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COMICS!!! |OT| August 2017 | Gwenpool's milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
- Thread starter Messi
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Thanks. Great stuff-mind blown.
I actually found the link right before you sent it on the comic book subreddit.
Freezasaurus
Member
Me too. Hook me up with those spoilz. Maybe I can save some money this week.
Serpentine
Banned
Nice!Ordered this sketch a couple of minutes after Franco posted it yesterday. Very surprised to see it show up in the mail today.
Aizo
Banned
My friend that works at a comic book store says it's quite likely that Gwenpool will get axed due to sales. I thought I had read here before that it's safe because it's beloved among the editors. He says that the book meets criteria for books that are in danger in Marvel currently.
Do you agree with him?
Edit: I think he's taking it back after taking another look, so this post is pointless now.
Do you agree with him?
Edit: I think he's taking it back after taking another look, so this post is pointless now.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
My mind was not ready for it.
Freezasaurus
Member
Gwenpool isn't going anywhere. It's the best thing Marvel is publishing right now.
Aizo
Banned
It's so fun. I really like it.
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Secret Empire 8
I thought people posted saying not much happened? This was one of the few issues where something actually did happen. Still, this event has absolutely zero tension for me. Hard to read knowing how things will change soon.
We'll see what happens with the book next year. It's funny how there are people don't want her exist with a certain retailer even asking Marvel to get rid of her and Spider-Gwen because their existence hurts Marvel's image/credibility with consumers. I'm not expecting the current ongoing to survive past Legacy though.
Must avoid Metal spoilers! Looking forward to the first issue this coming week.
Rucka/Williams III gets the edge for me personally, but the one with Blackman is a touch special, being one of the series that got me back into comics when new 52 happened. It is too bad about the whole thing later on....
Rucka/Williams III gets the edge for me personally, but the one with Blackman is a touch special, being one of the series that got me back into comics when new 52 happened. It is too bad about the whole thing later on....
Freezasaurus
Member
Not as bad as what happened after that. Vampires and outer space, Jesus Christ.
Was too soured to check out the series after that, so don't know what to say, beside that maybe Batwoman in outer space would have been kind of cool lol.
Freezasaurus
Member
You would think, but they fucked that up too. I mean, Clayface and fucking Ragman were in that arc. And a few other schmucks too.
Freezasaurus
Member
Pretty much. Kate got hypnotized by a Vampire lady and ended up having lots of crazy lesbian vampire sex. Though DC retconned that later when people started with the rape comparisons.
smh
Oh my god, yeah that better had been retconned.
Freezasaurus
Member
I thought the rape complaints were a bit of a stretch. Vampires hypnotize and mind-control people. That's what they do!
Me too please.
LordOfLore
Banned
Maggie ended up moving to Metropolis again right as Rebirth started. Think her last action at the GCPD was sending Saturn Girl to Arkham for a check by the doctors.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
Guess I'm going to have to read Metal...
Several weeks behind on my reading but just finished Generations - Banner Hulk & The Totally Awesome Hulk. What a pointless issue. I thought these Generations issue were going to show the current status quo of the characters and the differences and similarities between the 2 characters but this kinda does nothing at all. It's vaguely touched upon how these charterers came to be (cho gets a line and banner gets a page), then it's generic giant monster battle and it's over.
Really hope the Phoenix & Jean Grey issue is better.
Really hope the Phoenix & Jean Grey issue is better.
Aizo
Banned
I don't think I shared this. My Japanese friend dressed up as Spider-man when we saw it at the theater. I'm not in the shot. The picture cracked me up since he's so calmly sitting in a crowded theater with people staring at him.
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[IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DG9WPzHUwAARaof.jpg:large[/IMG]Generations Hulk
gave Cho a look at the life his hero was forced to live. Banner was running from the military stealing clothes, avoiding his friends in order to protect, and eating out of the garbage and Cho called him out on all these things because he didn't understand it. Cho has always seen the Hulk as a force of good and even argues that to Banner only for Banner to show him over the course of the issue that it's a curse. Basically he was forced to live a day in Banner's life and now he sees the Hulk as a curse rather than "Totally Awesome" and wants to cure himself.
She had sex with her while she was under hypnotism and couldn't reject her...how would you describe it?
It's rape, but Vampires have been raping sense Bram Stroker wrote Dracula.
It's an icky part of the genre that isn't really touched on that much.
LordOfLore
Banned
Vampires are evil monsters that prey on the living both physically and mentally.
Who'd a thunk it?
SpiderJerusalem
Banned
Does that mean Purple Man wasn't a rapist then? And that Mockingbird wasn't raped?
LordOfLore
Banned
Due to the recent ANAD retcon Mockingbird was never raped.
Marvel on a retcon blitz at the moment.
There is no rape in Dracula. The count has Mina under mental control, but rape is not even hinted.
Edit: Just to make clear, I just find anything related to him in this discussion right now and I just want to know what has been retconned.
How do you get to that Purple Man thing?
Edit: Just to make clear, I just find anything related to him in this discussion right now and I just want to know what has been retconned.
BKatastrophe
Member
Purple Man had nothing to do with Mockingbird. That was Phantom Rider, I think his name was? Some ghost cowboy. They retconned it to being something like it was actually consensual sex, but Clint twisted it in his head to be a rape to justify Bobbi cheating on him. Or something. I'll be honest; I didn't read that.
In Alias, it is explicitly stated that Purple Man did not rape Jessica Jones. She was held hostage and forced to watch Kilgrave rape other girls and not be able to do it as "punishment" for being a superhero.
This is kind of cool , Tom King's con experience in 2012 vs today.
https://twitter.com/TomKingTK/status/896742552287793152
Well deserved.
You know he was a spy for the CIA?
https://twitter.com/TomKingTK/status/896742552287793152
Well deserved.
You know he was a spy for the CIA?
Donniewahlberg
Banned
I'm not sure about the actual examples but in terms of the post, I definitely read that as two separate examples, I don't believe he was saying Mockingbird and Purple man has anything to do with each other
King's Batman + Catwoman is the best. More of that, please.
Hey, I was in that line! (You can't see me though. I was on the left, right behind the guy in an orange bathrobe.)
He's a nice guy. Talks the same way he tweets which is always funny to me.
Aizo
Banned
Anybody read his novel?
LordOfLore
Banned
I wonder if he'll take Batman to
Kahndaq post-proposal to seek out Holly Robinson
BKatastrophe
Member
Regardless, I still think the Mockingbird retcon is stupid. I didn't read it, so correct me if I'm wrong:
the idea was that since the narrative came from a man, in this case Clint, it was told in a way that he best could comprehend it: Bobbi couldn't possibly cheat and was therefore raped. Then Bobbi killed cowboy rapist, for raping her and Clint (in one if the most problematic events in superhero history) blames her for murder, which inevitably leads to their divorce. Years later, Bobbi explains that she cheated on Clint and was not raped. That her being raped was his perspective, she cheated on him, and killed cowboy (not)rapist anyways.
Am I correct so far?
LordOfLore
Banned
From Ellis' newsletter:
Chip did this on my old website five years ago. I thought of it the other day. It still makes me smile. So here it is, for those of you that never saw it:
Chip Zdarsky is an Eisner Award-winning writer and artist, and I am not, so he is a more valuable and higher-quality person than me.
BKatastrophe
Member
Future Foundation
Member
We doing spoilers? Where do I find them?
LordOfLore
Banned
The Metal spoiler thread and r/DC Comics.