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New Darkhawk Series to Debut a Brand New Version of Marvel’s Cosmic Teen Hero
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I’ve been reading Al Ewing’s Guardians of the Galaxy book on Marvel Unlimited.
This is something that’s fallen under the radar. Despite not having read much of the franchise before (just the first couple of Abnett/Lanning trades) this is really good. Super crisp dialogue, it’s funny and original and I think I like it better than Immortal Hulk.
There’s a great sequence when Quill is presumed dead (yeah of course he didn’t die really, it’s comics, but it lasts half a dozen issues) and in the reaction he transposes the Groot dialogue onto the other characters. Which is actually very effective as it makes the art do the heavy lifting on the emotions.
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The Stan pics from the early 60s are quite a surprise if you haven’t seen them before. Without the trademark ‘tache and whatever hair restoration/toupee he used he looks very different, and older than he looks in the 70s. The clothing too with a suit replaced by open neck shirts and flared jeans.
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Ewing seems to be writing quite a lot of books for Marvel. It’s good for him but I don’t want him to do a Bendis.
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Ah, the WTF that was the Mantlo Alpha Flight run.
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Ah, the WTF that was the Mantlo Alpha Flight run.
You mean you didn’t think Puck being a full-size man who was shrunk by a demon sorcerer was an awesome idea??
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Apparently there’s a new Captain America, who’s a Filipino woman named Ari Agbayani. Unfortunately in Tagalog “ari” is a slang word for female genitalia, making the literal translation of her name Heroic Vagina.
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I seem to remember reading about a Marvel event/miniseries being announced ages ago that i cant find any trace of online. The elevator pitch for it was essential “electricity stops working in the Marvel universe”. Have I totally made this up in a fever dream or is this something that came out and disappeared quietly (or didnt come out at all for whatever reason).
Be a bit of a short one given brains run on electricity.
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That and the Beaubier twins were actually fairies.
Don’t forget Walter Langkowski was inhabiting Snowbird’s body and living as a woman named Wanda Langkowski.
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Have I totally made this up in a fever dream
I don’t think we can discount that possibility.
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I seem to remember reading about a Marvel event/miniseries being announced ages ago that i cant find any trace of online. The elevator pitch for it was essential “electricity stops working in the Marvel universe”. Have I totally made this up in a fever dream or is this something that came out and disappeared quietly (or didnt come out at all for whatever reason).
“Dark Ages?”
I sort of remember seeing a preview for it where Tony Stark loses a leg.
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It was last years FCBD issue, wasn’t it? I gather it’s going to be out of continuity.
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I seem to remember reading about a Marvel event/miniseries being announced ages ago that i cant find any trace of online. The elevator pitch for it was essential “electricity stops working in the Marvel universe”. Have I totally made this up in a fever dream or is this something that came out and disappeared quietly (or didnt come out at all for whatever reason).
Be a bit of a short one given brains run on electricity.
When were brains ever required for a large scale Marvel event?
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When were brains ever required for a large scale Marvel event?
They’ll need brains for the upcoming Thunderbirds crossover.
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Have I totally made this up in a fever dream
Did this “memory” appear before or after your latest bicycle crash?
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I seem to remember reading about a Marvel event/miniseries being announced ages ago that i cant find any trace of online. The elevator pitch for it was essential “electricity stops working in the Marvel universe”. Have I totally made this up in a fever dream or is this something that came out and disappeared quietly (or didnt come out at all for whatever reason).
Be a bit of a short one given brains run on electricity.
When were brains ever required for a large scale Marvel event?
Marvel Zombies 🤷🏽♂️
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‘X-Men’ Has Two Ice-Cream-Powered Characters And They’re Absolutely Insane
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Ah, the WTF that was the Mantlo Alpha Flight run.
Have I totally made this up in a fever dream
I wish that AF run was a fever dream
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Death of Doctor Strange will have Marvel seeking a new Sorcerer Supreme in September
Until they bring Strange back months later…
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There’s been a load of stuff on Twitter the last day or so about Herb Trimpe, started by some asshat who was trashing Trimpe’s later work, thus causing both fans and pros alike to leap to his defence. (The asshat in question has since made his Twitter account private!)
Personally I was never a huge fan of Trimpe’s work, and certainly not his 90’s stuff, but this guy was being such a dick it made me want to react the same way as the Trimpe-fans.
This was the page he posted with some comment along the lines of “can you believe Marvel paid somebody to draw this with their own human hands!”
