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Captain [MARVEL] Vs. The Evil Avengers

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  • cardboard delusionscardboard delusions USAgent PSN: USAgent31Registered User regular
    Was Sinister always goofy like that? The only version of him I ever encountered prior to Gillen's run was the 90s cartoon.

    I also really don't remember any Sinister aside from 90s cartoon. Can someone tldr what his deal is since the X-Men from the past got brought to this time?

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    edited September 2019
    Was Sinister always goofy like that? The only version of him I ever encountered prior to Gillen's run was the 90s cartoon.

    I also really don't remember any Sinister aside from 90s cartoon. Can someone tldr what his deal is since the X-Men from the past got brought to this time?

    Originally, he's a mastermind scientist who was way into mutant genetics and manipulated Cyclops to have him conceive a super mutant kid

    Maddoc on
  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Wasn't a Sinister plotline where we originally got the "3rd Summers brother" thing that lasted like a decade?

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Wasn't a Sinister plotline where we originally got the "3rd Summers brother" thing that lasted like a decade?

    Nah, that was all Professor X being a villain stuff

  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    Sinister definitely was hinting at it in the 90s.

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    edited September 2019
    It started with Sinister though. The speculation began when Sinister told Cyclops that there was a third Summers brother, and then like ten years later he was actually introduced with Deadly Genesis.

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Oh, fair enough I guess

    That just sounds like a story they never got around to addressing that Brubaker ended up remembering and deciding to use, granted

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    It was originally supposed to be Adam X, but Fabian Nicieza left the book before revealing it and it got dropped.

    It was also supposed to be Apocalypse at one point, and Gambit at another.

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    I'm the third Summers brother

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    I'm Spartacus!
    Spartacus Summers

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I'm the third Summers brother
    No, you're just Cyclops

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  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    We are all the third Summers brother.

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I'm the third Summers brother
    No, you're just Cyclops

    Mods?

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    Also the third Summers Brother is going to be the entire cast of Marvel's "Eternals"

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I'm the third Summers brother
    No, you're just Cyclops

    Mods?
    GG being Cyclops is thoroughly documented at this point

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  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Also the third Summers Brother is going to be the entire cast of Marvel's "Eternals"

    Still somehow a more interesting choice than Vulcan

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Part of the thing is that, between his name and his character design, I've never been able to take "Mr. Sinister" seriously in the first place. So making him a figure of outright farce is not that much of a stretch, for me.

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    The thing is, he has had good character designs too

    But they're not "comic book villain" designs, they're the ones where he is just wearing a suit

    Like, white skinned dude wearing a suit named Nathaniel Essex who is an immortal mutant and kind of also Dr Frankenstein ain't a bad angle

  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    I think Gillen was the first to unlock Sinister being really goofy / posh / Brit? He's the first I remember doing it, at least.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Straightzi wrote: »
    It started with Sinister though. The speculation began when Sinister told Cyclops that there was a third Summers brother, and then like ten years later he was actually introduced with Deadly Genesis.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    Fun fact: The original concept for Mr. Sinister is that he was a psychic projection created by a kid that Scott used to be friends with at the orphanage where he grew up.

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    apocalypse being the ur-chump of the summers family woulda been great

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  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    it's all one (daarrrrrrk) blur of X-TREEEM NINETIES STUPID to me.

  • ElderlycrawfishElderlycrawfish Registered User regular
    Has it mostly been Hickman that is showing Apocalypse as a more heroic type in the past? I feel like maybe he's quietly putting in the groundwork for something there.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Has it mostly been Hickman that is showing Apocalypse as a more heroic type in the past? I feel like maybe he's quietly putting in the groundwork for something there.
    He has, yeah, there is a big Apocalypse revelation in this issue in particular.

    It also looks like, between this and his MC#1000 story, that he is going to be introducing
    the original Four Horseman that Apocalypse had back in ye olde times

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    Fun fact: The original concept for Mr. Sinister is that he was a psychic projection created by a kid that Scott used to be friends with at the orphanage where he grew up.

    yeah he was literally conceived as a child's idea of what a big scary villain is

  • BadablackBadablack Registered User regular
    What’s crazy to me is any comic book artist being okay with drawing Sinister’s five-thousand-ribbons cape for more than an issue.

