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[shaowebb]

I like the idea of a guy who came from a rough past suddenly given unbreakable skin and strength. He's a strong and durable hero with a helluva lot more perspective than most heroes in that he knows what its like to be living in a rough situation and to fall in with the wrong crowd. Someone who stands up for his neighborhood to try and make it the kind of place people should be able to live in and has the power to make it stick is a really good character to have.

Avengers level power and street level perspective. Its nice to have a character whose there for the public and he himself is public. He basically puts himself out in public with no mask and tells the things that threaten the day to day folks "come at me if you think your hard enough". That's a good character worth following and I hope his series reflects that.

 

[Mangoverboard]

I'm a big Luke Cage fan, he's a great character. Really hoping the actor in Jessica Jones does a good job. I have very high hopes/expectations of the eventual Heroes for Hire team up.

 

[Bleepey]

Claremont was great at story, but holy SHIT is reading him hard. And consider at the time he was practically Steinbeck compared to the rest of the industry.

I mean, it's no real secret that the large number of comics writers up through the Bronze Age were fucking terrible writers. Just straight ass.

We definitely have it way better now than kids back then ever had it.

I read some old Claremont... My word the fucking running commentary. "Psylocke uses her psyonic blades to cut through the sentinel like it was nothing blah blah blah"

 

[bengraven]

 

[Sadist]

Luke is cool.

I liked him in Bendis's New Avengers run. Paired up with Iron Fist or Spidey is where he shines btw.

Spoiler

He was funny in Marvel Zombies as well

Also

 

[……forgetit]

Yes, he's freaking awesome.

 

[Cuburt]

As someone who is not very familiar with Luke Cage in the comics, here is why I like Luke Cage as a character concept, or what appeals to me about him and why I look forward to seeing him in the MCU (and have for several years now):

-He just goes by his legal name, sure he has an alias but he goes by his name just like a regular person
-His costume isn't really a costume but normal street clothes. There is no need to "modernize" or ground his costume any further, he's got a normal appearance that has a consistent enough theme (bald head, goatee, yellow shirt) to make him recognizable.
-The "Heroes For Hire" concept is kind of cool. It takes him from vigilante crime fighter into more mercenary, bounty hunter, P.I. territory.
-His appeal also is in his relationships. He fights crime as a duo with Iron Fist (as equals and not in some Batman/Robin, hero/sidekick dynamic) and he is a family man in an interracial marriage with is kind of cool to see.
-Plus teaming up some pulpy martial arts white guy with some blackploitation black guy dressed as some disco bouncer could have been some throwaway random team up that got forgotten in the pages of comic book history but probably continued for being an unlikely team with a different concept for why/how they fight crime.
-He came from a rough past for a crime he didn't commit to build a stable family life as a superhero. How many characters could even hope to have that?
-His powerset may seem to mostly be "another guy with super strength" but unbreakable skin is pretty cool. It's like Superman even if he doesn't have all the other abilities.
-"Sweet Christmas" is a great catchphrase. Tells you all you need to know to realize he's an awesome guy.

Luke Cage may not have the powerset and look to be thrust into the A-List of heroes, but I think he has enough characteristics that make him one of the better heroes in the Marvel Universe that just hasn't quite got his real break to get over. I think his show will change how people see Luke Cage.

 

[Slayven]

Bro, if you don't love Luke Cage it's because you don't know Luke Cage.

Bars

 

[Stinkles]

I have a buddy who works at a comic shop and Luke Cage is one of his favorite characters. He was a huge fan of Heroes For Hire, so Luke Cage and Iron Fist have always been some of his favorites.

I like him well enough. Not one of my favorites, but I enjoyed him in New Avengers and when he lead the Thunderbolts. His tiara and open shirt look is awesome and he's a pretty cool character. Plus as others have said, dude is good with the one liners.

I bet you one million dollars he wears the tiara and gold shirt to a seventies theme party in the tv show.

 

[WanderingWind]

Luke Cage done right is sort of like a Peter Parker who grew the fuck up. Just a normal dude who happens to have powers.

 

[Sojgat]

Been one of my favourite Marvel characters since Ostrander's Heroes for Hire series. He's awesome. Looking forward to seeing a live-action Power Man and Iron Fist duo on the small screen more than any of the big MCU movies.

LOL

Well played.

I liked Cage back in Bendis's New Avengers.

He kind of became the heart of that team.

This.

Best Civil War related comic was his spotlight issue of New Avengers.

 

[Pop]

Yes

Luke Cage is awesome.

 

[SixMachine]

I'm a fan of Luke Cage when I first saw him in Civil War. In that issue, all his neighbors were telling him to hide because the registration troops were gonna go after him. He just sat on his couch and waited and the when the troops paid him a visit, the next page just had a couch flying out of the window with a dozen guys on it. I also liked one issue of New Avengers, which I forgot the number where he was on the raft iirc, which is a prison for supervillains. Instead of running for help, he walks to the door and locks it, so he can proceed to beat the shit out of all of them.

He also constantly shits on Purple Man, who deserves to be shitted on.

