Marvel Comics blabbery

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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

I’m down on Marvel, but this Target moment was undeniably cool:

https://i.imgur.com/zUtvE7r.jpg

It’s amusing how even this (well-done) newspaper survey of all these Spider-characters doesn’t know how to summarize Jessica Drew’s background: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-et-hc-spider-verse-spidey-characters/

Looking forward to seeing this movie with my kid, btw.

Why were marvel superheroes always getting put in tubes in the 1970s

https://lamardelibros.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/avengers_vol_1_174.jpg

My favorite variety of tube is that which requires the captive to be nude for some reason but whose restraints thoughtfully cover all bathing suit areas.

Jessica Drew is the Hawkman of Marvel. Her past is a mess so the best thing you can do is just move forward.

My favorite variety of tube is that which requires the captive to be nude for some reason but whose restraints thoughtfully cover all bathing suit areas.

LOL, for reals!

Irregularly shaped, Kirby-style tangles of machinery are perfect for shackles that strategically cover those areas on a nude captive.

It occurs to me that Spider-Ham’s somewhat awkward/counterintuitive origin story (spider bitten by radioactive pig) is a semi-parody of Jess Drew’s OG origin.

Another one
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/marvel-presents-12-the-shipyard-of-deep-space/4000-17692/

I dreamt the other night that I had to retcon every single Marvel Event since the beginning of whenever, even ones I had no idea existed. I think I was doing Seige when I woke up.

dreams vmic

:D

Do y'all know about Douglas Wolk's "616 Society" reading group? A deep dive into a single Marvel comic every day, done messageboard style.

https://www.patreon.com/douglaswolk/overview

The Patreon angle is that he's charging a dollar a month to join the discussion and will use that money to finance startup of a podcast when his All the Marvels book comes out.

I signed up even though I don't have Marvel Unlimited, though I may drop out pretty quickly -- the first week's comics include two from the 1960s and five from 2001-2015. I only have access to one of the seven.

It hit me that a way to explain how the Marvel Universe comics 'changed' and all this weirdness started to happen because when it was put back together in the Infinity Gauntlet, it was all a degraded copy.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Infinity_Gauntlet_1.jpg

Timeline wise, considering that story happened in '91, just as the 90s weirdness hit the Marvel books - kinda works to me.

Is this the place to talk about the Spider-Verse movie, or am I supposed to do that in an ILE thread or something?

There are two Spider-Verse threads already , imo bump some unrelated one from 2002 and chat about it there

Might I recommend I just the Spiderman trailer!

Thanks... now that a few hours have passed, I feel like all I really have to say is, “That was very very cool, but here are a few plot holes bugging me: ” — and no one really needs that.

Signed up for DW's Patreon, looking forward to it. Not sure I'll get involved with the bulletin board but I like Douglas's writing, and the year he did 52 Pickup was probably my favourite year of comic booking as an adult.

WmC I can er share those with you, if you like

Thanks Chuck, I'll take you up on that. I have FF#51 from week 1 but none of the others.

I've ILXmailed you a link - hopefully that works!

That address is defunct -- could you send it to wmcrµmp at gmail?

Done!

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I brought up my plot-hole observations to my 6-yr-old kid. I’m that guy.

My son asked why Peter Parker calls himself “your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man,” and I said — good question.

I assume it’s a play on an advertising slogan from the ‘60s or ‘70s; like, “Ask your friendly neighborhood grocer”?