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HE'S HERE WITH HIS FIRST BLOCKBUSTER!
Pictured: A random issue of Jimmy Olsen.
Kirby did some great work at DC (The Demon, Kamandi), unlike Bendis, but that house ad feels like some marketing drone taking the piss out of the king.
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Pictured: A random issue of Jimmy Olsen.
Kirby did some great work at DC (The Demon, Kamandi), unlike Bendis, but that house ad feels like some marketing drone taking the piss out of the king.
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A little but it was the 70s, advertising was different to what we get now.
Personally I'm a Fourth World fan. Jack came over after a decade of having to carry Stan and Marvel, but still had ideas that DC were ready to let him have free reign on... until he said Fourth World would have an ending and they hated that.
Bendis on the other hand was past his prime when he reached X-Men. Say what you will about the dude, his early stuff did get readers and his Avengers stuff helped make the book a leading title. But by the time he reached X-Men, he was burnt out and had nothing left. He was just coasting on his old good will. And unfortunately, DC was too stupid to actually read anything he'd done recently to know that they were getting a bad deal.
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Unfortunately, dude literally had no idea what to do with the character. I personally would expect him to do the same thing just in a different way.
I talked to Peter Tomasi about it at a convention. Dude, is still not happy about what happened. He wasn’t even consulted about directions for his character to go... now Jon’s an adult with a pink hair nby…
DC really likes making characters gay or theys these days…Tim Drake never stood a chance either. It weird enough, he’s forever Robin, but insult to injury, I guess. I also didn’t think, they’d drag up his old best friend to pull that shit with.
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They killed my-oh she's back. Never mind.
Currently going through Dawn of X omni. Has Illyana always been so grumpy? I know when they aged her up she became kind of a bitch but still. Iceman only wears briefs and flip flops because he seems to be losing his powers a lot and its weird. Is it some fetish? He's not fun like he used to be. Excalibur is interesting but I do not understand why Apocalypse gathered the ones he gathered. It's not explained. That weird plant guy in New Mutants is....a thing. And when was Chamber ever a member? Storm, Emma, Kwannon, etc they're all cool. Jamie Braddock is still a batshit nutcase.
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I don’t like PKJ but Infernal Hulk feels like simultaneously acknowledging Doomsday is a Hulk and reusing the best parts of Ultimate Hulk, pure evil, hyper-lethal, a return to being a villian without the “my DAD FUCKED ME WITH a SpOn,” excuse that Savage is tainted with now.
They need an altar to be an outlet for villian Hulk. Ultimate Hulk, flawed though his initial appearance was, is perfect for that and this entity getting trapped in Banner’s head is obviously what’s going to happen.
They need an altar to be an outlet for villian Hulk. Ultimate Hulk, flawed though his initial appearance was, is perfect for that and this entity getting trapped in Banner’s head is obviously what’s going to happen.
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I read the entire main line of Something is Killing the Children yesterday and i am conflicted about it. On one hand, some of the artwork is absolutely amazing, real nice Euro style by Dell'Edera, fantastic colouring (some of the best i've seen in a modern comic yet) and the story kept me engaged enough to finish reading what material there is in one sitting. On the other hand, some of the artwork has distinctly too much manga influence (i like reading manga but i like my US comics distinctly non-manga), especially in some of its character designs, the writing is very, very bland in general (author can neither write convincing women nor children) and there's needless queer pandering out the wazoo that feels even more out of place than in your average, modern Marvel fare. I don't even know if i sincerely could recommend the comic, when it's good it's stellar and when it is bad it's below dogshit. Sadly there's much more bad in this than good.
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it's tynion. it'd be out of place if there wasnt at least one gay person somewhere
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His JLD run was great imo
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It's a guilty pleasure of mine, that 00s era.
I really loved the 00s X-Men costumes, especially since they all got those sweet redesigns together and X-Men were still riding the 90s popularity high, but we're talking on the New Avengers here. When it debuted as an (almost) All-Star Team with Spidey especially on it after so long, it really felt like it was finally assuming its place as a proper JL-analogue as "Earth's Mightiest Heroes", though obviously NOW in retrospect I recognize the many flaws done in trashing the team history doing that. Had I looked over Bendis's proposal back then with the age and knowledge of Avengers I have now, I'd have forced him to keep Thor and throw Hulk (technically) back in in lieu of Sentry and Ronin for all of Marvel's true/core "A-list solo book heroes" since founding in one book (Cap, IM, Thor, Hulk, Spidey, Wolverine) and Spider-Woman as his pet character. Make it even more bombastic and the Big Three trying to get Wolvie/Spidey/Hulk/Jessica used to working with them and in a big team even if "solo" team-ups were obviously a thing. Hell, have those four be something of a clique to themselves up to where they actually work really well together in action despite extreme bickering and rivalry (Hulk and Logan, natch) for humor, the possibilities are endless.
