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#1 Posted by Alton (151 posts) - 10 days, 23 hours ago - Show Bio

I think what makes me angry is when an editorial decision is made to change things up as drastically as killing a character off that Marvel/DC don't stick to their guns and make it permanent.I think a lot of it has to do with keeping the franchise alive because in real life no one would pick up the mantle and become the next Spiderman or Superman.If the storyline is hugely unpopular they can reverse course in a hurry.Of couse with some non powered characters such as Captain America or Batman it would be possible to have Barnes as the new Cap or Grayson as the new Batman and just leave it that way which neither company opted to do obviously.A little change is good ,but many fans are too hidebound to accept drastic change.Inevitably these things have to do with short term attempts to create a sales spike by editorial that have little to do with logical plot development or good story telling.Despite the leaps and bounds of comic quality this may be one of the reasons there is still some ridicule among outsiders over what we read because this kind of storytelling doesn't follow traditional storytelling patterns.In real life what these attempts would mirror is after Marie Antoinette (Sic?) is beheaded a few months later she comes back to life.Ask your Creative Writing teacher about this. He or she is getting paid to discuss this sort of thing and we are not.( Ha,Ha) Have a good one.

#2 Posted by Alton (151 posts) - 20 days, 21 hours ago - Show Bio

Hello again.I can't believe no one has responded to you yet.Yes, I think with todays CGI Ant Man could be awesome and gives us a chance to see something different.I see it more as Sci Fi grand adventure rather than superheroics for the first film and it would be a mistake not to include Wasp.Until FF reboots she is the only other female character other than Black Widow we've seen so far unless Sif or Valkrie popped up in Thor.( I haven't seen Thor).Next up I'm Hoping for Dr. Strange. What do you think?

#3 Posted by Alton (151 posts) - 20 days, 22 hours ago - Show Bio

Please don't run these two together it'll give them the idea for another stupid crossover. GH and RS.GH spends too many pages without the costume and talking too much and with almost no costume on RS at all the RS storyline is just goofy.

#4 Edited by Alton (151 posts) - 1 month, 1 day ago - Show Bio

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@Jonny Anonymous: I don't know about you but as I read this page the 1st two covers are clearly Francavilla and Panosian.Ross is #3.Ergo the first 2 covers Francavilla and Panosian suck.The Syaf cover is my favorite but fails to include John Carter which I thought was a little bizarre.Ross covers are Ross covers. You either love them or hate them but this one is way too busy but still well done.

#5 Posted by Alton (151 posts) - 1 month, 1 day ago - Show Bio

Is this based on any Tarzan Novel by Burroughs? I seen to remember a Tarzan of Mars book but maybe I'm wrong. The first 2 covers are absolutely awful but the interior looks good.

#6 Posted by Alton (151 posts) - 1 month, 2 days ago - Show Bio

First of all especially when dealing with Marvel/DC be sure to wear a Hazmat suit with a self contained oxygen supply.Make sure you have a strong teatherline that is heat/flame and acid resistant.As you enter the comic it is important to watch where you are stepping to avoid slipping in the piles of editorial excrement that cover the ground.As you avoid tripping over the corpses of decades of underpaid creative teams......

#7 Posted by Alton (151 posts) - 1 month, 2 days ago - Show Bio

It would be interesting if Black Knight's sword could be retconned at some point to be made of adamantium pushing it's "discovery" back 400 hundred years or so.Black Knight travels to early Wakanda or the Savage Land and so forth.Could be a fun storyline and then it's discovery would be lost for yrs.to the outside world.Not sure what the "history" of adamantium really is. I don't follow a lot of Marvel.

#8 Posted by Alton (151 posts) - 2 months, 13 days ago - Show Bio

@tupiaz said:

I think that writers should be a lot better to use old and forgotten characters dust them off and use them well instead of creating new characters we real don't need. There is a lot of old "lame", forgotten, non used characters that if changed and updated could work fine in the different stories.

I agree that characters who were thrown to the side should have a chance to be re written better the second time around because one of the issues I do have with new characters being created is that sometimes the new characters would be a major part of the story, but then once they served their purpose, they are thrown out to the curb.

Do you think the same thing will happen to the dusting off of Six Gun Gorilla? That poor guy disappeared for decades the first time as I understand it!

#9 Posted by Alton (151 posts) - 2 months, 15 days ago - Show Bio

I think the problem here is that most of the DC/Marvel characters you mention are nothing more than rehashs and spinoffs of the central characters in both DCU and MCU.What is the point to having multiple Robins,Batgirls,Spidermen or women.These aren't truly new characters.While some of these are not totally brand new characters I think in terms of Rocketeer,Ghost,The Victories,the Valiant comics roster as it exists now minus the Silver Age Gold Key era add ons. What doyou think about this?

#10 Posted by Alton (151 posts) - 2 months, 28 days ago - Show Bio
@mrtrickster said:


                    Books that can literally make me laugh out loud Example:  Nextwave or Giffen's JLI

                   

               

Atomic Robo one of the best.Several trades already out and you can pick any one of them up without regard to continuity.