Marvel Comics blabbery

Yeah given the shit she had to put up with last time, Marvel should really be in the Do Whatever The Fuck Chelsea Cain Wants business. Also, she's a good comic book writer!

morrisp yeah kinda what I’m thinking

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, October 14, 2018 2:29 AM (seven hours ago)

Wendig says it was his editor, since-the-days-of-Malibu veteran Mark Paniccia. I don't think I've ever heard a story of Perlmutter being involved in hiring or firing of creators, and doubt that he's read a single comic book since buying the company.

part of a thread:

This was done with purpose and swift measure, suggesting an ideological bent. Further, nothing I'd said or done in my tweets recently had made the news -- well, it made cuckoo alt-right news blogs, which is the only place I make that kind of splash.

— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) October 13, 2018

Interesting thread, and what a crappy thing. F*** Marvel, I guess.

Yeah fuck marvel for throwing chum to these fuckers

I’m down on Marvel, but this Target moment was undeniably cool:

https://i.imgur.com/zUtvE7r.jpg

It’s amusing how even this (well-done) newspaper survey of all these Spider-characters doesn’t know how to summarize Jessica Drew’s background: https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-et-hc-spider-verse-spidey-characters/

Looking forward to seeing this movie with my kid, btw.

Why were marvel superheroes always getting put in tubes in the 1970s

https://lamardelibros.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/avengers_vol_1_174.jpg

My favorite variety of tube is that which requires the captive to be nude for some reason but whose restraints thoughtfully cover all bathing suit areas.

Jessica Drew is the Hawkman of Marvel. Her past is a mess so the best thing you can do is just move forward.

My favorite variety of tube is that which requires the captive to be nude for some reason but whose restraints thoughtfully cover all bathing suit areas.

LOL, for reals!

Irregularly shaped, Kirby-style tangles of machinery are perfect for shackles that strategically cover those areas on a nude captive.

It occurs to me that Spider-Ham’s somewhat awkward/counterintuitive origin story (spider bitten by radioactive pig) is a semi-parody of Jess Drew’s OG origin.

Another one
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/marvel-presents-12-the-shipyard-of-deep-space/4000-17692/

I dreamt the other night that I had to retcon every single Marvel Event since the beginning of whenever, even ones I had no idea existed. I think I was doing Seige when I woke up.

dreams vmic

:D

Do y'all know about Douglas Wolk's "616 Society" reading group? A deep dive into a single Marvel comic every day, done messageboard style.

https://www.patreon.com/douglaswolk/overview

The Patreon angle is that he's charging a dollar a month to join the discussion and will use that money to finance startup of a podcast when his All the Marvels book comes out.

I signed up even though I don't have Marvel Unlimited, though I may drop out pretty quickly -- the first week's comics include two from the 1960s and five from 2001-2015. I only have access to one of the seven.

It hit me that a way to explain how the Marvel Universe comics 'changed' and all this weirdness started to happen because when it was put back together in the Infinity Gauntlet, it was all a degraded copy.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Infinity_Gauntlet_1.jpg

Timeline wise, considering that story happened in '91, just as the 90s weirdness hit the Marvel books - kinda works to me.

Is this the place to talk about the Spider-Verse movie, or am I supposed to do that in an ILE thread or something?

There are two Spider-Verse threads already , imo bump some unrelated one from 2002 and chat about it there

Might I recommend I just the Spiderman trailer!

Thanks... now that a few hours have passed, I feel like all I really have to say is, “That was very very cool, but here are a few plot holes bugging me: ” — and no one really needs that.

Signed up for DW's Patreon, looking forward to it. Not sure I'll get involved with the bulletin board but I like Douglas's writing, and the year he did 52 Pickup was probably my favourite year of comic booking as an adult.

WmC I can er share those with you, if you like

Thanks Chuck, I'll take you up on that. I have FF#51 from week 1 but none of the others.

I've ILXmailed you a link - hopefully that works!

That address is defunct -- could you send it to wmcrµmp at gmail?

Done!

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I brought up my plot-hole observations to my 6-yr-old kid. I’m that guy.

My son asked why Peter Parker calls himself “your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man,” and I said — good question.

I assume it’s a play on an advertising slogan from the ‘60s or ‘70s; like, “Ask your friendly neighborhood grocer”?

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/06/26/origin-spider-mans-friendly-neighborhood/

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That article is incorrect in at least one regard, as it was first used in one of the like first five issues of ASM (was just reading about that particular issue the other day).

Oh, you're right. Seems like Spider-Man uses it when he's (spoilers) sucking up the Sandman with the vacuum cleaner in issue 4.

I was flipping thru a reprint of Am Fantasy #15 the other day, and was impressed by how economical the storytelling is... Spidey's origin, from introduction to costume, takes like two pages. You're so familiar with the "beats" of the story, from seeing it told & retold so many times; and then you're reminded that originally there were only those "beats" (a panel with the spider bite; a few panels of the wrestling match; etc.).

IIRC, Action Comics #1 is even more extreme -- Supe's origin story takes up just a few panels on the intro page, and the (brief) issue contains two full adventures and a cliffhanger.

(I guess thanx to Bendis, you can now pay $5 to see a few characters argue in a room for most of an issue.)

I had this when I finally read The Hobbit a couple months ago - Battle of Five Armies, three hours on the screen, three paragraphs on the page.

Also, I got caught in a Garfield wormhole while procrastinating at work (I ran out of Nancy), and those comics may not be funny, but they are pretty incredible at concision (in a way that, say, Peanuts isn't - it's more like a rumination)

It’s interesting to read the old Sunday “Peanuts” before Schultz had figured out that the first two panels (which some papers omit to save space) should be a separate little gag, and instead was using them to “extend” the main strip... which usually really f’d up the rhythm by sticking this superfluous padding at the beginning.

*Schulz

Read a thing last night that made me feel like a toooooootal Marvel newb dunce: the name 'Giant-Man' contains Pym's prior codename in its entirety.

Wow, I've never noticed that before either!

i'd like to present both of you with an anti-no-prize for this one, smdh

Yeah, that’s cool...

Hey, for anyone who’s been following along — has Marvel revealed the deal behind that mysterious new heroine who was retconned into the Avengers’ entire history a year or so back? I would look it up, but don’t remember her name, the “event” name, or anything else...

during that "no surrender" deal? she was a plant by the grandmaster, actually his daughter. she wasn't part of their history, it was just a mind game so he could get the edge in the battle

on a "today's comics" note i've got to give jason aaron some credit for having an issue dedicated to setting up an avengers support team ("agents of wakanda" since black panther's done the recruiting) that has a very ewing-esque lineup

i'm a sucker for anything featuring gorilla-man, though

better known by his prior codename "Illa-man"

Tuomas and OL to the “things you were old when you realised” thread

... i never realized that either ;_;

picturing a version where he's wearing a karate gi now