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Post by jessebaker on Jan 11, 2009 22:27:24 GMT -8
Jaime's book only lasted a year longer than Ted's and even then, has followed Ted's lead of having been shuttled off to a team book to linger.
So while Jaime has done well critically, he hasn't done all that well commercially, and God knows that the current incarnation of Teen Titans, post-Geoff, is no freaking Giffen League. Jaime would be better off finding a time machine and joining the Legion of the Super-Heroes or even the fracking Outsiders if anything.
That said, I pray Willingham doesn't last long on JSA adn doesn't do much to damage the title while he's there. Geoff Johns did a miracle reviving the JSA brand as a viable book, let alone establishing the JSA as the premire super-hero group of the DCU and an asshat like Willingham could make JSA such a joke that DC will try killing off the group again like they did in 1994.
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Post by jessebaker on Jan 2, 2009 21:31:55 GMT -8
I just find it funny that it took Marvel THIS long to force the comic strip to play ball with their suicide run with Spidey having huge chunks of his backstory erased.
The only redeeming thing about this is that Lee at least sees the logic of keeping Peter and MJ together, as a passive concession to the Peter/MJ shippers. Though I have to dread that the next couple of strips will include a stupid ass "MJ is a cocksucking whore" reveal as far as Peter catching MJ with other men as far as Quesada making Lee wreck the Peter/MJ relationship too in the comic strip.
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Post by jessebaker on Jan 2, 2009 21:20:21 GMT -8
I'd love to see Pertwee or Eifojor, although Joseph still seems like the best choice to mee. Pertwee is an out-of-left-field pick, but given that his name is being floated by Craig "broke the original Tennant story" McGill, it needs to be taken quite seriously. Which reminds me again for you Paul, who's going to be the 11th Doctor's companion? Or do you think we might be looking forward to an entire season of no companions?
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Post by jessebaker on Jan 2, 2009 20:09:40 GMT -8
Lost in all of this debate: who's going to be the new companion for Doctor #11? The cynic in me wonders if we will be seeing TPTB trotting out Sladen and Barrowman (both of whom have spin-offs) being drafted for double-duty as the new Doctor's companions for the entire run of series five, ESPECIALLY if they go the route of having the eleventh Doctor be black.
Having Sladen and Barrowman both doing a full season of Doctor Who, to anchor the series in the wake of hiring a black actor to play the Doctor seems like something BBC would do to keep fan interest high while they settle in the new incarnation of the character and get people used to a black version of the character. It would get people talking and might be the sort of "stealth weapon" to deflect the controversy of a black Doctor by having Jack and Sarah side by side with the Doctor, accepting the change without a second thought, to negate any backlash against the move and to make such a major transition work seemlessly, given that both Jack and Sarah are sort of the Alpha Male/Alpha Female of modern Who Companions.
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 26, 2008 12:51:29 GMT -8
I keep thinking, if there ever IS a Thundercats revival made, that Seth McFarlane needs to be involved in the project. His work on Robot Chicken, as that show's voice of Lion-O is great and at the very least, I'd love to see him do the voice full-time in the event someone resurrects the franchise in the form of a new cartoon series/animated movie.
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 19, 2008 21:22:00 GMT -8
Also of note, having recently re-read Ellis's T-Bolts run these last couple of days:
Norman Osborn's secret weapon is Robbie Baldwin.
In Caged Angels, there is a MAJOR scene where Moonstone is doing a major league hard sell to Norman, convincing him that she can turn Robbie Baldwin, formerly Speedball and now Penance into a Hulk-level powered enforcer for Norman's various schemes. And in the last couple of issues of T-Bolts, Moonstone seems to be carrying out said scheme, as far as drugging Robbie and taking him to a maximum security mental institution, which given who's Moonstone's teacher is (Dr. Faustus, the dude Red Skull used to brainwash half of SHIELD and made Sharon Carter kill Cap), things don't look too well for Robbie.
Which in turn is why Doom is made to back down when Norman showed his ace in the hole, seeing as not only did Speedball FUCKING OWN Doom's ass in the Penance mini-series, but pretty much did so in Doom's own house. Much in the same way seeing Squirrel Girl makes Doom shit his pants, he probably now has a similar aversion to Penance.
(Loki of course wouldn't be afraid, but Loki generally seems to be going along with Norman's plan out of boredom if anything so Robbie is a non-factor. And Emma scanning Robbie and seeing that he's now a brainwashed human suicider for Norman might keep her and the Hood at bay.)
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 19, 2008 21:14:30 GMT -8
Given that they pretty much unofficially wiped the entire Clone Saga fron canon, if Kaine DOES show up, he will be barely recognizable as the Kaine we all know. Ten will get you twenty he'll be a whiney, disfigured Peter Parker clone who thinks his powers are the result of Jackyl using him as a test subject to create Spidercide, his "super-powered" Peter Parker clone.
Which leads to the notion of them brining Kaine back just so he can try and steal Peter's life and face and die, while Peter cracks wise about not liking clones.
And as for the Mr. Negative storyline line, given that said issue was written by Dan Slott, you honestly don't think he wrote/conceived of that line as a doube-shot of "Fuck you" to the fans of Spider-Man who LIKED the Baby May plotline/Spider-Girl?
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 19, 2008 19:34:07 GMT -8
Well Bendis IS not exactly the most creative fuck in the comic industry. Basically strip-mining out everything out of Thunderbolts that sort-of made it popular and bastardizing it (in this case, Dark Avengers featuring only the most unlikable members of the Thunderbolts, with Songbird, Radioactive Man, and Speedball forced to fake their death and go into hiding, expelled from America just-because, and sent to a corrupt mental institution by Moonstone out of bitterness that Doc Samson got to Speedball before she could lay her claws into him) isn't exactly a suprise.
