Marvel Comics blabbery

Sometimes, when revisiting Marvel issues from the ‘80s, I Google the names of the staffers in those “Pro Files” with the little caricatures and data points (Favorite Performers, etc.). Kind of interesting to see what young Assistant Editors and the like ended up doing later in their careers.

Tonight I ran across this interesting blog entry on the subject: http://generaleclectic123.blogspot.com/2008/12/marvelous-tales-making-comic-book.html

(I’m sure there are entire books about Marvel that talk about this stuff in detail, but I’ve never read them.)

Thank you for that very cool link!

the Virgil/Matt lineup does not work at all
assuming those were just flukes if scheduling though

i dunno, the virgil/matt issues of ghost rider were underrated imo

It was a weird decision for Marvel to do an in-continuity adaptation of the Aeneid, and even weirder to hire Joe Matt for the job, but damn it...it just works.

Guys, he's talking about The House That Jack Built.

The worst Fables spin-off

I just this week learned of the existence of the Third Eye blacklight posters from the early '70s and...I don't think I've ever coveted anything more in my life.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nickderington/sets/72157608615767554/

https://www.coolandcollected.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/marvel_third_eye_poster_blacklight_thor.jpg

I had the Amazing Spider-Man one

Omg the Hela one rules

very cool

i remember hanging at someone's house who had the silver surfer one and it lodged permanently in my brain

I've been getting irrationally cheery when it's Immortal Hulk release day

Now that the Conan license is back in their hot little hands, Marvel brings you this:

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/ZHYbXPsI7HZP0Zv4xgmLf87qB9A=/0x0:931x1397/1320x0/filters:focal(0x0:931x1397):format(webp):no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/13759173/sav_avengers_1.jpg

If this is the price of getting the OG Conan material back in print, so be it.

I thought most of the OG Conan stuff got republished by Dark Horse over the years?

yeah, it did. Is that Brother Voodoo and Elektra on the left there?

Yes, indeed it is.

Dark Horse had been reprinting Conan for years but they've been kinda awful about reprinting the reprints so random collections were selling for stratospheric prices.

I hope you don’t think Marvel will do a better job keeping things in print

^ since your pal & Trump’s head of veteran affairs’ policy is literally to keep nothing in print

I'm on top of it this time around and all-too-aware of Marvel's reprint policies. And look, having Perlmutter over occasionally to sup and discuss how we might collectively MAGA does not a pal make, pal.

(Someday in the not-too-distant future he will be pushing up the daisies. Just sit back and meditate with me upon that blessed notion.)

Wow, that's a whole bunch of random grim & gritty characters in that book! Besides Wolverine and Punisher, do any of them have any sort of history together?

Punisher and Elektra were teammates with benefits in Thunderbolts.

I think Venom and Conan might be cousins.

Wolverine and Elektra have history too with The Hand, etc.

i guess Wolverine has gotten franchise rights

Give him a break, dude's been dead for a couple of years. He has a lot of gratuitous book hopping to do.

After he died there may have been even MORE Wolverine books than when he was alive! (X-23, Wolverines, Old Man Logan... not to mention the X-Men books, Weapon H, Avengers, and the ridiculously extraneous Hunt for Wolverine saga)

I can't see that link but I believe the Conan crossover is one of Al E's things

It's Duggan but Conan seems to be getting a new book every month so I'm sure Al will get his shot.

Here y’go - thought this might have been the earlier link

https://mobilestore.marvel.com/Avengers-No-Road-Home-2019-6-of-10/digital-comic/50918?r=1

Oh no, sorry, that was just Conan's introduction to the modern Marvel universe. Now we're talking a whole new Avengers book with him on the team.

Conan the Avenger. That's a thing.

sure, why not

i just realised that all i ever wanted from life is conan punching galactus

marvel make it happen

sure, why not

absolute bullshit, Conan is obviously a Defenders kinda guy

It's not a proper crossover until you get the Thing screaming "BY CROM!!!"

I do like whatever 8 sided die roll put Brother Voodoo in this comic. Looks like he is going corp with the suit, might be Doctor Voodoo now.

I'm not entire certain that putting a black man in a suit on a cover devoted to Savagery will work out okay for Marvel.

I appreciate that you think the allusion to Marvel's long-running Savage Sword of Conan is more problematic than the black character named Brother Voodoo.

nobody really seemed to notice with Brother Voodoo got promoted to B-lister in the last decade

brother voodoo should probably be quietly allowed to pass and maybe we just make some new and less problematic black characters

I finally saw Spider-Man: Homecoming (my son has been heavy into the Spider-Man movies, and finally worked his way up). Guess it was very much a MCU movie: some great/funny stuff; some absurd/turn-off stuff; about 20 mins. too long; too much CG action.

The kid who plays Peter — and whole cast, really — were great. I liked most of the elements that departed from the usual Spidey setup; even if they meant it didn’t quite feel like “Spider-Man” in some ways.

#timelyfilmreviews

I watched it last night as well

I felt like middle-aged Peter was put in there just for me

I also saw Spider Verse this week, finally

Was rad (obviously) but I enjoyed the plotless meander of the first half-hour much more than the multiverse stuff

That said, I felt pretty choked when Nick Miller Peter leaves at the end

fat dirtbag spider-man is my spirit animal

I’m really looking forward to the Spider-Gwen/Silk/Jessica Drew movie

I was under the impression that the Defenders were comprised of the OG quartet from the start, and having just read their first adventure I've discovered that, while that was Dr. Strange's intention, Silver Surfer flew too hard into the barrier that kept him earthbound back then and knocked himself out cold before he could be recruited. Which is...just...so goddamn hilarious. Bravo.

that incompetently numbered multi-part defenders thing that just happened was pretty good

the "best defense" five parter? yeah, i have no idea what order to read those in. it's five #1s!

Picked up a recent issue of SPIDER-GWEN: GHOST SPIDER... Not sure why she's going as "Ghost Spider"; but apparently her identity has become public in her own universe, which I assume is partly a way for her to transition to simply using "Spider-Gwen" as her superhero name? She also seems to have gained a symbiote costume, though not much of note appears to be happening.

It is cool to see Takeshi Miyazawa's artwork; I'm familiar w/him from SPIDER-MAN LOVES MARY JANE.

mentioned elsewhere i think but i can strongly recommend the Avengers: No Road Home with Conan xover; it's well written and fun. The interaction with Hawkeye and Hulk in particular is fun to watch.

would love to read it but afraid to get on any weekly series as my LCS can be ass (yet i keep throwing money at them out of princple). i'll wait for trade