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Gaz-L posted:Kelly Thompson tried really hard not to go this full-on with Gambit's accent in the Rogue & Gambit book from a couple years ago, and I respectfully disagree with her choice. I think Kelly Thompson might be the only writer who has ever heard an actual New Orleans resident, much less the cajuns who live in another part of the state, speak. She also had accurate accents in Deadpool when he was in New Orleans. I love Gambit because he's from my home. I also hate Gambit, because there is no French accent in Louisiana unless you brought it there. Even the french words that are used are pronounced differently. "I'ma geaux make groceries at deh Rouses, I'm outta red graveh. Y'all want some Purpleaze?. Maybe some rum while I'm deh?" The closest you might get on average is a les bon ton roulet, sheh. That's mostly for tourists though.
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I use it sideloaded onto a Kindle Fire and it was working earlier this morning for me. Going back to Lee and Ditko, is anyone aware of creative teams still using the Marvel Method style?
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Sep 7, 2021 19:39
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If you're curious about a lot of stuff (90 days delayed from release day), maybe try a month of Marvel Unlimited and see what you like with out having to go off recommendations. It's got most everything non-Conan from the past few years. You can also search it by creators you know you already like.
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Sep 25, 2021 01:52
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Maybe that's Deadpool's daughter? What if... Gerry Duggan never left the title?
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Nov 16, 2021 20:59
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I've soured pretty hard on Marvel this year myself. Since the early 80s I mostly read Marvel. I was a sick kid and got to hit the spinner rack after doctor visits. Marvel's where the X-Men and Spidey were. I already did the 90s, so their current deal of rehashing a lot of that isn't doing much for me, but like I said, 40 years of Marvel. I'm probably just old and jaded. I love the X line and Moon Knight and Daredevil(s), but at this point I'd say I haven't liked Amazing Spider-Man since before Civil War. Aaron's Avengers reads to me like smashing the action figures together but he never makes them kiss. All-Smash The Marvel Legends Evertoy. I just banged out an Avengers arc right there. It's his first Marvel or indie book I didn't like.
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I also really enjoyed Cantwell's Iron Man. After Slott's action figure smashy smashy it was a breath of fresh air. It had these big plots like Korvac, Tony becomes a space god for a bit, etc. but it also grounded Tony a little more than we've seen in a while. His addiction issues making him resist morphine while his neck was busted, and then having to use it to keep moving and stay alive. It was a realistic portrayal (for comics) imo based on my own personal experiences with substance abuse. Patsy and Tony came out of nowhere, but I like relationships in comics and they were interesting at least. It felt fresh to me. I can see why it may not click with everyone, but it was my favorite Iron Man run in a while
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Jan 2, 2023 23:30
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Can you confirm or deny bomber jacket appearances? They've been sorely missed in the book for years now.
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Jan 23, 2023 17:07
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I read Marvel books through Unlimited so I'm 3 months back from current releases, and I just read FF #1. Reed, Peter Parker, and Hulk. Did everyone just completely lose their poo poo in an off panel story preceding the current runs? Can't wait to read about how mad everyone is at Squirrel Girl, because 6 months ago she did something terrible and we'll find out in a few months to a year what that was. (she ate nuts and kicked butts too hard)
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Feb 17, 2023 06:17
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Every time I get excited about a new ASM writer, and every time it's more bad than good for my tastes. I really like the Osborn stuff. Hell I'm a 70s/80s kid, I'm fine with Pete and Felicia together. I just wish they'd poo poo or get off the pot with MJ and getting right up to proposing before a new status quo hits. I also wouldn't mind Pete just taking a break for a while and letting Miles be the one Spider-Man.
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Mar 9, 2023 19:37
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Wasn't he also who tried to make (I think his name was Alpha maybe) into a big deal and he was going to be Spider-Man's sidekick during the Brand New Day era? Slott would be a great toy designer, but I find his writing shallow as a puddle.
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Apr 1, 2023 20:40
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The current Flash book with Wally and Tom Taylor's Nightwing over on DC have the Spidey vibes I've been missing. I haven't enjoyed Spider-Man for long enough that I've finally just quit bothering. Still like Miles books though.
