The Fantastic Four preview looked good as well. With so few tie-ins I'm actually looking forward to fleshing out this story a bit. I can't believe there are actually less issues for this than originally promised (Marvel said 10 main and 10 tie-ins but turns out there are only 9 tie-ins). This just makes me more irritated that Fear Itself turned into the bloated mess it became when it started out basically like AoU. Not saying the story would have been any better but had it just been the main series along with Thor and IIM it would at least have been easier to ignore.
I highly doubt Bendis knew about the Superior thing before he wrote AoU so I guess this is their attempt to explain things more clearly. Christos Gage is as good a choice as any to write a good one-shot story.
I highly doubt Bendis knew about the Superior thing before he wrote AoU so I guess this is their attempt to explain things more clearly. Christos Gage is as good a choice as any to write a good one-shot story.
Slotts been building up to superior for like 2 years. I wouldn't be so sure about it.
Why are we saying this isn't like Age of Apocalypse? The exact same "This takes place in the real Marvel Universe!" line was used for AoA, and when it was over the AoA universe ceased to exist. It was later retconned into being an AU.
Why are we saying this isn't like Age of Apocalypse? The exact same "This takes place in the real Marvel Universe!" line was used for AoA, and when it was over the AoA universe ceased to exist. It was later retconned into being an AU.
There are nuances, but honestly the differences are so minute that they aren't really worth getting into.
The main thing separating them is the fact that the turning point for AoA occurred in the past, whereas the turning point for Age of Ultron evidently occurs in the present or near-future.
With such a big central project it wouldn't surprise me if they reworked some of the scenes to fit Spoc in if he wasn't originally in the book. Whether it had been written already or not.
There's only one thing to understand about the book. It took too long.
It was meant to be the real conclusion to Bendis's Avenger run, where it was set up and foreshadowed. It fits in badly with Marvel Now because of this. Instead of being an exciting and gamechanging finale, it's mostly making people anxious. People really like the new direction of the Now books, and they are afraid this crossover is going to fuck things up.
My guess is that the Marvel Now stuff will be largely untouched. There will be big changes, but I suspect they will mostly involve Hank Pym and Wasp, two characters deeply intertwined with the Ultron storyline and conspiciously in the background in the Now books.
It's just damn near impossible to speculate on the details right now, as we have such limited information of what's going on. But it seems pretty clear to me that we're actually going to get those details, so I'm happy to read along and see where things go.
Now, if it ends up still confusing as to where/when/what/why/how/who, then I guess we just have to chalk it up to "This is what happens when a book takes years to come out" but hopefully not.
Reading the wiki, It was a female Skrull impersonating Hank ( Which now raises so many other questions about the Tigra Skrull baby), and that she was killed by Dugan Skrull for even more comic book reasons.
You know the one character Bendis reintroduced who's never been brought up till now? The Beyonder. That's as good a guess as any as to who fixes the world at the end of the story.
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Spidey is Ock intentionally doing a very convincing Peter Parker
anything like when he's with Hawkeye can easily be explained by saying Parker was in control for a brief moment
The inking was too heavy and blotchy on Captain Marvel but that shit is slick
Huh. Well there goes that perfectly good theory.
Slotts been building up to superior for like 2 years. I wouldn't be so sure about it.
Bendis has said we should consider Spidey Pete, so Gage is just running damage control.
because I kind of thought i was having a very weird dream when i read that news this morning.
like i still kind of think it's a fake out. even after that bleeding cool thing.
Most of the Avengers don't know Spidey's secret identity.
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Why are we saying this isn't like Age of Apocalypse? The exact same "This takes place in the real Marvel Universe!" line was used for AoA, and when it was over the AoA universe ceased to exist. It was later retconned into being an AU.
There are nuances, but honestly the differences are so minute that they aren't really worth getting into.
The main thing separating them is the fact that the turning point for AoA occurred in the past, whereas the turning point for Age of Ultron evidently occurs in the present or near-future.
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I don't have a book next to me to check the credits, so I might be wrong, but I don't believe Soy ever has an inker. All his art is digital painting.
To my eye, this isn't all that different. But hey, I seemed to be one of the few that loved his Captain Marvel issues.
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Bendis didn't? I'm not sure why you asked that. Some of us had a theory involving Pete having his body back for AoU and it hasn't panned out.
Gage was probably asked to make that work with the current storyline, and judging from the preview he's doing a solid job of it.
Feels like I don't understand anything about AoU.
There's only one thing to understand about the book. It took too long.
It was meant to be the real conclusion to Bendis's Avenger run, where it was set up and foreshadowed. It fits in badly with Marvel Now because of this. Instead of being an exciting and gamechanging finale, it's mostly making people anxious. People really like the new direction of the Now books, and they are afraid this crossover is going to fuck things up.
My guess is that the Marvel Now stuff will be largely untouched. There will be big changes, but I suspect they will mostly involve Hank Pym and Wasp, two characters deeply intertwined with the Ultron storyline and conspiciously in the background in the Now books.
could that be because everyone assumes spider ock is peter parker
I think it's working fine so far.
It's just damn near impossible to speculate on the details right now, as we have such limited information of what's going on. But it seems pretty clear to me that we're actually going to get those details, so I'm happy to read along and see where things go.
Now, if it ends up still confusing as to where/when/what/why/how/who, then I guess we just have to chalk it up to "This is what happens when a book takes years to come out" but hopefully not.
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I haven't read a ton of stories with him, but he seems like the kind of character that can be written as sort of a generic killbot.
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A lot of writers forget that his personality is based off Hank Pym's. It is why he has massive daddy issues and an obsession with Wasp.
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I think this is going to end up being a red herring planted for solicitations only. It feels too predictable.
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yeah this is true, the Hank Pym memory/personality imprint or whatever they were using to create such seamless copies kept driving the skrulls insane