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Büge · « **Reply #2060 on:** July 13, 2012, 01:16:53 PM »

Interesting. There's a gap of about 25 years that we don't know about in Morpheus's life from between his 1889 visit with Hob Gadling to his imprisonment. That seems like plenty of space to tell a story.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #2061 on:** July 13, 2012, 05:57:09 PM »

That's exactly when the story is going to take place, Buge.

Endless Nights was good, too; it's not really a continuation, nor much of a prequel, just a handful of self-contained stories about the characters.

Thad · « **Reply #2062 on:** July 24, 2012, 07:30:39 AM »

The The USA Today interviews Len Brown, who wrote the descriptions on the Mars Attacks trading cards 50 years ago and is part of the push for the current comic series.

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Meanwhile, Brown and Gelman were receiving some mail about the cards, the majority of it negative. He remembers one batch of 30 came from a school in Wisconsin as part of what Brown thinks was a class assignment.

"We started to read one letter after another, and they were saying, 'You should put out educational trading cards. We don't like these space cards you're putting out.' One kid wrote, 'P.S. We really love them. Our teacher is making us write this.' We thought that was hysterical. He snuck in the secret to us," Brown remembers.

Thad · « **Reply #2063 on:** July 24, 2012, 07:51:13 AM »

CBR interviews Morrison; he announces he'll be leaving Action after #16 and Batman Inc after #12. He says Multiversity and his Wonder Woman book are coming along but that after that he's looking to more creator-owned stuff.

Of course, "after that" could still be years off; these are books that are already years behind schedule.

...and he's got a book called Happy coming from Image in the fall that features "pedo-Santa". I...may have to give that one a miss, Grant.

TA · « **Reply #2064 on:** July 24, 2012, 08:38:34 AM »

Büge · « **Reply #2065 on:** July 24, 2012, 09:14:20 AM »

Quote from: Thad on July 24, 2012, 07:51:13 AM

...and he's got a book called Happy coming from Image in the fall that features "pedo-Santa". I...may have to give that one a miss, Grant.

Seems to be dipping into Alan Moore's oeuvre, there.

Thad · « **Reply #2066 on:** July 24, 2012, 09:41:51 AM »

I was thinking Ennis.

Thad · « **Reply #2067 on:** July 27, 2012, 08:39:38 PM »

I'm not gonna lie:

The Olympic opening ceremony just made League 2009 WAY better than it was a month ago.

Büge · « **Reply #2068 on:** August 01, 2012, 09:46:14 AM »

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/08/01/black-panther-and-storm-split-up-in-avengers-vs-x-men/

At least some good will come out of this event.

Thad · « **Reply #2069 on:** August 01, 2012, 09:57:24 AM »

Eh, we'll see.

I was never opposed to the marriage per se. I DID find it a little insulting that the two most prominent African characters in the Marvel U turned out to be childhood friends, but that was part of the backstory well before the marriage.

And of course logistically it's pretty tough to actually make it work.

Short, of course, of combining the Avengers and X-Men into a single team, which by the way is totally happening at the end of this crossover. So, y'know, seems like a pretty good opportunity to reconcile.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #2070 on:** August 03, 2012, 05:34:40 AM »

The Beat has a good rundown of the history of Black Panther/Storm as well as the reception to the breakup

Thad · « **Reply #2071 on:** August 03, 2012, 06:58:33 AM »

Yeah, it bears noting I haven't actually READ much of anything the characters were in since McDuffie's pretty-good FF run. (I would also add that Jason Aaron did a pretty good job with them in his Secret Invasion tie-in.) But yeah the marriage DID feel forced and abrupt -- but then again, so did Peter and MJ, and that managed to hold for what, 25 years before being retconned by Satan?

I DO think that combining the X-Men and Avengers into a single team is a solution to the biggest hurdle, that Storm is on a US-based superhero team while married to an African king, and that we haven't necessarily heard the last of it. But I'm not going to miss it either, particularly inasmuch as I'm not buying Avengers or X-books.

I think Priest did a pretty good job with the two of them in Sturm und Drang -- my favorite single arc in his entire excellent BP run --, but honestly Storm was the LEAST interesting guest star in that story; I was much more interested in his exploration of the international relations between Wakanda, Atlantis, Genosha, and Latveria.

Thad · « **Reply #2072 on:** August 06, 2012, 07:39:53 AM »

Wolverine and the X-Men #17 will be a Doop story by Milligan and Allred.

Hm. Now I have to figure out whether buying that would break my boycott. On the one hand, I don't know of any Kirby characters appearing in the issue in question; on the other, it's got "X-Men" right in the title.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2073 on:** August 06, 2012, 08:13:39 AM »

Büge · « **Reply #2074 on:** August 06, 2012, 04:16:42 PM »

It's all well and good for him to say that, but to turn around and throw up personalized concepts for the characters of the genre he's decrying would be like Dave Sim doing redesigns of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. It's not exactly coming from a place of love.

Mongrel · « **Reply #2075 on:** August 06, 2012, 05:20:44 PM »

I'm no fan at all of Diaz's work, but it's a valid point nonetheless.

Büge · « **Reply #2076 on:** August 08, 2012, 01:40:56 PM »

I just noticed something in the epilogue of Kingdom Come: [spoiler]When Norman McCay and Jim Corrigan are at the diner, they're sitting between Phil Sheldon and Uncle Sam.[/spoiler]

I enjoy books that reward multiple readings.

Thad · « **Reply #2077 on:** August 08, 2012, 01:54:13 PM »

Kingdom Come is chock-full of stuff like that; Comic Book Easter Eggs did two installments on it and that's not exhaustive.

(Related: yesterday Cronin started on Marvels.)

Büge · « **Reply #2078 on:** August 09, 2012, 05:54:25 AM »

Quote from: Thad on August 08, 2012, 01:54:13 PM

Kingdom Come is chock-full of stuff like that; Comic Book Easter Eggs did two installments on it and that's not exhaustive.

Yes, I recall someone did panel-by-panel annotations, but I don't really want to get all the tidbits at once. I think they also did annotations for LoEG, poor devil.

Thad · « **Reply #2079 on:** August 09, 2012, 07:15:45 AM »

Mark Waid's 4 Panels That Never Work

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