I'll cop I always have a soft-spot for Spidey as an Avenger, as rightfully independent as he is, thanks to this book to where I've had a pet what-if where Hulk manages to stay on and Spidey joins the Avengers in their initial issues till the Cap's Kooky Quartet era for that "A-list solo book heroes" collection back in the founding period of Marvel... I admit some personal storyline ideas were Spidey trying to keep the team from learning he's just a teen, and Hulk getting along oddly decently with him, as he pulls his weight till a hidden revelation at the end of the era that the team secretly found out he was a kid and let him stay on it to keep an eye out for him, and Hulk/Banner privately having rare moment of agreement in having a soft spot for the kid, sticking on specifically for his sake, and being way less jerkish to him than anyone else in the roster. As said they'd both leave with the others come Cap's Kooky Quartet, and Spidey stay off the team till the Bendis Avengers, but it would be a "cementing" of Hulk/Spidey as founders and thus a proper "All-Star" Avengers team in the meta/out-of-universe that'd be useful for future events and merch, even if it logically imploded in-universe.
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That'd be cool because we've had at least one retcon that shows that Bruce/Hulk know Spidey was a teen and were cool with him back in the day because Spidey stayed with Banner when he came upon the guy after a Hulk-out.
I'd say that Spidey being on this retconned roster would have gone very hard in the mid 2010s when we had the MCU Spidey and the two times they had a secret retconned founding avenger in the 2010s.
Spidey being retconned into the Avengers knowing he's a teen hero would. . . be a complicated one.
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I think he's the most consistent in that arc, artistically speaking. It's been a while since i read it but i don't remember any anatomic abominations (forearms as big as torsos is my main gripe in his work on other Punisher MAX arcs) or other, more outrageous shit like the stuff in the later Barracuda issues (some art there borders on "Can't be fucked to do any work today", which is a shame since i think the first two issues look pretty good).
I think that one is very underrated in general, loved reading it. Much better than the Fury MAX stuff, which is still worth a read for the sheer entertainment factor. I really like how Ennis writes Nick, my favorite parts are the cameos in Punisher MAX.
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Ah! Thank you. Yeah, I wanted to try to drum up some characterization and interaction with the others to justify throwing him into it beyond just happening to be a team member in those (few) issues he'd be part of it.
This is what I'm thinking of, too. Imagine the excitement of Spidey "returning" to the Avengers come Bendis's Avengers, with all the bombastity of the 00s, then the thrill of seeing a "founding" member finally join up in alt-MCU's Civil War.
This I can drop, though, in the what-if. Like Hulk knowing Spidey was a teen, this was to drum up some "classic" Marvel drama with Spidey over-dramatically worrying the team finds out who he is since he won't reveal his identity to them as condition to being on the team and the others going with it since he provides useful abilities. Then, when they all split up, you'd see him leave first or so then the rest of the team discussing they knew he was the kid all along, or at least one of them thinking it in thought bubbles. A fun brick joke to the said running gag of Spidey's over-worrying.
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That Hulk/Spider-Man issue by Tom Taylor is still the best thing he ever wrote.
I like the dynamic between the two, in both forms. Bruce is an older Peter who had it way worse (they look like father and son sometimes) and there’s an unspoken respect. Spider-Man’s on the short list of people who haven’t let Hulk down (no matter what face Bruce is wearing) and even Ultimate 1’s cynicism would pair the two up. I still get a chuckle that it was Peter who discovered Hulk was alive and well in Las Vegas.
“He’s supposed to be green, he’s supposed to be stupid.”
Once upon a time, the “Marvel Trinity” was Spider-Man, Wolverine and Hulk. Throw in Danny and you have the most absurdly awesome Fantastic Four roster of all time. Better times.
I like the dynamic between the two, in both forms. Bruce is an older Peter who had it way worse (they look like father and son sometimes) and there’s an unspoken respect. Spider-Man’s on the short list of people who haven’t let Hulk down (no matter what face Bruce is wearing) and even Ultimate 1’s cynicism would pair the two up. I still get a chuckle that it was Peter who discovered Hulk was alive and well in Las Vegas.
