Marvel Comics blabbery

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.

I bought the first TPB collection of the new Spider-Woman series – it’s not good, just some origin retcon BS.

Meanwhile, I’m fleshing out my Kate Bishops via eBay before the Steinfeld Chronicles drives the prices of those up.

i like zdarsky but wish his comics were as interesting and funny as his public personality

like, as a writer, he's basically just a more-interesting charles soule

I'm a steady fan from Sex Criminals and his Peter Parker, Spider-Man run. Will get around to reading Daredevil at some point

oh, i think his artwork is great. i wish he'd be less dignified and more himself as a writer

He wrote the Spider-Man run! Give it a shot, it's largely goofy fun Spidey-times. Mainly involving Pete's secret sister joining continuity and the big secret identity reveal to JJJ -> hijinx.

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 think the episode is really worth watching for long-time Marvel fans. Obviously the whole series is mostly uncritical of Marvel as a company, so you'll have to accept that, but this particular episode has interviews of people like Nocenti, Louise Simonson, and June Brigman, none of whom I've ever seen interviewed in a proper documentary. It has, among other things, a lovely scene of Nocenti and Simonson getting together and reminiscing on what it was like working in the male-dominated bullpen in the 1980s. Of course they also interview newer creators like G. Willow Wilson and Kelly Sue DeConnick too, but for me it was particularly touching to hear the stories the older generation of women, whose comics I grew up with, from the era before Marvel really started to diversify their roster.

In fact, all of the episodes of "Marvel's 616" are pretty well-made, and have a fairly varied approach to their subjects, so IMO the whole series is worth watching out. Another standout was the cosplay episode, they did a great job of finding a diverse group on interviewees, and showing how for them cosplay can be a way of positively affirming, for example, their queerness or Black identity.

what the fuck

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/joe-bennett-apologises-over-immortal-hulk-43-anti-semitic-error/

they’ve failed to notice spelling errors in the lettered dialogue, so.... I’m not surprised editorial didn’t catch it

he said that was a Cronenberg nod - what's it referring to?

the name of the store was Cronenberg, which people read as an intentional dig as a "jewish name"
lots of diamond district stores have stars of david and i could see "Jewery" done backwards as an honest if catastrophic mistake. if anybody put up any resistance on a recall my spidey sense would go off but i think this was just a particularly dumb error. I hope!

oh lol. Cronenberg was misspelled too

xp I had a quick Google Street View drive-by (47th street, between 5th and 6th avenue) and couldn't see any - but then there's some artistic license in that the shops don't have anything much written on the windows, because it'd get in the way of the jewelry!

i'll amend that to "less prominent stars of david;" i imagine part of why the "our bad" response wasn't taken entirely at face value is pushing that imagery is stereotypical in any case.

you know, you watch Uncut Gems and try to do an unsubtle diamond merchant sketch and fuck it up three ways...

Long piece on Marvel's history (I haven't read it yet) - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/who-really-created-the-marvel-universe

Kim O'Connor read it so I didn't have to risk my blood pressure reading praise for R13sman

It's a really cogent and balanced explainer! Until the very end, where it's just like..... I genuinely don't know where to start pic.twitter.com/5ezJpZsIcL

— Kim O'Connor (@shallowbrigade) February 9, 2021