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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I've read an issue of Avengers where he mind controls Wanda (into doing sexy dances for him) by controlling the electromagnetism in her brain.
Mind control circuits sounds like a retcon
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYou know how Morrison's run on the X-Men got a bit disjointed and bad after Xorn is revealed as Magneto? Apparently that whole arc was different from Morrison's initial pitch to Marvel where Magneto could hold NY hostage all thanks to this power returning(can't remember if it got reawakened by the Sublime drug or just returned)which lets him order the whole population around, trick the X-Men and gives him the ability to order the humans to kill themselves if he's challenged by the Avengers or others(instead of saying "I've got bombs!"). Morrison is big on making things from old comics work so I could see it being true.
People guess that's part of why Jean embracing the Phoenix was such a big part of that arc since she could overpower Magneto's hold on the humans to save the day and makes Magneto's last ditch attack on her (which kills her with a massive stroke in the published story)make more sense since his control over minds and the brain is more prominent in that kind of story.
edited 17th Jan '16 2:09:40 PM by LordofLore
The latter half of the Morrison run is a bit shit, psychic whales aside, yeah.
I figured it was due to him rushing through everything.
Interesting to hear what could have been. Not sure if it would have salvaged it for me
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThey just relaunched all their books(which is why there are a ton of #1's from them this year. If you notice most of their non #1 are way farther down apart from Spider-Man as usual), started with their/Disney's Star Wars comics(Star Wars and Darth Vader are some of the best selling comics this decade with huge promotion thanks to Disney and the movie) and had a huge event(which always sell well).
Not counting Star Wars, events/limited/minis or #1's the best sellers of the year from the big 2 are still the mainline Spider-Man and Batman books and probably Deadpool and Justice League.
edited 17th Jan '16 2:35:08 PM by LordofLore
He seems to really like her ass, huh?
Edit: Since it got pretty much buried in the Magneto/JLA and Avengers crossover discussion, Stan Lee talked about a Avengers crossover with Star Wars.
It's unlikely to happen, but still.
edited 17th Jan '16 2:50:17 PM by LordofLore
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They are still in the New 52 they just took it off the comics.
I thought Grayson was supposed to be successful.
Batman Ninja more like Batman's Bizarre AdventureOf the original 52 comics that DC put out for the New 52, only 13 are still being published (Justice League, Action Comics, Batgirl, Detective Comics, Green Arrow, Deathstroke, Green Lantern, Batman, Catwoman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, Superman) and there are rumors that once they hit issue #52, they will all be relaunched at #1 (since DC saw how well that worked for Marvel).
But yeah, between Secret Wars and Star Wars, DC has been getting clobbered by Marvel in 2015.
I can understand the value of a relaunch, but I always like seeing comics accumulate big numbers - good show of staying power, I think.
The 90's is what started all of these new # 1's , right?
Oh God! Natural light!
Pretty much. It was in the early '90s that the companies started realizing how old #1 issues were selling for large amounts of money...so they printed off a bunch of new #1s, not realizing that this would actually reduce how much they were worth (it was the rarity, not the #1 on it that made them worth something). Or possibly they knew, but thought collectors wouldn't know and buy them anyway.
edited 17th Jan '16 6:10:01 PM by alliterator
The motivation is different these days though, although the desired end result is the same.
Renumber your books back to number 1 for a good jumping on point, usually offer a new status quo for that new run. Ideally this leads to more people reading.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersHasn't DC restarted their universe multiple times in the last years? I would think that the fans a pretty sick of it by now.
Marvel has currently a good reason to do it. They apparently want to be more in line with the MCU while also diversifying the characters. And I can imagine that after all those years, a little bit of housekeeping is overdue. But DC? I am far from a comic book experts, but from an "outside looking in" perspective, they need to push characters which are NOT Batman for a change. The success with the CW shows might help in this regard.
