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The New, Mighty and Secretly Dark Avenging (and Defending) Thread!

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Ooh yes Ikaris and the Eternals

    Me like

  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    I love the Eternals, I hope this means they're going to get more face time soon

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
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    So it is looking like Skaar will be joining the New Avengers

    I can dig this

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    I have lost nearly all interest in New Avengers

    So I might check it out

    But it's only a might

  • JyrenBJyrenB St. AugustineRegistered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Did the solicit hint at Skaar joining?

    Because it looks more to me that it's more of Norman's Dark Avengers vs. the New Avengers that is just not being set up. Since Skaar is Norman's Hulk.

    EDIT: Or the solicit could basically say so, yeah.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    It isn't enough to make me go OH YEAH NEW AVENGERS WOOO because that book has been directionless since the renumbering


    but Skaar is cool and I wouldn't expect him to be on the team, so I am intrigued

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    JyrenB wrote:
    Did the solicit hint at Skaar joining?

    Because it looks more to me that it's more of Norman's Dark Avengers vs. the New Avengers that is just not being set up. Since Skaar is Norman's Hulk.

    EDIT: Or the solicit could basically say so, yeah.
    Yeah the solicit says WILL ONE OF THE DARK AVENGERS BECOME A NEW AVENGER? and Skaar is the only one on the team who has been anything close to a hero in the past and hasn't been super friendly towards Norman

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Skaar is pretty cool

    Conan Hulk is good Hulk, and if regular Hulk has to stick to the status quo then letting Skaar do it is all good

    At some point I intend to actually read all of the Hulk stuff by Parker? I think? All the stuff that is supposed to be pretty good after WWH anyway.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Parker's Hulk is astoundingly good

    it turned Red Hulk from one of my most hated characters to one of my favorites

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Well I might check it out then

    When I have the money and time

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
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    So uh

    Cable turns into Colossus?

    that is lazy design :/

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Seems to indicate that he's losing his battle against the techno-organic virus?

    Does that mean he's going to die again?

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    I wouldn't be surprised if he died at the end of X-Sanction, no.

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  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote:
    I wouldn't be surprised if he died at the end of X-Sanction, no.

    Yeah same here

  • Sharp101Sharp101 TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Did any of you read the first issue of X-Sanction? Where they come right out and say "The techno-organic virus will kill Cable in 18 hours, so he needs to fix things before that happens"

    Common guys :P

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Yes because character never escape death sentences

    I think he will die but that is hardly a given thing

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  • Sharp101Sharp101 TorontoRegistered User regular
    I agree, but you guys were speculating on the techno-organic virus and if it was killing him. I just wanted to point out that it was already stated that was the case.

  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    A pretty good article and catch on Squirrel Girl now being labeled as a teenage hero.

    I've never seen Squirrel girl as being in her teens, or younger than Songbird is for instance.

  • cshadow42cshadow42 Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    TexiKen wrote:
    A pretty good article and catch on Squirrel Girl now being labeled as a teenage hero.

    I've never seen Squirrel girl as being in her teens, or younger than Songbird is for instance.

    Edited for pointing out the blindingly obvious from the link.

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Is it just me, or is the perspective on that NA cover really messed up?

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    cshadow42 wrote:
    TexiKen wrote:
    A pretty good article and catch on Squirrel Girl now being labeled as a teenage hero.

    I've never seen Squirrel girl as being in her teens, or younger than Songbird is for instance.

    Edited for pointing out the blindingly obvious from the link.

    I mean before Bendis just decided to do what he does. She's always seemed to be in her mid 20's, and just really optimistic, instead of a youthful naivety. This puts her as younger than Firestar and possibly Gravity, which is just weird.

  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Sharp101 wrote:
    I agree, but you guys were speculating on the techno-organic virus and if it was killing him. I just wanted to point out that it was already stated that was the case.

    yeah, I haven't read any of X-Sanction

    I just like to speculate on things

  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote:
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    So uh

    Cable turns into Colossus?

    that is lazy design :/

    This looks like it was originally Red Hulk.

    also yay Eternals!

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    Weaver wrote:
    Blankzilla wrote:
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    So uh

    Cable turns into Colossus?

    that is lazy design :/

    This looks like it was originally Red Hulk.

    holy shit, yeah it does

  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    Wasn't there a Red Hulk story where he fought X-Force? Maybe McGuinness just reused an old cover layout he had.

  • Sharp101Sharp101 TorontoRegistered User regular
    Wait, why black costume Spider-man?

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Stealth mission or some other excuse?

    He can swap suits at any moment nowadays because of his fancy FF suit

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  • SatanIsMyMotorSatanIsMyMotor Fuck Warren Ellis Registered User regular
    Here's how X-Sanction will end. Big misunderstanding. Cable is being manipulated by Blaquesmith. Something something. They'll kill him and Cable will be back. Something. New Cable series. Something something.

  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    Blaquesmith is Ultron, Cable is now Nova, de-aged and without the techno virus!

  • SolarSolar Registered User regular
    TexiKen wrote:
    Blaquesmith is Ultron, Cable is now Nova, de-aged and without the techno virus!

    Don't say things like that

  • GankGank Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    He does it to hurt you, Solar.

    And I am crazy psyched that Skaar is gonna be kickin' it with the NA. I really like Skaar as a character, the scene with him and Daken sitting in the diner in whatever it was a while back cemented my love for him.

    Weaver wrote:
    This looks like it was originally Red Hulk.

    I actually thought that was Red Hulk for a second, just... metal for some reason. I really wouldn't be surprised if it was a re-do of a cover for that X-force crossover like Tex said.


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  • GospreyGosprey Registered User regular
    TexiKen wrote:
    Bye bye all ages books, for probably yet another relaunch.

    I really hope the reveal in Battle Scars isn't (spoilers but just a theory)
    Marcus Johnson being Fury's kid and then becoming the Samuel L. Jackson of the regular universe, that would just feel very forced. John Walker for head of SHIELD.
    I'm going with...
    secret son of the Red Skull, or other prominent racist.

  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    Whats the status of cain marko? i know he lost his connection to cyterrok, but couldnt find any books where he actually died or of him after the last 'fear itself' issue.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    Maybe he's in that Fearless aftermath issue, but I've heard nothing about that series anywhere since it started, not even some puffery pieces at the comic news sites.

  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    looks like Sin and Crossbones are going all over the place doing bad things, and they supposedly confront the Thunderbolts at the Raft in the latest issue.

  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Fearless has been so much better than Fear Itself, I kinda hated Fear itself, but I'm really digging Fearless.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    All I can say is that Iron Fist -- and, indeed, K'un-Lun -- will play a key role in 2012's "Avengers Vs. X-Men." Danny Rand's profile in the Marvel Universe is about to get a whole lot bigger. I've loved this character ever from his first appearance in "Marvel Premiere" #15 to Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction and David Aja's masterful handling of him in "The Immortal Iron Fist." If you're dying for your Iron Fist fix, check out "Defenders" #6.
    Oh hell yes

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  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    The Fearless maxiseries is indeed great and even if you disliked Fear Itself you should at least check out the first few issues.

    Kinda funny that all the Fear Itself aftermath stuff has been better than the original story. And I didn't hate the main FI story but the "deaths" of Bucky and Thor really spoiled it for me.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Yeah, looking back

    if two of the three acts of your storyline are centered around a pair of shocking deaths

    and those deaths turned out to either not happen or were reversed in less than a year, you got problems

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  • wirehead26wirehead26 Registered User regular
    I mean I understand that they were done to advance future stories, and the stories so far look to be really good, but it still cheapens the already laughable idea of a comic book "death".

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