Yeah, I'm thinking of title pages coming after a couple pages of story introduction a la the SW title pages, more than covers or infographics, really. So a few pages of comic then wham *big title spread* then back to the story. (I would link to images but they're hard to GIS.) I think Morrison tried something similar a few times but restrained himself to doing titles as drawn comic pages, not blank pages of title interrupting the illustrations. When I saw this in New Avengers I initially thought it was incredibly pretentious but over time I grew to really love them since the story was so cosmic and epic it seemed to deserve them.
Thanks for reminding me about the Disassembled covers, I loved those when they came out.
― Brakhage, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah i found the art in nightly news way, way more interesting and compelling than the hacky sub-fight club story
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
i signed up for a free month's marvel unlimited in order to look at some of the background stuff, and i am .. confused by the interface. it seems like i have a navigation bar at the top and bottom its impossible to hide (and which .. barely works?) but which the resizing ignores so it's often cutting off the top and bottom five per cent of a panel, i.e., where .. most of the dialogue is
is it really this broken or am i being a noob
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
it's not the most intuitive thing, to be charitable. you have to click on the page itself or the black empty space on the sides to hide the interface buttons
some glitches will fix if you click the "smart panel <-> full page" button twice
― Nhex, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
love cap + devil dino in planet hulk
― Mordy, Thursday, 21 May 2015 02:20 (nine years ago) link
yeah dd is always welcome. hope he gets a vastly expanded role in the new mu. strong career move ditching moon-boy.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Thursday, 21 May 2015 02:30 (nine years ago) link
got confused for a moment and thought he was gertie's dino but no that was Old Lace - wonder where that dude is. nico is in A-Force. and i think SW is gonna have a new runaways series.
― Mordy, Thursday, 21 May 2015 02:31 (nine years ago) link
it's very weird to me that the runaways went from having a sorta ambushbugesque outskirts of the marvel u storyline to being embedded so completely in continuity
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
they did? when?
― Nhex, Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
they're young avengers and shit now aren't they?
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
How often does that sort of thing really last, though? Howard the Duck is one of the few characters of that type who's managed to stay on the fringes for any real length of time, but even with him there seems to be a more continuity-centric push of late.
― The Freewheelin' Denny Dillon (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
DC is certainly better about it i guess. haven't heard from this guy latelyhttp://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20071010010819/marvel_dc/images/a/a6/
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
er:http://blogintomystery.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/mazing5.jpg
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
though didn't it turn out that denton killed ralph dibney's wife?
i'm afraid to know of what you speaki'm several years behind on YA but i thought the Runaways had pretty much disappeared from continuity, glad to find out they're still around
― Nhex, Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:05 (nine years ago) link
I need to reread the Avengers/New Avengers leadups to this. I read a bunch of yesterday's releases and still have some wtf?!?! questions.
― Carly Furiosa (WilliamC), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Nico and Chase were involved in Avengers Arena/Avengers Undercover
― DJP, Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:34 (nine years ago) link
DJP is our Area/Underground expert. I read the former once, but have forgotten most :/
― ultimate american sock (mh), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
"comic characters who live on the fringe of continuity" would be a good thread.Ambush Bug (kinda pissed that no one ever points out that deadpool is basically Ambush Bug + Lobo)Mazing ManConan the Barbarianwho else?
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:42 (nine years ago) link
darth vader
― Mordy, Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
Dracula
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
Arena was so, so, SO much better than it should have been
― DJP, Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
was that the one w/ arcade? if so, i liked it a lot too
― Mordy, Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
and Undercover was so, so, SO much worse than it should have been
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
heh true, but by that point residual Arena affection made me forgive a lot of nonsense
― DJP, Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
Oh my fuck I just read the first issue of Ultimates 3 and it is sooooo much worse than the image I have in my head when I talk shit about Loeb's writing. I really think I might have to skip ahead. Especially if I'm going to get caught up with Secret Wars in anything resembling real time.
