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Post by freedomfighter on Aug 8, 2008 22:24:05 GMT -5
I won't go into too much detail on the subject. I was poised to provide examples, but it's a gut reaction and opinion really. It just feels like we couldn't really understand the ramifications of decimation and House of M because Civil War came right in its wake and then World War Hulk, and before New York could even rebuild, the Skrulls came along. Now we've got a villain event coming and War of Kings and I'm thinking, it's just too much. In Marvel time, all of this must be happening in less than a year. Too much to explore in such a short period of time.
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Post by freedomfighter on Aug 7, 2008 12:53:49 GMT -5
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Post by freedomfighter on Aug 2, 2008 22:30:40 GMT -5
ditto. Really enjoyed the cover, the way Panther was cool and graceful and serene even in the face of overwhelming odds. The art reminded me of Mignola but with a touch of Denys Cowan's sketchy lines and anatomy.
I won't mind if the panther isn't a physical match for the super skrull in the big battle next ish. Panther seems to have a plan, as does the Skrull commander. And this is also what I liked about the issue- the Skrull commander and Panther are adversaries with some equal footing. each one appears to have some savvy, and battle readiness and cunning. To me it makes for a more thrilling conflict.
Bendis! treats the heroes of the MU as people who would never prepare for the idea of an alien invasion or for infiltrators scientific or mystical, which seems silly as earth gets attacked just about every three weeks. It's far less "realistic" in my view than having some sort of contingency plan.
Thankfully Aaron along with other writers like Peter David and whomever is doing the Captain Britain book have zeroed in on the more human and in close excitement of this invasion as well as downplaying with the "who do you trust" component of the plot. It's just too Civil War-esque. Paranoia has become too prevalent as a plot device.
I'll stick to a couple of sideline books like Panther, Captain Britain and X-Factor and maybe actually enjoy at least part of the Skrull invasion storyline...
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 31, 2008 23:41:24 GMT -5
Ok now that this book has been out for a while, I don't think this will be a spoiler to discuss what was wrong for ME. Not saying those out there can't still love this issue, but here's what killed it for me. First Cap is a perfect fighting duplicate even though he doesn't even have Cap's memories, just some stuff they've cobbled together from other people? Nope, not buying it. The skrulls had Professor X in their thrall, he's probably accidentally mindscanned everyone he's come into contact with, especially superheroes, so he might have given them a better picture, I could buy that far sooner--the idea that an incomplete Cap or any other hero would fool his allies for long is just to me, silly. I don't think any of these dupes could fool anyone for long being so incomplete. Lest you think I'm being too nitpicky, when I studied anthropology a professor related a story about how spies during World War II would be caught for the most simple things, the small things, like using a knife and fork differently (Americans tend to cut with their dominant hand and then switch hands and Europeans tend to cut with their less dominant hand and not switch- at least back in 1943 or so). People notice little things. Especially superheroes with amazing skills. For example why doesn't Spider Man's spider sense tip him off to a skrull threat? It must work on a subliminal level and it has to be able to distinguish minute differences in persons and things-otherwise it would go off every second. Take a look at this page from a marvel comic explaining how Spidey's sense even detects villainous threats when they're not directed at him and/or not in costume!! www.geocities.com/spydr7/I think this might be extreme, but I think every dupe should raise some hackles on Pete's neck even if it's just a slight buzz... I don't deny the skrulls could duplicate Cap's athleticism, simply they couldn't do it to the point where he'd be a perfect copy and battle trained. On a side note it still bothers me that Hank Pym's replacement was just as good at biochemistry as Hank. The man discovered how to make mass and size irrelevant. You don't just find a person who can duplicate that in the yellow pages (or would the skrulls have green pages??). While I'm sure the Skrulls have an advanced technology, that doesn't make someone able to understand a less advanced technology. While many of us are smart, I doubt one in a billion could have the same technological grasp as DaVinci who had no computers and still managed innovations centuries ahead of his time. These little factors, these unique skills could've been built into the story as tipoffs, instead we get weird references to art from back in Disassembled and early NA when Finch admitted he didn't know some of the characters and he made mistakes as some of the groundwork. That seems like a bad way to set things up. Also when Capskrull (Crull?) lay dying he turns back. Not dead yet, but dying. I thought they only turned back at death, not minutes before. Given the crux of the story it opens a huge window. Now if you paralyze the nervous system they lose their shape too? What else works on the skrulls to change them back? Are we going to argue death throes? Well the brain was still working, I'm not willing to concede. The stuff of this story leaves me cold. maybe I missed something when reading it, but man it just struck me as careless and ill thought out. To go through all this deliberate pacing, slow setup and then just ignore logic in major plot holes bothers me. Were it not for decompressed storytelling it probably would not bother me, but the point of the issue seems to be at odds with how cunning and perfect this plan was previously described as being and the evidence of the issue leaves me with the feeling that Ka-Zar and a couple of darts could end this thing in about ten minutes.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 30, 2008 17:00:28 GMT -5
it's only an opinion... no defense for deathcry, tho?
