Best Battles in New Comics: 8/29/14

Ahhhhhhhhh, Sentry vs Lady Ultron. That was a good one.

When is Wolverine gonna die? Put him out of his misery. lol

I'm thinking the cube is going to send back Thanos Drax and Star Lord to the normal universe and leave Richard behind.. i think Thanos gets in Star Lords head while the cube is already in there, so Thanos MUST be using telepathy.

Thanos knew from the start what he was going to do, which is why he didn't kill them. He could easily of done so, either way.. Richie is probably in the Cancerverse.

KNEW THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY BATTLE WAS GONNA BE HERE.

When are comicviners gonna realize that only comicviners care about "consistent power levels" and stuff like that. Writers just want a good story. Characters change all the time in terms of power. It really doesn't matter and is only good for battle forums, which aren't important at all.

"Good story"? Like Angela manhandling Thor good? Yeah, I see what you mean.

Tell me about one instance of inconsistency that gave us a good story please.

Wow. So not only are they going to kill Wolverine off, they are going to do it in the worst way imaginable.

Nothing says "Demise with Dignity" quite like being completely demolished by your worst enemy, right Marvel?

@fallschirmjager: Thanks for the pic.

@adamtrmm: Angela has only had one fight. I hated her manhandling Thor but that's not really relevant here.

What I'm saying is that writers are not limited by consistency and don't have to have consistent power levels. They will never change the outcome of a fight based on some random feat that happened before.

@jayc1324: "When are comicviners gonna realize that only comicviners care about "consistent power levels" and stuff like that. Writers just want a good story. Characters change all the time in terms of power. It really doesn't matter and is only good for battle forums, which aren't important at all."

I hate this, but this is so true. When you here non viners debate about characters it sound ridiculous because they talk about the character as whole including non-canon stories, and feats that happened decades, and different versions of the character conjoined as one.

Everything about this fight was handled badly, acknowledging it was written by Aaron himself who had Thor INSANELY durable now 4-shotted by someone who barely held her own against GOTG. This was inconsistency at its worst since Angela wasn't even shown to use anything that impressive and that statement she's faster than Mjolnir (MFTL) will never be backed up on panel for obvious reasons. Jobbery, inconsistency and bad writing, somehow these always walk together.

Well, they should be! Otherwise you can't take anything written for seriously and ask yourself an adequate question that is "Why didn't that character do that when he totally could?".

Every time I see the new Wolverine art Wolverine looks like he has some strange dwarf face. Why?

Tell that to people who write anime :/

Bad showings for thanos and aquaman.

How so?

@fallschirmjager: he was hurt by sharks and by a street lamp. There were other things that stood out but i dont remember since i only read it once. Let me get to my computer and go thru it again.

He yelled out, but the hammerhead's bites didn't even break his glove or leg armor.

If you ask me it had more to do with the fact that he doesn't like hurting sea life and knew he was gonna have to after the Chimera controlled them. Its possible the Chimera amps them too, in a previous issue we saw his visage in one of the whales he was controlling.

The street lamp (also it was weird one cos idk any that have actual fire in them lol) he also screamed but if you look at the scans...his glove is still intact again lol. Aquaman's heat resistance is also top notch. he has swam in lava and Black Manta's shots only barely do anything.

most of it was drama if you ask me. I mean look at Chimera stabbing him. He yelled out again but Chimera didn't even pierce his armor and Aquaman hasn't handled stabbing attacks too well in the New 52 either.

@fallschirmjager: yea thats what i mean. He screamed in pain from a shark bite. I dont think theres any evidence of amping by the chimera. Yea the fire lamp was weird haha. I was really upset when the lamp hurt him. And now im going back thru the issue and im seeing the chimeras fire hurt him too. Maybe its hotter than the lava he swam in during the dead king arc. Also the elecrric eel power hurt him. Overall a bad showing for Arthur.

its acid not fire.

and again I will say - he screams yes but look at his body. He never suffered an injury the whole issue. By the end of it his armor is torn but that's it.

I think the screaming is just for drama.

@fallschirmjager:

I saw red fire not green acid.(those are the usual colors) also i saw flames not bubbles or liquids.

I agree that it didnt injur him since it didn't make him limp, my point was simply that a shark bite hurts him.

Speaking of his armor being torn, one moment its fine and the next its shredded. That was weird.

Whether its for drama or not, we now know that a shark bite and a swinging lamp post hurts him.

look back in the previous issue. he spits it at various humans and they get melted away down to their bones

@fallschirmjager: yea i remember that. It just didnt look like acid this issue.

is that classsic drax?

Someone needs to tell Bendis that Thanos is immortal, out of Nova and Drax's league and capable of travelling between Universes easily.

And what do we learn from all this?

Bendis surely can't write Thanos...It reminded me of his horrible Avengers Assemble run...The guy doesn't know anything about power levels..