Marvel Now

[Jennifer Walters]

I'm guessing time gets severely ****ed up by Wanda or the Phoenix Five at the end of AvX. Hence all this ''Two" of everybody ********.

 

[stillanerd]

oh ****. Pete gets an alex ross/amazing spider-man movie hyrid.

Actually, it could very well be identical to the costume Spidey wears in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon, as that one doesn't have piping down the sides either while everything else is the same.

 

[Specter313]

RIP the original Nick Fury I guess.

Uh, pretty sure that's him right above Sue in the pic.

 

[Specter313]

I doubt it. All of us are still gonna buy at least one or two of these for a month or two and they know it. So they probably just tune our b****ing out.

Nah, the most All-New X-Men will get from me is a read through in the store.

 

[runawayboulder]

I'm guessing time gets severely ****ed up by Wanda or the Phoenix Five at the end of AvX. Hence all this ''Two" of everybody ********.

There's not 2 of everybody, just the original 5 X-Men that are going to be time jumping from the 60's to the present in Bendis' book.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Uh, pretty sure that's him right above Sue in the pic.

That's Cable.

 

[Raiden]

it was revealed that Fury had a son...that's Fury Jr. Nick had a thing for dark meat.

interesting to see Hulk back in Avengers..I wonder if it had anything to do with the movie

So this black Fury is actually Fury Jr, who also sports the same eye patch as his "father"? It just sounds like Marvel wanted to turn 616 Fury into SLJ Fury but couldn't figure out what to do, so they went with this route. As for now, I don't think I like the look of Marvel Now, and I hope they will change my mind later, but I personally don't think they need to copy anything from DC's New 52.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It was a pretty transparent ploy to insert black Fury into the main Marvel universe, but I still like that Marvel at least tried to do it with an actual story instead of just having the universe hiccup or whatever and saying Nick Fury was always black. Black Fury's eye is missing because the villain of the story, a leftover from his dad's rogues gallery, had a poetic sense of humor. He needed a tissue sample to duplicate the Infinity Formula in black Fury's genes, so he decided to take black Fury's eye to make him and his father match. It was kind of funny, aside from being super-gross.

 

[runawayboulder]

This is like the 90's all over again but there won't be an exodus of industry talent running off to make their own company this time around.

 

[venom892]

So what books do you guys think will get canceled?Will Hickman be taking over Avengers or will it get a shiny #1 all over again?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm guessing it'll be a new #1. The idea is to provide jumping-on points, and nothing says, "start here" in big neon letters like a #1 on the cover.

 

[Spade]

Hulk needs armor? Thor needs swords? Cap needed random padding? Cyclops' helmet couldn't look less ridiculous?

Hickman's Avengers sounds interesting, at least.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hickman's Avengers worries me the most. He has a tendency to make things real convoluted. He started Secret Warriors off on a plot twist so stupid it made me drop the series outright, and then his Fantastic Four run sagged a bit in the middle with all the 5 cities stuff. I'm worried he's gonna reveal that the Avengers secretly formed in the 1700s to fight in the American Revolution or some nonsense.

 

[Belvedere]

Sigh... I'd love to able to say that constant relaunches, an over-reliance on two specific franchises, in the X-Men and Avengers respectively, and a never-ending stream of events is unsustainable. The sales, however, simply do not bear that out. People are eating it up.

And yet I can't help but find myself either disliking or feeling indifferent to many of the new ventures Marvel are making. Outside of a few books (Winter Soldier, Journey Into Mystery and Academy namely) it feels like the company, creatively, is moving in the wrong direction.

I'll give it a shot. But my hopes are far from up.

 

[Mad Ones]

I don't really see anything to complain about, aside from the Jean Grey returning tease. Marvel knows that if they release an image of her people will speculate about her return. It's just mean.

But it sounds like Bendis is only taking over X-men, which hasn't been very important at all lately. So it sounds inconsequential, and I've never read his stuff before and I love the Original 5 so I have no reason not to pick it up. And hopefully Gillen and Aaron will stay where they are!

And I've been waiting a while for a good time to start reading the Avengers, and this sounds perfect. I love Hickman's Fantastic stuff.

Uncanny Avengers makes sense. It was pretty obvious that there was going to be a book that combined both teams after AvX. It's dumb that Wolverine is Co-leading with Captain America though.

I like the idea behind Cyclops' new visor... but maybe it didn't turn out that well in the end. I'll wait and see a different artist draw it.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I'll pick up X-Men moreso for Immonen's pencils than Bendis' plot and hope for the best. I'd be pleased if they end up canceling the curring X-Men book with Wood on it and replace it with this.

