Oh, and it looks like this is getting him kicked off the Avengers, according to the teaser image from Marvel.
[Comics] Amazing Spider-Man comic ends, Marvel drinks SM fan tears. [Spoilers]
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BananaHands
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Wolverine's head looks like a thumb.
Humberto Ramos draws necks like tree trunks and women with strong, manly jawlines. I really hate his art.
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Oh, god. That isn't Hawkeye wearing a red wig then....
Subtlety in a mainstream superhero comic? Heh, right. They can't even make a status quo change without three mini-series and an annual to explain it.
The "I'LL BE BACK!" scream Ghost Pete made was really stupid and over-the-top, at least for the first issue. That should have been at the very least 5 or 6 issues before he actually returned, because we ALL know now that he will return and soon. Cause it's Peter Parker and he's screaming "I'LL BE BACK!". It almost like bringing him back already. Didn't even let the SpOck thing play out more. Lame.
Unless they're actually not bringing him back. Everything makes it obvious he'll return, and then... he doesn't. There'll be a big buildup, ghost-Peter finds a way to regain his body, and it turns out at the last minute that Octavius has thought of it already and stops him. Peter stays a ghost, subverting everyone's expectations.
At least for a while. Cause yeah, he'll be back. Eventually.
At least for a while. Cause yeah, he'll be back. Eventually.
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Yeah, but Lee himself said "gifted but not genius". I agree that the shooters are impressive, but not unbelievable for someone who is gifted. (Check out hackaday.com for real-life gifted engineering.) Ock is genius-level, though. Reed Richards has come to him for help in the past. Seems like someone would notice that aspect.
Intelligence levels vary according to need. Reed R is sometimes the Smartest man on Earth, sometimes just smart. Dr Doom same. Ock same. heck, Batman is supposedly amongst the best and brightest of the world, but he's downright stupid when plot demands it.
That said, I'm going to say Peter Parker'l lbe back in 3 or 4 issues, and only after that will we get the actual "Superior Spiderman" - parker again, but with newfound...whatever - powers, intelligence, bravado, mechanical arms, whatever they want to throw in.
That said, I'm going to say Peter Parker'l lbe back in 3 or 4 issues, and only after that will we get the actual "Superior Spiderman" - parker again, but with newfound...whatever - powers, intelligence, bravado, mechanical arms, whatever they want to throw in.
I dunno. Various variations have him in late high school/lower college. He was younger than the "adult" Superman/Batman/etc. A kid who happens to be good at science, doesn't magically become Stephen Hawking.
Anyway, I assume this Parker is older anyway, and I haven't kept up at all....But the idea of Spidey was ahero more relatable for teenagers/regular people than the superrich and superpowerful - his problems are more down to earth. I don't see how being a Spergenius fits in that picture, other than allowing nerds yet another power fantasy.
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See, I see "pretty good marvel universe engineer" more than Reed or Victor. But I admit, I haven't read too many issues lately.
I'm in complete agreement that he's an excellent scientist (or engineer), but he's no Ock. I always liked that idea, which may be biasing me, I admit. I liked that he was the Blue Beetle, not Lex Luthor.
BananaHands
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I still have a whole box of those! I should open it up and see where he stands.
Same here, still have my binder full of them and a box with the rest. I really should dig through it too sometime. Unfortunately it's in the garage and it's freaking rainy/cold outside right now.
BananaHands
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I always got so angry with those sets you just had to complete. It'd be like this epic battle that you had to put together with 9 cards and every time I'd get like 15 of the middle card.
BananaHands
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We should just make a catch-all Marvel thread. Or just jump to that Marvel NOW thread because I wanna talk about All-New X-Men and stuffz.
Shit I still have the holograms from that original first set. The Magneto and the Spider-Man.
Damn this nostalgia, I'm considering making a break for the garage.... As for jumping to the Marvel thread, I have zero interest in comics today, so I wouldn't be much help there.
I had planned to make this a Marvel general thread and just start off with Spidey, but I wasn't sure there'd be enough interest. Feel free to talk about whatever though, not much more going on with SM till Superior #2.
Time-travelling X-Men and Beast's new look, for example. I dislike both.
I really liked his most recent, with the scruff that looked like a beard. This new one just looks weird to me.
PS: the guy holding Beast up is Beast.
The guy holding up Blue Hank is the Hank McCoy from the past who Blue Hank brought from the past along with the other original X-men to talk Cyclops out of his rampage after the Phoenix War.
They're both Hank, just past and present.
Yeah, and now the past X-Men want to find him and stop him, even though present Beast decided he wants to send them back. So now there's a Jean Grey from the past who knows exactly what's going to happen to her running around. Also, nobody wants to tell Archangel what happened to him (and I don't blame them, it is fucked up).
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