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How many variant covers are they gonna do? They;ve shown like a half dozen, it's nuts.Binary Badger posted:Yet another Rise of Ultraman cover, this one by Yuji Kaida..
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Gripweed posted:How many variant covers are they gonna do? They;ve shown like a half dozen, it's nuts. A mere 6? They haven't even begun to start!
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1st issue means its gonna get all the variants they can throw at it
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Alaois posted:1st issue means its gonna get all the variants they can throw at it That's going to make it hard for people who want to get all the different covers.
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Gripweed posted:That's going to make it hard for people who want to get all the different covers. hard? oh no. expensive? oh yes.
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Gripweed posted:That's going to make it hard for people who want to get all the different covers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sT7S3XjgCg Welcome to western comics
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Star Wars #1 had like 77 variants when released.
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Gripweed posted:That's going to make it hard for people who want to get all the different covers. You better hope it doesn't go into multiple printings.
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I dunno if Ultraman mugging Zetton for his lunch money is gonna be much of a thing anyway.
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Endless Mike posted:You better hope it doesn't go into multiple printings. I do hope it's successful enough to get multiple printings. I guess I'll probably end up grabbing just a couple covers I really like. Binary Badger posted:I dunno if Ultraman mugging Zetton for his lunch money is gonna be much of a thing anyway. I think like the sixth or seventh Ultraman's whole deal was that he was a master of Space Martial Arts, which basically meant that he was the first Ultraman who had a fighting style more advanced than the sort of crude brawling of the previous Ultras
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I'd just been wondering what Ryan North had been up to since Squirrel Girl ended.
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North is also doing the power pack book they announced right after officially cancelling future foundation...which featured all the power pack kids
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site posted:North is also doing the power pack book they announced right after officially cancelling future foundation...which featured all the power pack kids https://twitter.com/ryanqnorth/status/1295817527780663297?s=19 It's not that surprising if Future Foundation was selling poorly and they wanted to slap "from the writer of Squirrel Girl on the cover." Maybe with the idea of some comic nerd who read Power Pack in the 80s might have their own kids now.
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Marvel literally quietly told Whitley they were cancelling FF immediately after the first issue was released Tbh I don't know why they ordered future foundation in the first place
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Man, Thor #6. My eyes are still rolling at that last panel. It all reads like fanfiction after the fresh creation and consistent characterization of the Aaron years. Nobody in Thor is acting like people. Thor is grim for no reason. Galactus whips between furious and grovelling on a dime. Regarding the Black Winter I've no idea what his deal really is, or why Thor talks to him, or why he suddenly kills Galactus, or why he then turns on the Winter. The Winter seems to be properly dead, and only serves to prophesy a truly ludicrous Thanos/Marvel Zombies crossover event. Why was everyone aware of him as the cosmic end of everything? Why did he go about ending universes if all he wanted was to find his herald? Was Cates not aware that the Galactus-as-Herlad moment was done with much more significant impact elsewhere? Cates seems to love taking the triumphs of successful writers and offering his own critique on them. Everyone fights all the time to service the plot, then talks the next chapter. Then fight again. Then it's back to more empty grim reflection. I know it was always going to be a struggle to follow Aaron's run but there's just zero joy and heart to what Cates is writing here. It's all hollow boasts and sermons on how powerful everyone is and how grave this threat is with no flesh to the bones. After 6 chapters I'd really hoped for something to coalesce beyond a cool redesign and grim exhortations, but if Aaron's run was epic stadium-rock then this is nu-metal. And not like Hybrid Theory, like Remember Who You Are. There is a really great Thor reaction panel towards the end though.
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Thor #6 is a comic that is so bad it's made me like earlier Cates creations less, and feels like he's spent years in fringes of the Marvel Universe for a reason. Creating a totally new villain just to be killed off, and kill off Galactus, and set up your new event which is just... it's just 'Thanos gets the infinity gems', 'Someone who really shouldn't gets the hammer', and 'marvel zombies?' all mashed together, along with what looks like some good old fashioned DC arm-replacement, and... man, you hit it big because you made Cosmic Deadpool and then said "psych, that's the punisher" and like Deadpool and his "He's deathstroke but he jokes" other writers fixed it afterwards- Dennis Hopeless, in this case. Like Knull was already giving me BWL vibes, this just... nah. I think I'm gonna not be following Thor unless I start hearing good things again.
