HEROES CON/WW: PHILLY '07- Marvel Edition

[venom892]

JMS is funny. But yeah, Spidey's been in a darker place for awhile, so not so much with the quips. Though I do remember him burning Tony pretty good when he decided to switch sides in that ASM CW ish. Called him "dad," if I recall, it was funny.

Older JMS/Romita Jr ASM had some pretty funny scenes. Signing his autograph onto that bolted down vent thing on the roof, arguing with the secretary about ordering the wrong schoolbooks, eating hot dogs with Loki

Yea the JMS/Romita jr. issues have great comedy spots.After Romita left it just went down hill.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

I'd **** both, so no problem there.

How 'bout Ares?

 

[Darthphere]

How 'bout Ares?

That's too much man.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

Someone said that there was an announcement at WW Philly regarding an upcoming Captain America mini entitled The Chosen due out in September, supposedly re-establishing Steve Rogers in the Marvel U...any word on this yet?

 

[Dread]

Someone said that there was an announcement at WW Philly regarding an upcoming Captain America mini entitled The Chosen due out in September, supposedly re-establishing Steve Rogers in the Marvel U...any word on this yet?

Here is the solict for it:

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CHOSEN #1 & 2 (of 6)
Written by David Morrell
Pencils & 50/50 Cover by Mitch Breitweiser
50/50 Cover by TRAVIS CHAREST
New York Times best-selling novelist and creator of Rambo, David Morrell, takes on Captain America in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CHOSEN—a six-issue Marvel Knights limited series in the tradition of SPIDER-MAN: REIGN! Super-star-to-be Mitch Breitweiser provides the finest art of his career as he chronicles the last days of Captain America..
32 PGS. (each) CARD STOCK/Rated T+ …$3.99 (each)

Also, the Sept. solict for WWH #4 is unintentionally hilarious, and if Marvel's editors didn't purposefully intend for it to sound silly, then they are even more out of touch with reality than I thought:

WORLD WAR HULK #4 (of 5)
Written by GREG PAK
Penciled by JOHN ROMITA JR.
Cover by DAVID FINCH
Variant Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR.
Everyone GOES! TOO! FAR! in this penultimate chapter of the Mighty Marvel Monsterpiece which is World War Hulk. The Incredible Hulk and his Warbound companions? They go too far! Dr. Strange? He goes WAY too far! Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic? They learn the precise definition of "too far" as the Hulk delivers his final judgment from his stone throne in the Great Arena!
48 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99

That solict...goes too far. And that pun was too easy. Man, it's like someone at Marvel watched every low budget car commerical that comes on at 4 a.m. from local (re: poor) dealerships and decided to rip 'em off.

If you wanted to do a satire of what a modern "event" solict would sound like, it would sound like that, full of bold text and empty cliches. And here we are, where Marvel is at the verge of becoming satire-proof.

 

[BrianWilly]

Ditto.

EDIT: What I also find funny is people, in this case BrianWilly claiming this flowed more organically than the T'Challa/Storm wedding. If you call destroying years worth of characterization in a single issue flowing organically, then sure.

Ollie and Dinah have decades upon decades of backstory, and Ollie's spent the past year or so trying to win back her respect, with Dinah seriously wondering if he's a changed man more than once in Birds of Prey, her own series.

Ororo and T'Challa had about one issue of possible flirtation decades upon decades ago, and everything else was retconned and then forced into a hasty, unconvincing "relationship" that fans of both characters hated and rightly cited as a blatant ploy get two prominent black characters to fck the hell out of each other.

Wait, what's that? The sound of me being right yet again?

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

Here is the solict for it:

Thanks. I guess we still dont know if it features Steve Rogers yet though, or even takes place in current continuity.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's a retitled Captain America: The End, so I imagine it does indeed feature Steve but that it's not in continuity.

Ollie and Dinah have decades upon decades of backstory, and Ollie's spent the past year or so trying to win back her respect, with Dinah seriously wondering if he's a changed man more than once in Birds of Prey, her own series.

Ororo and T'Challa had about one issue of possible flirtation decades upon decades ago, and everything else was retconned and then forced into a hasty, unconvincing "relationship" that fans of both characters hated and rightly cited as a blatant ploy get two prominent black characters to fck the hell out of each other.

Wait, what's that? The sound of me being right yet again?

It does flow organically, but it's a really bad organic idea. Ollie's still a dick, and Dinah's still an idiot for marrying him after he cheated on her, what, 3 or 4 times over the course of their relationship? She's happily signing up to be an emotionally abused wife, which is kind of sad when you consider how strong Simone has made the Dinah character. Actually, I wonder what Simone's thoughts on the whole deal are...

 

[BrianWilly]

Simone had Dinah seriously considering it.

Ollie cheated on her...once, I believe? The other time was Shado basically raping him.

Very few organic ideas end up being bad ideas.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I know. In fact, if not for this one and probably a couple of others, I bet you could go ahead and make the generalization that no organic ideas end up being bad ones.

 

[PhotoJones]

I know. In fact, if not for this one and probably a couple of others, I bet you could go ahead and make the generalization that no organic ideas end up being bad ones.

Hmm...that's a bold statement, and one that would need a clear definition for an "organic" idea.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's also me being facetious to BW, so I ain't justifying nothin'.

 

[PhotoJones]

It's also me being facetious to BW, so I ain't justifying nothin'.

You will, if I say you will! Now, justify!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Nevah!!!

 

[PhotoJones]

That's it. You're not getting any of my Gummiber...aw, forget it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

You've finally accepted the futility of that threat, huh?

 

[PhotoJones]

I have.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Excellent. I'm almost done breaking you...

 

[PhotoJones]

Please....stop. I've had enough...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Please....stop. I've had enough...

 

[PhotoJones]

Pfft. Communist.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That State will provide for me.

 

[PhotoJones]

I provide for myself and that makes me stronger. Prepare for battle.

 

[BrianWilly]

It's also me being facetious to BW, so I ain't justifying nothin'.

See, anyone could have told you that this would never end well

.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Only because PJ got his panties in a bunch.