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(Dark, Mighty, New) Avengers Assemble! Long Live the Dark Reign

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Weaksauce. So is DA basically just Mighty T-bolts then?

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    plus Sentry

    and Ares

    and Marvel Boy

    and Daken

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    oh well that changes everything

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Balefuego wrote: »
    plus Sentry

    and Ares

    and Marvel Boy

    and Daken

    Yeah, so DA is "Mighty T-Bolts" and T-Bolts is "New T-Bolts".

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I don't know what else you were expecting?

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I wasn't expecting anything else, I was just curious to see if my speculation about DA would turn out to be true. I stayed away from T-Bolts because I'm not a fan of a team of all around d-bags pretending to be heroes while really going around doing bad things as glorified government attack dogs, and DA looks basically the same.

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  • BalefuegoBalefuego Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Well I think this one is going to be a little more big picture driven.

    T-bolts was just hunting down unregistered heroes. In Dark Avengers, Osborne has an agenda he is pushing. He'c creating the policy, not just enforcing it.

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  • VirralVirral Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I think it's nice that they didn't piss around for 6 months dragging out the reveal behind the mystery characters. Were they all revealed?

    Someone who read it should give us a spoilered rundown of the cast/their new identities.

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  • Diablo FettDiablo Fett Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Virral wrote: »
    I think it's nice that they didn't piss around for 6 months dragging out the reveal behind the mystery characters. Were they all revealed?

    Someone who read it should give us a spoilered rundown of the cast/their new identities.
    Iron Patriot = Norman Osborn
    Captain Marvel = Marvel Boy
    The Sentry = The Sentry
    Ms. Marvel = Moonstone
    Ares = Ares
    Wolverine = Daken
    Hawkeye = Bullseye
    Spider-Man = Venom

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  • VirralVirral Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Cool, I think the only one we hadn't already figured out was Ms Marvel from that, right?

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    No, we figured her out pretty early.

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  • VirralVirral Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Well... noone told me :P Last time I checked people thought it might be Ultra girl from the Initiative.

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  • valiancevaliance Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Balefuego wrote: »
    Well I think this one is going to be a little more big picture driven.

    T-bolts was just hunting down unregistered heroes. In Dark Avengers, Osborne has an agenda he is pushing. He'c creating the policy, not just enforcing it.

    Also I don't think Ares is an out and out asshole, and neither is the Sentry. Lotta pure villains on that team though. I guess it's called Dark Avengers for a reason.... :P We still have Mighty AND New for non-douchebag heroes.

    I liked Ellis' run on Tbolts and I think I'll like this.

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  • AlgertmanAlgertman Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    It still makes no sense that Marvel Boy would join them.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Algertman wrote: »
    It still makes no sense that Marvel Boy would join them.
    The whole thing is a complete idiot plot.

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  • valiancevaliance Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Algertman wrote: »
    It still makes no sense that Marvel Boy would join them.
    The whole thing is a complete idiot plot.

    how so?
    and re: marvel boy I'm just happy to have him in something

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    valiance wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Algertman wrote: »
    It still makes no sense that Marvel Boy would join them.
    The whole thing is a complete idiot plot.

    how so?
    and re: marvel boy I'm just happy to have him in something
    The idea that Goblin would actually be able to achieve that level of power and is an idiot plot unto itself (Hint:murderous psychopaths do not get clearances, for the most basic criticism). The rest of it is just moron icing on the stupid cake.

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  • LockedOnTargetLockedOnTarget Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    valiance wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Algertman wrote: »
    It still makes no sense that Marvel Boy would join them.
    The whole thing is a complete idiot plot.

    how so?
    and re: marvel boy I'm just happy to have him in something
    The idea that Goblin would actually be able to achieve that level of power and is an idiot plot unto itself (Hint:murderous psychopaths do not get clearances, for the most basic criticism). The rest of it is just moron icing on the stupid cake.

    Thunderbolts is covering that plot hole right now, with Norman trying to cover for himseld and assure people he is neither crazy nor the Goblin.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Algertman wrote: »
    It still makes no sense that Marvel Boy would join them.

    I dunno, it's a villain Avengers team, and everybody on the team is or has been a villain at some time in the past. It is funny to me, though, that the DA are now as lopsided a team as the MA were compared to the NA.

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Was Marvel Boy a 'villain' in the traditional sense?

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Marvel Boy really isn't a villain, though. Even if you construe his actions as evil, his philosophy is entirely at odds with Norman's.

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  • TransporterTransporter Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    valiance wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Algertman wrote: »
    It still makes no sense that Marvel Boy would join them.
    The whole thing is a complete idiot plot.

    how so?
    and re: marvel boy I'm just happy to have him in something
    The idea that Goblin would actually be able to achieve that level of power and is an idiot plot unto itself (Hint:murderous psychopaths do not get clearances, for the most basic criticism). The rest of it is just moron icing on the stupid cake.

    Thunderbolts is covering that plot hole right now, with Norman trying to cover for himseld and assure people he is neither crazy nor the Goblin.

    He does this by killing people.

    Anyway, other then the Sentry, it's fairly obvious why the non ex-thunderbolts are on the roster.

    Marvel Boy: Blackmail, or voluntary.

    Daken: Fucking with his dad/recruited to become legit and get away from his handlers.

    Ares: He's getting paid. It's the only reason why he joined Tony's Avengers in the first place. But he's probably the dark horse good guy on the team anyway.

    And I really REALLY want to see some Moonstone/Ms. Marvel interaction. Moonstone was buy far my favorite character in pretty much every Thunderbolts incarnation.