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 30, 2008 15:18:43 GMT -5
poor doc is getting the shaft. along with starfox, druid got the worst of a crowded roster and too many editorial decisions forced on creative. druid held his own in battles with the masters of evil and the gods of olympus. giving him a four because he earned it with these showings. i think ones should be reserved for the likes of deathcry or rage...
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 29, 2008 9:58:24 GMT -5
Poor Eros was misused during his tenure. he's a wild rogue-- charming and daring and has a great connection to one of the most powerful villains in the MU. I always thought their familial bond would make for some great stories. their very names mean love and death, but most of Eros' personality traits weren't explored properly. I have to blame the scripter for that. And I like Stern, but he dropped the ball with an interesting character. He's worth a six to me.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 29, 2008 9:51:16 GMT -5
did the Thing actually ever join?? I seem to remember the arc where his joining was such a big deal to hawkeye, in the early Englehart issues, but did he actually become an official member?
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 29, 2008 9:48:54 GMT -5
I guess I'm using a different scale than most of you are. My criteria are a) does this character bring something to the Avengers they don't have? b) do they bring their own interesting background that is dissimilar to other members of the team? c) do they act as a springboard for all kinds of interesting stories? d) do this person have a unique personality and bring conflict to the team?
For me, Sub Mariner brings high marks in every one of these categories. Every single one. One of marvel's best characters, so he gets an eight from me. The conflict he brought with him, the friendship he and Hercules struck, and the way Stern explored the legacy of Namor were all great parts of his tenure with the team. Later issues with heavy metal and marrina gone wild were not so good, but I don't blame the character for bad writing...
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 28, 2008 9:53:42 GMT -5
I find most of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim to be made for unrepentant stoners, but have a big geek love for Venture Bros. The show is quite funny and the stories are detailed with all kinds of small obscure references. They've rewarded my love with a pseudo Hank Pym character named Paul Entmann (get it...Entmann- Ant Man?) who is stuck at miniature size after having previously been stuck at giant size. Like everyone else the character is played for laughs, but it's so nice to see someone giving a marvel legend some props. www.venturebroswiki.com/vbwiki/Dr._Paul_Entmannwww.tvsquad.com/2008/07/14/the-venture-bros-what-goes-down-must-come-up-video/
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 26, 2008 13:17:11 GMT -5
Well, logically, Elektra, Echo, and Pym are all in very different places when it comes to hand-to-hand combat. Hand to hand? Gladly give you hand to hand. I would contend however that when it comes to super powered menaces and how to deal with various powers and abilities, Hank has more experience in his little pinky than both of them, combined. You could take the best hand to hand cage fighter in the world and suddenly put him in a zero gravity chamber and his whole fighting style is completely compromised. Hank has fought skrulls, he's fought super skrulls, and he's fought super villains much more. This is his environment. Skrulls are not ninjas. You gotta give me that, don't ya?
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 25, 2008 22:22:26 GMT -5
This issue could have just as easily (and really should be) a Secret Invasion one shot or standalone tie-in issue with a more relevant Mighty Avengers issue in its place. If you're dying to see a semblance of the team interacting or fighting together, this really doesn't fulfill that want on your part. Also for those of you keeping score at home, it takes a bunch of super skrulls to beat Elektra, several super skrulls can't stop Echo, but it takes one skrull spy to knock the stuffing out of Hank Pym in about three seconds. I'm just wondering if the next Hank Pym appearance is going to be a bunch of skrulls anal probing the poor guy. Bendis! seems to be leading up to that, really...
