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Apparently Hugo Weaving is rumored for the Red Skull?
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ALL MY DICKS
It's good that comics are joining the 21st century with digital distribution but other than that I think it's a shame that it'll have a crutch to limp along in the same old tired fashion it has been.
I lurve me some comic books but I can not stand the whole convoluted, episodic system that Marvel has set up. Seriously, I think there's 17 Spiderman universes and serieses..es floating around out there at the moment. The only superhero stories I will touch are delivered as single-shot graphic novels packaged as tradebacks. Everything else is horribly outdated male power fantasies and shallow gimmickery to keep people reading them out of sheer habit and/or ignorance of the world of not-sucking-so-hard graphic novels and independent comics.
tl;dr I am a very angry ranty person when it comes to how terrible Marvel comics usually are
There's actually a lot more good/varied stuff than you seem to think right now in Marvel. It's just you have to have the patience to find the good stuff, and I completely understand not wanting to dig through piles of shit.
Not to say there's a bunch of literary gems out there right this second, just that there's some entertaining stuff out there with stories somewhat deeper than dudes fighting for the title of manliest or whatever you think is going on at the moment.
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Point is, it's not like it was back in 2000 and earlier. They've made it better.
616
Ultimate
Mary Jane
Spider-Man Adventures
2099
Spectacular Spider-Girl
Various other one-off or rarely used continuities (Zombies, Noir, 1602)
Of those, Spider-Girl is kind of off in its own place and not really focused on Peter. MJ
Personally, I wouldn't count anything currently listed as a complete series. Adventures is for younger readers so I leave this out because it's pointless and never ties into canon.
That leaves you with 616, ultimate, and any tie in stuff that's currently still running. The best decision they made regarding spider man was to take all four books, (spectacular, amazing, and the other 616 books) cancel everything but amazing, and have it come out three times a month with different artists. I loved that decision.
General guidelines are that 5 to 10 years of comics encompasses a single year in the marvel U. Obviously there's retcons and such as the times change, but that's why Peter Parker is still in his late 20's.
This is so true. And also why it is a nightmare to try and collect comics when you don't have physical access to comic stores.
Honestly, I'd love if like, buying a Main Line Trade of something would give you access to the digital copies of tie-ins at a reduced price, or all the one-shots for free or... something. It is true, the only collectors I know are 1.) My friend who is a letterer and 2.) my dad who is able to spend $90 a week on comics just because.
I sure as hell won't be able to really buy full runs of anything. Watchmen is 12 books for $20. 12 individual issues are $40.
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Some people just...like to collect? I don't think that's a hard thing to grasp.
They could be setting up a World War Hulk movie. Which would be awesome.
There's no reason to ever actually buy a dvd either, technically
most of us still do
No one is talking about "buying" things, they're talking about "collecting" things. As in, "purchased for the primary function of simply existing."
Coincidentally, my last DVD purchase was Watchmen.
I have some decent comic books in my collection - Spawn #1, for instance - but I stopped collecting years ago and don't consider it a viable commodity any longer.
It um... it takes up a lot of space. I wouldn't recommend it. A couple are cool, but my dad was too young during the major #1's to get much in the way of really crazy stuff.
I wouldn't go that far. His hand to hand action is quite good, I'm just used to watching guys from Hong Kong do it way better in shitty little movies. I'm not criticising him for being crap or anything.
One thing I will defend with him is the brawl at the end of Serenity. He knew enough that one long take of action is worth way more than zillions of cuts to achieve the same thing. That fight was not one take, but they really made it look like one (the editing here was spot on too), and I appreciate the hell out of that.
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Most American films don't take it for granted that everyone somehow knows Fung Fu.
I find most Asian films to be unwatchably ridiculous, if only because if the same film was made in the US it would be decried as racist stereotyping.
The brawl at the end of Serenity is a really good example of an awesome, non-kung fun (at least one of the characters anyway) action scene. Which is what you want in an Avengers movie, unless Iron Fist is in it.
No, they seem to be in a "let's deconstruct every character we have, turn them into a giant asshole, and then kill them" mode.
Of course, I stopped reading X-books in the mid-nineties, with the exception of the Ultimate line. That shit turned into a horrible melange of rehashed old shit and incestuous partner-swapping.
I'm not sure what you are talking about, ultimates only had TWO volumes and they were awesome.
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I'm talking about the umpteen bajillion regular X-Men titles in the 616, not the Ultimate stuff.
Deadpool is the new Wolverine.
Didn't every cell in his body also double as a brain cell or something equally silly?
They even poke some fun at that themselvse. There's an issue of... whatever, with "feat. WOLVERINE!" and him on the cover. And nowhere else in the entire issue.
Just saw this on the net. Olivia Munn is rumored to be the Wasp and will have a cameo in Iron Man 2.
Nathan was never going to be Wasp anyway. Nathan is going to be Hawkeye. Summer Glau was Joss' choice for Wasp.
I think it's around 4 years, and 10-12 years have passed since the Fantastic Four showed up (which I guess is counted as the beginning of 'modern' Marvel). So the FF are late 30s, original X-Men are young 30s, SM is late 20s, etc
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As far as investment goes, comics haven't been a "viable commodity" since 1995 at the latest. You can find 99% of those big-name hot comics from 1989-1995 for sale at cover price or less. My preferred comic shop picked up dozens of copies of X-Men #1 (1991, not 1963) in a bulk lot a few years ago, and put them on the sales floor at cover price... and it took over a year to get rid of them all. There are only a few comics that are worth any money today:
- Comics from before ~1970
- First appearances of major characters from before ~1980
- Comics that a) had very low print runs, b) were never reprinted, and c) inexplicably picked up reader interest a few years later.
The only modern comics that are worth any money on the secondhand market are the ones that fall into that last category, and there's no way to predict which comics will end up there, or how long they'll stay there. Ironically enough, because of their low print run, a lot of Marvel's late-'90s to mid-'00s trade paperbacks will sell for more money than the individual issues that they reprint, though that should change now that Marvel's supposedly getting more serious about keeping their back catalogue of collections in print.Ben Grimm had a second bar mitzvah a few years ago to commemorate thirteen years since he was first turned into The Thing. Granted, every other comic these days has a multi-month time shift between storylines, so who knows how long it's supposedly been by now.
Edit: Now that I think about it, Peter's mom either had him really late, or there was a big age gap between her and May. She's looked like a grandmother since forever but normally an aunt of a guy Peter's age would probably only be in their 50s
I read 10 pages of Ultimates 3 and....uh....oh my god my eyes.
No it hasn't. For a year or two there in the early 90s the 2099 books were by far the best thing Marvel had going. You had Peter David, John Francis Moore, Len Kaminski, and Warren Ellis writing, and art by Rick Leonardi, Pat Broderick, Chris Bachalo, Ernie Colón...these guys were not slouches and they were putting out work that was wildly different from almost anything else that was being done at the time.