Thankfully, I don't think his is a creative role currently. Long may he remain exactly where he's at.
― You will notice a small sink where your sofa once was. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
Not going to hugely disagree with the hits and misses people have mentioned above. I had really high hopes for Moon Girl but it's kind of meandering. I quite like the Parker Spidey book in Cuba/Latin America but I might be alone. ChoHulk is better than it deserves to be and the Patsy Walker book is at least as good as Squirrel Girl. Bizarrely, both the Venom and Carnage books are 100x as good as you'd expect. Illuminati is a frustrating read but is actually quite entertaining and Angela is imo superior in an awful lot of ways to LadyThor. Also Hercules not as much fun as when it was Hulk iykwim but worth a look. Oh, and Al's Contest of Champions thing is a throwaway delight.
Pleasant Hill is not actively bad. The Jim Starling cosmic thing is a giant pile of crap. And it's hard to work out which is the worst X-Men book but perhaps Greg Land saves Uncanny from that fate. Now THAT'S damning with faint praise.
Anyway, so Steve Rogers. Who didn't see that coming?
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Sunday, 3 April 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
PS I could be tempted to do a Rebirth thread.
i'm always gonna be six months back with Marvel Unlimited... so the best things going six months back are the star wars books.
― ulysses, Sunday, 3 April 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
Aldo, please do a Rebirth thread.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 3 April 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
ulysses is not far off the mark, the Star Wars books (Vader especially) are some of the better things Marvel has published recently.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Sunday, 3 April 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
Yeah the two main Star Wars books are really aceing it since the big crossover.
Also - a great Spidey comic from Tumblr (!) http://hannahblumenreich.tumblr.com/post/141936003298/that-take-out-is-going-to-be-freezing-by-the-time
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 3 April 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Aldo, please do rebirth!!!!!!!!!!
― a hairy, howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 12:55 (seven years ago) link
My god, do you want to actually kill the man?
― I am very inteligent and dicipline boy (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 12:58 (seven years ago) link
Worth it
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
kudos to Al for this American Kaiju plot, I'm laughing
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 6 April 2016 13:45 (seven years ago) link
Coates's Black Panther selling huge number in some parts of the country (like 300 copies in a shop that normally sells 75 Amazing Spider-Mans per issue)l, I did okay but I'm not exactly shocked that TNC didn't generate a rush in the buckle of the Bible Belt.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 7 April 2016 06:52 (seven years ago) link
it's... readable? Little flowery on the prose. It's a single issue, hardly fair to judge anyone based on that.
― ulysses, Thursday, 7 April 2016 07:04 (seven years ago) link
$5 for 23pp, Black Panther is for the people
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 7 April 2016 07:42 (seven years ago) link
It¨s good. It's not earthshaking or twist filled, or unusual like something like The Vision. But it's thoughtful, well plotted, and some of the artwork is pretty awesome. The scene with the two lovers in silhouette was beautiful.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 7 April 2016 07:43 (seven years ago) link
Little flowery on the prose
Don McGregor tribute?
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 7 April 2016 07:56 (seven years ago) link
you tell mehttp://i.imgur.com/jVUruU1.png
― ulysses, Thursday, 7 April 2016 08:03 (seven years ago) link
btw, on thread recommendation I read the first six issues of Tom King's The Vision... it's great!
― ulysses, Thursday, 7 April 2016 08:31 (seven years ago) link
lol "beautiful"
why can't the internet tell me if the Tom King in comics from 2016 is the Tom King in comics from the 90s
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 7 April 2016 09:56 (seven years ago) link
Why is that lol?
― Frederik B, Thursday, 7 April 2016 10:02 (seven years ago) link
I mean, I doubt it, but I'd like to think DC finally caught on to the talent behind Snookums, That Loveable Transvestite
lol because the panel as posted by forks was unremarkable bigtwo drawing with block computer colouring (and clunky typing over the top, not that that's on Stelfreeze &/or whoever else, but it's still part of the panel)
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 7 April 2016 10:40 (seven years ago) link
It's not the most original drawing, no, and nothing in the scene is. But I still think it's beautiful. And it's not normally how the bigtwo draws black skin, I don't think, not to speak of how scenes with two half nude lesbians tend to be drawn.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 7 April 2016 12:07 (seven years ago) link
Marvel probably should lead with the 'two half nude lesbians' in those parts of the country where TNC isn't a hook.