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 25, 2008 22:13:14 GMT -5
funny stuff! I like old comics in that even in their terribleness, they can still be fun to read. By the by I bet ya meant Cary BATES, not Cary NORD.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 24, 2008 22:22:36 GMT -5
That's why I hate bendis! and his handling of Hank Pym who is just as one note in every appearance that bendis! writes as the first. Well, technically, with the exception of "Disassembled," Bendis hasnt been writing Pym; he's been writing Pym-Skrull. true, but it is a skrull who has been brainwashed and mentally conditioned to act exactly like and think exactly like Hank Pym. Otherwise the abduction and replacement might be seen through fairly easily.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 21, 2008 22:00:34 GMT -5
How is it going to end? One word: XORN!!!!D) My personal fave...will someone reprogram the Fury and send it after the Skrulls? This seems to be hinted at in Captain Britain (a book that despite being set in this war, I'm thoroughly enjoying- maybe it because it's action packed and feels like a war with dynamic pacing and intense "in the moment" plotting). If you don't know the Fury, check wikipedia under fury_ (marvel_comics) Yes, since I've never heard of this at all, it's probably the answer. Bendis has a love for giant, exciting plot twists and reveals featuring completely obscure characters and concepts that nobody on Earth cares about at all. See: Echo, Xorn. Using some forgotten "whatever the heck the Fury is" would be the most fitting ending. I can't wait for Bendis to Xorn us again. Actually the Fury was created by Alan Moore and used extensively in Captain Britain and then later appeared in X-Men for a decent run as well. The Moore written stories are very good and the Fury's appeared more than say, Arsenal, a 'bot we Avenger fans know and love.... Fury was the ultimate killing machine, relentless and ruthless and completely adaptable to any situation, sort of a "terminator" for the superhero set. Moore and Davis came up with some fun and crafty ways to beat it. It's a great unstoppable killing machine and would be crafty so I doubt Bendis! will use it.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 20, 2008 18:28:36 GMT -5
yeah another retcon i didn't care for-- the infinity gem that controls time is in namor's hand and he never uses it?? it's been long established that sub mariner's hybrid nature makes him unstable. why would you trust him with control over all time? I'm aware he pledged never to use it, but subby has also promised to never invade the surface world again and that ain't been a promise he's been able to keep.
I would love to see 3D Man or Triathlalon play a big role. After all in the initial appearance of 3D Man he could actually sense the presence of Skrulls. It'd be nice to see a bit player whose powers are exactly what's called for get some exposure...
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 19, 2008 21:33:23 GMT -5
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 19, 2008 21:29:50 GMT -5
I'll make no bones about it, the Skrull saga is boring me to tears. Why? Marvel stacked the deck too much in their favor. Had the Skrulls gained the ability to flawless impersonate any mortal, that would've been enough to give them a huge advantage, or had they just gained the ability to duplicate any set of super powers in a huge cadre of warriors, that would've been enough of an advantage (don't forget the Skrulls have done a marvelous without either attribute in their favor, only a fair amount of each in their normal shapeshifting and multi powered skrulls like K'lrt and Paibok and still managed to wreak major havoc). Instead they can do both, and so the outcome can't be in doubt; there are no ways the MU can just tough this out--the heroes of earth are completely outmatched and completely overwhelmed by the enemy so a rabbit is getting pulled out of a hat to end this. Now which rabbit do you think it'll be??
A) Will Wanda pop up, sane, and just say "no more skrulls..."
B) There's gotta be a spare cosmic cube around here somewhere.
C) KORVAC!! (just felt like writing that...but seriously, will some higher entity like Galactus or the Watcher interfere...?)
D) My personal fave...will someone reprogram the Fury and send it after the Skrulls? This seems to be hinted at in Captain Britain (a book that despite being set in this war, I'm thoroughly enjoying- maybe it because it's action packed and feels like a war with dynamic pacing and intense "in the moment" plotting). If you don't know the Fury, check wikipedia under fury_ (marvel_comics)
E) A new version of the Hyperwave bomb that originally neutralized the Skrulls abilities a few years back? Hey with a modification or two it could simply shut down the genes that keep their powers working. It's a simple and elegant finish. The skrulls designed the hyperwave bomb (or a power mad skrull did anyway) and there were plenty of folks from both the Avengers and FF who were there when the bomb went off and should remember it as a possible way to shut the Skrulls down.
