He invented the web fluid, spider-tracer (which I never understood, does it contain (radioactive) spider-blood in it that lets him track it?), and what else? Something for his Slingers personas? He never even built a sonic disruptor to fight Venom or Carnage (he had to steal Reed's).
I distinctly remember that in the first Spider-Man book he invented a device that neutralized whatever magnetic field thing the Vulture was using to fly.
He invented the web fluid, spider-tracer (which I never understood, does it contain (radioactive) spider-blood in it that lets him track it?), and what else? Something for his Slingers personas? He never even built a sonic disruptor to fight Venom or Carnage (he had to steal Reed's).
I distinctly remember that in the first Spider-Man book he invented a device that neutralized whatever magnetic field thing the Vulture was using to fly.
I think I remember him building a device to shut down Electro, too. Right after Electro kicked Nate Grey's ass. The whole issue is kind of fuzzy, but Spidey made a pretty cool looking insulated suit. ASM #425, maybe?
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How is dating someone who goes out and fights dangerous criminals all the time like winning the lottery? You'd never know if tonight was the night someone was going to get him, and you're just going to hear about it in the news (if at all).
Okay, there's potential for a lot of stress. But people deal with that in lots of spousal relationships. Firefighter, Police Officer, Military Personnel, Pizza Deliveryman, the list goes on. The difference for a lot of those people is that their partner is not a smoking hot genius and does not have the most awesome job and coolest friends in the world. I mean seriously, it's a negative that I think is pretty strongly outweighed if you know some good meditation techniques and set up a really gigantic life insurance plan.
I'll always defend Kirkman's UXM run, as it seemed like any writer that came into contact with the book managed to spontaneously lose all their writing talent. Really, Millar's run was pretty bad from the start, and even Vaughan struggled to find anything to do with the characters, with his run ultimately being worse than Millar's.
Fans act like Kirkman came to UXM and destroyed some magnificent work of art. But in my mind, the situation was more analogous to Kirkman taking a dump in an outhouse; just piling shit on top of more shit.
The only thing I recall as being at all memorable or engaging about UXM was the impressive line-up of artists on the title.
That's weird, I really liked the early UXM stuff. Hell, I didn't even mind the early Kirkman UXM stuff, but by the time we got to Apocalypse I was done.
And then it got a whole lot worse, followed by canceled.
Kirkman dialogue is a bit off for me in a way I can't quite put my finger on... I notice the same thing with Invincible. It's not bad, and it's not like Bendis-Speak... he just doesn't quite manage to make the characters sound natural.
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Would you say it's like he can't let the art on the panel speak for itself? That's the way I feel when I read some of his work.
I've always thought that as well. His characters are prone to making these long, verbose, highly articulate speeches about how they feel, which you could argue helps give them depth, but real people don't talk like that. It's the classic thing of telling the reader something when you could be showing it.
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"And this is his sofa, is it?" said Arthur.
Kirkman dialogue is a bit off for me in a way I can't quite put my finger on... I notice the same thing with Invincible. It's not bad, and it's not like Bendis-Speak... he just doesn't quite manage to make the characters sound natural.
Agreed. I've said this before, but I think he does short, quippy, funny lines really well, and then stumbles as soon as he needs to convey some gravitas.
Kirkman dialogue is a bit off for me in a way I can't quite put my finger on... I notice the same thing with Invincible. It's not bad, and it's not like Bendis-Speak... he just doesn't quite manage to make the characters sound natural.
Agreed. I've said this before, but I think he does short, quippy, funny lines really well, and then stumbles as soon as he needs to convey some gravitas.
Most of the work from Kirkman that I've read has either been Walking Dead or UXM. In Walking Dead, it seems like the dialog flows very naturally.
And Jesus isn't really retarded. He's just a nice, but kind of dim guy. He's a bad roommate, but that's really to be expected from anyone whose habits have had ~2,000 years to build up.
So I am to assume somewhere, most likely towards the end of "the Gauntlet" we'll see a new sinister six?
EDIT: I guess the oft rumored "The Sinister 666" would be it.
So I am to assume somewhere, most likely towards the end of "the Gauntlet" we'll see a new sinister six?
EDIT: I guess the oft rumored "The Sinister 666" would be it.
What baddies will be in this version of the sisister 6?
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I didn't say that it would be a good idea, just that I think it's going to happen. There is going to be more about "THE DEAL" between them, and probably some sort of twist, eventually and I figure the Spider-Writers are going to make that happen sooner rather than later.
And also, I really hope that this Clone Saga book leads into a Spider-Man Forever book in the same vein as X-Men Forever. I doubt that it will happen, but it'd be great.
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I distinctly remember that in the first Spider-Man book he invented a device that neutralized whatever magnetic field thing the Vulture was using to fly.
I think I remember him building a device to shut down Electro, too. Right after Electro kicked Nate Grey's ass. The whole issue is kind of fuzzy, but Spidey made a pretty cool looking insulated suit. ASM #425, maybe?
Okay, there's potential for a lot of stress. But people deal with that in lots of spousal relationships. Firefighter, Police Officer, Military Personnel, Pizza Deliveryman, the list goes on. The difference for a lot of those people is that their partner is not a smoking hot genius and does not have the most awesome job and coolest friends in the world. I mean seriously, it's a negative that I think is pretty strongly outweighed if you know some good meditation techniques and set up a really gigantic life insurance plan.
You're a car with dumb tires.
That's weird, I really liked the early UXM stuff. Hell, I didn't even mind the early Kirkman UXM stuff, but by the time we got to Apocalypse I was done.
And then it got a whole lot worse, followed by canceled.
Kirkman dialogue is a bit off for me in a way I can't quite put my finger on... I notice the same thing with Invincible. It's not bad, and it's not like Bendis-Speak... he just doesn't quite manage to make the characters sound natural.
"And this is his sofa, is it?" said Arthur.
I want this to mean something
Like "Underground Utilities" only cooler
Gah. Beaten to it.
"And this is his sofa, is it?" said Arthur.
Agreed. I've said this before, but I think he does short, quippy, funny lines really well, and then stumbles as soon as he needs to convey some gravitas.
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Most of the work from Kirkman that I've read has either been Walking Dead or UXM. In Walking Dead, it seems like the dialog flows very naturally.
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Maybe it's just how he writes teenagers? *shrug*
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I think that idea was in bad taste.
No.
EDIT: I guess the oft rumored "The Sinister 666" would be it.
What baddies will be in this version of the sisister 6?
665 other dudes.
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