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
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 01:34 (seven years ago) link
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
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 01:57 (seven years ago) link
I thought Chuck was intimating that Ellis goes to lots of conventions and socialises
― (±\ PLO;;;;;;; Style (sic), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
tbf he makes elliscon every day
― mh 😏, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 03:13 (seven years ago) link
Well, if this is the level of pedantry we're dropping to...
never been to those continents, or never been there when you were?
the story was set in a bar, or you were in a bar when you heard the story?
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 22 March 2017 04:34 (seven years ago) link
He was in Melbourne in 1999. https://www.armageddonexpo.com/General-Info/History/ (scroll way down).
He's no fan of cons iirc.
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link
He = Warren Ellis, obv.
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 05:02 (seven years ago) link
TBF, being a writer at a comic convention is my idea of hell.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 08:01 (seven years ago) link
(In Toronto, at TCAF/Beguiling and some more mainstreamy one I forget the name of. 2004-6ish?)
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 22 March 2017 10:48 (seven years ago) link
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...)
― morrisp, Thursday, 23 March 2017 04:37 (seven years ago) link
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
― morrisp, Thursday, 23 March 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
calling it now: that movie will never be made
― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 March 2017 10:47 (seven years ago) link
seconded
― mh 😏, Thursday, 23 March 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
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...
― morrisp, Thursday, 23 March 2017 14:57 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Ambling Shambling Man (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
Can't wait for the Night Thrasher/Lyja Lazerfist team-up movie!
― Ambling Shambling Man (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
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!
― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:16 (seven years ago) link
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.
― morrisp, Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:17 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Ambling Shambling Man (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
xp was Peter waiting for a girl like her
― mh 😏, Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
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
― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
they broke up because felicia was cold as ice to peter when he wasn't wearing the spider-man suit iirc
― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
SoHo loft, Nagel poster on the wall, Bambi/Candi/Randi as his neighbors... '80s Parker was cold lampin'!
― morrisp, Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
I've lived my life wrong
― mh 😏, Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
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, 23 March 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
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.
― morrisp, Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
i was just making a joke about the foreigner song 'cold as ice' tbrr
― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:52 (seven years ago) link
Jessica Drew should co-star in the second season of Jessica Jones imo.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
― 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?
― Ambling Shambling Man (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link
i am now, ilxmail me yr credit card details
― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:05 (seven years ago) link
I don't care about spider-plots, I'm just here for bad music jokes
― mh 😏, Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
you're fooling no-one, nerd
― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
Haha, ok, now I get those jokes (duh). Guess I'm better with refs. to '80s comics than '80s music...
― morrisp, Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
you know that you are
― mh 😏, Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:49 (seven years ago) link
Morrisp it is URGENT (emergency) that u rectify this
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
learning more about 80s music is a great way to become a jukebox hero
― physicist and christian lambert dolphin (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 23 March 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
This is cruel we gotta stop playing these head games with him imo
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 23 March 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
Just between you and me, it feels like the first time we gave a dirty white boy double vision.
― Ambling Shambling Man (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 March 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
Don't do me like that, you guys
― morrisp, Thursday, 23 March 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Douglas Wolk doing some kind of Marvel thingy
https://allofthemarvels.tumblr.com/
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 23 March 2017 22:17 (seven years ago) link
Oooh, thanks for that. Love Douglas and miss his presence here.
― Ambling Shambling Man (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 March 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
I believe that is bound to be bound at some point iirc
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 March 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
Douglas was the one who first told me about ilx, at some comics show in 05 or 06
― chip n dale recuse rangers (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 23 March 2017 23:17 (seven years ago) link
Did Coates's Black Panther ever become good?
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 24 March 2017 03:58 (seven years ago) link
also love this "sister tumblr" linked to on there
https://marvelbah.tumblr.com/
― soref, Friday, 24 March 2017 09:35 (seven years ago) link
need something like this, but just for marvel comics
http://i.imgur.com/xdi7djI.png
― soref, Friday, 24 March 2017 09:39 (seven years ago) link
i read the last two issues of Coates' Black Panther. it has not gotten better.
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Friday, 24 March 2017 14:29 (seven years ago) link
I've read the first few issues of THE MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL, for no particular reason... the writer, Margaret Stohl (a YA author), seems to be going for something similar to Kelly Sue DeConnick's style and breezy humor, but without quite nailing it (no knock on her, it's a tall order). It seems marginally better than the series which preceded it.
I feel like Marvel hasn't really known what to do with Carol Danvers, post-DeConnick (other than give her a butch haircut and stick her on a space station). I know Carol played a big role in CWII, but I avoided that. The DeConnick/Lopez era of CAPTAIN MARVEL was just such a perfect synthesis of character, writer, and artist... I wanted to keep following that specific incarnation of the character for a long time... (but that's comics for ya) :(
― morrisp, Friday, 24 March 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
Good strategy re: avoiding the fuck out of Civil War 2
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 24 March 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
Re: Thor, as you mentioned upthread - it's not so much that the Fury-whisper reveal is a letdown - I thought it was kind of interesting! - but I'm not really sure it needed to be dragged out over two years?
Meanwhile, in Mighty Thor - I think it was Tom E who once said something about the Shi'ar making everything BORING, no matter what - that's still the case, then.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 24 March 2017 19:03 (seven years ago) link