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Abandon Hope, Ye Who Enter Here Avoiding Spoilers. The New Previews Thread.
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Though if I didn't know Spot was going to be in it already when he says "What idiot would hit this" my first thought was, "Frank fucking Castle."
It totally does.
DC's The Source blog posted previews for next week's flashpoint minis today.
Honestly, they all look pretty swanky. But, particularly Secret Seven and Batman.
Looks pretty.
Planet Red Hulk is followed by the return of Zzzax. Ah-fuck yeah.
Feel the searing intensity!
It's kind of strange to release something like this so soon after all that hubub surrounding the whole "pornographic/obscene materials" seized while crossing the Canadian border thing.
Or it might just be in semi-protest, following in Neil Gaimans footstep, protesting said idiocy.
Yeah, that is pretty awful. Plus little things like the sound effects being perfectly horizontal rather than flowing with the art, if you get what I mean.
Edit: Edited.... for wrongness....
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It seems like Rucka's going for a hybridization of recent Punisher series, like Remender and Fraction's, and Punisher MAX. So it's going to be a really gritty, grounded series, that just happens to take place on the periphery of the Marvel U. Which I suppose is what Punisher was, pre-Ennis. I'm interested to see whether he can pull it off.
That said, it seems really weird that Marvel staggered these Big Time books in such a way, with Moon Knight, Daredevil, and Punisher all coming out months apart. Maybe it was to avoid cannibalizing sales, by launching them all at the same time, but it seems like it's deflated some of the hype.
Also, it's really weird to see what's clearly Morgan Freeman, in full Se7en costume, just kinda hanging out in a Punisher comic.
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Having just finished Remender's Punisher run, I think it really worked in trying to have Frank be in the Marvel Universe, because while he might go after gangs normally, he's also not going to let villains get away when he's in the area. Remender even helped flourish this idea by bringing out/resurrecting a lot of villains. Instead of Frank just chilling in NYC, have him travel the country, knowingly cleaning up cities with little to no meta presence.
And like you mention, the hype seems to have died down with this and DD, this being the book most likely to suffer. Even Moon Knight seems to just be out there, neither praise nor scorn, just kind of there.
Probably just the artist having fun
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oh man i am buying the shit out of shield volume one asap
more casanova
yesss
oh hey actually good writing for a transformers comic
that's it, James Roberts, co-writer of Last Stand of the Wreckers is writing this issue
Here's another article, that gives a better idea of what the series will be like.
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Fuck you, Skadi. Lady Ghost Rider, you're alright by me.
Wait. What's up with the massive gauntlet?
And I'm not going to say anything about Punisher.
edit also yeah ghost rider with boobs is just...huh.
Yeah, that gaunlet just spontaneously appears on her arm. It's some Agardian something or other I'm guessing, picks it up off Hela, forged by Iron Man? Fuck knows.
And all I'm gonna say about Punisher is that Frankencastle would have fit in with all the other "left of centre" styled story arcs in the other re-started street hero books, but I'll give it a chance.
Frankencastle is a little more "left of center" than Daredevil being happy or Moon Knight being extra crazy.
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Decidedly so. But is that a bad thing? Personally, I would prefer the initial story be a little too weird than just the same old, same old.
Although, now I think about it... Moon Knight is just a new kind of crazy, why shouldn't Frank just fight a new era of gangs. Ooh, like the New Yancy Street Gang that tried to mug Johnny and Ben while he was human! Watching Punisher fuck them up would be amusing as hell.
but having fresh but still recognizable incarnations of Moon Knight and Daredevil alongside ZombieFrank is a lil bit jarring
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I wouldn't say "Happy." On WRA Mark Waid described him as Duchovny's character on Californication. He's not going to eat a bullet, but he still has things to answer for.
Ah, ok. I have listened to a few of those WRA podcasts. I remember listening to a Matt Fraction one and a Rick Remender one. I don't really have a lot of patience, which is the reason I don't listen to podcasts. I would much rather read an interview than listen to it, for whatever strange reason.
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