Marvel Comics blabbery

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

"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" = the past four days of news

oh I got the reference I just don't agree that that's analogous

death in the real world always has consequences

murder has been very common throughout human history (comics, not so much) and not really convinced this era is any more murderous than previous eras tbh

dunno if comparing modern age to bronze age either irl or in marvel eras is ever going to be partic fruitful.

why not? it seems to me like the levels of murder in mainstream superhero comics is fairly easy to track and it's gone from non-existent to super-rare to fairly common to omnipresent

rip comics code

Spoiler: mainstream (read: Marvel, those being the ones I read and am most familiar with) comics aren't actually all that murdery, at least inasmuch as murder is by no means omnipresent. The books with a high body count are enough of an outlier that they're fairly noteworthy.

So five (I think?) people getting murdered in this Vision book was an outlier?

my opinion is that everyone who wants to read marvel comics should be buying more issues of unbeatable squirrel girl

xxp well i wasn't looking to have a serious conversation about this, but i would suggest that graphic murder in mainstream comics was an every issue thing in the thirties and forties, waned considerably through the fifties, mostly disappeared in the era of the comics code and then came roaring back as a grim and gritty thing throughout the 90's and 00's. homicide as character development is currently undeniaby lodged in the goiterous throats of marvel and dcs glut of more mediocre titles; i think you could argue that's a side effect of the mid-90's death of superman/breaking of batman? anyway, i blame geoff johns.

And I can't recall a time when there were as many non-specialty titles (i.e. stuff that isn't based on a licensed property or released under a YA sub-imprint) specifically geared toward younger audiences.

Yes, Vision was an outlier with a darker tone than most (but certainly not all) of Marvel's other titles.

never forget, the second issue of action comics features superman straight up killing a guy but it's okay cause he deserved it
http://i.imgur.com/xVKJnZv.png

Blaming Geoff Johns is a good general policy in this and many other, wholly-unrelated instances.

also, here's batman shooting a "vampire"
https://i.imgur.com/TQkQjoW.png

maybe i should start a "when superheroes kill" thread