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Apr 3, 2023 22:09
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I really enjoyed the previous Iron Man run by Christopher Cantwell and it seems like it rolls into the new one. (Reading on MU, so I'm not current). I will pick up anything that Kelly Thompson writes. Hard to go wrong with Zdarsky either. Everyone has mostly mentioned Moon Knight and Strange, and they are very strong as well. The main reason I keep current with Marvel is the X line. It's been fantastic since the Hickman refresh. It's got a new and exciting feeling in a good way that has been missing since Claremont frankly, imo.
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Apr 24, 2023 18:59
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Didn't a mutant from the 2099 team travel back to Krakoa and stay there within the last year or so? I remember it coming up, but didn't see where it happened. I even read the X-Men Unlimited series on MU which has some running stories interwoven throughout that impact the main books*. Hell I even read the 2099 stuff from relatively recently and don't remember it there. I only read Spider-Man and Doom back in the original 2099 books, so I don't know if they were from then or the newer stuff. *If nothing else the X-Men Green story has been very interesting throughout.
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May 9, 2023 20:42
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Ever since I saw the Hulk and Thor movie on tv as a kid decades ago, I've always thought Thor's classic look was corny. I think his eye patch and short hair and beard look was my fave. Thor should just have a beard. He looks like He-Man without it.
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May 15, 2023 17:14
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The only one I can think of off the top of my head was Nick Fury Jr. It was a weird and messy shoehorn, but they just moved on quickly until he became the norm.
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May 16, 2023 18:29
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Isn't there another Uncanny Avengers team coming up? I thought it was mentioned in the FCBD issue. I also am old and take a lot of medication so it may not have been that at all.
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May 16, 2023 22:00
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After rezzing Cap in AXE, it'd be a little tougher to justify dead characters you'd think. I know it won't but it's just so boring. They're never gone more than a year or two at most, and this character has a movie coming out. Just... Why bother? It has no weight.
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May 16, 2023 23:33
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In the Sam Wilson Cap book, he snuck into Wakanda to track down a terrorist threat. Instead he and T'Challa fight, and at the end the Wakandan government stops taking US refugees, and deports the people that were there. Sam doesn't care for T'Challa any more. Both Cap books have been very good since they launched.
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May 17, 2023 21:33
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I'm pretty surprised that Akira Yoshida didn't put killing Kamala and it being AAPI month together.
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May 18, 2023 19:15
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I was just flipping through some of his Moon Knight, Iron Fist, and Thor from the aughts. I just hope its that JMS and not Superman taking a walk. His Thor was especially great even if he had to put every toy back into their boxes once he was done.
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Jun 2, 2023 19:26
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site posted:When did he do moon knight and iron fist It was that time I was remembering completely and totally incorrectly. Not sure how I got Charlie Huston and JMS confused on Moon Knight. Duane Swierczynski is who I was thinking of on Iron Fist.
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Jun 3, 2023 15:34
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Leaving your wife and kid and running back to the X-Men always works out. In 15 years we're going to get a Layla goes supervillain crazy story.
