So what's up with Chaykin? I think the first time I heard of him was him getting tons of praise for "American Flagg!", then it was him getting dunked on for some laughably bad art in modern comics (like that image from... a Punisher comic, was it? that had like 17 vanishing points or whatever), and now he's doing this. Is he doing that thing where seemingly-reasonable people get old and now suddenly it's the kids who are wrong, or was he always like this?
So what's up with Chaykin? I think the first time I heard of him was him getting tons of praise for "American Flagg!", then it was him getting dunked on for some laughably bad art in modern comics (like that image from... a Punisher comic, was it? that had like 17 vanishing points or whatever), and now he's doing this. Is he doing that thing where seemingly-reasonable people get old and now suddenly it's the kids who are wrong, or was he always like this?
He made a comic called the Divided States of Hysteria that featured horrific transphobia and racism including a cover featuring a lynched Pakistani man with his genitals mutilated and a slur carved into his chest.
Oh I misunderstood, I thought you were asking what his deal was
That page is from Gunning for Hits which is from Jeff Rougvie and Moritat
Oh, geez, OK, what happened is that I saw that page, saw that it was from an Image book, and my brain immediately went "Right, this must be that Chaykin book". I forgot the name of that one, and didn't realize that "Gunning for Hits" is not "Divided States of Hysteria" until I just refreshed this forum thread and noticed that I missed the quoted post, which made me realize the mistake I made.
So, yes, I was operating under the mistaken assumption that this was from the Howard Chaykin book. I guess it was idealistically naive of me to think that there was only one Image book with shitty imagery.
But, honestly, my question (though now revealed to be a non sequitur) is still something I'd been wondering about, so thank you for filling me in, Blank.
Apparently Kurt Busiek is working on multiple projects for Marvel, one of which he says is fairly large.
I know he is doing the Annotated Marvels but he is one of a handful of the writers who got started in the 80s era who I think still has it and would be worth bringing back, so good get I guess
Now I'm trying to think who I would bring back for this big anniversary thing they are doing
Like folks who can actually still tell a decent story and aren't shitty asshole gremlins
Busiek for sure. Claremont isn't amazing anymore but he isn't terrible and wrote a story about Magneto fucking up children concentration camps in the southwest last year so sure why not.
Ann Nocenti, she just launched a new book with David Aja last year and is still around. Walt Simonson, Louise Simonson, Bill Sienkiewicz. Hrm.
Apparently Kurt Busiek is working on multiple projects for Marvel, one of which he says is fairly large.
I know he is doing the Annotated Marvels but he is one of a handful of the writers who got started in the 80s era who I think still has it and would be worth bringing back, so good get I guess
I'm a little surprised by him going back to Marvel for anything. Last interview I remember by him was back in like 2014 or 15 on Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, and he seemed pretty done with big publisher comics. Didn't like the restrictions on it compared to doing his own stuff. He didn't have bad things to say about them, just that he, adamantly, preferred doing his own stuff. Wonder what they offered him.
Now I'm trying to think who I would bring back for this big anniversary thing they are doing
Like folks who can actually still tell a decent story and aren't shitty asshole gremlins
Busiek for sure. Claremont isn't amazing anymore but he isn't terrible and wrote a story about Magneto fucking up children concentration camps in the southwest last year so sure why not.
Ann Nocenti, she just launched a new book with David Aja last year and is still around. Walt Simonson, Louise Simonson, Bill Sienkiewicz. Hrm.
Gerry Conway did a decent run on Renew Your Vows pretty recently
Apparently Kurt Busiek is working on multiple projects for Marvel, one of which he says is fairly large.
I know he is doing the Annotated Marvels but he is one of a handful of the writers who got started in the 80s era who I think still has it and would be worth bringing back, so good get I guess
I'm a little surprised by him going back to Marvel for anything. Last interview I remember by him was back in like 2014 or 15 on Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, and he seemed pretty done with big publisher comics. Didn't like the restrictions on it compared to doing his own stuff. He didn't have bad things to say about them, just that he, adamantly, preferred doing his own stuff. Wonder what they offered him.
