Marvel Comics blabbery

Terrigenesis, their Kree origins, etc. have all been pretty fully fleshed out at this point.

Well there you go. Terrigen Mists and all? One less excuse...

I wonder if they're not planning on doing something with Kamala in the upcoming Captain Marvel movie, given her popularity.

That would be cool... introduce her, and set things up for her own movie.

I'm psyched for "Captain Marvel"... will be interesting to see what they incorporate from Carol's long, complex history (and how they do it).

(Also, I saw the Wonder Woman movie y'day, so I'm hyped up for more ass-kickery. I choose my superhero movies carefully!)

xp i can only assume they're not gonna do Space Rape or the million costume/name changes

Yeah... I assume she won't even ever be known as "Ms. Marvel" -- tho the script will probably contain a few wink-wink references to '70s feminism.

Hey now - http://variety.com/2017/film/news/captain-marvel-brie-larson-90s-prequel-1202503813/

I've got to say, the editorial direction where they decided the ultimate universe Reed Richards is a slimy little fucker is being pretty consistently implemented. He's popping up in a few different comics, notably Al's Ultimates run, and I've got a bad feeling about this

the generations series of books looks pretty bad.

I have no idea wtf they're doing, other than taking the "your constant renumbering is bad and hated" criticism and responding in a dumb way

it's old-meets-new namesake stuff, utterly superfluous and with generally uninspiring creative teams
http://www.cbr.com/marvel-generations-vanishing-point/

Describing the series, which Marvel has already assured fans won’t spark a big crossover,

You're conflating Generations with Legacy, mh. The former appears to be a wholly self-contained thing and the latter is the nonsensical renumbering initiative wrt all some of the ongoing series. I'm not sure I understand what they're trying to achieve. Maybe just the benefit of another soft reboot without having to deal with flak for putting out multiple 'first' issues of a series within a year and a half of one another?

I am going to crankily proclaim they're all the same thing

but yes, I was referring to the Legacy thing, although "wtf they're doing" refers to pretty much every decision

xp if by "same thing" you mean "on a continuum between sort of readable but hardly recommendable and straight garbage", i'm going to bet you're right

jacking around with numbering, limited series, event shit, anything that doesn't involve having a good idea for a comic and assigning an interesting creative team and regularly releasing issues

that's all I want, you can even switch creative teams occasionally, idgaf. I'll probably read it if it's interesting.

The perpetual event-ing of Marvel is kind of a plague atm. It's gotten increasingly out of control over the past decade and I don't see how it'll fail to negatively impact sales in the long run. Particularly when they're pulling new series into the crossover du jour within a few issues of their inception.

If you have a series only run ten issues, and two or three of those are part of some crossover, it's a wreck!

On the rare occasion they let the writer kind of work around at and the crossover only tangentially interferes with the plot but even then, I think there's the impulse when you see the little crossover banner on the cover to think "hey, I'll skip this one"

The marvel i read these days with some enjoyment is Peter Parker (pretty good so far!), All-New Guardians, Silver Surfer, most of the star wars books (darth maul, darth vader, star wars, doctor Aphra, though emphatically NOT poe dameron), Black Bolt, Squirrel Girl and Zombies Assemble.

The core Doctor Strange, Thor and Daredevil books aren't bad at the moment either.

I guess i'm also reading bendis' jessica jones/spiderman/Invincible and infamous Iron Man though all of those with some exasperation. the nick fury reboot is interesting visually. Secret empire is a pretty painful slog. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur and Ms Marvel are good for a fast skim. Same for the Elektra, Kingpin and Iron Fist minis that just wrapped up.

tbrr, that's not a bad capes-n-tights pile, especially in comparison to the DC's slim pickins. all the xmen and avengers books are a disaster as of late tho'.

I subscribed to Generations a little while back - on spec - just to have some new content coming into the house. Looked like some of the issues may be fun, but I'm totally prepared for it stinking.

Looks like Generations and Legacy are linked somehow (or the former will lead into the latter?): http://io9.gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-marvels-legacy-projec-1797202223

Warning for those looking to hope for something non-terrible: it looks from the article that Alex Ross has been involved.

Ross was involved in Earth X (et al), which is one of my all-time favorite Marvel things, so that's not an instant disqualifier.

I actually kind of like the fact that this won't be a typical mega-huge cataclysm to tie all the books together. I'd give it a chance, but no way in hell will I read like 30 books

I like the idea of mixing old and new, and mashing up the continuity (if that's what they're doing). I don't care about the issue numbering thing, though I understand why others do.

On the one hand, it might give Marvel pause the next time they want to restart a series at #1. On the other hand, it won't.

their two ideas: renumbering everything at #1 and renumbering everything at the old number. surely there's other possibilities out there

just... stop... renumbering

Every issue is someone's first issue, so every issue should be #1.

every issue is assigned a random number between 1 and 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

numbers to be replaced with emoji, starting with spider-man #⛺️ (coverdate nov 2017)

starting to think DJP works at Marvel

Using month/year cover dates (like magazines do), instead of issue numbers, seems like a not-entirely-terrible idea. I imagine they would never do it, though, because (among other reasons) it would highlight the disparity btw. real time and comic-book time, and make older issues sound "dated."

But it would solve this treadmill problem... "High-numbered issues are off-putting to new readers, let's start at #1" -> "This constant renumbering is silly, and the legacy numbering is meaningful to fans" -> repeat ad nasueum

I don't think it hit me until now how incredibly repetitive Marvel's gotten when it comes to certain solo character books. I've enjoyed them, but the pattern is kind of ridiculous.

- Jessica Jones has a day job as an investigator, an office she constantly has problems with making rent on
- Hawkeye (Kate, not Clint) goes to the west coast and becomes an investigator
- She-Hulk miniseries where she quits her job at a big law firm, has problems making rent at her new office, and has an investigator (Hellcat) and an assistant with secret super powers
- Spider-Woman has a day job, an assistant with a super criminal past (he has a suit that seems to give him some powers), and Ben Urich helping with investigations

At least Jessica Drew can claim to have been investigatin' since the '70s. Of course, her series also didn't stick to any particular concept, and then was cancelled :/

I liked it, in a comfort food serial television way

Also, Jessica Jones was initially intended to be Jessica Drew but got turned into a new character because Marvel didn't want Spider-Woman cursing and having anal sex, I guess.

back when they were wary of this Bendis guy messing up their property instead of handing him property to make boring

*tries to hit 'Like' button; realizes where I am*

Side complaint: did Marvel change their cover designers? Everything (layouts, font, art) looks so amateurish lately. They look like 1990s role-playing-game manuals.

really? i disagree, having casually looked at the rack recently. actually appreciating that the covers tend to reflect the content inside rather than just being generic pin-ups which felt like a problem last decade

This sort of thing. And this. Just a weird 90s-chunky sort of ugliness.

oh ok. i see what you mean

Yeah. But I do miss Marvel being good! Seemed like they were on a roll just 4-5 years ago.

ugh yeah that secret empire cover is terrible. it's not actually illegible but it might as well be.

chuck: i see it too. I think it's retro nostalgia to the target audience which i presume to be men in their thirties?

That Ironheart/Iron Man cover finally answers the pressing question "What if Rob Liefeld understood proportions and could draw feet?"

That Generations cover is a variant. The real ones are better - https://comicstore.marvel.com/Generations-2017/comics-series/97936