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Mothra · « **Reply #1760 on:** February 24, 2012, 11:54:57 AM »

Quote from: Zaratustra on February 16, 2012, 06:54:20 PM

MEANWHILE AT MARVEL!
Quote from: Classic on February 16, 2012, 11:41:31 PM
Quote from: Thad on February 16, 2012, 08:36:55 PM
...oh. Well that explains the cover.
This one's just a pregnant, vaguely lizard/insect gangbang/rape scene.

Okay so, out of morbid curiosity, I've been reading this arc. I haven't picked up an X-Men title since... I actually don't think I've ever bought an X-Men comic. The closest I came was that issue of Venom's old series where he and Wolverine teamed up. And that was going WAY BACK, to I think '96, when I was 10.

It actually is pretty good, this arc, so far. It's mostly a fantastic voyage plot against million of zerglings, with a fairly cool space doomsday as the main Bad Guy, and a B-plot with Wolverine and some genius mutant kid going to Space Vegas to count cards and win enough money to save the school.

I think it's a bit better for me because there's all this insane shit that has probably been set up in previous issues but of which I have no clue about, like the fact that they have an actual dragon in a sub/space suit (with a little hole near his mouth through which he can blow fire out) go in with them on their fantastic voyage, and the presence of this adorable pair of hot-headed space-king kid and overprotective claymore-carrying lady-knight crush, and the fact that their lawn is apparently actually a massive plant monster who devours intruders, and so forth. It has been nothing if not entertaining so far.

That said, the fact that kitty is pregnant isn't completely necessary, as far as I can tell. I mean she could just have these zerglings in her blood stream and it wouldn't really change any of what's been established up to this point. They probably did this for the SHOCKING REVEAL and the cover.

Classic · « **Reply #1761 on:** February 24, 2012, 12:43:34 PM »

Better than a straight superheroine has a baby plotline, right?
Or at least that infamous Avengers 200 storyline, which is one of the few things I knew about comics prior to obsessively watching that MovieBob series.

Good job comic books. Set the bar high.

TA · « **Reply #1762 on:** February 24, 2012, 02:22:37 PM »

Quote from: Mothra on February 24, 2012, 11:54:57 AM

That said, the fact that kitty is pregnant isn't completely necessary, as far as I can tell. I mean she could just have these zerglings in her blood stream and it wouldn't really change any of what's been established up to this point. They probably did this for the SHOCKING REVEAL and the cover.

To be fair, the shocking reveal is goddamn hilarious.

Mothra · « **Reply #1763 on:** February 24, 2012, 03:31:45 PM »

I mean it was definitely better than KITTY IS SICK WHAT'S WRONG

MY GOD

This way, with the pregnancy thing, there was a whole scene of Beast talking her out of her room and then her trying to call her boyfriend to tell him and it's just this glowy-eyed robot man made entirely of metal all "WHO KEEPS CALLING ME?!"

KITTY?!

KITTY IS THAT YOU WHAT'S WRONG *click* SHE HUNG UP

and them kind of coming around to the idea of a kid and her getting an ultrasound done and then MY GOD

YOU'VE GOT ALIENS IN YOUR VAGINA

WE'RE GOING IN

I can't tell if it takes itself seriously or not but it's fun and the concept is pure comic book x-men shlock and it's been a good read so far.

Mothra · « **Reply #1764 on:** February 24, 2012, 03:33:31 PM »

Also the dragon has been with them literally every step of the way. It's like a mascot anime character, but slightly different in that it is a FULL INEXPLICABLE MEDIEVAL DRAGON

Mothra · « **Reply #1765 on:** February 24, 2012, 03:45:23 PM »

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1766 on:** February 24, 2012, 03:48:04 PM »

Oh, that's Lockheed. Kitty's had him for a while, although it it sort of hilariously nonsensical that they gave him a spacesuit WITH A HOLE IN IT

Maybe he's related to Batman.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1767 on:** February 24, 2012, 03:53:36 PM »

Yeah, Lockheed's been around since at least the 80's... maybe even the 70's? Kitty got him as a permanent housepet way back in some issue or other of the New Mutants. HE'S MAGIC AND STUFF.

Büge · « **Reply #1768 on:** February 24, 2012, 06:32:01 PM »

Quote from: Mothra on February 24, 2012, 03:31:45 PM

I can't tell if it takes itself seriously or not but it's fun and the concept is pure comic book x-men shlock and it's been a good read so far.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/02/24/brian-bendis-to-take-over-the-x-men-books/

Thad · « **Reply #1769 on:** February 24, 2012, 10:14:36 PM »

You mean X-Men is just going to be a bunch of nonstop angst with nothing happening?

I can't imagine what that would be like!