F) The non-religious military arm of the Skrull empire comes down and helps the heroes shut down the invasion because they can't let the religious zealots gain such an important and valuable tool as the key to their belief (the taking of Earth as their new homeworld). This forms the basis for a Skrull holy war which mirrors real life events in our own little world between secular and non secular forces and goes on as a backdrop ad infinitum in the MU. This is the finish I most likely foresee as it is the most dire and "realistic" of the bunch. It also allows marvel to keep all the new skrull goodies and trot them out whenever they decide to. It also keeps a perpetual sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the MU, which seems to be the modus operandi these days. I myself would prefer something a little more definitive, but I know that goes against current storytelling fashion.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 18, 2008 21:20:05 GMT -5
going to law school doesn't automatically make someone smart. being able to pass tests doesn't make someone "smart." she hulk may be more your cup of tea than mine, but arbitrary distinctions like "she's a lawyer" isn't any proof that she's a smart person. did she go to a good school or a diploma mill? did she graduate with honors? did she cheat? plenty of factors can help a very stupid person become a lawyer. i'm sure anyone with google and spare time could pull up hundreds of stupid lawyers who've passed the bar... her decisions in her appearances for me have not indicated she's an asset of any sort and she doesn't make smart decisions to me. so based on the character I've seen and not the idea that she's a lawyer I've decided she's not smart. now i'm sure any collector worth his salt can go back into a back issue or two and say "hey look here jen saved the universe by doing "x" and that proves she's smart." and i suppose it does for that appearance. however i imagine i'll find an equal number of appearances where she acts like a complete dope. thus is the problem of numerous takes on a character. much like when bendis! writes hank pym like a moron who needs help tying his shoes, some write she hulk more palatable than others. oh and common sense would dictate you have to be smart to be voted president twice. yet I can provide a current example of how that just isn't true!! Good lord! Why do you hate her so much? you assume facts not in evidence. I don't like her as avenger and think she acts impetuously and doesn't add anything to the team. But I don't hate her. In fact, I buy her book now that Peter David is writing it. He jettisoned most of her past ties and took the character down a different road, one where her personality defects are getting some clarity and some expansion. I don't mind when a character has defects and foibles, I just hate when they become the definition of said character. That's why I hate bendis! and his handling of Hank Pym who is just as one note in every appearance that bendis! writes as the first. A broken character needs to evolve and grow or it just gets boring real quick. It's even worse when they're just a pale imitation of a vastly more superior character (is anyone going to deny that the Hulk's tragic conflict of personalities isn't far more compelling than Jen's non-existent conflict?). So Shulkie gets a 2 from me. It's just an opinion...
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 18, 2008 1:10:50 GMT -5
Uh, she is a lawyer, so she's gotta be smart enough to get into Law School, graduate, and pass the bar. While not Pym/Beast/science-smart, she is far from "not smart." going to law school doesn't automatically make someone smart. being able to pass tests doesn't make someone "smart." she hulk may be more your cup of tea than mine, but arbitrary distinctions like "she's a lawyer" isn't any proof that she's a smart person. did she go to a good school or a diploma mill? did she graduate with honors? did she cheat? plenty of factors can help a very stupid person become a lawyer. i'm sure anyone with google and spare time could pull up hundreds of stupid lawyers who've passed the bar... her decisions in her appearances for me have not indicated she's an asset of any sort and she doesn't make smart decisions to me. so based on the character I've seen and not the idea that she's a lawyer I've decided she's not smart. now i'm sure any collector worth his salt can go back into a back issue or two and say "hey look here jen saved the universe by doing "x" and that proves she's smart." and i suppose it does for that appearance. however i imagine i'll find an equal number of appearances where she acts like a complete dope. thus is the problem of numerous takes on a character. much like when bendis! writes hank pym like a moron who needs help tying his shoes, some write she hulk more palatable than others. oh and common sense would dictate you have to be smart to be voted president twice. yet I can provide a current example of how that just isn't true!!
