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superboyprime
"In this autobiographical anthology, C.B. Cebulski shines the light on the romances of his past and shares some outrageous high school love stories! It's Fast Times at Ridgemont High meets Mean Girls as we're taken to bonfires, backseats and bedrooms in these touching and sometimes tragic tales." - Back cover
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laughing_tree
My pitch for this (I’ve been pushing for it for nearly a year) was to revisit “The Judas Contract,” Marv Wolfman and George Perez’s defining story arc of the New Teen Titans. We were going to J.J. Abrams the thing in order to build a firewall around the original story–so it can never be retconned or ignored–while re-telling it with the post-Rebirth continuity.
But the old continuity was just a mess. Cyborg was never a Titan. Starfire, Raven– it was terribly difficult to sort all of that out. My preference was to not bother; just show blocks of the original story with the original cast without explaining why Cyborg is now a founding member of the Justice League and never a Titan.
As I see it, both DC and Marvel (but especially DC) wastes way too much time on process stories. I’m tired of reading process stories– stories that explain why this character is now wearing a red hat instead of a yellow one. Who cares. Entertain me.
Comics fans aren’t idiots and, sadly, they aren’t kids anymore. Rather than go through the whole Rebirth thing, and what seems to be endless process stories being written ever since, I’d simply have had Batman turn to camera, breaking the fourth wall, and be honest with the DC comics fan: “We fucked up.” Now, on with our show.
Comics should be Good Stories Well Told. That’s it. Personally, am not entertained by all of these comics that invest multi-issue story arcs explaining the red hat/yellow hat thing. I don’t care. I’m 56 years old, I understand things have changed.
Somewhere along the way we’ve stopped entertaining and gotten morosely engaged with this continuity stuff. Continuity exists to serve the stories, not the other way around.
Ultimately, because of the varying events both past and upcoming, it proved impossible to do the JJ thing, so editor Antone came up with the next best thing. “Lazarus…” walks right up to the Judas Contract and knocks on the door, but we don’t fully go there because, honestly, we couldn’t.
-- Christopher J. Priest
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The tragedy of the Unspoken
Jan. 21st, 2017 07:30 pmflint_marko
In my post from last year, we saw how the former king of the Inhumans was overthrown and exiled for hiding their slave engine. This is the rest of his story.
( Images behind the cut. )
Tags:
- char: amadeus cho,
- char: ant-man/giant man/hank pym,
- char: crystal/crystalia amaquelin,
- char: luna,
- char: medusa/medusalith amaquelin,
- char: quicksilver/pietro maximoff,
- char: radioactive man/chen lu,
- char: usagent/john walker,
- creator: christos gage,
- creator: dan slott,
- creator: khoi pham,
- creator: stephen jorge segovia,
- group: inhumans,
- title: mighty avengers
The Unspoken
Jul. 29th, 2016 10:30 pmflint_marko
"Doom, Thor, Black Bolt, Black Panther, Ka-Zar, Namor...There are many monarchs in the Marvel Universe, but only one so powerful and so reviled that he had to be written out of history. He is THE UNSPOKEN."
Who ruled the Inhumans before Black Bolt? And what happened to him?
( Long live the king. )
X-Men Legacy #22 - "Antibodies"
Jan. 23rd, 2016 10:06 amlaughing_tree
"What’s funny is — if you ascribe to the view that the spirit of the Mid-80’s was all about reinvention and re-contextualization — I genuinely believe we’re in a similar period of adjustment right now. Things have become so intractable during the intervening period — genre conventions have solidified to the point of brittleness: endless diminishing returns, the proliferation of decompression, the inflexibility of conventional distribution models, all of that — that I really feel there’s a critical mass building-up to a beautiful realignment on the horizon. Genres, formats, moods, expectations — it’s all up for grabs. Given that Marvel have given me this opportunity — to do something deliberately different — I’m in love with the idea that the new Legacy title will play its own little role in that slow seismic shift." -- Si Spurrier
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X-Men Legacy #21 - "Superorganic"
Jan. 18th, 2016 09:14 amlaughing_tree
'There was a point at which readers just suddenly seemed to get it -- the point they realized the book is intentionally the way it is, I guess -- and since then we've been getting incredible reviews with the same little phrases again and again: "Marvel-does-Vertigo," "spandex-with-soul," etc. Which is flattering and lovely and very welcome, but frankly all I'm doing is writing the sort of book I'd want to read.' -- Si Spurrier
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laughing_tree
"Moreso than perhaps any other X-characters, Scott’s and David’s lives are utterly dominated by Prof. X’s presence: informing, infecting, influencing and arguably corrupting them from who they once were into who they now are." -- Si Spurrier
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laughing_tree
"I suspect that if you ask even the staunchest CYCLOPS WAS RIGHT fanboy how they’d honestly react if a demigod human-supernova with a conspicuous lack of perspective showed-up in his living room declaring that The World Will Be Reshaped whether you like it or not, they’re pretty quickly gonna dial 9-1-1. Maybe Cyclops was right, but he almost certainly went about it wrong.
"Which, hilariously, is exactly the same way our mutual friend David Haller is currently feeling about his father. SURPRISE RELEVANCE!" -- Si Spurrier
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octopedingenueIn the Midst of Wolves, Part 3
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
This is Part Three of 3, despite what the previews and Marvel.com say.
