because if a thread falls off the front page everyone forgets it exists, which means the most popular comic book company thread becomes the de facto comic book thread
I wish that was true but actually it's because I'm a big dummy who completely forgot Sandman was a DC property
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House of X #3 first impressions (will edit as I progress through the issue)
good goddamn Xavier and Magneto are both creepy as fuck right from the jump with some paternalistic martyr shit
additional thoughts
* Emma's threat to the prosecutor was kind of gendered and gross
* I find it interesting that Orchis is aware of the potential for their research to go horribly wrong and have pretty extreme safeguards in place to try to stop it
* The attack (or beginning thereof) is neat because it feels like both sides are playing it smart, I like competent antagonists
Overall more of a "move the story forward" issue than one that recontextualizes what we know so far the way the previous issues have. Aside from the impressions in the first spoiler there's not as much hinting at the larger story of the paired series.
what, you don't know the iconic venom-knockoffs symbiote... family of characters???
stars of such well-beloved classic spider-man stories as the life foundation arc? you remember the life foundation arc right
you don't? well clearly you're not a symbiote kinda person
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What, you never played the smash 16 bit hit Separation Anxiety?
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I mean we joke, but Maximum Carnage is a very important moment in my childhood.
That cartridge was red, y'all. Not grey, red.
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I beat that game once and I am pretty sure I had to use game genie to do it because holy fuck that game is basically impossible on a Genesis.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Didn't the jackets come after the Liefeld heyday, though?
The heydey of the leather jacket superhero uniform starts with Animal Man, and takes off from there. So that'd be late 80s/early 90s, where peak Liefeld would be the start of the Image era, which is mid-to-late 90s, IIRC.
I beat that game once and I am pretty sure I had to use game genie to do it because holy fuck that game is basically impossible on a Genesis.
My mom wouldnt let me BUY the game because it sounded too violent ("MAXIMUM. Carnage!?!"), but I was allowed to rent it because it was Spider-Man and ended up renting it like 10 times.
Only ONCE did I make it far enough that the screen faded out, then faded back up, and I was playing as Venom, and it blew my fucking mind.
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Evidently there are a lot of Symbiote characters I dont know about
Who the heck are doppledanger shriek and sleeper
Doppleganger was a monstrous double of Spider-Man made by an evil wizard from the future. He's not really a symbiote character though.
Shriek is a bad lady with mutant powers of telekinesis, sonic waves, and "dark empathy", basically meaning she can make people do bad things. She had the symbiote named Scorn for a while.
So I got Marvel Comics #1000 cause it had been on my Pull List for months and its shitty to have a shop order it and then go OH NAH
The decision to pull Waid's essay is shitty and shouldn't have happened, but I actually do believe the given statement about the pull being because it doesn't fit the tone of the book or the art for that page, because it didn't and plenty of other stories in the book are making very clear political statements about everything from LGBTQ acceptance to Black Panther's popularity boom leading to folks co-opting African motifs and designs to the treatement of immigrants in America.
Marvel doesn't deserve, like, kudos for this, but I do actually believe the given story in this specific instance.
As for the book itself, Al Ewing is going BUCK WILD and is either playing a far longer game than anyone thought or has gotten a big blank check and is bringing his favorite toys with him
It ties together a trio super scientists, the Three Xs, from the first Marvel Comics issue ever, a western pulp character known as the Masked Raider and the Enclave who created Adam Warlock into a massive centuries spanning conspiracy
Essentially, there has been a Science Guild for milennia, men who believe that the future of mankind will be in the hands of exceptional people who take charge of the world and overthrow any who would control them
They waged a secret war against forces that would stand against them (usually powerful monarchies or other governments) using an ancient artifact: The Eternity Mask. A fragment of Eternity's power, which grants the wielder equal power to whatever threat they face, giving them equal footing for any situation.
This continued until the 1900s, where the Science Guild moved towards taking control themselves, at which point the mask stopped working for them and they shifted their focus toward the creation of the perfect man, Adam Warlock, and became The Enclave
In the aftermath of Adam's birth, the mask is claimed by a scientist left for dead and he launches a one man war against The Enclave from the shadows
All of this is found out when Sunspot stumbled onto it before his death. Which he has now passed on to Blue Marvel, Night Thrasher and Jimmy Woo to investigate.
Meanwhile a new Masked Raider has taken up the mask and is preparing to start the war anew, while The Enclave has reformed and has a new project: the rebirth of Korvac.
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I beat that game once and I am pretty sure I had to use game genie to do it because holy fuck that game is basically impossible on a Genesis.
My mom wouldnt let me BUY the game because it sounded too violent ("MAXIMUM. Carnage!?!"), but I was allowed to rent it because it was Spider-Man and ended up renting it like 10 times.
Only ONCE did I make it far enough that the screen faded out, then faded back up, and I was playing as Venom, and it blew my fucking mind.
I just wanna point out that the SNES version is way easier than the Genesis version.
