So here I am finally mostly settled into my new apartment and going through my comic backlog and what the hell? New Hawkeye? It's been so long since it got a new issue I had forgotten I even had a subscription to that.
So how bout that Howard The Duck #1 . It certainly was a thing they did. It was pretty good, funny, exciting, but it was essentially "Cross-over" the comic book. Like every 2-3 pages they introduced or name dropped another marvel hero/villain. That's not necessarily a bad thing, and I'll admit I'm not well versed in all things Howard the Duck, so maybe this is par for the course, but I don't see this being more than just "how many properties can we shoe horn in this issue." and if that's what it is... ok I'd probably still read it because it was still pretty funny, but it could be more.
I very rarely pick up a Marvel book these days, but I shelled out for it. It was...mildly amusing. I'm not sure what audience they were going for; most of the jokes were corny as hell (although it did have some decent moments, and some great dialogue). I was kinda hoping they would keep the Howard personality from the Marvel Zombies run, but this one is...eh. A little more fuss-with-feathers.
Ironically, probably the best part of the book was how Howard hit it off with that inked young woman he was sharing a cell with. I mean, she has "future plot device" written all over her, but in a world where Spider-Man can't text legibly and She-Hulk treats him like a neanderthal that crawled out of an old episode of the Rockford Files, it's kind of nice to meet someone he can parlay with that's not a one-note-joke and can hold her own with him.
The ending was just kinda gratuitous, but you coulda called that. I give it three issues before we get a Spider-Verse crossover starring Peter Porker.
does anybody else get the issue in the unlimited library where the expand and remove issue links just... stop working? I swear, it seems like every couple weeks something else on their website breaks
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Dunno if I'm gonna stick with the new Hawkeye run after Fraction puts out his final issue (whenever the fuck that ends up being). Hawkeye just veered hard into Secret Avengers style shenanigans and I already read Secret Avengers so eh? I enjoy Secret Avengers but I dunno if I really need another comic telling the same sorta stories with the same tone.
Oh, well, I guess that works out then! I'm terrible about keeping up with the publishing news side of all this.
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Dan Slott is writing the Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows story, and all the art looks happy and it makes me feel happy, then he brings up this being the Last Days/last Spidey story and Venom is going to come at him in full force because of the family thing and I'm all "can't.....can't it just be a happy story and leave it at that?"
Let Venom come after Spider-Man but is hit by a bus and that's it, they all go to the park and have ice cream and then Peter and MJ drop May off to play with Franklin and Val and have a date and that's that.
I doubt it would sell. You don't see a lot of comics about a dude just being a dad. Even Cyclops and Saga, which are both about parenting, have lots of fights and stuff.
Happy stories are rough sells because most stories rely on conflict of some kind. That said, there's no real reason that a person with a happy, healthy family life couldn't have enough conflict to drive a superhero comic, and honestly, there aren't a whole lot of comics with that dynamic, and I'd love to see more of that.
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What was the point of making the kid's hair colour red, when in the Spider-girl series she's a brunette. Like, sure they could always say he later dyes her hair, but it just seems like an unnecessary change.
What was the point of making the kid's hair colour red, when in the Spider-girl series she's a brunette. Like, sure they could always say he later dyes her hair, but it just seems like an unnecessary change.
It also seems like a really minor thing that isn't an issue
Like this isn't the same universe as Spider-Girl
Who cares if she has red hair, it shows she takes after her mom
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If she was blonde Peter would have a lot of explaining to do....
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What was the point of making the kid's hair colour red, when in the Spider-girl series she's a brunette. Like, sure they could always say he later dyes her hair, but it just seems like an unnecessary change.
It also seems like a really minor thing that isn't an issue
Like this isn't the same universe as Spider-Girl
Who cares if she has red hair, it shows she takes after her mom
That article sort of implies they're both divergent from the same pregnancy plot from the 90s, meaning they should still be the same person.
If she was blonde Peter would have a lot of explaining to do....
Hmm. I knew Texas had problems with their sex ed curriculum, but I was unaware of how deep the problem went until this very moment
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d.....dammit.
edit: no wait I'll save it! Something something spider totem Charlotte's Web spider-babies!
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Uncanny X-Men #32, picked it up after that two year story, it gets some things right, and then it feels like Bendis had to twist the knife a bit.
Everyone still feels really artificially hostile to Scott, and while his reasoning for the revolution is fine, it just accepts he was wrong the whole time. It borrows a lot from the Civil War era of bad stories where Tony is automatically in the wrong simply because Steve died, which is very cheap when it comes to comics.
He also has a chance to fix the Scott/Emma thing and then whiffs on that because he inexplicably hates them together and makes Scott say something really not-Scott like and in someways worse than his whole Dr. Doom/Ms. Marvel cow whore line from Mighty Avengers.
And Havok's here now, apparently not evil from the way it seems. Though it looks like he might finally be addressing the adults on the team's powers being wonky, if only to say they got better off panel somewhere in time for the linewide relaunch.
Waid is def one of the few that could follow post hickman, im in.
also not surprising but confirms miles coming the the "main" marvel universe post secret wars.
Im def in.
wonder who is in the iron man armor
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Uncanny X-Men #32, picked it up after that two year story, it gets some things right, and then it feels like Bendis had to twist the knife a bit.
Everyone still feels really artificially hostile to Scott, and while his reasoning for the revolution is fine, it just accepts he was wrong the whole time. It borrows a lot from the Civil War era of bad stories where Tony is automatically in the wrong simply because Steve died, which is very cheap when it comes to comics.
