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Jiro
Jan 13, 2004


Still not a strong as BRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN





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Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

site posted:



also since im guessing no one else is reading it, zemo is attempting to break out nazicap in this issue, we'll see how that plays out

How Frank Castle is still alive and breathing after Secret Empire is mind boggling.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Cyclops was fine before AvX because that whole event was garbage and he never really recovered from it. He only got worse the more Bendis wrote him.

He was his most interesting when Morrison and Whedon wrote him. Also Gillen did a decent job with him as well.

His last really good chance of being awesome again was when he once again got the Phoenix powers but he was written by Hickman so it was badass even though no one had any clue how it loving happened. And of course getting ganked by God-Doom, our Lord and savior long may he reign.

Jiro fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Jul 15, 2018

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Codependent Poster posted:

If you wanna go that way with it, then that was actually Mr. Sinister manipulating everything that way, which makes Scott a tragic victim.

I think he meant New X-Men? I dunno.

Also the only canon AvX deserves is the one where all of it's media is stuffed into an actual cannon and fired off into the sun.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Lobok posted:

Marvel 2099 - A Fresh Start IDW Takin' Our Jerbs

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004


Wait.................. When did Storm get younger and turn back into a vampire?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Eeesh please don't bring Byrne back. It's almost like C.B. Cebulski is a slightly more toned down version of Johns sort of. What has Bryne's work been like these last few years?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Teenage Fansub posted:



'Black' costume. Maybe it is to fit in on Magnito's team.
Wonder what the emblem on his left shoulder is.

He really should just look like Dean Ambrose circa 2017, jeans, belt buckle, tank top, maybe taped up hands, and boots. The only accessory he needs is some kind of cowboy hat. :colbert:


Exactly!

Jiro fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Aug 21, 2018

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Teenage Fansub posted:

If you can wait a few hours, issue 1 is out tomorrow.

The Iron Man cover in the solicits is really something


Bayonetta is crossing over into Marvel???? News to me!

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Billzasilver posted:

i just thought about how much i miss spider-man and the x-men

RIGHT? That flashed through my head again. I really hope that happens, along with more interaction with Stego, and Sauron.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Sad there's no Kosmo, Ronan, or Super Skrull. :smith: Especially Kosmo


Edit: I can still be sad that there's no Ronan to be insecure on a team when it comes to power levels!

Jiro fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Oct 11, 2018

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Aphrodite posted:

She's just Commander Shepard and they did a pretty good job there for 2 2/3 of games.

She's a terrible dancer and has an ongoing romantic relationship with a tatted psycho telekenetic? :v:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzFxl3mj9Fw

"We'll bang okay?"

Jiro fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Nov 10, 2018

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Aphrodite posted:

They should, they're way better than katanas.

Shots fired

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

I like how in the back ground you just have Frank just standing there firing a boring gun. Sif needs to be closer to the front. :colbert: Same with Spider-Man, also where's Gabby in this art I don't see her.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

X-O posted:

The X-Men have their own stuff going on. Gabby’s got other things to deal with.

I thought we were supposed to be asking where Gabby is when she's not on a panel. :colbert:

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Didn't Simonson do that bonkers mashup of RoboCop vs Terminators? I seem to remember Alex strapping into a rocket or a nuke and blowing everything to kingdom come.

My inner 12 year old would love to see an R rated movie of that.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004


Oh you mean that one new cosmic entity they just fought that is based around destroying poo poo is coming back in a bigger way? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Synthbuttrange posted:

lmao infinity wars

just lol

Someone please spill, I jumped off and need to know if I avoided the train wreck.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

X-O posted:

I look forward to a comic on the video game version of Spider-Man, he seemed cool in Spider-Geddon. If it's covering the events of the game even better since I'll never play it.

Video game Spider-Man is a narc.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Android Blues posted:

I loved Immortal Hulk, but Ewing's tendency to dilute personal stories with wacky insubstantial metaphysics bugs me a little. It's all great apart from "the gamma that is neither a wave or a particle, the mysterious third form of light!", which could be a fun gimmicky comic book science thing if it was played gentler, or a substantial sci-fi thing if it was played harder, but instead just sits awkwardly between in the middle of a story that's fundamentally about trauma, violence and abuse.

