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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Civil War But Without Pretending There's A Valid "Both Sides" Argument isn't the worst idea for a story, honestly I'm pretty sure Mark Millar was the only one who thought this. It's a shame he wrote the main miniseries.
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Tensokuu posted:The new Amazing Spider-man (80.BEY?) was actually pretty rad. I'm all for more Otto stories. I was not ready for a full issue of Aunt May and Otto flirting like hormonal teenagers
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The negative zone even has democracy!
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What do beings in the Negative Zone call our, uh... zone?
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Siegkrow posted:I was not ready for a full issue of Aunt May and Otto flirting like hormonal teenagers I'm glad it didn't work out, since May is destined for Uncle Moley.
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Lobok posted:What do beings in the Negative Zone call our, uh... zone?
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Siegkrow posted:I was not ready for a full issue of Aunt May and Otto flirting like hormonal teenagers But was it everything you dreamed of?
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It's really a shame that the baller-rear end Superior Octopus costume didn't stick around
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Good call. I may have found my answer in another thread, though. 
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bobkatt013 posted:I half expect it to end with Luke cage as mayor I don't think anything will improve there. Either it's going to be a random nobody or Fisk will be replaced by someone like Thanos, Galactus, or Doctor Doom. You know what? I want to see that! Give me a story were New York secedes and becomes an extended Latverian embassy. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 22:26 on Dec 9, 2021 |
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"Should super-heroes be registered with the government instead of being vigilantes?" is a really interesting framework for a story, and Tony and Steve were were really interesting mouthpieces to put on each side of that arguement. The New Warriors' massive gently caress up was a pretty great inciting incident to convince everyone from heroes for hire to sorcerers supreme to take a side on the issue. But unfortunately it fell off pretty much immediately beyond that point and we somehow ended up with clones of Thor killing Goliath 2 (or whoever) and it all ending in dumb punching. Civil War 2 was just moronic from the ground up. There's nothing interesting about "No for real, this guy totally sees the future! We'd better all treat this seriously!" and nobody was buying it, so seeing half of the senior heroes of the MCU suddenly decide that it was worth going to punch-war over was just silly. Don't even get me started on Tony torturing a college kid.
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Wasn't a lot of Civil War a thinly veiled allegory for the Bush administration's attack on civil rights after 9/11?
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I feel like the main problem of Civil War was that it started from the premise of "should superheroes be registered with the government instead of being vigilantes" and then ended up as a thinly veiled allegory for the Bush administration's attack on civil rights after 9/11. Either of those could have been a great story with a coherent, interesting political message behind it. But instead it shifted from one to the other over the course of the planning and execution of the event, and that shift is what caused the problems with it. They needed to just pick a lane.
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it'd be nice if event books didn't make captain marvel abandon her personality and go full fash at the drop of a hat. every dang time.
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I feel like the Initiative without the compulsory bit would probably be pretty successful since most of the non-Avengers/non-X-Men characters are pretty much just sitting around doing nothing, you'd probably even get a few villains to reform for a steady income with the only job being defending Idaho from attacks or whatever.
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Rick posted:I feel like the Initiative without the compulsory bit would probably be pretty successful since most of the non-Avengers/non-X-Men characters are pretty much just sitting around doing nothing, you'd probably even get a few villains to reform for a steady income with the only job being defending Idaho from attacks or whatever. Taskmaster was a great hero high school principal
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Rick posted:I feel like the Initiative without the compulsory bit would probably be pretty successful since most of the non-Avengers/non-X-Men characters are pretty much just sitting around doing nothing, you'd probably even get a few villains to reform for a steady income with the only job being defending Idaho from attacks or whatever. "Hey, reporting in from Earth. It looks like they're getting proactive about organizing their superhuman population into a volunteer corps." [sound of every alien civilization doing a spit-take simultaneously]
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Huh, I assume his work with Kieron Gillen involved a lot of collaboration on story stuff, but has McKelvie ever written stuff with a different person doing art before?
