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! I'm loving this version of Sinister. And for fucks sake Hodge is still alive.
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XFactor is the horniest marvel comic that I've read.
I'm also pissed off that they decided to do that to the one venezuelan marvel character.
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Happy for NXM fans that their favs came back to life after years of murder porn (even though they loved the murder porn because it wasn't their favs being killed off).
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XFactor is the horniest marvel comic that I've read.
I'm also pissed off that they decided to do that to the one venezuelan marvel character.
Only one, we have plenty, although Thiago Piranha and the Manero Brothers sounds like a Rio drug dealers, Xande should be called Xandinho, Jararraca is not a surname and Aguilar should be Aguiar.
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Weekly X:
! How sweet was seeing this lovely ladies pegging raw Shaw. But I guess they settle the scores and moved to business again. Who are going to be the vacant spots in the council?
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I never understood why Sony aquired the movie rights of Descender, they dindu nuffin' with them :/
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Probably an impulse buy. Like half of my steam library, or that last gacha pull.
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Sometimes you option rights to a thing because the tagline pitch seems like it has potential but then you get down to actually trying to make a movie out of it and things get in the way, or budget goes to other things.
Y: The Last Man has been in production hell since the comic first came out 18 years ago and its show is only now coming.
Lots of novels get optioned all the time because they're similar to a current popular thing but it doesn't work out. (Lots of stuff tried to cash in on Potter and LotR)
James Cameron was supposed to do Alita back in 2005 and it never happened till he handed it off.
The Hobbit was a no brainer guaranteed to make billions and it still got stuck in production hell for years until DelToro left the project.
So it happens all the time.
There's TWENTY Star Wars and Marvel tv shows coming in the next couple years. Take half the budget from even one of them and you could make a full season of Gargoyles but that's not as much of a sure thing that will drive sales. So…
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Opps I didn't mean to be gone for a month! I've still read the comics but didn't come her to comment.
Enjoying Strange Academy Katzztar? I'm digging, feels like early Claremont New Mutants, I wish they dig a little bit more on the teachings of magic instead of doing call ups about what reports the students have to do etc, but at this point I don't thing Marvel intend to change a soft magic system for a hard one.
Oh yeah I'm still enjoying Strange Academy. I feel the focus on students during these early issues is important, while we like the magic (seriously we do!) but just like those Clairmont early days of New Mutants, what makes the book is the personal aspect; from the various personalities of the main students to how the subject of the book affects them (with NM it was their mutanthood, with SA it's their relation to magic). The most recent issue and what happens with Doyle & Emily shows why the set up is important and shows there IS an element of magic and its affect to them that's important but its not spelled out (no fun there then) its a mystery that is slowly being manifested, and may take longer to be resolved.
It's been half a week and I'm still furious about retconning Franklin into not being a mutant. Why is Marvel like this??? Hickman's been setting up Franklin being pivotal for over a year, they just did a miniseries about Franklin's role as a mutant AND a member of the FF.
And then Slott comes running in with hs writers block because "powerful characters are lame!" and decides Franklin just wished he was an oppressed minority to get attention and made it come true with his reality altering powers.
This the first time there's real meaty storytelling opportunities for that brat and Marvel's like naw dog, he's just a mopey teen now. And Slott turning his twitter feed into Stalingrad is making things even worse.
In both the online comic comments and on youtube I've voiced two ideas about this.
1- I know now that the first doesn't really apply but I didn't know about Slott's official take when I wished it was just a decoy, an enemy that used Xavier's image to demoralize Franklin, that it's too convenient in timing for Xavier to appear right then. Not only just as Franklin was thinking, but also its during time a enemy was going about destroying the universes Franklin has created and Xavier would be too busy just to be eavesdropping on Franklin's thoughts to "drop the bomb" when Franklin is at his lowest.2- this one turned out to be correct- the writer is scum who didn't want to play nice with the Dawn/Reign of X events. He wanted his "cosmic powered First Family" to be ALL that and no more mutants in FF titles…despite decades of storytelling of Franklin being a mutant. He could have done what previous writers did and simply didn't write Franklin taking part of mutant events, simple. But NOOO this asshole has to retcon it so Franklin's not a mutant.
