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

Which of the following would best integrate with 616?

Marvelman		30.0%	[ 6 ]
Duckburg		70.0%	[ 14 ]

Total Votes: 20

[LazyComicFanboy]

d. morris

This should make probably 5 people on these boards happy. I am one of them.

color choice is a tad...seventies but otherwise good. Can't wait to read, so long as I don't go blind from the coloring... xd

[Katherine Kane]

d. morris

This should make probably 5 people on these boards happy. I am one of them.

I'll be number two. Let's find the other three! It's been my honest belief over the last couple years that Doctor Strange stories are very rarely as ******** crazy as they should be.

[Admiral Skippy]

So The List: Hulk #1....what was the point of Hulk #600? It's been what? Three or four comics and Hulk is already back? I know we have a few issues before he really shows up, but still, it seems kind of senseless to have taken him away to begin with.

[GLJordan]

marvel makes sense these days?

[Detective Sara Pezzini]

Out of curiousity, where is a good place to start if you're just picking up Fantastic Four?

[Nick Joseph Fury]

Detective Sara Pezzini

Out of curiousity, where is a good place to start if you're just picking up Fantastic Four?

Jonathan Hickman's run started with 570, and is only 3 issues in.


In other news, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Apparently, Bendis decided to go Twitter crazy on Saturday, and spent about an hour answer fan questions. He announced a few tentative projects, released details on existing projects and gave us some tidbits on Siege. Check out CBR's summary here.

A Daken/Thor showdown? Seriously?

I also love the assertion that no one likes Carnage. Granted, he's incredibly one-dimensional, and doesn't have much potential as a character, but you can't deny he's something of a fan favorite. I mean, the fact that someone's even asking about his fate proves him wrong.

[Admiral Skippy]

Daken Vs. Thor? How is that even fair?

Well, I guess it's as fair as Wolverine Vs. Hulk.

[kissmekillme]

Franken Castle is going to hilarious. Too bad it won't stick. Never did care for him, except when Brubaker was using him.

[Nick Joseph Fury]

Admiral Skippy

Daken Vs. Thor? How is that even fair?

Well, I guess it's as fair as Wolverine Vs. Hulk.

Wolverine vs. Hulk is one thing. They both have powerful healing factors, Wolvie's claws are one of the few things that can actually cut the Hulk's skin and, traditionally when they fight, Hulk isn't at the same power level he might be when he fights Thor. But Thor? Yeah, he's always there. I find it hard to believe the fight could last longer than a single panel of Thor swinging Mjolnir right into Daken's head and taking him out of the fight.

I stopped picking up Remender's Punisher at issue 7, I think. No big issues with it; it just wasn't doing it for me. Probably because it wasn't Ennis. I actually just picked up a bunch of "Welcome Back Frank" back-issues on Friday and just finished reading them. It's a completely different beast from Ennis' MAX series. Much more light-hearted and tongue-in-cheek. Fits better into the Marvel U than his MAX series. I'm interested in picking up more of his second Marvel Knights series now, actually, because as it stands, all I have is the issue where Frank and Spidey have a "team-up" against Fema-Russian. (And I did very much like that issue.) When it comes to Punisher, for me, no one does it like Ennis, and he's left enormous shoes to fill. I think if anyone can do it, though, it's Jason Aaron, and I eagerly await Punishermax #1 on Wednesday. I'm curious as to what tone he'll take, though. The name suggests it'll be in the vein of, well, Punisher MAX, but the Steve Dillon art lends some credence towards Marvel Knights.


The prospect of Bendis taking on MarvelMan still worries me very much, though. I looked a little further into it after his Twitter comment, and am not pleased with my findings. Apparently, Norman's "secret weapon" is due to rear its head during Siege. We previously saw him in that retched Cabal one-shot (the one where Namor looked like the mutant offspring of DeNiro and Jean Reno) as the shadowy figure everyone seemed to fear. Everyone assumed it was The Void, since Bendis is garbage at misdirection, but it looks like we were wrong. (That, or Bendis pulled a Ronin and changed the reveal after it became apparent how obvious it was.) Apparently, it's somehow been revealed that his initials are MM. That makes the most likely candidates Molecule Man (he apparently showed up in Dark Avengers #10 after a 20 year period where every writer at Marvel forgot he existed) and Miracle Man. Molecule Man seems unlikely, if you ask me. Sure, he has the potential to be powerful as all hell, but he's something of a push-over, if I recall. I could never see someone like Doom recoiling in fear of him. (Granted, you never know in a Bendis comic.) But MarvelMan? Yeah, he's a heavy hitter. And then there's this promo image for Siege that looks suspiciously like him.

