Marvel Comics blabbery

It's too bad they retconned her seventies origin story, where it was revealed she was originally a spider that had been uplifted into a human by the High Evolutionary. That's an awesomely grotesque superhero origin.

that is great

To be fair, that original origin (when she was intended to be just a one-shot character, to establish trademark rights in the name) was immediately retconned later the same year, the next time she appeared.

(And I think she could not have seen long-term success with such a bizarre origin.)

One more point: as far as retcons go, revealing that the High Evolutionary had “gaslighted” her into thinking she had evolved from a spider, for psychological manipulation purposes, is still a pretty satisfyingly f’d-up background.

xp you say that but its 2020 and Spider-Pig is a household name whoooooooooooo

Spider-Ham, right? Spider-Pig was in the Simpsons movie

Was gonna say but figured my pedantry could be put to better use.

there is no better use for pedantry than correcting people on the accuracy of Peter Porker's sobriquet

Simpsons movie did more box office and has been on home video for 12 years, it's more likely to have generated a household name tbh

I demand they bring back Goose Rider

I had the original Marvel Tails comic and still occasionally think of the panel captioned "Goose Rider summons the demons of heck"

*HONK*

You may be in luck. The second of two collections of all the OG Spider-Ham material is forthcoming and a new title has just begun in the past month. We're in the midst of a veritable Ham-issuance.

*HONK*

*WANK*

for the youngsters:
http://i.imgur.com/8AG3bUL.png

still hilarious

The apex of comics

So, the summer X-Men event is revealed, and it's called 'X of Swords' and is about X-men getting swords...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Djz_cLWU4AAueVU.jpg

lol

That's Dazzler.

https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/introducing-the-new-new-warriors

I’m dying

am unclear if that's meant to be wildly tone deaf or just is wildly tone deaf

lol those character names

It is so gloriously dumb

Whoever is editing this book must be entirely devoid of shame

channeling the spirit of Stan Lee

eh think I'll wait for the new new NEW Warriors

I am seriously worried that my local shop is gonna go under :(

"I wanted to have teen characters who felt as "now" as the New Warriors did in 1990,” explains Kibblesmith. “The New Warriors have been zeitgeist characters from the beginning, you get edgy skateboarding Night Thrasher in the '90s and the Reality TV team in the 2000s, and now in 2020, we have New Warriors who have never grown up without the Internet, and one character who appears to essentially live inside it.

this almost makes it sound intentionally dumb, a tribute to fumbling, already-dated-when-they-debuted attempts at being contemporary from earlier decades? all of this really does sounds corny in almost exactly the same way as introducing a brooding skateboard-riding superhero called 'Night Thrasher' in 1990 was corny

https://i.imgur.com/4XnucnS.png

I like that I can't tell from that semi-page if it's a Colon or Kyle issue

I thought the current Cantwell/Larocca Doctor Doom series was limited, got to issue #6 and realized it's ongoing. Awesome!

Immortal Hulk #33 / LGY # 750, "The Thoughtful Man". Oversized issue, they used the extra pages to have many many double page spreads of amazing grotesque. This series...

marvel appears to be working with a partner on a kickstarter inspired premium line
https://marvelmade.net/

That's actually not THAT terrible price for what you get, though I won't be throwing around that kind of scratch for one set
Interesting that it's by ReedPOP (the NYCC people and so on) and they tied in a bonus for being an Unlimited subscriber

Exclusive new 20-page story by Chris Claremont & Salvador Larroca

Is there a more expensive offering where you don't get this

the internet

oh lol, i thought you meant JUST get that
no, these get distributed to your apple watch; you have no chance to survive, make your time

The lack of a proper collected edition of Claremont’s run remains pretty annoying/baffling. The only good attempt I’ve seen so far is the half size UK glossy versions

The Marvel Masterworks versions are all you need - includes the Wolverine series, God Loves Man Kills, Majik, and Kitty Pryde and Wolverine.

All of the Claremont issues of the X-Men are collected in Essential X-Men 1-11 too

I watched an episode of the Disney+ docuseries Marvel’s 616 that profiled two Spanish artists (Javier Garron and Natacha Bustos). Their stories were interesting, but the Marvel corporate folks were annoying, and the pace of the show was really slow; it felt like gauzy in-house Mouse House marketing (no surprise).

Anyway, I hoped it might address the question of why there are so many successful artists from Spain working in U.S. comics (I think I posed it a few years ago ITT); but no dice.

There’s an episode on women comics creators that looks interesting, tho I fear it may reverberate with the sound of Marvel patting itself on the back.

i dunno, so finding the loose, unfocused style enjoyable and not a hard marvel sell, but def not something i could see ppl not already invested in being fans off

I tried watching that other episode, but it’s just sooo slooowwww...

Like, why not capture the zing & zest of comics at least a little bit?

My kid’s watching the first episode, about the Japanese Spider-Man tv series from the ’70s... It’s actually pretty interesting.

Just a note that the FF:Road Trip one-off from last week is worth checking out. Well-written (by Halt & Catch Fire guy Christopher Cantwell) and gruey and fun at the same time, a very "makes it look easy" sort of comic.

Oh, that's how he's known? I've been digging his Doctor Doom ongoing, was wondering how he suddenly just started writing a bunch of mid-tier Marvel titles this year

from chip zdarsky, i lol'd

Marvel has decided to bring back Marvel Two-In-One with me as writer again, but this time the “Two” is talking heads and action and the “One” is the story. Will we be successful? Absolutely not, but I could really use the paycheck.