Marvel Comics blabbery

the current bond series (minus bond, it's felix leiter) is written by James Robinson and is not much fun.

i don't think there's a genuine correlation between those things (i've met too many nice writers) but there is certainly a tendency among assholes who happen to be writers to buy into that myth for expedience's sake

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, March 21, 2017 12:01 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not a correlation but, yes, basically what you said (the prolificity creates space to excuse oneself from the development of social skills if one is so disinclined).

I'm not exactly a paragon of either skillset, so I ain't sitting in judgment.

Any comic writers that end up writing a long box or so of books are going to end up with a stack of clunkers. I'd say Ellis has a decent signal to noise ratio, it is just unfortunate that a couple of really interesting series setups like Desolation Jones or Fell went into the ditch.

I feel like he had some deeper life complications going on than the "my laptop died and I lost some scripts" line that was floated, so I'm glad he seems to be doing well. I prodded in a couple online discussions of his work about Desolation Jones and he's really just tired of talking about it.

I have the suspicion the concentrated coffee/whiskey lifestyle caught up with him a couple times, as it will for anyone who makes a go of that

xpost to Ulysees

Yep! Just read, you're wholly correct re: perfunctory. Interesting comic, pretty piss-poor take on the character.

Anyway, Marvel Comics

there was a particularly painful stretch in the mid-2000s where you could almost guarantee that an article on weird physics in new scientist or wherever would get shamelessly recycled into an ellis story six months or so down the line

He was friendly enough at the con I saw him (and GMo!) at in '99. He asked our group what we were getting up to that evening - we knocked him back as we had tickets to go see The Phantom Menace.

Marvel comics! Ellis' Wolverine four-parter Not Dead Yet is a good read, if you can get past the phonetics used for the Scot character's dialogue.

that said, as anyone who's attended a comiccon should know, he seems like a nice guy

I've been to comic conventions on three continents and Warren Ellis has never been there

have heard various stories without the "nice guy" punchline, but only one was in a hotel bar the night before a comic convention

I'd assume the intention was to cite comic conventions Ellis was actually at in reference to his character but I respect sic's pedantry

I thought Chuck was intimating that Ellis goes to lots of conventions and socialises

tbf he makes elliscon every day

Well, if this is the level of pedantry we're dropping to...

I've been to comic conventions on three continents and Warren Ellis has never been there

never been to those continents, or never been there when you were?

have heard various stories without the "nice guy" punchline, but only one was in a hotel bar the night before a comic convention

the story was set in a bar, or you were in a bar when you heard the story?

He was in Melbourne in 1999. https://www.armageddonexpo.com/General-Info/History/ (scroll way down).

He's no fan of cons iirc.

He = Warren Ellis, obv.

TBF, being a writer at a comic convention is my idea of hell.

(In Toronto, at TCAF/Beguiling and some more mainstreamy one I forget the name of. 2004-6ish?)

Well, the fifth and final issue of "The Unworthy Thor" is out (to circle back to a topic from further above). Without saying too much, I'll just say that the issue is... anticlimactic, in several respects. (And yes, the content of Fury's "whisper" is revealed...)

In other news, some poor schmuck of a casting director needs to find *two* white-haired actresses: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/spider-man-spinoff-thor-writer-tackling-silver-sable-black-cat-movie-988065

calling it now: that movie will never be made

seconded

As a Jessica Drew fan, I'm bummed she's not the subject of the "secret female spinoff project" (I assume her character is encompassed by the Spider-Rights which Sony controls). I think Dennis Hopeless's fun, modern reimagining of the character would translate well to the screen (though can't imagine how they would deal with her weird origin and complicated history). Maybe someday...

A Black Cat/Silver Sable movie makes zero sense and is completely stupid and it will never get made and I'm glad. Where do people even get these fucking ideas? I'm straining to recall if those two characters have ever directly interacted to any meaningful extent.

Can't wait for the Night Thrasher/Lyja Lazerfist team-up movie!

Where do people even get these fucking ideas?

the studio's paid for the rights to these characters dammit, they're gonna make a fuckin' movie out of them no matter what!

I feel like they were both involved in that Foreigner storyline in the late '80s (when Parker wuz boning Felicia), but yeah I can't visualize/recall them sharing a panel.

So maybe it'll be a movie that just cuts back and forth between them each doing their own completely unrelated thing. Fun times. Fuuuuuuuuuun times.

xp was Peter waiting for a girl like her

i understand kenneth lonergan is involved in scripting a bittersweet drama about the father-son relationship between leap-frog and frog-man which is due for release in spring 2019

xp was Peter waiting for a girl like her

they broke up because felicia was cold as ice to peter when he wasn't wearing the spider-man suit iirc

SoHo loft, Nagel poster on the wall, Bambi/Candi/Randi as his neighbors... '80s Parker was cold lampin'!

I've lived my life wrong

if it's any consolation, each of us is here posting about marvel comics on an internet messageboard, so i think we've all lived our lvies wrong tbh

they broke up because felicia was cold as ice to peter when he wasn't wearing the spider-man suit iirc

I recall it ended for good when Spidey burst in on Felicia and the Foreigner right after a lovemaking sesh, and the Foreigner flipped the mattress while Felicia fought Spidey off ("Sorry, lover...!"). Parker had already figured out that FH had been playing him for a fool, and that was the big showdown/confrontation.

i was just making a joke about the foreigner song 'cold as ice' tbrr

Jessica Drew should co-star in the second season of Jessica Jones imo.

if it's any consolation, each of us is here posting about marvel comics on an internet messageboard, so i think we've all lived our lvies wrong tbh

― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:42 AM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Are you by any chance selling engraved plates emblazoned with this motto and if so where should I send my money?

i am now, ilxmail me yr credit card details

I don't care about spider-plots, I'm just here for bad music jokes

you're fooling no-one, nerd

i was just making a joke about the foreigner song 'cold as ice' tbrr

Haha, ok, now I get those jokes (duh). Guess I'm better with refs. to '80s comics than '80s music...

you know that you are

Morrisp it is URGENT (emergency) that u rectify this

learning more about 80s music is a great way to become a jukebox hero

This is cruel we gotta stop playing these head games with him imo

Just between you and me, it feels like the first time we gave a dirty white boy double vision.

Don't do me like that, you guys

Douglas Wolk doing some kind of Marvel thingy

https://allofthemarvels.tumblr.com/

Oooh, thanks for that. Love Douglas and miss his presence here.

I believe that is bound to be bound at some point iirc