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[nomoment]

http://comics.ign.com/articles/634/634343p1.html

No specifics yet, except that it'll be a story in the regular Marvel Universe.

I'm never been a huge fan of King, but I suspect this will be good for Marvel. Obviously.

 

[Escape Goat]

Never read a stephen king novel. Soooo...guess we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[nomoment]

Never read a stephen king novel. Soooo...guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Stephen King novels usually go like this:

1. Hey, this is kind of cool...
2. Ah, I didn't see that coming.
3. I've only read 200 pages.
4. WHY WON'T THIS FUCKING BOOK END ALREADY?
5. That ending was surprising. Sort of.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

http://comics.ign.com/articles/634/634343p1.html

No specifics yet, except that it'll be a story in the regular Marvel Universe.

I'm never been a huge fan of King, but I suspect this will be good for Marvel. Obviously.

*ahem* do i have to remind that DC WINS? yes? well...... dc wins! DC WINS!! DC WINS!!! they can have shakespeare for all i care and it still wouldnt be enough. (god, i love being partisan and one sided on this issue)

 

[MC Safety]

*ahem* do i have to remind that DC WINS? yes? well...... dc wins! DC WINS!! DC WINS!!! they can have shakespeare for all i care and it still wouldnt be enough. (god, i love being partisan and one sided on this issue)

Make mine Marvel.

 

[Musashi Wins!]

Make mine Marvel.

yea, I can't care enough about this whole issue but...Marvel easily.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Stephen King novels usually go like this:

1. Hey, this is kind of cool...
2. Ah, I didn't see that coming.
3. I've only read 200 pages.
4. WHY WON'T THIS FUCKING BOOK END ALREADY?
5. That ending was surprising. Sort of.

Close, but more like:

1. Hey, this is kind of cool...
2. Ah, I didn't see that coming.
3. I've only read 200 pages.
4. WHY WON'T THIS FUCKING BOOK END ALREADY?
5. This is building to something huge!
6. What the fuck shit ending? Damn you King!

Every goddamned book, I swear. Though I still adore The Stand, no matter that it has has the usual weak ending. So I'm interested.

 

[nomoment]

I love it.

Whenever once of these big announcements happen, a bunch of comic virgins stomp in the thread and say "MAKE MINE MARVEL," or whatever.

Help the industry out and actually BUY the book!

 

[themadcowtipper]

Dont really care for King that much(hate the way he describes everything to an insane degree) , but will wait and see,I got way to much to read right now anyway just bought Batman and Robin Year One, JLA Year one, Y-The Last Man, MaverlMaster Work Fantastic Four and Spiderman Vol 1 and all those are on the back burner until I finish HP:HBP...

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Never read a stephen king novel.

Expect more product placement to go with the annoying celebrity cameos / references.

This is not news. King has written for Marvel in the past.

:lol

 

[Father_Brain]

Expect more product placement to go with the annoying celebrity cameos / references.

This is not news. King has written for Marvel in the past.

:lol

He wrote a few pages in one charity benefit book 20 years ago... how does this make this "not news?" Honestly, what is wrong with you? Did Joe Quesada murder your family or something? There are plenty of things you could rightly criticize Marvel for, but apparently you'd rather just say retarded things like "Marvel has turned Bendis into a house nigger" and claim that Marvel lied when they announced they would start publishing Powers. Oh, I guess the eleven issues and two trades I own with that Icon logo on the cover don't fucking exist, then - and you could have found that out with a simple Google search (powers+bendis+marvel turns this up as the second result.)

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

Oh, I guess the eleven issues and two trades I own with that Icon logo on the cover don't fucking exist, then - and you could have found that out with a simple Google search (powers+bendis+marvel turns this up as the second result.)

Or you could have taken me up on the "correct me if I'm wrong" offer I made regarding Powers. ^_^

Anyhow, I'm just making light of this news is all. I wonder which Property Marvel will stick King on to sucker in readers temporarily?

In the meantime, I'll keep on trucking with the belief that inevitably Marvel will marginalize itself to the point of extinction.

 

[Agent Dormer]

I love it.

Whenever once of these big announcements happen, a bunch of comic virgins stomp in the thread and say "MAKE MINE MARVEL," or whatever.

Help the industry out and actually BUY the book!

:lol :lol

Totally, nomoment. Great news too, as I highly respect Stephen King, and can't wait to see what he does with a Marvel title.

 

[MC Safety]

I love it.

Whenever once of these big announcements happen, a bunch of comic virgins stomp in the thread and say "MAKE MINE MARVEL," or whatever.

Help the industry out and actually BUY the book!

Except... This comic virgin worked for Wizard: The Comics Magazine and may well know more about comic books and their history than you do.

And it's not my job to help the comic book industry out. It's the comic book industry's job to put out quality books I might want to buy.

Whether King can write comics, let alone quality comics, remains to be seen.

 

[ToyMachine228]

Interesting. I'll definitely be looking forward to hearing what King is working on for Marvel.

 

[Rorschach]

NERD FIIIIIGHT!!!!

 

[MC Safety]

NERD FIIIIIGHT!!!!

Cute. Also, point taken.

I bristled when I read "comic virgin," mostly because I heard it my head as spoken by Comic Book Guy. You know, that annoying, smugly superior voice ...

 

[Laguna X]

Cute. Also, point taken.

I bristled when I read "comic virgin," mostly because I heard it my head as spoken by Comic Book Guy. You know, that annoying, smugly superior voice ...

:lol Funny, because I was thinking the same thing.

 

[Agent Dormer]

Except... This comic virgin worked for Wizard: The Comics Magazine and may well know more about comic books and their history than you do.

And it's not my job to help the comic book industry out. It's the comic book industry's job to put out quality books I might want to buy.

