Bought/Thought September 30th, 2009

[TheCorpulent1]

The Void replacing the Sentry is easily the best idea I've heard for the characters. I've been supporting it for a while now.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

It would definitely fit with Dark Avengers in theme, without totally f*****g up what's left of what makes Sentry interesting.

Because honestly, if he goes back to Sentry separate from Void without a cheesy "The Void was just pretending," then it'll be toted as character regression.

BND: The Sentry.

Actually, the Sentry currently COULD be the Void, as the Void is a shapeshiftah, and the Sentry is like locked up underground or something, being shown pictures of starving Ethiopians he could be saving or some lame thing like that.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Well, the Void is all about crime and control.

I could easily see him playing the role of the "Sentry" for Osborne, pretending to be under control, all the while waiting until he can suck the souls out of his teammates, when he's ABSOLUTELY sure there'll be no resistance to him.

The Void replacing the Sentry is easily the best idea I've heard for the characters. I've been supporting it for a while now.

That would be a great twist.

I can imagine it now, Void mocking Osborne for their little chat in Dark Avengers 2 was it?

"You pathetic little man, telling Bob that he can control me? HAHAHA!"

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

That would be a great twist.

I can imagine it now, Void mocking Osborne for their little chat in Dark Avengers 2 was it?

"You pathetic little man, telling Bob that he can control me? HAHAHA!"

And then eats his soul.

Because that's actually what the Void does. XD Eats souls.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The Void would be one hell of an actor, then.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

But first, Normie literally ****s his pants.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Or what if when Sentry got blown up by Morgana Le Fay, he didn't come back as Sentry?

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

The Void would be one hell of an actor, then.

It wouldn't be that hard to pretend to be the other half you know a lot about. =/

I mean, straight down to the whole thing where he's taking care of Lindy, who's deathly afraid of him right now, it would sort of make sense. When she shot him, a door opened up downstairs, and I don't think anything has come of that yet, has it?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

What issue was that in?

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Most recent issue of...what was it?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Dark Avengers, I believe.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

So she shot him, and the vault in the Watchtower opened up?

 

[moraldeficiency]

Yeah, it was pretty great.

Sentry: "Getting shot in the face with spacebullets, my one weakness, how did you know?"

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

Dark Avengers, I believe.

Yeah, I remember reading it in the comic shop, while trying to stave off the creepy nerd who kept trying to talk to me.

So she shot him, and the vault in the Watchtower opened up?

Yeah, but I'm not exactly sure what was in it, because Ms. Hand kept trying to talk to whoever was in it earlier in the issue.

 

[moraldeficiency]

No, that was the norman's workshop. Hand was talking to Norman.

 

[sandwraith]

I like the Joker being some sick demented chaotic freak. He's a personification of evil unlike the other major adversaries in the DC universe like Lex Luthor, General Zod, Captain Cold, and Sinestro.

There's a classy way of doing it, which is what Dini (read the Loxias storyline) and some other writers have been doing for the Joker, then there this overboard utterly cluster***k way of doing it. Even before Morrison took over the Joker, the J-man WAS a personification of evil AND Chaos. Case in point: Batman: No Man's Land, where the Joker kidnaps all these Gotham infants around the Holiday Season as a trap for Batman, only to have it sprung by Sarah Essen. He kills Essen (of course), but there was something completely different about it. He seemed...upset. Almost unamused, to the point that when Batman and co arrive on scene, he surrenders without a fight. Now THAT is Chaos, the total opposite of logic (or pseudo-logic) that Batman embodies.

Dini likes to write the Joker as the ultimate Psycho-Showman. A performer of murderous intent and devious humor. I love it in any form, like for example his "performance" in Slayride where he torments Tim Drake by making Tim watch as he knocks down innocents with his car.

Morrison just took a totally cosmetic change to the character, introduced a lame-ass cast of villains that made Joker look "great" in comparison, and then had a 9 year old kid knock him off a bridge in the Batmobile whilst he was enjoying a slayride (a Dini feature) in an ambulance. Avatar of Evil? I'd prefer funny Psycho-class Villain anyday.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

No, that was the norman's workshop. Hand was talking to Norman.

I still hope it's the Sentry getting out, because as it stands, he's sucking spaceb***s.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

So is Sentry actually dead at the moment then?

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

He can't be killed. He's like Deadpool, only without magic. =/

In fact, he thought he was undergoing "tests" when the scientists were actually trying to kill him.

 

[Drz]

So is Sentry actually dead at the moment then?

We need to find out what exactly the gun shot will effect him. Tho in december issue someone will die. So perhaps Norman/Sentry will die in mind and Goblin/Void takes over.

