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"Here, hold my Annihilus." Only in the context of actual Fantastic Four comics pages can that be anything but sexual innuendo. I need to read this and find out why Johnny has a pet Annihilus.
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# ? Dec 23, 2011 05:46 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 15:41 |
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It's explained in Fantastic Four 600 if you're looking for an exact issue.
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# ? Dec 23, 2011 06:21 |
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ManiacClown posted:"Here, hold my Annihilus." Johnny also has his own Annihilation Wave. You should really just read all of Hickman's Fantastic Four/Future Foundation run as its been very good. He even manages to pull off a "death and return" scenario without copping out and making the death scene meaningless in retrospect.
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# ? Dec 23, 2011 14:06 |
muscles like this? posted:Johnny also has his own Annihilation Wave. Well, there was no death scene, so that's easy. Everyone just assumed he died, which in comics is always an incorrect assumption unless you see a bloodied corpse (and even then).
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# ? Dec 23, 2011 14:49 |
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Lurdiak posted:Well, there was no death scene, so that's easy. Everyone just assumed he died, which in comics is always an incorrect assumption unless you see a bloodied corpse (and even then). He did die, though. This is stated explicitly multiple times.
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# ? Dec 23, 2011 16:55 |
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Lurdiak posted:Well, there was no death scene, so that's easy. Everyone just assumed he died, which in comics is always an incorrect assumption unless you see a bloodied corpse (and even then). He died, Annihilus revived him, and then it happened again like a million times or whatever.
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# ? Dec 23, 2011 19:20 |
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Is Hickman's run over yet, and if so what issues of what series' are part of it? I loved what I read of it a lot.
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# ? Dec 24, 2011 00:40 |
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Bown posted:Is Hickman's run over yet, and if so what issues of what series' are part of it? I loved what I read of it a lot.
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# ? Dec 24, 2011 00:41 |
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Bown posted:Is Hickman's run over yet, and if so what issues of what series' are part of it? I loved what I read of it a lot. It starts at Fantastic Four 570 (although technically he did the Dark Reign Fantastic Four mini first) runs through 588 where the series ends. Its replaced by Future Foundation until issue 11 and then back to Fantastic Four name and numbering with issue 600. Future Foundation is now its own spin off series starting with issue 12.
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# ? Dec 24, 2011 02:36 |
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muscles like this? posted:It starts at Fantastic Four 570 (although technically he did the Dark Reign Fantastic Four mini first) runs through 588 where the series ends. Its replaced by Future Foundation until issue 11 and then back to Fantastic Four name and numbering with issue 600. Future Foundation is now its own spin off series starting with issue 12. Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #1-5 Fantastic Four #570-588 FF #1-11 Fantastic Four #600 FF #12 Fantastic Four #601 FF #13 and etc. switching back and forth for now.
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# ? Dec 24, 2011 07:51 |
So Rick Remender's Venom is an amazing comic that completely shatters the idea that there's such a thing as a "bad character", rather than a character that's been handled by awful writers. What I'm about to post is kind of spoiler-y, because I really feel the panels need context, so be warned. Much of the series is a parable about alcoholism and addiction, with the symbiote standing in place of booze. Even though Flash Thompson's intent in becoming the new government-approved Venom was pure, the secret missions and the influence of the suit cause him to lie to and push away his loved ones more and more. The suit also affects his judgement and causes him to give in to rage rather often, doing some hosed up violent things, which fills him with guilt. Couple that with the fact that the suit is becoming addictive and that he's currently being blackmailed by a super-villain, and Flash's life is spiraling rapidly out of control and heading somewhere bad. A major subplot has been concerning Flash's father. He's a serious alcoholic who would turn violent and beat Flash as a child when he got drunk, and generally abused and debased him. It's strongly implied that the rage and hate Flash manifests as Venom is simply repressed feelings from this abuse being brought to the surface by the symbiote. When Flash came back from Mosul as a war hero with his legs blown off, his dad showed up at the welcome back party with his one-year sober chip, ready to reconcile with his son. Flash warily welcomed him back in his life, sympathetic since he'd had a dark period of alcoholism himself. In the midst of his life falling apart due to being Venom, Flash gets a call from his mother that his dad's gotten drunk and gone missing again, and his mother is beside herself with worry. Flash angrily dismisses the situation as not his problem, since he swore to himself that he was never going to let his father's drunkenness ruin his life again, and that at the first relapse he'd cut ties with him again. Thanks to some prodding by his good buddy Peter Parker and his girflriend Betty, Flash does go looking for his dad in every dive bar in town, eventually finding him in the drunk tank. His dad is completely pathetic and hostile and even takes a swing at him. Flash dodges and barely restrains himself from breaking his dad's face, but his father still collapses in pain. Turns out his dad's been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, and he wanted to spend his last few days drunk. Flash is disgusted at how selfish and callous that decision is and angrily leaves his apologetic father lying on the hospital bed. He spends the next days burying himself in his Venom work, fuming about all the ways his father's let him down and how much he hates him, how much he doesn't deserve a happy ending, etc. Betty keeps calling him and he keeps brushing her off. It's strongly implied the symbiote is reinforcing those negative emotions the whole time. After an encounter with Anti-Venom, who preaches to Flash about just how insidious the suit is, Flash realizes just what his life's turned into and rejects the suit. Even though he puts it back on seconds later because he needs it to complete a mission to save the city, the symbolic rejection of the suit and all the dark emotions that come with it seem to give Flash a moment of clarity. Here's what he does with it. This next scene isn't quite as powerful, but when Flash rejects the symbiote, it latches onto the weakened Anti-Venom, aka Eddie Brock, its favorite host. Eddie's life was loving destroyed by the suit, it turned him into a serial killer and defined his life even years after getting rid of it, and the highly religious Eddie considers being Anti-Venom a chance at atonement granted by God. He hates and fears the symbiote more than anything else in the world, and knowing that made this page incredibly harsh for me: Look at how loving terrified the poor guy is.
