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glitchwraith posted:I'm not very familiar with the character, but apparently they where married. Yeah, they were married. I just realized I read most of the books leading into their relationship and marriage and while Clea, even in 1970s writing, never struck me as the kinda girl that would take her husband's name, I'm not sure if her last name ever came up.
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Skwirl posted:Yeah, they were married. I just realized I read most of the books leading into their relationship and marriage and while Clea, even in 1970s writing, never struck me as the kinda girl that would take her husband's name, I'm not sure if her last name ever came up. According to today's issue her people don't have last names so she went for it. Weird of this week's Elektra Daredevil to spoil next week's Devil's Reign, but I guess that sometimes happens with events.
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Slott's work on F4 continues to be absolute trash.
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Rhyno posted:Slott's work... continues to be absolute trash. But you repeat yourself.
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glitchwraith posted:Couldn't find a general LCS/distributor thread, so apologies if this would be better elsewhere. That said, nearly didn't get all my Marvel comics today because my usual shop didn't get everything they ordered. Fortunately, another shop nearby had them, but it's just baffling that was an issue at all. It happens sometimes. Easy as a warehouse guy slapping the wrong label on the outside. It doesn't happen often but it isn't unprecedented. I have never had that problem with Penguin, so it could be as simple as they hosed up putting in an order and are covering their tracks or a shipping truck broke down.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:Weird of this week's Elektra Daredevil to spoil next week's Devil's Reign, but I guess that sometimes happens with events. This reminded me I meant to ask, has any X-Men book mentioned the moon sex house getting blown up
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site posted:This reminded me I meant to ask, has any X-Men book mentioned the moon sex house getting blown up The Not-Dredd time guys running around in the first issue of Reckoning War suggest to me that this is getting reversed as hell before Cyclops has the chance to miss the ol' Lunar gently caress Palace.
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Is anyone here actually excited about Shadowlands: The Punisher? I expected it to be big and dumb in the traditional Aaron way, but I can't see many Punisher fans being hype for it.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Is anyone here actually excited about Shadowlands: The Punisher? I expected it to be big and dumb in the traditional Aaron way, but I can't see many Punisher fans being hype for it. As much as I liked Aaron's Thor run, I've generally soured on his more recent comics, and Punisher seems like the kind of book that would only highlight his quirks I like least. The development with the Hand also feels very "Wolverine in Madripoor" to me, which isn't a plot I'm overly interested in, and besides that doesn't seem like a great fit for Frank anyway. Maybe it will end up being good, but even then, it'll be an Unlimited read for me, if I ever get around to it. That all said, while I believe the character can be written well, I wouldn't really consider myself a Punisher fan. And given how many toxic people have integrated themselves into that demographic, I almost hope it isn't something they would like, regardless of the arcs overall quality.
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As long as Marvel is too scared to have the Punisher shoot a corrupt cop, any attempt to rehabilitate everyone's favorite serial killer is pathetic.
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I just can’t think of an angle on Punisher other than maybe “Dexter but with guns” that makes him event slightly heroic. His character basis as “guy who murders regular criminals” just has no appeal, especially compared to, say Wolverine who these days kills a lot of people but at least they’re genocidal super scientists or evil mercenaries or something.
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I've liked Reckoning War so far but I'm an idiot
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Chinston Wurchill posted:According to today's issue her people don't have last names so she went for it. for anyone who hasn't read it yet 
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Yeah, something must have caused a delay. The last issue of Secret Wars got delayed enough that Bendis' Iron Man spoiled Dr Doom getting his face fixed.
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So last year over in the general discussion threads I had restarted an old project of mine where I'd read through the main 616 continuity starting from Fantastic Four #1(no set in stone end point but it's likely I'll stop sometime in the 90's) and share my thoughts on each issue, after a couple months I had to take a hiatus for various real life reasons, well last night I got back to it, just realized I should probably be crossposting it here as well, so here's my most recent post, it includes the rest of the posts I've made as well for the project, future posts I'll post in both threads at once
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Skwirl posted:Yeah, something must have caused a delay. The last issue of Secret Wars got delayed enough that Bendis' Iron Man spoiled Dr Doom getting his face fixed. Devil's Reign #5, solicited a full month later, was originally announced to come out on March 9th. So it's not a delay, just a scheduling issue in terms of which books spoil which. Edge & Christian fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Mar 5, 2022 |
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I'm petty sure that what they say happens in Woman Without Fear isn't exactly what happens in Devil's Reign. My guess is Mike gets killed, not Matt. But since he's been pretending to be Matt, that's who people think is killed.
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Do people really dislike the cosmic cube shenanigan with Matt's brother and Kingpin's son? It's goofy, sure, but it's fine imo
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I dunno, I've never heard anyone complain about it?
