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Post by freedomfighter on May 24, 2008 21:52:57 GMT -5
The skrulls have taken on all kinds of new abilities, including being foolproof to even sorcery and telepathy. The only way to find out who's a skrull is to kill them, right? So why not kill everybody? Not permanently mind you--just for a couple of minutes. Stop the heart and blood flow, drug someone's system into inactivity...don't they do this stuff during surgery all the time? I've gotta imagine mister fancy pants Tony Stark given all his heart issues over the years has got a real good idea of how surgery and the related workings including stopping the heart etc. would work. And while the skrulls can be brainwashed to the point of believing they are the person they look like and have genetic imprinting to fool the most sophisticated sensors, if they've learned how to thwart the effects of death, I'm leaving the building guys, really, 'cause that's just too deus ex machina for me...
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Post by freedomfighter on May 19, 2008 22:40:07 GMT -5
interesting you say that. if some readers are unhappy with the sentry. if so, isn't that marvel's fault? he's been written in what i would describe as a very unengaging way. I can't really like the Sentry because Marvel presents him in such an unappealing fashion. but as far as the sentry goes and the invasion, really he's the guy you'd most want to go after, isn't he? you'd want to capture him and steal his DNA secrets and you'd want to break his easily shattered psyche so despite his thousand suns worth of power, he couldn't do very much. It would be a huge logic gap for Sentry to not be replaced by the forces of a skrull populace looking to conquer earth.
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Post by freedomfighter on May 17, 2008 23:25:28 GMT -5
Do the Avengers appear more than tangentially in this book anymore? Could not the last two issues been part of "Nick Fury: The Secret Invasion Chronicles" instead of NA? I'm not going to debate the merits of the storyline, but rather why Marvel simply doesn't let the story unfold featuring the characters in their titular books? Is this just a way to make sure the storyline is seen by the most people? If so it's a canny marketing idea, but just appears odd to this reader...
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Post by freedomfighter on May 9, 2008 19:53:29 GMT -5
I hate some of the things Englehart did with Mantis, but think the character would have been a great addition to the team in the long run, especially if handled by other writers. She's an Asian woman, a woman of action, possesses an interesting backstory and had some very powerful character flaws. All very interesting things and a lot of the qualities I look for in a hero. I think someone else might've stripped her of that Celestial Madonna baggage (after all, once she'd given birth she no longer had that title, right? )and run with her trying to accept the burden of giving her child to the universe she could've been really interesting. A mother having to give up her child is such a strong deep resonant story and imagine a mom who had to give her child to the universe for some abstract good. That's really strong stuff and in the hands of a good writer could be spectacular.
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Post by freedomfighter on Apr 2, 2008 16:17:34 GMT -5
Has anyone else read it? I found it quite confusing...
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Post by freedomfighter on Apr 8, 2008 16:31:15 GMT -5
I hated the above pages not because they're so out of character, but because they're such a waste. Millions of women suffer distorted body image and instead of a bad throwaway line uttered out of character by a usually very elegant and eloquent if malicious villain, during a fairly intense and danger filled moment, this could've been used as a real plot point. Janet Van Dyne has always been into fashion, yet her body height and likely weight make her an unlikely candidate for a fashionista. her proportions simply aren't right for haute couture. Add to this a failed marriage, and her constant need to flirt with men, possibly a show of her need to get approval through physical attraction and there could've been a storyline there that actually resonated with something millions of women go through every day. So instead of having Doom utter a wholly out of character slander at Carol whose somewhat restored mind is at least partially Kree warrior and would have little concern over the slight, it could've come from a villain like Enchantress, a vain and petty creature who's concern with looks is well established, and might have slung an insult of this nature at Janet, and this could've resonated later as a real plot point. But instead it's very likely a throwaway for Bendis, just something he can point to and say "my characters are more real" which seems silly given that Carol is charging into battle wearing a skintight leather swimsuit and black hooker boots. Unless of course this is just another subtle thread that he's laid out and in five years we'll be seeing The Biggest Loser: marvel heroines edition.
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Post by freedomfighter on Mar 18, 2008 23:18:58 GMT -5
Well Millar and Hitch are the FF books now, You have to read waht they are doing with the Thing. Thanks for the tip, but I have read the first two issues of their run and it is not been enjoyable so far. It feels much more like a synthesis of the Ultimate FF and the movie version than the traditional team I have followed for years. It seems very unlikely that they're going to have Ben get into a good slugfest. Thankfully I have a well worn supply of back issues to get my fix.
