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Die Laughing posted:Just his Mighty Avengers related stuff. The actual issues of Ultimates even gives you some recommend issues to better understand what's going on. The latest issue points you towards Gillen's Young Avengers and Secret Wars #9. Also, unrelated to Ultimates, but his Loki run started decent but ended in a fantastic reflection and redefinition of the character. It's kinda been an under-the-radar character defining run.
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And as someone who's only vaguely aware of Pak's Herc, it feels weird that a Marvel title is trying to step away from any fun/humorous bent when Deadpool, Rocket Raccoon, Ms Marvel, Howard the Duck, and Squirrel Girl are all titles that are selling fine and strongly.
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Jun 27, 2016 22:29
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Apparently, Lockjaw regurgitates a bunch of grenades, and two panels later, they go off in front of him. However, between these two panels, is what looks like Lockjaw teleporting to safety. So unless next month he returns without a head, he's fine.
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twistedmentat posted:I really hope once Apocalypse Wars is over, the All New X-men go to the Mall. Kay, but I've got some bad news for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCj2hRc_F6Y This is what malls are now.
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-Blackadder- posted:Quick question: You're forgetting the most important character of the Ultimate Universe, the entirety of the Triskeleton.
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Jul 10, 2016 08:17
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Wait, Punisher: The Purge isn't real? It's so lazy that it practically writes itself! How has it taken this long?
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SynthOrange posted:Yeah but he messed up that body and became a frankenstein for a while Stop spoiling Season 3.
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Aug 26, 2016 03:44
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Goddamn it, are they going to give every OG X-Men a title? The thing that segment of Marvel needs more than anything is less books, not more. At best, the franchise inherently deserve 2 books, 1 about whatever the main team is and their adventures, and 1 about the academy and the students. As is, having three similar books titled Extraordinary, Uncanny, and All-New doesn't give readers an explanation of what any of the three are about. And as of now, the only thing a book titled X-Men tells me is to stay the gently caress away. They just need to reset status quo ASAP, clean the slate, and give each book a title that cleanly states the purpose of whatever team/group it's about. Ideal, one titled X-Men, and another called Xavier's. And the fact that Avengers is starting to get into bullshit X-Men titling territory with Occupy, New, loving Uncanny, and just Avengers is not a good sign.
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Oct 20, 2016 07:12
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I'D ALSO BE FINE WITH KRISTEN SCHAAL, BUT I'D RATHER THEY USE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE A SPOTLIGHT TO SOME UNKNOWN TALENT THAT COULD USE THE WORK!
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Oct 26, 2016 04:39
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You know, I think the world would be a better place if a lot more people just deleted their twitter accounts. Leave it to the MRA assholes and white supremacists.
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Oct 28, 2016 21:33
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Rhyno posted:Ghost Rider wears a skull on his head and he's a good guy! It's a lot like black culture, the ones who are skulls are cool. The ones who co-opt it are assholes.
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Nov 10, 2016 05:56
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Well, she's a Comp-Sci student. She'll probably be 2, 3 years in by the time the game's released. I figure it wouldn't be that hard for her to just write a script to disconnect the controller/stop taking input and win by default.
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Dec 5, 2016 07:20
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Hey, Medusa, Black Bolt, and their entire weird extended family can all be horrible monsters who make bad decisions to the cost of everyone around them, while keeping Lockjaw a pup who needs, requires, deserves, and gets hugs. No need to make a good boy a tragic figure.
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Dec 18, 2016 22:29
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Well somebody hasn't come around to Goldballs. A character that I admittedly only like because of the knowingly stupid name, and the fact that he has only been very loosely characterized as Not A Dick.
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Jan 9, 2017 19:53
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Secret Empire will Renew Your Vows!
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Jan 13, 2017 04:27
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Pretty sure the event is pretty much the old heroes going "Good job kids/ladies/minorities, but it's time for us white guys, plus honorary white guy Carol Danvers, to take our place again as kings."
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Feb 16, 2017 21:41
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Wolverine's trying to cover his #1 weakness, his lack of smashing in his day to day destruction.
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Feb 25, 2017 21:19
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Soonmot posted:Words can hurt Oh, sorry about that.
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SMP posted:Just caught up and finished Coates' first Black Panther arc. What's the general opinion of his work so far? I enjoyed it despite it's flaws. He definitely has a unique approach, coming from academia and non-fiction writing. I think he's got some great ideas for the genre and character, but his plotting can be a bit dull. It certainly wasn't a page turner like Hickman's take on the character was. For a supposed nation-wide rebellion, he showed very little of it outside of a few scuffles or referring to it off-screen. It felt a bit like something you'd write for a TV budget. Regarding World of, yeah the story felt like an incongruitous mix of aping Coates grounded gravitas, and old school romance comics. While I don't take issue with the tone, the kinda regressive storytelling devices really takes you out of what's supposed to be a companion to a very modern and fairly intellectual comic. And not to say that it was a bad story, I just thought the way it was told kinda dragged it down. And even though it uses thought bubbles, the most intimate characterization device, I never thought we had a good motivation for the two lead's romance.