I see this not lasting long. Slott is going to be gone at some point, and new writer with retcon this retcon, making Franklin a mutant again. And it's a simple method too... just see #1 above, blame a enemy for deceiving Franklin and was draining his power until its forced into sleeping then masking his x-gene. THAT has already happened thanks to his dad!weekly x
! I'm loving this version of Sinister. And for fucks sake Hodge is still alive.
Nothing much to comment on Xfactor this time.…if Hodge is more machine than flesh, can we really say he is alive?
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There's TWENTY Star Wars and Marvel tv shows coming in the next couple years. Take half the budget from even one of them and you could make a full season of Gargoyles but that's not as much of a sure thing that will drive sales. So…
Probably for the best for that to not happen.
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…if Hodge is more machine than flesh, can we really say he is alive?
yehyeah he exists=he's 'alive' .... but my point is he shouldn't be considered a "Real human" anymore but the machines, a post-human maybeThis is pathetic douche that created a Klan terrorist cell just out of envy for his former college roommate, his soul could be trapped in a toaster and he would still think he's more human than a mutant.
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Is Superior Iron Man Tony Stark’s strongest Armor? I don’t read much Iron Man except for Brian Michael Bendis run on the character and Avengers stuff
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Weekly X
! Wait Farouk was close to 600 years when Charles offed him? Damn, the Shadow King Spa treatment must be Omega Class. (Well we saw him body jumping after and kinda transmuting the host into Farouk so that's probably the better answer.) Gabby is speaking the truth, give us back Madelyne and Nathan.
! Hank still a douche no surprise, the Dracula situation will probably be left for another big event after the whole Knull is coming (which I've been told sounds awful in swede), and what the hell was in that meteorite?Damn, Strange Academy is hitting the gas.
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Anyone else exited about this?
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I was waiting for Cable 7 and X16 to drop to do the weekly X, but I thing they will only drop next wednesday. Alas:
! New dynamics on the for the Excalibur group, and Betsy is definitely not on Earth 616.
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The Last Weekly X of the Year
! Nothing much to talk about Wolverine 8.
Oh great, Arakko and Krakoa ain't buddies no more. A whole event wasted. -
Finally started reading Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and, yeah, I pretty much instantly love this.
I guess this was a continuation of an ongoing series, which I guess would've been nice to read, but Alan does a fine job of getting the reader up to speed.
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First Weekly X of the year
! Well something is clearly wrong with Syren.
Hahahah that was glorious to see Hodge die…again...and there's something up with Kwannon.Man this Thor Saga is being extremely entertaining.
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https://www.marvel.com/amp/articles/comics/nightcrawler-new-x-men-series-si-spurrier-way-of-x
Si Spurrier, writer of the best X-Men comic of the '10s, is back!!
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I… what?
Give me a tldr please.
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What I understood was that everything became an esleworld, basically.
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They threw continuity out the window at least with Superman when they killed off new 52 Superman and Lois then essentially merge their memories with another Clark and Lois who were essentially supposed to be Pre New 52 Clark and Lois but weren’t.
Which leads to weird shit like New 52 Lois exposing New 52 Clark’s identity that getting retconned (I guess) only for the other Clark (that’s merge) to reveal his identity in the Newer books anyway.
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Of fucking course Marvel could be left behind in shaming themselves
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I don’t agree with it, but the Clone Saga came back in vogue years ago due to nostalgic fans.
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Is miles vs his European clone? Or just miles vs peter ‘s clones?
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! Nice fight between Calisto and Ororo, as usual. Wonder what Emma is plotting in the shadows and what will happen at the gala.
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Weekly X
! Great the clone of old butt is back before the old butt himself.
Namor and Hank fight for whom is the bitchiest mutant alive.–- Update From New Post Merge ---
"Yes. The first apparition of Batman. A big inspiration on me as kid."
"Heh, makes sense. He's a white dude's fantasy."
Scumbag is nice.
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Hey let's make Danvers more of Mary Sue in the comics because this is what hollywood directors think female empowerment means and she's one the main names in phase 4:
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Carol isn't a Mary Sue in either the comic or the film….
I'm absolutely loving this Captain Marvel run.
It irritates me to no end how the term "Mary Sue" has been ruined and now simply refers to any somewhat strong female character that upsets men...