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 16, 2008 22:51:35 GMT -5
at best she's a two for me. her power isn't all that distinct, she's a legacy hero and the inspiration is still running around so that also dilutes her appeal. she's often far too full of herself for my tastes. it's not like she has any skill in the superhero realm (Well didn't Slott make her master of super kung fu or something that made her stronger or faster than anyone else...?) she's not smart, or a self made great hero, or of great talent--she got injected with super powered blood from her cousin. that beats even spider man for lucky circumstance playing in your favor.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 15, 2008 22:10:06 GMT -5
again no offense to goldenfist as gf is just the messenger, but is anyone else tired of this "theme cover" thing? I found the marvel zombies mildly amusing, but this is just somewhat overkill. I get it. Lots of skrulls have infiltrated, who knows who's a skrull, that whole thing. but the idea is just overdone. and these aren't classic covers, this illuminati image is less than a year old, ain't it? Also, these aren't imaginative, it's just take the old cover and draw some pointy ears and scalloped chins, add some green # 5 and voila a new cover.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 10, 2008 19:28:42 GMT -5
Bendis! has gone out of his way to establish how much more powerful the Hood is than was previously thought. He beat the stuffing out of Wolverine as well and evidently the former two bit bad guy has some sort of demon inside him now(?) so all bets are off. However, Strange at least went toe to toe with a good showing and came across like a competent hero . You can bet Dr. Strange won't act like an attention starved idiot who'd give away the secrets of the Ancient One if a pretty girl bats her eyelashes at him for five minutes. GASP! How dare Bendis have a bad guy beat a good guy?! SHAME! First of all, he didn't beat the stuffing out of Wolverine. He shot him in the dong. As far as the Hood being two-bit, did you even read the original Hood mini-series? ------------- Honestly, this was the weakest of all the Secret Invasion tie-ins thus far. Bendis just doesn't like Pym; I thought the Pym-Skrull got better lovin' in the recent "Avengers the Intiative" issue. The Hood first appeared in his own self-titled MAX limited series in 2002 which featured his origin, as a character who had a cloak and boots stolen from an alien, which granted him invisibility and flight respectively. I consider that to be pretty two bit especially compared to Wolverine who has fought the Hulk and Wendigo at the same time. Not to mention Logan's super senses which make invisibility a non power in his presence. I also consider that to be two bit compared to Dr Strange who has fought Eternity, the embodient of everything in the universe. Maybe for Daredevil he's a good match-up but for these more powerful heroes The Hood shouldn't be an issue. Your opinion may differ. I think someone like that is a much better foe for someone like Echo as opposed to Marvel's heavier hitters.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 9, 2008 17:19:58 GMT -5
It'll be interesting to see how and why the Skrulls DIDN'T influence all these things. I mean why would they not have used Civil War to their advantage? And how could they know House of M wouldn't have revealed the truth? Wanda nearly omnipotent with the power to reshape reality and can't sense something is amiss with the people and things she is reshaping? Oh yeah she's crazy...And the skrulls know that this won't expose them how, exactly? Crazy people with powers can still use them... And why wouldn't you give ten or fifteen agents Wanda's powers anyway? I don't care how good your plan is, give me three or four folks who can reshape reality anyday. Honestly, I think people are just forgiving a lot of lapses in logic, which is their right, and is often a necessity in comics, but sometimes a clear clean storytelling style really helps. The byzantine bendis! machine and its murky twists and turns only serve to make the confusion more apparent and more confusing every time I try to make sense of it.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 9, 2008 17:09:15 GMT -5
I must agree this has been among the worst Secret Invasion tie-ins. But that's probably just because I'm a big fan of Hank and Wasp and Bendis is..... not. Eh, Dr Strange was nearly taken out by The Hood under Bendis. Bendis! has gone out of his way to establish how much more powerful the Hood is than was previously thought. He beat the stuffing out of Wolverine as well and evidently the former two bit bad guy has some sort of demon inside him now(?) so all bets are off. However, Strange at least went toe to toe with a good showing and came across like a competent hero . You can bet Dr. Strange won't act like an attention starved idiot who'd give away the secrets of the Ancient One if a pretty girl bats her eyelashes at him for five minutes.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 8, 2008 10:41:27 GMT -5