Because it has 3 more fuckin buttons.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Zdarsky and Bagley's Spider-Man: Life Story ended this week and man what a rad mini that was not afraid to go for it
The final issue is covering the 2010s and I assumed that meant Miles would be showing up and
Yup, but he is introduced as an already established hero who took over for a few years when Peter was presumed dead and now shares the mantle as they fight against the Dr. Doom regime. (Doom took advantage of the decades long Civil War and wiped the board of most of the powerful heroes and is now the leader of most of the planet)
What I was not expecting is Zdarsky working the other big 2010s Spidey story into it by having septuagenarian ass Doc Ock swap his mind with Miles in a Superior Spider-Man riff and try to kill Peter and steal his glory
What a fuckin great swerve
The story ends really well. Otto is guilted into returning Miles brain to his body and dying naturally by Peter's memory of May. Peter goes out in a big, heroic way and dismantles Doom's power network so that the resistance has a fighting chance and Miles is given Peter's suit by MJ and told he should make it his own, because he is the one and only Spider-Man now and Peter wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
Al Ewing brought in a bunch of Golden Age Marvel folks in MC#1000 that I had never heard of and I am in love with The Ferret and demand he get his own book immediately
Ewing appears to have rectonned the wrinkle that he and The Operative (a thief from the Mystery Men mini of the 00s) are the same dude, but even without that he is a crusading crime writer who got sick of the cops not doing anything and opened up a private detective agency to take things into his own hands
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Marvel removed an essay from Mark Waid criticizing the American system from the upcoming Marvel Comics #1000
*But only shallow, non-threatening ones
I wish that was true but actually it's because I'm a big dummy who completely forgot Sandman was a DC property
Part of me wishes I was still subscribed to something, just so I could cancel it.
The jacket era is one of my favorite times in comics history.
Also see Superboy, Thunderstrike, Wondergirl, Cyclops, Rogue, etc. etc.
Just like, normal clothes with a knight helmet.
Like he woke up late for work.
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Sure as hell beats its successor, the Liefieldian belts-and-pouches hypebeast
additional thoughts
* I find it interesting that Orchis is aware of the potential for their research to go horribly wrong and have pretty extreme safeguards in place to try to stop it
* The attack (or beginning thereof) is neat because it feels like both sides are playing it smart, I like competent antagonists
Overall more of a "move the story forward" issue than one that recontextualizes what we know so far the way the previous issues have. Aside from the impressions in the first spoiler there's not as much hinting at the larger story of the paired series.
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
Who the heck are doppledanger shriek and sleeper
stars of such well-beloved classic spider-man stories as the life foundation arc? you remember the life foundation arc right
you don't? well clearly you're not a symbiote kinda person
That cartridge was red, y'all. Not grey, red.
The heydey of the leather jacket superhero uniform starts with Animal Man, and takes off from there. So that'd be late 80s/early 90s, where peak Liefeld would be the start of the Image era, which is mid-to-late 90s, IIRC.
My mom wouldnt let me BUY the game because it sounded too violent ("MAXIMUM. Carnage!?!"), but I was allowed to rent it because it was Spider-Man and ended up renting it like 10 times.
Only ONCE did I make it far enough that the screen faded out, then faded back up, and I was playing as Venom, and it blew my fucking mind.
It seems kinda steeped in Hulk lore that I’m not aware of, but I’m following along okay
Doppleganger was a monstrous double of Spider-Man made by an evil wizard from the future. He's not really a symbiote character though.
Shriek is a bad lady with mutant powers of telekinesis, sonic waves, and "dark empathy", basically meaning she can make people do bad things. She had the symbiote named Scorn for a while.
I don't really know Sleeper, I think he's new.
The decision to pull Waid's essay is shitty and shouldn't have happened, but I actually do believe the given statement about the pull being because it doesn't fit the tone of the book or the art for that page, because it didn't and plenty of other stories in the book are making very clear political statements about everything from LGBTQ acceptance to Black Panther's popularity boom leading to folks co-opting African motifs and designs to the treatement of immigrants in America.
Marvel doesn't deserve, like, kudos for this, but I do actually believe the given story in this specific instance.
Essentially, there has been a Science Guild for milennia, men who believe that the future of mankind will be in the hands of exceptional people who take charge of the world and overthrow any who would control them
They waged a secret war against forces that would stand against them (usually powerful monarchies or other governments) using an ancient artifact: The Eternity Mask. A fragment of Eternity's power, which grants the wielder equal power to whatever threat they face, giving them equal footing for any situation.
This continued until the 1900s, where the Science Guild moved towards taking control themselves, at which point the mask stopped working for them and they shifted their focus toward the creation of the perfect man, Adam Warlock, and became The Enclave
In the aftermath of Adam's birth, the mask is claimed by a scientist left for dead and he launches a one man war against The Enclave from the shadows
All of this is found out when Sunspot stumbled onto it before his death. Which he has now passed on to Blue Marvel, Night Thrasher and Jimmy Woo to investigate.
Meanwhile a new Masked Raider has taken up the mask and is preparing to start the war anew, while The Enclave has reformed and has a new project: the rebirth of Korvac.
I just wanna point out that the SNES version is way easier than the Genesis version.
Because it has 3 more fuckin buttons.
Of course, being only one page helps
Side note to this: I can tell how ingrained Stan Lee is as a person to my cultural upbringing because I can hear him saying this as I read it.
The final issue is covering the 2010s and I assumed that meant Miles would be showing up and
What I was not expecting is Zdarsky working the other big 2010s Spidey story into it by having septuagenarian ass Doc Ock swap his mind with Miles in a Superior Spider-Man riff and try to kill Peter and steal his glory
What a fuckin great swerve
The story ends really well. Otto is guilted into returning Miles brain to his body and dying naturally by Peter's memory of May. Peter goes out in a big, heroic way and dismantles Doom's power network so that the resistance has a fighting chance and Miles is given Peter's suit by MJ and told he should make it his own, because he is the one and only Spider-Man now and Peter wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
Ewing appears to have rectonned the wrinkle that he and The Operative (a thief from the Mystery Men mini of the 00s) are the same dude, but even without that he is a crusading crime writer who got sick of the cops not doing anything and opened up a private detective agency to take things into his own hands
He also has a pet ferret named Nosey
12 issue Ferret caper NOW
Looks like it was Malibu.