 

[Phaedrus45]

Dark Tower - Fall Of Gilead #5: This title just keeps picking up steam. There are a couple significant deaths in this issue, as Gilead is being attack from without and within. This set of issues is definitely the best in the series. Lots of action; lots of death. I have no idea how many years we'll have to wait for The Drawing Of The Three...it might take as long to finish the Dark Tower story in comics as it did for Stephen King to write all his books.

Marvel Zombies Return #5: It's already been reviewed earlier...I'll just say I agree, and that's this was a decent series. Hopefully the Zombies take a break, now. I like it, but I'm Marvel Zombie burned-out!

New Mutants #5: This issue was tough to look at. I absolutely couldn't stand the art, and it dragged the story down...not that the story was really that good. Plus, the book suffers by the "let's get the old gang back together" concept of the direction of the book. I liked Warlock's appearance in Nova last year; I'm not liking what I saw briefly of him in this. What I really hated was at the end of it, Sam and Dani settle their differences and decide to go out for some beers. Now, I guess they are now 21 or over..but, seriously, does Marvel need to promote that the way to unwind after a hard day is to consume alcohol???? (I know, I sound like a fuddy-duddy...but, I see so many people each week having their lives effected by alcohol, I think it's idiotic to promote it in this fashion.)

Marvel Divas #3: Last week I read Marvel's new Models book, and was bored to tears. This title, though, is pretty darn good. It's Sex & The City meets Marvel Comics, and it works really well, especially with this issue devoting itself so much to Firestar's cancer treatment. That's what makes the title hit the reader so hard; all the boyfriend stuff seems secondary. Can't wait for the final issue!

 

[Dread]

And we saw how well that went.

Maybe he's decided overkill is the best policy from now on.

Possibly. Then again, the benefit of an insane villain is he can wax and wane from efficient to manic. Fraction pulls that quality off well in INVINCIBLE IRON MAN.

I think we may have brought this up back when his run started. He definitely has strong beginnings and then tapers off into mediocrity. Or, in the case of Squadron Supreme and The Twelve, he tapers off into apparently forgetting that he was supposed to finish his story.

Indeed. JMS isn't quite as bad at execution as Bendis I would say, but he still needs to work at it, especially his finales. He also needs to tighten up his work. Even if the issues were timely, 17 issues for this story was a bit long and winding, and as you have commented, often reduced Thor to a supporting role (at best) for the last leg of it. Thor was the star of the prior issue in June, but he also shared it with Dr. Strange, one of JMS' favorite characters.

Anyone pick up the Shang Chi one shot?

No. I thought about it because it was a slow week, but on a flip through decided biting on VENGEANCE OF MOON KNIGHT would be a better choice of $4.

True, I suppose if Thor's return to his exile is considered one arc, it's a very, very strong arc from beginning to end. But I've been looking at JMS' entire run as one story, and the material after Thor's exile has not been as strong as those first 11 or 12 issues.

Some of those first dozen issues were slow. Good but slow. And I still contend that there was a better way to have Loki trick everyone without having Thor and Balder be such gullible, non-confrontational suckers.

I'm both excited and wary about the Sentry going after the moon knight. Sentry's my fav character, and him going after Punisher in pun #1 was a really fantastic issue. But on the other hand that, of course, stretched the prospects of realism since realistically nothing should've stopped Sentry from catching Punisher in less than a second. The same thing applies here, except now it's made worse by the fact that it's been done before (since MK will obviously have to escape somehow).

Hence the problem with Sentry. It usually stretches credibility for many street level characters who are not shape shifters to escape him, but we'll see.

Actually, the way the Sentry is working right now, is he doesn't do pretty much ANYTHING without being told.

To be honest, Sentry as the shiniest, brightiest, happiest but probably most insane member of Osborn's hopelessly crazy Dark Avengers has been a decent use for him for me.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

I wouldn't say happy. He seems not only the most nervous, but most critical.

 

[Dread]

He's been critical for quite a while now. Didn't he bug out during SECRET INVASION fighting a mundane Skrull? Didn't he have to sit in a living room with a goofy smile on his face until the plot told him he had to fight Hulk in WORLD WAR HULK? As he has become over the last few years, he is a walking set of flaws, bordering to the point of parody or one-sided wrestling performance. As a straight up hero, he cannot work. As the pawn of a psychopath who now controls everything alongside other, more stable psychopaths who are different from him, he works. He naturally figures himself more "sane" than Bullseye or Venom, or not as wicked as Marvel Boy or Moonstone, but he's probably crazier than all of them. The sanest one of the lot is probably Ares.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

He bugs out in pretty much anybody's comic that isn't written by his creator.

It seems in Moon Knight's upcoming issue, he actually is more than just some self-wetting manchild.