― My Whole Existence Is Flan (Old Lunch), Thursday, 7 April 2016 12:13 (seven years ago) link
They've been discussed quite a bit in the pre-release interviews... Though mostly it was TNC talking with himself about his discomfort with the 'virgin warrior' concept of the dora milaje, how to deal with male gaze and that most of the creative team is male. Probably not the best strategy.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 7 April 2016 12:19 (seven years ago) link
I'd be hella psyched if The Vision tom king was pal-yat-chee tom king
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 7 April 2016 19:25 (seven years ago) link
different guy: https://www.facebook.com/tomkingauthor
― ulysses, Thursday, 7 April 2016 22:15 (seven years ago) link
that doesn't say he is, he could have gone bald in the 23+* years since Snookums
*wasn't it originally a Daily Texan strip, like Chris Ware and Robert Rodriguez, before Pal-Yat-Chee?
― glandular lansbury (sic), Thursday, 7 April 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
he's an ex CIA operative. I think he's been busy with other things.
― ulysses, Thursday, 7 April 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
Explains why he took a couple of decades off comics.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Friday, 8 April 2016 00:17 (seven years ago) link
The world needs to laugh!
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 8 April 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
I think daily Texan tom King is a storyboarder now
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Friday, 8 April 2016 00:30 (seven years ago) link
I finally switched from subscribing to single issues to subscribing to Marvel’s 5-issue paperbacks. Still reading: Doctor Strange, Howard the Duck, Ms. Marvel, and Squirrel Girl.
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 10 April 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
It occurred to me today: does every Marvel superhero team now have someone who can teleport or at least some sort of teleportation device?
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:29 (seven years ago) link
probably but only one is adorable
https://thewritersmultiverse.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/ms-marvel-generation-why-2.png?w=474&h=356
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 14 April 2016 06:46 (seven years ago) link
lockjaw and ms marvel are so good together - reminds me of kitty pryde and lockjaw
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 April 2016 10:46 (seven years ago) link
uh, lockheed i mean. never realised how similar their names are before!
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 April 2016 10:47 (seven years ago) link
Speaking of Marvel names with "lock" in htem, I only recently found out why Psylocke was thus named... Apparently it's an incredibly convoluted pun:
What does a psyche open?A psylock.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 14 April 2016 11:56 (seven years ago) link
Yeeesh. Wasn't she created by Delano? That seems excessively punny for him.
― I Pith On Your Quip (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:04 (seven years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Claremont created her as a character, though maybe not the name? Betsy Braddock has been around since the old Cap Britain comics of the 70s that Claremont wrote, but I'm not sure when they started calling her Psylocke... Maybe that was Delano?
― Tuomas, Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:07 (seven years ago) link
Seems it was Claremont who chose the name too:
In New Mutants Annual #2 (1986), Claremont integrated Braddock into the X-Men franchise. The story sees her abducted to the Mojoverse, where she is subjected to brainwashing, fitted with bionic eyes, and referred to as "the Psylocke" for the first time.
That's totally a Claremontian pun, though IIRC that New Mutants Annual (or any other comic by Claremont) doesn't actually explain it as a pun, you're supposed to figure it out yourself.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 14 April 2016 12:11 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I never read or heard that before. And you are correct, she was in the old Captain Britain comics, but she was just Brian's normal human sister and I think Delano was the one who made her a mutant.
― I Pith On Your Quip (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link
yeah, that sounds correct to me. delano and alan davis also scarred me for life when i was like eight and read the captain britain story where she's blinded by slaymaster:
http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/2013/psylocke/capbritain2-13c.jpg
that final panel is indelible in my mind
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
This conversation has made me go back through Betsy's history and MAN did a lot of bizarre, terrible things happen to her
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link
yeah, even by x-men standards she's been through some shit
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:34 (seven years ago) link
Was it Slaymaster who possessed or posed as Brian and (at least) attempted to rape Betsy?
― I Pith On Your Quip (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
no, i think that was a brian from an alternate reality - that panel of the assault is another that fucked me up as a kid
― a lad of balls (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:38 (seven years ago) link
That was Kaptain Briton: http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Byron_Bra-Dhok_(Earth-794)
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Gah, can't even imagine reading that as a kid. That was some fucked up shit to see as an adult.
― I Pith On Your Quip (Old Lunch), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
YUP. That's one of the things where I was reading the history and went "wait WHAT THE FUCK"
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:44 (seven years ago) link
"hey guys, Betsy had to kill somebody again"
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:53 (seven years ago) link