Marvel's Jessica Jones

Ha xpost

I thought dude who played Simpson was good inasmuch as his character is supposed to be basically a glitchy Captain America, and he seemed like the real world result of an attempt at making a Cap (i.e. something would go wrong and dude would be a borderline-psychotic living weapon).

GIMME A RED

That guy is Nuke, right?

Fer sure.

i don't know the characters and haven't read any of the books or know anything about any of these worlds (haven't seen captain america either) so maybe he fits in that context but he bugged me in this for whatever reason.

OUR MY BOYS, OUR MY BOYS.

xpost Very fair point. I have a hard time seeing these shows through the eyes of a newcomer because I'm the nerd that they throw in all of the nerdy easter eggs for.

Spottie, in the comics the guy is literally part of the same super-soldier program that produced Captain America in the 1940s. Nuke (in the series he wasn't referred as such, but Simpson is clearly supposed to be the same character) was introduced in the 1980s in the Daredevil comic by Frank Miller, and he was used as a criticism of the gung-ho militarism of the times. (In the comic Cap discovers Nuke is an 80s version of him, and Miller plays the "old veteran shocked of what happened to the military values he knew" trope with his reactions.) They didn't use much of those elements with Nuke in JJ, but presumably they're saving them for the next season.

But yeah, I agree that he felt out of place in Jessica Jones, because he's so clearly a Captain America foil. I'm not sure why they decided to use him in the TV series and not the movies, because unlike in the comics, they can't have Cap guest star so we can see what he thinks of Nuke.

Amazing there was once a time when Frank Miller critisised hung ho militarism.

He was pretty firmly a libertarian until 9/11, right? So that seemed to have been the basis for his criticism. There's a lot of that in Martha Washington, and IIRC in Elektra Assassin too.

Thanks, Tuomas. Interesting.

Unexpectedly got pulled into this and am 7 episodes in. I'm liking it a lot and I'm in all the way - the show does seem to benefit from binge watching several episodes at a time. I can imagine getting annoyed with waiting for something to happen had this been drawn out one week after next.

All the episodes were released at once, like with other Netflix series, weren't they? So binge watching is pretty much the default mode of viewing it, and the producers knew that.

they can't have Cap guest star so we can see what he thinks of Nuke.

Also don't think Marvel would be ok with Cap going down on Trish.

lol

This Marvel?

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♬ it's patsy! patsy! she really wants to be your friend ♬

didn't notice on first viewing that JJ tries to refer someone to "Angela Del Toro," another detective (and currently White Tiger in the Marvel U)

Boo-urns: http://www.slashfilm.com/jessica-jones-season-2-2018/

*flips table*

THEY CAN REVIVE STUPID FUCKING FULL HOUSE BUT THEY CAN'T MAKE AGENT CARTER WORK?

I HATE THIS WORLD

Guys, guys, that article is from six months ago. There are Inhumans and Cloak & Dagger shows coming now to fill the holez in your soulz.

so

Is there anyone on this entire earth who cares about the inhumans?

old lunch iirc

Kirby Inhumans are Kool (a good friend of mine owns the original of this page, have spent many happy hours looking at it)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dI-2fWdYvic/UjELZ6_zr9I/AAAAAAAA1nk/9-UzEfdeuH4/s1600/Amazing_Adventures_03_01.jpg

They look cool, but I don't think they've ever been particularly interesting as characters, at least when they're supposed to carry the story and not just appear as supporting players (like in Kirby's FF stories or War of Kings). Oddly enough, one of the the best stories featuring them was when Gorgon and Karnak appeared in Ann Nocenti's Daredevil.

the only inhuman that matters is this giant slobbery hero-dog

http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ms-marvel-8-lockjaw.png

i'd pay good money for a timehopping agent carter / ms marvel / lockjaw buddy tv show

I do care about the Inhumans! But I also think that they ('they' being the royal family, specifically) are best utilized in a larger ensemble rather than as central characters. But this thing is supposed to be a limited series so it'll probably be fine.

Holding out hope for a Ms. Marvel & Lockjaw movie. It's time, Marvel.

Wasn't it at some point retconned (by Byrne?) that Lockjaw is actually a regular humanoid Inhuman who was turned into a dog form by the Terrigen Mists? And yet for some reason everyone kept treating him like an animal.

lockjaw is a big adorable teleporting doggie and john fuckin' byrne of all people is not gonna tell me any different

xpost It was Peter David in an issue of Hulk. Someone told the Thing that story at Rick Jones's bachelor party but it was never made clear if they were just fucking with him.

I can't remember what I had for dinner last night but thank god those details are still safely locked away in my brain.

oh god, rick jones' birthday party is stuck in my brain too. that's where i learned the word 'ecdysiast'!

the inhuman royal family is weird and fun

a ton of inhumans running around and being pretty much the same as mutants is dumb

as for lockjaw being weird, there is an inhuman who looks like a huge portal device that also kind of teleports people

Black Bolt's real name is Blackagar Boltagon. This renders all naysayers invalid.

I used to love the Inhumans when I was a kid in the 70s, all stemming from some stickers in a Marvel bubblegum pack that had Kirby illos of Black Bolt and Gorgon (also Dread Dormammu and Mysterio, see also soft spot for them) and a Top Trumps Marvel rip-off: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Marvel-Super-Heroes-Top-Trumps-from-1977/222326255823?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D38661%26meid%3Dc32e225eebd84af381640e19834007be%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D302154310788

They've been very poorly treated by Marvel over the years but actually the past year has been pretty good surrounding CWII - the Karnak series was pretty great and I am really enjoying Uncanny Inhumans.

here we go, Eldrac the door
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldrac

Thank you. Kept wanting to say Randac but that's another Inhuman who is not a door.

Because he's a jar.

I just saw a picture of Eldrac with legs and a body and I am wondering if this is canon, wtf

Eldrac can teleport anyone to any location upon entering his mouth.

worst pick-up line ever

i'd like an eldrac the door / danny the street crossover pls

That's the first time I've read any specific info on which of Eldrac's orifices is enabled for teleportation.

I have no idea what's going on here but it's pretty funny

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I'm incrementally more interested in these Inhumans comics, now

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Old Lunch: Later on in an issue of Peter David's X-Factor Quicksilver r

Urgh. -revealed that a cpl of Inhumans were just being dicks cos they knew Thing would be all empathetic to poor Lockjaw stuck in a dog's form. That X-Factor run was great, imo.

Ohhhh, yeah, thanks. I thought there was a follow-up to that.

Yeah - Byrne retconned Lockjaw to be an Inhuman transformed into a dog by the Terrigen mists (Thing issue #3), then 8 years later Peter David reversed it in his X-Factor run.