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[Sean Robinson]

Marvel Solicitations for March 2022

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Todd wrote:

Marvel Comics releases the first look at the Punisher’s revamped skull symbol

Jesus that’s both incredibly ugly AND stupid… pretty impressive…

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Jon wrote:

Todd wrote:

Marvel Comics releases the first look at the Punisher’s revamped skull symbol

Jesus that’s both incredibly ugly AND stupid… pretty impressive…

I figure it’ll only last for the duration of the miniseries. After that, it’ll go back to the classic design.

I guess… but the way the article is written, it sounds like Marvel wants to get away from that whole punisher logo controversy, hence that new logo. I mean, of course they’ll go back to classic punisher logo eventually, but still, it’s ugly and stupid either way. If they’re testing the waters for a logo change, that’s a very bad way of doing so.

Stan Lee would have turned 99 today.

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And then claimed credit as the first person to ever do it😂.

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Marvel Finally Introduces Its Most Problematic ‘Superman’ in Its Main Universe – CBR link

Kang the Conquerors exploits in Timeless set up numerous threads for Marvel in 2022
the last page of his book reveals the arrival of Miracleman.
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Marvel Teases an Avengers vs. X-Men vs. Eternals War Exploding in 2022

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Todd

Marvel Finally Introduces Its Most Problematic ‘Superman’ in Its Main Universe

Cue fanboys clutching their pearls and screaming their righteous indignation all the while buying multiple copies and every variant cover available.

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Ben

So are they finally finishing Gaiman’s run?

Avengers vs X-Men vs Eternals eh? Well, can’t be worse than AvX.

Talking of, 2022 marks that event’s 10 year anniversary….. Crap.

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Sean Robinson wrote:

Marvel Finally Introduces Its Most Problematic ‘Superman’ in Its Main Universe

Great, now he can join Hyperion, Ikaris, the Sentry, Wonderman, Gladiator and the Blue Marvel in complete uselessness and irrelevancy

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Also looks to be a Miracleman Omnibus set for September 2022.

Thinking more on it, if AvEvX is a big a mess as AvX it’ll make for a good jumping off point.

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Ben wrote:

Also looks to be a Miracleman Omnibus set for September 2022.

Oh, where has that been announced? Is it just the Moore stuff?

Near Mint Condition YouTube channel – haven’t yet looked at the specific vid

Marvel tip them off to new editions.

I really don’t know who that Miracleman move is for. The few people who care about the character would surely just like to see the Gaiman run finally finished (as promised) instead?

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Martin Smith wrote:

I really don’t know who that Miracleman move is for. The few people who care about the character would surely just like to see the Gaiman run finally finished (as promised) instead?

Hard core fanboys who have no connection to the character but suddenly care because he is being integrated into Marvel Universe and/or speculators trying to make a quick buck by buying the initial issues and rapidly flipping them?

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It appears that the Omnibus is the Moore run, plus some odds & ends that were printed in the recent Annual (by Milligan and Morrison, IIRC). I have the comics already, but I’m pretty tempted. That’s some good shit.

I roll my eyes pretty seriously about the integration into the Marvel Universe though. I remember predicting they would do that once DC did the same with Dr Manhattan. They took their time doing so, but I don’t expect it to be much better received.

It does make Sentry even more redundant though. Did he even come back from where Bendis left him?

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From the X-MEN.ELSEWHEN.30–Comments on the Byrne Robotics Forums:

Just occurred to me—with Marvel Time, especially as seen in ELSEWHEN, Trump would have been the president who authorized Project Wideawake.

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Dave

Some homages from Jim Lee I never caught before:

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Are they really deliberate homages? All those poses seem generic enough that they could be coincidences.

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Dave

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DavidM wrote:

Are they really deliberate homages? All those poses seem generic enough that they could be coincidences.

That was my reaction too. None of them is quite close enough to the original to feel like a deliberate homage. They’re all pretty generic superhero poses that I feel like you could find countless examples of.

I can maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe see the Storm one… but the rest? nah… pretty far fetched I agree.

