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srypher posted:How is black bolt and Medusa’s marriage? absorbing man and titania seem like a healthy couple too They’ve had some periods of separation at the minimum
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srypher posted:How is black bolt and Medusa’s marriage? absorbing man and titania seem like a healthy couple too Wasn't Medusa going out with Johnny Storm for a long time? From what I gathered, the Stranges are in a good place nowadays. But that is a bit of an unconventional relationship.
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I think Rogue and Gambit's relationship is a bit unique in that they got all their overwrought drama out of the way earlier on. Not to say that some dunderheaded writer couldn't introduce more, but once one half of a couple abandons the other to die in Antarctica for aiding and abetting a mass murder, you'd have to do some real mental gymnastics to pull back from the amount of forgiveness/amount of redemption involved there. It's not like their relationship has a built-in self destruct mechanism like Batman/Catwoman where at the end of the day Batman's always going to put his mission first and Catwoman is always going to have a limited amount of patience for someone who's morally rigid
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srypher posted:absorbing man and titania seem like a healthy couple too 
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rantmo posted:I would put Billy and Teddy above them but I love both couples. Counterpoint. Gambit and Rogue are in books some times. Being gay space kings is cute, but it doesn't really lend itself to being in stories. Luke Cage watching his kids at work while Jessica restarts her career in the new Gang War tie in mini is great.
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Dec 9, 2023 14:52
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Luke and Jessica absolutely deserve to be on that list, they're great together.
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Dec 9, 2023 16:52
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I think what helps Rogue & Gambit to survive is that they're minor characters. Or, I guess the better term would be they're just parts of the huge ensemble that is the X-Men brand. That means that unless they're like, starring in a mini, the story is not necessarily focused on them, even if they're both on a team together at the same time. This keeps the kind of writers that go "Well you can't tell an interesting Spider-Man story if he's married..." or "Batman can't keep being Batman if getting hitched actually causes him to be happy" from focusing on them and going "hmmm, let's spice things up and break them up". Safety via obscurity.
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Dec 9, 2023 17:59
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cant cook creole bream posted:Wasn't Medusa going out with Johnny Storm for a long time? Yup. Medusa broke it off when her sister Crystal - who Johnny also dated - found out.
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Dec 9, 2023 18:05
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srypher posted:How is black bolt and Medusa’s marriage? absorbing man and titania seem like a healthy couple too iirc black bolt demanded he be allowed to have 6 other space wives and Medusa was like this loving sucks and dumped him, and then black bolt released the terrigen bomb and hosed off while Medusa led the inhumans after secret wars
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Dec 9, 2023 18:25
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Whatever happened to the rest of Black Bolt's space harem? I don't remember seeing them in anything after Secret Wars, and I don't really remember if they showed in in Hickman's New Avengers either.
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I dunno if the six wives thing was really all that big a dealbreaker for Medusa. That might have just been the Attilan royal custom. I might be wrong though, 'cuz Black Bolt definitely seemed put off when Medusa got with Johnny, so it's not as if they're generally poly. Although, BB was being a big douche at the time, what with the Incursions and the Terrigen bomb, so I'm pretty sure they were separated at that point anyway. Tbh, her being with Johnny probably felt like a bigger insult to Crystal, considering she used to be with Johnny.  And then Medusa suddenly dumped Johnny and got back with Black Bolt at the literal climax of IvX, for reasons too dumb for me to try to put into words again. But then Black Bolt got sent a weird prison thanks to Maximus' schemes, and then Medusa got together with Gorgon. Though I don't think that lasted too long either. BB and Medusa are...probably back together now? Probably? We won't know, probably, until these weird fucks ever show up again. Their relation for the last decade or so of their publication history has definitely felt like it was being held together by strings and prayers, although the strings might be made of Medusa's hair so it can honestly withstand a lot. 
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Dec 9, 2023 18:51
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Calling a king with a harem of wives "poly" is very funny.
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Gripweed posted:Calling a king with a harem of wives "poly" is very funny.
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Dec 9, 2023 20:03
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Black Bolt just had a political marriage to five new heads of states. No big deal. Medusa just too jealous of the space horse lady.
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BrianWilly posted:I dunno if the six wives thing was really all that big a dealbreaker for Medusa. That might have just been the Attilan royal custom. I thought everyone inhuman was dead, except for like 3 of them.
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cant cook creole bream posted:Wasn't Medusa going out with Johnny Storm for a long time? If Benjamin Franklin showed up in the modern day, Clea would dump Strange in a heartbeat
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Dec 10, 2023 00:53
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I've heard some about the Deadpool, death, Thanos love triangle. Is there a good place to read about that or is it one of those things that's better to mention in passing?