Luke Cage also teamed up with the Punisher in one issue where Punisher became black. Punisher had to get plastic surgery when he got beat up bad, so they decided to make him black to hide him for a time. Punisher was just driving around, then racist cops were giving him a hard time, and Luke Cage comes around to help a brother out. Punisher has a bright idea to help Luke Cage clean up the hood. Needless to say, as they went around cleaning up the hood, Luke Cage was less than pleased with Punisher giving everyone the double tap. The funny thing to be honest, is that it's hard to tell the face of Punisher and Luke Cage apart. The only way I told them apart is obviously Punisher is the one with the gun.

When I used to work at the comic book store, there was a black customer who was a huge Luke Cage fan. It was pretty funny making comments about Luke Cage's "disco getup" from back in the day because he went on a rant about Powerman's whole history at that point and how Luke Cage would whoop Iron Fist's ass.

 

[Timeaisis]

Are you white?

lmao

 

[Slayven]

Poor David Tennant

 

[Metalmarc]

Were there many Blade fans before the movie?

I was going to suggest Guardians of the Galaxy too.

 

[Slayven]

Were there many Blade fans before the movie?

I was going to suggest Guardians of the Galaxy too.

Yes both had their fans. Hell I knew a few Hollywood fanboys

 

[SixMachine]

Poor David Tennant

Purple Man's secondary power must be knowing a damn good plastic surgeon, his face has become pulp so many times now.

 

[nicanica]

Sweet Christmas.

 

[Slayven]

Sweet Christmas.

You know if you make zombie ninjas say "Thats fucked up" you are hard core.

 

[Ultra Magnus]

Do we know who is going to play Luke Cage?

 

[Newlove]

Do we know who is going to play Luke Cage?

Agent Locke.

Spoiler

Mike Colter

 

[WanderingWind]

Sweet Christmas.

What's awesome about this one is knowing how many Hail Mary's Matt had to do after Luke told him how it went down. He didn't leave the church for a week.

 

[Kevinroc]

Do we know who is going to play Luke Cage?

Mike Colter.

The character will debut in AKA Jessica Jones.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

It's that reason I'm excited for that Luke Cage Netflix show.

Are you white?

lmfao

 

[nicanica]

What's awesome about this one is knowing how many Hail Mary's Matt had to do after Luke told him how it went down. He didn't leave the church for a week.

What's more is that he has to confess saying

Spoiler

"Kick that bitch in the cunt."

 

[Sadist]

Holy shit dat panel

 

[diaspora]

Cage and his dynamic with Iron Fist, Spiderman, Jessica Jones, and Daredevil is fucking fantastic. Spiderman telling him that he had two men inside him slayed me.

 

[Durden77]

Ok, ok cool! This is actually some really cool stuff. I'm beginning to understand why people think he's special now, and how that even extends to his design, which I always thought was super boring actually makes a lot of sense now.

He sounds very human, if not the most human super hero that's come out of Marvel. And that he also fills a certain type of niche with his view on the Marvel's universe and how he expresses that.

Like I said, I knew very little about him. The glimpses I got of him was him were just stuff like him slipping in one line in a group, and me thinking "Oh yeah that one 'hey look I'm strong guy #48' dude that I can't seem to care about".

Very glad I'm getting to know him better, he actually sounds potentially....very interesting now. Some of this panels that have been posted in this thread are fucking great. Him interacting with other heroes seems potentially golden, and I really didn't know much about Heroes for Hire (don't know a ton about Iron Fist either) which sounds pretty rad.

 

[Kevinroc]

Cage and his dynamic with Iron Fist, Spiderman, Jessica Jones, and Daredevil is fucking fantastic. Spiderman telling him that he had two men inside him slayed me.

But he literally did have two men inside of him.

Spoiler

Hank Pym and Doctor Strange shrunk down to remove a bomb placed in Cage's body.

 

[Slayven]

Cage and his dynamic with Iron Fist, Spiderman, Jessica Jones, and Daredevil is fucking fantastic. Spiderman telling him that he had two men inside him slayed me.

 

[diaspora]

Ok, ok cool! This is actually some really cool stuff. I'm beginning to understand why people think he's special now, and how that even extends to his design, which I always thought was super boring actually makes a lot of sense now.

He sounds very human, if not the most human super hero that's come out of Marvel. And that he also fills a certain type of niche with his view on the Marvel's universe and how he expresses that.

Like I said, I knew very little about him. The glimpses I got of him was him were just stuff like him slipping in one line in a group, and me thinking "Oh yeah that one 'hey look I'm strong guy #48' dude that I can't seem to care about".

Very glad I'm getting to know him better, he actually sounds potentially....very interesting now. Some of this panels that have been posted in this thread are fucking great. Him interacting with other heroes seems potentially golden, and I really didn't know much about Heroes for Hire (don't know a ton about Iron Fist either) which sounds pretty rad.

He was pretty uninteresting until Bendis got a hold of him, so it's understandable. But he's got a strong dynamic with street-level characters. Exactly this:

If they don't reference "Coma Girl" in the Jessica Jones show I'm going to fucking lose it.

