The Best Marvel Comic of the Decade: New Avengers #15.

[fullbodytransplant]

That's my opinion and I am sticking to it. This comic book belongs in a museum.



Addendum: Mike Deodato Jr. just tweeted a pretty hilarious response: http://twitter.com/#!/mikedeodato/status/109342437960454144 and yes I realize some of these have been posted already.

Enjoy!



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Comments

[mrstatham]

I'd be more impressed if it weren't Deodato and it were Immonen on art. That, and Deodato hadn't done the stupid thing of photoshopping the same mecha over and over.

[fullbodytransplant]

To each his own, it works for me. The mechs remind me of some kind of 70's Op Art poster. Nice and psychedelic.

[mrstatham]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I like Deodato - I love his Thunderbolts run with Ellis. But the way the mecha look, it doesn't match up to his other pencils in the issue and just looks.. A bit lazy, to me. I'm probably being a bit judgemental, but it just doesn't look right, to me.

[fullbodytransplant]

Fair enough. So much Doreen, I didn't pay much attention to the robots!

[wizardru]

Perhaps you didn't, but to me, it was SUPER-DISTRACTING. Because I immediately recognized them as being from SDF Macross (aka the first part of Robotech, in the US). Specifically the UN Space Navy's Destroid Tomahawk, or at least a variation of it (since Deodato didn't steal, he just was using as a reference...presumably because he's a fan).

[sir_razorback]

Ok, I wasn't the only one that saw it. Only for me, the word that came to mind was Warhammer, from Battletech.

[icon_uk]

I think my problem with them is that aside from looking like something from a not terribly good 1980's anime, they're all flying without any evident form of propulsion. Even Sentinels have boot jets.

A small thing I know, but it it sort of spoils the mood if they're supposed to look like serious hardware and don't even have jets.

[fullbodytransplant]

Dude they fly with magnets.

[joasakura]

F*king magnets, how do they work? XD

[glprime]

The more I looked into the origin of that meme (Insane Clown Posse) the angrier I got.

[biod]

They function through Motherflippin' Blasphemy!

[tacitoz]

Luke the Engine Driver will want his money for that!

[wizardru]

Well, they're a pastiche of a famous design from a very good anime from the early 1980s, Macross. But your point is taken. The Tomahawk, which is what he's using as his source, totally could not fly. They were ground support units.

[icon_uk]

Thanks, I knew they looked familiar but didn't recognise them as Macross mecha.

After the Exonims (or whatever the human piloted/AI thingies were called) in the recent "Future Sentinels come back to whup mutant butt in San Francisco" arc were somewhere between ED-209 and a Glaug Battlepod I shouldn't be surprised

[bruinsfan]

What I want to know is how they got that many pilots for the mechas. I'm pretty sure they didn't have that many nonogenarian hidden Nazis down in Antarctica practicing on the things, so are these all disgruntled German Hydra agents flying them on a 3-hour training course or what?

[twigcollins]

Craigslist.

[lilacsigil]

Oh, Hydra probably just walked around a few economically deprived rural towns in Australia/Canada/USA/Germany and shouted "Anyone here hate black people and immigrants?" They'd be signing up by the dozens!

[biod]

Now that I think about it, I don' think all these people are Nazis/Evil/Racists, but just dudes who wanted to pilot giant mechs enough to suspend their morals.

[joasakura]

"So, we need you to sign away any sense of agency, your own morals and a basic sense of human decency. But check it ouuuuut! You get to pilot this TOTALLY SWEET MECH!"

[rdfox]

Hell, I'd sign up.

I'd probably then proceed to "accidentally" miss high with all my shots except the ones that "accidentally" result in friendly fire, but I'd sign up!

[aaron_bourque]

I'm not sure if the problem's with Deodato's art . . . or with the coloring. It's just so washed out and dark, and . . . not bland, but . . . it doesn't pop. Superhero comics, particularly when the story stars frickin' Squirrel Girl, should be peppy and fun.

This coloration was all wrong.

[eyz]

Not a fan of his art at all here as well

Just....bland...and bad!
:/