I'm actually really curious why Black Bolt faked his death
I think it was so he could devote himself fulltime to the Incursion problem without arousing suspicion from his wife; especially in the wake of Inhumanity when, you know, the King of the Inhumans would theoretically have a lot of shit that needs to be done.
Well also he kind of knew no one would forgive him for intentionally setting off the terrigen bomb, on top of wanting the new age of Inhumans to forge their own path.
Fights in sequential art is kinda wasted on me, so I'm probably not the best to comment. So while there was a couple of cool bits, I didn't find it that great. Not awful by any means, but I think it says something that nobody rushed out to make a MotW post for it.
I wasn't aware that Shang-Chi had any sort of legacy? Like, I am not an expert on his history but I thought he was just a classical Shaolin Monk type dude? The flashback sequences seemed like Spencer really wanted to write Iron Fist, whom he has said he loves before, but had Shang-Chi to work with instead.
I wasn't aware that Shang-Chi had any sort of legacy? Like, I am not an expert on his history but I thought he was just a classical Shaolin Monk type dude? The flashback sequences seemed like Spencer really wanted to write Iron Fist, whom he has said he loves before, but had Shang-Chi to work with instead.
I just figured that they were well known Kung Fu masters whose teachings he learned in his training.
But yeah, it did feel an awful lot like the beginning of Brubaker and Fraction's Iron Fist.
I wasn't aware that Shang-Chi had any sort of legacy? Like, I am not an expert on his history but I thought he was just a classical Shaolin Monk type dude? The flashback sequences seemed like Spencer really wanted to write Iron Fist, whom he has said he loves before, but had Shang-Chi to work with instead.
I just figured that they were well known Kung Fu masters whose teachings he learned in his training.
But yeah, it did feel an awful lot like the beginning of Brubaker and Fraction's Iron Fist.
That's a decent explanation but yeah dang
I mean don't get me wrong I love Shang-Chi and think his new gear letting him basically be Ryu and throw fireballs and shit is awesome
but between the bracers giving him glowy super punches and the ability to throw fire and having flashbacks to past warriors wearing similar clothing to him saving people I really get the vibe that Spencer had been saving a dope Iron Fist fight idea and decided to change it to fit Shang.
I couldn't tell if Hickman had a hand in writing it at all. It was an entire issue about a fight. Hickman's fights are usually like 3-4 pages and over fast. This was almost...indulgent, with all the "Hey, look at Shang-chi's cool history" panels. There also didn't seem to be purpose to the thing; Shang-chi knew he couldn't beat Gorgon, but he fought anyway, and it didn't look like it was for the purpose of buying time for reinforcements or anything like that. Lastly, that image of the dragon flying was pretty cool at first, but extrapolating from the city on its head, that thing has got to have a wingspan of like 150 miles. That is kind of ridiculously huge even compared to giant Marvel monsters.
Hmm I totally ignored Infinity last year but suddenly I want the trade hardcover
Infinity has good reviews online, too
Wat do GV
It's great but you should read Hickman's Avengers/New Avengers first
Advice taken
These are awesome
I thought Infinity was pretty meh-minus (that is, worse than "meh") personally.
Hmm we will see -- I have only read preceding avengers stuff and not actual Infinity yet beyond flipping through issues in the shop.
I want supers and of marvel's current stuff I've given up on the x-books (don't care about young time travel x-men at all) and I am hopeful about punisher and new ms marvel but we'll see how those pan out.
So that leaves avengers stuff and guardians of the galaxy that I'm finally peeking at I guess.
There are good X-Men books that aren't about the time traveling X-Men. They are pretty much confined to the two Bendis books. Just read WatXM and Amazing X- Men instead if you feel that weirdly strongly about it.
But my comic nerd side is hoping they explain the following:
Why is Galactus showing up to devour a dead world? I thought that his whole thing was devouring populated worlds teeming with life, hence the previous times he's shown up to eat Earth Reed Richards couldn't have just said "Hey, there are a bunch of other perfectly good planets nearby you could eat instead" and sent him on his merry, planet-munching way.
Does he just have "Eat Earth" on his bucket list or are the galactic pickings so slim that dead Earth is better than nothing?
Anyone pick up New Warriors? Curious if it's worth getting.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
I posted something on the last page, it was a good setup, but Yost kills a side character(s) for no real reason than he can, which is annoying, because he could have gotten the same ratcheting of tension with a nobody because this isn't expected to be Marvel's flagship. Especially the character he killed, they did not deserve to go out like that.
But my comic nerd side is hoping they explain the following:
Why is Galactus showing up to devour a dead world? I thought that his whole thing was devouring populated worlds teeming with life, hence the previous times he's shown up to eat Earth Reed Richards couldn't have just said "Hey, there are a bunch of other perfectly good planets nearby you could eat instead" and sent him on his merry, planet-munching way.
Does he just have "Eat Earth" on his bucket list or are the galactic pickings so slim that dead Earth is better than nothing?
He pretty much eats whatever. His herald finds worlds for him. The Surfer tended towards finding uninhabitted or dying worlds when possible after his encounter on Earth. Others of his heralds, not so much.
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AntimatterDevo Was RightGates of SteelRegistered Userregular
yeah, it's less inhabited planets and more "planet full of energy"
IIRC, he has to eat planets with living material on them; otherwise he'd just eat planets like Mars and Venus.
The choice is between planets with no sapient beings on them, or planets that do have sapient beings. Galactus cared at one point, but wound up ceasing to aeons ago. Heralds like Silver Surfer will seek out uninhabited planets for him though.
