Marvel Comics blabbery

I know his Avengers run is divisive but I'll be damned if I know why.

I think Hickman's on record about having Thanos foisted upon him. He did seem rather shoehorned into the saga.

I guess I do understand the qualms re: characterization, although I think he did all right given the scope of the story he was juggling. In the case of the impending X books, I think he's only committed to the two minis so I'd assume he's just engaged more with the worldbuilding, which I'm cool with.

I think Hickman's on record about having Thanos foisted upon him. He did seem rather shoehorned into the saga.

"any way HE wanted to"

Nah I geddit. There's probably an argument to be made that Thanos should only be written by or in consultation with Starlin (an edict which Marvel clearly doesn't respect inasmuch as Starlin has said the next Thanos hardcover is his last work for them).

FWIW, Thanos is one of the very small handful of characters who actually survived the destruction and recreation of the universe in Secret Wars so he is, in theory at least, the same Thanos he's always been.

Excited by this! There hasn’t been a big-ticket, over-complex long-ass run on something at Marvel or DC that I’ve enjoyed for a while - probably since GMo’s Batman and Hickman’s Avengers runs, really. Everything Hickmsn’s done for Marvel has been great or at least interesting - unusually, it’s his indie work where he’s more variable.

(Tbh I don’t really care about Thanos or his character consistency)

In the case of the impending X books, I think he's only committed to the two minis so I'd assume he's just engaged more with the worldbuilding, which I'm cool with.

He’s writing an ongoing after the minis too!

Didn't know that! Cool.

Yeah the two storylines you mention and maybe like Annihilation et al are probably my favorite mainstream epics of the century. Would love to think this might reach those heights but I'm tempering my expectations.

They’re doing a Marvel Age reprint series; I picked up the Black Widow volume... it reprints six old stories (going back to Mystic Comics #4), and has a long introduction by Ralph Macchio.

Knowing nothing about it other than the bus ads (and, of course, the underlying property), I think I may like to see the “Dark Phoenix” movie when it opens in a few weeks. #ClaremontCinema

Have the recent X-Movies been decent-ish? (not counting “Logan,” which I did see)

Eh. First couple Young X-Folks flicks were dece, Apocalypse was kinda lame and forgettable. You should maybe catch up on everything since First Class, but also probably don't bother since they're pretty much only screening this film because it was finished when Disney bought Fox.

I just wanna see that shuttle cockpit heat da fuq up

Seems feeble that they're doing a Dark Phoenix movie AGAIN, as though there aren't some other X-plots over the years to draw on.

they fucked it up the first time tbf

I got some cool back issues. Got five issues of Adventure into Fear with Morbius...The Living Vampire and the magazine version of the Blade Runner adaptation.

Al Williamson's artwork on that Blade Runner adaption is really good. That man could really draw.

they fucked it up the first time tbf

yeah i didn't mean to imply they'll do it better this time

as though there aren't some other X-plots over the years to draw on

it's interesting (ish!) that the MCU movies rarely seem to draw from specific storylines the way that x-men does and nolanbats did

(and that's a good thing, i think?)

Several MCU movies have drawn from specific plotlines: Winter Soldier, Civil War, Ragnarök, The Dark World, Age of Ultron, Infinity War / Endgame, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange... They're not super faithful adaptations of those storylines, but then again, neither is X-Men: Apocalypse or the The Dark Knight Rises.

(Age of Ultron obviously is not an adapation of Age of Ultron the comic, rather than the first Ultron story in The Avengers.)

Al Williamson was a god. That Blade Runner adaptation is indeed great - and that Steranko cover!!

Claremont and Sienkiewicz with one-off New Mutants

Wow

(Whatever happened to that New Mutants movie that was being developed; is that still on?)

The film is mentioned in that article.

Its release date has been pushed back about a half dozen times and, with Disney's acquisition of Fox and assured future incorporation of mutants into the MCU, seems likely to get a quiet MOD release sometime in 2025.

I read somewhere that the audience testing for the Mutants film was absolutely dire, so I think it's lost in reshoot/editing hell

Silver Surfer Black is pretty good; kinda like a Rick Griffin take visually

Muthafuckin Scioli following in Piskor's footsteps and bring us the gift of Fantastic Four: Grand Design, y'all. That is just speechlessifyingly good news.

Have u heard about this thing they're doing, "Marvel Comics #1000"? Sounds kinda cool: https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/marvel-comics-1000-celebrates-marvel-s-80-year-legacy

I mean potentially so but I'm not expecting much more than Heroes for Hope 2: Hope Harder.

oh shit, i'm excited by that Scioli info! Really looking forward to that.

I like Scioli a lot but find this sort of disappointing tbh. Piskor's X-Men: Grand Design was mildly entertaining but it just underscored how random and stupid X-Men lore is. Would've preferred it if he'd kept cranking out Hip Hop Family Tree, which was like an actual act of public service.

I do wish I could read Scioli's Kirby Comic, is that just an Instagram thing or will that ever be printed/collected?

Sorry that you have to wait a little longer for Scioli's Madballs vs. MUSCLE, shakes. Hope you survive the experience.

I do wish I could read Scioli's Kirby Comic

More than this?: http://www.tomscioli.com/?p=280

not coming out till October in any case by the look of it

loved X-Men Grand Design, looking forward to this!

Sorry that you have to wait a little longer for Scioli's Madballs vs. MUSCLE, shakes. Hope you survive the experience.

this took me a second to get the joek tbh

GI Joe vs Transformers is amazing fyi

More than this?: http://www.tomscioli.com/?p=280

yeah I hate reading comics onscreen, I want a printed version!

xpost I know, bruh! Scioli can do no wrong imo (haven't read his GoBots mini yet, tbf). He had some delightfully weird Wonder Twins backups in one of the Young Animal titles for those who may have missed it.

Anyone reading these hyped up new X-Titles?

i'm pretty excited by Powers/House of X #1. lots of groundwork already.
not super excited about following 6 new titles in October, might just two the two Hickmans and ignore the rest

yeah it’s early but the Hick-Men books seem promising

They’re not bad.

I have a few theories about what's actually going on in the Hickman X-books but I'd be outing my knowledge of too-many-X-things from the last decade of relatively mediocre books

They really have been mediocre. Both X-Men and their putative replacements the Inhumans have suffered from Perlmutter's infantile edicts over the past several years. Here's hoping Hickman and co. can right the ship.

the multiple simultaneous timeline's is a neat trick but i could see it wearing thin quickly.