Avengers: Infinity War

Okay so now that the cat's out of the bag re: the title my question is: was it really necessary to keep that poor cat in a bag for months and months? Like I can see them wanting to keep Avengers: Genocide-Reversers on the QT but exactly how is Endgame meant to leave us shaken to our very core?

It's not exactly up there with the Civil War reveal

The title is so shit they were just too afraid to reveal it sooner. Case closed.

It's true, the world may not be ready for a scat-centric Avengers flick.

i have never met a not a bendis guy in my life

Bendis is mad overrated and always has been.

this is strong truth

The first thing I read by Bendis was Alias #1, which everyone I associated with who was into comics was having orgasms over and talking about how wonderful it was. I grabbed a copy in the comic book store, opened it up, saw that Luke Cage's dialog had many instances of the word "nigga" in it, then saw the main white woman character have an internal monologue about her self-destructive, self-degrading qualities while Luke fucked her in the ass.

This may be the makings of a prestige comic to some but it's not one to me.

But anyway, let's get back to what's important here, which is Clint Barton chopping up the Marvel universe one limb at a time.

MCU have good form for taking bad Millar/Bendis ideas and improving on them

DJP also OTM, Alias is unreadable

bendis? like, fuck him

i'm just a miles morales stan but that alias excerpt sounds pretty inexcusably bad

Yikes, I've had a damaged copy of Alias that I've been meaning to read for a couple of years. Think I'll just let that one go.

I am a big fan of Miles Morales! Not so much of Bendis, though.

I think the character of Miles is great, and that his corner or the universe has grown well... but I don’t think the stories, past the first couple dozen issues, have been any great shakes. I like what other writers have done with him more than Bendis (beyond the first ~ year). I think a huge part of the charm has been the art, especially the work of Sara Pichelli, who I wish would come back. See also: Silk

i'm gonna try to see Into the Spiderverse tomorrow also, stoked for that

yeah, that’s the marvel movie i’m most psyched about atm for sure

Bendis has sucked since 1995

If that's a tacit thumbs-up for his early crime comics, I must vehemently disagree witchoo.

i like powers

i said it

If that's a tacit thumbs-up for his early crime comics, I must vehemently disagree witchoo.

nah, I didn't mind an eight-pager that he drew and Warren Ellis wrote in Negative Burn, before Ellis had collapsed into a hyper-dense black hole of his own regular tics and tropes

Ellis is capable of reverting to straightforward storytelling and he's actually honed that part of his craft. It's just under a layer of all those tics too often, sadly

I'm sure he crammed plenty of the tics into those 8 pages, I just hadn't read anything else other than Lazarus Churchyard at the time (he'd barely written anything else other than Hellstrom and Doom 2099)

His run on Excalibur was from around then and was relatively understated, as I recall. I enjoyed it at the time and was kinda less than thrilled when his subsequent work ramped up into full-bore ticdom.

(I say that and then immediately recall Pete Wisdom being among the first gruff n' gritty Ellis analogues.)

At least Pete Wisdom was funny.

(I like his tics)

nice to see you, Dan!

xp

xxpost Yeah, and still understated relative to what came not long after (think there was probably only a year or two between his first Marvel work and Transmetropolitan).

hey everybody

funny how actually liking your job leaves less time for here

Hi, Dan. I hope to discover that for myself one day.

The tics are definitely irritating (I swore off him long ago) but I feel like Ellis is even worse when he's got his po-faced sci-fi hat on

hi DJP!!

last thing I remember liking from him is Nextwave. At least it was taking the piss

Ellis has done good work despite his tics. But almost always despite his tics. The lesser stuff is all tic (was particularly miffed when he picked up Ennis's unfortunate 'John Constantine = me with my baddass meter cranked to 11' baton).

for some reason DC is letting Warren Ellis reimagine the Wildstorm universe, maybe because he did an ok job the first time. it's ok?

his Secret Avengers issues were good one-shot stories in a landscape where very few comics do one-shot stories anymore

And welcome to the Warren Ellis discussion thread.

DJP!

Powers sucked and led to my no longer reading Bendis (when I was reading comics), but I do remember loving his Daredevil run.

I thought Powers had like twelve issues and I'm going to be wildly confused if I investigate, right?

Yyyyyyup. I don't know if it's currently being published (I'm guessing not, since Bendis moved to DC) but it was still being published up until fairly recently.

Haha just a bit.

Vol 1 Powers had 37 issues
Vol 2 Powers had 30 issues
Vol 3 Powers had 11 issues
Powers Bureau had 12 issues
Vol 4 Powers has had 4(?) issues so far

I browsed the wiki entry a little and it sounds like I had read further than I thought, but I definitely jumped ship before volume 2 when the concept seemed to run out of steam and interesting ideas

Which is kind of the problem with how Bendis's Marvel work went, to me: he'd have a half-decent idea or at least pitch for a plot, sometimes not go overboard with his "we're all talking at once" dialogue, and kick out a decent plot arc. Then he'd inexplicably keep writing the title for several years. By the end, he was just doing the same plot arcs he'd already done, but on different books.

I was home sick over the holidays and idly watched this cuz it was free on Netflix and who wants to guess what I thought of it

Amazing effects supervision?

you cried at the end when they all crumbled away ;_;

is this a teaser trailer for your upcoming post

lol DJI respect knuckles

something something meter data

i wanna hear it!