(Anyhow Kabbage/everyone else yeah if you want to read some good X-Men you could do a lot worse than the Morrison -> Whedon -> Ellis run. Morrison did some really clever shit to the point that I had to revise my "I hate the fucking X-Men" stance, but unfortunately the rotating art team was wildly inconsistent, ranging all the way from Frank Quitely down to pure shit, and the ending is a rushed mess where he pretty much goes "Well I'm off the book now so here are all my remaining ideas AT ONCE". I'd probably tip the Whedon run as the best of the three on the strength of Cassaday's art; it's the series that turned Cassaday from "the Planetary guy" into one of those guys who makes a living just doing covers because he is THAT IN-DEMAND. And Ellis is Ellis; his plot's pretty forgettable high-concept parallel-universes stuff that doesn't hang together very well but the dialogue is absolutely hilarious and the whole thing makes for a rather insightful metafictional take on the superhero genre and the rather serious tonal shift from the Silver Age to today which X-Men embodies perhaps more than any other book.)

Mothra · « **Reply #1770 on:** February 24, 2012, 10:38:07 PM »

I really cannot see myself reading any more of X-Men if it's any more serious than this, though I can certainly say that replacing the entire cast, save for Beast and Wolverine, has been a huge leap in the right direction.

Honestly, I don't expect I'll really ever get back into comics again unless we see another Agent X or DMZ. I always hold out hope that something quite as light-hearted and well-paced as the former comes along.

Thad · « **Reply #1771 on:** February 25, 2012, 08:54:43 AM »

Whedon's run gets bogged-down in a couple places -- the third arc is his weakest -- but Morrison's is just bursting with great ideas; in particular I love his use of Magneto as a drug-addled demagogue who eventually realizes that he was a more effective symbol when everyone thought he was dead. (This was immediately retconned out, but fortunately I don't give a fuck.) I don't know why Marvel doesn't sell real Frank Quitely Magneto Was Right T-shirts; I would buy the fuck out of one of those. (Well, except for the part where I'm not buying anything Kirby-derived from Marvel. But I WOULD have bought the fuck out of one of those a year ago!)

Whedon and Ellis are Whedon and Ellis, respectively. The banter keeps things funny and seldom lets the books get too somber (with the above-mentioned exception, which actually also involves a traumatic Kitty Pryde pregnancy that turns out not to be as it seems).

Büge · « **Reply #1772 on:** February 25, 2012, 09:29:28 AM »

Quote from: Thad on February 24, 2012, 10:14:36 PM

You mean X-Men is just going to be a bunch of nonstop angst with nothing happening?

No, but there will be lots of ordering takeout and talking over each other.

Büge · « **Reply #1773 on:** February 25, 2012, 09:33:16 AM »

Oh yeah, and Jessica Jones's baby turns out to be a mutant, so she and Luke Cage are gonna move into the mansion and since he's there he might as well join the team.

Thad · « **Reply #1774 on:** March 02, 2012, 01:29:52 PM »

Bissette's still beating the drum for the Marvel boycott, and his latest post is really quite a good one. It makes a case that's probably obvious to most of us here but which a lot of otherwise-reasonable people seem to be having difficulty with: the reason Stan Lee is getting so much from all he did, and Jack Kirby and his heirs have gotten fuck-all, is precisely BECAUSE Stan Lee has ensured that Jack Kirby and his heirs would get fuck-all.

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Stan saying anything (including the very dubious proposition that unused pages were paid for—never happened in my 30 years of freelancing for any publisher, including myself publishing myself!) to ensure any challenge to Marvel/Disney’s ABSOLUTE OWNERSHIP of the 1960s Marvel body of published (and, now, thanks to Stan’s testimony in the deposition, unpublished) work would be defeated.

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1775 on:** March 05, 2012, 06:40:00 PM »

What's up guys I just flew in from the 90s and boy is my angst tired

Thad · « **Reply #1776 on:** March 05, 2012, 08:43:56 PM »

Where'd Cable put his guns?

Lottel · « **Reply #1777 on:** March 07, 2012, 01:21:03 AM »

DC Nation - Plastic Man - 001

Thad · « **Reply #1778 on:** March 07, 2012, 07:38:10 AM »

Quote from: Teddy Bearmont on March 05, 2012, 06:40:00 PM

What's up guys I just flew in from the 90s and boy is my angst tired

Jay Garrick: I'd file this under "even worse" if the idea of a grim-'n'-gritty Captain Marvel weren't so damn offensive on its face.

Mothra · « **Reply #1779 on:** March 07, 2012, 08:00:38 AM »

I have only the DCAU Cap Marvel to go off of, but isn't this exactly the opposite of what Captain Marvel is? Like the exact polar opposite of his innocent, ideallic, classically-heroic core concept?

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