:they don't need her body to resurrect her, so that wouldn't be a reason for hope to send magneto out to keep them away from the body. also wanda's body got eaten by trees for some reason? If they see the body then her, they will know about resurrection.
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Am I the only one who really digs the classic orange Saber tooth look? Give that an update for the new solo book you cowards!
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glitchwraith posted:I am almost certain the attack was a misdirection, as it looked like Hope had influenced Magneto into doing it. I'm assuming his confession was part of that. Why Hope did that, to what end, and what her role in this whole murder is remains unanswered, as is most of the plot, but that's to be expected in a mystery. I think Hope doesn't believe Magneto killed Wanda. Or if he did, it was with the idea they would resurrect her as a mutant and he at least had Hope in on the plan beforehand. She has the powerset to do what killed Wanda. Though I still think this is more that Magneto did not kill Wanda, and the Five are starting to separate themselves from the council. Like how they decided that clones such as Scout and Maddie have the right to resurrection. But yeah, Magneto attacking was to make a big ruckus and keep the Avengers from seeing Wanda's body while the Five brought her back. This was to cover the resurrection protocols.
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That is kind of an interesting thing to de-mutant yourself with your mutant power, and then to be brought back as a mutant although I'm not exactly sure what it says.
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Kingtheninja posted:Am I the only one who really digs the classic orange Saber tooth look? Give that an update for the new solo book you cowards! You are not. I was kinda bitching up thread about them using the Jim Lee costume. The classic look is sooooo much better.
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danbanana posted:I'm back in an office for the first time in 18 months so I've started listening to podcast stuff again. The Magneto episode of Conner Goldsmith's Cerebro podcast was really great, featuring noted X-geek/punk/Pulitzer winner Spencer Ackerman. Then I started the Moira episode which informed me about this book: A little late but this description weirdly makes it sound as if Kate and Rachel are FRIENDS WITH HITLER which is very much not the case. Basically once Kate figures out that she's in 1936 (this takes a weirdly long time but I suppose its Marvel so "I just fought a castle full of nazis" is evergreen) she's like, screw this madcap Highlands caper, why are we not crossing the Channel and killing Hitler right this second? Which a Logan who may or may not also be time traveling cosigns until Mystique and Destiny who ALSO MAY OR MAY NOT BE TIME TRAVELING urge them to pump the brakes a bit and go deal with the Shadow King who is of course running around Scotland with Baron von Strucker and the long forgotten Wolverine bad guy Geist. So, once the Shadow King is dealt with everybody is kicked back to 1999 before they get a chance to even deal with Hitler. It's not that they proactively choose to save their dear bosom buddy Hitler's life or anything, it's more that they don't get around to doing anything about him. It's quite odd-- I mean, it's a quite odd (and clumsy) mini after all-- but my hunch is that Claremont would have felt weird having Kate not even BROACH THE SUBJECT but was unable for editorial or just discretionary reasons to actually have her rewrite history in so drastic a fashion in a miniseries that hit stands almost a decade after it was originally planned. So it's really just an unsatisfying little subplot that doesn't accomplish much... I love Claremont but it is not a great story. Maybe worth reading if you like Rick Leonardi and it is quite bonkers and novel.
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hey, hitler in 616 had the spear of destiny and that ain't nothing to gently caress with. it wasn't quite as impressive as he thought, but it could probably stab an intangible teenager easily enough.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:hey, hitler in 616 had the spear of destiny and that ain't nothing to gently caress with. it wasn't quite as impressive as he thought, but it could probably stab an intangible teenager easily enough. I thought Hitler having the Spear of Destiny was more of a DC thing
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nope, marvel too! though after reading the entry more closely he only got it during ww2.
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I thought Hitler with the Spear of Destiny was the final boss of Persona 2
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My favorite WWII era magic/superhero stuff is from Roy Thomas's Invaders, which was all retroactive WWII stuff written in the 1970s. Since Marvel already had Dracula and Frankenstein books running at the time, Baron Blood's origin is "a British Nazi sympathizer is disowned by Baron Blood's rich family, reads Bram Stoker's Dracula and thinks... what if this is non-fiction? And so Baron Blood goes to Transylvania and meets the real Dracula who turns Baron Blood into a vampire and then Baron Blood goes to Hitler and is like GOOD NEWS, VAMPIRES ARE REAL AND I WILL FIGHT FOR YOU!" Then several issues later someone goes "well if Bram Stoker's Dracula is based on real life, what if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was also based on true events?" and they find Victor Frankstein's grandson and press-gang him into using his grandpa's castle to make them a new Frankenstein. There's something both insane and wonderful about the idea of characters in comic books just assuming everything is based on true events, there should be Hydra agents trying to track down Charizard and Wario and Hogwart's and Garfield and Tony Soprano and Young Sheldon and recruiting them to the cause in modern Marvel comics. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Sep 20, 2021 |
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Did Dracula fight Hitler? Is that how he got on the Avengers?
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