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Bitching Thread V: Out of Continuity and in Another Reality
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XBL: MightyManotaur
PA: TheSecretSeventh
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What's been wrong with the main Deadpool book? I trade wait for it and my next one is the Hit Monkey stuff.
After the X-Men arc it's just kind of.....there. There's no foil like Bullseye was in there Roadrunner/Coyote arc, or establishing Domino is scared of chickens in the X-Men arc. The Hit Monkey arc is just "good", because it's kind of interesting and Spider-Man's a real jerk, but then you have a stand alone issue where DP is in the south dealing with crooked cops that has it's moments but isn't altogether worth it, and then the recent Vegas Heroic Age story is just dull. Giant robots in Vegas with the Grizzly, it should be right up Deadpool's alley, but it was a chore to get through.
There are good jokes still in every issue, but they aren't enough to warrant buying the book.
They need to either make Deadpool a bonafide hero with a purpose or cancel his book. Though that's also why I'm looking forward to X-Force, since it will at least give him semi fresh interactions.
And then there's a poop joke in the comic, but like I said it's a poop joke with class (?), because Bob takes a piece of poop and imprints a key on it, so that when it hardens he can flush it down the toilet so DP can make a key copy of it.
And we also have the mob boss put Bob in a collar and crawl on all fours, and some other stuff
Deadpool really wasn't in the book until the end too.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Though it's a lot better ad campaign than the one where Hulk carried Dodge Caliber on his shoulders.
/Quesada
That's the sign of a married man.
I wish it were so.
Who is Spider-Man dating these days, following the epic clusterfuck of the Spider-Marriage desolving.
Really though, with Deadpool being such a Bugs Bunny/Wile E. Coyote/Wolf kind of character, he really needs a Cecil Turtle, Roadrunner, or Sheepdog to oppose him. I mean, I think that the stories with Hitmonkey, Cable, or Bullseye are some of the character's strongest appearances, so why not give him a few semi-permanent antagonists in the same vein? I think it'd be kind of neat to see Deadpool constantly competing with a mercenary that outclasses him in every way, and occasionally scoring a win against them. Or having him pursued by some kind of law enforcement officer.
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also shadowland: spider-man was completely pointless. i had high hopes because the ghost rider on shot and the moon knight mini actually serve a purpose, but unless youre hankering for some more of that kung fu dude, skip it.
and brightest day still comes out every two weeks and steals my three bucks. i just cant bring myself to drop it when i still have faith that it'll be badass before the end.
spoilered for those actually wanting to read it
XBL: MightyManotaur
PA: TheSecretSeventh
wait....
Anyway. This is from Mark Millar's Nemesis. Truely the greatest man to ever grace the written word.
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/3536/markmillarisagenius.jpg
That is not only terrible writing but bad art. It looks like McNiven is copying Yu's art but failing wildly at it. The close up of the wife, yucky (and she cheated on her husband and says he ruined the little family, what the hell)
Steve McNiven + Dexter Vines + Molly Hollowell = Really Good
Steve McNiven + Dave McCaig = Yeah, Not So Much
That's not to say McCaig, who colored stuff like Adam Strange and Superman: Birthright, is bad or anything. But the combination of Vines and Hollowell have as much to do with why Old Man Logan or Civil War looked good, as McNiven did.
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How the fuck is this shit his fault?
I actually thought that this was the evolution of his style or that he was pushed for deadlines so he rushed it
Wasn't he taken off the Ellis story to work on a Bendis book?
But apart from that, he's just some guy who wants to be famous and lets his pedophile-enabling mother orchestrate a photo op on his behalf. In short, one of the ugliest acts possible is thrown into the story to add depth to a character who, in every other respect, is defined by his shallowness. His experience didn't affect his worldview, his motives, or his feelings about others. It's just an ugly blot on an otherwise bland, forgettable character.
I thought that Avengers Reformatory School had a lot of promise, but these past few issues haven't delivered on that potential.
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Because the Academy is only for kids who they think are in danger of flipping out and becoming villains. And honestly it's a pretty poor book. The idea is OK but of all the characters very few of them are likeable or interesting, I'd much prefer a return of the Initiative characters to these guys, and hope we see more of them in the future. So far Avengers Academy has not impressed me in the slightest, and it sucks considering that Slott already showed us how great the concept could have been.
i guess a potential bitch is that i wont end up saving any money because i'll pick up something i normally wouldnt now...
XBL: MightyManotaur
PA: TheSecretSeventh
wait....
About damn time.