Marvel Comics General

Aside from indecent exposure, Hercules did no wrong!

I don't think that's controversial, the original Secret Warriors proved.

And personally, i would prefer an animated Champions show if they did a teen team show.

By the by, did anyone read that one shot Marvel Zombie comic from last Halloween?

It just hit unlimited and I read it and I’m seeking opinions

Edited by Bocaj on Jun 1st 2019 at 11:37:45 AM

Actually that reminds me of something I've wanted to bring up for a while now. How is Marvel Unlimited supposed to work? I've had it for about a couple months but it's a pain in the ass to navigate. If I try to find, say, the Dn A run of Gaurdians, it instead just brings up the current run and all the runs immeditally preceeding it. If I try to find Fraction's Hawkeye, it'll bring up the other runs or the later issues of his run unless I'm very exact. And even if I add a given issue to the library (and I'm still not sure where that is), it still doesn't have any sort of easy system that lets me go to where I left off. Instead if I'm logging back in, I have to hit up the search engine and try and find where I was all over again. And it's infuriating.

It’s easoer to navigate on a mobile device

On mobile it keeps track of the last thing you read.

Finding stuff can be difficult because of all the things named the same thing with different years. You can search by creator which might help

When I used to use the browser version I would bookmark where I was reading

Edited by Bocaj on Jun 1st 2019 at 11:59:18 AM

Oh shit, Chynna Clugston-Flores did an issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up? Nice! (Fun fact: Her comic, "Blue Monday," was a huge influence on Gillen and Mc Kelvie doing their own comics.)

It's a good issue, too. All dialogue, but Clugston's got such a knack for character acting. She sells it all so well. The characters are so expressive and dynamic, even just sitting at a table talking. And Bendis' dialogue is also great, playing to Clugston's strengths with plenty of good comedy and a few nicely dramatic bits.

So, how do you think the Marvel scientific community feels whenever Reed or someone else completely turns what's known on its head for the nth time?

“Okay, after putting in 10+ years of study we can conclude that our genetic biology have been experimented on by aliens years ago whose mutation can be awaken through radioactivity, metal alloy like adamantium, vibranium and uru are super powerful, alternate dimensions exists and there are a lot of them, time travel exist and there are two methods of time travel, gods (and other cosmic beings) also exist and there are methods to fighting them, and basically every 50s sci fi tropes are real with rational explanations as to why that happen. Now then for our next resea-“

“Hey, I’m Reed Richard and I just uncovered proof the Mandela Effect through Scott Summers and Bruce Banner who were once known as Slim Summers and Bob Banner.”

“FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-“

"Though for some reason I still can't cure cancer. Funny that."

Well, he couldn't cure the legacy virus either. Viruses are tricky like that.

Meanwhile, I'm wondering: do we have both a timetable and ratio for how quickly Namor's strength goes down the long he's out of water.

How long does he go before he goes from being able to go toe to toe with the Hulk to barely able to injure an old woman?

At the speed of plot convenience.

How much water does it have to be? Can he stand in a bucket full of water for a minute to be refreshed or does he need to be immersed?

Back in the day he could get back up to snuff by taking a shower. So I don't think full immersion is necessary.

Does that mean all the that Namor / Namora / Namorita need is to carry a bottle of water around?

Clean water obviously, but still.

Then again, considering their regular attire, that would be difficult.

Now that I remember, I'm pretty sure Namor once got himself back to full strength by cracking open a fire hydrant.

Why was the Audience? What Audience? trope nearly non-existent in the Deadpool movie?

I was reading a Top 100 What If moments, found this one, and can't stop laughing.

"The story of Rick Jones becoming the Hulk deserves to be in a museum. Not only did it make for a great story and look at Marvel alternate history on its own right, ending with a wonderful final fight, but Rick’s jeans-wearing Hulk form had the most amazing dialogue ever. It was Hulk’s angry caveman speak mixed with a 70s comic book writer’s idea of teenage lingo."

...

Honestly, it kinda works for me.

70's Lingo Hulk should be a thing.

To perhaps no one's surprise, Al Ewing has made use of this◊.

Al Ewing is a treasure and must be protected.

After reading all of Immortal Hulk up to now, I agree. I don't care much about the Hulk in general and it's still a damn good run.

Edited by kkhohoho on Jun 4th 2019 at 12:12:50 PM

Just read the first issue of Azzarello's Cage series, and oh dear gods. How? How did a single person involved in that comic think it was a good idea? Sweet Christmas.

I also read Marvel's "'Nuff Said" month of comics. A month where most of their main comics were written without dialogue. It was a cheesy gimmick Quesada came up with, executed with mixed results. Some of the issues were done really well, and presented really interesting stories. Some of them didn't quite work. Most were just kinda there. The creative teams were told to do an issue with no dialogue, so they just kinda slapped something together, doing a simple story that they just didn't put words into.

That month's issue of New X-Men did have Emma fight a door. So clearly Morrison and Quitely knew what they were doing.

There's a reason very little of Marvel MAX is remembered outside of The Punisher, Alias, The Hood and Supreme Power.

Lots of awkward "throw shit at the wall"-type books with mostly obscure characters (including Cage, at the time) like Foolkiller, Starr the Slayer, Terror, Inc., the blond Black Widow, etc.

Speaking of Azzarello, I think his only other Marvel books were a single Spider-Man issue, and a weird Hulk miniseries.

Captain Marvel and Dr. Strange had a "Freaky Friday" Flip. And the first thing he did was... touch his/her boobs.

Dammit Strange, grope yourself on your own time