― The Freewheelin' Denny Dillon (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 May 2015 23:10 (nine years ago) link
who is still alive, from the runaways? i think all the ones that i liked, died
it turned out that my problems with the marvel comics were problems with looking at it in chrome, on this computer. i am now using lol internet explorer to read the avengers. it's pretty impressively 'cosmic' and 'high stakes', though i think knowing that three years later they actually followed through on the implicit threat helps underwrite that. i would be interested in rereading morrison's jla after this, with its somewhat morbidity-free escalation of scale; i wonder who the comparison would favour
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 22 May 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link
resurrected evil alex, karolina, molly, victor, chase, old lace (maybe not?), nico all alive i think
― Mordy, Friday, 22 May 2015 02:12 (nine years ago) link
oh, alex is back, good
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 22 May 2015 02:19 (nine years ago) link
i finished the pre-infinity stuff last night and this morning i looked at the infinity reading list and ... oh hell no
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 22 May 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link
If you're cowed by the Infinity reading list, you'll be heartened to learn that they'll be cranking out that much Secret Wars material every month. After looking through the solicitations for August, I think we're be nearing 150 issues. And this runs through..October, I think?
― The Freewheelin' Denny Dillon (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 May 2015 03:54 (nine years ago) link
That's the thing--the SW enthusiasm had me going to the Hickman set-up reading list to see if I could get into it, but gaaaaah. Having said that, if you HAVE read all that, I can see why the payoff would be a hell of a lot of fun.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Friday, 22 May 2015 05:58 (nine years ago) link
mmm but infinity is a crossover in the sense of 'go read this and then this and then this thing with a plot point you need to know about drawn haphazardly from a terrible script,' right? whereas the fun of the secret wars setup seems to be that the main series is its own thing but the miniseries are basically more ridiculous what if? stories that people felt like telling
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 22 May 2015 07:54 (nine years ago) link
There's nothing in Infinity you need to read except for Avengers, New Avengers, and Infinity (and Mighty Avengers, not because it's important to the story, but 'cause it's great).
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 May 2015 09:07 (nine years ago) link
I do feel bad for Jason Aaron, whose (good!) bestselling Thor book is being interrupted for several months by a (probably also good, but fanwanky) miniseries. Rebooting makes sense when a writer leaves, or if the sales are slipping, but rebooting in the middle of a successful run that seems to be pulling in a lot of new readers? Seems daft.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 May 2015 09:12 (nine years ago) link
ok I feel like I have license to skip vast swathes of infinity now, ty
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 22 May 2015 10:42 (nine years ago) link
Secret Invasion was one of the only big Marvel crossovers I've read where the ancillary issues were fairly crucial to one's comprehension and enjoyment. Maybe Civil War, too. But, yeah, they're generally easily dispensible.
― The Freewheelin' Denny Dillon (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 May 2015 11:17 (nine years ago) link
yes definitely - so just after the big Thor reveal, with that series going really well (art is consistently fantastic), he has to force back in tons of decades old boring MAN THOR continuity for 7 or 8 months
― jamiesummerz, Friday, 22 May 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
Infinity has a little diagram of the issues in the back of each chapter and afaik it only include New Avengers, Avengers, and Infinity
I think all you need to understand the swathes of titles out there for Battleworld is, at most, the Secret Wars title, if even that. Each issue seems to have the backstory of its "world" as a short feature at the end of the #1.
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
Captain America/Devil Dinosaur is a great team, why would he even want Bucky back?
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 13:41 (nine years ago) link
to feed to DD
― Mordy, Friday, 22 May 2015 13:42 (nine years ago) link
thanks to Marvel Puzzle Quest, my default paring for Devil Dinosaur is now Nick Fury
― DJP, Friday, 22 May 2015 13:42 (nine years ago) link
btw it's worth noting that with the multiverse collapsed, all the Runaways/Young Avengers/etc are fair game in Battleworld titles since they're not limited to the 616 :)
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 13:50 (nine years ago) link
man i read the 'core' infinity story this evening and it was kinda frustrating -- like, oh, there's some guardians of the galaxy for a panel, or, something happened at the jean grey school but, who knows
it also felt weirdly low stakes, considering
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 22 May 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
I think that's true. All the actual battles don't take place in the core, just the story beats.
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
(Sorry, I should have mentioned as a proviso that Infinity is not very good, whichever version you read.)
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 May 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
I kind of get the impression that it's really three events that were shoehorned together. Black Bolt setting off the inhuman activation bomb really smells like an effort to force the Inhumans as a _thing_
― ultimate american sock (mh), Friday, 22 May 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
well, yeah
MCU hijinks
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Friday, 22 May 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
Half of the last season of Agents of SHIELD was about the Inhumans. They're clearly working overtime to get them into the public's consciousness as soon as possible.
― The Freewheelin' Denny Dillon (Old Lunch), Friday, 22 May 2015 16:59 (nine years ago) link
They're all over Hickman's FF and Avengers runs, but I've still never gotten a feel for them.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link