I have to imagine it is some kind of Avengers story
Next to Marvels that is the Kurt Busiek Marvel work folks remember
Apparently Kurt Busiek is working on multiple projects for Marvel, one of which he says is fairly large.
I know he is doing the Annotated Marvels but he is one of a handful of the writers who got started in the 80s era who I think still has it and would be worth bringing back, so good get I guess
I'm a little surprised by him going back to Marvel for anything. Last interview I remember by him was back in like 2014 or 15 on Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, and he seemed pretty done with big publisher comics. Didn't like the restrictions on it compared to doing his own stuff. He didn't have bad things to say about them, just that he, adamantly, preferred doing his own stuff. Wonder what they offered him.
I have to imagine it is some kind of Avengers story
Next to Marvels that is the Kurt Busiek Marvel work folks remember
Hmm maybe, but I would think it would have to come with very little strings attached for him to jump on it.
Just in case folks thought Marvel or DC could be the only large companies to fuck up since it has been a while, since the Chaykin bullshit, here is a page from an Image comic that came out this week:
Tini Howard is doing a miniseries for Marvel with Ariel Olivetti: Thanos, set in the past and exploring his and Gamora's relationship as he raised her.
That is
Not what I would have expected as her first non-one shot story with Marvel but she is very good and will probably explore that abusive relationship with more tact and weight than anyone else has.
Tini Howard is doing a miniseries for Marvel with Ariel Olivetti: Thanos, set in the past and exploring his and Gamora's relationship as he raised her.
That is
Not what I would have expected as her first non-one shot story with Marvel but she is very good and will probably explore that abusive relationship with more tact and weight than anyone else has.
She has a series called Euthenauts right now that is explicitly about death and dying and makes it hopeful and thoughtful
Tini Howard is doing a miniseries for Marvel with Ariel Olivetti: Thanos, set in the past and exploring his and Gamora's relationship as he raised her.
That is
Not what I would have expected as her first non-one shot story with Marvel but she is very good and will probably explore that abusive relationship with more tact and weight than anyone else has.
She has a series called Euthenauts right now that is explicitly about death and dying and makes it hopeful and thoughtful
Tini Howard is doing a miniseries for Marvel with Ariel Olivetti: Thanos, set in the past and exploring his and Gamora's relationship as he raised her.
That is
Not what I would have expected as her first non-one shot story with Marvel but she is very good and will probably explore that abusive relationship with more tact and weight than anyone else has.
Curious if they're going to movie-ize it or go with Starlin's original concept where the relationship was much more normal and healthy (between then at least. Thanos was still a supervillain) and Gamora becoming a cybernetic assassin was completely unintended and a big "I fucked up" moment for Thanos.
So Marvel advertised the FANTASTIC FOUR: WORLD'S GREATEST WEEK for this week online and in their books, saying it would be filled with announcements and news and huge reveals.
The week is over and the news is
They are adding the Fantastic Four to all of the Marvel mobile games and teased some sort of F4 content in PS4 Spider-Man
So Marvel advertised the FANTASTIC FOUR: WORLD'S GREATEST WEEK for this week online and in their books, saying it would be filled with announcements and news and huge reveals.
The week is over and the news is
They are adding the Fantastic Four to all of the Marvel mobile games and teased some sort of F4 content in PS4 Spider-Man
I'm guessing the PS4 stuff will just be a costume or two.
Oh yeah I'm expecting the Bombastic Bag-Man and maybe adding the Baxter Building at most
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Mentioned this in the Spider-Man thread I think, but I want them to add a side mission where Peter tries to join the Fantastic Four because he's broke, gets into a fight with them over a misunderstanding, and then learns that they don't get paid for being the FF
Mentioned this in the Spider-Man thread I think, but I want them to add a side mission where Peter tries to join the Fantastic Four because he's broke, gets into a fight with them over a misunderstanding, and then learns that they don't get paid for being the FF
That has always bugged me a little. It’s like, come on Reed, you cant spare like 100k a year to pay Spider-Man to help you?