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Ok, indeed came in a certain bad faith here, I didn't saw the movie and I'm not following anything on Marvel besides X-Series and Ms. Marvel.
My issue with Carol started with Civil War II: Fascist Boogaloo where she's absolutely wrong, yet they try to spin that there's any shred intelligent argument on both sides of the conflict. -
Civil War II was kind to nobody. It is to Carol what Civil War 1 was to Tony.
Complete character assassination we should all be ignoring.
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Civil War II was kind to nobody. It is to Carol what Civil War 1 was to Tony.
Complete character assassination we should all be ignoring.
On this hill we can agree.
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Just finished volume 16 of Dawn Of X
Tomorrow I finally start Sword Of X
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[/hide]Just wait a few years. It'll all be undone in another Crisis.
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https://www.marvel.com/characters/x-men-vote
Starting tomorrow, you will be able to vote on who becomes the final member of Hickman's new X-Men team.
(vote for Marrow or Boom Boom)
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Civil War II was kind to nobody. It is to Carol what Civil War 1 was to Tony.
Complete character assassination we should all be ignoring.
Considering more people remember Tony’s actions in Civil War (and the Crossing years before that) I think it’s safe to say it’s been forgotten.
Only thing of note that came out of that was Ironheart and Doctor Doom getting to be an anti hero….only to get bitchslapped by status quo is god because Doom is only interesting when his face is scarred and he’s fucking with Reed and the rest of the superhero community.
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Considering more people remember Tony’s actions in Civil War (and the Crossing years before that) I think it’s safe to say it’s been forgotten.
You'd think that and in general you'd be right but too often specifically when Captain Marvel comes up people are like "She's such an awful character! Did you see how much of a fascist lunatic she was in CW2?!"
It's like it's all anyone bases their opinion on her from.
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I liked Danvers in her brief period in the Brood Saga, but i preferred her when she was a competent hero and utter mess of a person. Like enjoying killing the skrulls.
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You'd think that and in general you'd be right but too often specifically when Captain Marvel comes up people are like "She's such an awful character! Did you see how much of a fascist lunatic she was in CW2?!"
It's like it's all anyone bases their opinion on her from.
They’re still doing this even after the very next storyline Civil War 2 lead into?
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You Mean Nazi Cap? Yeah not the best times at editorial.
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The thing about Carola is that she’s been written as a fascist a half dozen times by now. And it makes sense since she has a background as a military ghoul.
Tony, meanwhile, is written as a libertarian asshole fighting the government for his patents all the time, so his CW turn felt out of whack.
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You Mean Nazi Cap? Yeah not the best times at editorial.
Hasn't a good chunk of Marvel been editorial just greenlighting weird shit and every once in while fucking someone over?
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https://www.marvel.com/characters/x-men-vote
Starting tomorrow, you will be able to vote on who becomes the final member of Hickman's new X-Men team.
(vote for Marrow or Boom Boom)
Given the options, that's the only viable ones.
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Hasn't a good chunk of Marvel been editorial just greenlighting weird shit and every once in while fucking someone over?
I guess I mean look a this page, who in sound mind who've thought it was appropriate for a character trying to impose Minority report give the answer to a mutant holocaust survivor and say "oh that's fine, let's roll with it"
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I'm sorry I was distracted by the janky looking art.
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Weekly X: Boom Boom vote edition
! Solid New Mutants issue. Good to see the OG team together - eve if briefly - and things progressing with Cosmar and Gabby. I wonder what Shadow King has planned.
! This was the first time in Hickman's run that Betsy and Psylocke interacted right? Even if it was in a AU it was awkward.
! Wolverine issue was kinda boring.
! Nothing to write home about the X issue, but i really liked the art.That sure was an emotional edition of Strange Academy.
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Delayed Weekly X:
! I like how none of the Hellions gives two shits about Essex. Wyngarde was creepy the whole ordeal. And Arcade is back. How long he hasn't been involved in a X plot? A decade, two?
! The Black King tie in was meh, nice punishment for the slavers, but it would be nice to know how Ororo and Scott got captured before Beast gives the order to kill them if needed.
! We went full slasher in X-Factor, second round of Dake vs Morrigan.Stange Academy is really good.