Guess those decades of IP really panned out, huh? It’s wild to see this marginal-seeming stuff I grew up with turn into a zillion-dollar cultural juggernaut. Excelsior, I guess...
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
i hear you with that. The entire world is obsessed with a Darkseid knock-off!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 April 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
Would legit have liked to see Thanos taken down by Hawkeye and Ant-Man.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 April 2019 05:51 (five years ago) link
I lost track of Jason Aaron's Thor as it got a bit dithery towards the middle of the Jane Foster run. The last book, though, "The Death of..." is a real return to form.
Not sure about the crossover stuff right now, as I haven't got that far...
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:45 (five years ago) link
I'm wondering if there's a maximum number of big crossovers per year and they've been pushing the "war of the realms" that Aaron's been writing across Thors down the road for quite a while
― mh, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
War of the Realms is typical Marvel insanity with regards to their publishing - a million tie-in minis. I'll wait until they're all collected and hope they end up at the library.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
So how y'all feel about Hickman's (apparently long-planned) major overhaul of everything X-related? I know his Avengers run is divisive but I'll be damned if I know why. Dude's pretty much torn it up with all his Marvel work so I'm psyched to see what's in store.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Monday, 20 May 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
I'm down for the two weekly miniseries, will see how it continues from there. I'm guessing everything they've done this year in Uncanny (Disassembled/Age of X) is some kind of set-up/filler for whatever he has in store.
― Nhex, Monday, 20 May 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
I know his Avengers run is divisive but I'll be damned if I know why.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 07:29 (four years ago) link
I think Hickman's on record about having Thanos foisted upon him. He did seem rather shoehorned into the saga.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
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.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:19 (four years ago) link
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:35 (four years ago) link
"any way HE wanted to"
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
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.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:51 (four years ago) link
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)
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:18 (four years ago) link
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!
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
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.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:25 (four years ago) link
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.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
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
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Monday, 27 May 2019 02:30 (four years ago) link
Have the recent X-Movies been decent-ish? (not counting “Logan,” which I did see)
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Monday, 27 May 2019 02:31 (four years ago) link
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.
― John Denver – Led Zeppelin IV (Part II) (Old Lunch), Monday, 27 May 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
I just wanna see that shuttle cockpit heat da fuq up
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Monday, 27 May 2019 05:08 (four years ago) link
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.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Monday, 27 May 2019 07:21 (four years ago) link
they fucked it up the first time tbf
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 27 May 2019 07:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― earlnash, Monday, 27 May 2019 08:28 (four years ago) link
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 04:05 (four years ago) link
yeah i didn't mean to imply they'll do it better this time
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 08:13 (four years ago) link
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
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 09:01 (four years ago) link
(and that's a good thing, i think?)
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 06:41 (four years ago) link
(Age of Ultron obviously is not an adapation of Age of Ultron the comic, rather than the first Ultron story in The Avengers.)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 06:42 (four years ago) link
Al Williamson was a god. That Blade Runner adaptation is indeed great - and that Steranko cover!!
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 07:21 (four years ago) link
Claremont and Sienkiewicz with one-off New Mutants
― Brakhage, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
Wow
(Whatever happened to that New Mutants movie that was being developed; is that still on?)
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:46 (four years ago) link
The film is mentioned in that article.
― Tuomas, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
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.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 June 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
I read somewhere that the audience testing for the Mutants film was absolutely dire, so I think it's lost in reshoot/editing hell
― Brakhage, Friday, 14 June 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
Silver Surfer Black is pretty good; kinda like a Rick Griffin take visually
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 June 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
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
― stan by me (morrisp), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
I mean potentially so but I'm not expecting much more than Heroes for Hope 2: Hope Harder.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 22:22 (four years ago) link
oh shit, i'm excited by that Scioli info! Really looking forward to that.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
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.
― Logy Psycho (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
I do wish I could read Scioli's Kirby Comic
More than this?: http://www.tomscioli.com/?p=280
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 9 July 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
not coming out till October in any case by the look of it
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:50 (four years ago) link
loved X-Men Grand Design, looking forward to this!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
this took me a second to get the joek tbh
GI Joe vs Transformers is amazing fyi
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
yeah I hate reading comics onscreen, I want a printed version!
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 July 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link