not the first nor the last time they made xavier out to be a sex pest in claremont's run.
not the first nor the last time they made xavier out to be a sex pest in claremont's run.
So like there was a bunch of Tim Drake talk earlier aboit DC not knowing what to do with him
Look, it's real simple
No one wants to write him. It's not editorial. I mean it is, but it isn't. Editorial is trying to put him somewhere, but no one wants to write him. Tynion did, and gave him a perfect thesis and capped it off. Bendis clearly does, and continued it through not in the best way when carried out, but in a way that made sense initially (I have not read YJ this week but I know what happens ish).
But who else has shown any actual Desire for the character? Not Tomasi or Snyder, the other two big Bat writers. Percy seemed to have a lot of enthusiasm but was denied and left because of it. I mean, no one gives a fuck about Tim, and as such there is no one to give Tim an arc. In reality there aren't a lot of fans of the Bat family writing at DC right now. Specifically Robin, but that's a whole separate line of thought.
I mean, it's not just claremont's run.not the first nor the last time they made xavier out to be a sex pest in claremont's run.
Solid list but I think having one villain from each of the core Avengers Rogues or a parallel (and given its Marvel I would be forced to use the MCU lineup) would be better. So my choices were:Okay but for real Wildgoose is legit and I really like him
You and I get along so well
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the Hellmouth crossover, and the current Willow mini. Seven Secrets. Translucid.
Secret Avengers by Ales Kot and Walsh (I think)
Jessica Jones by Bendis and Gaydos
Translucid by Chondra Echert and Claudio Sanchez
Namor
Doom
Octavius
Fisk
Creel
Titana
Kraven
Maximus
Loki
Like that's your potential good guy team.
Not even gonna bother laying down the potential X characters
"Weaker" was probably a bad term. It's not that I think the Marvel villains don't have potential, they do. I just feel like Marvel has totally wasted an opportunity to push them more. The MCU has done wonders to elevate the profile of a lot of Marvel heroes, I wish their Rogues would likewise be pushed.It's one thing to think you couldn't do a Forever Evil type story with Marvel villains but I don't think that makes the villain roster necessarily weaker.
I want to see it. A villain vs. villain event would be a breath of fresh air after all these hero vs. hero events.What exactly is precluding a Marvel version of Forever evil? Cause i honestly don't see anything.
why wouldn't you use Leader here? why would you use Loki and not Moonstone?
Multiple writers including Snyder, King, Tynion, and Seeley have pitched a "Robins" series where Dick, Jason, Tim, and Damian team up. DC keeps vetoing it. The higher ups were absolutely clueless about what would sell. Hopefully something good will come from the purges and the new people wont be so hard on Tim and the other younger characters.I don't think its true at all. Tynion has even stated how he wants to write & he almost had a chance to write a Red Robin solo, but because Red Hood & the Outlaws needed a new writer, he got shifted onto that instead.
Percy like you said - denied. So there's two big writers, who want to write for Tim and were denied. It sounds like the problem is more DC Editorial tbh.
Beyond that - I'm not sure how I'm suppose to gauge writers interest in Tim Drake. I don't know how many writers want to write for Jason Todd, or Damian Wayne, or Duke Thomas, etc. All we know are writers have pitched/tried to write for Tim Drake and weren't allowed to.
Hah would you believe I actually did have Leader here? I ended up picking Abomination because it felt redundant to have two super geniuses with Leader and Mandarin on the same team. But Leader would be a great pick as well, and if I couldn't use Mandarin I would totally have him lead (heh) this team.why wouldn't you use Leader here? why would you use Loki and not Moonstone?
So like there was a bunch of Tim Drake talk earlier aboit DC not knowing what to do with him
Look, it's real simple
No one wants to write him. It's not editorial. I mean it is, but it isn't. Editorial is trying to put him somewhere, but no one wants to write him. Tynion did, and gave him a perfect thesis and capped it off. Bendis clearly does, and continued it through not in the best way when carried out, but in a way that made sense initially (I have not read YJ this week but I know what happens ish).
