Marvel Comics blabbery

It'll all be on Marvel Unlimited in six months

I've been reading the Hickman-penned ones, though

If I remember correct, Zeb Wells was in the rotation on Spider-man when they were trying the kinda weekly rotating artist/writer teams.

Check this thing out...

https://www.amazon.com/X-Men-Children-Atom-Box-Set/dp/1302924028/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=x-men+box+set&qid=1578522209&sr=8-2

It is pretty much a complete X-men up to like '81.

Zeb Wells wrote an okay issue of Tangled Web that Fegredo drew and some terrible backup story that wasn't cartooned by a genius

hey guys! I bought a Marvel comic for the first time in... 25 years? It was the first Immortal Hulk tpb. It was good.

good choice

I've been reading them from the library and a) the paper is fuckin hideous, and b) there's a fill-in in the fifth issue by someone who can cartoon well and I felt a low-level tension headache evaporate a few pages in

idk you have issues with paper and colors that I don't, generally speaking

did you get the one with the first five issues or the omnibus with #1-10?

first five

I have to move the book about nine times a page just to scoot the glare around in order to be able to see the words and drawings in each panel

HULK TOO SHINY

It gets even better as it goes along, too

fill-in in the fifth issue collection

I can tell you it's up to issue #30 right now, and still bangin'. Dammmn good.

Doc Samson still dead?

iirc the current status is anyone who's drank from the well of gamma never really dies

not as long as the green door is open

Yeah, the Immortal Hulk is awesome and probably the highlight of Ewing's Marvel career. I just finished the latest TPB, and the revelation of the Hulk's ultimate future was just an incredible issue, pure science fiction goodness. The change of artist was a good choice for that issue, as great as Joe Bennett is at drawing grotesque gamma monsters, I don't think he could've pulled off what German García did there.

TIH also benefits from Hulk and his supporting cast being fairly independent from the big superhero teams, so the title hasn't become saddled with having to take part in Marvel's various crossovers, which has happened with pretty much all of Ewing's previous ongoing Marvel comics.

Also, Ewing's nod to a certain Great Lakes Avengers character was cool, and appropriate for the story. I love how has this deep knowledge of Marvel lore and isn't afraid to reference fairly obscure characters and stories from years ago, but he always does it in a way that doesn't baffle readers who might not be familiar with the stories he's referencing. So it's fun for old-time Marvel readers but not uninviting to newbies; that's the way you should write in a decades-old shared continuity.

"I love how he has"

Guys, I'm like two years late in noticing but Al totally made a Wrinklepaws reference in an issue of USAvengers. And I'm sure 99.9999999% of the readership was totally baffled.

― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Sunday, November 24, 2019 4:41 AM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao I’d completely forgotten that

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, November 24, 2019 11:19 AM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just saw this from months ago. What was the context for the reference?

Sunspot making fun of a government stooge.

xpost There really wasn't any context. Roberto da Costa says it offhandedly to some brusque authoritarian who's all like '...wtf-paws?' in response, thus reflecting the experience of so many who have spent too much time on ILX.

Rolling Comic Book thread 2017

Thanks!

It's like when Matt Fraction was dropping Best Show references into his comics yet even more insular and incomprehensible to all but the like +/- 50 people on planet earth who both regularly read Marvel comics and frequent ILX.

i've been on this board a long time but...it just doesn't seem like a good idea

this new costume sucks, wtf

https://static0.cbrimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Spider-Woman-NewCostume.jpg?q=50&fit=crop&w=450&h=523&dpr=1.5

Why would she adopt Spider-Man’s webbing

Which Spider-Woman is that? The Secret Wars one (forget her name) always had a suit that was derivative of Spidey's.

Yes — this is Jessica Drew, who has no relation whatsoever to Spidey.

(...And who already got an awesome new costume just a few years back. Plus, her “classic” costume is one of Marvel’s best. She didn’t need a crappy third costume.)

Forget the costume, whoever's writing this thing better be prepared to outdo that Hopeless run or why even bother.

Yeah. It’s Karla Pacheco

Jessica Drew is my favorite Marvel hero about whom I know practically nothing

Like, I never followed her stories or anything but I LOVE her entire look and whenever she shows up as a secondary character, I cheer

Yeah, I can't fully explain my love for the character (tho I have gone back and read most of her solo stuff)... there's just something really compelling about her.

she's cool, also a brainwashed spy of some sort

It's too bad they retconned her seventies origin story, where it was revealed she was originally a spider that had been uplifted into a human by the High Evolutionary. That's an awesomely grotesque superhero origin.

that is great

To be fair, that original origin (when she was intended to be just a one-shot character, to establish trademark rights in the name) was immediately retconned later the same year, the next time she appeared.

(And I think she could not have seen long-term success with such a bizarre origin.)

One more point: as far as retcons go, revealing that the High Evolutionary had “gaslighted” her into thinking she had evolved from a spider, for psychological manipulation purposes, is still a pretty satisfyingly f’d-up background.

xp you say that but its 2020 and Spider-Pig is a household name whoooooooooooo

Spider-Ham, right? Spider-Pig was in the Simpsons movie

Was gonna say but figured my pedantry could be put to better use.

there is no better use for pedantry than correcting people on the accuracy of Peter Porker's sobriquet

Simpsons movie did more box office and has been on home video for 12 years, it's more likely to have generated a household name tbh

I demand they bring back Goose Rider

I had the original Marvel Tails comic and still occasionally think of the panel captioned "Goose Rider summons the demons of heck"

*HONK*

You may be in luck. The second of two collections of all the OG Spider-Ham material is forthcoming and a new title has just begun in the past month. We're in the midst of a veritable Ham-issuance.

*HONK*

*WANK*