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# ? Dec 24, 2011 18:29 |
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That's amazing. Is this in trade yet? I might have found a nice stocking stuffer for myself.
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# ? Dec 24, 2011 20:52 |
Maybe? That sure looks like and is priced like a hardcover, but it also looks like it says it only has the first issue in it? I could be reading that wrong.
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# ? Dec 25, 2011 00:02 |
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Lurdiak posted:Maybe? That sure looks like and is priced like a hardcover, but it also looks like it says it only has the first issue in it? I could be reading that wrong. Here it is on amazon and says its issues 1-4 http://www.amazon.com/Venom-Rick-Remender-1/dp/0785158111/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324770648&sr=8-1 Also looks like issues are also going to be in spider-island bobkatt013 fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Dec 25, 2011 |
# ? Dec 25, 2011 00:51 |
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I'm surprised no one posted anything Daredevil #7 yet. Setup: Daredevil takes kids from a school for the blind for an annual trip. However, this year, things get complicated as the school bus crashes and he is left out in the countryside with eight 9 year olds, with snow falling and temperatures dropping close to zero. The countryside plays havoc with his senses so he's pretty much blind, also he's badly injured. The kids are exhausted enough to start dropping off and collapsing.
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# ? Dec 28, 2011 04:34 |
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In the Funny Panels Thread, prefect posted:Go over to the inspiring/touching panels thread and post the parts where Loki decides to keep the dog. I almost teared up a little bit. By popular request then, here's Journey Into Mystery #632. It's a very funny issue where Loki has to get rid of seven little hellhounds that he accidentally caused the birth of. Loki passes off six of them on various Asgardians and humans (and one to Mephisto), but no one wants number seven (he spits fire, calls people bastards, and bites a lot). So he consults the All-Mothers on what to do. But Journey Into Mystery is Loki's book, and it's pretty much all about Loki trying to do good while everyone hates him because they believe Loki to be inherently bad. He refuses to believe that "some creatures are just bad". "The best of all the dogs" just makes me all warm and fuzzy .
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# ? Dec 29, 2011 20:47 |
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Here's a link to my favorite comic book song You can get their whole album for free right here! It's pretty good!
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# ? Jan 28, 2012 13:18 |
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Speaking of comic-themed music, I kind of like this band's songs (for obvious reasons): http://corporaterecords.co.uk/artists/Spoiler+Alert!/Spoiler+Alert!+E.P/
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# ? Jan 28, 2012 16:20 |
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Shageletic posted:
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# ? Jan 28, 2012 17:20 |
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Gavok posted:From Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth. A man named John Black was tortured and experimented on by the main villains of Planetary (an evil version of the Fantastic Four) along with his parents. His parents were murdered, he escaped and is now mentally messed up. He keeps freaking out, which has caused him to murder a couple people and each time it sets off a power where reality shifts around him.
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# ? Feb 3, 2012 22:38 |
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Something that never struck me until just now: Is the John Black character supposed to be the Planetary universe Bruce Wayne? Not just a 'similar' character, but really that universe's Bruce Wayne, just by another name, the same way we have a Joker and Dick Grayson appear. The pair of characters have similar histories, very similar looks, the centering of the story around Crime Alley might not have been a coincidence, and even his name itself could be construed as a Bruce Wayne/Dark Knight nod (John as in 'Wayne', Black as in 'Dark'.) It's not just characters meeting different versions of Batman, it's also about a perfect Batman intervening on a broken Bruce Wayne. Or maybe I'm looking too much into it.
