Marvel Comics blabbery

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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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....

it really follows you around the room huh

i'll go with scrote fold vs. asscrack

kickstarter to have Ed Luce redo that Blob painting

Looks like Disney is looking to buy Fox's movie and TV productions. I'm guessing this would include getting the Marvel movie rights back and is a big part of the deal.

Fiiiiiinally got around to reading Sean Howe's book, revealing how little I knew about what's gone on behind the curtain. I immediately followed it up with the newly released Slugfest!, which details Marvel and DC's decades-long rivalry. It's slight and covers some of the same ground as Howe's book but it's pretty entertaining. I think I'm going to check out Dan Raviv's Comic Wars next. Any other recommendations along those lines?

TCJ 1979 - 2005.

Assuming one already has a cache of scanz of TCJ 1979-2005 (and Amazing Heroes 1981-1992), what might be your follow-up recommendation?

I don't know if you're interested in British comics, but Pat Mills recently wrote a history of 2000AD that looks fun, and Chris Donald's book from a while back about setting up Viz Magazine is full of fun anecdotes and charmingly pedantic score-settling. There's also Grant Morrison's book, which I've never read as it was published around the time he stopped being interesting (which I'm still sad about) and sounded like it had some less-than-lightened views on creator rights.

I read Morrison's book. I don't recall being bowled over (even though I still generally rate him as my favorite mainstream comics writer).

I am interested in British comics (just bought the second in what surprisingly appears to be a series of Misty trades) but my engagement has been fairly slight. I intend to do a deep dive someday when Marvel deep diving doesn't consume quite as much of my comics reading time.

(The 'surprisingly' is because 2000AD/Rebellion doesn't reprint a whole lot of stuff for the US market, and Misty seems pretty niche in comparison to the more popular material that's been ignored stateside or allowed to go out of print ages ago.)

Morrison's book is woeful overall, not just for the go-go-sharecropper bits. Donald's is delightful, though preferable in hardcover so you get the original title. That said, it has perhaps slightly less of the history of Marvel & DC's publishing machinations than OL was asking for.

Morrison’s viewpoint always has this forced joy for the work, while the subtext (when it stays in there) seems like it’s suppressed fretting for the foundation the industry sits on. But the interplay between superhero trends and corporate control is integral to the work, at least when you’re writing about the history of comics plots.

It’s probably a viewpoint that keeps you sane if you’re trying to work in the system, but the detachment doesn’t lend well to writing a history