What you're describing is starting to sound more and more like Argent Energy from DOOM. Eventually you're gonna start to see Imps, Hell Knights, Pinky Demons, Cyberdemons, Revenants, and Bruce is going to internalize the Hulk permanently he gets bulked up in doing so, and ETERNALLY ANGRY AGAINST THE LEGIONS OF HELL. Thus becoming DoomSlayer. :black101:

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Archyduchess posted:

Despite the Alex Ross involvement and basic premise of "dark extrapolation of future continuity" they couldn't be more tonally disparate. Kingdom Come is easy to like-- despite moments of darkness it's a pretty simple story about the necessity of heroism and the persistence of good, whereas Earth X is delirious, nightmarish meander where J. Jonah Jameson is a depressed bull and a Flesh Spider-Man can traumatize you with red webs and death is dead and Nightcrawler is the Time Devil. It aims for the disturbing and novel where Kingdom Come focuses on the recurrence of the timeless within the unfamiliar. I like both but narratively Kingdom Come is probably a little closer to Marvels, which was the Marvel maxiseries it was spoken in the same breath with more frequently in the 90s.

Actually, Jonah mutated into a literal braying jackass-man, they made Nightcrawler the X-Men villain Belasco due to Mephisto time fuckery, the whole thing with the Earth X trilogy was that not even Death, personification or otherwise, would stop them in this life or the afterlife. It was just another transition to more adventures, with Reed in full power cosmic going to go free Franklin from being the burden of assuming the role of Galactus, Mar-vell journeying to the first universe to see what's out there. It is it's own insanely batshit take take on Revelations and life everlasting. You have loving Thanos killing Death with the Nullifier, James Braddock becoming King of Earth, and every single hero that died fighting hordes of Hell in a last battle to wrest control of the afterlife from how the Universe had always functioned.

I love Kingdom Come and the Earth X trilogy for vastly different reasons.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Endless Mike posted:

Not sure it's been posted, but Jason Aaron is more or less confirming that War of the Realms is the end of his Thor run. Seven years!
https://twitter.com/jasonaaron/status/1102684509332557824

Aw man. :( I'm not going to look forward to Thor being reset to default. Though I was never big on his golden arm and preferred the BLACK ARM OF THE DESTROYER, which is also the name of a metal album in Europe probably.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Synthbuttrange posted:

Bad news folks. Newspaper Spider-Man is coming to a close.

Too many bonks to the head. :smith:

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Synthbuttrange posted:



The last newspaper Amazing Spider-Man Sunday strip. Excelsior! :(

There's no brick that hits Peter on the head giving him, "CLIFFHANGER AMNESIA" ,the worst kind I've heard. This issue was a fail.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Rick posted:

Heading off to Australia with MJ is the ending Peter Parker deserves.

Parker luck would have him poisoned by something horrible as soon as he landed.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Lobok posted:

Starting next week: Spider-Man attacked in his hotel Down Under by Australia's deadliest adversaries, the gruesome twosome of Flora & Fauna! They'll make sure Spidey checks out... Permanently! It's an all new storyline told in the Mighty Marvel Manner, "Continental Wreck-Fest!"

Think of all the different types of bricks that he can thump his head against down there! All new forms of concussions and amnesia! They're blowing a gold mine of ideas!

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Little Mac posted:

If Hickman is on X-Men, who would you guys like up see do art? Esad Ribic is an obvious choice but maybe overdone?

I love Ribic and his van art, but I'd prefer an artist that wouldn't be delayed too much. Unless all we are doing is having Hickman pen swashbuckling adventures of Nightcrawler against some vampire pirates then sure by all means.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

X-O posted:

House of X and Powers of X by Hickman announced.

Pepe Larraz and RB Silva were handpicked by Hickman to do art on them.


Hickman: Again, we're keeping alot of this under wraps. Let me just say that we have radical, radical plans for all of you. I grew up primarily a DC Comics guy; the only book I read of Marvel growing up was the X-Men. All the books I've done at Marvel up to this point, those were fantastic jobs -- but they were jobs. This is was the first book I've loved before I started doing."

Hickman: I probably haven't been more proud of anything I've worked on than this. I think all of you will be pretty jacked. We're doing some different radical stuff. Two books that'll you have to read both to stay tuned, but there's a good reason for it.

Clarifcation, the titles are House of X as in the letter "X", then Powers of X as in the roman numeral 10.

https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/1109567300879949830

:hellyeah:

This is some great news. Man if his FF run was just a "job" then I'm looking forward to what he can do with the X-Fam. I'm hoping this ends with Peter Parker being a permanent professor at whatever school they end up making.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Edge & Christian posted:

No, that is a pretty classic Loeb story too that I was a Zelig for.

It was fall 2005 and Marvel was having one of its Creators Summits in NYC and Mark Millar for whatever reason invited everyone on his message board to a bar in midtown Manhattan after the summit. They were planning the Big Event of 2006 and Jeph Loeb and JMS were pushing really hard for it to be World War Hulk, with the Hulk being shot into space but then conquering all of space and coming back to Earth with every alien race in the history of the Marvel Universe as his soldiers. It was going to be a big event that focused on like the X-Men vs. the Shiar, Daredevil vs. the Badoon, Spider-Man vs. the Galadorians, Thor vs. the Saturn Rock Men, Iron Man vs. the Rigellians, etc. etc.

