Dark Avengers #9

[history79]

8 pages of 24

Comments

[lordultimus]

So Norman put his foot down on mutants harder than the government officials who backed the manufacturing of genocidal robots?

[scorntx]

Or the government officials who actually were genocidal robots.

[scorntx]

-He is doing it very well-
So, Osborn's been on the job for what can only be a few months at the very most.
Seems a little early to be saying he's any good when the most he's done is save Doctor Doom, killed some angry Atlanteans and piss off the X-Men.
Maybe wait for the six month mark before making any bold declarations.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, that was an odd thing wit Bendis.

He always insisted that Norman was doing a good job until he snapped.

But the entire time prior, all he was doing was making deals with known criminals. And the entire time, he barely had any control over the criminals he was employing.

[shakalooloo]

He did some stuff in other Marvel series, as Dark Reign basically dominated them all. He saved the world from a cosmic cube-powered Absorbing Man in Mighty Avengers, rescued a sinking cruise liner in Incredible Hercules, closed Camp Hammond in Avengers Academy, didn't get America involved in a war with vampires in MI:13...

It's just the main Dark Avengers title where nothing happened, thanks to all the decompression. When you've only got a year to let this team do their thing, you can't spend so many issues on storylines that take up less than a day in in-world time.

[shakalooloo]

Oh, and of course he saved President Obama from the Green Goblin in Thunderbolts!

[strejdaking]

Didn't he arrange that himself to discredit Dco Samson?

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

So basically, he resolved every problem that he caused ;)

[bruinsfan]

Up until he caused one involving Asgard and the Sentry, anyway.

[roxas832]

Very nice character moment for Ares. Wish he and his son could get a new series. The father-son relationship shown here is super interesting.

[wizardru]

Motto.

The dynamic here makes Ares a very interesting character. His relationship with his son and the self-knowledge that he's not necessarily a good person and that he even recognizes he's in a morally grey area are both fascinating beats. His moment where Fury suggests 'He'll die as a warrior' and Ares suggesting that maybe he'll be cool with that...but it almost implies he really won't be. I like the idea that he's become a father and he wants to be better. Because being a parent makes you want to BE BETTER.

Unless you're a monster, anyways.

[gnarll]

Did we ever find out who his mother was?

[joetuss]

Everyone in this looks like they need visine.

[thanekos]

" You should meet your grandfather. "

Take that yardstick, everyone's going to look good.

[shakalooloo]

His grandfather was stuck being a little boy at this point in time, so the two may have got on very well!

[thosefew]

Can someone explain Nick's pose on the cover?

[donnblake]

I was wondering about that. It looks like he's trying to do a classic Escher Girls boobs and butt pose, but isn't quite pulling it off.