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# ? Feb 4, 2012 09:36 |
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I'm sure they're supposed to be similar, but I can't see him as being Bruce Wayne's cosmic counterpart. If he was, he would have turned into Batman during the reality shifts.
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# ? Feb 4, 2012 10:06 |
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Yeah, I think kind of a major thing was that there wasn't a Planetary version of Wayne/Batman. That's why that last form Bruce turned into as the reality shift hit it's peak was essentially Planetary Batman-- to show us "this is what he'd look like, and who he'd be, if there was one". And then he vanished. Black was just some poor sod.
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# ? Feb 4, 2012 19:18 |
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That really was an amazing issue. Different parts of it have been in the bad-rear end, funny and uplifting threads. Has Warren Ellis written anything close to this lately or has he gone full bore into Ennis & Millar gross out and meme territory? At this point I'd settle for something that's retarded but owns it like Nextwave.
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# ? Feb 4, 2012 23:24 |
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Freakangels is pretty good, but Planetary is his crowning achievement and will be difficult to top.
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# ? Feb 5, 2012 00:00 |
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His Secret Avengers run is pretty good on average, but there's two amazing issues in there. The Black Widow time travel one was one of my favorite single issues from last year.
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# ? Feb 5, 2012 00:56 |
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I know he had a bunch of stuff with Avatar, I think I read a few issues of Black Summer. Was Doktor Sleepless any good?
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# ? Feb 5, 2012 01:02 |
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It's a few years old, and way more "badass" than "touching and inspiring", but I've always been partial to Ellis' No Hero.
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# ? Feb 5, 2012 01:28 |
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Shageletic posted:I'm surprised no one posted anything Daredevil #7 yet. This current Daredevil run has been amazing at humanizing him and showing the he's not just a dude with good senses but is a blind man who happens to have honed his other senses. Putting him out of the city and into the wild was an amazing way to show how no matter how good he trains himself he's still that blind guy terrified about what was out in front of him. That issue most of all was a work of brilliance with the use of silence and the writing for the children, and yea that last panel pretty much summed the entire point of this arc up perfectly.
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# ? Feb 5, 2012 01:45 |
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Uthor posted:His Secret Avengers run is pretty good on average, but there's two amazing issues in there. The Black Widow time travel one was one of my favorite single issues from last year.
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# ? Feb 5, 2012 02:13 |
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Dacap posted:I know he had a bunch of stuff with Avatar, I think I read a few issues of Black Summer. Was Doktor Sleepless any good?
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# ? Feb 5, 2012 18:17 |
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Don't bother with anything from Avatar. Anything he did finish he only paid half attention to, and Doktor Sleepless, his flagship with the company, is DOA without any further resolution of the plot. edit: I take that back, pick up Crecy, it's really good, and a Graphic novel instrad of a serial. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Feb 5, 2012 |
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Doktor Sleepless, his flagship with the company, is DOA without any further resolution of the plot. He said he's hoping to finish it sometime this year: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=13594 Not holding my breath. He seems uninterested in comics at the moment.
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# ? Feb 5, 2012 21:21 |
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Crossposting from the Funny Panels thread.Dr. Hurt posted:
choobs posted:In context however, it's one of the most existentially terrifying moments in a series full of them. The story of Daryl is really touching and sad. Just a poor sap who gets randomly hosed with by the world. BPRD The Universal Machine #4
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# ? Feb 5, 2012 21:40 |
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Dr. Hurt posted:Crossposting from the Funny Panels thread. That was really depressing.
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# ? Feb 5, 2012 23:57 |
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They could just let him kill some mass murderer on death row.
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# ? Feb 6, 2012 00:49 |
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Rhyno posted:They could just let him kill some mass murderer on death row. I'm not quite certain giving a mass murderer an immortal body is such a good idea.
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# ? Feb 6, 2012 01:12 |
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Mr.Pibbleton posted:I'm not quite certain giving a mass murderer an immortal body is such a good idea. Fine, let him kill some terminal cancer patient.
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# ? Feb 6, 2012 01:18 |
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Rhyno posted:Fine, let him kill some terminal cancer patient. And that would solve the problem of an innocent soul being trapped in, and essentially digested by, the wendigo how? That's what's so horrible about the story: there really is no solution to the problem. Quick, someone find something inspiring!
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# ? Feb 6, 2012 03:47 |
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# ? Mar 28, 2024 15:41 |
FredMSloniker posted:And that would solve the problem of an innocent soul being trapped in, and essentially digested by, the wendigo how? That's what's so horrible about the story: there really is no solution to the problem. Here you go! Oh... wait... no... (Spectacular Spider-man 181)
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# ? Feb 6, 2012 04:11 |