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MOTW 6/26/13: Pepperoni.
TexiKen
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
All-New X-Men #13, Bobby sums up my reaction to the whole M-word thing:
Hawkeye #11, bros before bows, you dumb dog:
Uncanny X-Men #7, Magik be crazy, yo:
Hawkeye #11, bros before bows, you dumb dog:
Uncanny X-Men #7, Magik be crazy, yo:
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doubly so since Kitty and Iceman are dating which makes her having to deal with his wisecracking younger self hilarious
Pizza Dog is now expendable, long live Cosmo.
He also pulls this trick again with Tawny, the tiger he visits at the zoo as a memory of his parents. Who goes all Battle Cat.
The issue ends with their school getting wrecked in the fight and Shazam saying "Uh, sorry about that. I guess, school is cancelled?" And all of the kids go nuts.
It is just such a fun, upbeat story that is the exact opposite of most of DC's output these days.
I cannot wait for the proper solo book.
Wolverine and the X-Men #32 - The Musical
Age of Ultron #10 AI - Don't worry, I'm a doctor.
Young Avengers #6 - Snails
I could have just as easily gone with Prodigy's intro, but it makes me really happy that Kate Brown stepped up to the McKelvie & Norton page layout challenge
Damn, that's cold.
can we just
acknowledge how great matt fraction is
But who doesn't love cold pizza?
The only downside to the Hawkeye comic is I have to wait more than an hour between issues. So good.
sure, yeah
we can definitely acknowledge that.
That is cruel, Bobby. Just cruel.
I kinda like it, but not as much as the green & gold
I figure if a new costume is coming it will be when Heroes For Hire finally happens
Have I mentioned that my brother hung out with them at Coachella?
Did Johns have a stroke or something?
Though they did wreck a school, so it met the minimum threshold for awful shit that has to be in every DC book.
there is a SCHOOL'S CANCELLED and kids cheering outside gag
you're looking for shit that ain't there
for reference:
this is where the insane amount of research Fraction did before taking on the Fantastic books really shows
I mean, I used to watch that cartoon as a kid, as soon they mentioned rings + her suit I got excited and I thought "oh man like the cartoon!"
and then she said it
8->
Remender wasn't joking when he said he was going to put Cap through some real shit.
So Sharon comes in to save Steve after what a month maybe? Sees him near death with some teen holding a gun to his head yelling about how he is a Zola and will kill him. Takes the logical shot.
She had no idea about Ian or what Steve has gone through. She just made what she thought was the right call.
that's the same logic used to justify Man of Steel's ending
Remender still wrote a story where that was a logical thing to have happen
and thus my what the fucking shit stands
Remender's note helps a little. The unrelenting bleakness combined with me not really liking JRJR's art all that much is souring me on the book though. His faces are occasionally okay, but about half of them I'd rate just above a Chaykin-face in terms of quality.
in both cases the situation was a deliberate choice on the part of the writer so "it was the logical thing to do" is kind of a pointless statement"
yeah but
No one is out of character here
my issue isn't that she acted out of character, I object to both scenes for different reasons
but in either case the way to avoid them would be to write a different scene
logic and character motivations aren't the issue, as in both cases the creative process would have been "I want X to happen, how can I put the characters in a position where it does"
Remender does a much better job of having the awful fucking moment fit with the story
but he still put an awful fucking moment in the story.
it's just fucking bleak and awful and not what I'm looking for in a Captain America comic
But I feel critically judging something by saying "This is bad because it isn't a different thing. " is kind shitty
Man of Steel's ending would be fine if it was like Sentry or Hyperion or something but fails miserably because it is Superman.
Unless I am mistaking your phrasing of the word awful, if you mean in story it's awful then well yeah, obviously, but I think the fact that a character who has been around for less than 8 issues is invoking this sort of strong emotion is a testament to the storytelling.
And I can respect if people just aren't interested in a story about Cap getting torn down, not everything has to be for everyone, it just sounds like you're coming awfully close to saying "this should not exist" which is the part where I frown disapprovingly at you.
I'm not comparing the ending of the comic to the ending of MoS. I'm comparing the defense of the ending you made to the defense some people made of the ending of MoS
having heard the argument "it makes sense in the situation the character was in" so many times with regards to MoS, it strikes me as equally bullshit in other contexts. The story happens because the writer wrote it that way, not because "the character would do that". This isn't a roleplaying session with Remender as the DM and someone else playing the characters. Remender did a decent job making it internally consistent, yes. That's not the issue. I don't like that it happened at all and that it is a realistic thing for the character to do is no real comfort.