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was a fantastic comic
but not many people have read it
you should talk about it here
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Wait, second most depressing book ever. Hulk: The End is first.
To encourage kids to not dive into radioactive waste I think.
It seems too angsty. Whuh-oh! Jean Grey's a whore in the streets! REALISM! GRIT!
I don't know, it just affected me more than anything else in the book
Anally.
Also: "YOU ALL CAME FROM THIS!!"
I thought that was supposed to be one of many small quirks in the universe that led to it all being so horrific. Ben Grimm doesn't go into space, and so the Fantastic Four dies horrific deaths instead of ending up in the exact spot in the cosmic storm they had to be in to acquire powers and not just strange deaths. It was still kind of depressing that he had to live with the feeling that he was responsible for what happened, though.
I'd guess that the most tragic part of the story was meant to be the seemingly unchanged Valkyrie, an appearance that was supposed to indicate that Phil Sheldon's search for a reason behind the Ruins universe and the seemingly total horror suffered by its people was ultimately misguided. One hero who managed to achieve her potential means that there is no force at work or single decision that took away the chance for everyone to become something great, and everything from the concentration camps to the cannibalism didn't have to happen. Everything wrong with the Ruins universe could have been averted, or turned into something good. It just didn't happen to go that way, for no good reason at all.
Probably because Hulk was gonna be the giant cancer thing of the story.
It'd be a little off-putting to see THIS twice:
That is beautiful!
HULK IN...MIND NUMBING AGONY! FOR FUCKS SAKE, KILL HULK!
1)Take existing characters
2)Strip them of their redeeming qualities
3)Mix in physical and mental disabilities
Meh.
If I want something depressing, or commentary on how bad things can go, I'll turn on the news and see how many Iraqi civillians died in Baghad this week, or read about the rates of HIV infection in Africa.
I haven't read this, but frankly, the Wiki entrance makes this sound like complete garbage. Seems like the comics equivalent of smearing dog shit on a painting and calling it art.
Depends. I feel that Marvel heroes are so revered that to smeer them with shit might actualy BE art however simple it seems to you.
It's not art or particularly profound, but then nobody involved tried to pass it off as art or an important work either. It's a diversion, and that's it.
my favorite part was the reverse magneto. and its funny to see that marvel pretty much rehashed elements of ruins in civil war, but ruins did it better in my opinion.
I know exactly what you mean. Some of the ideas seem neat, but...eeehhhh....
Man, 1602 is golden.
Anally.
Oh god. But I loved it so.
Spider-Man, Spider-Man,
Crippled radioactive blinded man.
Hal Jordan, upon receiving the Green Lantern ring goes immediately insane as the knowledge of a thousand worlds is thrust into him. Now he lays delirious in a madhouse, screaming about Parallax, a giant bug that has come to kill him.
Green Arrow, upon his very first outing trips and falls from a rooftop. Found by homeless bums, he is beaten to death and has his expensive archery equipment pawned off.
Ted Kord, upon first launching his Bugship, drastically miscalculates, causing his experimental craft to fly spinning into an elementary school. The experimental nuclear engine explodes and destroys over 67% of Hub City. Among the casualties is Vic Sage, world-famous investigative journalist.
Arthur Curry is attacked and killed by a shark. Nobody notices.
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