Dramatic Rain cover, despite lack of rain in story!
TRIGGER WARNING for cannibalism.
( 7 pages under cut )
Vote time! Which scans with Kaine the Grumpy Spider should I post next?
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
This is Part Three of 3, despite what the previews and Marvel.com say.
Dramatic Rain cover, despite lack of rain in story!
TRIGGER WARNING for cannibalism.
( 7 pages under cut )
Vote time! Which scans with Kaine the Grumpy Spider should I post next?
- Further incidents with Other Kaine, up to and including the Scarlet Spider finale
- Superior Spider-Man Team-Up: Sibling Rivalry, in which Kaine saves Spock's JERK LIFE
octopedingenueIn the Midst of Wolves, Part 2
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
I love this cover. It makes my face itch.
There are references to the Grim Hunt storyline, most specifically Amazing Spider-Man #635 and #636, but reading them beforehand is optional.
TRIGGER WARNING: References to suicide and suicidal ideation; lots and lots of spiders.
( 7 pages behind cut )
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
I love this cover. It makes my face itch.
There are references to the Grim Hunt storyline, most specifically Amazing Spider-Man #635 and #636, but reading them beforehand is optional.
TRIGGER WARNING: References to suicide and suicidal ideation; lots and lots of spiders.
( 7 pages behind cut )
octopedingenueIn the Midst of Wolves, Part 1
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
If you're reading this week's Spider-Books, a dormant plot point from 2012-2013's Scarlet Spider may have become relevant again. Since I'll take any excuse to post stuff from "The Kaine & Aracely Show," here is Post 1 of 3 with relevant scans!
TRIGGER WARNING: Non-graphic but disturbingly implied gore! 7 pages from a 21-page issue.
( Kaine inherited the Parker Luck )
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
If you're reading this week's Spider-Books, a dormant plot point from 2012-2013's Scarlet Spider may have become relevant again. Since I'll take any excuse to post stuff from "The Kaine & Aracely Show," here is Post 1 of 3 with relevant scans!
TRIGGER WARNING: Non-graphic but disturbingly implied gore! 7 pages from a 21-page issue.
( Kaine inherited the Parker Luck )
In the end, you will out, no matter what.
May. 1st, 2011 05:56 pmthanekosThis week, the Age of X ended with the defeat of its motive force.
It also began in AoX: Universe #2, with the end of another legion's story: that of the mean and nasty fucked up Avengers and their run at Fortress X.
It's not hard to figure out if they took it down, or if they even lived, but the story is still a good one as alternate reality hero-to-antagonist recastings go.
( It even manages to do a nice job of justifying its Cap's participation. )
It also began in AoX: Universe #2, with the end of another legion's story: that of the mean and nasty fucked up Avengers and their run at Fortress X.
It's not hard to figure out if they took it down, or if they even lived, but the story is still a good one as alternate reality hero-to-antagonist recastings go.
( It even manages to do a nice job of justifying its Cap's participation. )
thanekos(wow, back to back. That's lucky!)
And it's one where mutants are on the run, rather than the rise.
Those who live outside the force walls face more than humanity's Exonim (clever) legions and anti-mutant legislation; they face the government's elite mutant hunters.
Four men and two women, each with their own motivations to see mutant freedoms leashed.
Six very familiar faces broken by their world, they are what they are: the Avengers.
(After the Phoenix's blowup, no point in guessing what they're Avenging.. though I can see why someone suggested Freedom Force, instead. With a Ms. Marvel, even.)
And their story's to be told in the two-shot Age of X: Universe, whose first hasn't had the warmest critical reception. But that's to be expected, when it's a two-issue tie-in to an alternate reality event.
I liked this week's first enough to be awaiting April's second, though: Simon Spurrier's definitely had fun playing with established characters in a universe really foreign to them.
( Jim McCann's AoX: Spidey backup, on the other hand, was a bit rote.. but Pete was exactly what you'd expect. )
And it's one where mutants are on the run, rather than the rise.
Those who live outside the force walls face more than humanity's Exonim (clever) legions and anti-mutant legislation; they face the government's elite mutant hunters.
Four men and two women, each with their own motivations to see mutant freedoms leashed.
Six very familiar faces broken by their world, they are what they are: the Avengers.
(After the Phoenix's blowup, no point in guessing what they're Avenging.. though I can see why someone suggested Freedom Force, instead. With a Ms. Marvel, even.)
And their story's to be told in the two-shot Age of X: Universe, whose first hasn't had the warmest critical reception. But that's to be expected, when it's a two-issue tie-in to an alternate reality event.
I liked this week's first enough to be awaiting April's second, though: Simon Spurrier's definitely had fun playing with established characters in a universe really foreign to them.
( Jim McCann's AoX: Spidey backup, on the other hand, was a bit rote.. but Pete was exactly what you'd expect. )
Chaos War #5 preview
Jan. 21st, 2011 05:55 amsherkahnCosmicBookNews has the preview.
It's all been building to this. King Kong vs. Godzilla. Hogan vs. Flair. Pepsi vs. Coke.
3 behind the cut.
( It all comes down to this. )
It's all been building to this. King Kong vs. Godzilla. Hogan vs. Flair. Pepsi vs. Coke.
3 behind the cut.
( It all comes down to this. )
