The jacket has infinite pockets.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:05 (nine years ago) link
"it's bigger on the inside", he said to the ladies
― Nhex, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
lmao @ 'the x teat'
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
soooo looks like things are about to go kablooey in the Marvel universe...?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:43 (nine years ago) link
Gambit had more makeovers than that I'm sure. Some of these costume designs only last a few issues.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link
Nice that Marvel gets to do the 30th anniversary Crisis tribute
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Anyone heard about Marvel founder Martin Goodman being talked into publishing in the comic industry by an IRA member? Goodman was so grateful for the idea that he sent this guy money for many years. Is this covered in the Sean Howe book?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
which crossover storyline, shakey? hickman's has been running a really long time and it seems to be reaching completion
they also (spoilers) just set up a plot bit for the upcoming SECRET WAR
― mh, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
I just saw a bunch of tweets from Perpetua re the following (he's at some Marvel event):
- The Ultimate universe is officially gonna smash together with the regular Marvel Universe, permanently- The new Marvel Universe will be remade from all the pieces from Battleworld - The Marvel Universe will be gone after Secret Wars #1, only Battleworld will remain- Alonso says they aren't erasing the history of Marvel, that's not broken, but the new Marvel will combine many things
can I just say... BATTLEWORLD
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
also lol @ "permanently"
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
Lol at Axel Alonso's attempt to do Stan Lee-speak: "It's the most co-ordinated event we've ever done."
KIDS THE CO-ORDINATION EXCITEMENT STARTS HERE
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
are they going to leverage some synergy across platforms??!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
that shit always sucks, never lasts and fucks up any interesting storylines but goodi know it makes a chunk of change up front but it demolishes long-term engagement. fans should boycott.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link
There were hints that 616 & Ultimate were going to moosh together somehow and Miles Morales was going to wind up in the "reg" M.U. -- I can't cite a source though.
― the magnetic pope has sparked (WilliamC), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
Marvel has been pretty good the past few years! I feel like it'll probably be okay, or at least not suck as bad as Flashpoint.
If Jeph Loeb is involved all bets change tho
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
wtf
they have been introducing little bits all over the place that merge different universes/timelines in an interesting way lately and I have no idea why merging all things down to one line would be a good idea
they also gave their new time-traveling mutant a bunch of extra experience in a couple of the recent annuals and then shot her backward to talk to Xavier at the end of something last month, I think, which I figured was their way of backing out the past-X-Men from the present day
― mh, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
Miles Morales has already made appearances with a number of 616 characters. That much has seemed inevitable for a while.
So basically they're cancelling the Ultimate line, and that's the only change that will probably still be true three-to-five years from now, when Wolverine is merrily romping through the universe once again.
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, at the worst I hope it's Bendis
if it's Loeb then I'm going to stop reading Marvel
Crisis on Infinite Secret Wars III: The Nu-616
Yawn.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
The one thing I'll give Loeb mad props for is being in charge of Marvel's television projects and, by all appearances, not contributing in any way to the writing/plotting of Marvel's television projects.
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
Ach, this is probably editorial's last chance to do an old-school comics-nerds-only clusterfuck before the movie and comics continuities align, and the X-Men are erased from existence forever. I'm sure it'll be a solid 5/10.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
It's worth noting that, prior to the Bendisification of the Marvel U in the mid-2000s, the last big line-wide crossovers were Onslaught in '96 and then Maximum Security four years later. This exhausting three or four events per year thing really only kicked into high gear towards the end of the last decade.
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
I mean, event-wise what are they still tying up?
That goofy Axis junkSpider-Verse, which I think ends by then, but is already a multi-universe spanning eventHickman's multi-year Avengers epic, which is apparently the centerpiece with its world-smashingX-Men crossover w/the young/past X-Men visiting the Ultimate universeTime traveling new X-Men member Eva visiting Xavier in the pastThe young X-Men being in the presentWhatever the hell the Fantastic Four have been up to since I stopped reading
― mh, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, and Spider-Man 2099 and the X-Men 2099 being real and crossing over with the present, to some extent
― mh, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
I guess I was being awfully conservative with the 'three or four events per year thing' thing, huh?
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
These aren't events, per se, they're just the current storylines packaged. If anything, Marvel is realizing that the online collection/trade paperback route is where things are going and having discrete storylines or crossovers that resolve within a few months with a collection immediately dropping at the end fits the market. You can do a multi-chapter story with several chapters per month, end it more quickly, and then sell it as a package while there's still some buzz.
It kind of beats the old days where they'd have a giant crossover that took most of the year, had one story beat per month, and the individual monthlies were just "what is the Fantastic Four doing while this is going on"
― mh, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
I said this was happening in (I think) last year's thread, via a Bleeding Ccol link that had characters clearly from other Earths on 616.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
I hope Spider-Ham stays in 616
― mh, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:39 (nine years ago) link
I would be down with that, a la Morrison's efforts to legitimize Captain Carrot.
