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Marvel Solicitations for November- Continuum link
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The black and white Wolverine special coming makes me think he could have probably benefited back in the day from a black and white magazine of his own. They didn’t require Code approval, so creators could cut loose.
And having it printed on that old pulpy paper would have been fucking awesome.
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Another thing about Wolverine I’ve been thinking about: per John Byrne, he was supposed to have actual Adamantium bones as supposed to regular bones laced with Adamantium. I couldn’t help but imagine that the process to replace his natural skeleton would have been even more horrific.
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Are we fully back to the 90s?
We never really left, Gar.
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Yes, I tried to post the links (there are over 200 issues), but either it got flagged due to the amount of links, glitched or lost in limbo, as the forum says I posted on the thread but it isn’t showing up.
I linked them on twitter, https://twitter.com/edublake/status/1302238941924544512 & https://twitter.com/edublake/status/1302241132202651648 , among several tweets, includes series, one shots, crossovers, spin-offs, and 1stt appearence, think the only thing not included is The Crew.
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Sadly not. They have it in trade, but the free issues are singles only. I know it shouldn’t make any difference given it’s digital! Shame – I love me some Gene Colan artwork!
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Just posting this full cover again for my FF one-shot coming in December. When I was a kid I was scared of the Thing because I imagined his skin doing this. So obviously I put it into a comic book.
It actually scares me to look at this cover. pic.twitter.com/W7UoHbR7Vj
— Christopher Cantwell (@ifyoucantwell) September 15, 2020
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Things on sale – December 2020 thread
Marvel Solicitations for December
at CBR, at Newsarama, at FCN, at Continuum
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That’s what the cancel button is for.
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I actually pre ordered the H/C yesterday from Amazon as soon as I saw the price jump up to $100 in the solicits. £43 for a two dozen issue crossover is pretty good value for money, whichever way you look at it. Unless it’s a bit shit. Then I’ll cancel.
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More Fantastic Four body horror:
NEW! Check out my #BenGrimm #bodyhorror cover for the just-announced #FantasticFour: ROAD TRIP by @ifyoucantwell and Felipe Andrade. Things get Cronenberg-ian in December.😱😱😱😱Thanks @Martin_Biro and @TomBrevoort for the opportunity! pic.twitter.com/1QOKoTDIIj
— David Nakayama (@DavidNakayama) September 17, 2020
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Oof. Steve’s mental image of the book just plunged from Adam Warren to Greg Land–with Jeph Loeb writing, no less. Has to be rough, the board’s here for you man.
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Oof. Steve’s mental image of the book just plunged from Adam Warren to Greg Land–with Jeph Loeb writing, no less. Has to be rough, the board’s here for you man.
We can only hope that Greg Land was tracing Adam Warren at the time.
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Wiz Kid! What a ridiculously deep pull.
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He’ll always be Taki to me. For some reason his super hero name – which IIRC finally came at the very end of Inferno – never stuck with me.
I loved X-Terminators when I was 10.
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Damn, Fabian Cortez? The X spinoffs sure are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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How Immortal Hulk and X-Men have made superhero death matter again
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How Immortal Hulk and X-Men have made superhero death matter again
Must be a slow news day.
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Honest question: when was the last time an X-book had a limited cast, say 6 or 8 members, of mostly big-name characters with histories together? (Not against ragtag teams but that can’t be all there is to a line, right?)
O5? X men Red?
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So…Doctor Strange and Elektra are a thing now?
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i saw the scene from Savage Avengers that I think you are referring and Elektra knocks down that assumption on the next page. Sex does not mean a relationship “thing”.
https://i1.wp.com/www.comicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SAVAVEN2019012_Preview-5.jpeg
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By the by, boys and girls, the X of Swords omnibus just went down to £37.49 at Amazon, if you don’t have it preordered, move yer arse and nab it quick.
I’ve read some of it and I think it’s not for me, but thanks for the heads up.
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I decided to jump off of Amazing Spider-Man.
