Marvel Comics blabbery

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

Have the recent X-Movies been decent-ish? (not counting “Logan,” which I did see)

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.

I just wanna see that shuttle cockpit heat da fuq up

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.

they fucked it up the first time tbf

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.

they fucked it up the first time tbf

yeah i didn't mean to imply they'll do it better this time

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

(and that's a good thing, i think?)

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.

(Age of Ultron obviously is not an adapation of Age of Ultron the comic, rather than the first Ultron story in The Avengers.)

Al Williamson was a god. That Blade Runner adaptation is indeed great - and that Steranko cover!!

Claremont and Sienkiewicz with one-off New Mutants

Wow

(Whatever happened to that New Mutants movie that was being developed; is that still on?)

The film is mentioned in that article.

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.

I read somewhere that the audience testing for the Mutants film was absolutely dire, so I think it's lost in reshoot/editing hell

Silver Surfer Black is pretty good; kinda like a Rick Griffin take visually

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.

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

I mean potentially so but I'm not expecting much more than Heroes for Hope 2: Hope Harder.

oh shit, i'm excited by that Scioli info! Really looking forward to that.

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.

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.

I do wish I could read Scioli's Kirby Comic

More than this?: http://www.tomscioli.com/?p=280

not coming out till October in any case by the look of it

loved X-Men Grand Design, looking forward to this!

Sorry that you have to wait a little longer for Scioli's Madballs vs. MUSCLE, shakes. Hope you survive the experience.

this took me a second to get the joek tbh

GI Joe vs Transformers is amazing fyi

More than this?: http://www.tomscioli.com/?p=280

yeah I hate reading comics onscreen, I want a printed version!

xpost I know, bruh! Scioli can do no wrong imo (haven't read his GoBots mini yet, tbf). He had some delightfully weird Wonder Twins backups in one of the Young Animal titles for those who may have missed it.

Anyone reading these hyped up new X-Titles?

i'm pretty excited by Powers/House of X #1. lots of groundwork already.
not super excited about following 6 new titles in October, might just two the two Hickmans and ignore the rest

yeah it’s early but the Hick-Men books seem promising

They’re not bad.

I have a few theories about what's actually going on in the Hickman X-books but I'd be outing my knowledge of too-many-X-things from the last decade of relatively mediocre books

They really have been mediocre. Both X-Men and their putative replacements the Inhumans have suffered from Perlmutter's infantile edicts over the past several years. Here's hoping Hickman and co. can right the ship.

the multiple simultaneous timeline's is a neat trick but i could see it wearing thin quickly.

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/marvel-ike-perlmutter/

I'd love to hear theories! I like it so far, but every second page I go 'huh, weren't they dead?'

I've read some of the Uncanny X-Men '19 reboot and skipped the big Age of X-Man event entirely (again, god, so many books to follow just for that. skipped War of the Realms for the same reason. Marvel's out of control) so can someone who has been following them explain to me how Hickman is able to do essentially a hard reboot of the entire X-Men timeline? Did Nate Grey blow shit up a second time? Or is that deliberately obscure at the moment for the story?

I mean I even read this and was still left scratching my head on a lot of things (especially at the reveal that Chuck was resurrected in.. Astonishing X-Men? at some point?) but I'm still amazed that Marvel grim-rebooted X-Men in December '18 (X-Termination/new Uncanny #1) only to re-reboot it in 7 months. I hope there's a good explanation for Pirate X-men and two edgelord kill-team books.

I'm not up to date but apparently they had Hickman lined up for a while and were secretly laying the groundwork for his run at least as early as the most recent Uncanny reboot.

Also from what I understand the Age of X crossover, despite being yet another alternate universe narrative, apparently does figure in to Hickman's plans.

Sorry so vague and possibly wrong. I've been trying to glean news without encountering spoilers.

I think Xavier's in The World (the one Fantomex is from) pulling recreations of his original X-Men from pods, calling his mutant homeland "Krakoa" as some sort of veiled reference, and doing accelerated time experiments at the same time we're being show glimpses of a far-flung future and humanity's being offered medical solutions that seem ahead of their time

“All this structured chaos reeks of machination” -- line Hickman's already used in Secret Wars but will probably paraphrase in six months

The fact that 'Powers of X', the book that takes place in years 1, 10, 100 and 1000 of X-men history, is pronounced 'Powers of Ten' is so stupid that I absolutely love it.

Hey guys I read a recent Marvel comic! It was Tom King's Vision. Pretty good, not as good as Miracle Man, which both had better art and a layer of narrative ambiguity that I liked.

Also made me kinda bummed out that superhero comics are so murder-y now. Which is weird given that no one stays dead. Like, narratively we are still supposed to register murder as extreme, transgressive, dramatic, etc. even though its impact has been undermined by both overuse and its lack of lasting consequences.

art imitating life there

was unaware of people constantly rising from the dead irl but maybe I'm missing something