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
fwiwhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/rip-the-marvel-universe-1961-2015#.ho56yKXod
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:37 (nine years ago) link
“When you see the scope of the event, [you will] see what we’re willing to do. This is a place where we’re going to be bringing new pieces onto the board and taking old pieces off. You guys will be yelling and screaming, loving and hating in equal measure.”
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:40 (nine years ago) link
i guess the alignment with the movie universe was likely inevitable; hope they can get through this nonsense quickly and we can get to the inevitable jaden smith spiderman movie with as few tears shed as possible
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
Marvel is not in the business of publishing readable funnybooks, they are in the business of cross-purposing intellectual properties across multiple media streams also OMG NEW TOY LINE!!!!
seriously I dunno how anybody endures this shit with a straight face (says the guy who hasn't read a new Marvel comic since the 90s)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
image + archie obv where the good comix are being made
― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
Aren't Archie falling into the pit with DC and Marvel by doing all this ultra-serious stuff?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
maybe but i greatly enjoy afterlife with archie
― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:48 (nine years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/comic-riffs/StandingArt/afterlife_archie_NOVcover.jpg?uuid=NQsinngfEeOxxXOeY-nJpw
i mean if this doesn't thrill u then i understand but i am very sad for u
― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
I've never read that, maybe it's good but I don't know why comics people still do retro pastiche and parody of 50s horror comics. That's been done since the early underground days and it still gets presented like it's a novelty.
Anyone remember Frankenstein Mobster? It wasn't amazing but it had its own feel and the presentation at the time was unique. The cover art by other artists really hurt that though.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
to be fair, the actual comic has more of a 1980s horror movie vibe
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:21 (nine years ago) link
Afterlife with Archie, that is. I'm enjoying it, but there are loooong between-issue gaps that aren't helping
The fifth volume of Ditko Archives is including some bits of his Stanton collaborations, I don't know how much (there's a couple of pages in the previews) but I hope it's a lot because that work is still really hard to find.
Looks like Fantagraphics is doing a Wolverton chronological series now too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link
i dig the obvious publishers: first second, drawn and quarterly, IDW, top shelf, oni, fanta, nbm, boom, viz, picturebox, uncivilized
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
Hi all, so I'm just getting back into comics (first time as an adult) and I'm doing my best but this I just don't
"The new Marvel will instead be a conglomerate of familiar history, elements imported from alternate versions of the Marvel Universe, and entirely new things."
So does spider man get a new origin story? Is it the same spiderman, or a new spiderman with the same origin story, but now he'll do different things? Or new spiderman with new origin story?
When they say a new universe will emerge, but "our history is not broken", are we supposed to know what that means? battleworld's the name of the timeline/universe, like Earth 606 (can't remember the correct number), or are people actually going to only be hanging on a place called Battleworld?
In all seriousness is there a simple way to understand this (a link with plain-speak reading will do!). I probably won't go near anything released in the past five years for a while anyway, just gonna read older stuff, but I'm kind of curious.
Anyway I'm actually really stoked to read a bunch of this stuff. Picked up the 75th anniversary omnibus and might check out Unlimited in a month or two. Must say though they do a good job of overwhelming you with the continually splintering series/timelines etc.
― dutch_justice, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 05:46 (nine years ago) link
I keep trying to fave all yr posts.
― like working at a jewelry store and not knowing about bracelets (Dr. Superman), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 06:39 (nine years ago) link
great way to alienate all the new fans who've come into the fold in the last few years with the relatively crossover free and great Ms Marvel, Hawkeye, Iron Fist etc titles.ugh.
― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 10:40 (nine years ago) link
Hi all, so I'm just getting back into comics (first time as an adult)
just read some adult comics tbrr
― bob seger's silver bullet gland (sic), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 11:00 (nine years ago) link
tbh I think Ms Marvel, Hawkeye, and Iron Fist will remain relatively unchanged. I think the idea is that they're going to have certain story elements be true for characters going forward, but with the acknowledgment that contradictory story elements and origins are all available for writers, because the continuity has been repeatedly busted. All the main franchises have had elements of time travel and interdimensional travel for years, and stuff has been popping through between dimensions more and more in the last decade.
― mh, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
The characters as featured in Marvel Studios film or television projects will replace the current 616 versions of the characters, while Spider Ham and the X-Babies will be replacing their 616 counterparts. The FF will be rebooted as the Fantastic Farts, an incontinent group of septuagenarians having flatulent misadventures in a retirement home for dumb losers.
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
jesus it all just sounds so awfulthese poor writers
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
This has apparently been in the works for over three years and all of the writers knew it was happening, so they're presumably cool with it. I mean, whatever the end result, I appreciate that Marvel is super intentional about these things and values forethought and planning.
What does it say about me that I'm actually a little excited and seriously thinking about jumping back on the Marvel bandwagon in time for this?
― Ronald Raisins (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link