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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)
#53901: Mar 12th 2022 at 2:30:52 AM

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And the SHIELD agent Jessica technically.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#53903: Mar 15th 2022 at 11:21:57 AM

The the Darkhold mini event has hit unlimited and holy crap the Iron Man one shot

Definitely the best of the bunch I’ve read so far (alpha, blade, black bolt, iron man). Body horror suspense is not the tone you expect from Ryan North but damn if he didn’t write something EC comics would blanch at

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Deadpoolrocks Since: Sep, 2010
#53904: Mar 15th 2022 at 1:28:56 PM

I also really liked the spider man one that was pretty body horrorry. The blade one i thought was funny because they kept acting like blade was possessed and that was why he was killing all the hero vampire till its revealed no hes just a dick who loves killing vamps.

Psuedodog Since: Feb, 2020
#53905: Mar 15th 2022 at 8:38:35 PM

I enjoyed what I read of Darkhold, fun Halloweeny Marvel series. Seeing alternate takes of heroes is always fun, I'm glad this wasn't a huge years long series like Dark Knights: Metal. The evil hero/villain mash ups in the current Avengers run is really fun too. Who knew the Red Skull could be even more evil, just give him a symbiote!

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#53906: Mar 15th 2022 at 9:01:54 PM

Instant additional evil, just add goo.

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
The Head of the Hydra
#53907: Mar 15th 2022 at 9:08:45 PM

Huh reading the new Black Panther's, I'm agreeing with the complaints that T'Challa is getting way too belittled and disrespected by his own cast.

Again he gets punched by his own subordinate. All things considered he is still the boss and due some respect.

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Psuedodog Since: Feb, 2020
#53908: Mar 15th 2022 at 9:20:28 PM

I keep forgetting he's the leader of the Avenger's, it still seems very much like a Tony Stark/Capt. America joint.

Deadpoolrocks Since: Sep, 2010
#53909: Mar 15th 2022 at 9:27:41 PM

hes been the one calling the shots in the main books at least

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#53910: Mar 15th 2022 at 9:38:10 PM

In Avengers guest appearances it’s often Cap, Tony, Carol, and Thor

Black Panther often gets left out. Robbie oftener.

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Whowho Since: May, 2012
#53911: Mar 16th 2022 at 1:07:16 AM

It's been quite a persisting Avengers roster.

And I'm definitely getting the impression other writers don't know what to do with Ghost Rider's powerset when the avengers turn up to quickly wreck shop.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#53912: Mar 16th 2022 at 9:33:15 AM

Speaking of Avengers' roster, Avengers #54 hot off the digital presses.

The attacks by the Multiversal Masters of Evil continue and they manage to kill all the Deathloks that came here to warn the Avengers. Well, Jane Foster saves one but he's catatonic and accidentally transferred into the blown up dead alien mountain.

Phoenix Echo convinces Thor to release the fire powers he totally has as a son of Phoenix, sure, and the two of them drive off Phoenix Masque and kill her pet Thor. But she ominously implies that tapping into Phoenix powers is what led her corrupt her Thor. Phoenix.

Mephisto forces Doom Supreme to fork over the Watcher's eyeball he took from the Orb but Doom spitefully bites into it first. Which, ew.

There's AN explanation for Starbrand Not Baby Brandy's jumps in age. She's basically burning up her lifespan by tapping into her power. So now I have an idea how Jason Aaron is going to write her out when the time comes but I don't like it.

Anyway, roster. She-Hulk quit to enjoy being her more iconic self again and be in Reckoning War. Blade quit to commit police violence on vampires as the vampire sheriff of Chernobyl. And a Deathlok kidnapped Robbie Reyes to an alternate Earth to headline Avengers Forever. So new roster has Black Panther, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Thor, Namor (although nobody is happy about it), Starbrand Brandy probably, Phoenix Echo, and probably Valkyrie.

Side note, I had wondered what it would take for Captain America to stop treating Namor like its they're old Nazi punching band of brothers days. Well, apparently right about now when Namor is trying to make amends is when Steve has run out of patience with him and tells him that he's not on the team as a friend but in their custody. Black Panther tells Namor that he's of course even more pissed at Namor than Steve is but also a lot more practical about needing Namor's help given everything going on.

Feels like about time the roster shifted. Its been pretty static and the Avengers should feel more dynamic in my opinion. Phoenix and Starbrand were obvious given the Ancient Powers Avengers 1000000 BC thing thats been a running thing. Valkyrie and Namor are less expected but should be fun.

