i feel like ewing is def angling for a puck-led book at some point
― TV presenter and animal lover, Matt Baker (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 8 April 2019 16:00 (five years ago) link
Puck's the next John Constantine.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 8 April 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
Got to say, I was pretty underwhelmed by the usually great John Cassaday's cover to the recently released Conan Omnibus.
That said, editorial actually did some work on this one and it is packed with some really good bonus stuff if you are a fan of the original Barry Windsor Smith era of the title. They redid the colors more to the original 4 color and they don't look bad, always going to look different as the paper stock is so much brighter white in the first place.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51zK4pwlXqL.jpg
― earlnash, Monday, 8 April 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
This one is better. Don't get what happened to Conan's head on the omnibus, I guess that is volcano head or something.
https://www.previewsworld.com/SiteImage/CatalogImage/STL106693?type=1
I kinda like modern artists doing interpretations of the original covers, if they have to use one not from the original series.
― earlnash, Monday, 8 April 2019 16:45 (five years ago) link
I know this is a nerdy, late-night-at-summer-camp discussion topic, but has Marvel ever offered a cosmological explanation for how its different “universes” were created* & how they exist in relation to each other; why so many details across the various Earth-xxx’s are the same, but then timelines/characters diverge at certain points; how warping between them is so easily achieved; etc.? Or is it just “comic book logic”? *notwithstanding their re-creation by Franklin Richards in the wake of Secret Wars, or whatever went on there.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Thursday, 11 April 2019 04:04 (five years ago) link
I don't know, and looking at DC, I don't want to know.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 11 April 2019 07:43 (five years ago) link
Ahem, I believe you'll find that, while Franklin Richards created the Heroes Reborn universe in the wake of Onslaught, that it was actually Franklin's father who was instrumental in the creation of Prime Earth after the end of Secret Wars. (pushes up glasses, brushes nacho crumbs from stained Wlzards of the Coast t-shirt)
― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 April 2019 10:20 (five years ago) link
Morrison actually did a decent job of putting the multiversal shit in order over at DC (even if DC ultimately took a shit all over his attempts). Marvel hasn't made quite as sweeping an attempt afaik.
― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Thursday, 11 April 2019 10:24 (five years ago) link
Al Ewing's Ultimates series (two of them when you count a mid-run renumbering, iirc) get into the cosmic entities pushing the buttons outside of the multiverse in a fun way
― mh, Thursday, 11 April 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
yeah, i'm working my way through those at the moment and there's some v fun cosmic creation/destruction stuff in there
this al ewing guy is going places, lemme tell ya
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 April 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link
I mean, I like other writers but he's good at what he's doing.
I'm kind of making the uncharitable assumption (well, uncharitable for the other writers) that he's responsible for most of the good character beats in the Avengers crossover fiasco title, too.
― mh, Thursday, 11 April 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
i've only just started catching up with his stuff on marvel unlimited and his morrison / moore / ellis influences are worn maybe a little too obviously on his sleeve sometimes but the stories themselves are always fun and creative
― arli$$ and bible black (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:04 (five years ago) link
Mighty Avengers had a lot of heart and he salvaged about half the character team for the Ultimates gig
the actual series was screwed over by a relaunch that was immediately jacked up by that Axis event, and then ended relatively early due to another
― mh, Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
man, i HATE thesehttps://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/ut-graphic-tees/marvel-x-jason-polan
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
not feeling those
― mh, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
Draftsmanship on the buildings is p tight, everything Marvel-related looks like hot trash.
― Joan Lunden just stole your laptop and I didn't even try to stop her (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
Guess those decades of IP really panned out, huh? It’s wild to see this marginal-seeming stuff I grew up with turn into a zillion-dollar cultural juggernaut. Excelsior, I guess...
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
i hear you with that. The entire world is obsessed with a Darkseid knock-off!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 29 April 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
Would legit have liked to see Thanos taken down by Hawkeye and Ant-Man.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 29 April 2019 05:51 (five years ago) link
I lost track of Jason Aaron's Thor as it got a bit dithery towards the middle of the Jane Foster run. The last book, though, "The Death of..." is a real return to form.
Not sure about the crossover stuff right now, as I haven't got that far...
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 12:45 (five years ago) link
I'm wondering if there's a maximum number of big crossovers per year and they've been pushing the "war of the realms" that Aaron's been writing across Thors down the road for quite a while
― mh, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:31 (five years ago) link
War of the Realms is typical Marvel insanity with regards to their publishing - a million tie-in minis. I'll wait until they're all collected and hope they end up at the library.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 1 May 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
So how y'all feel about Hickman's (apparently long-planned) major overhaul of everything X-related? I know his Avengers run is divisive but I'll be damned if I know why. Dude's pretty much torn it up with all his Marvel work so I'm psyched to see what's in store.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Monday, 20 May 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
I'm down for the two weekly miniseries, will see how it continues from there. I'm guessing everything they've done this year in Uncanny (Disassembled/Age of X) is some kind of set-up/filler for whatever he has in store.