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What I mean is if the above speculation is correct, then it feels a lot like he was reintroduced after the Annual just to eventually kill him off, which feels to me like either the writer or the audience had a negative reception toward the character. I dunno, I'm probably reading too much into it, I just usually don't like killing characters off because if another writer wants to bring the character back, then they gotta bullshit a way to bring them back to life and in doing so often kinda cheapens the death itself. An example of this is Starlord and Nova coming back the way they did.
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being related to matt murdock is always a death sentence.
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Codependent Poster posted:I'm petty sure that what they say happens in Woman Without Fear isn't exactly what happens in Devil's Reign.
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I kind of think it's a misdirect since Goldie does some ominous muttering after she leaves
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once again time for more Marvel with the next five issues; Fantastic Four #13: on the one hand the Red Ghost And His Indescribable Super-Apes is an incredibly goofy concept even by Silver Age standards, on the other the introductions of both the Blue Area of The Moon and of The Watcher are just absolutely well done, all in all a really fun issue Tales to Astonish #42: "Voice of Doom" is a really fun story for Ant Man dealing with a unique villain(yet another of those guys who appears once early on then doesn't appear again for a couple decades) and beating him in a clever manner, also a surprisingly funny gag about people getting hypnotized into eating dog food Tales of Suspense #40: in retrospect it's kind of funny how both Hulk and Iron Man were gray in their debut stories but switched to more vibrant colors for their second and onward stories, though Iron Man's golden version of his first costume is mostly forgotten these days outside of being the costume he wore in Avengers #1, overall much of the story is dedicated towards both explaining Tony Stark's situation in general(brilliant patriotic scientist, handsome millionaire playboy, and of course being Iron Man and needing an electric chest plate to keep his heart going) and setting up him deciding to change his costume's color(by having him realize that between it's large bulky appearance and gray coloration it makes him look a bit too much like a monster), which leaves the actual conflict of the story(random US town taken over by a super powered Neanderthal with mind control powers named Gargantus) a bit underdeveloped and ending a bit weirdly too(Gargantus turning out to be a robot built by aliens), overall though a reasonably entertaining story(much of said entertainment coming from how ridiculous all of Tony Stark's "transistor" based technology is) Journey Into Mystery #92: a fun little issue where Loki steals Thor's hammer and until he gets it back Thor just keeps making new hammers to solve his problems much to Loki's frustrations, a very Silver Age story in the best way Fantastic Four #14: another really good issue(aside from some old timey sexism here and there), with the return of the Puppet Master(who is still at this point the creepiest villain in Marvel and it's biggest rear end in a top hat too) and some really good fights between the Fantastic Four and Namor, Jack Kirby clearly had some fun with the various sea critters Namor made use of in this issue overall a very entertaining set of issues, and here's the covers;     
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can't help but laugh at the fact that Aaron decided to throw in this little blurb about Frank taking on the hate monger, a much better story given all the irl stuff surrounding the character, as a one line throw away in this btw this first issue wasn't any good. surprising, i know
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site posted:btw this first issue wasn't any good. surprising, i know This book is so much closer to Savage Avengers than any Punisher story I have ever read. Honestly this is the most I have enjoyed a Punisher story in years, mostly because it is so incredibly stupid. I have laughed more at this more than anything in months. Will Punisher fans like this? Absolutely not, but gently caress those guys. Frankencastle 2.0 is here baby.
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Lord_Hambrose posted:Frankencastle 2.0 is here baby. besides the rest of it just being lame, the ending clearly riffing on fractions run was just like, way to make me think of someone else's much better run, where when he presented with the same choice he told those guys to go gently caress themselves e: i thought captain carter was gonna be about the What If version but it was still pretty decent site fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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well yeah, you don't make it a choice. frank always takes the hard way (because the hard way usually involves more murder).
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Njashi9 posted:Eternals #10 Quite the interesting new direction for Aunt May.
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Njashi9 posted:Eternals #10 I like a lot of Ribic's art, but when his faces look bad, they look really bad. I cringed when I saw that panel
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Yeah Ribic can sometimes just make people look ugly/old as hell
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Codependent Poster posted:Yeah Ribic can sometimes just make people look ugly/old as hell
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doesn't say if ewing is still writing but i hope so https://twitter.com/CBR/status/1501689423674720259?s=20&t=cPDDKAlDGzQyarTuhDPwDA
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Codependent Poster posted:Yeah Ribic can sometimes just make people look ugly/old as hell I like this book a lot, but his Sprite just continues to baffle me. She's supposed to be 13 or something! 
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site posted:doesn't say if ewing is still writing but i hope so Are they going to teach him how to use the toilet again?
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he's wearing a toilet.
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Codependent Poster posted:I'm petty sure that what they say happens in Woman Without Fear isn't exactly what happens in Devil's Reign. Good call! I've been enjoying Zdarsky's Daredevil but this event is a bit of a mess - the multiversal octopus stuff in particular.
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site posted:doesn't say if ewing is still writing but i hope so Steve Rogers with the Jheri curl is back, baby!
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