Bought/Thought April 15th, 2009

[Brainiac 8]

From what I've seen doom barely tolerates osborn at all, no respect but you also don't piss on the guy helping you out.

I'm not sure about a lot of this, marvel is just upping a character that used to only play in the Spider-Man universe, but they're not doing something that hasn't been done time and again by both companies. What's the big deal? Norman has history with the hellfire club, several mystical cults which he's head of, has a major corportation, is possibly the best chemical specialist on earth and is delightfully mad. He's not a bad choice for them to pull out as a change up. It's not that norman doesn't have the creds, he's just never been out of the spider-man box until recently. Is lex a better villian? Sure, but I'll say only some versions of lex can say this (robot suit lex is much more lame). I guess I just don't see why it's an issue, they didn't make the absorbing man into a mastermind or anything like that, and they certianly haven't shown norman coasting by, the hood calls him out to his face; loki made an avengers team; doom has nothing but distain for him; same with namor. If doom was kissing ass, I'd agree it was stupid, but he's not doing that at all he's simply tolerate osborn since osborn interests lay in assisting doom.

Great post, I'll concede a bit based on your logic.

I still haven't bought this new status quo for Osborn though, but we'll see how it pans out in the end.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Heh, they actually did make the Absorbing Man into a mastermind once. It was terrible.

 

[moraldeficiency]

rhino as a mastermind was best.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Was that during that "Flowers For Rhino" storyline in the Tangled Web of Spider-Man? That was actually a very good story. I liked it. And only in 2 parts.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Was that during that "Flowers For Rhino" storyline in the Tangled Web of Spider-Man? That was actually a very good story. I liked it. And only in 2 parts.

Yes, and yes it was.