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X-O posted:Day 6: Cable I know Cable was popular around this time, I remember him being popular, but when you lay it all out in the open like this I have no idea what we were all thinking. He's old, he's balding, and judging from this dossier his nipples are theoretically among the most chafed in the biz?
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I was trying to think of more contemporary responses to this question and it suddenly occurred to me that as much as I like her book, Ms. Marvel has never really had a compelling villain? I kind of admire that a lot of the more YA-oriented Marvel titles right now sort of downplay hero vs. villain narrative structures, between Ms. Marvel, Squirrel Girl, Moon-Girl, or even (maybe less succesfully) the various Miles Morales Spidey books. I don't know if this is by design-- I mean, they certainly do get into fights-- or if it's just easier to create an interesting hero than an interesting villain. Uh, not to imply that Ryan North created Squirrel Girl. How Wonderful! fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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Mar 11, 2017 19:33
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Lurdiak posted:That dude looks like a late 80s/early 90s indie comic character drawn in an overly realistic style. There's one particular group shot of them by Kieron Dwyer in a Gruenwald issue where they do absolutely like a crew of Allred characters. They also rescue from Mentallo and get him to change his name to Think-Tank. The next time he shows up he's cruising around in a little mini-tank, so I wonder if they had it lying around waiting for someone they could cook up a tank-related codename for.
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Apr 3, 2017 00:26
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Isn't he brought back as a mindless animated corpse a year or so later in... I want to say Denny O'Neil's Iron Man? That really pushed the body-horror aspect too (and always reminds of the frankly horrifying New Mutants issue where Warlock inhabits Doug Ramsey's slack-jawed cadaver). I think you're right that that aspect of abject revulsion and monstrosity has been missing from MODOK but I think he's been used well here and there in recent years. For all of its flaws I thought Nick Spencer's Secret Avengers was strong on its villains, and I liked his MODOK in particular. When Ales Kot took over I thought his sense of hyperbolic camp goofiness meshed better with MODOK than it did a lot of other aspects of that book. And really I think the spider-body design is solid and could lend itself to that sense of violent disquiet that Kirby got out of him.
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Apr 11, 2017 01:55
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Edge & Christian posted:THIS ONE was/is literally the only person who was an Avengers from 1963-2000 or whatever that I can't defend as actually an interesting/potentially interesting character. He's also made some very grody statements about how/why he wanted to treat Mantis' sexuality in her initial Avengers appearances.
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May 12, 2017 18:17
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Wheat Loaf posted:I think that was Maximum Security; Live Kree Or Die was the set-up story for it (along with parts of Avengers Forever) which crossed over Avengers with Captain America, Iron Man and, for some reason, Quicksilver by John Ostrander. It also included Carol Danvers getting court martialled for being drunk on a mission. I remember that Quicksilver run being pretty good-- in my head that little micro-era of Marvel just after Onslaught is just, like, that, the Simonson/Ferry Warlock (although looking it up that was a bit later), the Ostrander/Ferry Heroes for Hire, and Mike Wieringo on Sensational Spider-Man. Oh and that initial run of Thunderbolts. Just a nice, clean, kind of European look.
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May 19, 2017 14:00
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NorgLyle posted:The completely random and dumb thing that I remember about Operation Galactic Storm was the fight scene between some of the Avengers and the Kree... I don't remember what they were even called. The Shiar obviously have their Imperial Guard of (depending on your perspective) kind of hilarious Legion of Superheroes knock offs but the Kree never had anything like that -- they had the Accusers who were boring and like the Sentry robots who were even more boring. Someone during the course of writing that mess of a story decided that they needed a Winter Guard style team of 'Hey We Have Superheroes Too, See' Crossover fodder and so they introduced a very 90s collection of assorted superpowered Kree. One of them introduced himself as a 'Kree Eternal' which doesn't really make any kind of sense even in the extremely stretchable Marvel continuity. I remember my grandma giving me a random middle chapter of Operation Galactic Storm where Iron Man fought a guy called Shatterax. Even in my giddy childhood excitement at having any new comic at all I instinctively knew that that scrub did not matter to anybody.
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May 20, 2017 08:27
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Quicksilver, Damian Hellstrom, sometimes Magneto...? Frankly I find it way more baffling than the classic Osborn cut.
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Jun 5, 2017 16:26
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You can tell he's a keen strategist because he's strapped all those pretzel sticks to his front for a quick mid-battle snack boost.
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Jun 5, 2017 23:34
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:Tatterdemalion is awesome and I will fight you if you disagree. Ahem, you neglect to mention, controlled by ultrasonics by a guy whose supervillain origin is that he got busted so hard for pirating casette tapes that he had no choice but to invent a whistle that could mind control homeless people AND ghouls AND werewolves. Werewolf by Night was a treasure.
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