Mentioned this in the Spider-Man thread I think, but I want them to add a side mission where Peter tries to join the Fantastic Four because he's broke, gets into a fight with them over a misunderstanding, and then learns that they don't get paid for being the FF
That has always bugged me a little. It’s like, come on Reed, you cant spare like 100k a year to pay Spider-Man to help you?
Well whether or not they get paid or have access to the funds or whatever varies from run to run
Sometimes it is controlled by a trust that they have limited access to
Sometimes they just have free reign to whatever royalties and earnings they get from the brand
There was also that time Johnny got put in charge of the finances
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That page is from Gunning for Hits which is from Jeff Rougvie and Moritat
also as someone from Shithole, Arkansas I can say no one tours here
Is this kind of thing a recent development for him, or has he always been shitty and I just never knew about it?
American Flagg was intended as a satire so people overlooked a lot of the gross shit in it
Everything he has done since has had at least some of the same problems and folks started to speak up about them
So, yes, I was operating under the mistaken assumption that this was from the Howard Chaykin book. I guess it was idealistically naive of me to think that there was only one Image book with shitty imagery.
But, honestly, my question (though now revealed to be a non sequitur) is still something I'd been wondering about, so thank you for filling me in, Blank.
No editor (as far as I can tell), most of Image output is basically self-publishing.
I know he is doing the Annotated Marvels but he is one of a handful of the writers who got started in the 80s era who I think still has it and would be worth bringing back, so good get I guess
Like folks who can actually still tell a decent story and aren't shitty asshole gremlins
Busiek for sure. Claremont isn't amazing anymore but he isn't terrible and wrote a story about Magneto fucking up children concentration camps in the southwest last year so sure why not.
Ann Nocenti, she just launched a new book with David Aja last year and is still around. Walt Simonson, Louise Simonson, Bill Sienkiewicz. Hrm.
I'm a little surprised by him going back to Marvel for anything. Last interview I remember by him was back in like 2014 or 15 on Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men, and he seemed pretty done with big publisher comics. Didn't like the restrictions on it compared to doing his own stuff. He didn't have bad things to say about them, just that he, adamantly, preferred doing his own stuff. Wonder what they offered him.
Gerry Conway did a decent run on Renew Your Vows pretty recently
Next to Marvels that is the Kurt Busiek Marvel work folks remember
Hmm maybe, but I would think it would have to come with very little strings attached for him to jump on it.
I would be 100% down for that.
Where is Magneto when you need him?
1) Al Ewing is very good, and
2) He does not fuck around
From Immortal Hulk #11 (spoilered for size):
Also he is doing such a good job of making the Hulk comic a horror comic, holy shit.
That is
Not what I would have expected as her first non-one shot story with Marvel but she is very good and will probably explore that abusive relationship with more tact and weight than anyone else has.
She has a series called Euthenauts right now that is explicitly about death and dying and makes it hopeful and thoughtful
If anyone can do it she can
Curious if they're going to movie-ize it or go with Starlin's original concept where the relationship was much more normal and healthy (between then at least. Thanos was still a supervillain) and Gamora becoming a cybernetic assassin was completely unintended and a big "I fucked up" moment for Thanos.
The week is over and the news is
They are adding the Fantastic Four to all of the Marvel mobile games and teased some sort of F4 content in PS4 Spider-Man
That's it
mission accomplished
That has always bugged me a little. It’s like, come on Reed, you cant spare like 100k a year to pay Spider-Man to help you?
Sometimes it is controlled by a trust that they have limited access to
Sometimes they just have free reign to whatever royalties and earnings they get from the brand
There was also that time Johnny got put in charge of the finances
That was fun