    Because in every single T-Bolts series, she's a psychoanalyst whorebitch, and she'll tell you that, to your face, just to fuck with you.

    And occasionally, a nearly omnipotant whorebitch.

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    You're making the mistake of assuming that all of the information that the reader has (i.e. Norman needs to check his calm yo) is all of the information that the other characters have.

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  • IrohIroh Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Re. Bob working for Osborn: I don't see the Sentry as being a guy willing to break with establishment, given that he is just such a broken down and needy character right now.

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I know some if not all of you will dislike this idea, but with Daken on the team, I'd like to see Romulus make an apperance in DA, if not at least a mention. I'm just curious to see how Osborn would deal with this behind-the-scenes villain.

    As for Noh-Varr, I think joining the Dark Avengers could be in part that he's all by himself now. His recruitment scene is in an empty Cube with him sitting in the dark. Osborn's offer gives him a chance to do something now that what little efforts he made in his 'conquering the world' have fallen flat. Not just take up the role of this reality's most famous Kree warrior but do it while being a part of something big too.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The thing is that his plan didn't fall flat, but never even got started.

    Bendis saw the character's motivation and current path and decided that they were things that should be pushed out of the way as soon as possible, so he wrote two scenes with Noh-Varr in jail (first with Stark and then with Osborn) that made no damn sense and hoped that'd suffice as an explanation for his new direction.

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    What happened to Marvel Boy's female partner / sidekick?

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    The thing is that his plan didn't fall flat, but never even got started.

    Bendis saw the character's motivation and current path and decided that they were things that should be pushed out of the way as soon as possible, so he wrote a scene between Noh-Varr and Stark in jail that made no damn sense and hoped that'd suffice.

    How did it make no sense? The Illuminati stepped in to give Noh-Varr other options, so they wouldn't have to deal with him down the road as a new threat.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Owenashi wrote: »
    The thing is that his plan didn't fall flat, but never even got started.

    Bendis saw the character's motivation and current path and decided that they were things that should be pushed out of the way as soon as possible, so he wrote a scene between Noh-Varr and Stark in jail that made no damn sense and hoped that'd suffice.

    How did it make no sense? The Illuminati stepped in to give Noh-Varr other options, so they wouldn't have to deal with him down the road as a new threat.

    It made no sense for him to accept Stark's definition of heroism when he's from an alien culture and sees our established power structure as something nefarious rather than an entity worthy of defense.

    It makes even less sense for him to go along with Osborn, who represents everything wrong with government.

    As for what happened with Ouiblette, I was under the impression that Morrison's Marvel Boy mini wasn't in-continuity.

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Re: Ares getting paid

    Now I picture him walking up to the other gods on Olympus waving a fistfull of cash, all "BEHOLD! The American dollars!"

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    He's getting stiffed if he's not getting anything to compensate for the lack of Suicide Girls.

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  • AlgertmanAlgertman Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Owenashi wrote: »
    The thing is that his plan didn't fall flat, but never even got started.

    Bendis saw the character's motivation and current path and decided that they were things that should be pushed out of the way as soon as possible, so he wrote a scene between Noh-Varr and Stark in jail that made no damn sense and hoped that'd suffice.

    How did it make no sense? The Illuminati stepped in to give Noh-Varr other options, so they wouldn't have to deal with him down the road as a new threat.

    It doesn't make sense. Noh-Varr sees himself as better than every person on the planet. His intention was to make to world a better place so he could have somewhere decent to live, not to improve the lives of other people.

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  • SmurphSmurph Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Sentry doesn't really fit well with the team, but it's not like he fit well with the last team either. Tony basically invited him out of fear and everyone kept him at arms length for the 2 arcs that MA existed for. He really needs to zoom out in to space and be a Galactus-like character that only gets brought in if things get really bad, because he just doesn't fit in a lot of normal stories.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2009
    I'm just going to pretend that the Noh-Varr from Marvel Boy is in a different reality. I still can't figure out how that book fits into 616 continuity, so I am going to pretend the Noh-Varr showing up now in Dark Avengers and whatnot is some other Noh-Varr.

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  • DarkCrawlerDarkCrawler Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Oh god, Daken. Fuck that guy. I'm not going to read a comic with this asshole in it. GOD.

    Okay, if he dies in the first issue I can read it.

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  • DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2009
    I'm not fond of Daken either, not really sure where they're going with it or why they felt it necessary to include even MORE Wolverine into the Marvelverse.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Wildcat wrote: »
    What happened to Marvel Boy's female partner / sidekick?
    that is a great question you should ask Brian Bendis

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Guys, some shit is going down in Ms. Marvel: http://www.newsarama.com/comics/010922-Ms-Marvel-Reed.html
    Carol dies and Moonstone takes over the title. Fuck that noise right in the ear. :x

    So yeah, looks like I'm not renewing my subscription to this book. Marvel seems to be actively trying to get me to stop buying their mainline books.

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    Nah. New book.

    Otherwise I'm punching Reed right in the fucking face.


    But, seriously, he can talk about that but gets all vague about stuff that's been revealed in solicits? Here's the secret. Osborne gives Rashid Ascension (which is a super-weapon) to cause some shit and justify his reign of power. There. Big secret out.
    Sars_Boy wrote: »
    Wildcat wrote: »
    What happened to Marvel Boy's female partner / sidekick?
    that is a great question you should ask Brian Bendis

    She wasn't in CW: Runaways/YA, was she?

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  • descdesc Goretexing to death Registered User regular
    edited January 2009
    As soon as I heard the words "Wolverine's son" to explain Daken to me, I was like, "That's cool, I'm out. See ya."

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