I thought Reed was somewhat contested by Beast and Stark?
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I thought Reed was somewhat contested by Beast and Stark?
GrandHarrier
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If the logic that a failed history of relationships in the Marvel U means there is a good chance the character is gender queer then pretty much everyone except Mr. Fantastic and Invisible Woman are just waiting to come out.
Palette Swap
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The most annoying part in all this is getting spoiled by fucking pirates.
Prototype Viktor
Member
Here's how he works. Put him in a storyline and things gets 10x stupider
There's no july issue? Any word on why?
I'm guessing its due to Secret Wars. Other books are taking breaks during random months as well.
Palette Swap
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I'm guess that bit about being a Disney princess during the GOTG crossover is one of these?
Decent cross-over, btw. I only have two parts left.
What's a good GOTG run, guys? (Please don't say Bendis. I'm taking a break from Bendis after X-Men.)
Huh, odd. But then again, I needed to go onto Silk's writer's twitter account to even learn silk was delayed this month.
googleplex
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No Reed is leagues above Tony and Beast in Pure intelligence. An argument could be made that Tony is more inventive though. But Hank Pym is Earth's Scientist Supreme. Simply because he takes science to to boundaries of magic.
Actually I think Mister Terrific is officially DC's third Smartest man.
BKatastrophe
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Not really. He's still top dawg.
Whaaaaaaaat? Noooooooooo
Isn't Ivo or T.O. Morrow the smartest? Luthor is up there, too, I believe.
GrandHarrier
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My boy Brainiac 5 getting no respect.
12th level intellect, yo.
12th level intellect, yo.
BKatastrophe
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Not a human
GrandHarrier
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BossDarkseid
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Haven't watched in a while. don't mind spoilers, but do we have any idea of what the point of AoS is, other than to prop up the movies?
Prototype Viktor
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to not have to spend 25 minutes of a movie to introduce the Inhumans?
Volume three of Miracleman is finally out, as well as the TPB of Top Ten. Can't wait for them to arrive.
Wha~? Darkseid is.
Wha~? Darkseid is.
Along with introducing inhumans, it keeps the universe moving between the movies. I think that is/was the primary goal. Like setting up whatever version of SHIELD we'll actually see in ultron between winter soldier and avengers 2 - of course I could be completely wrong, for all we know Avengers 2 could just have fury / hill and a bunch of other people not in the show at all.
That being said I still like the show, tho this second half-season post break has not been as good as the first half of it / the post-winter soldier stuff from season 1.
BossDarkseid
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Eh, fair enough. I feel like Daredevil, so far, seems pretty cool because most of the payoff comes in Daredevil the show...even if they eventually migrate to the movies. For Agents of Shield you get characters, situations and things which have some payoff but the big stuff like Inhumans...well they've got a (post Infinity War?) movie for that
That said considering how AoS was pre-TWS stuff I'm not sure if it's a good thing that I'd like it to live/operate more independently againGrandHarrier
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Agents of Shield is a show about some of the least cool parts of the Marvel Universe (non hero characters) perpetually hamstrung into dealing with the F-tier villains that haven't been reserved for a potential future movie. It'll always be reactive to the MCU and the will rarely if ever surprise or wow you.
Stuff like Daredevil is going to be more successful because all they have to do is throw some lip service to "The New York incident", name drop the next movie and then go on to its storyline. Also it's shows with heroes and not boring ass Shield agents that no one gives a fuuuuuck about.
Stuff like Daredevil is going to be more successful because all they have to do is throw some lip service to "The New York incident", name drop the next movie and then go on to its storyline. Also it's shows with heroes and not boring ass Shield agents that no one gives a fuuuuuck about.
