[ Poll ] Life's A Riot Between The Wars (The MU CCC)

Which of the following would best integrate with 616?

Marvelman		28.6%	[ 6 ]
Duckburg		71.4%	[ 15 ]

Total Votes: 21

[pinderpanda]

You're either thinking, "He blinked first!" or "The MU what?"

The CCC has been, since 2005, this forum's catch-all thread for discussion of the DCU. Every so often we'll wonder why the Marvel Universe doesn't have one without ever getting round to setting one up, but since we've just reached an auspicious 777 pages over there then now feels like the time.

Here's how this works...

We do...

• Use the place to jot down our impressions on each week's comics. Things it's not worth starting a thread for, but NEED TO BE SAID!
  
  
• Play at putting together clues and predicting plot twists. On the CCC then cookies are given. Or Credits which can be exchanged for Cookies.We shall find our equivalent.
  
  
• Follow announcements and interviews, then over-react with a wry self-awareness.
  
  
• Sneakily use big events as springboards to talk about the stuff we really care about. Dark Reign is obviously really all about Agents of Atlas. Secret Invasion was obviously really all about Captain Britain.
  
  
• Encourage social chatter. Talking about comics is wonderful, but talking about comics with people you're interested in is even better. There's always something to bring us back on topic. It's called 'Wednesday'.
  

We don't...

• Post anything likely to spoil an issue until the Sunday after its publication. Unless we've whited or yellowed it out.
  
  
• In any way discourage threads on more specific Marvel topics or compete with them.
  
  
• Care how long you've been reading. Knowing loads of continuity is great (and helpful! Tell us interesting stuff!) but thinking this makes you special and powerful is a bit scary.
  
  
• Have Marty for this one. crying
  

[Clark~Kent]

Excellent. ninja

So what is this I heard about a Dark Reign: Young Avengers? gonk

[Deffiant Knight]

Clark~Kent

Excellent. ninja

So what is this I heard about a Dark Reign: Young Avengers? gonk

well....the young avengers are getting another chance at glory!!!

[Lori Zechlin]

pinderpanda

• Have Marty or Oni for this one. crying
  

sweatdrop

[Namora of Atlantis]

Look at all these DC characters posting.... rolleyes

Marvel at MegaCon

If you all aren't reading Agents of Atlas...you really should be. The miniseries from '06 is going to be collected next month, and will include extras such as reprintings of the first appearances of the different Agents, all of whom hail from the pre-Marvel Atlas era.

[Ricochet Rita]

This is going to be hard to name change ninja

[Aunt May Parker]

Namora of Atlantis

Look at all these DC characters posting.... rolleyes

Marvel at MegaCon

If you all aren't reading Agents of Atlas...you really should be. The miniseries from '06 is going to be collected next month, and will include extras such as reprintings of the first appearances of the different Agents, all of whom hail from the pre-Marvel Atlas era.

Oh dear. No, I haven't picked up Agents of Atlas, but I have picked up Nick Fury, Agent of Nothing. 3nodding


Who are the Dark Reign Young Avengers going to be?

[pinderpanda]

Lori Zechlin

pinderpanda

• Have Marty or Oni for this one. crying
  

sweatdrop

You're going through with the boycott?

Namora of Atlantis

If you all aren't reading Agents of Atlas...you really should be. The miniseries from '06 is going to be collected next month, and will include extras such as reprintings of the first appearances of the different Agents, all of whom hail from the pre-Marvel Atlas era.

Nifty...I thought it'd be soon, so I've been stockpiling the current series to read once I've got hold of the trade.

Ricochet Rita

This is going to be hard to name change ninja

You'll find a way when the time is right. The CCC didn't really do name changes for its first year.

Aunt May Parker

Oh dear. No, I haven't picked up Agents of Atlas, but I have picked up Nick Fury, Agent of Nothing. 3nodding

Maybe that should be our first order of business here...what're we all reading?

Aunt May Parker

Who are the Dark Reign Young Avengers going to be?

Your actual reunited Young Avengers, who Cornell sounds like he's got a great handle on, 'versus' this lot...

Cornell

who call themselves the Young Avengers. They're young rebels on the run from the establishment, feared and hated by a world they've sworn to protect. And Patriot finds, kind of against his better nature, that he really hates them having taken the name. He wants to see if they're worthy. But why should they submit themselves to that? Except that some of them really want his approval,” Cornell stated. “Only these guys--some of them really aren't so worthy. By the end of it, we'll see in greater detail the commitment and sacrifice the YAs make to be who they are, how hard it is to be defined as hero, by yourself and other people, and keep that going, all the time. Because some of these new kids just don't have that, in horrifying ways.”