“He’s supposed to be green, he’s supposed to be stupid.”
Once upon a time, the “Marvel Trinity” was Spider-Man, Wolverine and Hulk. Throw in Danny and you have the most absurdly awesome Fantastic Four roster of all time. Better times.
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This won't google, what issue did it happen in?
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DuckDuckGo "Etrigan proposes to Supergirl" for the win. Supergirl #67, Peter David writing (which I'll admit I guessed by that lastvlittle aside). Etrigan and Jason were separated by the Cult of Buzz.
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I know next to nothing about cape shit and don't know where this fits into the "Bendis turning into a hack" timeline but i used to own a copy of "Sam&Twitch: Udaku" (real nice edition that was entirely in black and white, glorious pencils by, i think, Angel Medina) and quite liked the writing by him in that. Shame that the series pretty much went nowhere and everything after the first book pretty much sucked.
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Every once in a while, I'll pull out my copy of Arkham Asylum: Living Hell and just thoroughly enjoy the shit out of it. Then I'll remember that it was written by Dan Slott, and just get sad.
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Found this thread today, quick sperg about recent reading...
For the longest time, I loved the Johns run on GL. It's a solid space opera with lots of twists and turns that stands as his crowning achievement in its length and expansion of the GL mythos. My blind spot, though, was that John's was my introduction to GL, I only had vauge ideas of the origins of the OG Lanterns and a bit about Guy from JLI. But then I started reading some 60s Green Lantern, Hard Traveling Heroes, and then the 90s run all the way through till Final Night, and I got a wider picture of the Pre-Johns GL Mythos, which had its own character and was different to what he did.
It came crashing down for me when I read the Hal Jordan Spectre run. Pretty solid book with a few bumps, but it actually goes pretty hard into exploring Hal Jordan as a character, everything he's done, and the paths that lay ahead of hims for redemption, going into Hal's guilt, his spirituality, and his relationships with others.
Which then segways into Johns. As I'm rereading that now for the first time in a long time, but for the first time with proper context, it struck me what a bumpy start it is. Green Lantern Rebirth is essentially 6 issues of Johns rolling back 15 years of Green Lantern Lore (not to mention Batman character development) cause he's a silver age stickler and the characters aren't where he wants them to be. It like everything I hate about comics in one rip cause I like when characters progress and develop (I know, I'm in the wrong medium for that).
Alright, schizo rant over.
TL;dr, There are some decent 90s comics.
For the longest time, I loved the Johns run on GL. It's a solid space opera with lots of twists and turns that stands as his crowning achievement in its length and expansion of the GL mythos. My blind spot, though, was that John's was my introduction to GL, I only had vauge ideas of the origins of the OG Lanterns and a bit about Guy from JLI. But then I started reading some 60s Green Lantern, Hard Traveling Heroes, and then the 90s run all the way through till Final Night, and I got a wider picture of the Pre-Johns GL Mythos, which had its own character and was different to what he did.
It came crashing down for me when I read the Hal Jordan Spectre run. Pretty solid book with a few bumps, but it actually goes pretty hard into exploring Hal Jordan as a character, everything he's done, and the paths that lay ahead of hims for redemption, going into Hal's guilt, his spirituality, and his relationships with others.
Which then segways into Johns. As I'm rereading that now for the first time in a long time, but for the first time with proper context, it struck me what a bumpy start it is. Green Lantern Rebirth is essentially 6 issues of Johns rolling back 15 years of Green Lantern Lore (not to mention Batman character development) cause he's a silver age stickler and the characters aren't where he wants them to be. It like everything I hate about comics in one rip cause I like when characters progress and develop (I know, I'm in the wrong medium for that).
Alright, schizo rant over.
TL;dr, There are some decent 90s comics.
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I still don't get why DC is still trying to make Adult Jon a thing. Like we all know its one those things that will end up getting undone.
Still the best thing Slott ever wrote
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Never read it but I heard good things.
The story behind its cancellation is pretty funny though. So while writing the book, Joe Quesada approached Bendis about possibly being the writer for Ultimate Spider-Man. He didn't say yes or no, but found it amusing and told Todd McFarlane about it, thinking it'd get a chuckle out of ol' Toddy. Instead, McFarlane fired Bendis for daring to consort with 'the enemy' and cancelled the book, so Bendis had no choice but to tell Quesada yes.