Preressurrecting, I assume you meant.
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 July 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link
On the rare occasions I dip into Marvel continuity since I stopped reading comics in like 1988 or so*, it strengthens my resolve to discount anything that happened in comics since I stopped reading in like 1988 or so. In my head, Gwen is still dead, etc, and it's a better place to be.
* Loved the Morrison and Whedon runs on X-men tho. I am corny.
― woke newt (stevie), Thursday, 21 July 2016 12:54 (eight years ago) link
Isn't the "real" Gwen Stacy still dead tho? AFAIK Spider-Gwen is a parallel universe version of her or something?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 21 July 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
I think Captain Marvel proved that the best way to kill a character and ensure he stays dead is to have him succumb to a real-life mortal illness. Because having someone come back from that would be considered bad taste, even if it makes no sense that Reed Richards or any of the other Marvel super-scientists haven't come up with a cure for cancer yet.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 21 July 2016 12:58 (eight years ago) link
don't tempt millar
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 21 July 2016 13:07 (eight years ago) link
Deadpool has cancer, and his rogue super-healing factor keeps him from dying - in theory without the cancer his cells would keep growing and kill him.
And that, I've just found out, is why Normal Osborne found a cure for cancer, put it in a bullet, and fired it at Deadpool.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 21 July 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
See, these are plots I would have rejected for being too ridiculous back when I was a six-year-old playing with action figures.
― woke newt (stevie), Thursday, 21 July 2016 13:49 (eight years ago) link
I... kind of like that idea for taking out Deadpool, particularly coming from Osborne.
help
― http://porno (DJP), Thursday, 21 July 2016 13:59 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/AcsCubh.jpg
― mh, Thursday, 21 July 2016 14:01 (eight years ago) link
Sauron makes a valid point
― http://porno (DJP), Thursday, 21 July 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
all we are is rice paper puppies
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 21 July 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/comics/2010-09-01-onemonth-marvel01-ST_N.htm
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 21 July 2016 14:41 (eight years ago) link
okay I can't deal with that
― http://porno (DJP), Thursday, 21 July 2016 15:11 (eight years ago) link
it's on marvel unlimited! gonna read it real quick.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 21 July 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link
surprise! it's remender in hateful and weird mode! and the purple man shows up at the end of the first issue. I will be stopping now.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 21 July 2016 15:23 (eight years ago) link
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/sienkiewicz-calls-out-fox-over-x-men-apocalypse-dazzler-art-credit
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
Right now, my favorite Marvel book is Doctor Strange
― Very selfish, and very ironic (DJP), Wednesday, January 13, 2016 9:03 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I just started on this (copped the "Timely Comics" three-issues-in-one deal for $1) and, WOW.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 9 August 2016 22:34 (eight years ago) link
I think Aaron's easily the best staff writer at Marvel right now, but I find Strange kind of unreadable - maybe it's the art? Thor is a bit offgame too, compared to the 2012-5 stretch, but it's still fun.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 01:21 (eight years ago) link
I was a little chagrined about Aaron's move to Marvel because I wasn't crazy about some of his earlier stuff, but I have to admit he's really been knocking it out of the park.
― Neither F.I.S.T. Nor Fletch (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 August 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
Aaron's first year on Thor - it's one long story - is my fave comic of the past few years. Just this super fun, super-casual epic with no particular continuity. I kind of wish he'd go back to that style with the new Thor.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 10 August 2016 01:38 (eight years ago) link
Was that the one with the Godkiller arc?
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 August 2016 01:27 (eight years ago) link
I'm a sucker for Chris Bachalo tho, especially having come up on his Shade the Changing Man.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 August 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
Vision is _really_ good btw.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 15 August 2016 20:01 (eight years ago) link
Keep hearing good things about it. Will it make sense if you have no idea of current marvel universe, or is it all avengers linked?
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:07 (eight years ago) link
The issues I read were almost completely isolated from the rest of the Marvel U
― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
they are and thank god. basically you can walk in knowing nothing and it's fine.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 05:01 (eight years ago) link
Just read the first twos use, they're really fun! Robots arguing about grammar. So far I kind of prefer fhe quotidian stuff to the action stuff, but book's gotta have a plot I guess.