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Jun 5, 2023 23:55
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You can skip all this, it's just venting. He's the new Doctor Strange. For a really long time he had no books because they didn't catch on because no one could write a Dr Strange doing Dr Strange stuff without it being that Strange himself is the MacGuffin. I used to smoke a lot of weed so I could be off on that recollection. No one they hire for ASM can write it worth a drat it seems, no matter how great their prior work, and Zdarsky has said or joked he'll never do it again. There was a good story happening with Tombstone. Then it's Mary Jane has become Cable and returned with the laziest loving power set for a person who says "You hit the jackpot." It's like they took Wells, showed him a film showing what happens to writers who don't fall back on Peter's a former teacher/famous photographer/wealthy business leader who can't buy toilet paper every issue because he's a complete buffoon who fails at everything and is unlovable and will die eating cat food in a fridge box forgotten and unloved. Maybe the Spider-Office just sucks. I don't want to even read it for essentially free on MU. It's just a misery porn book and has been for around 17 years now. X-Books and the Daredevil/Moon Knight/street level books are hitting hard, and the rest seems to be cleaned up rejected stories (I know they have another term, but I'm coming up blank) from the time they were set by ailing authors and Greg Land and putting out slight spins on previous events without even changing the name. Who's ready for a Spider-Island rehash? I'm all for Peter David getting paid and help from such a notoriously miserly company, bad health or not, but Marvel has just hit a brick wall. 90s rehashes, scratchy incomprehensible art on several books, like someone hit the button labelled "90s I Guess?". Why am I mad about comics? It's silly. There are increasingly better books out there, and I'm an old man whining about a make believe character. Old man yells at cloud over LCS. Spider-Man is my football and Marvel is Lucy Van Pelt. I just wish a book that meant a lot to me when I was younger wasn't a nonstop lesson in why you should never try, because you're a complete unlovable dipshit, and there's a Spider-Man who is young, has had two movies better than the (again) misery porn of the last Holland movie and a supporting cast. Read Tom Taylor's Nightwing and see what Spidey used to be like before some of you were born. It used to be fun, with occasional dark stories like Kraven. Not 11 issues of an idiot with radioactive blood ruining everyone he knows and his own life, and one fill in issue where he goes to Applebee's for Thanksgiving with Aunt May! Thank you for reading my TED Talk Word Vomit.
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Jul 7, 2023 04:43
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If you happen to like goofy in your cosmic stories, the Guardians of the Galaxy series from the 90s is fun. Even at the time it was a bit retro, had kind of a Stan Lee vibe with notes with corny jokes and lingo from the 70s. A lot of the stories involve ancestors of characters of the time. They go on a search for the lost shield of Captain America. There are aliens who acquired an ancient Iron Man suit. Wolverine's descendent is a villain who runs a mutant planet. Silver Surfer is still around I think. Or maybe it was Firelord. I should reread those myself I think.
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Jul 10, 2023 06:52
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I just happened to read the latest issue that's up on MU of Iron Man last night, and they were shown and mentioned just before Tony meets Feilong as well.
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I like Waid's writing quite a bit, but his DC work has been much better than his Marvel lately imo. World's Finest was one of my favorite books recently. I'm behind on my DC though, and I usually go for Tom Taylor books first over any others. I didn't dislike his Champions, but at a certain point, someone around 35-40 years old or so has no idea how young people speak anymore and that's never going to change. Some of that is why I fell off Bendis's writing in general. Everything was overly twee and awkward sounding to me as he tried to keep writing younger characters. Can anyone think of a middle aged or older writer who is good at writing teens and early 20s characters? To stay on the Marvel topic, I haven't read Tiger Division yet but I have the issues available on MU. Any opinions on it?
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Jul 12, 2023 20:21
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You're right, I forgot about Nova. It was surprisingly good.
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Jul 12, 2023 22:26
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He regenerates the enamel over his metal teeth. Send me my No Prize!
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Jul 20, 2023 13:10
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I'm pretty sure in the 80s that he completely regenerated from a drop of blood landing on the M'Kraan crystal. I think in one of the lesser runs in the aughts he also survived a nuclear blast. Back when he first joined the team he would have to recuperate and rest, he just healed much faster and from much worse than a normal person. Also he used to be able to drown, and even drowned Daken to death in a puddle. Other times he surfs just off Krakoa and swims just fine. His power is whatever is coolest for the story.
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Jul 20, 2023 23:28
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Not sure if you mean the game or the 90s series Midnight S His earlier comics were just a smidge before my time, but I'm under the impression they were basically Blaxploitation comics with vampires. I may be off on that due to how little of those I've read. Until recently the 90s after his movie was probably Blade's biggest time until recently. Those comics were awesome when I was younger, but I honestly haven't read them since I pulled them off the spinner rack, read them, and stored them away. I was probably 15ish at the time. I liked him in Avengers well enough, but his current status quo of being the sheriff for the Chernobyl vampire nation is a pretty cool set up imo.
