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Maaaaaaaaan. I was talking about comics elsewhere on the net and was reminded of the cards I used to collect. I have one of the sets with me, Marvel series 4 from the early 90s. So I bust out the binder and figured I'd show my nephew and bond a bit maybe. He knows only a couple heroes like Spider-man and Captain America, but maybe I could get him interested in learning more.
So him being him, he has ZERO interest in the characters I would've been able to tell him about, and instead he's pointing at the likes of Speedball and Tiger Shark.
Edit - OH GOOD. I never read the Civil War comics directly so I missed out on Speedball's involvement in that shit and JESUS JUMPED UP CHRIST WHAT
Maaaaaaaaan. I was talking about comics elsewhere on the net and was reminded of the cards I used to collect. I have one of the sets with me, Marvel series 4 from the early 90s. So I bust out the binder and figured I'd show my nephew and bond a bit maybe. He knows only a couple heroes like Spider-man and Captain America, but maybe I could get him interested in learning more.
So him being him, he has ZERO interest in the characters I would've been able to tell him about, and instead he's pointing at the likes of Speedball and Tiger Shark.
Edit - OH GOOD. I never read the Civil War comics directly so I missed out on Speedball's involvement in that shit and JESUS JUMPED UP CHRIST WHAT
Maaaaaaaaan. I was talking about comics elsewhere on the net and was reminded of the cards I used to collect. I have one of the sets with me, Marvel series 4 from the early 90s. So I bust out the binder and figured I'd show my nephew and bond a bit maybe. He knows only a couple heroes like Spider-man and Captain America, but maybe I could get him interested in learning more.
So him being him, he has ZERO interest in the characters I would've been able to tell him about, and instead he's pointing at the likes of Speedball and Tiger Shark.
Edit - OH GOOD. I never read the Civil War comics directly so I missed out on Speedball's involvement in that shit and JESUS JUMPED UP CHRIST WHAT
Yeah, Civil War was super modern Millar
...was Civil War just an allegory for gun control and muh freedom?
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Maaaaaaaaan. I was talking about comics elsewhere on the net and was reminded of the cards I used to collect. I have one of the sets with me, Marvel series 4 from the early 90s. So I bust out the binder and figured I'd show my nephew and bond a bit maybe. He knows only a couple heroes like Spider-man and Captain America, but maybe I could get him interested in learning more.
So him being him, he has ZERO interest in the characters I would've been able to tell him about, and instead he's pointing at the likes of Speedball and Tiger Shark.
Edit - OH GOOD. I never read the Civil War comics directly so I missed out on Speedball's involvement in that shit and JESUS JUMPED UP CHRIST WHAT
Yeah, Civil War was super modern Millar
...was Civil War just an allegory for gun control and muh freedom?
Millar would probably prefer if people think that.
Mark Millar did a lot of bad writing in Civil War, but Civil War: Front Line might be the worst part of the event, and Millar didn't have anything to do with it (shout out to Paul Jenkins). And the worst part of that isn't even the Speedball -> Penance stuff, or even "you're out of touch, Cap, you don't even know what Myspace is," it's the issue where Peter Parker is contemplating the injustice of registering superheroes while they intersperse quotes from someone who was in a Japanese internment camp
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I'm trying to remember, was Civil War registering superheroes (that is Vigilantes) or registering anyone with some sort of above-base-human power?
cause there's a stark difference between the two there, and I feel like I remember it being the second?
One of the fundamental problems of CW is that the main book was as vague as possible about the SRA and all the other books had to just guess so the answer is yes to both depending on who was writing.
I'm trying to remember, was Civil War registering superheroes (that is Vigilantes) or registering anyone with some sort of above-base-human power?
cause there's a stark difference between the two there, and I feel like I remember it being the second?
One of the fundamental problems of CW is that the main book was as vague as possible about the SRA and all the other books had to just guess so the answer is yes to both depending on who was writing.
Fun!
So anywhere from "My Hero Academia status quo" to "The Mutant Registration Act II: Now Everyone's Registering!"
superhero politics stories are always rough because they don't want to alienate anyone, so they just talk about some broad stroke political ideas with superheroes as stand-ins, rather than asking the hard questions like "how does captain america feel about restoring voting rights to felons" or "hey iron man! abortions?"
I'm trying to remember, was Civil War registering superheroes (that is Vigilantes) or registering anyone with some sort of above-base-human power?
cause there's a stark difference between the two there, and I feel like I remember it being the second?
One of the fundamental problems of CW is that the main book was as vague as possible about the SRA and all the other books had to just guess so the answer is yes to both depending on who was writing.
Fun!
So anywhere from "My Hero Academia status quo" to "The Mutant Registration Act II: Now Everyone's Registering!"
Yeah, a significant part of the problem is that no one, not even the writers, knew what the fuck was going on.