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Lionheart0 Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#53913: Mar 16th 2022 at 10:35:25 AM

So with a roster shakeup, I'm thinking Aaron is going to keep going to Issue #100.


It dawned on me with the Gail Simone/Jessica Jones book that Marvel is pretty overtly honing in on the Variants concept since that has been the big thing with the MCU now. When I first saw those Miles and Gwen books minis get announced I thought they were just for the sake of having indirect trades for the Spider-Verse sequels, but those are also books about variants too.

Deadpoolrocks Since: Sep, 2010
#53914: Mar 16th 2022 at 11:03:33 AM

Cover previews for avengers have also spoiled that nighthawk is gonna join the team seemingly to replace panther who is off the book due to stuff in his ongoing

Edited by Deadpoolrocks on Mar 16th 2022 at 11:03:56 AM

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#53915: Mar 16th 2022 at 11:21:44 AM

I had wondered what it would take for Captain America to stop treating Namor like its they're old Nazi punching band of brothers days. Well, apparently right about now when Namor is trying to make amends is when Steve has run out of patience with him and tells him that he's not on the team as a friend but in their custody.

While it's well deserved and good that Steve is done with him, it also sounds more like a drama choice than anything else. Steve is rejecting Namor because Namor is not being a douche, and now we can keep up that tension and drama.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#53916: Mar 16th 2022 at 11:25:02 AM

[up][up] Interesting if that does happen

I can’t see him replacing Black Panther as leader even if he joins because the Avengers wouldn’t trust him the way they do T’Challa.

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RedM Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
#53917: Mar 16th 2022 at 6:02:46 PM

I can never think about Nighthawk without remembering how he got roasted in I Don't Need Your Civil War.

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shanejayell Since: Jun, 2011
#53918: Mar 17th 2022 at 9:58:55 AM

Poor Marc. And poor lady too...

Deadpoolrocks Since: Sep, 2010
#53919: Mar 20th 2022 at 3:29:03 PM

the trial of the watcher its a what if uatu never interferes. without his interference galactus does mess up the world, reed get partially melted, johnny gets burned from going beyond nova, and sue gets blinded but reed manages to actually kill galactus by reversing the food processing and poisons him. the surfer then runs off to enjoy his freedom and reed makes the world a utopia

shanejayell Since: Jun, 2011
#53920: Mar 20th 2022 at 4:08:28 PM

And in how many universes where Uatu goes "must not interfere" does the Earth die? It's not a good argument, Watchers.

lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#53921: Mar 20th 2022 at 4:22:38 PM

[up][up] Huh, that ending is the opposite of how most What If? stories go.

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GrigorII Since: Aug, 2011
#53922: Mar 22nd 2022 at 8:38:47 PM

They forgot the scene where the FF discuss their victory with Superman and Batman in the cafe.

Oh, wait, it's not that type of what if...

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#53923: Mar 22nd 2022 at 9:48:54 PM

Avengers Forever #4 because it just came out

Infinite Red Skulls pouring out of a portal all wanting to kick hero ass and claim Black Skull's world for themselves winds up being less of a big deal than you'd think. First, Thor's Granddaughters show up, just crashing a boat into the plot, but then Robbie Rider just shoves all the Red Skulls back through the portals and locks them out. Then he and local Wonder Man murder all of Black Skull's enforcers, the Granddaughters of Thunder make it rain for the first time in ever to start healing the wasteland, Infinity Thing plans to rebuild the world, and off to the next leg of the journey. The thunder goddesses fuck off on a multiversal scavenger hunt to find all the pieces of Phoenix Wolverine because why not (they've got two arms in just this issue so far). Anthony-Man joins Robbie Rider and Deathlok's party because he wants to look for his Moon Knight and Vision who disappeared through one of the portals during the confusion. And those two wound up joining up with the still unseen Avenger Prime's multiversal Avengers including Captain Carter, some manner of Hawkeye, and an Iron Widow who has a better armor design than the War Widow one.

There's a lot of moving pieces and it doesn't really cohere into A Story itself. It's an epilogue that's also trying to set up a dozen future things. Some of the bits are good but its a breadcrumbs story. It's a between issue.

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GrigorII Since: Aug, 2011
#53924: Mar 23rd 2022 at 8:19:39 AM
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RedM Since: Oct, 2012 Relationship Status: You can be my wingman any time
#53925: Mar 23rd 2022 at 8:23:48 AM

[up]Phrased more clearly, Marvel editors have joined the Disney walkout that protests Disney's support of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill, which orders Florida public schools to not discuss gender identity or non-hetero sexuality.

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