This one’ll convince you:

 

 

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Promo for the next Spidey-event.

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JRCarter

Hopefully it’ll be better than the last time JR JR returned to Spidey, back in 2008, for the New Ways to Die arc. One of the low points of the Brand New Day era.

Anonymous wrote:

Promo for the next Spidey-event.

From that reaction I’m guessing he trod on some Lego.

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Judging from the surroundings I think he left the oven on.

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Spider-Man comic page sells for record $3.36M bidding

https://apnews.com/article/spider-man-comic-auction-marvel-6a6ff0a2d43632d160866e9600b2295b

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— peach MoMoKo 桃桃子 (@peachmomoko60) January 4, 2022

I’m struggling to work out what’s happening in that picture. Sometimes it looks like a man holding a baby, other times I think that’s just an optical illusion and it’s actually a woman cradling her breasts.

Which would be a clever optical illusion, if it’s intended 

DavidM wrote:

Sometimes it looks like a man holding a baby, other times I think that’s just an optical illusion and it’s actually a woman cradling her breasts.

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Pretty butterflies

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Dave

@davidm, because she was created after 1980, I will cut you slack. She only has 2 claws per hand which means it is Laura Wolverine not Logan Wolverine. Those am BOOBZ!

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Dave wrote:

DavidM wrote:

Sometimes it looks like a man holding a baby, other times I think that’s just an optical illusion and it’s actually a woman cradling her breasts.

Don’t try to cure David, you’ll just go insane.

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Rocket wrote:

@davidm, because she was created after 1980, I will cut you slack. She only has 2 claws per hand which means it is Laura Wolverine not Logan Wolverine. Those am BOOBZ!

You can see the baby though, right???

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Todd

@davidm has babies on the brain. Do you have something you want to tell the rest of us, David?

 

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DavidM wrote:

Rocket wrote:

@davidm, because she was created after 1980, I will cut you slack. She only has 2 claws per hand which means it is Laura Wolverine not Logan Wolverine. Those am BOOBZ!

You can see the baby though, right???

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DavidM wrote:

You can see the baby though, right???

If you gaze long enough at the baby, the baby gazes back at you.

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Anonymous wrote:

DavidM wrote:

You can see the baby though, right???

If you gaze long enough at the baby, the baby gazes back at you.

Todd wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DavidM wrote:

You can see the baby though, right???

If you gaze long enough at the baby, the baby gazes back at you.

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[Sean Robinson]

Marvel Solicitations for April – CBR

Marvel Solicitations for April – Newsarama/GamesRadar

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Dammit, which link do I choose?

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Ben wrote:

Dammit, which link do I choose?

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Marvel Turns Its Heroes Against Spider-Man

AGAIN?!

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some of those Spider Man variant covers are very nice. Here’s Immortal X men with Emma as Spidey

That Ghost Rider cover looks sick as fuck… I’m guessing it’s not the same interior artist, but that design with that cover artist works for me… except that it should be Danny Ketch’s GR, and not Blaze… but other than that, yeah, bad ass covers at least.

Rocket wrote:

some of those Spider Man variant covers are very nice. Here’s Immortal X men with Emma as Spidey

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The Punisher Skull

Courtesy of some tweets from Gillen, the X-Men, Avengers, Eternals big event is called Judgment Day.

Marvel last month started releasing a lot of Infinite digital comics, ones that scroll down like a website.

It’s an interesting concept, one thing I see them doing is moving the word balloons to above and below panels so they don’t cover any of the art. The first X-Men story they had used the downward scroll to show an underground base Wolverine was infiltrating so it scrolled on and on to show a sense of the scale.

Anyone know if they are planning any of these for print? It would definitely need a lot more work to do so than DC’s digital firsts which are just half pages they paste together for print.

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Maybe scrolls will come back into fashion?

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Todd

Dan wrote:

 

Maybe scrolls will come back into fashion?

Scrolls with Skrulls.

Todd wrote:

Scrolls with Skrulls.