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StumblyWumbly posted:I've heard some about the Deadpool, death, Thanos love triangle. Is there a good place to read about that or is it one of those things that's better to mention in passing? There's not enough to it to bother. Thanos is a little mad in an issue or two, that's it.
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StumblyWumbly posted:I've heard some about the Deadpool, death, Thanos love triangle. Is there a good place to read about that or is it one of those things that's better to mention in passing? I remember this in the run around 2009-ish. Maybe the one before that
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frodnonnag posted:I thought everyone inhuman was dead, except for like 3 of them.  Black Bolt himself appeared in the recent Ultimates series by Hickman, which very conspicuously mentioned nothing whatsoever about what he or his people have been up to these past few years.
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BrianWilly posted:They killed off a whole lot of the NPCs a while back in that Death of the Inhumans mini, but most of the royal family are still alive as far as we know. I believe the only "classic" Inhuman that died was Triton, who's only "classic" if we stretch the definition to its breaking point. All i kept thinking during that mini was that vox looked like lord zedd.
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StumblyWumbly posted:I've heard some about the Deadpool, death, Thanos love triangle. Is there a good place to read about that or is it one of those things that's better to mention in passing? It started during the Joe Kelly run with the Deadpool/Death Annual way back in 1998. Kelly brings it back in the last issue of his run (#33) before the book goes in a different direction. I think the next time it's touched on is "Funeral for a Freak" story where it's revealed Deadpool can't die because Thanos has cursed him with immortality because he's jealous that Death prefers Deadpool. Then there's the "Dead" arc in Daniel Way's Deadpool and finally the Deadpool vs Thanos mini. I'm not sure it's been mentioned much since then.
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Endless Mike posted:You wouldn't have liked me. White suits, thin mustache, vodka martini, arms dealer. I used to be a real piece of poo poo I'm late, but even the baby knows you were a real piece of poo poo. Sloppy steaks I mean cmon
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Zdarsky made a rather amusing parody of a Youtube unboxing/influencer thingy video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIskM6S7vP4 The amount of deadpan  But it also serves as a creative promo for his Spider-Man Omnibus, which looks pretty good.
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I was trying to downsize my old comic collection and now I just ordered 7 out of the 9 issues of ROM that I was missing. My teenage self is giddy about nearly completing the set after all this time
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Love the long-term commitment to slagging on Ryan Stegman, lol
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Snowy posted:I was trying to downsize my old comic collection and now I just ordered 7 out of the 9 issues of ROM that I was missing. My teenage self is giddy about nearly completing the set after all this time Nice! I completed most of mine a while back, I think I'm missing the one issue of Hulk that it crossed over with and that's it. Even have the Power Man and Iron Fist two parter. Looking forward to the omnibus of that and Micronauts just so I don't have to read my actual floppies; that short box is a treasured possession.
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So far I like Gang War. Everyone gets their own little district to clean up so their stories can continue at a decent pace without waiting for one of the other ones to finish. Dunno if that'll keep up but it's been fun.
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it reminds me of the best storyline from the best spiderman cartoon. it's fun.
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I definitely did not start crying towards the end of Moon Knight #30, not at all
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srypher posted:I definitely did not start crying towards the end of Moon Knight #30, not at all oh good, me either
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srypher posted:I definitely did not start crying towards the end of Moon Knight #30, not at all 
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Moon Knight has long been one of my favorite characters and in my opinion this is the best Moon Knight run there's been. Can't wait to read what's next.
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gently caress, that last page of Moon Knight gave me chills, what a loving book. I'm really glad Vulpes isn't done with this corner of the world yet.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:it reminds me of the best storyline from the best spiderman cartoon. it's fun. Finally. An arc centered around Morbius and Debra Whitman.
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Unsurprisingly chuds got mad about women in the last Moon Knight issue. I didn’t explore exactly why, because their opinions don’t matter.
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Vampire boss lady in a sweet white suit upsets people?
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Azubah posted:Vampire boss lady in a sweet white suit upsets people? Yes. That means it’s awesome. If chuds are mad, it’s a good thing.
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Azubah posted:Vampire boss lady in a sweet white suit upsets people? Some people just have bad taste unfortunately
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Joe Fisto posted:Unsurprisingly chuds got mad about women in the last Moon Knight issue. I didn’t explore exactly why, because their opinions don’t matter. Then don't bring them up. I'd rather not here what they're up in arms about on a daily basis. Ignore them.
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