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[Marvel] - Introducing Marvel LATER!
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Who cares about NOW? NOW is about to become THEN, at which point we need to look to LATER which will become the new NOW! What comes LATER?
Spider-Man 2099
Guardians of the Galaxy 3000!
Marvel's 100th Anniversary!
So there you have it, Marvel LATER! When will LATER become NOW? SOON!
Spider-Man 2099
The book you have been demanding for months finally hits the stands! Miguel O’Hara is Spider-Man in the year 2099 but he’s currently stuck in the year 2014. He was stranded here by his father who is the head of an evil corporation called Alchemax in 2099. But in 2014, Alechmax has just been formed and Miguel has a chance to stop its corruption before it starts! You’d think being a man out of time would make you a man without enemies, but Spider-Man 2099 is about to discover that he’s not the only one hoping for a better tomorrow, one that might be ensured by The Adjustor eliminating Miguel from the time stream altogether! Join comics legend (and Spider-Man 2099 creator) Peter David and breakthrough artist Will Sliney (Superior Spider-Man Team-up) for the most adventure you’ll find in a book this side of the twenty second century!
Guardians of the Galaxy 3000!
A second Guardians of the Galaxy comic book is going to be launched in the Fall from Marvel as the following teaser was revealed at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas.
Bleeding Cool says the new "Guardians 3000" series will feature the original Guardians; however, no creators are known to be attached as-of-yet.
Marvel's 100th Anniversary!
This year Marvel is celebrating their 75th Anniversary, and it seems they’re enjoying themselves so much they’re already publishing a miniseries celebrating their next milestone, their 100th, this July Announced at C2E2 during Saturday’s “Next Big Thing” panel, 100th Anniversary Special is a weekly series of five interconnected one-shots showcasing a wild and inventive future for the likes of the Avengers, the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and the Guardians of the Galaxy. And working on these five stories are some surprising names, from the likes of Dan Abnett, James Stokoe, Jen Van Meter, and more.
So there you have it, Marvel LATER! When will LATER become NOW? SOON!
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Course an argument could be made to not have "events" all the time but whatever, people still buy them.
I thought something seemed different in that article...
Revisiting them, FF is still an awesome and unique title that left me wanting to spend more time with those characters. Now I kind of regret not picking up She-Hulk yet, and I'd definitely read a Scott Lang solo series as long as it respects his status quo from the end of FF. Unfortunately, the book got realllly shaky after Fraction left as a scripter, although it mostly affected the kids while the parts with Scott were still rock solid. At the same time, Jen and Medusa really faded into the background after the change.
Meanwhile, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm the only one on this board who made it through all 16 issues of Fraction's Fantastic Four. Although some issues moved some pieces into place for FF to use, only the first two that set up FF and the last four that resolved the overarching plot were really worth reading. The last four issues, scripted by Karl Kessel, were probably ignored by a lot of people reading FF, but they were absolutely phenomenal and stepped the book up quite a bit. It also helped that Bagley was replaced on three of them with a much more detailed, modern-looking artist. Pretty much all of the progression for the overarching plot in F4 happens in those last four issues, while everything in between is weird episodic stuff that puts a character into a particular place or half-establishes a loose concept to be picked up later.
I'm curious, I think a lot of you all read FF, but did anyone make it all the way through Fraction's F4?
I've got Robinson's issues so far, and I'll probably read those tonight.
I felt F4 was okay, I didn't have any major qualms about it, but FF basically took a giant steaming dump on Doom as a character. up until that point it was good, but jeeze I don't think I've ever seen a character so thoroughly castrated. Like, spoilers
I don't even know who I want to follow Robinson though I tend to think that after Gillen's Iron Man he could probably do great
Actually you know Abnett would probably do a good F4 as well
Out of the newer talent, I think Dennis Hopeless would really work on the book as well, and he could stand to get a higher-profile title.
Edit: And on the end of FF
Doom got a stomping for sure, but I only really had a problem with him saying that romani stuff, which I assume was him begging for mercy or surrendering. That speaks to the weird, out-of-character stuff that was kind of happening once Lee Allred took over the writing. The only voice he seemed to get was Scott's, and everyone else just became a vehicle for plot.