The Penance stuff in Ellis' Thunderbolts was really interesting and cool. Penance hated himself and learned not to bit by bit, that he'd made a mistake but that ultimately he can't live in that mistake forever.
Norman Osborne constantly exasperated by the gaggle of freakazoids he was forced to work with was the best part of that whole storyline.
He was like an evil Ron Swanson.
this is my regularly scheduled post where i say i am still bummed that all of dark reign and the rise of norman osborne wasn't just a stupidly elaborate plan designed solely to ruin spider-man's day
this is my regularly scheduled post where i say i am still bummed that all of dark reign and the rise of norman osborne wasn't just a stupidly elaborate plan designed solely to ruin spider-man's day
The brief moment in New Avengers where Spidey breaks formation and just wails on Norman while verbally vomiting panicked quip dialogue about how much this status quo drives him nuts was real good and shouldn't have been the only real big moment we got of them together
The bigger disappointment for me is how hard they beefed The Heroic Age
They built it up as, like, the big return of heroism and bright, inspiring stories after the murky years long status quo trains of Civil War, Secret War, Secret Invasion and Dark Reign
Aaaand it was basically just the same as before but with no villains in actual positions of power and then whoops AvX a year later
Thunderbolts was probably the only book to really run with the premise
Avengers took one hell of a swerve this week and it rules
It introduced the new Squadron Supreme. Hyperion is a school teacher, Nighthawk is a Congressional Rep, etc. And they are working for Coulson and the US Government.
Only they have gaps in their memory and can't quite recall how they got here or started heroing.
Turns out
They're all clones, built by Coulson to serve as America's superheroes and defend American ideals. They are under his full control and he tweaks their personalities accordingly.
But Coulson is suddenly cruel and murderous and came back to life unexpectedly and has all these resources and how did this happen?
His benefactor, and the one secretly guiding the metahuman branch of the US Government (and also actively corrupting him and causing his behavior) is Mephisto.
The fuckin Devil is running America's superheroes.
Apparently WandaVision had a promo image shown that never was released to the public and Elizabeth Olsen described it in an interview as Wanda and Vision together in the 1950s suburbs
Which suddenly makes that show name make a lot more sense if they're going for a pastiche of that era
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i'll guard the galaxy or whatever
Cosmo took your spot, sorry
So him being him, he has ZERO interest in the characters I would've been able to tell him about, and instead he's pointing at the likes of Speedball and Tiger Shark.
Edit - OH GOOD. I never read the Civil War comics directly so I missed out on Speedball's involvement in that shit and JESUS JUMPED UP CHRIST WHAT
Man I love this panel.
son of a bitch
Yeah, Civil War was super modern Millar
I reject any universe in which Norman Osborn has heard of my chemical romance.
Well, yes.
Maybe he's referring to the English title of Perfume's だいじょばない ?
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...was Civil War just an allegory for gun control and muh freedom?
cause there's a stark difference between the two there, and I feel like I remember it being the second?
*Before it was changed by mutants into a mutant homeland
One of the fundamental problems of CW is that the main book was as vague as possible about the SRA and all the other books had to just guess so the answer is yes to both depending on who was writing.
Fun!
So anywhere from "My Hero Academia status quo" to "The Mutant Registration Act II: Now Everyone's Registering!"
Yeah, a significant part of the problem is that no one, not even the writers, knew what the fuck was going on.
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Steam // Secret Satan
The Penance stuff in Ellis' Thunderbolts was really interesting and cool. Penance hated himself and learned not to bit by bit, that he'd made a mistake but that ultimately he can't live in that mistake forever.
now it's all coming back and holy shit was it awful and if i remember correctly, more issues longer than the actual event
yeah, there were like, twelve, and I bought all of them because the basic idea of it was rad!
I think secret invasion: frontline eventually got the concept more or less right, but that also hit when I was basically done buying single issues
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He was like an evil Ron Swanson.
They built it up as, like, the big return of heroism and bright, inspiring stories after the murky years long status quo trains of Civil War, Secret War, Secret Invasion and Dark Reign
Aaaand it was basically just the same as before but with no villains in actual positions of power and then whoops AvX a year later
Thunderbolts was probably the only book to really run with the premise
Dani Moonstar
holy shit
It's kind of a bummer that he's going to be supplanted by a Big, Grand Hickman story
Only they have gaps in their memory and can't quite recall how they got here or started heroing.
Turns out
They're all clones, built by Coulson to serve as America's superheroes and defend American ideals. They are under his full control and he tweaks their personalities accordingly.
But Coulson is suddenly cruel and murderous and came back to life unexpectedly and has all these resources and how did this happen?
His benefactor, and the one secretly guiding the metahuman branch of the US Government (and also actively corrupting him and causing his behavior) is Mephisto.
The fuckin Devil is running America's superheroes.
Which suddenly makes that show name make a lot more sense if they're going for a pastiche of that era
Turns out he would write a pretty good Justice League book