― Nhex, Monday, 20 May 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
I know his Avengers run is divisive but I'll be damned if I know why.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
I think Hickman's on record about having Thanos foisted upon him. He did seem rather shoehorned into the saga.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 11:57 (five years ago) link
I guess I do understand the qualms re: characterization, although I think he did all right given the scope of the story he was juggling. In the case of the impending X books, I think he's only committed to the two minis so I'd assume he's just engaged more with the worldbuilding, which I'm cool with.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:19 (five years ago) link
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
"any way HE wanted to"
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:36 (five years ago) link
Nah I geddit. There's probably an argument to be made that Thanos should only be written by or in consultation with Starlin (an edict which Marvel clearly doesn't respect inasmuch as Starlin has said the next Thanos hardcover is his last work for them).
FWIW, Thanos is one of the very small handful of characters who actually survived the destruction and recreation of the universe in Secret Wars so he is, in theory at least, the same Thanos he's always been.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 12:51 (five years ago) link
Excited by this! There hasn’t been a big-ticket, over-complex long-ass run on something at Marvel or DC that I’ve enjoyed for a while - probably since GMo’s Batman and Hickman’s Avengers runs, really. Everything Hickmsn’s done for Marvel has been great or at least interesting - unusually, it’s his indie work where he’s more variable.
(Tbh I don’t really care about Thanos or his character consistency)
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
In the case of the impending X books, I think he's only committed to the two minis so I'd assume he's just engaged more with the worldbuilding, which I'm cool with.
He’s writing an ongoing after the minis too!
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
Didn't know that! Cool.
Yeah the two storylines you mention and maybe like Annihilation et al are probably my favorite mainstream epics of the century. Would love to think this might reach those heights but I'm tempering my expectations.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:25 (five years ago) link
They’re doing a Marvel Age reprint series; I picked up the Black Widow volume... it reprints six old stories (going back to Mystic Comics #4), and has a long introduction by Ralph Macchio.
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
Knowing nothing about it other than the bus ads (and, of course, the underlying property), I think I may like to see the “Dark Phoenix” movie when it opens in a few weeks. #ClaremontCinema
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Monday, 27 May 2019 02:30 (five years ago) link
Have the recent X-Movies been decent-ish? (not counting “Logan,” which I did see)
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Monday, 27 May 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link
Eh. First couple Young X-Folks flicks were dece, Apocalypse was kinda lame and forgettable. You should maybe catch up on everything since First Class, but also probably don't bother since they're pretty much only screening this film because it was finished when Disney bought Fox.
― John Denver – Led Zeppelin IV (Part II) (Old Lunch), Monday, 27 May 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
I just wanna see that shuttle cockpit heat da fuq up
― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Monday, 27 May 2019 05:08 (five years ago) link
Seems feeble that they're doing a Dark Phoenix movie AGAIN, as though there aren't some other X-plots over the years to draw on.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Monday, 27 May 2019 07:21 (five years ago) link
they fucked it up the first time tbf
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 27 May 2019 07:46 (five years ago) link
I got some cool back issues. Got five issues of Adventure into Fear with Morbius...The Living Vampire and the magazine version of the Blade Runner adaptation.
Al Williamson's artwork on that Blade Runner adaption is really good. That man could really draw.
― earlnash, Monday, 27 May 2019 08:28 (five years ago) link
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 04:05 (five years ago) link
yeah i didn't mean to imply they'll do it better this time
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 08:13 (five years ago) link
as though there aren't some other X-plots over the years to draw on
it's interesting (ish!) that the MCU movies rarely seem to draw from specific storylines the way that x-men does and nolanbats did
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 09:01 (five years ago) link
(and that's a good thing, i think?)
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 09:02 (five years ago) link
Several MCU movies have drawn from specific plotlines: Winter Soldier, Civil War, Ragnarök, The Dark World, Age of Ultron, Infinity War / Endgame, Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange... They're not super faithful adaptations of those storylines, but then again, neither is X-Men: Apocalypse or the The Dark Knight Rises.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 06:41 (five years ago) link
(Age of Ultron obviously is not an adapation of Age of Ultron the comic, rather than the first Ultron story in The Avengers.)
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 06:42 (five years ago) link
Al Williamson was a god. That Blade Runner adaptation is indeed great - and that Steranko cover!!
― Carly Jae Vespen (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 07:21 (five years ago) link
Claremont and Sienkiewicz with one-off New Mutants
― Brakhage, Friday, 14 June 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
Wow
(Whatever happened to that New Mutants movie that was being developed; is that still on?)
― Theodor Adorno, perhaps the greatest philosopher alive today (morrisp), Friday, 14 June 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link