On the whole, it's a huge shame that Fraction left to do Inhumanity and then... didn't get to, likely because of what his vision for it was. I really would've loved to see his unaltered ending to FF.
He's a crime, noir, street level writer and I think that most of his books which have departed from that shows he should stay there
Aaron could probably do a good F4, yeah, he's shown his high concept side and his family relations side many times before
But what I think made that happen was that it was a mini event. He had some issues to do the story in, there needed to be a self-contained plot, and that's why the whole thing flowed at a good pace and things actually happened. I don't mind decompression but when Bendis has his own ongoings with no kind of deadline of a story arc must happen and then finish, and it often doesn't with him. His New Avengers during Dark Reign were kind of the worst example of this, they kind of just pottered along doing whatever, getting dragged into whatever.
Strangely enough his Mighty Avengers at the same time was the opposite, they fought Ultron, then Doctor Doom, and it felt timely, it felt well paced, it was good to read. And I really liked those stories as well. So I think Bendis is fine when he gets down to business and writes solid plot arcs without meandering around. And he can do high concept, as his Kang story showed (which was pretty cool). But I feel that he's reluctant to go there, and with the F4 I think you need to embrace that element.
Incidentally if they gave Bendis a constant round of street level supers books then I'd probably read them all. I mean, I wasn't a huge fan of his Moon Knight (especially as he killed of Echo) but generally it's his best area of work.
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Invaders is pretty cornball, and really is Robinson and his most Robinson-est, with stilted dialogue and overly simplistic plotting that feels like it came right out of the transition from the silver age to the bronze age. I like it, but it's kind of a reproduction of an antique of sorts, and I was happy to hear that iFanboy are also fans of it when I was listening to their pick of the week podcast earlier today. It's fun for fans of Robinson's older work or of golden age legacy teams in general, but it's not a great book.
Robinson's Fantastic Four has all of those problems as well, but to a much smaller degree. I just caught up on all five issues so far, and they've been pretty good. I'm really enjoying the book; he gets the character voices most of the time, and it's a much sparser and more classic action/adventure oriented title than a lot of what's going on at marvel right now. I love Hickman and Remender, but I spent the last week catching up on the avengers books from the last few months, and they can be some dense books with a lot of active engagement expected from the reader. Sometimes it's nice just to have a book that's just colorful and full of punching. It's still sort of in the F4 fans-only wheelhouse, but it feels like reading a classic marvel story from the late 70s. Also, issue 5 with the trial and the guest art was just brilliant.
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She Hulk is excellently written because Seoule is some sort of multi-genre writing god but the art
the art
I was considering buying Death of Wolverine out of morbid curiosity, but the $4.99 pricepoint for a weekly book is a no-go for me.
EDIT: Iron Man Vol 5 is still hardcover
CALLED IT.
It's a shame Thor only got that cool sword because he's basically Ultron's whipping boy and not worthy anymore.
The fact that first quote even exists makes me sad. Just even that someone is looking at DC comics and going "YES THIS IS WHAT I WANT" , brb vomitting in my mouth
(the new art in Punisher is not so great though :< )
I think you are crazy
Edit: I'm kind of expecting this year to be similar as well, with Axis being a much better event that ties more heavily into the line and the author's own stories, just like Infinity was last year.
Anyone remember Day of Judgment? An entire DC crossover just to move Hal Jordan from "dead" to "semi-dead." Original Sin feels like that. Things are happening, but so far it feels like it's just a way to get old Nick Fury back on the board.
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I don't really get this argument. It sounds like you guys are mad because its not some huge world changing thing? I really like OS as a change of pace. here's a big story that spans the MCU but is a very personal story. One man died and the closest thing he has to friends are looking for answers.
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I'm not mad. Just "eh". It is a thing that is happening. It could've happened in an Avengers book. Hell, the current happenings of Avengers, New Avengers, and Uncanny Avengers seem to have more oomph to them.
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Instead Hickman had Cap remember it from a dream, and the only actual mention of original sins was from Brevoort on the title page.
And? Marvel Now sprang out of AvX. I wouldn't call that series a watershed moment just because it lead into something else. Original Sin itself hinges on event that happened in Battle Scars. Does that make Battle Scars great?
Again:
Original Sin is just "good", not "great" for me, at a time when books surrounding it are doing much better.
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