— RYAN OTTLEY (@RyanOttley) October 9, 2020
Luckily webbing caught him before he could come to any–
OH NO!!!!!!!
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The Marvel Modern Canon
I’ve made it my mission to pick up some of the best modern Marvel storytelling in the best print format I can find.
What do I mean? Modern classics. Not Kirby, Bryne, Clairemont or Miller. Probably comics produced since the Great Bankruptcy. and in that I’m looking past a collection of issues, for decent stories that go somewhere, tell a new story or shine a new light on characters.
It also needs to be complete and collected to get on my list
The highest of the high standard verses are
- Immortal Iron Fist
- Fraction and Aja’s Hawkeye
- Ultimates 1 + 2
- Alias
- Bendis’ Daredevil
- Gillen’s Loki ->Gillen’s Young Avengers -> Agent of Asguard
- Nextwave
- Hickman’s F4
- Hickman’s Avengers
- Morrison’s New x-men
Apocryphal items
- Millar and Land’s Ultimate FF (I have a total soft spot for this, but is it actually good?)
- Astonishing X-men (it is good. But is it new?)
- Ellis’s Iron man – Extremis (Super ideas, and then stopped)
- Hellcat (so good, so short)
- Brubaker’s Captain America (started so well and then…)
- Ultimate Spiderman. (amazing in parts, but also Geldof)
What’s missing?
What’s heretical?
Why’s Ms Marvel not there?
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That’s a very ’00s list, aside from Hawkeye, Hellcat and Hickman’s Avengers. I’d put in:
- Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
- BKV/Alphona’s Runaways
- Waid/Samnee’s Daredevil
- Immortal Hulk
- Aaron’s Thor
- Wilson’s Ms. Marvel
- Ahmed/Ward’s Black Bolt
- Hastings/Gurihuru’s Gwenpool
- Tom Taylor’s X-23/All-New Wolverine
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I’d second King/Walta’s Vision and the Waid/Samnee Daredevil, and I’d also add Jeff Lemire’s run on Moon Knight (with various artists, which is all part of the fun).
Also, if you’re going back as far as early 00s then I’d also add the JMS/JRjr Amazing Spidey and the Loeb/Sale “color” books (particularly Daredevil: Yellow and Spider-Man: Blue)
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Hellcat (so good, so short)
seconded, Kathryn Immonen was on top of her game for this series.
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Also, if you’re going back as far as early 00s then I’d also add the JMS/JRjr Amazing Spidey and the Loeb/Sale “color” books (particularly Daredevil: Yellow and Spider-Man: Blue)
JMS Amazing Spidey went way off the boil in the second half, You are right about the whole Morlun run though. Love to get the Hardcover of that on the shelf.
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I have similar feels about the Bruce Jones Hulk stories that were appearing around the same time. Started so well and then went right down the pan. I’m sorta waiting for Immortal Hilk to go the same way…
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Also, if you’re going back as far as early 00s then I’d also add the JMS/JRjr Amazing Spidey and the Loeb/Sale “color” books (particularly Daredevil: Yellow and Spider-Man: Blue)
JMS Amazing Spidey went way off the boil in the second half, You are right about the whole Morlun run though. Love to get the Hardcover of that on the shelf.
The first omnibus is almost perfect, as it collects the entire run of JMS/JRjr issues – but then adds in Sins Past at the end too.
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It’d be nice if these are added to the last Peter David Hulk Omnibus’ (second one comes November).
Evil Hulk Maestro will return in another limited series in 2021
Peter David will continue Maestro’s adventures in January
Following up the current Maestro limited series, writer Peter David will continue the story of the Hulk’s ascent to becoming the evil super-genius villain, who debuted in David’s ’90s storyline ‘Future Imperfect,’ in January 2021 with a new limited series titled Maestro: War and Pax drawn by Javier Pena.
The new limited series debuts in January, just after the current limited series’ December 23 finale. As with the first Maestro limited series, War and Pax will run for five issues.
“The man once known as the Hulk now answers only to the Maestro!” reads Marvel’s official description of the new limited series.