The Dark “Young Avengers” are just as eclectic a group as the original Young Avengers. Only their ranks are composed of misfits and misguided characters, many of whom see the art of superheroics as being more about hurting than helping people. Cornell provided a role call and a brief description of each team member:

“The Melter: an idealistic kid who can't get a good costume together, with the organic power to melt-- anything. Which is kind of useless, right? Or maybe it could work, if only he could get a break. He finds himself the leader of the group, and tries his best, but can't get any respect either. And there's something truly terrible that happens to him, because of him, in the first issue.

“The Enchantress: his girlfriend, sort of, when she feels like it, an offhand and fly by night magician who claims she's from Asgard, but can't quite manage to keep the right sort of speech patterns going.

“The Executioner: a rich and organized urban vigilante, who hunts and kills criminal scum. And likes to hurt pets.

“Big Zero: a white power skinhead who can grow to enormous size or sink to microscopic, who claims she's raising an army in the Microverse with the aim of toppling the Federal government. Her favorite thing is to goad people of other races.

“Coat of Arms: a celebrated modern artist who chronicles the nature of superheroics in her art. She put the Melter in charge and places the team in what she calls 'scenes': foiling a bank robbery; battling another super hero team. She believes that her job isn't to lead the parade, but to observe it.

“Egghead: the team's cracked android, cruel and wayward and not above a bit of dissection.

“This story is about what happens when, taking the lead from Norman Osborn, and with a lack of established rules about some of the basics of how to live with powers, 'anything is permitted,' and young would-be heroes have to make it up as they go along,” Cornell continued. “As we'll see, the YAs did that very well, without ever realizing they had. Now they find themselves in a confrontational, then a mentoring role, meeting a dark mirror of themselves. As you might gather, with the above characters, karma and guilt and bad luck and malice all have their part to play. Can any of the new kids be saved, and do they want saving anyway? Or is the YA's way of doing things out of date now?”

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19890

[Ricochet Rita]

pinderpanda

Ricochet Rita

This is going to be hard to name change ninja

You'll find a way when the time is right. The CCC didn't really do name changes for its first year.

Zat mean I get to do the changes?
ninja

[pinderpanda]

Go on then. smile

What shall we say? One change a month with [X] and [Y] up for grabs in...

"[X]'s a [Y] Between the Wars"

Can you verk wid zis?

[Ricochet Rita]

i could work with that ninja

[pinderpanda]

pinderpanda

Maybe that should be our first order of business here...what're we all reading?

Maybe we should, MeFromAFewMinutesAgo.

My monthly haul from the House of Ideas looks a bit like this (I understand yours is similar) -

Captain Britain and MI-13
X-Men in their Uncanny,Astonishing and Noir iterations.
Fantastic Four
Invincible Iron Man
Mighty Avengers
Daredevil

I'm well aware that I should be reading Incredible Hercules and Captain America, and some day soon I'll go back to the start of those runs and put that right, but what else is missing from my pull list if I want to be taken seriously in the better circles of society?

I want to get back on board with the cosmic stuff too, but am unsure where to start. I'm up to date as far as the end of the first Annihilation event, but haven't read the second. Is it worth me reading that before jumping on Guardians of the Galaxy?

[Aunt May Parker]

Amazing Spider-man heart
Thor
Captain America
Amazing Spider-girl
Invincible Iron-Man
Captain Britain
Dark Avengers
New Avengers
Mighty Avengers
Avengers Initiative
Avengers/Invaders
Secret Warriors
War Machine
Nick Fury: Agent of Nothing

[Nick Joseph Fury]

My haul?

Invincible Iron Man
Uncanny X-Men
Thor
Agents of Atlas
Secret Warriors
Amazing Spider-Man
Captain Britain and MI:13
Mighty Avengers
Avengers: The Initiative
Thunderbolts
Deadpool
War Machine
Incognito
Captain America
Dark Avengers

And I'm sure I missed a few. I invest way too much into books I don't care about that much. I don't know how long I'll be able to keep picking up Secret Warriors, with the ridiculous twist at the end of the first issue. Thunderbolts has been in a downward spiral since Ellis' departure, though it seems to have picked up a bit post-Secret Invasion. War Machine is another one I don't know how much longer I'll keep in my box. And then there's ASM which I proclaim that I'm dropping every time someone (usually me) points out a gaping plot hole post-OMD, but I never do. (It's that damn Dan Slott that keeps pulling me back in.) And I definitely should be picking up Daredevil again.

Ugh. At least I dropped New Avengers.

EDIT: Oh, right. Dark Avengers. Another one slated to be axed in the near future after the stupidity of the second issue. I'm a bit obsessive-compulsive about my comics, though. I hate to leave an arc unfinished. I even picked up all of Sins Past, despite my viewing that as the worst comic arc ever written.

[Nekotalim_II]

Nyaaah, uh whatever Daredevil and X-Men titles I can get my hands on.


There's no way Marvel is going to get away with Big Zero, as hilarious as she and the Executioner sound.