no slam against goldenfist but after reading this review and the other Avengers books I couldn't be more diamterically opposed to the ign reviewers. I thought the Namor vs Namor battle for example gave great insight into how the character has changed over the years. The younger Namor arrogant and impatient, so angry at the world, while the older wiser Namor still has that arrogance but tempered with more cunning (I'm almost positive the older Namor tanked the fight on purpose and that will be revealed in later issues) and what's more the fight scene added some excitement!! I mean lord after just so many dull pages of Bendis! talking heads and bad characterization it's nice to see a well choreographed fight scene in an Avengers book. And I'm not surprised at all to see the Invaders wiping the floor with everyone. The Invaders are a commando strike team who spend all their time together in the middle of a world war. Cap at the peak of his fighting prowess, young Namor at his angriest, an untiring, android Human Torch--I'd put those three against anyone (and yes I do recall the Kang/Grandmaster battle where they used the Panther, Vision and Yellowjacket against these three effectively - I also recall how Hank Pym was the brains behind that victory, how the mighty have fallen...) I would give this book a solid 8.5
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Post by freedomfighter on Jul 2, 2008 23:17:25 GMT -5
I saw this today in a comic shop... I don't know if picking up Tales to Astonish #67 instead of it will make me feel much regret! Sad to see the way Pym is treated now-a-days. What's even worse is this type of story is very typical of BMB. Pym is not one of this favorites so the poor guy gets treated like an idiot and unsympathetic character. Can you imagine Dr Strange, Luke Cage or Daredevil being treated like this kind of schnook? I would bet nope because Bendis likes those characters and they don't act this desperate or sad. And as a writer you'd think a desperate and sad character is exactly the kind of guy Bendis would like to use on a regular basis, because there's some meat to fleshing out that story but instead he just trots out Hank to use him like crap on a regular basis with no development and then just waits to dump on him again. What a waste. Say what you want about Shooter and how he messed up Pym at least he had plans for the guy and centered stories around him and wanted to at least bring things to a dramatic conclusion. All Bendis seems to enjoy is the kicking while he's down part of things. Had this been one of this favorites (like Echo) Pym would've beaten the Skrull trying to take him down. Instead, Echo wins her fight handily with her almost non-existent experience and Pym who's fought powerhouses like Kang, Typhon and Thanos for at least a decade in Marvel time gets taken out in fifteen seconds flat. No respect, no respect...
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Post by freedomfighter on Jun 24, 2008 23:36:16 GMT -5
I'd chalk it up to coincidence. When I was writing fanfic for MV1 on the avengersassemble site, I created a character with the same premise as both these guys and got halfway through the storyline before someone told me about Triumph, whom I was not familiar with; this was before Sentry was created. Now, after reading stuff with Sentry in them, I realize how much my stories must have sucked. because, really, it's just a BAD idea. But a bad idea that multiple people can come up with independently. I think marvel has to have someone who keeps track of these sorts of things if nothing else to protect them from outside lawsuits or give them protection during lawsuits they file. I seem to remember they used their x trademark pretty liberally and successfully fought Image for the name Generation X. Plus the books aren't produced in a vacuum;people are cross-pollinating and viewing DC product or coming over from one publisher to another. No I just think marvel had someone who came up with a similar idea, the powers that be knew about the similarities and just thought Sentry was better than Triumph who was probably just about killed off or depowered when Sentry appeared. My big problem is modern writers keep going into the nostalgia well without any reverence for the old stories. Part of the reason those old stories worked is because they weren't too conscious of their origins. Nobody questions where Rumpelstiltskin comes from in the Brothers Grimm fable; he just appears in the story. Now you'd have to have a five part origin just to explain him to the audience. The silver age writers weren't simpletons; they just had a lot less space and a lot less time to tell an entertaining story. So if they approach it that same sort of understanding this could be okay, but I don't think a lot of modern writers "get it."
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Post by freedomfighter on Jun 19, 2008 22:27:42 GMT -5
I know it's been pointed out on the net before, but has anyone here noted the numerous similarities between Sentry and DC's Triumph? It's really quite stunning how much their stories parallel.
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Post by freedomfighter on Jun 5, 2008 2:16:32 GMT -5
oh well at least the reviewer admits he's never read any ka-zar or shanna appearances. if he had he'd know they've been played as being pretty savvy for a while now. during bruce jones' run on the book they had one of the more adult relationships in comics. too bad none of that excellent material has been reprinted.
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