As various Marvel creators filtered in, everyone who wasn't Loeb (who was there) and JMS (who I don't think came) was talking poo poo about how this was going to be a boring continuity porn event because who really cares about excavating an alien race that Namor fought in 1966 and making a four issue mini-series about the Thunderbolts saving Australia from them. Mark Millar and Brian Michael Bendis convened the next morning and pieced together the plot for Civil War and counter-pitched that, at which point Loeb/JMS lost all interest in doing World War Hulk as a lesser non-event, and abandoned the idea. But Millar/Bendis had plotted out the whole Civil War/Illuminati/etc. arc with Hulk shot into space so someone needed to do it, and so the whole Planet Hulk gig trickled down to Greg Pak, who had at that point written a handful of incredibly superfluous mini-series (a 2004 Warlock revamp, Phoenix Endsong, Nemesis: The Imperfects, a House of M tie-in, an issue of What If).

Pak and his art collaborators managed to turn Planet Hulk into an actually popular series, and World War Hulk turned into its own little mini-event helmed by Pak in 2008. This was the point that Jeph Loeb walked back in and decided that his A-List talents were worthy of Hulk again, and snatched the book from Pak. Never mind that Pak had written the first actually popular Hulk story in like a decade, and turned a discarded idea into an bonafide hit, Loeb saw that Hulk was a popular book suddenly and was therefore worthy of the Jeph Loeb Magic Touch. This came hot on the heels of Ed Brubaker and company taking Captain America from a C-list book into another hot book with the whole Winter Soldier storyline, once that reached its first big crescendo with the Death of Captain America and Bucky taking over as Cap, Loeb suddenly found himself interested in writing a big event mini-series about everyone coping with Captain America's death (guest starring Wolverine, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, etc.) that amongst other things took the stirring eulogy for Steve Rogers that Ed Brubaker deliberately left out of his Captain America comic and recycled Jeph Loeb's eulogy for his deceased son having Jeph Loeb Sam Wilson describe Sam Loeb Steve Rogers using the exact same terms.

Anyway, Greg Pak was shunted off to a Hercules series while Jeph Loeb turned Hulk into a Murder Mystery that guest-starred Iron Man, Thor, Sentry/Moon Knight as Superman/Batman, Galactus, Silver Surfer, the Avengers,She-Hulk, Storm, Black Widow, Spider-Woman, Spider-Man, the Defenders, Wolverine, Punisher, Deadpool, Elektra, Doctor Doom, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Black Panther, etc. etc. etc. because that's the only way that Jeph Loeb knows how to tell a story.

And then yes, at the end of his run Loeb revealed that Red Hulk was Thunderbolt Ross (and Red She-Hulk was Betty Ross) in all defiance of logic or continuity, at which point Jeff Parker wrote another two years of the book trying to make coherent sense of the previous 25 issues.

Also I cannot remember all of the details of who was at the Marvel Bar Meet-Up a decade later, in part because some dude from Wizard kept buying all of us shots, but the end of the evening definitely involved CB Cebulski/Akira Yoshida trying to convince me and Garth Ennis and the last people standing that we should all go to strip club.

This is so drat fascinating and explains a lot. Illuminati were such MASSIVE assholes, I was rooting for Hulk to literally punch Tony into the Sun for doing what they did to Bruce.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

DivineCoffeeBinge posted:

Waid's Avengers had some semi-neat Kang ideas but was pretty unmemorable.

That's not necessarily a bad thing; it's better to be unmemorable than, say, Chuck Austen's X-Men.

It's kind of amazing after all these years we still look back at Chuck Austen's run on X-Men and go "yeah glad this isn't that poo poo"

Is it because it had the unfortunate luck to follow Morrison's New X-Men? Or because even in a vacuum it's still that poo poo?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

X-O posted:

Every drat one of you should be reading Marvel Team-Up.



So was there a mind swap of some kind or a Freaky Friday thing?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

The Question IRL posted:

So something I was thinking about during the last few weeks.

Everyone's complaints about Game of Thrones season 8, it's more or less the exact same complaints that people had about World War Hulk

I mean, at the time that Planet Hulk came out, as much as people were enjoying the story of PH they were just waiting for Hulk to get back to Earth to smash the Illuminati.
And then when that happens they realise that Hulk smashing other heroes who are protecting innocent people isn't cathartic. It's just awful.