Droll Scrolls with Skrulls

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Todd

Proles roll Droll Scrolls with Skrulls

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garjones wrote:

Marvel last month started releasing a lot of Infinite digital comics, ones that scroll down like a website.

It’s an interesting concept, one thing I see them doing is moving the word balloons to above and below panels so they don’t cover any of the art. The first X-Men story they had used the downward scroll to show an underground base Wolverine was infiltrating so it scrolled on and on to show a sense of the scale.

Anyone know if they are planning any of these for print? It would definitely need a lot more work to do so than DC’s digital firsts which are just half pages they paste together for print.

That Hickman Wolverine story will be out in print in March, I think. I’ve ordered it actually and am waiting to read it in that format. Haven’t heard about any others.

Rocket wrote:

Proles roll Droll Scrolls with Skrulls

Proles roll Droll Scrolls with Skrulls as moles and foals

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Wolverine, Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, and Hulk Return as the New Fantastic Four

https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/new-fantastic-four-series-by-peter-david-and-alan-robinson-hits-comic-shops-this-may

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JRCarter wrote:

Wolverine, Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, and Hulk Return as the New Fantastic Four

From the HOUSE OF (recycled) IDEAS!!

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New review of X-MEN: ELSEWHEN:

https://www.comiccrusaders.com/comic-review-x-men-elsewhen-1-29/amp/

[Sean Robinson]

Marvel Solicitations for May 2022

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Comics Continuum (Downloads!)

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Have you guys seen the preview images from Fantastic Four: Full Circle GN by Alex Ross? They’re stunning. Incomprehensibly good.

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It’s out August 2nd this year.

I don’t normally have much time for Alex “make it shiny” Ross, but those pages look great.

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Dave

Agreed. That looks incredible, and a great update of some of the approaches Kirby used in the early days of the FF.

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I’m not used to seeing layouts like that from him. He normally seems to be a very traditional panel kind of guy.

 

Hold on, is he writing this as well as painting it?

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DavidM wrote:

Hold on, is he writing this as well as painting it?

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Bendis did a Word Balloon recently and said he’s already read it and loved it.

My Super Hero Is Black will tell the other history of the Marvel Universe

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Al-x

Hnnnng!!! Eeeeee!!! MMMMMMM!!!

Garth Ennis Returns To The Punisher In Vietnam In 2022

Yes! Double yes! ALL THE YES!

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DOUBLE ALL THE YES!

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Disclaimer: The article I linked is as divorced from reality and research as you would expect an article on bl**ding c**l to be, but if the news themselves are true it’s great. They even have a source for the news themselves, so that’s good.

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THE ORAL HISTORY OF WOLVERINE, THE UNLIKELY SUPERHERO WHO SAVED THE X-MEN

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/wolverine-oral-history-x-men

Anonymous wrote:

Disclaimer: The article I linked is as divorced from reality and research as you would expect an article on bl**ding c**l to be, but if the news themselves are true it’s great. They even have a source for the news themselves, so that’s good.

BC is very ethically dubious/full of shit a lot of the time but when he’s quoting a direct interview with Ennis with a link to it then I think it’s pretty safe ground to share.

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Anonymous wrote:

Disclaimer: The article I linked is as divorced from reality and research as you would expect an article on bl**ding c**l to be, but if the news themselves are true it’s great. They even have a source for the news themselves, so that’s good.

BC is very ethically dubious/full of shit a lot of the time but when he’s quoting a direct interview with Ennis with a link to it then I think it’s pretty safe ground to share.

Yeah, that’s what I figured.

https://www.cbr.com/avengers-time-traveling-heroes-fight-mephisto-marvel/

Aaron revisits the Heroes Reborn story by bringing back Mephisto as a villian. He also creates or gathers time lost heroes to act as Avengers. A WWII soldier as a Sorcerer Supreme looks interesting as his last name is Szardos. Szardos was the last name of Nightcrawler’s adoptive mother and his first girlfriend. I look forward to this storyline and hope its mentions Amanda(Jimaine) and Margali.