I want to see the roster but there's a good chance... a VERY good chance... of my skipping Hickman's Avengers. A $4 comic bi-weekly with a writer who tends to drag stories out big time does not sound appealing to me.

Uncanny Avengers would have also been a pass if not for Havok's name thrown in there and the promise of his becoming a major player in the Marvel Universe. I trust Remender to tell a fantastic story and deliver on that promise and I love Cassiday's art. Also, his art typically means I don't have to buy this title monthly or even twice a month And with both Havok and Wolverine on the book I can justify buying it in closer relation to it being an X-Book

 

[Spade]

I'm not a fan of Hickman's reveals or pacing, but a new direction for the Avengers sounds better than whatever it is they're planning with the X-Men.

I can't help but find myself either disliking or feeling indifferent to many of the new ventures Marvel are making.

Same here. Most of what they've done lately has revolved around making the main universe more like Ultimate Marvel and the movies, crossovers, and more of the same thing. Even Ultimate Marvel feels low on fuel. Marvel movies are at an all time high, but comics seem stuck in a rut.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Because the movies are free to adapt stuff from all over the comics' history. Anytime Marvel does that in the comics, fans jump on them for rehashing old stuff.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Same here. Most of what they've done lately has revolved around making the main universe more like Ultimate Marvel and the movies, crossovers, and more of the same thing. Even Ultimate Marvel feels low on fuel. Marvel movies are at an all time high, but comics seem stuck in a rut.

That's been true for years. It seems like Marvel's big initiative plan... and it's always the exact same initiative plan... is to have an event, shift rosters, launch with new #1's.

Honestly, that just gets old. I still hate that they feel it is somehow necessary to completely get rid of decades of numbering for a sales bumb. Remember how it was 100% necessary, impossible NOT to, and unfathomable to think to do anything else but to relaunch Uncanny X-Men after Schism? Yeah, having read that now through AvX... wasn't necessary in the slightest. In fact, it added nothing to the story and simply continued the plot from the last issue of Uncanny X-Men (vol. 1) having to do with Sinister into the first issue of Uncanny X-Men (vol. 2). It was stupid.

But wait... we have a new Initiative Push to do... RELAUNCH!!!!!


Same old, same old and I'm not in the slightest bit intrigued by it. I hope it fails... but sadly, it won't because Comicbook fans are stupid with their cash and jump for the same old tricks every single time.

I wonder if there's going to be any renumberings in this Initiative, bringing titles back up to some landmark 500 or something? That'd fit the mold, wouldn't it?

 

[venom892]

I've been tired of it for a while too.I've stuck to fringe books and books that steer clear of events.My favorite books right now are Daredevil,Uncanny X-force and Secret Avengers was recently picking up.every year that passes I'm buying less and less.

 

[Shockdingo]

I really am "meh" on this. Nothing really grabs me. I really hope this doesn't affect what i love. What IS up with Cyclopes' new visor anyway?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I've basically accepted it. Events don't bother me as much as they used to. I usually just take it as a given that people will be out of character and try to focus on what aspects of the story I can enjoy. Avengers vs. X-Men, for example, has a cool basic premise in that both teams go to war wholly convinced that they're in the right. If you ignore the fact that both have been driven to ridiculous extremes without much basic rationality in the mix, it's almost compelling.

 

[venom892]

I wonder if X-men Legacy will get the axe?Rouge is supposedly in UA and Legacy is pretty much about her at this point.I'm thinking two or three X-men books are going to get the axe completely.I'm betting it's Legacy,Astonishing and Adjectiveless.

 

[JewishHobbit]

The thing that bothers me most about events is that there's always a status quo change as a result, and since they do yearly events the status quo lasts about 12 issues, then there's about 4-6 issues of event tie-ins, then the next status quo begins.

Seriously, I don't buy comics for a year of stories. Bendis is horrible with this. If you look at this Avengers run you can't actively point out who his Avengers are, they've changed so much. All you can say for certain is that Luke, Wolverine, and Spider-Man are New Avengers. That's the only real consistent thing he's done. Personally, I think he's finally nailed down his best team in the current New Avengers roster, but again, it lasted a year and likely it's going to be undone. It's annoying.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't mind the frequent status quo shifts. On the other hand, I haven't really been reading the flagship series in Marvel's publishing line for a long time. The second-tier titles are usually freer to tie into whatever event happens to be going on, then revert to their ongoing status quo for more than a year.