He also has a chance to fix the Scott/Emma thing and then whiffs on that because he inexplicably hates them together and makes Scott say something really not-Scott like and in someways worse than his whole Dr. Doom/Ms. Marvel cow whore line from Mighty Avengers.
And Havok's here now, apparently not evil from the way it seems. Though it looks like he might finally be addressing the adults on the team's powers being wonky, if only to say they got better off panel somewhere in time for the linewide relaunch.
TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
I do hope that's regular Tony there, not a teen or Pepper or just the suit itself mimicking his brain patterns or something, let him be normal, non-evil Tony doing a victory lap because he saved the day in Secret Wars.
So I remembered I have Marvel ultimate and been reading Thunderbolts( Red hulk) . God why cant everything be this good! I really enjoyed everything I read .
So anything in ultimate that I can read that had Agent venom after he left the team?
So I remembered I have Marvel ultimate and been reading Thunderbolts( Red hulk) . God why cant everything be this good! I really enjoyed everything I read .
So anything in ultimate that I can read that had Agent venom after he left the team?
He showed up in Minimum Carnage, the "Superior Venom" arc of Superior Spider-Man, and became one of the Guardians of the Galaxy starting with issue #14
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So I remembered I have Marvel ultimate and been reading Thunderbolts( Red hulk) . God why cant everything be this good! I really enjoyed everything I read .
So anything in ultimate that I can read that had Agent venom after he left the team?
He showed up in Minimum Carnage, the "Superior Venom" arc of Superior Spider-Man, and became one of the Guardians of the Galaxy starting with issue #14
Also, you could check out his own series written by Cullen Bunn, issue #28 picks up after he leaves Thunderbolts, the series ran until issue 42 and was collected in those three linked TPBs, not sure if it's on Marvel ultimate (Unlimited?) though
I am pretty bummed out by how Bendis has spent the last year of his run.
It feels like he's just kind of throwing a bunch of shit he didn't get around to into the ether right now so that future writers will be forced to pick up the threads.
And it's not like some clever thing where he's come up with a really neat cliffhanger, like his Daredevil. He's just.... like, got some cocktail napkins with ideas on them, and suddenly they're in the X-Men.
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Ironically, probably the best part of the book was how Howard hit it off with that inked young woman he was sharing a cell with. I mean, she has "future plot device" written all over her, but in a world where Spider-Man can't text legibly and She-Hulk treats him like a neanderthal that crawled out of an old episode of the Rockford Files, it's kind of nice to meet someone he can parlay with that's not a one-note-joke and can hold her own with him.
The ending was just kinda gratuitous, but you coulda called that. I give it three issues before we get a Spider-Verse crossover starring Peter Porker.
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"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
Oh, well, I guess that works out then! I'm terrible about keeping up with the publishing news side of all this.
Let Venom come after Spider-Man but is hit by a bus and that's it, they all go to the park and have ice cream and then Peter and MJ drop May off to play with Franklin and Val and have a date and that's that.
I doubt it would sell. You don't see a lot of comics about a dude just being a dad. Even Cyclops and Saga, which are both about parenting, have lots of fights and stuff.
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Like this isn't the same universe as Spider-Girl
Who cares if she has red hair, it shows she takes after her mom
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Hmm. I knew Texas had problems with their sex ed curriculum, but I was unaware of how deep the problem went until this very moment
edit: no wait I'll save it! Something something spider totem Charlotte's Web spider-babies!
Everyone still feels really artificially hostile to Scott, and while his reasoning for the revolution is fine, it just accepts he was wrong the whole time. It borrows a lot from the Civil War era of bad stories where Tony is automatically in the wrong simply because Steve died, which is very cheap when it comes to comics.
He also has a chance to fix the Scott/Emma thing and then whiffs on that because he inexplicably hates them together and makes Scott say something really not-Scott like and in someways worse than his whole Dr. Doom/Ms. Marvel cow whore line from Mighty Avengers.
And Havok's here now, apparently not evil from the way it seems. Though it looks like he might finally be addressing the adults on the team's powers being wonky, if only to say they got better off panel somewhere in time for the linewide relaunch.
Helllll yes
also not surprising but confirms miles coming the the "main" marvel universe post secret wars.
Im def in.
wonder who is in the iron man armor
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
Truth, because this page is spot-on.
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Oops I just posted this in the Avengers thread.
Looks cool. Iron Man looks kinda Iron Womany.
So anything in ultimate that I can read that had Agent venom after he left the team?
He showed up in Minimum Carnage, the "Superior Venom" arc of Superior Spider-Man, and became one of the Guardians of the Galaxy starting with issue #14
Also, you could check out his own series written by Cullen Bunn, issue #28 picks up after he leaves Thunderbolts, the series ran until issue 42 and was collected in those three linked TPBs, not sure if it's on Marvel ultimate (Unlimited?) though
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
It's like the green ending from ME3 mixed with Cyclops merging with Apocalypse
if that's true it interests me enough to check it out, and would make the OGN format really carry weight again.
His dialogue wasn't at the top of his game but the plot was fast and solid and I like the new status quo it presents
Wonder if that will have relevance after secret wars...
Personally, I would have used Dani Moonstar and Nate Grey. I miss those two.
It feels like he's just kind of throwing a bunch of shit he didn't get around to into the ether right now so that future writers will be forced to pick up the threads.
And it's not like some clever thing where he's come up with a really neat cliffhanger, like his Daredevil. He's just.... like, got some cocktail napkins with ideas on them, and suddenly they're in the X-Men.