Whether King can write comics, let alone quality comics, remains to be seen.

Greg Orlando strikes back at resident GAF comic book experts. News at 11!

 

[Escape Goat]

 

[Teddman]

Expect more product placement to go with the annoying celebrity cameos / references.

This is not news. King has written for Marvel in the past.

:lol

I have that issue... King's pages are unintentionally hilarious. Kitty Pryde starving and yelling out "Good Food... good meat... good God--Let's Eat!" :lol

 

[nomoment]

Except... This comic virgin worked for Wizard: The Comics Magazine and may well know more about comic books and their history than you do.

And it's not my job to help the comic book industry out. It's the comic book industry's job to put out quality books I might want to buy.

Whether King can write comics, let alone quality comics, remains to be seen.

You worked for WIZARD? Well, thanks for answering your own question. I clearly know more about the comics industry than you do.

Working in a comic shop for 15 months (which I did) is probably a better learning experience than being at the Wizard offices! Of course, if you want to ever talk about who'd win in a fight between Captain America and Batman, I'm sure you'd win that argument.

 

[MC Safety]

You worked for WIZARD? Well, thanks for answering your own question. I clearly know more about the comics industry than you do.

Working in a comic shop for 15 months (which I did) is probably a better learning experience than being at the Wizard offices! Of course, if you want to ever talk about who'd win in a fight between Captain America and Batman, I'm sure you'd win that argument.

Do you actually speak with the Comic Book Guy's voice? Just curious.

 

[nomoment]

Do you actually speak with the Comic Book Guy's voice? Just curious.

Yes.

 

[Agent Dormer]

Nomoment tosses out a good comment, Greg retorts with a lame comment, Nomoment humors him. It's getting hot in here!

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

"comic virgin"

Isn't that a redundant statement?

I have that issue...

I've got it somewhere to. I don't recall any of it. The blessings of old age. :lol

 

[MC Safety]

Nomoment tosses out a good comment, Greg retorts with a lame comment, Nomoment humors him. It's getting hot in here!

And you're keeping a lame commentary. Good for you.

Anyway, if the guy wants to claim comic book superiority, he's welcome to do so. His 15 months of stacking comics and making change clearly beats my 36-plus months of writing and editing stories about the comic industry, interviewing comic creators and editors, and attending various comic related functions.

I only intended to express a personal preference. And I got a fine reminder of why I stopped talking to comic book fans about comic books.

Anyway: Back to the topic...

 

[Agent Dormer]

And you're keeping a lame commentary. Good for you.

Anyway, if the guy wants to claim comic book superiority, he's welcome to do so. His 15 months of stacking comics and making change clearly beats my 36-plus months of writing and editing stories about the comic industry, interviewing comic creators and editors, and attending various comic related functions.

I only intended to express a personal preference. And I got a fine reminder of why I stopped talking to comic book fans about comic books.

Anyway: Back to the topic...

Let me try again:
1. Nomoment starts thread, excited about the prospect of Stephen King, writer of many fine novels, writing a comic book for Marvel.
2. Greg Orlando (DiscoStu), makes the 'Make Mine Marvel.' quip to a DC fan.
3. Nomoment makes a remark about an actual happening - the entering of many 'comic virgins' to comic book threads when there are big announcements. He quotes the 'Make Mine Marvel' incorrectly by adding caps.
4. Greg Orlando, obviously still worried people might judge him for the following lines in his Majora's Mask review -

To live life is to don a mask each and every day. Our true selves are seldom exposed to the world at large; to show everything to the people we must share our existences with would be to risk the ultimate rejection. We are what we think others want to see, and we live our lives doing this each and every day until it's impossible to tell where the mask ends and we begin. A mere decoration becomes a metaphor for humanity's hard time on planet Earth. We are the masks we wear.

- feels the need to point out his extensive contributions to comic journalism by citing his time at Wizard.
5. Greg further agitates the situation by making reference to the comic book guy voice from The Simpsons.
6. Nomoment establishes for us his own experience and discredits further comments because of Greg's time at Wizard. Except for the powers of debating superhero vs superhero.
7. Greg comments towards the commentator. Then attempts to show off and reason why he's cooler than you.

I think I got it down now!

 

[MC Safety]

Let me try again:
1. Nomoment starts thread, excited about the prospect of Stephen King, writer of many fine novels, writing a comic book for Marvel.
2. Greg Orlando (DiscoStu), makes the 'Make Mine Marvel.' quip to a DC fan.
3. Nomoment makes a remark about an actual happening - the entering of many 'comic virgins' to comic book threads when there are big announcements. He quotes the 'Make Mine Marvel' incorrectly by adding caps.
4. Greg Orlando, obviously still worried people might judge him for the following lines in his Majora's Mask review -
- feels the need to point out his extensive contributions to comic journalism by citing his time at Wizard.
5. Greg further agitates the situation by making reference to the comic book guy voice from The Simpsons.
6. Nomoment establishes for us his own experience and discredits further comments because of Greg's time at Wizard. Except for the powers of debating superhero vs superhero.
7. Greg comments towards the commentator. Then attempts to show off and reason why he's cooler than you.

I think I got it down now!

It was pretty embarrassing the first time you did this, you know.

Maybe you should try again, as undoubtedly the third time will be the charm.

 

[Agent Dormer]

It was pretty embarrassing the first time you did this, you know.

Maybe you should try again, as undoubtedly the third time will be the charm.

I was done, but a mutual friend asked me to post this. Luv <3

 

[Exis]

I will be curious to see what King brings to the table.

But I am a DC boy, I love Bendis but Marvel keeps losing me with plots that go nowhere and killing the MAX line, kinda killed it for me.

-Exis