the vynsane asylum

Pisses me off though, because now I want one. Bad.

My daughter is sleeping with her stuffed Bone tonight.

Anyone who giggles at the potential double entendre is a prevert.

Tell her to give it a hug for me, it's awesome.

So Wonder Man is a villain now? Huh?

Yeahhh...this is something Bendis just sorta made up. When the Avengers re-re-restarted (this is just after Siege and before Heroic Age) Simon shows up and is all "You fucking assholes! I hate you!" and the Avengers are like "LOLwhut?" and Simon is all "If you guys try to re-re-re-restart the Avengers bad juju is gonna happen and I will kill all of you if you start the Avengers" then he storms out in a huff. And the Avengers are all "WTF was THAT? Weirdo." Pretty much its just Marvel trying to create a little artificial drama by having one of the Avengers be a bad guy. But, honestly, its Wonder Man, so who gives a fuck.

On the one hand, I hear you. On the other hand, it's a former Avenger who had his own somewhat successful ongoing suddenly going bad for no reason.

And apparently putting together a team of former Avengers who want to kill the Avengers. This makes no sense.

Worth it?

I like Milligan. I like Allred. I like superhero parodies. But that's a hefty price tag for one of those massive books that are often physically tough to read. I only ask because it looks like all the trade paperbacks are OOP.

it's a good read - i have basically everything therin in floppy form. if you have the dough, it might be worth it.

Almost immediately after posting that, I thought, "What happened to Marvel?" Meaning where are the wacky, more-or-less in-continuity books like X-Statix and Nextwave? Everything seems to be straight-up MU or straight up UU, with little wiggle room. I guess there's Deadpool, but that's not exactly critically acclaimed.

The architects happened. It seems very much to me that Bendis seriously has turned into Reed Richards from his own Illuminati series. He has a cadre of about 4 really good young writers (and Matt Fraction ) at his beck & call to flesh out his version of the Marvel Universe. It's all going according to plan & there is very little room for wiggling, so far as I can tell. Rollo can likely offer more insight, as he reads just about everything produced by everyone, every week.

jjreason wrote:Marvel will pretty soon have launched its own 52 new #1's, based on how this is going:

X-Men just released about issue 13 or 14
FF just released 6
DD 1
Cap 1
2 new x-books coming in the next few weeks
Punisher
Thor's up to #3

I know there's more as well - silly comic companies.

Just coming back to this as Incredible Hulk is going to get a #1 here this month. Of interest, in a few cases they are leaving an old volume running & creating a new #1 featuring the same hero to go along with it. This isn't likely news to you - I'm just trying to keep it straight in my head - but other Marvel heroes that have gone from one book to two include Iron Man, Thor (even though Journey doesn't really feature Thor, I'd still call it a second Thor book) and Cap (all of whom feature prominently in the Avengers movie, oddly enough). Of all of these, I'm buying the 2 Cap books and was considering trying to fill in the first few issues of New Thor based on the reviews. I have 1 & 3 only at this point, and haven't seen the other copies anywhere - it must be alright.

Interesting to me that they didn't continue on with the original Hulk numbering for the "non-new" book - they're sticking with the Red Hulk story instead of moving that over into the classic volume. A re-re-renumbering must surely be planned for the next sales lull. I will buy the first arc of the new book as a tester as I haven't been buying Hulk for ages and am feeling a bit guilty about the whole thing. ><

How long before DD shows back up into his own original series like the Hulk did after the Incredible Herc interlude, creating a 2nd DD book and relieving the Panther of his own series yet again? Less than a year I'd bet. At that point, will the Black Panther books be required to have a complete run? Oyes they will. If this happens I'll be more inclined to dump both books rather than buy both - I haven't read the new DD yet but I did try once and had a really tough time getting started. Not a good sign.

I read a shit-ton of comics today. Question - when is it totally awesome to have both Thor & Captain America swearing? When you're writing Fear Itself and have no other way of showing they're both tired & frustrated, that's when. Because this is the biggest crisis either of them has ever faced.

I said before and say again: "Fear Itself," as teased, looked to be about the heroes really facing real-world problems, which could've been interesting. A bunch of Mjolnir-clone hammers does not a great crossover make, especially when there are so many crossovers they really have to get unique.

The way I'm reading it isn't working properly. I read 1-3 of the series as it came out kind of on their own, months ago. The crossover books I kept leaving because I was so far behind on my reading (Uncanny, 3 Avengers titles) that I didn't think I'd understand where they were going anyhow. Yesterday I read all the issues of those books from the ".1" issue (where one existed, in only one case it didn't - New Avengers I think) up until the commencement of FI.

Then I read FI 4-6 (which I just got yesterday, thanks to the elsewhere-bitched-about shortcomings of my comic guy), and followed those up with the FI issues of Uncanny, Avengers and New Avengers. I still have the Secret Avengers and Black Panther crossover issues to go.

All of this will then all be capped off by FI 7 which comes out in about 2 weeks. It hasn't seemed very tight to me - a lot of rehashing mixed with a feeling that I've missed (or forgotten) certain events of the story.

I likely should have done a re-read on FI 1-3 before I started on the crossover issues, and I guess I could have shuffled the crossover issues to coincide with their specific FI issue (instead of reading the Uncannys all together, maybe I should have read an Uncanny then an Avengers followed by a New Avengers for example) but that's never been the way I've done it. Once the story is complete I'll go back and read a summary on a Wiki somewhere to see how much of the story I actually "got" from the books I bought & read.

In trying to assess my collection of Brian Michael Bendis' take on the Marvel Universe, I realize I don't have the Siege mini. Doesn't look like the damage is too bad (at least on mycomicshop) but the thought of trying to piece together this event with the one-shots & everything else is making me feel a bit queezy. Hopefully I have the tie-in issues of the series I was getting at the time, haven't really checked through all of that yet ><


EDITED: And herein lies the rub. This should go in the mental health topic, but seriously - why is the focus of my comic collecting ALWAYS what I don't have and NEVER what I do have? How do you change this, or is it even possible to change???