Frozenprince
Banned
Hopefully he gets the shit slapped out of his crazy ass for 10 issues then quietly cancelled.
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Frank Castle is Marvel Comics next War Machine
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BossDarkseid
Member
"The House of Ideas" my shiny metal ass
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Gotta pivot back to classic Punisher by the time that Netflix series comes out.
Odinson and Punisher are getting fucked so hard by Secret Empire.
Nightwing123
Member
Pretty much this. What an awful idea and it doesn't help that Punisher is currently not a well written character. Marvel comics has been making some pretty weird/bad ideas lately.
Frozenprince
Banned
"Think we should let new characters finally have legacy mantles?" "Nah let's just switch who gets who's costume for a few months it's the same thing"
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Rhodey is already on his second life
This drawing is on some escher shit.
I can't tell if the metal is going over or under his skin. Or both.
shockthrill
Banned
This is a DC Meeting
this is a Marvel meeting now a days
this is a Marvel meeting now a days
Frozenprince
Banned
Whoever did the inking was shit.
Everyone is. Secret Empire is just full of stupid at the moment.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
This seems ill-conceived for a multitude of reasons.
The Broken Ska Record
Member
Rhodey is already on his second life
Are they trying to make him Cyborg?
My guess is that the inspiration is that he had "war journal" so now he is "War Machine".
That said, the current way he is being written seems ridiculous.
I have most of those What If books from the early 90's and that was the first thing that came to mind
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Remember this shit?
Rhodey... Had a hard life.
Rhodey... Had a hard life.
Frozenprince
Banned
Secret Empire started so damn good too.
But like all events, it gets dumber the more issues it gets.
But like all events, it gets dumber the more issues it gets.
That was years ago, he got caught in a bomb blast. Stark turned him into a cyborg while he grew him a new body. But Osborn stole his body and Rhodes had to track it down.
Remember when they turn him into John Carter?
Unspeakable Evil
Member
Fitting
You see Rhodey is the Cyborg (DC) of Marvel comics. People like him as a support/team character but don't love him
Pun is one of Marvel's highest sellers still.
Thank god, Ennis and Parlov are coming back, I can just pretend this War Machine shit isn't happening.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
The big moment in the newest issue literally made me close the comic and leave the room because it was so fucking dumb. I was rockin' with SE during #0 and #1, but its become everything I hate about "event" comics. Too many tie-ins and now everyone is acting so ridiculous that you know they'll have to walk it back...so what's the point?
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
Unspeakable Evil
Member
When Pun wearing War Machine armor will sell more then an actual War Machine comic. 😔
As said before, Empire was going decent but then you saw the formula and the shocking reveals weren't shocking.
The last 2 years of Marvel have not been good and I doubt shit will change until editorial gets its shit together, it happened to DC and DiDlo isn't a moron now.
I loved the Iron Patriot mini but of course, no one wanted it, they wanted Superior Spider Man.
Frozenprince
Banned
Marvel needs to just stop throwing events at the wall every 6 months.
Let some solos gestate for once.
Let some solos gestate for once.
ArgyleReptile
Banned
Rhodey is already on his second life
That series made me realize the true potential of War Machine and is one of my favorite runs. I really wish they'd let his armor keep the integration ability he had in here.
And yes, this was the best Cyborg book DC never made.
As for the news, not a fan of it for reasons already stated.
Mediking
Member
Warmachine's reaction
Speaking of Don C... he's House of Lies show is pretty... ummm... intense.
Haloid1177
Banned
Sigh.
At least Ennis is coming back to him for a bit.
At least Ennis is coming back to him for a bit.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
His art is being painfully wasted on Secret Empire. It kills me.
It's not like they were going to give War Machine anything more than a bit role in the MCU regardless of the actor
LordRaptor
Member
Currently Frank is being very OOC and has joined up with Hydra:
this and this doesn't compute
Likely because of how The Avengers "no kill policy" doesn't, and has never, made any sense. You have a Soldier, a God, a rage monster, a spy, and a psycho in an iron suit acting holier than thou...