I get why people were interested In him doing Batman now - this seems a lot better, though?
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 07:21 (eight years ago) link
*two issues
batman curdled on the third issue for me tbh10 issues into vision and 9 into sheriff of babylon and they're both just about the best comix coming out right now on a monthly basis for my moneytom king has a very specific style and i like it a lot.his run on vision ends at issue 12http://www.vulture.com/2016/07/sheriff-of-babylon-comic-book-iraq-war.html
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
imo Omega Men is the DC title written by Tom King to go by, not this Batman run that just started. Like Vision, it's divorced enough from continuity and editorial direction to be its own thing.
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
Omega Men felt a little compressed at the end - like editorial told him he had to wrap it up before Rebirth - but until the last few issues its the best thing DC has done since Dial H.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
we're all omega men now
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
It was cancelled at 7 then given another 5 issues due to fan outcry.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link
man DC really has no clue what's good
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
I couldn't get into Omega Men but I keep hearing good things. Should I try again and persist? I also couldn't get into Dial H, despite wanting to...
I think Tom King was also involved in Grayson, which I enjoyed.
― salsa shark, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:58 (eight years ago) link
The Omega Men series had an issue #0 I missed on first reading. It sets the stage for the first act, which is otherwise a little muddled although it's doing the work of setting up the basis for the rest of the series. The main plot turn is when their abductee, Kyle Raynor, finally sees why the group is fighting together, despite their different origins.
The actual rebellion/battle would have probably gone on much longer had the series continued, and expanded on the denouement, which nevertheless ends up with the gray moral resolution that the series deserves
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
i agree about omega men being "compressed"; it's still notably better than about 95% of what DC has put out in the past five years.i get the sense he really barely has any interest in writing batman but it pays super well and sells books.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
Such a boring character for writers. I'd do it in a second of course, but ugh.
― I wish you could see my home. It's... it's so... exciting (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 23:49 (eight years ago) link
from King's Ringer interview:
“Batman is its own beast,” King said. “It’s weird. I write these very thinky comics where there’s no hero. Sheriff doesn’t have a hero; no one at the end of it is gonna be like: ‘Yay! I triumphed and solved terrorism!’ Vision, at the end, it’s set up as a tragedy and I know how it ends, it’s tragic. What Batman is, is a story about a hero triumphant. The best thing Batman can do with me is to be a good comic that takes people a little bit outside of their day, where they can read and be like, ‘Holy shit!’ That gives you a jolt of pleasure. I’m not trying with Batman to be like, ‘OK, here I want to comment on the world.’ I want to make Die Hard.”
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure it's being guided by editorial to use a bunch of characters and plot devices familiar with their movie and tv properties. as the gotham tv show season featuring hugo strange ends and the suicide squad movie comes out, we get batman dealing with... hugo strange and amanda waller
― mh, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 00:03 (eight years ago) link
what do you mean by morrison-isms?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 15:52 (eight years ago) link
darkgrimgritty played through a stream of consciousness filter plus rapid fire mamet dialogue
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 17:48 (eight years ago) link
All respect, but that's the sort of misleading if not inaccurate description of Morrison I'd read in like USA Today
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link
yeah, that is not really Morrison, imo
I thought you'd at least throw in the two or three speech vocalisms he spells out (*tch* or whatever) and uses every series
― mh, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
It's 'tt'. Also 'UUUUIIIIIII' (scream emitting from otherworldly creatures).
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link
thanks, I was going to google for examples at work but I knew you'd have my back :)
― mh, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
Of course. It's one of the like four extremely niche and generally pointless things I'm good for.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
i'm a fan of nnnnnaaaaaaAAAAAAAiiiii myself.intelligent men differ but the psycho pirate stuff and ms. gotham doing the "I'm scared" bit put me in the mind of morrison. I've read my share of it!
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
I believe that you have! That description doesn't do him justice, though (e.g. his employment of darkgrimgritty is almost always in the service of some loftier comment, rapid fire Mamet dialogue is way more Bendis than Morrison).
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
Trying too hard to be cool dialogue, I'll give you.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 19:01 (eight years ago) link