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Forever War: GI Joe 103
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knight_movesCobra's still in Millville, the Joes are still in Sierra Gordo, God is in his heaven, and all is right with the world.
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Forever War: GI Joe 101
Mar. 13th, 2024 05:36 amknight_movesMillville is Cobra'd up the wazoo. Is there any hope for Mutt and Spirit? Will the GI Joe unit be disbanded? And what about Scarlett?
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Forever War: GI Joe 100
Mar. 12th, 2024 01:14 pmknight_movesWe're in the home stretch now. Fifty-odd issues before bug-out, and they are going to be solidly 90s. But first, some quintessential Cobra Commanding.
( CC, you've been back for the length of a TPB. )
( CC, you've been back for the length of a TPB. )
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #92
Mar. 2nd, 2024 12:59 pmsuperboyprime
"I think the reason the comics were caption heavy and dialogue heavy was that it was under the control of writers. They're like frustrated novelists. They thought, 'Oh, more words better,' and my point of view was, 'Less words better,' and never the twain shall meet." - Larry Hama
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Marville #4
Jan. 14th, 2023 09:42 pmsuperboyprime
"In a later issue, unhappy with the work Bright had done, Bill made the insane choice to print his dialogue in full script format on top of all of the completed artwork. I don’t know if he thought he was emulating the style that Brian Michael Bendis had used on issues of ALIAS or what, but the end result was borderline unreadable as well as being disrespectful to Bright and the work he’d put in. But at this point, Bill was the absolute boss and there was nobody who could easily say no to him, especially on his own vanity project." - Tom Brevoort
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Marville #3
Nov. 24th, 2022 07:40 pmsuperboyprime
"At one point we all did a telephone press conference in which each of the principles described the book that they were going to be doing in an attempt to make it sound appealing to readers and especially retailers. I can remember, after that call ended, Bill and Joe felt pretty confident about how it had gone—they felt that Peter had come across like a goon as usual, and that they had utterly smoked him. This lasted until the articles written about the press event began to come out, and everybody seemed to have good things to say about Peter’s CAPTAIN MARVEL plans, while being uncertain about the other two projects. They had overlooked the fact that Peter had years earlier been on Marvel’s marketing team and knew how to speak to the press and the retailers in a language they would understand." - Tom Brevoort
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Marville #2
Nov. 20th, 2022 05:40 pmsuperboyprime
"Bill’s plan for a hot minute was that he was going to fire Peter [David] from CAPTAIN MARVEL and write the series himself. I can recall him coming into my office with the first draft script to what became MARVILLE #1 in his hands, spelling out that plan. It was initially written with the lead character being a new iteration of Captain Marvel. But cooler heads prevailed here, and Joe [Quesada] in particular saw a promotional opportunity. So he and Bill hatched the idea for the U-Decide promotion. Put simply, it was this: Bill would write his new series as MARVILLE (SMALLVILLE had just premiered, with its promo image featuring Tom Welling hung up with a big red S painted on his chest. It’s the image that the MARVILLE #1 cover references. In its earliest days, when the show seemed to have some legs, the prevailing wisdom internally seemed to be, “They’re just doing a Marvel show!”—not sure what made it a Marvel show apart from it being successful and them liking it. But whatever.) while simultaneously, Peter would get to relaunch CAPTAIN MARVEL with a new #1 issue and without the price increase. After the first six issues had come out, the better-selling title would win and survive. In addition, the loser would sit in a dunk tank on behalf of the Hero Initiative at some upcoming convention. I’d like to say that this was a fun promotion, but it really was anything but. Bill saw this as an opportunity to humiliate Peter and his work publicly, and he controlled all of the levers of power in the organization, so he always had an unfair advantage." - Tom Brevoort
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Marville #1
Nov. 5th, 2022 10:12 amsuperboyprime
"Bill [Jemas] had a bit of ADHD and so he’d tend to shift from one idea to the next on the fly. At the time, he had a real mad-on for DC Comics and specifically its leadership Paul Levitz, and so the book is packed with digs at these competitors that were intended to be funny, but which just came across as tone-deaf. The whole thing was so inward-looking, in fact, that after being told by a number of people that nobody understood half of what he was referring to in the issue that Bill had an opening page added to explain the jokes ahead of time." - Tom Brevoort
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Black Panther #24: Beloved
Mar. 24th, 2018 01:54 pmsuperboyprime
"[Killmonger] eats at McDonald’s. He wants Wakanda open for commerce and trade and is ready to open Wakanda-Disney. He is Black Panther without those pesky ethics." - Christopher Priest
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Spider-Man Vs. Wolverine: "High Tide"
Jul. 27th, 2015 11:06 pmsuperboyprime
"These 'ideas' are not ideas at all. Ideas bring life to these legends and extend/renew their freshness. Chopping off Aquaman’s hand did nothing for Aquaman, marrying off Clark Kent did nothing for Superman. They sold some comic books, but these are dead ideas in that they lead to dead ends. Marvel *completely* misinterpreted and distorted Spider-Man vs. Wolverine to use it as justification to marry Pete and MJ, when the point of that story was the *exact* opposite: why theirs would be a dysfunctional and unsustainable relationship. Years later, Marvel did it again, completely missing the entire point of my BP/Storm flirtation–the unconsummated love since childhood–and married them off. No offense to the writer, but it was a dead idea in that all it did was build a dead end to T’Challa’s future and make him less interesting. Having Batman run around with an un-dead 10-year old violates everything Batman is about." - Christopher J. Priest
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