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Skwirl posted:Meant to include this in my post and just forgot to hit ctrl-v If Julie doesn’t get her muscle wife Rikki I refuse to buy it.
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 But also North refused to do anything more than tease Doreen x Nancy in usg so prepare for disappointment
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Skwirl posted:I'd just been wondering what Ryan North had been up to since Squirrel Girl ended. One can guess.
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Years from now, people will use the phrase "trapping yourself in a skateboarding hole" instead of painting yourself in a corner.
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Frankly, it's a little amazing that after Ryan got stuck in the hole Marvel didn't say "maybe we should have our Squirrel Girl comic written by someone who doesn't get stuck in holes."
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So I wound up rereading a bunch of McDuffie's work on Unlimited. It's cool and good.
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howe_sam posted:Frankly, it's a little amazing that after Ryan got stuck in the hole Marvel didn't say "maybe we should have our Squirrel Girl comic written by someone who doesn't get stuck in holes." It's all BS, anyway. He's like 10 feet tall and can easily put Chompsky up and climb out.
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Endless Mike posted:It's all BS, anyway. He's like 10 feet tall and can easily put Chompsky up and climb out. But what would he have to gain by lying about being stuck in a hole?
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Gripweed posted:But what would he have to gain by lying about being stuck in a hole? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4HTvVM3U3U
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https://twitter.com/marvel/status/1296193974282199040?s=21 I would like to see it voice: I would like to see it.
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Dan Didio posted:https://twitter.com/marvel/status/1296193974282199040?s=21 i'm in, very happy to see Gillen returning to the Marvel Universe for the first time in... 5 years? his last was the Secret Wars: Siege mini, right?
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FoneBone posted:i'm in, very happy to see Gillen returning to the Marvel Universe for the first time in... 5 years? his last was the Secret Wars: Siege mini, right? aside from a one-page Loki story in Marvel Comics #1000, I believe so, yes. very excited for this
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Dan Didio posted:https://twitter.com/marvel/status/1296193974282199040?s=21 Daaaaaaang that's a dream team.  Also,  with everyone on Thor. I'm afraid the character's legendary "not a single bad series" run is finally coming to an end. Sad to see that it's at the hand of a writer who is capable of delivering much better work.
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JordanKai posted:Daaaaaaang that's a dream team. ¿Que?
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Skwirl posted:¿Que? I think they mean, recently. Not that it's been an unbroken line since the age of Stan & Jack.
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Right, I meant since 2010/2011 when JMS left the book and it was rebranded Journey into Mystery. That's nearly 10 years of stellar comics without break.
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I'd argue that Matt Fraction's run on Thor (that was concurrent to Kieron Gillen's Journey into Mystery) for most of the time was fair to middling, certainly not "legendary". What you're mostly describing is "Jason Aaron wrote eight years of good Thor books, and now Donny Cates is writing less-good ones."
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I'm also going to argue that Ellis' Thor run was not great, and that most runs of the character in the 90's were middling. Thor definitely did not get shelved for like three years because he "never had a bad run" is all I'm saying. Blockhouse fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Aug 19, 2020 |
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Venom: The End confirmed canon, hell yeah.
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The worst part about that Thor issue is that it's delivered without any sense of extravagance or confidence. It's setting up something huge, but it's delivered in such a milquetoast way like it's just going through the motions of having shocking things happens with a teaser of what's to come. I feel like I've read this exact comic a hundred times, just with different permutations of who gets killed and the shocking tease of future events.
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If I were a Marvel writer I'd somehow shoehorn in the resurrection of Galactus. Even if I was writing something like Daredevil. "Yep, Galactus is alive!" How the gently caress do you think you're gonna make Galactus' death stick?
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Codependent Poster posted:If I were a Marvel writer I'd somehow shoehorn in the resurrection of Galactus. Even if I was writing something like Daredevil. "Yep, Galactus is alive!" Someone is going to shoot him with the Ultimate Anti-Nullifier.
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Galactus being dead will last as long as Galactus the life bringer did
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site posted:But also North refused to do anything more than tease Doreen x Nancy in usg so prepare for disappointment Yeah, he was cagey when asked about it from what I recall. It's entirely possible that he, like unfortunately a lot of people, didn't read Future Foundation. Blockhouse posted:I'm also going to argue that Ellis' Thor run was not great, and that most runs of the character in the 90's were middling. I have a friend who will bare knuckle fight to defend the DeFalco run. (Do I agree? Well, I think it's fun enough if you already like Thor but it is very early 90's.)
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