Anyway, somebody posted an article from the New York times that Trimpe wrote, featuring extracts from his diary starting in 1996, when Marvel was about to go bankrupt, forcing many of their old-school creators into redundancy.
Here’s the article. Depressing, but interesting reading.
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You often seem to get that reaction particularly to that stylised 90s kind of look – Liefeld and his ilk still provoke strong and often over-the-top criticisms even to this day.
I get that the 90s exaggerated style has aged quite badly and looks a bit naff today, but it was popular at the time – and if anything Trimpe probably deserves some credit for evolving his style to keep up with current trends.
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I suspect Trimpe was told to draw like that in the 90s which resembles Erik Larsen more than his previous stuff. In fact if you’d asked me blind I’d have said it was a Larsen issue of Spider-Man.
It was pretty common at the time, I’ve read of several artists in the 90s just being told to by editors to mimic the Image founders stuff. Some did it voluntarily because it was popular but I’ve heard a few cases of them being instructed do draw like Jim Lee or whoever. Marvel UK seemed a prime offender when they were jumping the speculator boom with Gary Frank and Liam Sharp doing their versions of Lee.
I tend to agree with Steve that I’ve never loved his stuff at any era, it was always quite functional more than anything, but he did have a decent grasp of anatomy and the like.
A useless bit of trivia I once got from a Chris Claremont interview was Trimpe was selected to draw Captain Britain because he had family in Bristol and lived there for a bit, CC was selected because he was born in the UK (even though he left as a toddler!). I’ve never found reference to it anywhere else but I have no reason to disbelieve Claremont, he was there back in the days they’d actually meet up in the offices and knew him.
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I suspect Trimpe was told to draw like that in the 90s which resembles Erik Larsen more than his previous stuff.
No, Trimpe says it was his choice. He clearly knew he had to move with the times though.
That said, I think he was incredibly naive expecting any kind of loyalty from Marvel, when they’d treated people like Kirby, Ditko and even Stan so shabbily over the years.
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As a Marvel fan in the 1970s I never warmed up to Trimpe’s art, particularly compared to other Marvel artists at that time like Romita and Colan and Buscema. But he was dependable and met his deadlines, and his storytelling skills were clear and straightforward. I guess by the mid-90s Marvel didn’t care about that stuff — if your name wasn’t in the Wizard list of Top Ten Hottest Artists, Perelman didn’t want to know you.
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I always thought Trimpe was just okay. Not bad or horrible by any means. He was average to me.
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This French Spider-Man comic repurposed Kingpin as Kang. Kangpin!
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They look like Deadly Hands Of Kang Pin.
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I freaking love this Moon Knight variant by Alex Garner. I thought it was a 3D render at first, but it’s painted (digitally of course.)
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Marvel Solicitations for September – CBR link
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https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/amazing-spider-man-75-new-writers-announcement
Starting in October, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN will return with a story so bombastic that it will take greatest team of web-writers and arachnid-artists ever assembled to tell it. Kelly Thompson, Saladin Ahmed, Cody Ziglar, Patrick Gleason, and Zeb Wells will team up on the thrice-monthly title to shake up the Spider-Man mythos in ways no one will see coming… The saga will kick off in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #75 where Ben Reilly will return to take back the mantle of Spider-Man. Backed by the Beyond Corporation, the captivating clone of Peter Parker is determined to be the best version of Spider-Man there ever was. And as yesterday’s teasers showed, this could have fatal consequences for Peter Parker…
I read very little of the Spencer run, and what little I did read hasn’t made me enthusiastic about it. I might binge it on Unlimited once it’s over.
This new team looks great. I’ll read anything Thompson writes.
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I always thought Trimpe was just okay. Not bad or horrible by any means. He was average to me.
Like Sal Buscema and even John Romita Jr. for most of his career. JR Jr can still do more than a few wonky pages when he’s in a rush, though in black and white, his pages always looked good.
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Though Marvel Comics never had a real “House Style” — Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and John Romita had unique and vastly different art styles — the biggest influence on Marvel artists who came after him was the great John Buscema. Even today I see his panel layouts, page layouts, facial expressions, etc. in the work of artists like Jim Lee and Steve Niven. The big difference, of course, is that Buscema was able to do it on multiple titles at the same time, sometimes only doing breakdowns to be finished by his inkers — but even then those pages were distinctly John Buscema pages, whether inked by Alfredo Alcala or Ernie Chan or Joe Sinnott.
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I welcome a change to Spider-Man very much, I think Spencers run has been the worst.
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people who are offended that some character named Shatterstar or something has come out as gay.