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Mar 26, 2017 20:08
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Rhyno told me that that The Fascist Captain America was actually Uncle Ben in disguise.
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Jun 10, 2017 23:25
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It's like Die Hard. The whole fascist regime was just a false flag to hide the conquest of Boliva. Of course Cap isn't a Nazi, just a tyrant in search of more land to rule. Cue Sitcom cast laughing freeze frame.
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Jun 14, 2017 04:00
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Lol, bet that chuckle head doesn't think the female pronoun of dog is cat.
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Jun 23, 2017 21:08
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I'm not even reading it, but I kinda hope that the conclusion is "This all takes place in Steve's mind, and the series acted as a battleground for TrueSteve and FascistSteve to take control of Steve's mind. Just as FascistSteve is about to take over completely, TrueSteve prevails and takes back control over his mind. Just as he's about to launch the Nukes. The epilogue is Steve calling out his friends for not realising he was
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Jun 28, 2017 20:08
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Is it possible that this event is Ike Perlmutter trying to Producers himself into a nice severance package?
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Jun 30, 2017 01:38
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Aphrodite posted:Somehow many places have been rating Secret Empire highly, so no. Hey, it didn't go right in The Producers either.
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Cabbit posted:"CABLE: The Newer Mutants" I will only read it if it can guarantee this is the Newest Mutants that there will ever be. I want to open up the book, and the first story line is titled, "Cable Recruits and Army of Literal Babies".
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Jul 2, 2017 20:50
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I'm starting to wonder that, for characters like Wasp, Marvel would be best abandoning their current market and look to other avenues. Maybe they'd just be better off doing Wasp as an ad supported webcomic or app.
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Hold on, let me catch you up on the last several months:Work Friend Keven posted:Got to say this comic book about captain America sucking off hitler sounds pretty bad. Throw in a derail about Squirrel Girl and that's pretty much it.
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TwoPair posted:The very concept of The Crew just reminds me of that awful issue of... I think Sam Wilson Captain America during CW2 where they do War Machine's funeral and Sam says that he didn't want to be buried by his family or at Arlington National, but he wanted to be, quote, "with his family", and he walks into a room and a bunch of black superheroes are there, including loving I like how being "with his family" implies that it's in exclusion to being buried with his family or at Arlington. It makes it sound like the black heroes are stuck together, lugging around the decaying corpse of their quote unquote friend. Speaking of, is The Crew shown to include a rotted dead body? I also like the other implication that Rhodey wanted to be buried with the rest of the black heroes, even if the rest of them weren't dead. "Sorry we don't have any black representation on the Avengers. Tragedy struck when James Rhodes was killed in action. And as you know, in his will he wanted every black hero entombed with him like an ancient Egyptian Prince. And as a dead person, we have to respect his wishes. So in one fell swoop, the world was robbed of all of it's black heroes as we forced them to starve to death in an over stuffed crypt."
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Edge & Christian posted:Okay I was clearly overly flippant and I did not explain my actual question/confusion here so I'll try it one more time and I am asking this without trying to be a smug piece of poo poo gun rear end in a top hat fuckstick white knight piece of poo poo moron or whatever, but if that's the extent of this then fine. I think it's just people are just generally against manufacturing Guns/Bombs/Whatever the hell these guys make. And generally what's supposed to be a high-ish profile comic that sends the message, 'These dudes do cool things', is just a hop-skip-jump from, 'Machines literally made to kill other people are rad.' And when a company's generally tries to project it's brand as meaning, 'Striving for the greater good, doing better for everyone, especially those that can't', and they partner with a group who partially represents a facet of America's unstoppable colonial force, generally going into less fortunate countries and trying to force a pro-American way of life rather than trying to settle peace (and shooting a bunch of brown people in the process), and the partnership comes across as both tone-deaf and tasteless. Or to put it more simply, Marvel at least tries to pay lip service towards being as just and heroic as it's heroes. When they partner with Death Machine manufacturers, especially at a height of their prosperity and popularity, and doing so that directly links their partnership with their creative works (even when they aren't directly integrated), it feels like a betrayal of the morals they've promoted in their works for the last several decades. Now this is all in the most general terms. Marvel isn't purely about 'O-rah, Boy Scouts' heroes, they certainly haven't had a perfect PR record, and they certainly haven't even reached partial racial or gender equality. But after a year that's been defined by betraying core pillars of their company, being a significant lack of Fantastic Four, mistreatment of the X-Men, or turning Steve Rogers into a Nazi in order to shock the audience for a terrible story. Add a still significant gap in equality, as much as they pay lip service with Ta Nehisi Coates and Kelly Thompson, a general vibe of mistreating it's retail partners, and the biggest misstep with their 'Minority Heroes aren't working' debacle, and you have an unquestionable bad year for the company. And considering that the messaging for these events have been at best nonexistent, or at worst completely contradictory. It feels like no one is at the helm, keeping the ship straight, trying to make the best Marvel Comics possible. It's been a bad year, and it's getting even worse at how politically deaf this company is getting in an increasingly politicised year. People are tired of the world, and a lot of people are tired of their escapism reflecting the ignorance that's brought us here. I don't think I'm going to outright stop buying any Marvel Comics. I enjoy Squirrel Girl too much to do that. However, this might be the point where I start culling down to the series I truly enjoy, rather than those I think are decent.