Eh, fair enough. I feel like Daredevil, so far, seems pretty cool because most of the payoff comes in Daredevil the show...even if they eventually migrate to the movies. For Agents of Shield you get characters, situations and things which have some payoff but the big stuff like Inhumans...well they've got a (post Infinity War?) movie for that
Pre Winter-Soldier was definitely a rough patch. I think of the 15 eps at least 4 are just completely skippable (made a list for my friend awhile back tho I'd have to go redo it). The writers have come out and said they were legit having to find ways to kill time till winter soldier hit for a few eps, hopefully nothing like that will ever happen again. Right now I still think its better than it was then just, as I mentioned, not as good as it was for like the 19~ total eps before it or so pre-break.
And yeah I think the netflix stuff is likely gonna stay contained to other netflix series at least for now with maybe an occasional cameo elsewhere.
GrandHarrier
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But how do you really feel about Agents of SHIELD?
I think I'm pretty close to a breakthrough here. Just gotta push past this psychological wall.
Do you think the people working on the show went home and watched Daredevil and then just felt ashamed? Then wrote on their Live Journal: "Dear Diary, why won't they just love Skye as much as I do?"
I dunno what's funnier to me in that scenario, show runners posting on Live Journal or Live Journal still being a thing that people use.
I thought people liked her the most on the show?
People liked the show since the second season.
Poodlestrike
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but fans have been discussing various character's sexuality at varying levels of casualness since before the internet was a thing. Kirk/Spock stuff was getting distributed in the 80s. "Fans speculation" is an intensely poor reason to redefine a character like this.
Especially when it's as uniquely poorly handled as it was done here.
"Full gay," oy vey.
Tried to a few times. Never really got off the ground on account of having the artistic talent of a twice-baked sweet potato, which is to say, none. Can't draw for shit, and don't really know anybody who'd be interested in collaborating.
Got a lot of ideas, tho. And I'm decent at dialogue.
As far as I'm concerned the whole iceman thing will hopefully not have any lasting relevance. It shouldn't. Bendis has been making shit up and writing his own canon in just about every book he's done and most of it gets swept under the rug. I'm not saying he's a bad writer, far from it I enjoy (most) of his books - but for example look at moon knight. His entire run just made up a bunch of stuff about the char that since has gone back to basically not having happened. Hopefully this will just blow over too because lets face it the entire thing is fucking nonsense.
I'd riot if there was no Silk issue.
GrandHarrier
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A Messi riot consists of posting Olivia Wilde crying gifs.
ElBoxyBrown
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Daily reminder that Kenneth Rocafort is my muse:
https://twitter.com/Mitografia/status/590774722062843905
https://twitter.com/Mitografia/status/590774722062843905
Next week
LaunchpadMcQ
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With the recent news of the Valiant film/tv deal, I've realized... I've never read a single Valiant comic and know jack about them.
What's a good place to start with Valiant? I was looking at Harbinger, but I've heard X-O Manowar is pretty fantastic. After following Marvel and DC for a couple of years, I've grown weary of keeping up with ongoing series, so my preference is trades and runs that have been completed; I'll pick up a currently running series if need be, though.
What's a good place to start with Valiant? I was looking at Harbinger, but I've heard X-O Manowar is pretty fantastic. After following Marvel and DC for a couple of years, I've grown weary of keeping up with ongoing series, so my preference is trades and runs that have been completed; I'll pick up a currently running series if need be, though.
TheDarkKnight774
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Archer & Armstrong is my favorite book. So so funny
Also read harbinger and x-0 manowar
With those three you're good. If you love those then look into the valiant And unity team books. Which are decent but not as strong as the other books I mention
LaunchpadMcQ
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Start with the 2012 reboot I'm guessing? I'm looking and it seems like they're just now releasing the early stuff in trade again.
ElBoxyBrown
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Just jump right ahead to their rebooted universe. If you like Teen Titans and X-Men then check out Harbinger.
LaunchpadMcQ
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Sweet deal. Thanks for the advice so far guys. I'm going to order some trades right now.
TheDarkKnight774
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Cool. Make sure to come back and post impressions
Tyrant Rave
Banned
Guardians of the Galaxy by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning is good. It's the run that the movie is loosely based off.
I've fallen behind but Guardians 3000 was good too.