 

[Volimar]

SWEET CHRISTMAS!

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Only Cage run I can't stand.

Yeah, Azzarello is... There's a very, very narrow type of story that his writing fits into, and some characters he's tried to write don't fit into that type of story.

His Cage MAX story was terrible.

 

[nicanica]

Ok, ok cool! This is actually some really cool stuff. I'm beginning to understand why people think he's special now, and how that even extends to his design, which I always thought was super boring actually makes a lot of sense now.

He sounds very human, if not the most human super hero that's come out of Marvel. And that he also fills a certain type of niche with his view on the Marvel's universe and how he expresses that.

Like I said, I knew very little about him. The glimpses I got of him was him were just stuff like him slipping in one line in a group, and me thinking "Oh yeah that one 'hey look I'm strong guy #48' dude that I can't seem to care about".

Very glad I'm getting to know him better, he actually sounds potentially....very interesting now. Some of this panels that have been posted in this thread are fucking great. Him interacting with other heroes seems potentially golden, and I really didn't know much about Heroes for Hire (don't know a ton about Iron Fist either) which sounds pretty rad.

Durden, I didn't know anything about Luke Cage beyond him being in Heroes for Hire.

I didn't start liking him until this comic started rolling out.

The hook for me was that the original avengers (Cap, Ironman, Thor, Antman, Vision etc. ) had just broken up. There was no main public super hero team.

And when bad stuff came down, a bunch of B-list supers worked together to answer the call.

 

[Slayven]

Only thing is Dani Cage changes colors more than Mystique.

 

[bob_arctor]

Luke Cage is the shit. Dude will smack a fool, fuck around.

 

[jph139]

Best part of this entire scene has always been Wolverine enjoying the hell out of that Chinese food.

 

[The Silver]

Love me some Thunderbolts Cage trying to reign in those crazy kids.

 

[foxuzamaki]

Wolverine just sitting down eating is killing me, whats the context of this? lol

 

[Face it Tiger..]

Luke Cage is the Chuck Hayes of the Avengers.

keeps everyone grounded.

 

[Kevinroc]

Wolverine just sitting down eating is killing me, whats the context of this? lol

Spidey was still hanging out with the Avengers after Secret Invasion. Because of One More Day, everyone forgot who he was, so Clint Barton told him to tell them who he was if he wanted to stick around. Wolvie, who was still eating dinner, said it was him, but the others pointed out that Wolvie couldn't sniff out a Skrull.

After some trepidation, Spidey takes off his mask and reveals his ID to the rest of the team. Jessica Jones freaks out because she had a big crush on Peter in high school. Luke is jealous. Wolvie's just enjoying the show.

(The best part comes in a later scene, where Spidey awkwardly tries to apologize to Luke Cage for this scene.)

 

[Rootbeer]

He'll have fans after the netflix series. That's the point. No offense to Captain America or a lot of the other recent Marvel hits, but they were way down the list of popularity until the recent films. It was all about the X-Men for a long, long time. Ultra comic nerds aside of course.

 

[Harmen]

I am not familiar, but I am really looking forward to the series.

And lol at Nicholas Cage basing his name on him, now I want to see the guy at least make a cameo in the series, heh.

He'll have fans after the netflix series. That's the point. No offense to Captain America or a lot of the other recent Marvel hits, but they were way down the list of popularity until the recent films. It was all about the X-Men (and Spidey!) for a long, long time. Ultra comic nerds aside of course.

Indeed. I am sure Daredevil also got some new fans (I know I am interested in the character after his series myself).

 

[Choppasmith]

I won't pretend I'm some super hardcore fan or anything, I've read a lot of the classic Power Man and Iron Fist ruin of the 80s and I just really dig his swagger. And I'm white, is that weird? There was some issue where they pair were going up against some racist commandos who had taken a building hostage. Cage calls out them, they ask where Iron Fist is and he says "Meditating. It's like sucking on your toes." Something like that. That lol wat moment made me love the character. Lots of other great reasons listed here too.

 

[Coriolanus]

Y'all disgust me.

Luke's pretty good. Also quite impressive how progressive mahvel was with the character.

deserves an avengers spot far more than fucking hawkguy.

 

[Wag]

First I've heard of him, but he reminds me of a less 90's version of this:

I used to read the Steel standalone run during the 90's and it was pretty good until they got into weird shit like he was a meta and his armor to explain why his face armor could change expressions. That was just about the end.

 

[SoilBreak]

A awesome scene that resonates with me even more now.

 

[Manmademan]

Y'all disgust me.


Luke's pretty good. Also quite impressive how progressive mahvel was with the character.

deserves an avengers spot far more than fucking hawkguy.

This one is funny to me, because it totally fucks with Marvel Time without really meaning to.
1973? how old is Luke Cage supposed to be here? 65?

 

[Johndoey]

Man, I love Cage he more than any other comic character embodies the concept of the blue collar, down-to-earth, family dude who just happens to have super-powers. Watching the character no-sell crazy bullshit, then fuss over his kid and wife is fantastic.