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A thread for all the miscellaneous Marvel discussion that doesn't have its own thread.

So apparently, they're making a Black Panther movie. Let's hope Hudlin is kept as far away as possible. On a related note, anyone think that the whole 'Super Hero that is also a King/Ruler' is kind of ridiculous? I mean where do heroes like Aquaman and T'Challa find the time to both lead a nation and go gallavanting on the other side of the globe?

Edited by Mrph1 on Sep 1st 2024 at 8:36:28 PM

Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#53501: Feb 4th 2022 at 10:48:47 AM

But how will it work when Hulkling is the current ruler of the Skrulls and Kree.

Akirakan Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#53502: Feb 4th 2022 at 10:56:45 AM

A faction of skrulls that don't recognize him as king.

Mind you, the skrulls in the original SI were considered a extreme faction even by the skrulls standards.

Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#53503: Feb 4th 2022 at 10:56:56 AM

RE the Savage Avengers, I like the odd assortment (I kind of wonder if they threw darts at a board or something).

I feel like the team Conan is on should at least partly give the sense of a D&D adventuring party. And Cloak and Dagger definitely fit with that. Ditto Electradevil, whose a classic rogue/assassin.

And like with Agent Venom and the weird Hulk/Wolverine guy, I can imagine some munchkin deciding to play as an off-the-wall character.

Deathlok seems an odd choice (I guess he's sort of a golem/zombie though). Still better than the Punisher though.

Zarius Since: Nov, 2012
#53504: Feb 4th 2022 at 11:06:27 AM

Steven Wacker, who co-ordinated the Brand New Day and early Slott eras of ASM amongst supervising other major Marvel titles throughout the 2010s that included Fraction's Hawkeye and the relaunch of Captain Marvel under Kelly Sue De Connik, has left Marvel after fifteen years

Edited by Zarius on Feb 4th 2022 at 11:06:38 AM

Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#53505: Feb 4th 2022 at 11:43:16 AM

[up] Wacker has basically been over on their animation side since he left the Spider-Office and I kind of suspected it was only a matter of time once Feige got total control of Marvel's television output too.

TargetmasterJoe from Velocitron Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#53507: Feb 4th 2022 at 3:28:48 PM

He had nothing to do with OMD.

[up]

Still, 15 years is a long time.

Whowho Since: May, 2012
#53508: Feb 7th 2022 at 4:34:24 PM

I am absolutely loving Immortal Hulk. I can't say I've ever read a horror comic before, and I'm surprised how well phycological and body horror fits the Hulk considering my lack of interest in the character until this point.

Also the apparent premis of the antagonist is just fascinating.

shanejayell Since: Jun, 2011
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#53510: Feb 7th 2022 at 7:25:05 PM

If you think the apparent premise is fascinating, the true premise is even more so.

Disgusted, but not surprised
windleopard from Nigeria Since: Nov, 2014 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#53511: Feb 9th 2022 at 2:52:29 AM

I'm reading the original New Warriors series for the first time. In the first nine issues, there are three instances in which the Warriors have to walk away from a fight or let the villains go due to lack of evidence or even the Warriors themselves also having broken some laws. Does this happen often in other Marvel books at the time or before then?

shanejayell Since: Jun, 2011
#53512: Feb 9th 2022 at 5:07:38 AM

I liked that, actually. More realistic in how a actual group of teen heroes would work.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#53513: Feb 9th 2022 at 5:09:54 AM

Especially when starting out.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Zarius Since: Nov, 2012
#53514: Feb 9th 2022 at 5:50:31 AM

Devil's Reign#4

A literal 'night to remember' for Typhoid and Fisk. Mary remembers the first night they made love, and Fisk regains his memory of Matt's identity

Also, a betrayal by Rhino as he informs Miles and his team about Fisk's plan to capture Kilgrave's children

Deadpoolrocks Since: Sep, 2010
#53515: Feb 9th 2022 at 10:38:50 AM

[up]I like that they remembered rhino and miles are on good terms

Also the Richard's stage a breakout because the collars are the same ones from civil war and Reed built failsafe in them

Edited by Deadpoolrocks on Feb 9th 2022 at 10:42:41 AM

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53517: Feb 9th 2022 at 10:57:24 AM

So an Enemy Without looks like.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#53518: Feb 9th 2022 at 10:57:25 AM

Cool.

Binary is pretty much Carol's most powerful state isn't it?

Though I was under the impression that, since her days with the Starjammers, she isn't able to maintain it perpetually anymore, and can only reach it when she gets a significant amount of energy pumped into her.

I wonder how she's gonna make it last this time?

One Strip! One Strip!
Deadpoolrocks Since: Sep, 2010
#53519: Feb 9th 2022 at 11:01:14 AM

She siphoned a bu ch of energy from the vox suits and then expelled it into a person shaped form. It hasn't faded away yet

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#53520: Feb 9th 2022 at 11:51:40 AM

Carol’s life is so wild

Forever liveblogging the Avengers
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#53521: Feb 9th 2022 at 12:17:47 PM

You could say that about any Super Hero at this point.

Or at any point, including before, after and at the exact moment of their births.

One Strip! One Strip!
TheEvilDrBolty Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
#53522: Feb 9th 2022 at 12:28:29 PM

I think Carol's a little special because she's historically been a relatively obscure character, but not that obscure because she was a huge part of Rogue's backstory and showed up on the 90's X-Men cartoon, and her first few issues written by Gerry Conway were almost immediately undone at the premise level by Chris Claremont, and even then she was a pre-existing character who was picked out and launched into superherodom, and her defining storylines before the 00's played out in X-Men, Iron Man, and Avengers. Oh, and then Kelly Sue De Connick outright redid elements of most of those stories so that all of the elements pieced together from the above would exist in a series that was actually about Carol.

And then she got a massive backstory retcon on top of that, and also she's tied in to most of Marvel's previous attempts to make the name "Captain Marvel" stick, meaning that her history crosses over with a bunch of other Marvel characters who existed on the margins or in weird low-selling comics.

So yeah, Carol Danvers isn't the messiest superhero in terms of history, but she's up there, and she might be in the top tier for heroes who carry their own series.

slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53523: Feb 9th 2022 at 1:39:50 PM

Yo I got the first omnibus for the legendary Ed Brubaker Captain America run.

Nice, especially last I checked they were all sold out.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Sircray Since: Apr, 2018
#53524: Feb 9th 2022 at 2:34:40 PM

[up][up] I wonder if Carol ever found out about her Rogue mindscape doppelganger that occasionally took control of Rogue's body before the two of them were separated and it became an actual flesh and blood being that was killed by Magneto while trying to kill Rogue to become permanently real.

Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#53525: Feb 9th 2022 at 6:24:14 PM

Keeping distance from that mess seems like the wiser move.

Wake me up at your own risk.

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