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BlankZoe
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Marvel thread has been dead for a bit, soooo:
On the comics front they are setting up the big summer event, Secret Empire, starring facist/racist Captain America and a hilariously poor sense of timing. The Guardians books are also getting a sort of relaunch in time for the movie with Bendis' long run coming to a close and Gerry Duggan taking the reigns.
On the movie front we've got Logan in March, GotG 2 in May, Spider-Man: Homecoming in July and Thor: Ragnarok in November.
On the TV front we have Iron Fist arriving in March with Defenders and maybe The Punisher arriving in the Fall along with The Inhumans miniseries starting in August. Cloak and Dagger and Runaways are also in the mix there somewhere.
But none of that matters because Thor and Darryl are BACK:
https://youtu.be/n3TOw6r7ghc
On the comics front they are setting up the big summer event, Secret Empire, starring facist/racist Captain America and a hilariously poor sense of timing. The Guardians books are also getting a sort of relaunch in time for the movie with Bendis' long run coming to a close and Gerry Duggan taking the reigns.
On the movie front we've got Logan in March, GotG 2 in May, Spider-Man: Homecoming in July and Thor: Ragnarok in November.
On the TV front we have Iron Fist arriving in March with Defenders and maybe The Punisher arriving in the Fall along with The Inhumans miniseries starting in August. Cloak and Dagger and Runaways are also in the mix there somewhere.
But none of that matters because Thor and Darryl are BACK:
https://youtu.be/n3TOw6r7ghc 
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CHIP ZDARSKY SPIDER-MAN
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Chip Zdarsky quietly becoming one of Marvel's top writers is the best goddamn thing
Is he finally done with Spider-Man?
@Centipede Damascus it looks like your dream of actual live action Kirby Headgear is happening
Don't worry, Miles is still the Spider-Man
Still reasonably pissed off about that
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Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Comixology only has that run up to issue 38 or so, I can't imagine there were any recent reprints of that issue so I don't know where to look
I'm not sure if it's replacing it or. It. In his first answer he says
That reads to me that it will be happening co-currently to Amazing Spider-Man.
I'm also leery of a street level Perer Parker again as it very quickly leads to the question of "what does Miles do? What is his niche?"
Not in good condition though
Finger-knife Riker, Picard, and child Ro Laren in "Logan"
What's interesting about the approach is it doesn't look super high tech. It's an interesting mix of old traditional buildings and fancier new buildings, but the new stuff doesn't look much more advanced than what you might see in the skyline of, say, Shanghai or Chicago or other modern big cities. There are no flying cars or giant robots to be seen.
That seems to be a big emphasis. There's a very, very broad mix of architectural styles on display, some of them looking quite old. There's another picture of what looks like a high-level Wakandan meeting room (probably T'Challa's briefing room or something similar), which is very fancy and sleek with huge windows that look out across the cityscape, but the walls are lined with ancient stone engravings of warriors and animals.
It's a much more nuanced touch than the comics usually go for. In those, Wakanda almost inevitably looks like "generic future city" or "ancient African city with all the sci-fi stuff underneath".
Barnes and Noble has an Image sale going on where if you buy 2 trades you get a third for free, so I bought the first volumes of Kill or Be Killed, The Fix and Monstress.
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Kill or Be Killed is from Brubaker and Phillips and was...good, but not something I think I am gonna keep up with. Its about an unstable college student who attempts suicide and is unwittingly saved by a demon that tells him he must now kill one evil person each month or else he will die. The protagonist is kind of totally insufferable, very much a I KNOW THE TRUE DARK NATURE OF THE WORLD MAAAAN type dude and his being obnoxious appears to be very intentional but doesn't make it any easier to put up with. The twist at the end that
The Fix is from Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber and is 100% the spiritual successor to The Superior Foes of Spider-Man. It is the same exact tone as that series but is able to both go further with the crime aspects and have more outright terrible protagonists. I loved it. Absolutely hilarious and the overarching mystery gets out of control super quick in a very entertaining way.
Haven't got to Monstress yet but I have heard many good things.
Best version of Wolverine. It's funny, because Fox may have fucked everything else up, but not that.(Origins not withstanding)
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For starters, it probably means they're going to get a bit more creative with how vibranium fits into a society. Vibranium is a weird concept that allows for a lot of bizarre applications, as a weapon or as a tool. In the comics, though, Wakanda's advanced tech tends to just get translated as lasers, robots, forcefields, and other generic sci-fi concepts. Maybe they're going to stray away from that.
The other thing is that it probably means Wakanda might not be as... gross as it sometimes is in the comics. That is, "we have the cure for cancer but ha ha fuck the rest of you." I mean, it'll probably still be isolationist, but the impression I'm getting here is its technology is probably just moderately advanced. Cars that don't run on gas, free internet with holographic displays, better medicine, etc etc. You probably aren't going to have flying cars and robot servants, at least not for everyday people. Of course, there are bound to be some more advanced toys reserved for Black Panther and the Wakandan state security forces, stuff it's too dangerous to leave unrestricted. The end result, though, is a Wakanda that's more advanced than most nations, but not so advanced they seem like enormous dicks for not sharing.
Because let's be honest, the idea of a bunch of old white comic creators coming up with the idea of a fantastical sci-fi African nation that they can play around in without having to address the realities of modern Africa, while also making this fantastical society a bunch of huge pricks is... problematic.
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But they aren't completely out of line with what the rest of the world is doing (Russia had cryochambers[more primitive, certainly] during the Cold War). The way it looks to me is the Wakanda is high tech, but Tony Stark still gives them a run for their money. Like, they aren't smarter than literally everywhere else, but they are able to put their resources behind projects without bureaucratic squabbling, so they can get ahead that way.
Still willing to bet that the top levels of the Wakandan government (IE: Black Panther) get access to more experimental and advanced vibranium tech. And I guarantee, before the movie is over, we get to see what Wakanda's self defense systems/forces are capable of.
I'm honestly not aware of Wakanda being portrayed as jerks until Hudlin came around. MacGregor and Kirby and Priest generally downplayed or ignored the negative elements of Wakanda's isolationism as far as I can recall.
Even McGregor had the Wakandans being super dismissive of outsiders when T'Challa brought his American girlfriend around.
Remember when Miles was supposed to be the "Street level" Spider-Man, while Peter went off to do bigger things?
But seriously bringing Miles into the "main" universe was never a good idea for even a second, in the Ultimate universe he was the Spider-Man
Now he's one of like, shit, what are we up to? Like six Spider-People?
Seven, I think!
Spider-Man (Peter), Spider-Man (Miles), Spider-Man 2099, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), Spider-Woman (Gwen Stacy), and Silk.
This is an 80s as fuck poster and I love it.
Tonight's episode was really good and I'm kinda excited for next weeks episode.
"Cool, origin story bro."
Something the MCU glosses over - for obvious reasons - is how life for average people would be different in a world with comic book tech in it. I've always assumed that for most people, the tech level is roughly the same as ours, or maybe slightly more advanced. The really cool shit is reserved for individual geniuses and clandestine agencies. It's like how in our world, the military's always developing stuff in secret that would seem like science fiction if it got out.
Like, Tony Stark had floating holographic gesture-based interfaces and an AI well on its way to sentience in 2009; but when Cap and Black Widow are fugitives in 2014, they plug their flash drive in at a perfectly ordinary Apple store.