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Cool, I'm going to use this opportunity to talk about cool poo poo I like for once. Like, how Disney has filed a patent for a ride that would "deliver an experience similar to what it would feel like to be with Tarzan or a similar character swinging between trees of a jungle on a vine or with Spider-Man or a similar character swinging on webs between buildings as you move down streets of a city."   When Disney announced they got Star Wars and Marvel, this was the poo poo I was most pumped for.
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Wow, I did not realise that the partnership was supposed to include a limited issue comic that was supposed to be sold on stands. And was advertised as kids friendly. ...Get hosed Perlmutter.
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twistedmentat posted:I love Rogue, but Hate Gambit, but also love Kelly Thompsons work. I am stuck in a conundrum. The last Gambit series by Asmus and Mann wasn't too bad. A lot of globehopping shenanigans and thievery happened. It certainly wasn't The Best™ comic at the time, but it was a cut above average. He's certainly a character that benefits from a good writer though.
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Nilbop posted:To me this looks like a Japanese fan boy who went to Japan, settled, married, lied about his name (but not, y'know, his work) to get a job and then gave a really, really cringeworthy interview where he invented a backstory for himself. This is a stupid goddamned conversation and somehow I'm loving drawn to making comments on them. Spoilers for Get Out. This literally is Get Out. He didn't steal the body of someone from Japan. What he did is he took that identity, what it is to be Japanese, and wore it like a hat. Like the Japanese identity is something you can wear like a coat. For millions, they will never be able to shed that identity. They will never be able to escape inane conversations about Godzilla or Nintendo or How cool Goku is or if you know Hiroshi or Anna Ng or Hey which country are you from or just outright being called Chinese or even Gook. For millions, that identity means that according to the ruling class, they will never be a part of America. The America which is ran by Rich White dudes. They may not be overtly oppressed, like blacks or latinos, but they aren't white. They're not visually similar to fellow, and more comforting, white people. So they are 'lesser', even if they aren't second class citizens. And C.B. figures that with his Years in Japan, various Japanese friends and colleagues, and his Japanese kids, he's just as good as them. But being Japanese isn't an intellectual pursuit. Several years in a nation doesn't change your skin color. Marrying a Japanese woman doesn't mean you intrinsically understand the Japanese Society. All of the knowledge of their culture, their etiquette, their societal taste, all of it doesn't make up for that intrinsic understanding of the Japanese Nation. He will never understand what it's like to be born in that culture, to learn your first words in that language, to be taught how navigate society, to understand that world to your core because [i]that world was all you had.[i] Your first vacation out into the country side, the first vacation into the city, the first day of school, the first time being lost and on your own, the first time purchasing something, your first time making a friend, the first job you had, the first romance you had, you biggest triumph, your biggest failure. These all sound like they're universal, but how many of us on this forum can say that they experienced all of these experiences like the people of Japan do? C.B., he will never have that because he's American. His first words were American, he grew up American, and the core of his identity is American. At best, he is an expert on Japan from the American PoV. He understands the nation from the ways that it is different from his own. At best, he is an Ally for the Japanese. At best, he is a part of the extended Japanese-American culture. And it is insulting that his years of studying the nation as an outsider, he considered himself just as good as a native of that nation. And it is in ignorance that he believes that. Ignorance of both culture and racial divide. Racism isn't hatred of race, it's ignorance of race. Ignorance can lead to hate, but even Get Out showed that ignorance also leads to admiration. That you can love the differences of the 'other' so much that you have to have them. And when you're a privileged white American, you believe you can do anything. So, he took that handle, wore it like a hat. Figured that his knowledge of Japan's differences from America is good enough to speak on a Nation's behalf in a widely publicised book. Took it off at the end of the day, feeling like he can go ahead and do anything if he puts his mind to it. He got all of the benefit, and none of the drawback. And I will say, there certainly was a possibility of forgiveness. Acknowledgement that his actions were wrong, seeking forgiveness from the audience, and pledging to undo the damage he caused and continuing to seek better representation for people of color. But he didn't. He wants to just brush it away and continue his existence. A display of complete ignorance of both the nature of his discretion and of the realities of race in America. It's hard out there for people of color to get ahead, and he made it harder. Someone who could have told that story just as well, who isn't getting the same level of work because they aren't white. And he chose to do so, just for the sake of money.
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I'll be frank, I'm surprised that Marvel didn't pronounce Spider-Gwen's world as the All-New Ultimate Universe.
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Lobok posted:Logan's Canadian so she can be Wolverine and he can be Woulverine. Alberta ain't French my friend.  (but Canadian)We're more wannabe confederate racists than French.
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