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I just read Unstoppable Wasp #4 and 5 and goddammit, this book is so good, too. I'm really glad they are dealing with Nadia's Bipolar disorder in this way. Also, there's a New York Times article and a Psychology Times article about the issue, too.

Edited by alliterator on Feb 24th 2019 at 1:50:33 AM

The original story did try to make Hank seem somewhat sympathetic. It's everything else that came after that that was the issue.

Avengers AI dealt with Hank’s bipolar disorder with some tact and a bit of inaccuracy

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Donny Cates receives death threats over Venom #11.

Why do people keep doing that?

Why? Why ruin things for people by doing that?

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People are trash.

But I'm people!

So are you!

....so I guess we're the exceptions then? You know, I always suspected that was the case.

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I am not a person, I am a meat popsicle.

...

So just me. Good to know.

Getting serious, shit like this needs to stop.

It taints all of us.

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While I haven't read them myself, I have literally heard of scientific studies that indicate excessive social media use can inhibit empathy.

What actually HAPPENED in that ish, anyway?

In issue 11, it is revealed that the symbiote has been manipulating Eddie's physical and mental state, even going as far as making him think he was suffering from cancer when he wasn't.

A dumb plot point is no reason to be harassing people

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Sucks to hear about WCA

It's just like Great Lakes Avengers all over again.

Good on Donny Cates for not caving in and continuing to go on with his plans.

But overall, how good is his run on Venom anyway? He seems to be a relatively big name in Marvel from what i see, at least on the writer side.

Edited by RedHunter543 on Feb 24th 2019 at 9:23:00 AM

I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.

I mean, it's not like everyone didn't know WCA was going to get cancelled at some point. Even being a spin-off of a long-running franchise isn't a guarantee for success in this day and age. There are exceptions, but unless you're a big time series or character that's been running since the Silver Age, you're probably not gonna last.

How long does "last" mean? Ms. Marvel (2014) went on for 38 issues and only ended because G. Willow Wilson left and they relaunched the book with Saladin Ahmed. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur has lasted forty issues so far. The current volume of Unbeatable Squirrel Girl has lasted forty-one issues. Those are all longer than any other book Marvel is putting out today — again, mainly because Marvel loves relaunching books when they get new creative teams, but still.

What I'm saying is, those "exceptions" are the only titles currently that have gone past thirty issues. And so, if "last" means "lasting beyond thirty issues," well, then the list is short and only populated with exceptions.

If "last" means that there is a book on the shelf at pretty much all times (even when it's relaunched), so you could include Captain America and Avengers...well, that gives an unfair advantage to those who have a long history, because of course Marvel is going to keep around something like Avengers and Captain America, relaunching them when they don't work. But at the same time, there are current books that have stayed on for a while and seem to be able to keep going despite relaunches, like Miles Morales: Spider-Man (relaunched from Spider-Man) or Jessica Jones or Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider (relaunched from Spider-Gwen) or X-23 (relaunched from All-New Wolverine).

So, again, if there are so many exceptions to the rule, what does that make the rule?

Edited by alliterator on Feb 24th 2019 at 9:40:31 AM

For the record, G. Willow Wilson's Ms. Marvel run lasted for over 50 issues, it just had a relaunch partway through because of Secret Wars. The second volume went to 38 issues, but there were another 17 for the first volume.

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Yeah, that's what I mean: are we counting relaunches? Because then, Ms. Marvel hasn't even ended, because it's currently being relaunched as The Magnificent Ms. Marvel. And Unbeatable Squirrel Girl is at fifty issues.

So I don't exactly know what "last" means.

Maybe this is what the Legacy numbering was for

Question, I remember it being mentioned in some other forum that Blink was supposedly a black woman. Anyone know any truth to this?

It was hard to tell for a long time, since her skin is pink and all her ancestor's skin was pink, but the AOA Blink was born in the Bahamas and the recent Exiles book revealed that her 616-aunt from the Bahamas is black, so presumably Clarice herself is, too. Javier Rodriguez, the artist, pretty much drew her as a black woman, but with pink skin.

Edited by alliterator on Feb 25th 2019 at 6:50:48 AM

This is sounds like Suddenly Ethnic for her, because I read she was originally a white Bahamian.

She was from the Bahamas, but she wasn't described as white or black. The only way to tell would be the color of her skin...which was pink. And all the ancestors we saw of hers had pink skin, too, aside from Apocalypse, who has blue skin.

So, really, revealing that her family (and she) is black doesn't contradict anything at all.