Marvel Comics blabbery

there was a particularly painful stretch in the mid-2000s where you could almost guarantee that an article on weird physics in new scientist or wherever would get shamelessly recycled into an ellis story six months or so down the line

He was friendly enough at the con I saw him (and GMo!) at in '99. He asked our group what we were getting up to that evening - we knocked him back as we had tickets to go see The Phantom Menace.

Marvel comics! Ellis' Wolverine four-parter Not Dead Yet is a good read, if you can get past the phonetics used for the Scot character's dialogue.

that said, as anyone who's attended a comiccon should know, he seems like a nice guy

I've been to comic conventions on three continents and Warren Ellis has never been there

have heard various stories without the "nice guy" punchline, but only one was in a hotel bar the night before a comic convention

I'd assume the intention was to cite comic conventions Ellis was actually at in reference to his character but I respect sic's pedantry

I thought Chuck was intimating that Ellis goes to lots of conventions and socialises

tbf he makes elliscon every day

Well, if this is the level of pedantry we're dropping to...

I've been to comic conventions on three continents and Warren Ellis has never been there

never been to those continents, or never been there when you were?

have heard various stories without the "nice guy" punchline, but only one was in a hotel bar the night before a comic convention

the story was set in a bar, or you were in a bar when you heard the story?

He was in Melbourne in 1999. https://www.armageddonexpo.com/General-Info/History/ (scroll way down).

He's no fan of cons iirc.

He = Warren Ellis, obv.

TBF, being a writer at a comic convention is my idea of hell.

(In Toronto, at TCAF/Beguiling and some more mainstreamy one I forget the name of. 2004-6ish?)

Well, the fifth and final issue of "The Unworthy Thor" is out (to circle back to a topic from further above). Without saying too much, I'll just say that the issue is... anticlimactic, in several respects. (And yes, the content of Fury's "whisper" is revealed...)

In other news, some poor schmuck of a casting director needs to find *two* white-haired actresses: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/spider-man-spinoff-thor-writer-tackling-silver-sable-black-cat-movie-988065

calling it now: that movie will never be made

seconded

As a Jessica Drew fan, I'm bummed she's not the subject of the "secret female spinoff project" (I assume her character is encompassed by the Spider-Rights which Sony controls). I think Dennis Hopeless's fun, modern reimagining of the character would translate well to the screen (though can't imagine how they would deal with her weird origin and complicated history). Maybe someday...

A Black Cat/Silver Sable movie makes zero sense and is completely stupid and it will never get made and I'm glad. Where do people even get these fucking ideas? I'm straining to recall if those two characters have ever directly interacted to any meaningful extent.

Can't wait for the Night Thrasher/Lyja Lazerfist team-up movie!

Where do people even get these fucking ideas?

the studio's paid for the rights to these characters dammit, they're gonna make a fuckin' movie out of them no matter what!

I feel like they were both involved in that Foreigner storyline in the late '80s (when Parker wuz boning Felicia), but yeah I can't visualize/recall them sharing a panel.

So maybe it'll be a movie that just cuts back and forth between them each doing their own completely unrelated thing. Fun times. Fuuuuuuuuuun times.

xp was Peter waiting for a girl like her

i understand kenneth lonergan is involved in scripting a bittersweet drama about the father-son relationship between leap-frog and frog-man which is due for release in spring 2019

xp was Peter waiting for a girl like her

they broke up because felicia was cold as ice to peter when he wasn't wearing the spider-man suit iirc

SoHo loft, Nagel poster on the wall, Bambi/Candi/Randi as his neighbors... '80s Parker was cold lampin'!

I've lived my life wrong

if it's any consolation, each of us is here posting about marvel comics on an internet messageboard, so i think we've all lived our lvies wrong tbh

they broke up because felicia was cold as ice to peter when he wasn't wearing the spider-man suit iirc

I recall it ended for good when Spidey burst in on Felicia and the Foreigner right after a lovemaking sesh, and the Foreigner flipped the mattress while Felicia fought Spidey off ("Sorry, lover...!"). Parker had already figured out that FH had been playing him for a fool, and that was the big showdown/confrontation.

i was just making a joke about the foreigner song 'cold as ice' tbrr

Jessica Drew should co-star in the second season of Jessica Jones imo.

if it's any consolation, each of us is here posting about marvel comics on an internet messageboard, so i think we've all lived our lvies wrong tbh

― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:42 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Are you by any chance selling engraved plates emblazoned with this motto and if so where should I send my money?

i am now, ilxmail me yr credit card details

I don't care about spider-plots, I'm just here for bad music jokes

you're fooling no-one, nerd

i was just making a joke about the foreigner song 'cold as ice' tbrr

Haha, ok, now I get those jokes (duh). Guess I'm better with refs. to '80s comics than '80s music...

you know that you are

Morrisp it is URGENT (emergency) that u rectify this

learning more about 80s music is a great way to become a jukebox hero

This is cruel we gotta stop playing these head games with him imo

Just between you and me, it feels like the first time we gave a dirty white boy double vision.

Don't do me like that, you guys

Douglas Wolk doing some kind of Marvel thingy

https://allofthemarvels.tumblr.com/

Oooh, thanks for that. Love Douglas and miss his presence here.

I believe that is bound to be bound at some point iirc

Douglas was the one who first told me about ilx, at some comics show in 05 or 06

Did Coates's Black Panther ever become good?

Douglas Wolk doing some kind of Marvel thingy

https://allofthemarvels.tumblr.com/

also love this "sister tumblr" linked to on there

https://marvelbah.tumblr.com/

need something like this, but just for marvel comics

http://i.imgur.com/xdi7djI.png

i read the last two issues of Coates' Black Panther. it has not gotten better.

I've read the first few issues of THE MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL, for no particular reason... the writer, Margaret Stohl (a YA author), seems to be going for something similar to Kelly Sue DeConnick's style and breezy humor, but without quite nailing it (no knock on her, it's a tall order). It seems marginally better than the series which preceded it.

I feel like Marvel hasn't really known what to do with Carol Danvers, post-DeConnick (other than give her a butch haircut and stick her on a space station). I know Carol played a big role in CWII, but I avoided that. The DeConnick/Lopez era of CAPTAIN MARVEL was just such a perfect synthesis of character, writer, and artist... I wanted to keep following that specific incarnation of the character for a long time... (but that's comics for ya) :(