BOUGHT/THOUGHT for January 9, 2008

[PhotoJones]

Maybe Frank is just that badass?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Nah, he's not.

 

[PhotoJones]

He did take on and kill Mung.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't know who that is.

 

[PhotoJones]

One of the Warbound, I believe. He was one of the bug alien things that came down with the Hulk.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh, those guys are *****es. Miek was easily the most powerful of those guys and he was among the lower tiers of the Warbound with Elloe and Brood.

 

[PhotoJones]

Yeah, but Frank is complete non-powered.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Did he kill him with his bare hands or something?

 

[PhotoJones]

He used a knife, maybe? I don't remember it exactly.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hmm. Sounds a bit suspect.

 

[PhotoJones]

I'd look it up if I weren't a lazy fatass.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I know how that goes.

 

[PhotoJones]

We are legion. Anyway, I tried searching the intarwebs for it, and I could only find something about Frank "killed many of them as well as Mung himself in single combat."

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Eh, whatever. It was in a comic I didn't read, so it doesn't count for me.

 

[Norman Osborn]

I'd look it up if I weren't a lazy fatass.

Clarke develops some sort of "symbiote like" tech suit for Frank.....amps him up through the roof....Frank literally rips one of Mung's arms off while it's still holding a sword and uses it to chop the top of Mung's head off

.....I would sooooooooo have dropped this title months ago if I weren't such a Frank mark

....oh and you're welcome!!

 

[Red]

Eh, whatever. It was in a comic I didn't read, so it doesn't count for me.

Logic

 

[PhotoJones]

Clarke develops some sort of "symbiote like" tech suit for Frank.....amps him up through the roof....Frank literally rips one of Mung's arms off while it's still holding a sword and uses it to chop the top of Mung's head off

.....I would sooooooooo have dropped this title months ago if I weren't such a Frank mark

....oh and you're welcome!!

Oh, that's right. He became Frank-Venom. That was hysterical.

 

[Dread]

Oh, that's right. He became Frank-Venom. That was hysterical.

Very. That WWH issue is probably my favorite of Fraction's run so far. It officially seemed to kick start the tone of the book after some stumbles out of the gate the first year. It isn't what many expect, but I enjoy it.

Over at www.thexaxis.com, Paul O'Brien gave ASM #546 a grade of A-, essentially because he believed that, while the road to get there was botched, getting ASM back to that format was a requirement from prior years of sluggishness. He also tends to believe the marriage was a mistake in hindsight, and suggested cohabitation may have worked better (although in 1987, that wasn't as common or as widely acceptted socially as it is now; times change and we assume they never did sometimes). I disagree with him on many points, and he seems to fail to realize that "Classic Spidey" was what was promised with ventures like ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, and MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN, both under Quesada's watch (as was getting Peter & MJ together again in 2001-2002, on the eve of the first film, after Mackie ended his run by splitting them up), and both of them delivering (Bendis' USM may never actually leave High School under his tenure, in fact; 100+ issues and still in the same grade). At least he admits the new continuity will be a bear, and gets the worst of many options. Paul O'Brein seems to forgive atrocious stories if they "get things back to a sellable formula", which is also why he graded the end of "Wolverine Dies" in WOLVERINE a B- (it basically is a wonky mystical story that gets Logan back to a more dramatic power level, instead of instantly regenerating from nukes). He also believed that as ASM over the years failed to replace "the old formula" with anything better, just revert to the old formula again by any means required. I don't agree with him, at least at the moment. OMD is too raw.

 

[Kevin]

My LCS in Brooklyn, which is a half hour bus ride away (all the comic shops within walking distance closed one by one; there used to be about 4-5 during the 90's and 0 as of now), but there are two other stops in Brooklyn I go to if something is missed and then two in Manhattan that I visit, Cosmic Comics and Jim Hanley's, the latter across from the Empire State Building.

In all my years I have rarely seen any customers under 18, especially under 15, step into the comic book shops, aside for the LCS, which is right next to a movie theatre. And the kids that do enter usually just want either candy for a movie (or just 'cuz), Yu-Gi-Oh/Pokemon/Other collectable cards, and manga. Usually the ones kids I see buying manga are girls. Otherwise, college age or older guys who buy the mainstream stuff.

No real reason I felt like relating my experience, but I figured we had this in common. Young'uns don't go near comics these days.

I went to the comic shop last week, searching through the 50 cent boxes, when this lady came in with her young son (or grandson). She was talking to the shop worker about how she used to read comics when she was younger, and looked to see if there were all ages green lantren books. She pointed out the characters to the kid one by one, DC and MArvel.

My point, which is greatly lost, is that We, the older comic community, would have to "pass on" the comic habbit to the kids ourselves if we, and the "companies," want kids to read comics.

1n the mid to late 90's, I had some x-force comics that my friend gave to me. I never paid attention to them because I thought they were some fake X-men, (man i was stupid) so my comic habit was there, but ignored at that point. It wasn't until late 2004 when I had the urge to write a comic book, but thought it was pointless because, As sad as it it, since I haven'r heard of anyone reading comics since the 90's, I thought they (comics) werent being made any longer. But one day, I was in a regular store around my friends house and as if god had answered my prays (If I were to actually believe it god), the walls were full of magazines, and to my shock, comic books. I brought my first comics there.

Amazing Spider-man 516, Spectacular Spide-man 21, Flash 2-someithing, JLA 1-something, New Avengers 1, Iron Man 1, Captain america 1, I swear, I was in heaven. If I never found that store, I would have never known that comic books were still being made, and that there was a comic shop not too far away from me. I was lucky.

But kids today, they proabaly have no clue, or they're not interested because they think comics are for "little kids" and they want to seem all cool and junk. We have to pass it on. If I were to have a kid, or be an Uncle, I plan on reading to the kid every chance I get, and hopefully get them intersted in comics as much as I am. I tell you, comics helped me get through some stuff. It took me out of the stress that my life brought to me. And it's sad to say, but my life would be completely different, in a bad way, if I hadn't taken an interest in comics.

 

[Norman Osborn]

Very. That WWH issue is probably my favorite of Fraction's run so far. It officially seemed to kick start the tone of the book after some stumbles out of the gate the first year. It isn't what many expect, but I enjoy it.
.

I feel like I'm officially the only person in the room that doesn't get the joke ....I mean I can understand a differing of opinion but damn....this book is damn near unreadable for me

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It was for me, too, back in the earlier issues. I picked up and enjoyed the Kraven arc, though (aside from the fact that I prefer Al Kraven as a sane prick of a superhero).

 

[PhotoJones]

His daddy's jungle juice makes him crazy.

 

[Norman Osborn]

It was for me, too, back in the earlier issues. I picked up and enjoyed the Kraven arc, though (aside from the fact that I prefer Al Kraven as a sane prick of a superhero).

The Kraven arc stopped me from dropping the title.......I liked the first couple of issues of PWJ dealing with Civil war.....but everything between that and the Kraven arc was just goofy.....that Hate Monger crap was one of the worst arcs I read all of last year...just aweful!!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hmm, I'm glad I stopped reading, then.

 

[Norman Osborn]

Hmm, I'm glad I stopped reading, then.

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