"Marvel has become an embarrassment and a burden on the industry"

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Zombie no more!

http://www.ninthart.com/display.php?article=1216

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 29 May 2006 15:46 (twenty years ago)

This reads suspicously like a column I wrote something like three years ago. I'm sure Marvel cares just as much about this one. Well, maybe a little more. Ninth Art is read a little more than Broken Frontier was, back in the day...

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

It's kind of muddled - Marvel have become conservative, except when it comes to Spider Man!

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

BUT, the Spider-Man bizness only so that they can have an archly-conservative RETURN TO FORM in a few months.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

AND, man, they will kill Mary Jane within the the next year. MARK MY WORDS.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Am I right in thinking Gwen Stacy's come back to life?

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm still getting Ultimate Alliance.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Monday, 29 May 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Marvel Zombies remains neck-and-neck with Rocketo for my favourite thing of the 2006, and, y'know, Dan Slott.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 29 May 2006 17:35 (twenty years ago)

can somebody who actually reads new comics give me an example of conservative marvel stuff??

― and what (ooo), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

elderly aunt pretends to be Iron Man.

I don't know what's going on in the Marvel U, but this sounds awesome.

― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 29 May 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

― OK, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:40 (twenty years ago)

Aunt May Hunkel

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 02:14 (twenty years ago)

My comics last week = Dead Girl, Nextwave, She-Hulk, 52. Whatever Marvel's doing, it's working.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 06:47 (twenty years ago)

oh, Andrewpaws (Wheeler)

― Dan (RACMX Refugee) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

can somebody who actually reads new comics give me an example of conservative marvel stuff??

-- and what (an...)

can somebody who actually reads new comics give me an example of conservative marvel stuff??

-- and what (an...)

can somebody who actually reads new comics give me an example of conservative marvel stuff??

-- and what (an...)

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

We're not sure what he's on about either!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

i assume he means "creatively conservative" but since i don't really read new marvel stuff i dunno

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Andrew Wheeler is the drummer in Gay Dad

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:50 (twenty years ago)

not so sure-

A company once regarded as the counter-culture, anti-establishment alternative to DC's stodgy pantheon of vanilla waxworks, Marvel has become the most pro-establishment publisher in the industry, home to bombastic conservative notions and reactionary impulses. The birthplace of psychedelic 70s favourites like Doctor Strange and the Silver Surfer has given up smoking dope and signed up to go to war.

― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

It's not like DC has a bunch of lesbian heroes jumping out of the sci-fi closet every twenty minutes...

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

"Bombastic conservative notions" = "This A doesn't stand for France" in Ultimates? The half-ass Iraq analogies in Ultimates 2? The superhero registration boggins (cf. Civil War)? Lack of gayness? NO MORE MUTANTS?

Dudeheems realizes that Chuck D!x0n writes for the Distinguished Competition, right?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Does he?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Does who?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

CD for DC

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 13:46 (twenty years ago)

Wheeler hasn't read DC his entire life, though, so he has no perception of its conservativeness or liberality - this is just about his reaction to one publisher, not scoring it against another. (Actually it's just about "man with emotional investment realises he is too old to be reading superhero comics" but y'know)

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

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