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DC's New Age of Heroes vs Marvel's 1993 Annuals
- Thread starter Slayven
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To be fair, I didn't read comics in 93. But New Age of Heroes was mostly not-great, save for Terrifics, Sideways, and Silencer.
Isn't Metamorpho the only one of those characters still really active? Or rather he's the only one I know that's still around(he's a pretty fun character though).
Also Slayven id love to see you breaking down all the references over in the marvel ultimate alliance 3 thread from the trailer, there's a few fun teases
Also Slayven id love to see you breaking down all the references over in the marvel ultimate alliance 3 thread from the trailer, there's a few fun teases
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Terrfics was bad to me, everyone was kinda of out of character. Sideways was great except for the art. Haven't read Silencer
Shouldn't you be comparing Marvel's 1993 annuals to DC's 1993 annuals (Bloodlines)?
https://www.cbr.com/knowledge-waits-all-of-marvels-characters-from-their-1993-annuals/
https://www.cbr.com/knowledge-waits-all-of-dcs-original-bloodlines-characters/
The only Bloodlines character anyone remembers is Hitman. The only Marvel 1993 ones I remember are Legacy (Genis/Captain Marvel) and X-cutioner, partly because he dented Colossus's head and partly because the annual was drawn by Jason Pearson. Oh and I guess Adam X. Ah, the era of Fabian.
https://www.cbr.com/knowledge-waits-all-of-marvels-characters-from-their-1993-annuals/
https://www.cbr.com/knowledge-waits-all-of-dcs-original-bloodlines-characters/
The only Bloodlines character anyone remembers is Hitman. The only Marvel 1993 ones I remember are Legacy (Genis/Captain Marvel) and X-cutioner, partly because he dented Colossus's head and partly because the annual was drawn by Jason Pearson. Oh and I guess Adam X. Ah, the era of Fabian.
Mentioning Peter David's version of Genis is both deceptive and evil. Best early 00s Marvel run :'(
Who knows how good Sideways will turn out to be in a decade. But it's a decent start. The Terrifics and that Ghost Rider guy are alright too.
No idea what most of the 90s Marvel annuals were about though.
Who knows how good Sideways will turn out to be in a decade. But it's a decent start. The Terrifics and that Ghost Rider guy are alright too.
No idea what most of the 90s Marvel annuals were about though.
Slayven will rep 1993 purely based off fact the creator said he wanted to make a bunch of characters who are the opposite of squirrel girl
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Wish Sideways was like that, it looked like it needed V-Sync and AA
Better than Quietly at least
Bloodlines was greatness
I will ahve to watch it again
I'm going to be honest, I prefer DC's approach. Purely cause giving whole books instead of one issue is better, and has a variety of reinterpreting the old along with completely new, and the idea of "oh this time our writers have a new character!" is weak considering...that can be any issue.
Can't really compare yet since both events are hoping to launch longstanding characters for decades into the future, and DC's New Age just happened.
Note I haven't read all the books in either of these attempts, but y'know, Young Animal is better then both of them if we're being honest.
Can't really compare yet since both events are hoping to launch longstanding characters for decades into the future, and DC's New Age just happened.
Note I haven't read all the books in either of these attempts, but y'know, Young Animal is better then both of them if we're being honest.
Ultimo is a big one since well he teases you know who. But that's enough in this thread
I'm personally trying to remind myself since I only have around 5 of these issues that I read as a kid
https://www.cbr.com/knowledge-waits-all-of-marvels-characters-from-their-1993-annuals/3/
I will say that The Silencer made the jump to Arrow this season and she's been fun to watch on that so kudos for giving us a new character that is at least fun in other mediums.
I honestly don't know how the Damage book is still going.
I honestly don't know how the Damage book is still going.
Oh god at this 1993 DC event
At least that had some decent enough art. Some of the others make my eyes bleed.
Reminder that PAD's Genis book was part of a bet between which would sell better, it or Jemas' Marville
But that's not from when the book was created. The bet with Jemas happened in 2002:
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marville_(comics)
I had completely forgotten about that. The character was created like a decade before and already had his own series (and was prominent in Busiek's Avengers Forever along with Songbird as future Avengers), but it was cancelled and renumbered so PAD could start it fresh.
For those that want to be reminded the trash that Jemas dug up, here's the summary:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marville_(comics)
It's entirely possible that someone hacked this page and this is all false (how would I know, I never read Marville) but sadly I don't think that's the case.
Jemas was also responsible for this gem of a Spidey title:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouble_(comics)
Oh man, the (bad) memories are flooding back. All the money I wasted on this trash.
MarVille ends up talking to god by end of series and it's panels with text all over the page with no bubbles or boxes
Have no idea about the 1993 stuff, but wish New Age of Heroes turned out better than it did. I been enjoying Sideways, and am so sad that the series is ending in Feb. :/ I hope Derek will come back again.
The event that brought us great characters like Mongrel.
Best Bloodlines character by far.
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The event that brought us great characters like Mongrel.
Mongrel is male, female or genderneutral?The event that brought us great characters like Mongrel.
Slayven , next you should make a thread about how Cosmic Powers enhanced and / or destroyed our childhoods.
Pluses: it had Genis and Thanos.
Minuses: it had everyone else, including Tyrant.
Pluses: it had Genis and Thanos.
Minuses: it had everyone else, including Tyrant.
Thanks for the link. Yeah, I don't know most of these, I think the Marvel publisher in my country used to skip the annuals back then, with a few exceptions here and there.
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Do you have the Namor one? Where he scares Apocalypse off with a coffee table?
No lol, havent seen that one yet.
I did just read the X-Force annual the other day that had the long lost Summer's brother Adam the X-Treme!