For god' sake, Marvel. I don't care if you want to integrate MarvelMan into the Marvel U. Good on you. But give it to someone capable. Fraction, Brubaker, Ellis. Anyone who isn't Bendis. (Or Loeb.) I'd hate to see such a great character clumsily introduced and then given a ridiculously one-dimensional personality.

[pinderpanda]

GLJordan

marvel makes sense these days?

I've no idea (or interest) in whether it makes sense or not, but I'm enjoying Marvel right now more than I have in years.

Actually, at some point during the Assault on New Olympus prologue it crossed my mind that I may be enjoying Marvel right now more than I ever have.

Detective Sara Pezzini

Out of curiousity, where is a good place to start if you're just picking up Fantastic Four?

As Nick says...jump on now, now, now with the Hickman run. It's good stuff.

Nick Joseph Fury

In other news, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

I've such a sinking feeling about any attempt to integrate Marvelman with the MU... because there's only really one interesting thing about Marvelman and it's the nature of his own particular universe.

There's nothing intrinsic about Marvelman that's anymore worthwhile than Rob Liefeld's Supreme... what makes him special is that (as with Supreme) Moore came along and wrote a rather interesting story. Which Gaiman then continued the most interesting bits of.

It's the story of Marvelman that's the draw to the work, not the generic Superman/Shazam clone at its centre, and that story begins and ends with the question of what Marvelman does to his world.

Take him out of that world, take him out of that story, take him out of that context, and put him the MU and all you've got yourself is another iteration of the Sentry.

I'm not saying that integrating him into 616 couldn't be done well, but...no! ******** it. Yes I am.

Admiral Skippy

Daken Vs. Thor? How is that even fair?

I'm happy to trade 'fair' for 'brutally satisfying.'

kissmekillme

Franken Castle is going to hilarious.

Isn't it just?

You can't imagine the agonies I go through when something compells me to buy a Punisher comic.

d. morris

This should make probably 5 people on these boards happy. I am one of them.

My happiness exceeds that which it's reasonable to expect one human soul to contain, so I count as the other four.

Katherine Kane

So I was talking to a friend the other day about Captain America and the recent revelations concerning his "death," ie the whole "time bullets" thing. Don't worry I'm not here to "LOLWTF" all over the thread. Well not exactly. What I'm wondering here is how is this not pretty much exactly the same goddamn thing that happened to Batman in Final Crisis?

As kmkm says, the Slaughterhouse-Five-ish way this works doesn't really have much in common with The Final Fate of the Batman other than the phrase 'time bullets.'

But I liked Brubaker's explanation for the coincidence, which was basically... of course this will happen. We're both trying to channel Kirby.

Seems like he's coming through loud and clear.

[Sorce]

So, Daken v. Thor... I'm guessing this confrontation will start while Thor is in Donald Blake "mode". Because otherwise I don't see much of a challenge, unless the pheromones can actually sway Thor.

[Tenzil Kem]

Katherine Kane

d. morris

This should make probably 5 people on these boards happy. I am one of them.

I'll be number two. Let's find the other three! It's been my honest belief over the last couple years that Doctor Strange stories are very rarely as ******** crazy as they should be.

I'm a bit behind, but I'm #3. Richard is #4.

[Admiral Skippy]

Sorce

So, Daken v. Thor... I'm guessing this confrontation will start while Thor is in Donald Blake "mode". Because otherwise I don't see much of a challenge, unless the pheromones can actually sway Thor.

Even if they sway him a little I can't see them stopping him. All Thor would need is to hit Daken once and the fights over, and Daken would be lucky to live.

Wolverine has a bit of a one up because of the Adamantium skeleton, so his skull (or the rest of his bones) won't cave it when someone like the Hulk or Thor hits them. Daken's bones may heal faster, but they're still bones.

[Moshing-mice]

Doesn't Howard have a cousin from Duckburg?

[GLJordan]

I am the terror that flaps in the night.