“After deposing Dystopia’s ancient ruler, the Maestro will now set his sights even higher. With unbridled ambitions, Maestro decides it’s time for the entire planet Earth to recognize him as their one true god!” it continues. “But the Maestro will soon find out that he isn’t the only immortal left…and if he wants to truly dominate the planet, he’ll have to face the most powerful beings in creation!”
This seems to be directly setting the stage for the eventual fight between Maestro and the Avengers, told in the original ‘Future Imperfect’ storyline which introduced the evolved, evil Maestro.
“I am thrilled that, 20 years after I created him, the Maestro still intrigues people so much that the first series garnered the sort of success that demanded a follow-up,” David says in the Maestro: War and Pax series announcement. “As long as folks want to keep reading about him, I’m happy to keep giving them stories.”
Maestro: War and Pax #1 (of 5) is due out in January. Look for Marvel’s full January 2021 solicitations right here on Newsarama later this month.
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Marvel seem to have a policy of releasing issues to coincide with a film release, when it would be far more sensible to do it first and release a trade at the time because it’s far more likely someone will spot it in a bookshop than seek out a comics shop.
This was a common complaint for a while but they’ve got better over the years and I think they do a bit of both now. They use the film releases as marketing to launch a new series for floppy buyers but they also have relevant collections of older material in the shops as the movies come out.
Certainly I’ve seen various collections lined up for publication just ahead of the movie release for a long while now, and often with MCU-like branding. Stuff like this sticks in my mind (published March 2014 ahead of the April 2014 movie release):
And for a more recent example we saw a lot of “new” collections of repackaged Black Widow material at the start of this year (when the movie was expected to come out this summer).
I guess we see the #1 floppy release and think it’s a missed opportunity to get a new series collection into people’s hands (because the series won’t be finished for months) but they’re playing all angles with this stuff, and promoting a new floppy series is part of it. They also tend to schedule omnibus releases to coincide with movies too. So they’re using the movies to raise awareness in all channels.
Ultimately I guess a casual bookstore reader probably won’t care whether a collection is brand new material or just something opportunistically repackaged, so it kind of makes sense to me to be lining up new/old collections for them and brand new #1 issues for the LCS faithful.
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The current Maestro mini- series is pretty great. Peter David on the Hulk always seems to just feel right somehow. I’m happy that he’s been given an almost immediate extension. Hopefully this will continue, resulting in a pseudo- ongoing.
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There’a a new X-Men Legends series launching in February (assuming we make it that far), where notable X-Creators of the past tell new “lost tales”. It starts with Fabian Nicieza, with further stories promised from Chris Claremont and Peter David (amongst others). Sounds fantastic. Looking forward to it.
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This is doing rounds on twitter, in various forms.
I first thought, “Arachno-Male for sure” but came around to include “Unkillable Talkative Pyjamas Mercenary” and “Adamantium-rippiong Helmet-Man With Purpose” before ruling them all out in favour of “MISTER ALL CAPS!”
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I’m a big fan of Deaf Archer.
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Living Legend of World War II.
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That one from that movie.
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That one from that movie.
Are you sure it’s that one and not the other one?
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That one from that movie.
Are you sure it’s that one and not the other one?
Oh no you’re right, it was the other one. My mistake.
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Living Legend of World War II.
In my universe, Bucky is still a dead legend :P
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In my universe
Wait, you’re not David Meadows 31-C aka “Ruinous Dave”?
Remember, this is David Meadows 2.0. This one is English.
Version 1.0 was an American who was in the military.
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Statuesque Emerald Attorney
“MISTER ALL CAPS!”
Archonis?
also, dead or alive, is Bucky a legend? i mean he was Cap’s childhood friend who needed to be rescued then he followed Cap around. not quite legend material
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“MISTER ALL CAPS!” Archonis?
There’s a name I haven’t heard in a long while.
I was thinking more of SCARRED REGENT GENIUS CLAD IN METAL, but you might’ve got that.
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