Wasn't the point with World Breaker Hulk that he just wanted the Illuminati in order to smash them into pulp? It always felt like to me they, the Illuminati, while doing their hero stuff protecting the people they were also kinda using them as metaphorical shields to protect themselves. Save for Strange who just went off to the Arctic and meditated the entire time.

poo poo even Zerathos, Spirit of Vengeance, looked right at Hulk and was like nah you're totally justified.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Teenage Fansub posted:

Jason Aaron's ending his Thor run with this miniseries.
https://twitter.com/CBR/status/1138883679898472455


KING THOR #1 (OF 4)
JASON AARON (W) • ESAD RIBIC (A/C)
SUPERSTARS JASON AARON & ESAD RIBIC CONCLUDE THEIR EPIC THOR STORY!
The creators of the legendary THOR: GOD OF THUNDER series that kicked off one of the most epic runs in Marvel history are back together for one last ride with the almighty Lord of Asgard! Seven years ago, Jason and Esad introduced the Thor of the far future, All-Father of a broken realm and a dying universe, as he stood in battle against the Butcher of Gods, wielder of All-Black the Necrosword. Now that nefarious blade has returned, in the hands of Thor’s all-time greatest enemy – his brother, Loki – for one final, cataclysmic showdown. Behold the book no comics fan should miss – the celebration of the end of a truly Marvelous era.
32 PGS./RATED T+

gently caress yeah! Moar metal van murals for the gods! :black101:

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Edge & Christian posted:

What if its not the Fantastic Four, but instead Spider-Man is going to form his own Four Horsemen to take on the Vulture's Savage Six?

Spider-Man is Ric Flair
Boomerang is Barry Windham
Taskmaster and Black Ant are Tully & Arn
JJ Jameson is JJ Dillon

Everyone knows Luke Cage is the only person that can give an Arn Anderson Spinebuster AND do the stone face afterwards. :cmon:

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

site posted:

true, but i mean the war of the realms has been building up for like 2 years and now its here and its just kinda not terribly exciting or anything

Considering that the whole Realms thing originated after the supremely bitchin GodKiller arc, and was a blatant filler done in a really fun take on a D&D party quest I'd say it's probably done as well as expected.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Rhyno posted:

Oh man, he left Marvel on a hot streak and went to DC and wrote the WORST run of Teen Titans in the franchise history.

That was the run that somehow topped Johns latter half run of Titans getting amputated right? I seem to recall it was after Connor was blowed up real good in the garbage that is Infinite Crisis, and they brought in Match.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Rhyno posted:

He created the Face.

Didn't they also do Bart dirty by having him get killed by his clone or something? All in time for the Flash Rebirth?

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Just finished reading House of X, holy crap does this feel like the start of something big. Also is it me, or does the Xavier walking around wearing a helmet just give off MASSIVE Ultimate Reed (Maker) vibes? Especially the part where it looks to be gestating and growing people in some chamber, one that looked an awful lot like Jean. Seeing Logan happy and frolicking with kids is also really unsettling. I'm just kinda waiting for this all to be some massive Maker/Magneto plot since Erik is having the time of his life swinging his dick around and smacking other Ambassadors/Operatives in the face about it. I did like the data pages having a nod to the Sol's Anvil and Sol's Hammer weapons still being around. And that the Sun is big enough to have other poo poo orbiting around it at the same time.

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

David D. Davidson posted:

Everything goes to Ben.

It's a Yancy Street yard sale of gizmos and whatsits and doo dads!

Martinpale posted:

That's A Maker. They explained in one of the post-SW comics early on that he basically got the Molecule Man treatment from the "old universe"..there's a Maker/slice of a Maker in every universe now, and they're all connected. There was a panel in one of the comics..I wish I could remember which..where the Maker explains that if he needs something or some sort of tech, he just reaches out to himself in an alternate universe and figures out how to get it. And since the Maker is one of Hickman's toys, even if no one else remembers that, i'm willing to bet that Hickman does.

I'm not buying that X is the Maker or anything, but given that we've already seen Sol's Hammer, Ex Nihlo's garden on Mars, etc. , and the visual similarities between X and the Maker, it wouldn't surprise me for Hickman to work a Maker in there somewhere.

It's explained in the first or second run of the Ultimates that had LifeBringer Galactus throw down with some other universal concepts. Right now after just this first issue it just feels like Hickman may finish what he started when he first started doing Ultimates in the Ultimates line of comics. (My bad for some reason I thought it was X-Men centered not Ultimates) Maker was a really big part of that initial part of that run.

Jiro fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jul 26, 2019

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Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

El Tortuga posted:

I know it's just a joke, but oh my God, would I read that. Please have Zdarksky write this.

It's pretty much that one episode of Venture Bros. That episode is one of the best.

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