Can someone explain what this MLP thing is about. Like I've never read one so I feel like I may be missing something. It really is just about cute little ponies having benign adventures right? Is there an edge to it like Adventure Time? Or is it just straight up cuteness? What is the hook? Why are people pumped on it. Please try and unpack this for me!
Basically the writing is fairly clever and self-aware, especially compared to most television aimed at small children.
Pretty much. The show's part of a modern wave of clever and well written kids cartoons - Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Fineas and Ferb, Mystery Incorporated, etc. MLP isn't up there with Adventure Time, but it's on Netflix if you have 20 minutes to kill and aren't in the mood for anything particularly emotionally and intellectually investing.
I get the feeling that the 20 and 30 somethings who work in animation today just take the job more seriously and overall have more talent than the schlubs who produced cartoons in the 70s-90s.
Okay, well it doesn't really sound like it's for me. I mean I dig cartoons and will watch some once in a blue moon but I just couldn't attach myself strongly to something that's so clearly disposable and child orientated (says the dude posting in a comic book forum). Each to their own. Also I'd be curious to know the break down of customer ages. Maybe there's just a bunch of kids reading MLP, like with Bone and Smile, and the adult buyers make up a smaller subset.
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Yeah, the new MLP (which is guess is not really all that new any longer) has some pretty engaging, decently written characters. My SO is pretty much the definition of someone that would never be into MLP, and I put it on just to put on something happy and generally nonstressful, and after two episodes, she's basically, "I can't believe I'm actually invested in what's going on in this show."
They do good work. It wasn't initially planned for a larger audience beyond the young girl demographic, for sure, but they certainly know, and are actively making the show for many different kinds of fans these days.
Yeah, the new MLP (which is guess is not really all that new any longer) has some pretty engaging, decently written characters. My SO is pretty much the definition of someone that would never be into MLP, and I put it on just to put on something happy and generally nonstressful, and after two episodes, she's basically, "I can't believe I'm actually invested in what's going on in this show."
They do good work. It wasn't initially planned for a larger audience beyond the young girl demographic, for sure, but they certainly know, and are actively making the show for many different kinds of fans these days.
And to move it back in a Marvel direction, I just read and was really pleased with Takio. That's a book that would make a great cartoon series.
Marvel.com: With Logan as a bootlegger does that allow you to work in some unique spectacular action scenes?
Richard Isanove: There's definitely a good dose of jumping around, snikting and slashing.
After my time with Stephen King, it was actually kind of hard to tone things down. I've worked on about 1500 pages of THE DARK TOWER, and you can count on one hand the pages without blood splatters. My wife said I went over the line when I wrote a scene in [SAVAGE WOLVERINE] where a little girl is forced to chew off a guy's fingers. Don't worry I'm all good now.
Marvel.com: What kind of characters does Logan have for customers?
Richard Isanove: He mostly transports booze across the Canadian border for the owner of an illegal bar in a logging town in Northern Minnesota. That's the beginning and the engine of the story but it's mostly a road trip gone horribly wrong.
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If Disney ever buys Hasbro we might just see that.
Booooooo, get off the stage!
Besides, all they need to do is give Beta Ray Bill his own comic.
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"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
That cover is still amazing.
Sitting in his Spider-Bed.
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Pretty much. The show's part of a modern wave of clever and well written kids cartoons - Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Fineas and Ferb, Mystery Incorporated, etc. MLP isn't up there with Adventure Time, but it's on Netflix if you have 20 minutes to kill and aren't in the mood for anything particularly emotionally and intellectually investing.
I get the feeling that the 20 and 30 somethings who work in animation today just take the job more seriously and overall have more talent than the schlubs who produced cartoons in the 70s-90s.
They do good work. It wasn't initially planned for a larger audience beyond the young girl demographic, for sure, but they certainly know, and are actively making the show for many different kinds of fans these days.
And to move it back in a Marvel direction, I just read and was really pleased with Takio. That's a book that would make a great cartoon series.
Details man, details!
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I liked Soule's initial reason for including Ghost Rider on the team. It was summed up with "I like guys with flaming skulls."
EDIT: with new members Gambit and Quicksilver!
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I like the new suits on the kids
Edit: Nevermind, I see the "sponsored by" now. Whoops.
Marvel.com interview
HELL yeah
some things never change mirite
Because he looks fantastic.