But who else has shown any actual Desire for the character? Not Tomasi or Snyder, the other two big Bat writers. Percy seemed to have a lot of enthusiasm but was denied and left because of it. I mean, no one gives a fuck about Tim, and as such there is no one to give Tim an arc. In reality there aren't a lot of fans of the Bat family writing at DC right now. Specifically Robin, but that's a whole separate line of thought.
When was the last time he showed up in something? Legit was it Bendis' Moon Knight? Because that was fucking 2008. I wanna say maybe Williamson's Illuminati, but it was a short stint (boy that book was fun) in an already short book.
The higher ups were absolutely clueless about what would sell.
Top 30 Comics of the 2010s, not really in order, just as they popped in my head. Quote me with whatever I missed
1. Mister Miracle by Tom King and Mitch Gerads
2. Hawkeye by Matt Fraction, David Aja, and Annie Wu
3. Daredevil by Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, Paolo Rivera, et al
4. Thor by Jason Aaron, Esad Ribic, Russell Dautermann, et al
5. Batman Inc by Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham, et al
6. Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
7. The Private Eye by Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin
8. Stray Bullets by David Lapham
9. Scalped by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra
10. Powers of X/House of X by Johnathan Hickman, Pepe Larez, and R.B. Silvia
11. Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
12. Two Brothers by Gabriel Ba and Fábio Moon
13. Wicked + Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
14. Battling Boy by Paul Pope
15. Vision by Tom King and Gabriel Weta
16. My War Gone By by Garth Ennis and Gorlan Parlov
17. Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett
18. Kill or Be Killed by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
19. My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
20. Scott Pilgrims Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley
21. Multivesity by Grant Morrison, Ivan Reis, Frank Quitely, et al
22. the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson
23. Hellboy in Hell by Mike Mignola
24. Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender and Jerome Opena
25. Richard Starks Parker by Darwyn Cooke
26. Moon Knight by Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey
27. Silver Surfer by Dan Slott and Michael Allred
28. Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fábio Moon
29. The WildStorm by Warren Ellis and John Davis Hunt
30. March by John Lewis, Andrew Anylin, and Norm Powell
edit: shit forgot Priest Deathstroke...
Otto would be better than both.
He was my second choice
When you go back you realise Charles Xavier has always been a shifty fucker.
But Calvin is best boy though, right?i also read through Talon which i did not really care for at all, but what can you do
yeah, i like calvin he is good!
That is a damn good list.Top 30 Comics of the 2010s, not really in order, just as they popped in my head. Quote me with whatever I missed
1. Mister Miracle by Tom King and Mitch Gerads
2. Hawkeye by Matt Fraction, David Aja, and Annie Wu
3. Daredevil by Mark Waid, Chris Samnee, Paolo Rivera, et al
4. Thor by Jason Aaron, Esad Ribic, Russell Dautermann, et al
5. Batman Inc by Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham, et al
6. Saga by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples
7. The Private Eye by Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin
8. Stray Bullets by David Lapham
9. Scalped by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guéra
10. Powers of X/House of X by Johnathan Hickman, Pepe Larez, and R.B. Silvia
11. Young Avengers by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
12. Two Brothers by Gabriel Ba and Fábio Moon
13. Wicked + Divine by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie
14. Battling Boy by Paul Pope
15. Vision by Tom King and Gabriel Weta
16. My War Gone By by Garth Ennis and Gorlan Parlov
17. Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett
18. Kill or Be Killed by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
19. My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris
20. Scott Pilgrims Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley
21. Multivesity by Grant Morrison, Ivan Reis, Frank Quitely, et al
22. the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan North and Erica Henderson
23. Hellboy in Hell by Mike Mignola
24. Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender and Jerome Opena
25. Richard Starks Parker by Darwyn Cooke
26. Moon Knight by Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey
27. Silver Surfer by Dan Slott and Michael Allred
28. Daytripper by Gabriel Ba and Fábio Moon
29. The WildStorm by Warren Ellis and John Davis Hunt
30. March by John Lewis, Andrew Anylin, and Norm Powell
edit: shit forgot Priest Deathstroke...
