Dark Avengers #9

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

This is from Dark Avengers #9, by Bendis and Deodato.


Ares follows Alex and sees him meet up with the Secret Warriors.






Meanwhile...

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[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

I'm fairly sure his grandfather is currently younger than him right now. Not that that would exactly stop kid Zeus from striking down Fury.

[phoenixmessiah.insanejournal.com]

And unfortunately for Ares he hasn't gotten this memo yet.

[naela.insanejournal.com]

Not really a fan of how Deodato draws bodies, they're so grotesquely muscular and the contortions bleeegh. On the other hand he redeems himself with his facial expressions. You can just tell Lindy was just "Oh crap, I didn't think that would actually hurt him!" in that last page.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

True, though I imagine Fury knows, it's easier to assume he just knows EVERYTHING by default...

And the fact Zeus is a kid again doesn't erase the trouble Ares had in his past.

[damar148.insanejournal.com]

'Oh damn, I just shot Bob in the face'

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

I am so jealous of her right now.

[phoenixmessiah.insanejournal.com]

Me too Sentry/Void schizo needs a fixing. Now did the Void go back into Sentry's body after Uncanny Xmen Exodus?

[long_silence.insanejournal.com]

Most of it.

[neuhallidae.insanejournal.com]

Y'know, as much as I've been itching for Bob to royally get his ass handed to him, possibly in a lethal way, that still reads as an incredibly stupid page to me. It's so... unsatisfying.

[zemo.insanejournal.com]

This issue made me simply LOVE Ares! Fuck Thor, this guy is a real person! Totally believable as a father.

Plus: Faceless Sentry makes me happy, that concerns me >_>

[freezer818.insanejournal.com]

I like it - getting taken out so randomly fits such a schizophrenic (literally and figuratively) character, IMHO.

[mullon.insanejournal.com]

I thought Fury was dead (via being shot in the head too).

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

That probably takes place after this (also, either Norman shot an LMD or Fury survived some other way).

[thekamisama.livejournal.com (from insanejournal.com)]

I need a Marvel Boy checklist to keep up with him, where the hell is he now?

[xdoop.insanejournal.com]

He disappeared after Moonstone told him the Dark Avengers were really villains in Dark Avengers #4. He's going to return in December's Dark Avengers annual.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=22468

[jaybee3.insanejournal.com]

Hasn't it been speculated that Lindy is just a construct of Bob's mind (especially after he literally brought her back from the dead by touching her face)? In which case, he would be shooting himself.

Though Lindy did tell Stark to either de-power Bob or kill him before he killed them all. Another one of those things still on Tony's to-do list.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

BMB regarding other people's continuity?

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Copy.

Paste.

Copy.

Paste.

Copy.

Zoom.

Paste.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Not really a fan of how Deodato draws bodies, they're so grotesquely muscular and the contortions bleeegh. On the other hand he redeems himself with his facial expressions.

He's come a long way from his Wonder Woman work in the 90s, though.

[foxhack.insanejournal.com]

He made Ares look sad. Almost crying.

Damn if he doesn't have talent when he's not drawing Tommy Lee Osborn...

Y'know..

[steverodgers5.insanejournal.com]

I'm not normally a fan of Bendis, but even I gotta adamit that he knocked this issue right out of the park. The spectacularly non-violent confrontation between Ares and Fury was a pleasant surprise given what the cover..(As striking as it was..) seemed to be suggesting we'd be finding inside.

Aww poor Sentry, looks like he's gonna have to go back to wearing a mask! ;) But am I to understand then that the gun Lindy used was one of Marvel Boy's? If so, that's some spectactulry powerful weaponry for him to be just abandoning at Avengers Tower..(Or whatever's it's called these days..)

And Bullseye's liking Spidey's sense of humour? Heh! Between this and his abandoning his contract to take out Deadpool, Bullseye's starting to get soft on his wisecracking spandexed targets! Daredevil should try developing his own sense of humour again next he clashes with him.. (Though granted that would be quite difficult to do when locking horns with the guy who keeps killing everybody you care about.)

[geoffsebesta.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, he's totally dead forever. Honest.

[freezer818.insanejournal.com]

He's dead right now. Good enough for me.

[likeaminx.insanejournal.com]

This is nice but it lacks Daken, Bullseye, and/or Venom so I'm sadly not that interested. It makes me want to read up on Ares though and MAKE myself interested though so I guess there's that!

Sentry finally getting something is nice, I will admit. I bet he'll be back like he came back from being 'killed' earlier in the run though.

[geoffsebesta.insanejournal.com]

To be fair, that's not what he did at all.

He pasted three times, and then redrew for the last.

And, as much as I hate repeated panels, it is an unavoidable side-effect of a monthly schedule. See, if you don't copy and paste you have some serious drawing and redrawing to get an image that looks exactly like another image yet is not exactly exactly that other image. In the storytelling sense, any mistake there is deadly.

Stillness is actually, literally still. There are a lot of times when, if you are trying to faithfully create the way a thing would look in real life, it really is a pixel-for-pixel match. If you took two frames of a movie of that, it's quite possible that they really would match perfectly.

In a case like that, unless you are a genius artist who can remember and recreate every single line from a particular tiny panel that you're getting paid chicken scratch for, you must copy and paste. There's no option. You tweak it so you don't feel guilty but what else are you supposed to do?

When you combine that with the fact that this is a stunningly affecting sequence, I'm gonna give him a pass this time.