Damn, I haven’t watched one of these since Luke Cage s1 (which I enjoyed overall), but I bailed when I heard IF was real bad.
I should catch up someday.
I have not finished Cage season 2 or JJ season 2. JJ felt like a big letdown from S1 but Cag’s S2 has a fantastically charming villain that I need subtitles to understand.
I didn't dig JJ S2 for the first few episodes. Stopped watching for like 2 months, but I went back and I thought the last half was a lot better
Yeah, it definitely gets better as it goes
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I know a lot of folks were disappointed that it was focusing on an element of Jessica's past again in the form of her mother, but once it gets past some of the initial setup of that I think it goes to some really interesting places.
Plus I loved both the Tragedy of Trish Walker and the Tragedy of Jeri Hogarth
Trish was the worst
She didn't do a single likeable thing the entire season. I get they were going for "hitting rock bottom" but damn, she got done dirty
Still JJ S2
Okay so yes, she was the worst, but I really liked that.
I think there's something really interesting in comparing seasons one and two of Jessica Jones. Season one Jessica is a mess - her personal life's a mess, her career is in rough shape, and the main antagonist of the season is essentially just personal trauma in the shape of a man. But she manages to claw her way through it, partially through the assistance of her slightly less messy friends, particularly Trish, who has her issues but is overall fairly well put together.
Jessica is still a bit of a mess in season two, but on the whole, things are going better for her. And because things are going better for her, she is leaning less and less on other people. She claims that it's because her "case" is personal, but is it really that much more personal than Kilgrave? While she is overall doing better, her friends meanwhile are falling apart - Jeri and Trish especially. They break down very differently from one another, and intersect with Jess occasionally during the process, but it's a divergent process rather than the convergent one of the first season.
I dunno, I guess that's all there really is to it, but I liked it.
I didn't mind Jeri's storyline
I think my problem with Trish was that they spent the entire season showing her being an absolutely shitty person, blaming everyone else, etc, and then at the very end "oh now she has exactly what she wanted" (superpowers)
Jeri was shitty, but she at least knew it and had an actual problem she was trying to solve.
Next season will probably be about
Trish realizing that super powers aren't a magical cure all that will fix all her problems and insecurities. Having powers won't make her a hero, and she has to work to become a better person.
Someone pointed out that they could potentially finish out the Agent Carter series via these streaming shows Disney is rumored to be doing.
Dear god please do that.
As much as people like to say the Netflix Marvel shows feel like they're spending half each season getting to the plot, Agent Carter felt like both seasons were spinning the wheels for about two or three episodes of actual story stuff.
Someone pointed out that they could potentially finish out the Agent Carter series via these streaming shows Disney is rumored to be doing.
Dear god please do that.
As much as people like to say the Netflix Marvel shows feel like they're spending half each season getting to the plot, Agent Carter felt like both seasons were spinning the wheels for about two or three episodes of actual story stuff.
I mean, I'm more talking about how they ended on a pretty significant cliffhanger. Even a tv movie to finish out the plot would be appreciated.
Zdarsky's final issue of Spectacular Spider-Man is out next week and hes also drawing it
I'm really gonna miss him, he was easily the best Peter Parker writer we've had in like a decade and he got the character so well
The whole "nervous stream of consciousness babbling to yourself" thing hits just perfectly. He manages to capture all the elements of Pete that I identify with, that make him my favorite.
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I love Gaiman's Eternals, but it's not a story to start the series with. I just hope they don't use Chuck Austen's Eternal series as a starting point, obviously.
I love Gaiman's Eternals, but it's not a story to start the series with. I just hope they don't use Chuck Austen's Eternal series as a starting point, obviously.
I think it is a perfect starting point?
It was literally designed as such. It launches with a clean slate, explains who the Eternals are and how they work and gradually reveals their history and role in the world
Cause I dunno if it wasn't clear or I was being dumb, but I was confused
So I guess Spider-Ben is dying, then get shot trying to get his pills, and gets the blood transfusion from Peter that gives him powers.