“The set-up is that Rocket and Groot are down on their luck and try to make a living during a break in the Guardians of the Galaxy activities. They run across a Rigellian Recorder Unit who contains some vital piece of information that just about every major faction in the Marvel Universe would kill to obtain. Naturally, because they are kind-hearted heroes, Rocket and Groot see an instant opportunity to make a lot of money out of the Recorder... I mean, to look after the Recorder and protect him from all dangers. They have seriously underestimated how much trouble they’re going to get into.”
In Abnett’s original pitch for this novel posits the book as “John Woo’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” with the standalone novel providing a “vivid” tour of the Marvel Universe, especially that of the cosmic races, empires and landmarks.
“Don’t be surprised to meet the Kree, the Skrulls, the Badoon, the Shi’ar Imperial Guard and the Nova Corps, not to mention sundry other references to the rich detail of the Marvel Universe,” Abnett shares.
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Things aren't looking too good for those Duke Barton boys.
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I always feel weird about traditional books based on comic book characters. I'm sure there's some excellent examples of it working, but it never does it for me.
Things aren't looking too good for those Duke Barton boys.
I really love how deadbeat the two of them are in this book, with their dirty clothes and their broken belts. It's the first book that really made me buy that Clint is a former carnie from a rough background. The detail of him essentially being a glorified squatter who has no idea he's in the middle of thwarting an insidious plot is especially great.
Also, what is it recently with Rigellien Recorders being plot devices?
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
Fantastic Four #1 was ok, but I probably won't pick up any more issues. It kind of felt like a Marvel Adventures version of the series with a slight PG element to it. It's already starting from an angle where bad stuff happened and we're seeing in flashbacks up to the bad stuff, and something happened to Val in the last run it seems, but there's nothing really wrong with the story. Although there's nothing really standout about it either.
I always feel weird about traditional books based on comic book characters. I'm sure there's some excellent examples of it working, but it never does it for me.
I remember as a young man enjoying the novelizations of The Death and Return of Superman and Knightfall.
I always feel weird about traditional books based on comic book characters. I'm sure there's some excellent examples of it working, but it never does it for me.
I remember as a young man enjoying the novelizations of The Death and Return of Superman and Knightfall.
Knightfall's novelization was okay, but a bit anticlimactic. The No Man's Land novelization, though, was in some ways better than the comic.
Things aren't looking too good for those Duke Barton boys.
I really love how deadbeat the two of them are in this book, with their dirty clothes and their broken belts. It's the first book that really made me buy that Clint is a former carnie from a rough background. The detail of him essentially being a glorified squatter who has no idea he's in the middle of thwarting an insidious plot is especially great.
This may have been mentioned in a past issue and I've just forgotten, but given how much this development deal is worth, couldn't they just buy off everyone in Clint's building?
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I think it was so he could devote himself fulltime to the Incursion problem without arousing suspicion from his wife; especially in the wake of Inhumanity when, you know, the King of the Inhumans would theoretically have a lot of shit that needs to be done.
Plus he totally hates one of his wives.
But yeah, it did feel an awful lot like the beginning of Brubaker and Fraction's Iron Fist.
I mean don't get me wrong I love Shang-Chi and think his new gear letting him basically be Ryu and throw fireballs and shit is awesome
but between the bracers giving him glowy super punches and the ability to throw fire and having flashbacks to past warriors wearing similar clothing to him saving people I really get the vibe that Spencer had been saving a dope Iron Fist fight idea and decided to change it to fit Shang.
Hmm we will see -- I have only read preceding avengers stuff and not actual Infinity yet beyond flipping through issues in the shop.
I want supers and of marvel's current stuff I've given up on the x-books (don't care about young time travel x-men at all) and I am hopeful about punisher and new ms marvel but we'll see how those pan out.
So that leaves avengers stuff and guardians of the galaxy that I'm finally peeking at I guess.
Hmm what other current marvel stuff is good ...
Wow, that looks awesome.
But my comic nerd side is hoping they explain the following:
Does he just have "Eat Earth" on his bucket list or are the galactic pickings so slim that dead Earth is better than nothing?
He pretty much eats whatever. His herald finds worlds for him. The Surfer tended towards finding uninhabitted or dying worlds when possible after his encounter on Earth. Others of his heralds, not so much.
The choice is between planets with no sapient beings on them, or planets that do have sapient beings. Galactus cared at one point, but wound up ceasing to aeons ago. Heralds like Silver Surfer will seek out uninhabited planets for him though.
This is why you aren't a Galactic being.
You don't know that.
You're a monster
Things aren't looking too good for those Duke Barton boys.
...Well, there might have been a She-Hulk romance novel at one point.
This is an actual "hey this is in the 616 universe" thing and if it leads to more novels like that I would be pretty stoked.
I really love how deadbeat the two of them are in this book, with their dirty clothes and their broken belts. It's the first book that really made me buy that Clint is a former carnie from a rough background. The detail of him essentially being a glorified squatter who has no idea he's in the middle of thwarting an insidious plot is especially great.
I remember as a young man enjoying the novelizations of The Death and Return of Superman and Knightfall.
Knightfall's novelization was okay, but a bit anticlimactic. The No Man's Land novelization, though, was in some ways better than the comic.
This may have been mentioned in a past issue and I've just forgotten, but given how much this development deal is worth, couldn't they just buy off everyone in Clint's building?