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Jul 21, 2023 12:56
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Edge & Christian posted:Marvel is doing a lot of these types of mini-series, I honestly have no idea how they sell but there is an entire cottage industry at Marvel of "mini-series by older creators coming back to properties they worked on 20-40 years ago". It's mostly that the other creators doing so aren't nearly as prominent/controversial. With Peter David specifically, and the fact he's doing the symbiote costume and the Hulk minis, I thought they were maybe trying to keep him paid with his health issues without him having to do much. Maybe old unused scripts that just needed some light adjustments to print today? (I know there is a term for those but I'm drawing a blank) They use Land on the Spidey book, and if nothing else Land is quick and gets the books out. I have nothing to base that on other than that they're older writers, have decades of work to draw upon and by some chance, Marvel might done a good thing? Marvel doing right by creators seems iffy though. The Maestro minis and Symbiote Spidey series have been be pretty ok when I've read one.
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I watched the Claremont documentary and most of it is he, Ann Nocenti, and Louise Simonson are on a couch casually discussing the time they spent on the X books. I believe that it was Nocenti who said she kept a list of unfinished plot threads or forgotten ideas of Claremont's, so when Chris was trying to plot and not getting where he wanted she'd break out that list and try to find something that could work with what the current stories were doing and also close plot holes. She mentioned how much trouble he had wrapping something up before opening up new plots, so they'd suggest his ideas back to him. That team was so damned good together. I believe the same doc crew who made Women In Comics which was also quite good. Claremont is so important to me personally through most of my childhood where I was always sick. To this day if my illness has me pretty immobile or too sick to get out of bed, I'll bring out some 80s uncanny and just jump in. Recently been collecting lower quality cheap Claremont's as a long time collection attempt.
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Jul 24, 2023 18:22
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I'd come at it from a different direction based on what you're looking for. Big epic stories are Immortal and Red. Comedy is X-Terminators. (Highly recommended personally, it's short and should be returning) X-Men doing X-Men stuff is the mainline X-Men X-Force is CIA black squad operations, and actually showing how bad that is with actual consequences, but it's a slow burn, and plenty that isn't great for filler/that long simmer. Wolverine when he's with X-Force, making a new questionable friend, or becoming disenfranchised with the whole Krakoan situation. Written by the same author as X-Force so they reference each other, but very little if anything would make you have to read both to follow one. Excalibur/Knights of X/Captain Britain is lots of magical fantasy stuff. Marauders 1st run was a great book about Kitty Pryde leading a black market distribution and mutant rescue team for nations that oppress mutants and don't recognize Krakoa's autonomy for the free wonder drugs. The 2nd run has it's fans, but has nothing to do with that at all. I really like what they've been doing with The New Mutants. The women from the OG NM basically take it on themselves to help the mutants who can't even fit in well in Krakoa. Also if you just want really general rec's I find Gerry Duggan, Kieron Gillen, Jonathon Hickman, and Leah Thompson to be my favorite writers at the moment. The beauty of the line currently is that they really seem to differentiate the books with different vibes and teams.
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I started reading the Joe Fixit book after the discussion the other day about the retro books. Not bad so far. I generally like Peter David's work too, so if you don't, you won't. I also happen to miss that time of the books. Joe Fixit felt exciting at the time.
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Rochallor posted:I watched it several years ago, but I'm pretty sure this is the one. At least, Ann Nocenti is only credited on one documentary on IMDB. That's it. I also saw it on Prime when I watched it.
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Aug 1, 2023 17:09
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Time to write a new Spider-Man comic. 
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I remember there being Thor worshippers in the 90s 2099 books, but has there been a modern religion worshipping Thor in the last few decades? Seems pretty easy to prove that that particular god exists when he's on the news all the time.
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Did the infinity gems becoming manifested as people go anywhere, or was it totally dropped? I forgot what happened to Star, and the rest I don't even remember at all.
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Books like that are one of the reasins why I subscribed to Marvel and DC's services. I haven't cared about ASM in a very long time, but I still check in here and there on the service to see if things have changed more to my tastes. Lately they've been adding in the 1st issues of new series in there as a preview for the series to come to the service also, so that may show up there on release day. You can sub for one month for around the same price as that one issue.
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