Squirrel girl. In a dream.When was the last time he showed up in something? Legit was it Bendis' Moon Knight? Because that was fucking 2008. I wanna say maybe Williamson's Illuminati, but it was a short stint (boy that book was fun) in an already short book.
You are on the right side of history my friend
Loveness should be writing Shazam right now that Johns is done, because what a shit ass status quo to end that on
But Calvin is best boy though, right?
he had so much potential and they just did nothing
So many great things in one book.Like I really want to talk about how fucking special this week's issue of Batman was in a way that I just don't think I've seen in awhile.
Like, Bruce has become alone and self-assured in a very cynical and cold way that we are supposed to assume is strength and take as hope, and both of these are true in a way, but this was different. This was acceptance at such a peaceful, familiar level. Comforting. A manifestation of the safest, most comfortable scenario possible to say "you are the most powerful, hopeful person out there and that has never been a weakness and never let that break you." A critique on isolationism as a coping mechanism as a whole when a loving family is right fucking there, and Bruce has the biggest, strongest family you could ask for (okay maybe not the strongest, but you get it). You have "Alfred" telling Bruce that he's taking out his failures on others who couldn't do what he wanted to do, projecting his failures on to them. Meanwhile we have outside Harley, desperately reaching out to the two most important people in her life: Batman and Poison Ivy, while protecting them from Punchline, whome she is also projecting herself onto. Then overcoming that self-projection. Simultaneously going through the same arc, as though to remind us that at the beginning of this book she came to Gotham to kill the Joker, and now she's Batman's #1 as he valls for back-up. Our C plot, Selina in a room full of supervillains says "fuck self-loathing, the love of my life needs me, I'm getting out of here."
This issue connects because it's about accepting and overcoming yourself to push forward in a way that you simultaneously regularly see, but I feel I have a hard time connecting with in superhero comics, because there is also the direct connective thread of family as a known quantity, and knowing exactly the people you pick and choose to love and throw in with and how your actions affect them and each one of the plot threads has that. Bruce, Harley, and Selina, and it works so well.
Fucking dope issue
Theres an active Shazam movie franchise so it's definitely more possible than you thinkI don't think there will be a new Shazam book for a while now at current DC.
That's the thing people for whatever reason seem to overlook, if you want to talk about sales pounds per pound he's arguably the most popular secondary Bat family character if you got a decent creative team on it you could see sales that would more than justify a book, and obviously you're not going to have to really wrench anyone's arm to get them to write the book, there are people who want to do it that are already well established.I think this is the part that confused me the most. Didn't Tim have the longest solo Robin series out of any of the Robins? Weren't the sales of his Red Robin series good? At this point, why not give him a limited series or something and see the sales?
Whatever. I would love a Cass/Steph/Tim ongoing but I doubt that'll happen.
Unexpected generosity?Is something wrong with Marvel? Black Widow is a new #1 and yet it was only $4 🤔
Is something wrong with Marvel? Black Widow is a new #1 and yet it was only $4 🤔
It is my mission to convert as many people in this thread into MMPR readers.
They're in an issue of Generation X but as far as I know that was the last time they were brought up.I've just read an issue of Uncanny X-Men where they're saved by leprechauns while visiting Banshee's ancestral castle. That was something. I assume the leprechauns have never been brought up again.
Reed Comics say they won't be getting any stock until the end of the month.Anyone here whose in the UK managed to get a copy of Batman by Grant Morrison vol 3. Mines be preordered with Amazon since December and I ain't received shit.
Didn't it just come out this week? At least in America, dunno about the UKAnyone here whose in the UK managed to get a copy of Batman by Grant Morrison vol 3. Mines be preordered with Amazon since December and I ain't received shit.
Good question. The comic itself is completely standalone- you need almost no knowledge of the show itself to enjoy it -and the fan service it does do for the show is introduced smoothly enough that you will pick it up easily.I was never too much into the show but I'm interested in the comic itself. Would you say that it's worth a read even if I don't care about Power Rangers shows?