So them judging Castle has always been weird. Especially when fucking Sabretooth was an Avenger.
But Marvel never really followed through on the whole "I'm you if you'd seen Vietnam/Iraq" stuff with Cap and Frank.
shaowebb
Member
Sigh...more proof that Marvel writers are just fanfic dudes that can't be original. Frank and Cap in Hydra and now Frank is War Machine too? All they know how to do anymore is cram as many heroes into stuff as they can and when that gets old they have other heroes dress up as different ones and make the original holders of those hero names become villains. Its soooo stupid! JUST LEARN TO CREATE A VILLAIN INSTEAD OF MAKING EVERY CHARACTER THE ENEMY!
Drives me nuts. Not one decent fucking original villain written in a long time. Eventually they turn the classic heroes into the bad guys and then just take newer faces and give them the title of the old fallen hero who went bad. Gives all the longterm fans a big fat fuck you. Hell I'm even hard pressed to think of a new hero that didn't in some way use the name or theme of a previous hero to get goin. They're all spinoffs too.
I think the last decent original Villain they made was The Hood. Is it so hard to just write a bad guy? Are they just goin in circles so long now that they can't write origin stories for bad guys and they can only write stories about assuming the role and responsibility of another hero's legacy?
Sick of it. Its why I try to stay clear of Marvel these days. Its all just fanfics and heroes cosplaying other heroes that are too busy cosplaying villains.
Drives me nuts. Not one decent fucking original villain written in a long time. Eventually they turn the classic heroes into the bad guys and then just take newer faces and give them the title of the old fallen hero who went bad. Gives all the longterm fans a big fat fuck you. Hell I'm even hard pressed to think of a new hero that didn't in some way use the name or theme of a previous hero to get goin. They're all spinoffs too.
I think the last decent original Villain they made was The Hood. Is it so hard to just write a bad guy? Are they just goin in circles so long now that they can't write origin stories for bad guys and they can only write stories about assuming the role and responsibility of another hero's legacy?
Sick of it. Its why I try to stay clear of Marvel these days. Its all just fanfics and heroes cosplaying other heroes that are too busy cosplaying villains.
Haloid1177
Banned
this and this doesn't compute
MAX Punisher is its own continuity though.
Eventing-up the whole thing was the big issue. If it was just a big crossover arc for the SamCap and SteveCap comics, framed as a big Cosmic Cube clusterfuck that's going to be fixed in the end (which we knew from the jump it was going to be) - that would have been great! Smart and lean and interesting!
But it's just as bloated and plodding as most events. You get maybe two or three pages of good stuff per issue, like Ultron's dinner party or the showdown between AI Tony and Steve.
BattleMonkey
Member
Max Punisher understood the character better than anyone.
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Holy shit, his body count was already high but it's gonna go through the roof now. Not a good time to be a bad guy in the Marvel universe lol.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
The problem with new villains is a writer creates one and another writer quickly forgets about them. Editorial does not give them enough room to leave a legacy. They end up just becoming a thing in a story arc and that's it. At this point I wouldn't insult fanfic writers cuz even they are not happy with Marvel.
Crankshaft
Member
Didn't they replace "white" Iron Man with a Black Woman.
Now you are mad because they are replacing "Black" Iron Man with a white guy? In a comic that will be eventually retconned? Lets all take a deep breath people.
Haloid1177
Banned
I mean yeah, Ennis was the best at Punisher.
Unspeakable Evil
Member
In other news Cap back to status quo
https://www.newsarama.com/35696-kingdom-come-team-reunites-for-captain-america-s-legacy.html
https://www.newsarama.com/35696-kingdom-come-team-reunites-for-captain-america-s-legacy.html
Weird. I thought things were never going to be the same again?
Haloid1177
Banned
Shocking.