Marvel Comics blabbery

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.

Aldo, please do a Rebirth thread.

ulysses is not far off the mark, the Star Wars books (Vader especially) are some of the better things Marvel has published recently.

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

Aldo, please do rebirth!!!!!!!!!!

My god, do you want to actually kill the man?

Worth it

kudos to Al for this American Kaiju plot, I'm laughing

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.

it's... readable? Little flowery on the prose. It's a single issue, hardly fair to judge anyone based on that.

$5 for 23pp, Black Panther is for the people

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.

Little flowery on the prose

Don McGregor tribute?

you tell me
http://i.imgur.com/jVUruU1.png

btw, on thread recommendation I read the first six issues of Tom King's The Vision... it's great!

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

Why is that lol?

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)

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.

Marvel probably should lead with the 'two half nude lesbians' in those parts of the country where TNC isn't a hook.

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.

I'd be hella psyched if The Vision tom king was pal-yat-chee tom king

different guy: https://www.facebook.com/tomkingauthor

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?

he's an ex CIA operative. I think he's been busy with other things.

Explains why he took a couple of decades off comics.

The world needs to laugh!

I think daily Texan tom King is a storyboarder now

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.

It occurred to me today: does every Marvel superhero team now have someone who can teleport or at least some sort of teleportation device?

probably but only one is adorable

https://thewritersmultiverse.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/ms-marvel-generation-why-2.png?w=474&h=356

lockjaw and ms marvel are so good together - reminds me of kitty pryde and lockjaw

uh, lockheed i mean. never realised how similar their names are before!

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.

Yeeesh. Wasn't she created by Delano? That seems excessively punny for him.

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?

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.

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.

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

This conversation has made me go back through Betsy's history and MAN did a lot of bizarre, terrible things happen to her

yeah, even by x-men standards she's been through some shit

Was it Slaymaster who possessed or posed as Brian and (at least) attempted to rape Betsy?

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

That was Kaptain Briton: http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Byron_Bra-Dhok_(Earth-794)

Gah, can't even imagine reading that as a kid. That was some fucked up shit to see as an adult.

YUP. That's one of the things where I was reading the history and went "wait WHAT THE FUCK"

"hey guys, Betsy had to kill somebody again"

Every now and then the thought pops into my head that Psylocke isn't as murderous as the other X-Force characters and I wonder about her inclusion until I remember her actual backstory as opposed to only remembering how she was drawn pre-Siege Perilous

I was thinking the other day about Rick Remender's additions to the mutant/Avengers stories and all told, I think it worked pretty well? He grabbed The World from Morrison's run, added the character of Father, and then managed to spin it into at least two different stories -- the accelerated time X-Force/Apocalypse thing, and the android ascension, tied to the original Human Torch, story in the Secret Avengers plot. And then he kind of merged the two -- with Deathloks!