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 19, 2008 17:59:40 GMT -8
Really, those two traits aren't even compatible. If there's one quality that's required to pull off a Xanatos Gambit TM, it's self-control. I think even his supporters would suggest Norman lacks that. THANK YOU. Really, that's one of the things that's bugged me about Norman for YEARS. It's like the writers want him to be equal parts Lex Luthor and the Joker, and THAT SIMPLY DOESN'T WORK. Then again, his killing off Gwen Stacy aside, I was NEVER impressed by Norman. Outside of his costume, he's a slimmed-down, third-rate Wilson Fisk with bad hair. In his costume, he's actually LESS interesting than all of the guys who have RIPPED HIM OFF over the years, from Harry to the Hobgoblins, and even Phil Urich. Otto Octavius? Now THERE'S an archenemy who deserves to be kept around. Norman works best, and this is WHY Ellis's Thunderbolts got raved reviews BTW as far as his portrayal of Norman, when he's written as Jeckyl and Hyde, not as an uber-Satanic figure (which goes back to BEFORE the Clone Saga, when writers decided Norman as an absentee dad who largely funded his son's drug habits in order to avoid having contact with him as far as the notion of "Money and not being around for any period of time for your son>Love and Attention" type of bad parenting not cutting it and turned him into a physically and emotionally abusive father from hell). Think Vic Mackey, devoted family man and nice guy who will stab you in the back, frame you for crimes, betray you to let you rot in jail to avoid being caught for his own crimes, and if all else fails shoots you in the head-type villain. He's a monster who cloaks his evil and selfishness in the guise of affability and compassion. It's one of the few reasons why I can stand the more recent "Norman wants Peter as his heir" twist to the character that Paul Jenkins thought up to replace Norman as Uber-Villain as far as Norman truly liking Peter and feeling some perverse sense of kinship towards him as far as seeing that Peter, in another life and another time, would have been the son he wished Harry was. And in a way, this makes me wish, more than anything that they would have just used the Skrull excuse to bring Harry back. ESPECIALLY since it would also explain WHY Norman suddenly has the big, utterly out-of-character shifting of vendettaism towards Tony Stark and the Avengers. It would be much saner and logical if Norman's newfound vendetta against them was revealed to be due to the fact that because of Tony Stark, that the Skrulls kidnapped his son and made him think he was dead, and drove him to such madness actionwise as a result, it would explain why Norman is now out to destroy Tony Stark once and for all, complete with usurping complete and utter control over the Avengers in order to do so.
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 19, 2008 1:17:50 GMT -8
Which reminds me further: Evil Illuminati is used to cosmicly reset the X-Men so Xavier's in charge again, Scott resumes the bitch position where he belongs (after fuck-up after fuck-up after fuck-up as sole leader of the X-Men), and Emma is either kicked out of the core X-Books/shuttled off to a satalite X-Book/just plain turned evil again? 51%
Emma's alliance reaks of desperation and ego and even if she's playing Norman, Scott will dump her ass as soon as he finds out (and hopefully gets told to go fuck himself by Emma, complete with dumping and his own 100% failure to replace Xavier shoved right in his face so hard that Scott breaks forth into tears when Emma forces him to realize what a horrible failure of a leader he is). Xavier comes back (bonus points if Storm arranges it as her token gesture of "fuck you"ness to Emma and Scott) and Emma goes away long enough for us to remember why we fell in love with he in the first place/Scott is put back into his place as a pathetic fuck-up he always has been/Xavier takes over as leader again.
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 17, 2008 19:16:45 GMT -8
Given the fact that Brevoort and Quesada are on the record of retconning out MJ's pregnancy via One More Day, this could be another sign that they are now finally taking the even ballsier step of using OMD/BND to flush the clone saga down the toilet as far as removing all Spider-Man stories from 1994 up through 1997 (IIRC when Spectacular Spider-Man #250 was published) from canon.
Which combine with the fact that all Spidey stories from 1998-2001 are also iffy canonwise, as far as pretty much everyone and their mother sidestepping everything that happened from the Byrne reboot up through JMS's first issue, (plus the fact that OMD pretty much guts the entire JMS Spidey run too), we are looking at pretty much 14 years worth of Spider-Man stories pretty much erased from canon, going as far as back as everything after Amazing Spidey #388 no longer taking place.
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 17, 2008 14:23:53 GMT -8
In a nutshell, Norman and Mysterio faked Harry's death in Spectacular Spidey #200, in part because Norman thought Harry's return to being Green Goblin was due to a drug relapse. He was then shipped off to rehab centers in Europe for years on end as Norman had his son "fixed".
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 17, 2008 13:00:40 GMT -8
Byrne stole the new issue of Amazing today and woe and behold, Harry's resurrection is revealed and makes semi-sense, so long as you assume that the Clone Saga never happened and that Norman only resurfaced in Spectacular Spider-Man #250.
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 12, 2008 13:53:14 GMT -8
Nope, Dan Slott's called dibs on Wanda and if the solicits for the first couple of Slott-penned issues of Mighty Avengers are any indication, is looking to pull a GL Rebirth to absolve Wanda of culpability for Avengers Disassembled.
That said, another far-off suggestions: Romulus, the guy who "created" Wolverine. He could be Norman's ace in the hole.
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Post by jessebaker on Dec 11, 2008 13:44:59 GMT -8
How would Norman go about threatening Namor? He mentioned the Atlantis sleeper cells that are all over America as his leverage over Namor.
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