And then eventually Ben forbids Peter from being Spider-Pete?
Was that it? For some reason it came off as Peter died or something.
It looked like the stuff with Ben at the bar is set in the "future" and everything else is him telling the bartender his story and it is implied Peter died at some point after the Kraven incident but before the bar
Cause I dunno if it wasn't clear or I was being dumb, but I was confused
So I guess Spider-Ben is dying, then get shot trying to get his pills, and gets the blood transfusion from Peter that gives him powers.
And then eventually Ben forbids Peter from being Spider-Pete?
Was that it? For some reason it came off as Peter died or something.
It looked like the stuff with Ben at the bar is set in the "future" and everything else is him telling the bartender his story and it is implied Peter died at some point after the Kraven incident but before the bar
While the story itself I'm skeptical of, I actually really love this announcement because it breaks the usual announcement cycle
609-612 were already solicited
They just had vague solicit texts and none of the story arc trade dress on the covers
So rather than a big THE DEATH OF DAREDEVIL coming in like 4 months it starts in like 3 weeks and the whole story has already been solicited and open for order by the time they reveal the true nature of the arc
I got a subscription form recently that had Nova on it. Is Nova coming back or was that a mistake?
This is actually a super-secret comic they were going to make just for you, but now you've gone and leaked it to the whole Internet so you get nothing.
I got a subscription form recently that had Nova on it. Is Nova coming back or was that a mistake?
This is actually a super-secret comic they were going to make just for you, but now you've gone and leaked it to the whole Internet so you get nothing.
Unfortunately it had my address on it so I shredded it. (Less about paranoia and more about an excuse to use the shredder) I recall GotG on there though.
No creative teams.
Honestly I think it may have just been an out of date form that got mailed to me.
Having a hard time picturing Cap getting a new costume made after the events of 3
Calling it, prototype suit Tony made gets automatically deployed to him as part of the "Avengers Disassembled" protocol.
There's something a little hand-wavey about Tony having a contingency for everything, but that was a literal and integral plot point in the evolution of his films, so I'd like to think he has all of these nutso one-off things waiting with some kind of specific trigger in place.
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Dear god please do that.
As much as people like to say the Netflix Marvel shows feel like they're spending half each season getting to the plot, Agent Carter felt like both seasons were spinning the wheels for about two or three episodes of actual story stuff.
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I mean, I'm more talking about how they ended on a pretty significant cliffhanger. Even a tv movie to finish out the plot would be appreciated.
The build-a-figure looks like it's a Kree Sentry robot.
Which is kind of neat to me. Carol Danvers' first appearance was literally standing in front of one.
The whole "nervous stream of consciousness babbling to yourself" thing hits just perfectly. He manages to capture all the elements of Pete that I identify with, that make him my favorite.
They absolutely should adapt some version of Gaiman's mini, it is easily the best Eternals thing
It was literally designed as such. It launches with a clean slate, explains who the Eternals are and how they work and gradually reveals their history and role in the world
I'm saying this as someone who liked The Rider a bunch
How do you go from that to Eternals
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Cause I dunno if it wasn't clear or I was being dumb, but I was confused
And then eventually Ben forbids Peter from being Spider-Pete?
Was that it? For some reason it came off as Peter died or something.
That isnt out yet??
He just mentions that he got involved in Spider-Geddon and that's it
Everything else is unrelated
Ahh okay. That makes sense.
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609-612 were already solicited
They just had vague solicit texts and none of the story arc trade dress on the covers
So rather than a big THE DEATH OF DAREDEVIL coming in like 4 months it starts in like 3 weeks and the whole story has already been solicited and open for order by the time they reveal the true nature of the arc
Tini Howard is so damned good and her letter at the end made me tear up something fierce.
I mean it literally had an option for a subscription to a Nova comic.
Nooooooo...
Oh dang. Did it mention the creative team at all?
Unfortunately it had my address on it so I shredded it. (Less about paranoia and more about an excuse to use the shredder) I recall GotG on there though.
No creative teams.
Honestly I think it may have just been an out of date form that got mailed to me.
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