Marvel Comics blabbery

Lobdell did ok with the between-event crap (I know DJP enjoys his Gen X stuff) but not so great with original ideas

I can't remember Tieri's stuff enough to care either way?

John Byrne

Crimson Dawn was a Loeb/Lobdell twofer

The thing I liked about Lobdell's writing was how willing he was to throw every single plot idea he had in his head onto the page at any given time, making the X-Men stories into an interlocking series of subplots that would then hammer into big events in weird and sometimes unexpected (and sometimes unintentionally hilarious) ways. The problem is that half of his ideas were really dumb, but he was very good at juggling them right up until he wasn't.

I drive my beer truck staight through your heart, Old Man Logan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxAo6KhBFFs

Meanwhile, some really good artwork (by Paolo Villanelli) in the "Ms. Marvel / Ms. Marvel" issue of Generations.

Ms. Marvel art is consistently really top-notch

so that northrup comic book then

This whole Marvel Legacy turn in the past few years is pretty funny when you consider the years that many of the zombies ragged DC comics for years about having multiple versions of the same character and a constantly changing 'universe'.

When the universe is so pliable that Franklin Richards or an Infinity Gem can remake it on a whim -- and this happens biannually -- it begins to feel like there's nothing at stake.

...sorry, make that "Cosmic Cube," not Infinity Gem.

So I've blasted through most of the first six months of All-New, All-Different material, and the reports that things went severely downhill after Secret Wars has me scratching my head. The quality is really quite high on average (the worst I'd say is that some of the books are pretty inessential). Maybe it's just like Civil War II people were complaining about? Haven't made it that far yet, so we'll see.

Anyway. I mostly just wanted to mention that Spider-Woman is really, really good so far. The pregnancy storyline legit got me a little choked up.

There was great AN/AD stuff, and CWII did end up sidetracking it without recovery (IMO). I loved (pre-sidetrack) Spider-Woman, and the pregnancy storyline in particular.

I, too, enjoy the Spider-Woman

OK, in this crazy digital sale I've bought the first 2 vols each of Spider-Woman, Squirrel Girl and Gwenpool. What else is worth it?

Vision is great, as is Waid's short run on Black Widow, which reads really nicely on the "guided view" part of the app.

Vision I have, and it was wonderful. Black Widow I will investigate. Cheers!

The Matt Fraction "Hawkeye" series (especially the "L.A. Woman" volume) -- if you've never read it!

Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, all of the Ms. Marvels A+++ charming and surprisingly deep.

Yes, I was very pleasantly surprised by Moon Girl. Hadn't really heard much chatter about that one.

I've finally started Waid's run on DD. The writing isn't blowing me away but the art/design is gorgeous.

Squirrel Girl is good fun

Moon Girl's pretty great, from what little i read

I really dig that they've maintained this sub-imprint of sorts comprised of fun, well-written, smart, and fairly progressive stuff featuring young female protagonists. I'd like to think it's actually being enjoyed by a similar demographic and not just the usual old dudes like me. The Squirrel Girl letters pages seem to reflect that they are.

So have the "Patsy Walker, aka Hellcat" letters pages...

OK, have also bought the Patsy Walker, Black Widow and Moon Girl TPBs.

co-sign on Black Widow, Vision, Fraction Hawkeye... I think the new Black Bolt is pretty good! I've fallen off for the past four months or so.

Al Ewing's Ultimates / Ultimates^2 is great fun if you like the big cosmic Marvel, Galactus and Eternity and such.

Okay I was just talking about how gorgeous the art in Waid's DD is and I come across an issue which inexplicably features art by Khoi Pham, who is maybe my least favorite Marvel artist since the halcyon days of REALLY bad art in the mid-'90s. But tbf, I don't know his biographical details, maybe he draws really well for a twelve-year-old.

Just read THE MIGHTY THOR #700. It's a pretty epic jam!

Apropos of nothing, I'd like to share with y'all what might be my favorite Marvel Comic cover of all time, from 1994's Namor the Sub-Mariner annual number 4:

https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/0/6754/1375638-namor.sub_mariner.annual4cover.jpg

I knew that it was going to be something amazing before clicking on it, and was not disappointed

Leaping orca (check); mutant Seagal (check); monstrous version of "swimmer's physique" (check)... yep, a stone classic

i’m particularly taken with the contrast between namor’s obsessively detailed musculature and the weirdly um how do I say this nonspecific depiction of the contents of his green speedo

forgot what my new screen name was before posting, seems apt to the discussion at hand

and while we’re talking about sub-marine dicks is the orca a subtle free willy reference?

Don’t know what you’re talking about, you can clearly see the top of his shell, I’m disgusted.

The artist also appears to have determined that water, on exposure to air, immediately turn into sand.

someone *approved* this lmao

I’m transfixed by those two orifices located where his armpits should be

davenold cronenegger

This commentary is not disappointing. Thank u all.

I've learned that this painter also did the box art for the Genesis Punisher game:

http://r.mprd.se/media/images/38924-Punisher,_The_(USA)-1459831342.png

every picture by this guy has that same facial expression

https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/9/90/Thor_Vol_1_460.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20070405011804 https://78.media.tumblr.com/5f3140f0fa7bf7dc3342a536df8be6bf/tumblr_n8y3m3VMW31twdz6wo1_500.png

completely surprising that his work appeared in a marvel swimsuit specia

*special

And lo!, Thor did release a god-sized geyser of piss into his speedo on that day.

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http://i.pinimg.com/736x/a6/8b/2d/a68b2d55b91648645a419ed5024eae6e--marvel-villains-marvel-comics.jpg

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I'm enjoying these tributes to Whizzer and Chips mainstay Full O'Beans

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55d9a2ebe4b090d1642480e9/t/578bc3b6d2b85738b5d59cb6/1468777432235/

I desperately want to unsee the Blob's asscrack, and yet at the same time I keep scrolling up and looking at it....