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Post by freedomfighter on Mar 17, 2008 21:14:58 GMT -5
Unfortunately the Thing has been reduced to the Rodney Dangerfield of the Marvel Universe - he gets no respect. Of course, he's never been as strong as the Hulk or Thor, but he used to be considered just below them and one of the strongest guys in the MU. I wouldn't be surprised if now Ms. Marvel or even Luke Cage was considered stronger. It's just sad - the guy should be upper echelon, not a laughingstock. Even if Ben Grimm's strength were reduced, he would still be one of the best fighters in current Marvel era. Much more than a brawler, Ben Grimm is a military trained combatant, which should give him a considerable fighting edge on many of his foes who don't know how to gain tactical advantage during the course of a struggle. Let's also mention that his skin is like rock, which makes for a much harder punching surface. Anybody hitting Grimm who isn't fairly invulnerable should be breaking bones or losing their skin on his exterior with every blow. Bashful Benjy gets the short stick currently, but some writer will come along and recognize his true standing in the Marvel pantheon, although I fear it won't be the FF's current creative team.
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Post by freedomfighter on Apr 2, 2008 16:15:58 GMT -5
One problem Luke is still leader. That's not really a problem is it? This issue featured Wolverine and Echo. Why not an issue featuring Ronin, Spider Woman Echo and Spider Man, for example? Clint doesn't have to take over the team, just show how well he works in a team setting in a single issue.
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Post by freedomfighter on Apr 1, 2008 0:25:32 GMT -5
Sorry, maybe I'm old-school, set in my ways, stubborn, whatever....But for me, Wolverine will always be an X-man (or X-whaever-they-come-up-with-next) and Spidey will always be a loner. Guess I just have read too many darn comics where the status quo was established as such. But Wolverine and Spider-Man as Avengers is the established status quo. In defense of my viewpoint, I would say that interplay between two characters at a time isn't the team dynamic I'm looking for. An example I could give of this would be that a good writer couldn't dialogue an issue of FF the same way he or she would X-men because of the way the dynamic between the characters works. I don't have a sense of a team dynamic with Bendis and I find that a great failing. If you are more interested in his storytelling and the way it creates a different type of mood, this may not be an issue to you. I also consider an issue that features Marvel's arguably most overexposed character is generally a waste of good characterization time for other members of the cast. I just feel there's not a lot of new that he brings to Wolverine and having another fifteen pages devoted to him may not be the best use of said pages. I would think new readers don't have much reason to think Ronin/Hawkeye is very cool yet. How about showcasing him and the leadership skills he demonstrated in Thunderbolts to coordinate a small team of these New Avengers to face the menace of the issue. That would've been far more interesting to me as an issue.
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Post by freedomfighter on Mar 30, 2008 0:46:20 GMT -5
Is that a Isaak Hayes soundtrack I´m hearing? Hate to nitpick, but since I'm such a big fan, his name is Isaac Hayes* with a c (Just in case someone does a google search)! As to this issue, I suppose it's okay--nothing wrong with it per se. However, for a great majority of the issue it would've been just as appropriate to print it as a special "Secret Invasion" tie in book. I am of the mindset that an Avengers book should have more of a team dynamic and a storyline that advances the evolving team interplay. I didn't feel that from this book. Others may have. *edit-- I then of course misspelled Isaac in my post. Duuuuh....
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Post by freedomfighter on Mar 11, 2008 8:51:15 GMT -5
Come on guys--The Avengers have their first female writer! Thath tho progressith. Okay. I can understand attacking the comic itself, but the pure immaturity of attacking the writer himself is just stupid. That would be like me attacking you personally instead your opinions. I'm sorry to interrupt here, but this isn't entirely accurate. The poster may not be doing it in the best possible fashion, but he is using Bendis' writing style as the basis for his critique. If someone compared the aforementioned Gail Simone and said she wrote in the style of the hardboiled pulp writing men of the fifties, that would be an entirely valid type of comparison. To say that Bendis is talky and other types of characteristics associated with women is an exaggerated way to make a similar point. Nothing wrong with it per se, as opposed to your later comment wherein you say that his baldness would be a ridiculous criteria, which is true. So it's not stupid, it's just not an assessment or way of making a point you agree with. However I'm sure there are any number of movie critics to book reviewers at the Times Book review who've used masculinity and femininity to make a point about a writing style. So it's just not your cup of tea.
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Post by freedomfighter on Mar 20, 2008 14:06:59 GMT -5
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