    FC: 1435-5383-0883
  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Apparently Robert E. Howard's estate is happy with the Conan deal with Marvel, as they have entered a new agreement that will bring other Howard creations to Marvel Comics including Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes. The latter of which I have never heard of and has a very funny name.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Apparently Robert E. Howard's estate is happy with the Conan deal with Marvel, as they have entered a new agreement that will bring other Howard creations to Marvel Comics including Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes. The latter of which I have never heard of and has a very funny name.

    Probably because he only wrote two complete stories with her and they weren't published until well after he died

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    The fact that sinister wields the gun with his right hand bothers me.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    Re Sinister and Claremont's intend for him to be a mental creation by a kid: Originally there was also supposed to be a heroic counterpart.

    It's one of those concepts that Claremont has been desperately trying to include in comics like the idea that hero X is not a human with animal powers, but an animal turned into a human (his original idea for both Wolverine and Spiderwoman) or the idea of a separate strain of human evolution that is not the X-Men and their usual cast.

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  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Apparently Robert E. Howard's estate is happy with the Conan deal with Marvel, as they have entered a new agreement that will bring other Howard creations to Marvel Comics including Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes. The latter of which I have never heard of and has a very funny name.

    The rights to Conan and Howard's other creations are not controlled by Howard's estate (if there even is such a thing left, he had no children or spouse). The way the rights to those characters have been passed on and on from his father to friends to family of friends to different companies is a pretty fascinating read.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Dizzy D wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Apparently Robert E. Howard's estate is happy with the Conan deal with Marvel, as they have entered a new agreement that will bring other Howard creations to Marvel Comics including Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes. The latter of which I have never heard of and has a very funny name.

    The rights to Conan and Howard's other creations are not controlled by Howard's estate (if there even is such a thing left, he had no children or spouse). The way the rights to those characters have been passed on and on from his father to friends to family of friends to different companies is a pretty fascinating read.
    Oh dang the article I read painted it as such but yeah at the end it says the rights are apparently held by a company titled Conan Properties

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Reading Invaders this week, I definitely think that the HoXPoX theory that
    the villain of the books is Charles

    In Invaders it was revealed a while ago that Charles tried to help Namor back in the day and made everything worse and then tried to cover up his mistake

    And now it has all escalated to a gigantic multinational disaster and Charles is blamed for it by like 3 different heroes

    I don't think editorial would have signed off on that if they weren't already planning a heel turn for him anyways

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  • JimothyJimothy Not in front of the fox he's with the owlRegistered User regular
    Miles
    Cool reveal on 616 Miles and great issue overall. Loved Miles’s talk with Jeff

    Why do they keep obscuring his age? I thought he was established as 17 at this point, so he should be 18, but they keep hiding it

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Jimothy wrote: »
    Miles
    Cool reveal on 616 Miles and great issue overall. Loved Miles’s talk with Jeff

    Why do they keep obscuring his age? I thought he was established as 17 at this point, so he should be 18, but they keep hiding it
    I think it was just a running gag, Ahmed has confirmed it is his 18th on Twitter previously

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    Kind of a random longshot, but are any of you going to Tokyo Comic Con on November 22-24? I'd like to get a commission from a particular artist, but I can't attend myself. I'd make it worth your while!

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    I am real bummed to report the issues I had with Gwenpool Strikes Back #1 are just as prevalent, if not moreso, in #2.

    I've liked Leah Williams work quite a bit in the past but this book is just unfiltered Very Online Bullshit at full blast with an extra layer of fourth wall breaking meta commentary and it just doesn't work for me at all

    Which sucks, but oh well it definitely feels like Williams is telling the story she wants to tell and I'm happy for her on that level at least even if it ain't a story I like
    Blank, have you considered that perhaps you don't enjoy this stuff because you have become an Old?

    Not me, I'm young and vibrant, I know all about the hip stuff young people like me enjoy.

  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    blank is a baby

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  • DelduwathDelduwath Registered User regular
    Old baby, though.

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