Marvel Comics blabbery

To me, that original visage of The Leader looks a bit Mike Mignola to me or at least you could see a character like that in Hellboy.

The music is hella annoying, but looks potentially cool:

https://youtu.be/Z1BCujX3pw8 (Capt. Marvel trailer)

There’s gonna be sooooo many “omg it’s the ‘90s” jokes

Also over on Captain Marvel (2019), dir. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

ILE = Elseworlds (to me)

Warning, deep-dive nerdgasm printing talk commencing...now: Marvel has switched to some a new glossy paper stock this month, some weird velvety marshmallowy shit that barely feels like anything and that my fingertips find suuuuuuuuper unpleasant. And this right on the heels of Marvel starting to send their trades to some new print shop that's fucking up the spines and using some kind of cover stock that starts curling upon exposure to the air.

Okay, done complaining about things only I care about.

Has this already happened? I thought something was.. off about the comics i picked up this month, at least the covers felt different somehow

That stinks... the trades, too?!

Long shot and niche request but are there any good podcasts out there discussing 60s/70s/80s Marvel comics in a nerdy way, or podcasts with good interviews with creators from that era?

Maybe the new cover stock is supposed to function like those red cellophane fortune telling novelties? Depending on which way it curls and/or torsions itself, you will fall in love or be afflicted with a terrible illness etc

There's that Baxter Building podcast by the Wait, What? people that goes through all the Fantastic Four in order. Never listened to it because I give no shits for the Fantastic Four, but ymmv.

Thanks James!

I’m tempted to check out Marvel’s new “Wolverine” podcast, if only to hear the SFX when he pops his claws.

It'll probably be something like 'TSSSSSNIKTSSSSSS'.

(Wolverine has hot claws now, for those who didn't know. Yes, seriously. No, I don't know why.)

This guy does Logan's voice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage_(actor)

He actually looks like not unlike Logan (...though he's a Brit, guess he's good at accents?)

that podcast came out six months ago and the best press it has received is a) this exists and b) Chris Gethard being bemused at getting star billing when he plays a henchman or librarian or something for a scene or two

Huh - I heard an ad for it on another podcast this morning (made it sound "new").

Who asked for this and can we put them in jail for asking for this: https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/09/26/rob-liefeld-is-working-on-a-huge-x-men-crossover-for-2019/

"Now that they have them more, what was told to me was..."

-- a writer

I guess demonstrating the ability to write down words does technically make one a writer.

Here’s the deal. Since the X-Men movies came out and Disney didn’t have them, I don’t know if you’ve ever paid attention, but Marvel kind of turned the volume down on the X-Men for almost 20 years. Now that they have them more, what was told to me was, ‘Oh yeah. Our budgets on the X-Men books are back up to what they used to be because now we own them all.’

There may be a germ of truth to what he's saying (see: Perlmutter sidelining the FF to spite Fox) but I'd wager he's getting his wires crossed a little.

Yeah I’ve heard that said by readers (mutants supposedly being sidelined, in favor of Inhumans, due to the movie rights thing), but was never sure how much truth was actually in it.

I do believe that about the TV/media properties - mutants not existing in Marvel Studios properties, hence the ballooning of the Inhumans in Marvel Comics over the past decade - but does it look like they really cut back on the X-Men books? They still had high profile creators, and several titles going on - team and solo characters alike - going at any given time. I mean, how many failed X-Factor/X-Force books there were alone...

With FF/Ghost Rider/Punisher other non-MCU properties, it's easier to make the argument they didn't get pushed, because I think they never do well in sales anyway

It's at least true that Marvel has put a ton of energy into raising the profile of the Inhumans, with decidedly mediocre results.

They are mediocre characters to begin with (except the dog, the dog is great)

lockjaw is an absolute fucking treasure

protect lockjaw at all costs

:)

https://www.bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Funko-Lockjaw-Plush-2-600x462.jpg

Spider-Man was Marvel's biggest character/title even before the deal with Sony, I doubt that at any point in the last 5-10 years there's never been less than 5 X-Men-related books going at once.

New Captain Marvel series coming, with Carol back on Earth: https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/kelly-thompson-and-carmen-carnero-will-take-captain-marvel-on-her-next-adventure

I also read a detailed spoiler/review of a "battle at the end of the universe" story in a recent issue of Thor... sounds pretty, er, gnarly.

guess it was time for a new #1 for the movie release. or ya know, a Tuesday

I just learned there's a new (since July) "X-23" series, featuring Laura & Gabby? They couldn't use "All-New Wolverine" anymore, now that the "real" Wolverine is back? That's kinda lame. (What do her teammates call her in "X-Men Red" -- "Hey, you?")

they're also killing off Old Man Logan iirc
i'm reading X-23 anyway, it's decent and i like Tamaki

Cool, maybe I’ll get the TPB. I love Laura, just didn’t like the direction “ANW” went.

how's that? post-Victim Syndicate?

I stopped prior to that... when Laura & Gabby drive cross-country and Laura is exposed to the "trigger scent"; goes to Madripoor; etc.

ugh, fuck Marvel all over the place
https://www.themarysue.com/marvel-star-wars-chuck-wendig-fired/

seriously. between this and Gunn you start to wonder if the comicsgaters have someone powerful on this inside

to me it reads as some old-timey execs who don't understand the world we're living in now. if you're a human being, you're probably gonna have some kind of response to these douche nazis

Ike Perlmutter?

morrisp yeah kinda what I’m thinking

The thing with Gunn was a dumb decision but at least made a tiny bit of sense, given how freaking awful those old tweets were. But it's not really clear what Wendig did, except exist, on Twitter.

I mean, given the two firings, and the re-trenching back to *mostly* white comic leads, and the creative stagnation, and the mediocre number of female creators at Marvel right now, maybe the "powerful on the inside" theory isn't too ridiculous. I can't think of anything must-read they're putting out now (except Hulk).

Trying to think who their decent writers are right now. Even Jason Aaron's been off the boil for a long while now. TNC seems to have gotten a *lot* better in the past few years but I need to catch up.

Yeah and the Gunn thing was also (as I understand it) a Disney/Marvel Studios matter.

Here’s another thing in the news: https://www.cbr.com/marvel-vision-chelsea-cain-canceled/

Yeah given the shit she had to put up with last time, Marvel should really be in the Do Whatever The Fuck Chelsea Cain Wants business. Also, she's a good comic book writer!

morrisp yeah kinda what I’m thinking

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, October 14, 2018 2:29 AM (seven hours ago)

Wendig says it was his editor, since-the-days-of-Malibu veteran Mark Paniccia. I don't think I've ever heard a story of Perlmutter being involved in hiring or firing of creators, and doubt that he's read a single comic book since buying the company.

part of a thread:

This was done with purpose and swift measure, suggesting an ideological bent. Further, nothing I'd said or done in my tweets recently had made the news -- well, it made cuckoo alt-right news blogs, which is the only place I make that kind of splash.

— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) October 13, 2018

Interesting thread, and what a crappy thing. F*** Marvel, I guess.

Yeah fuck marvel for throwing chum to these fuckers