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COMICS!!! |OT| August 2021 | "Superman joins the klan" is always an awful idea.
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They are waiting until this current Captain America mini is over to announce the new book. The one where they are going around the world.
But im also curious if they are just going to go with the Captain America Iron Man book for Cap's book until they have a good book to announce lol. Mark Waid is going to DC so they cant get him to write more fill ins.
I bet itll be John Ridley and they will announce it after Black Panther is all settled in
I don't mind. DC is doing the same thing. Lets us get books on characters who can't carry an ongoing and we can get actual conclusions instead of rushed endings due to cancellations.
Cap not having one is weird, but I figure that Batman Inc thing for it will probably lead into something. Maybe. I don't read news.
The MCU can't even do Mary Jane justice. Nobody should have high hopes for MCU Emma Frost.
Emma's problem, at least to me, is that she is a character who only really works as a protagonist in the specific circumstance of Decimation-era X-Men.
It was a happy little accident that Emma was now the female lead of X-Men right before they got dumped into years of "doing tough things to survive", because now you had a character who could be as ruthless as possible in defense of a noble goal and never really have her actions questioned, because not doing this kinda fucked up violent thing right this second would spell the literal end of Mutantkind.
Emma Frost really can't work as a hero in an X-Men universe where things are mostly okay and progressing and the X-Men are making meaningful change every single day they go out and fight for a world that hates and fears them. This is fortunate, as X-Men hasn't been about that in like 16 years now.
It was a happy little accident that Emma was now the female lead of X-Men right before they got dumped into years of "doing tough things to survive", because now you had a character who could be as ruthless as possible in defense of a noble goal and never really have her actions questioned, because not doing this kinda fucked up violent thing right this second would spell the literal end of Mutantkind.
Emma Frost really can't work as a hero in an X-Men universe where things are mostly okay and progressing and the X-Men are making meaningful change every single day they go out and fight for a world that hates and fears them. This is fortunate, as X-Men hasn't been about that in like 16 years now.
Man, I wouldn't mind most things being minis, I like knowing when thing are going to end.
She feels too much like a super idealized cartoon hot lady to ever get done right lol I don't care much for her though
I think Emma is a lot more adaptable a character than you think.
In more peaceful times she would happily work teaching younger mutants.
Because DC rarely if ever push him in anything.
When was the last time he even had a comic?
The DCU is full of amazing characters that get ignored because they aren't Bat related.
Yeah she did that in Generation X except nobody but me cared.
Emma Frost is a good person, at least nominally, nowadays. She's on the side of angels, but she will never be nice, she will never be merciful, and she will never be an outright hero, and that's not really a condemnation or anything, it's a fundamental building block to Emma's character and one that's been allowed to flourish as long as it has because the X-Men haven't been straight-up superheroes in like two decades.
Gail Simone wrote a Plastic Man mini that was released in 2018.
(Oh no, that was 3 years ago!)
Emma always struck me as kinda the opposite to Professor X in a weird way.
They are both teachers, both can be ruthless and cunning and are obviously both powerful psychics.
But where as Emma is a good, caring, empathic person at heart, who hides behind an icy exterior, I don't believe Xavier is.
Xavier puts forward an image of respectful geniality, but I think he is selfish, manipulative and cruel. And seems lacking in empathy a lot of the time.
I definitely agree with this take. Even when she was doing some questionable stuff in the Claremont books with the Hellions it was basically just her trying to get one over on Xavier. This is why Emma is the best.
Xavier used to be a good, caring, empathic person not just on the surface but also at heart. He was the kindly mentor and father figure of the team, meaning he either had to die or turn evil.
So Mark Waid canonizes that he had the hots for Jean when was a teenager and then Joss Whedon revealed he enslaved the sentient Danger Room, and much like with Beast that just never went away and now he's like that.
Something about these costumes just doesn't work for me. They look like they are posing for a photo at comiccon. 🤣
I dont believe you IGN via EW!
This is what excites me most. Chloe Zhao made me care about a nomadic Amazon employee, so I'm sure her being in charge of a Kirby Marvel movie will be very much my thing.
lol I can certainly see why people would hate it. At least they went with a director that's like the exact opposite of other MCU films.
also did you see those spicy Jade tweets today? I thought of you as soon as I saw them.
He had a good push in the Morrison and Joe Kelly Justice League.
Read that Joe Kelly JLA if you haven't, y'all.
I dont believe you IGN via EW!
The question's posed in the new trailer.
The Rider's better.
We were told not to lol!
EDIT: Its the question that does not need to be answered
Radiant Black and Jonna and the Unpossible Monsters are out today but I want to hold off on buying new comics for a bit because I just went through a big binge of them.
I will last maybe two days before I cave.
Elongated Man is better.
I will last maybe two days before I cave.
Yeah.
Elongated Man is better.
Plastic Man really only lands for me in those "silly comedy character suddenly goes apeshit and you kind of realize they're always holding back" moments that are innately appealing to me.
I like the idea of a character, especially a superhero, who isn't just funny and charming and nice all the time but deliberately goes out of their way to do so, because they know what they can do when the chips are down, but more than just "psh I can take you my power level is over 9000" that manifests more like "wow I'm a fucking asshole, and literally nobody can stop me from abusing my power... better be a good person. That's who I want to be."
I like the idea of a character, especially a superhero, who isn't just funny and charming and nice all the time but deliberately goes out of their way to do so, because they know what they can do when the chips are down, but more than just "psh I can take you my power level is over 9000" that manifests more like "wow I'm a fucking asshole, and literally nobody can stop me from abusing my power... better be a good person. That's who I want to be."
"We didn't want to."
I dont believe you IGN via EW!
This is so not wang of you...
I liked that part in Injustice where Plastic Man came by to tell everyone they were all being dumb fascist goobers
So was Ewing only co-writing the first issue of Venom? I didn't see his name in the solicits for #2
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He's listed in the actual story text. I guess he's plotting and Ram is writing.
- With Ram V and Al Ewing weaving a mind-bending story that will push Eddie and Dylan Brock to their limits, and Bryan Hitch doing some of the most action-packed work of his career, VENOM #2 will do all that AND MORE!
He was in the Terrifics but that was massively disappointing. Well regarded writer, great characters and yet it sucked.
This is a moment I wanted to bring up but doing so would acknowledge that Injustice had good writing for an entire issue.I liked that part in Injustice where Plastic Man came by to tell everyone they were all being dumb fascist goobers
Like, that's such a multifaceted use of Plastic Man.
- He's a goofball, but even he knows to take this seriously.
- He's kind of scuzzy, a bit of a deadbeat really, and then he just marches into a throne room full of superpowered gods and doesn't just make demands, he writes them in jokes while telling them to their faces that they've failed every ideal they once had.
- Plastic Man walks up to Tyrannical God King of Earth Superman and his private cadre of fascist douchebags and annoys the shit out of them, evades even the slightest consequence that they are helpless to dispense onto him, and then walks away not only succeeding at his goal of rescuing his son but then busting everyone else out too. I can't find the panel but he flips the camera off while doing this too.
And then of you get the bread and butter stuff like "oh so this guy can mold his body into anything... what would someone actually do with that?" and so he just immediately annihilates the motherfucking Flash with no effort, again, while calmly joking in a way that emphasizes he is absolutely not willing to fuck around even for a second and he could actually just crawl through your nose and yank your brain out if he felt like it, but he'll be nice and just asphyxiate you instead.
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