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Marvel’s Solicitations for June can be found in the Solicitation thread

I’m pretty sceptical about the upcoming AXE event Judgment Day but Gillen certainly sells it well:

https://www.cbr.com/marvel-universes-most-powerful-immortals-clash-in-gillens-judgment-day/

A Rare Copy of Marvel Comics No. 1 Just Sold for a Record $2.4 Million

Tulsan was co-creator of Marvel Comic’s Luke Cage, who is turning 50

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Luke Cage Celebrates His 50th Anniversary of Being a Hero for Hire

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I listened to the first episode of the new Unbeatable Squirrel Girl podcast, written by Ryan North: https://marvels-squirrel-girl-the-unbeatable-radio-show.simplecast.com/

Really fun follow-up to the comic.

Squirrel Girl is played by Milana Vayntrub, who was cast as the character in the never-made New Warriors TV series back in 2017. She’s very good as her!

[Sean Robinson]

Marvel Solicitations for July

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https://www.gamesradar.com/marvel-comics-july-2022-solicitations-covers/

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Oh wow, I completely missed that PAD was doing a Genis-Vell miniseries. Here for that.

Has his resurrection happened somewhere already that I missed?

Very happy to see that Gwenpool omnibus too.

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paul f wrote:

PAD

go on…

paul f wrote:

doing a Genis-Vell miniseries

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The Marvel wiki doesn’t mention anything about Genis coming back to life, so I’m guessing this is something new for the miniseries. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Genis-Vell_(Earth-616)#Thunderbolts

Wild that he’s stayed dead for over fifteen years, when it’s a fairly easy-to-reverse death that nobody seemed happy with.

Genis Vell was in Captain Marvel for a couple of months. A Villain tried to capture and enslave everyone that used the Captain Marvel name and he was one of them. I don’t remember if they said where he came from but he was with all the other Captain Marvels in the big end fight.

Near Mint Condition just announced a Millar-Hitch Fantastic Four Omnibus for Feb 2023!

It also includes Marvel 1985, so getting the entire unofficial trilogy Millar did into oversized format.

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Ben wrote:

Near Mint Condition just announced a Millar-Hitch Fantastic Four Omnibus for Feb 2023!

It also includes Marvel 1985, so getting the entire unofficial trilogy Millar did into oversized format.

A Millar/Hitch F4 Omnibus was announced back in 2009, but IIRC it never came out due to lack of demand.

It turned up on Amazon but never got an official solicit.

Omar talks about the history in his vid.

It also includes the Fantastic Force mini.

 

That’s quite a collection of people.

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Is it wrong that the most exciting name on that list for me is Armando Iannucci?

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Dave wrote:

Is it wrong that the most exciting name on that list for me is Armando Iannucci?

No, as I thought the same thing.

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He’d better call his story The Thwip Of It.

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Dave wrote:

Is it wrong that the most exciting name on that list for me is Armando Iannucci?

Malcolm Tucker takes over the Daily Bugle.

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Marvel: We’re relaunching Savage Avengers this month! Come check out the continuing adventures of Conan in the present day!

Also Marvel: We’ve lost the Conan license and won’t be able to publish any more comics with him after this summer!

 

Admittedly relaunching Savage Avengers to explicitly write out Conan kind of makes some sense, assuming the book existed for any other reason than to be a vehicle for Conan, which, erm, I’m not sure it did.

Regardless, I can’t believe it’s 2022 and Marvel have ROMmed themselves again.

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Conan strikes me as one of those characters that has a very limited audience and is never going to be a huge seller. He is doomed to bounce from publisher to publisher, with his most loyal fans following him regardless of creative team or quality. Even toward the end of his original time at Marvel, I think he was struggling to maintain an audience. I do wonder if he would benefit from disappearing from publication for a few years to build up some anticipation and interest. And as loathe I am to suggest this, I wonder if the character could benefit more by being purchased by Disney, WB Discovery, or some other big name media conglomerate. Let someone with the resources to fully exploit the IP and increase his brand awareness. I think Conan does still have some recognition from which to build off.