Yeah, the idea that Reed wouldn't do a super huge background check on the person taking care of his kids is super-silly. That's not to say that his FF isn't good, it's just not great. Of course, I don't really love anything Millar's written, although some stuff isn't terrible, like FF.
With the "reveal" as to who it is, I think it's pretty safe to say she would know how to falsify such a thing, or how to fool whoever was doing the background check...
Which was presumably Sue, so I think she'd know how to fool herself.
... How? She's not smarter than Reed, and he would sure as hell do his own work. This whole "The Earth will be used up thing" is fucking ridiculous, and really pulls a lot that could be good out of the book.
Yeah, the idea that Reed wouldn't do a super huge background check on the person taking care of his kids is super-silly. That's not to say that his FF isn't good, it's just not great. Of course, I don't really love anything Millar's written, although some stuff isn't terrible, like FF.
With the "reveal" as to who it is, I think it's pretty safe to say she would know how to falsify such a thing, or how to fool whoever was doing the background check...
Which was presumably Sue, so I think she'd know how to fool herself.
... How? She's not smarter than Reed, and he would sure as hell do his own work. This whole "The Earth will be used up thing" is fucking ridiculous, and really pulls a lot that could be good out of the book.
Yeah, the idea that Reed wouldn't do a super huge background check on the person taking care of his kids is super-silly. That's not to say that his FF isn't good, it's just not great. Of course, I don't really love anything Millar's written, although some stuff isn't terrible, like FF.
With the "reveal" as to who it is, I think it's pretty safe to say she would know how to falsify such a thing, or how to fool whoever was doing the background check...
Which was presumably Sue, so I think she'd know how to fool herself.
... How? She's not smarter than Reed, and he would sure as hell do his own work. This whole "The Earth will be used up thing" is fucking ridiculous, and really pulls a lot that could be good out of the book.
I thought she was smarter than Reed.
....She never even finished college. This is 616, not Ultimate.
Uh it's not out of continuity at all, especially since both the fake earth and Reed's ex have played parts in the current arc.
I mean out of continuity in the sense that, like Nightcrawler's real dad, people (writers and readers) are probably going to ignore it starting the day after it hit shelves.
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Uh it's not out of continuity at all, especially since both the fake earth and Reed's ex have played parts in the current arc.
I mean out of continuity in the sense that, like Nightcrawler's real dad, people (writers and readers) are probably going to ignore it starting the day after it hit shelves.
Also, it's never going to be referenced anywhere else, ever.
Uh it's not out of continuity at all, especially since both the fake earth and Reed's ex have played parts in the current arc.
I mean out of continuity in the sense that, like Nightcrawler's real dad, people (writers and readers) are probably going to ignore it starting the day after it hit shelves.
Also, it's never going to be referenced anywhere else, ever.
Flash got his powers from a genie, right?
Yeah though, that was my major problem with the start of the arc, I don't know if it got better. It just felt like nothing in it was ever going to be absorbed into the continuity because there was no smooth transition. It was just "bam! Reed has always had an old flame who is a romantic rival for Sue and also earth is being evacuated".
It did not help that the story was pretty silly, either.
I just read the Joker HC. That was actually pretty sweet. All of those versions of the characters would actually work pretty well in the movie, I think.
"oh not they are introducing a new character, this means it will be completley out of continuity!"
It's not the character that gets me, it's that apparently there's a company (research group? whatever) that has the capacity to build entire planets and robots that can kill every single superhuman in seconds, and they've never been mentioned before at all. You could put Shield, Sword, Stark, Reed, Forge, and all the alien tech on Earth together, and they still couldn't build that kinda shit. The Skrulls have trouble putting together forces to kill even unpowered superheroes.
Basically there's no way such a group can really exist in normal Marvel continuity without being ridiculous.
"oh not they are introducing a new character, this means it will be completley out of continuity!"
It's not the character that gets me, it's that apparently there's a company (research group? whatever) that has the capacity to build entire planets and robots that can kill every single superhuman in seconds, and they've never been mentioned before at all. You could put Shield, Sword, Stark, Reed, Forge, and all the alien tech on Earth together, and they still couldn't build that kinda shit. The Skrulls have trouble putting together forces to kill even unpowered superheroes.
Basically there's no way such a group can really exist in normal Marvel continuity without being ridiculous.
the group behind the 2nd earth and why it needed to built is part of an ongoing storyline in Millar's run
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"oh not they are introducing a new character, this means it will be completley out of continuity!"
It's not the character that gets me, it's that apparently there's a company (research group? whatever) that has the capacity to build entire planets and robots that can kill every single superhuman in seconds, and they've never been mentioned before at all. You could put Shield, Sword, Stark, Reed, Forge, and all the alien tech on Earth together, and they still couldn't build that kinda shit. The Skrulls have trouble putting together forces to kill even unpowered superheroes.
