The All New Marvel Now Thread (Renamed and Rebooted!)

Discussion in 'Comic Books and Graphic Novels' started by Star Saber, Jul 3, 2012.

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    Is there any particular reason Marvel sometimes ships two issues of a title in one month? They did it this month with Gwenpool and are doing the same in May. I'm enjoying the title, but I really don't need two issues of it a month.
     
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    Looks like the Dr doom iron man is joining the avengers! Also ms marvel and moon girl are joining the secret warriors.

    Looks like prowler and foolkiller titles are canned.
     
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    I am pretty sure he means the first two volumes of the new Xmen Claremont/Bryne,ETC. I have never known the original 2 xmen (Lee/Kirby/Thomas/Adams) omnibuses being reprinted. I am wanting them reprinted myself. The earlier stuff by Lee/Kirby wasn't bad,but it gets rough around late teens early 20s, but gets really good in the 50s.
     
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    Yeah, I like the very early stuff, but after that, it's easy to see why it hovered on the edge of cancellation for so long, until the Steranko issues, and then the terrific Thomas/Adams mini-run bring the quality way back up, although too late to save the series.
     
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    CBR has really gone down the toilet since the buyout. They're just so focused on clicks, one of my favorite columns - the comic book urban legends has now been split into 3 parts published separately when it used to be a single article of 3 legends.
     
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    I don't know if biased is the right word, but they definitely have and share an opinion on current events. And I think it's not a bad thing for a writer to have an opinion, regardless of whether it's one I agree with in any particular case. But presenting the opinion in a non ham-fisted way would be nice.

    Personally, I didn't think Hydra Cap needed defending, since it's been obvious to any 2-year-old that it's a temporary storyline anyway. I remember people flipping out when Steve "died", too. Geez, settle down, people, and welcome to comic books.
     
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    Anyone that defends Hydra Cap just doesn't want to get on the bad side of Marvel.
     
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    What's to defend? It's only a story.

    The writer of the article was just pointing out that this TEMPORARY story is clearly meant as a commentary on current political events. Big whoop. We already know history is going to be un-cosmic cubed back to what it's supposed to be soon.
     
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    The problem is how temporary is it?, Marvel's trouble lately has been not knowing when a story has run it's course. The time displaced X-men are still around, we still don't know why Thor became unworthy, and that's just the beginning, there are so many unresolved stories and loose plots at marvel from the last 2 to 5 years I've lost count. After a while, you just stop caring and lose interest. I'm sure he will be back to normal by Avengers 3 but that's still a while off. But then I stopped reading Cap after Brubaker left because I wasn't enjoying the stories anymore, and this and the other plot line haven't brought me back to either book.
     
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    Well, that is a problem. It's hard to judge even as a reader. Because while I can understand Cap fans being impatient for the Hydra thing to be over, I would have loved another 10 years of Brubaker's Bucky as Cap with Steve dead. I was nowhere near ready for that one to be over, although I knew they couldn't keep things that way forever. Sometimes even a short time is too long, and a long time is not long enough.

    As far as leaving Cap after Brubaker goes, that's normal. I almost always leave a book after a legendary run ends. I'm not into buying mediocre follow-ups to great comics.
     
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    Frankly, I still think turning Cap into a Hydra agent was an insult to his creators who were friggin Jews.
     
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    Amazing Spider-Man #24...

    Octavius steals the clone body that Ben was trying to switch into. Ben ends up using the drugs to keep from deteriorating.
     
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    Yeah, because we all remember how many people lost their lives during WW2 due to Hydra. And this is the first time ever that a comic book hero has temporarily been turned evil against his/her will for a storyli-- oh, wait.
     
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    It's more the "reboot" aspect that troubles me more than this storyline itself, it won't last for too long after all.
     
  19. Dr Kain

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    Hydra is a Nazi organization, remember?
     
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    Not originally.
     
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