For the record, this is something that happened in a comic exactly twelve years ago this week. I think it’s time to let it go.
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are anything to go by. I don’t think Twitter should ever be taken as representative of the general reaction like that.
You’re right, it’s just people – what do they know? Here’s the tweet in question. Good luck finding all those Liefeld fans in the replies.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Marvel/status/1408472733072101376
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are anything to go by. I don’t think Twitter should ever be taken as representative of the general reaction like that.
You’re right, it’s just people – what do they know? Here’s the tweet in question. Good luck finding all those Liefeld fans in the replies.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Marvel/status/1408472733072101376
Here’s one!
Well, at least it’s not Warren Ellis…
— Matty J Baker (@MattybSL7) June 25, 2021
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I don’t think Twitter should ever be taken as representative of the general reaction like that.
A DC editor recently did a survey that found that 5% of DC readers had a Twitter account and most of those weren’t active.
It is a bubble from start to finish. A place people make a lot of noise and the media love as it has a default public setting. Which is why it drives so many stories yet 99% of Twitter posts from me or anyone I know never get any replies. Without a blue tick it is mostly pissing into the wind.
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Or in this case, pissing on Rob Liefeld.
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Of course, if you look at Liefeld’s twitter he has loads of fans and supporters praising his work and hanging on his word. Which, again, is exactly what you’d expect.
None of this proves anything in terms of how good or bad an artist he is. All it proves is that people love to shit on things that they know other people like. Which I could have told you already.
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A DC editor recently did a survey that found that 5% of DC readers had a Twitter account and most of those weren’t active.
There’s a DC editor? didn’t they get fired? how old is that survey?
As to Liefeld, I don’t care. I don’t care for his work, his haters or his fans. I don’t care if he sells 1 million copies and proves all his supporters right. It will come and go like pissing in the wind(with the wind of course). Liefeld is so old now all his quirks and style is 30 years ago. it is like if Duran Duran does a comeback show. Let his followers have their fun and then he is gone again.
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I’m sure Marvel know roughly what kind of audience Liefeld can bring them, from the recent books he’s done for them, so I don’t think it’s pathetic on their part.
I doubt most people are even aware of whatever Twitter spats have occurred involving Liefeld over the X-books.
If people don’t want to buy his books they can choose not to, but getting all bent out of shape over the very fact that he’s even getting work from Marvel just feels like a waste of energy all round.
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Liefeld has been vocally slagging off the current X-Books
Do you think that there is a chance in Hell that Hickman would let Liefeld anywhere near a current X-book? His one-shot is a back in the day story. it is like those X Men legends stories. to continue the Duran Duran analogy, it is like a mid week oldies show, not the actual Festival. Here’s another dated reference: Liefeld: yadda yadda yadda I’m so much better yadda yadda Hickman: OK Boomer
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I agree with Dave. They know what they are doing. Liefeld isn’t productive enough to have a regular book, they’ll chuck out a mini or a special and they’ll get some guaranteed sales from from his fanbase. Nothing that’ll blow the industry apart but will make a little profit for them. His Major X or whatever it was a couple of years back did that, most people probably can’t remember it.
With the Liefeld specials I’m not in that audience but I admit that I am when they do the Claremont ones.
There’s also a long list of freelancers who slag off Marvel. Peter David used to almost make a living out of it with his columns and he has a Maestro book with them at the moment.
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I would add as well that my favourite ‘slagging off Marvel’ from a freelancer was Alan Moore who wrote pieces admonishing their treatment of Kirby’s artwork and another on sexism in comics, including recent Marvel titles like Dazzler. In a magazine published by Marvel in the UK!
Now that’s the way to do it, get them to pay you for it.
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Argument on why Wolverine should be an Indigenous Canadian:
In my own headcanon for Wolverine, he has First Nations heritage.
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Dean Cain admits he’s never read Captain America
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https://www.cbr.com/fox-controversy-captain-america/
They don’t like United States of Captain America.
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https://www.cbr.com/fox-controversy-captain-america/
They don’t like United States of Captain America.
In other news, water is wet.
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I’d like for them to explain how a character named Captain America isn’t inherently political.
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I’d like for them to explain how a character named Captain America isn’t inherently political.
Political is when they’re confronted with uncomfortable truths.
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The most pathetic part of all that is asking Dean Cain for a soundbite. He played a superhero on a tv show over 15 years and the character he played has nothing to do which the character they are talking about. They should develop a connection with one of those right wing comic creators who have talked their way out of ever working for the big 2.
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I’d like for them to explain how a character named Captain America isn’t inherently political.
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