Verily...Tis Random!

[jensaltmann]

It has been mentioned that Joss Whedon, (co?)writer and director of The Avengers movie, has come up with the ending of Marvel's Civil War event.

Which reminded me:

Back during Civil War, after the Thor clone had killed Giant Man (Goliath? I forget which codename Foster used at the time), the brain trust around Tony Stark was simply fiddling with the clone's program to see what went wrong. The only one who showed any signs of a conscience was Yellowjacket.

Two or three events later, it was revealed that Yellowjacket was a Skrull impostor. It was revealed that this particular Yellowjacket was a Skrull infiltrator.

Let that sink it: it is now canon in the Marvel universe that the Skrull are morally superior to Tony Stark and Reed Richards, both of whom were shown to be totally indifferent to the fact that they were responsible for the death of a fellow superhero.

[michaelpaciocco]

yes, well, it's generally best to pretend that nothing Mark Millar or Bendis has ever written counts. There's a reason my Marvel PBP starts at the end of the Busiek Avengers era.

[michaelpaciocco]

It now dawns on me that this is pretty much canon in the DCnU

www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=585#comic

[michaelpaciocco]

so, there's this.

www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=34915

I just lost a bet with someone over this, I know. I fully expected that Liefeld was going to hang on to the last Alan Moore "Supreme" script until after Moore was dead and then publish it.

Dammit. Nevermind that this means more Liefeld publishing, which is always a bad thing, but man...i guess that means we'll be seeing another trade collection of the Moore Supreme run...and I'm sorely tempted, because what is known of that final story is truly EPIC sounding.

[michaelpaciocco]

Because the "How it should have ended" series is just that cool

[jensaltmann]

The one problem I have with "Person of Interest" is Jim Caviezel. The writers keep writing banter for him -- and he doesn't deliver the lines. Actually, he always speaks in this monotone. Which would be fine if that was how the lines were written. But they aren't. I think the writers and the actors and the producers need to sit down and decide who John Reece is supposed to be.

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Am I the only one who keeps thinking his name is John Connor?

[michaelpaciocco]

Re: Fear Itself.

HAHAHAHA!!!.....you're kidding right?

No, seriously...that's it?

I don't think I've ever seen a more pointless crossover that was just begging to have all its major plot points reversed ...particularly with the Avengers movie coming out in about 8 months.

Really, it was like Fraction was trying to outdo Bendis for "most pointless waste of time crossover ever."

[jensaltmann]

Explain for those of us who didn't waste time and/or money on this?

[michaelpaciocco]

Short version of results:

Bucky's dead again.
Cap's sheild has a scar/crack in it.
Avengers Tower was destroyed (for...like the 5th time now. You wonder why they even bother).
Uhm, Banner and the Hulk got physically seperated...


and.....Thor is Dead.


So...yeah, that's it.

[jensaltmann]

Yeah, sounds like business as usual.

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Weren't Banner and Hulk separated already? Or at least the Hulk dormant within Banner, because Skaar was the new Hulk?

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Should I've bothered reading that crap?

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Naaaaah.

[paulpogue]

Worse still, all the major events happened almost as an afterthought. Seriously, the reforging of Captain America's shield was handled in one line of dialogue. Let's say that again. THE REFORGING OF CAPTAIN AMERICA'S SHIELD. It happened off-panel and was just sort of casually dropped in there.

I'm still not exactly clear on WHY Thor died. Or, for that matter, how everyone managed to beat a group of foes that we've been told all year are absolutely invincible. The Asgardian Weapons really just turned into an excuse for a splash page and barely seemed to matter again.

Bruce and the Hulk just randomly decided to separate from each other in the epilogue. Seriously. Hulk says "Wow, that Nul dude really pissed me off" and runs away leaving Banner in the desert.

If it sounds like I'm being harsh, it's because I really expected Fraction to pull together something better. He has his drawbacks as a writer, but "epic pointlessness" is not normally one of them.

Cap's shield crack seems to have already been forgotten in followups the very same week.

Nice art, though. Immonen is always pretty and Laura is, well, Laura . So at least moments like Cap taking up Thor's hammer looked quite good.

[michaelpaciocco]

"Looked good, made no sense. All events will be forgotten reversed by next movie." Where have I heard those three points echoed before.


Oh, right - Final Crisis.

[K-Box]

It's amazing how Marvel has managed to take an entire generation of formerly promising storytellers, from Bendis to Fraction, and reduced them to ground chuck.

[jensaltmann]

I just downloaded a CBR reading program for my ebook reader. So I had the idea of trying it out. Basically, get some free CBR files to see if the app works the way it is supposed to, and to see how the comics look on my 7 inch screen.

How to get free digital comics... Without any effort? Answer: steal them. So I went to a torrent site and looked at this week's comics. And yes, really only to try out the app and device combo.

I left without downloading anything. Because there was nothing there that interested me even in the slightest.

Yes, Virginia, what's being published these days is not even interesting enough to steal.

I'd download the free Doctor Who fan comics, but I'm also interested in how color pages would look on my screen, and those are in b&w.

[jensaltmann]

Note to self: In interviews, movie directors don't like it when they mention the wonderful subversive new approach they have to a subject matter, and the interviewer mentions that this approach has been used since the 1950s.