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Skwirl posted:Huh, I assume his work with Kieron Gillen involved a lot of collaboration on story stuff, but has McKelvie ever written stuff with a different person doing art before? It definitely dampened my excitement hugely. I mean, it still might be fine but I am skeptical.
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https://twitter.com/therealstanlee/status/1470750431643058181?s=21 Ugh, I'm not surprised Stan Lee's family would do this, but it's still loving vile.
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amigolupus posted:Ugh, I'm not surprised Stan Lee's family would do this, but it's still loving vile. No way, man. Do whatever it takes: sell your house, mortgage your kids, just get in on the ground floor on these beauties:  Anyway, you can tell Stan wasn't actually involved (other than obvious reasons) because there's no throwaway character named something like Anne Efty.
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I too old to know what "ratio'd" means but I assume it's good that this thing is getting ratio'd.
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Nilbop posted:I too old to know what "ratio'd" means but I assume it's good that this thing is getting ratio'd. To be honest it has seemed to mean a couple different, but similar things. The first time I heard it was for tweets that had a high ratio of replies to likes, which was a signal that it was causing blowback and outrage because there is no dislike button. Now sometimes it can also mean (on anything, not just Twitter) a reply to a post that is more liked than the thing it was a reply to, usually because it was a sick burn.
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There's a new sorcerer supreme in town, coming from the thread favorite writer of Black Cat and Moon Knight. https://www.cbr.com/marvel-doctor-strange-clea-replacement
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Cloks posted:There's a new sorcerer supreme in town, coming from the thread favorite writer of Black Cat and Moon Knight. Marvel wouldn't let Vulpes do Bats The Ghost Hound Sorcerer Supreme? Cowards.
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Cloks posted:There's a new sorcerer supreme in town, coming from the thread favorite writer of Black Cat and Moon Knight. eh, okay i guess
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Well I'm stoked. MacKay has done phenomenal work at Marvel and The Death of Dr. Strange has been fun-- the magic side of the 616 is a huge toybox with a lot of weird stuff in it and I'm excited to see him rummage around.
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Clea's always gotten kind of a raw deal, right? I'm glad to see her get some time to shine.
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I did always find it strange (HURHUR) that Clea has been mostly absent and ignored through the recent ten-ish years that Dr. Strange's star had been rising, considering that she was...y'know. His wife. And they never really got divorced or anything, it's just that writers at one point just...well, stopped mentioned that this guy had a literal actual wife out there somewhere, and life just went on.
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Hopefully Ben Franklin can squeeze by trying to reignite their spark
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Cool that a fresh new take on a female character is about getting her man back, I guess.
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I didn't know Jed MacKay posted here! I knew the name, but haven't read any of his work yet. I'm a giant Daredevil fanboy, and yet somehow I just recently found out he wrote a miniseries that bridged the gap between the Soule and Zdarsky runs of Daredevil. Now I need to find that TPB, ASAP.
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Isn't Clea already a Sorcerer Supreme, or am I confusing her with another female character?
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They’re going to give him Silver Sable when the Clea book is done.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I didn't know Jed MacKay posted here! I knew the name, but haven't read any of his work yet. You should check his stuff out. It's legitimately fun!
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Gologle posted:Isn't Clea already a Sorcerer Supreme, or am I confusing her with another female character?
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Clea as sorceror supreme is cool, but is there some rule now that says everybody has to wear Steven's pajamas if they take over his job?
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BrianWilly posted:I did always find it strange (HURHUR) that Clea has been mostly absent and ignored through the recent ten-ish years that Dr. Strange's star had been rising, considering that she was...y'know. His wife. And they never really got divorced or anything, it's just that writers at one point just...well, stopped mentioned that this guy had a literal actual wife out there somewhere, and life just went on. Clea had an appearance or two in Waid's book but didn't become the supporting character you'd think she would be.
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