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50 issues, 3 annuals, 2 winter specials, and 1 spring special.
No, I don't own all of them. Yet.
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- Senior Woodchuck
- Aug 29, 2006
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Wait
New runaways... is good? Huh?
It is in my book.
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Dec 7, 2017 01:05
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- Senior Woodchuck
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To be fair, the film adaptations of Moore's work have been bad going back all the way to Return of the Swamp Thing.
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Dec 9, 2017 17:47
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- Senior Woodchuck
- Aug 29, 2006
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Speaking of Bendis, another question I have as an "out of the game" dude is that where did all this hate for him I've seen recently come from?? I always remember him as a good dude who wrote good, fun, really well-paced stories, and people would only really diss him for the endless dialogue and a lot of that was just people making fun but I see way more negativity associated with him these days. I dropped out sometime after Siege in 2010 but I think I read Ultimate End when that came out too. Did he do something? Has he gotten worse? Am I simply listening to Lick The Whisk too much?
Every so often, fandom closes its eyes and throws a dart, and whoever's picture it hits is the new Worst Person In Comics Ever.
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Dec 10, 2017 15:34
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- Senior Woodchuck
- Aug 29, 2006
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From Secret Six? His father called him "my son" when they fought.
Yeah, but I always read that as Ragdoll I being a dick and deliberately misgendering his child.
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Dec 19, 2017 01:32
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- Senior Woodchuck
- Aug 29, 2006
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In terms of "_____ was supposed to be _____":
1) Ronin was supposed to be Daredevil. Bendis did an interview with USA Today where he told the reporter (off the record, according to Bendis) that Ronin was Daredevil, and the reporter put it in their article. Everyone at Marvel went "noooooooooo" and Ronin got written out of the first arc of the book (Ronin is on covers from issue 1 onward, but doesn't actually appear in New Avengers until issue 11) while they tried to figure out what to do. According to Bendis they were ready to go ahead and just make Ronin Daredevil but around the same time he was wrapping up his Daredevil run and coordinated the "Daredevil in prison" hand-off with Ed Brubaker and decided to go ahead and do the "Ronin is Echo" thing. This story absolutely involves Bendis/Marvel "lying" to the public but I tend to give creators lee-way about that sort of thing when it's pre-release hyping up a story, especially when that pre-release hype involves media leaking things.
2) Jessica Jones was Jessica Drew in the sense that at some point before Alias Bendis pitched a "Jessica Drew, PI" book to Marvel. They didn't want to do that, so by the time Bendis was actually starting to write Alias he had created a new character named Jessica Jones. At no point in the production of Alias did they do a find-and-replace for "Drew/Jones" or anything, so saying "Jessica Jones is Jessica Drew" or whatever kind of gotcha people like to do is kind of like going "heh, did you know that Jesse dies in the first season of Breaking Bad?" or "Luke Skywalker is really named Starkiller" or "Tom Selleck is Indiana Jones" or "they never made the Watchmen movie".
3) Roger Stern was more or less pushed off of Spider-Man several years before he got pushed off of Avengers. Stern always wanted Roderick Kingsley (in cahoots with his brother covering for him) to be Hobgoblin, but DeFalco (and then-ASM penciller Ron Frenz) hated the idea because Kingsley was a coded-gay non-threatening fashion industry character, not a master criminal in their minds. DeFalco kicked Stern off the book and started writing it himself and after a short while Jim Owsley/Christopher Priest was put in charge of editing Spider-Man because of Shooter's policy of not letting editors write their own books. DeFalco wanted Hobgoblin to be Richard Fisk's, the Kingpin's son, but at a convention Owsley badgered DeFalco (allegedly at Shooter's urging) to reveal who the Hobgoblin was, and he said it was Ned Leeds.
This was I guess the straw that broke the camel's back for the DeFalco/Owsley/Shooter relationship and DeFalco got fired off of the book, which started a mini-revolt against Owsley, the young [black, coincidentally?] upstart editor who fired the experienced, well-connected [white, coincidentally?] DeFalco at what was seen as a favor to Jim Shooter, who half the company hated at this point.
So this meant that Owsley was in short order press-ganged into writing a Spider-Man/Wolverine one-shot that a) revealed Ned Leeds was the Hobgoblin, against all logic, and b) killed off Ned Leeds/Hobgoblin. Not long after that, Owsley was relieved of his editorial job. Jim Salicrup and David Michelinie took over and immediately killed off Roderick Kingsley and had Jason "Jack o' Lantern" Macendale find the Hobgoblin's hideout and take over as the character and I think revealed some unknown person had framed Ned Leeds as the Hobgoblin (because _________) so that Macendale is the Hobgoblin, taking over for _____________?
Then Macendale turned into an actual demon and died, and then like twenty years later Marvel had Roger Stern come back and do a mini-series I've never read that basically went "oh yeah, Hobgoblin is Roderick Kingley, he was always Roderick Kingsley, what are you talking about?" in the most convoluted Avengers-Forever-y way possible.
One small addendum: Peter David got stuck with writing the issue of ASM that immediately followed Spider-Man/Wolverine and revealed Ned as the Hobgoblin, mostly because he had a good working relationship with Owsley going back to PAD's days in the direct sales department.
To this day, neither DeFalco, Owsley, nor David will take the rap for actually making the decision to make Ned the Hobgoblin.
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Dec 19, 2017 01:36
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- Senior Woodchuck
- Aug 29, 2006
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How in the world...? The light space crash, Rey's training, morose yet funny Luke, the final battle, the awesome throne room scenes, the endless subversion of expectation, the plot that challenges the tenets and tropes of the entire action/adventure genre, the kylo/rey scenes, the space battles. How can you say this movie is not worth watching?
It's called bad taste and nerd grumpiness.
Seriously, the more I think about Last Jedi, the more I love it. Star Wars hasn't done that for me since the OT on VHS.
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Dec 21, 2017 01:01
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- Senior Woodchuck
- Aug 29, 2006
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When you're lost out there and you're all alone, a light is waiting to carry you home
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Is Shape of Water good? I've heard it's good.
There's buzz Del Toro's a strong candidate for Best Director for it, so I guess so? I'm looking forward to it.
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Dec 21, 2017 01:05
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- Senior Woodchuck
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One big problem with Whedon's run was that the delays killed the book's momentum.
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