Basically there's no way such a group can really exist in normal Marvel continuity without being ridiculous.
the group behind the 2nd earth and why it needed to built is part of an ongoing storyline in Millar's run
No, he's saying that a group smarter than Reed, Doom, Stark et al is ridiculous in the context of the Marvel U, because we would know about them. Or if we didn't Reed, Doom, Stark et al certainly would
They retconned in (or dredged up a really obscure character I don't know about) an old ex-girlfriend of Reed who's almost as smart as him. Turns out she's working for a company who believes the Earth is a few decades away from total environmental meltdown, so they're building a whole new Earth. Inside a pocket dimension or something, I forget. On this new Earth they had a robot named CAP who was designed to detect and destroy all weapons, starting with nukes and working down to sticks and rocks. He shortcircuited or something and went nuts on real Earth, and managed to beat up the combined forces of both Avengers teams and the FF and maybe some others (I forget if the X-Men showed up) in about a minute. He was beat up when it was suddenly revealed that Reed had a gigantic Galactus-buster armor suit that he'd apparently been hiding in the basement.
Right now the last surviving heroes from 500 years in the future are trying to bring the entire population back in time to a habitable world, presumably they're gonna end up on the new Earth.
I just read the Joker HC. That was actually pretty sweet. All of those versions of the characters would actually work pretty well in the movie, I think.
I thought the same thing. Though it took me a second to figure out the Riddler.
I thought he was just standing funny in the first panel...:|
Croc was dead on what I'd like to see in a movie. A big, scaly, malformed bruiser.
Vince Colletta fucked up a whole lot of Kirby art - if he didn't want to ink certain parts, he's erase them. Whole figures would just disappear.
I find this interesting, could you point me toward more in-depth info?
Unfortunately, lots of the information (including side-by-side comparisons) is found off-line, in books like JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR. I'll try to post some examples tomorrow. Here's an example of what most artists of the time have to say about his work, though:
My dick can ink better than Vince Colletta. What will be interesting will be seeing which of the new young guys inks better than the other new young guy. I guarantee they’ll all ink better than the infamous one.
Tips on how to ink better than Vince Colletta:
1.Dip your pen or brush in ink.
2. Find a line.
3. Cover line with ink.
Presto! You’re a better inker than Vince Colletta. It’s that simple.
second issue of marvel zombies 3 was still leagues better than marvel zombies 2, however i didn't think the second issue held up as well as the first. the problem for me seems to be writers taking what ellis did with machine mans character and reconciling that into the regular 616 universe. the references to beer drinking and fleshy ones seem shoehorned in somewhat...
also, ghost rider
eastern ghost rider and his thousand buddha stare! surely room for an IIF crossover there...
Manji, he's already been depicted like that in Ms Marvel (and it was glorious). So it's pretty much established at this point that that's how Machine Man acts in 616.
was ms marvel before or after nextwave? i presume after. i'll have to give it a look if its up to the same standard. my point was more that it just seemed a little forced in MZ3...
this week i mostly put money into dan abnetts account, buying authority (which i'm still undecided over) as well as the first durham red trade and the warhammer condemned by fire trade, both of which i've yet to read.
Presumably, it's now canon that after being told he was "utter shit, a complete fuck" by the Celestials, Machine Man came back to Earth with a brand new 'tude.
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I thought she was smarter than Reed.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Wait, I'm confused.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
I mean out of continuity in the sense that, like Nightcrawler's real dad, people (writers and readers) are probably going to ignore it starting the day after it hit shelves.
Flash got his powers from a genie, right?
Yeah though, that was my major problem with the start of the arc, I don't know if it got better. It just felt like nothing in it was ever going to be absorbed into the continuity because there was no smooth transition. It was just "bam! Reed has always had an old flame who is a romantic rival for Sue and also earth is being evacuated".
It did not help that the story was pretty silly, either.
"oh not they are introducing a new character, this means it will be completley out of continuity!"
It's not the character that gets me, it's that apparently there's a company (research group? whatever) that has the capacity to build entire planets and robots that can kill every single superhuman in seconds, and they've never been mentioned before at all. You could put Shield, Sword, Stark, Reed, Forge, and all the alien tech on Earth together, and they still couldn't build that kinda shit. The Skrulls have trouble putting together forces to kill even unpowered superheroes.
Basically there's no way such a group can really exist in normal Marvel continuity without being ridiculous.
the group behind the 2nd earth and why it needed to built is part of an ongoing storyline in Millar's run
Right now the last surviving heroes from 500 years in the future are trying to bring the entire population back in time to a habitable world, presumably they're gonna end up on the new Earth.
https://twitter.com/Hooraydiation
Vince Colletta fucked up a whole lot of Kirby art - if he didn't want to ink certain parts, he's erase them. Whole figures would just disappear.
Although how you can pick out inkers is beyond me
because different inkers look different
I find this interesting, could you point me toward more in-depth info?
I thought the same thing. Though it took me a second to figure out the Riddler.
Croc was dead on what I'd like to see in a movie. A big, scaly, malformed bruiser.
Penguin was a disappointing pussy, but hey...stripper Harley. Can't say no to that.
Unfortunately, lots of the information (including side-by-side comparisons) is found off-line, in books like JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR. I'll try to post some examples tomorrow. Here's an example of what most artists of the time have to say about his work, though:
And Colleta did this to other people's are all the time.
also, ghost rider
this week i mostly put money into dan abnetts account, buying authority (which i'm still undecided over) as well as the first durham red trade and the warhammer condemned by fire trade, both of which i've yet to read.