New Joe Fridays: Week 44

[Specter313]

http://www.newsarama.com/NewJoeFridays/NewJoeFridays44.html

 

[Specter313]

Iron Man #17 & 18

WWH Frontlline #5

Captain America #26

 

[Specter313]

Sensational Spider-Man

Venom mini

Annihilation: Conquest Prologue

Marvel Zombies: Dead Days

 

[PhotoJones]

wow. there was a time when this thread would've been 4 pages long by now....my, how the times have changed.

i did wanna also comment that the iron man art looks very nice, as do the captain america pages. actually this is one the few times where ALL the art previewed looks great. nice job, marvel.

 

[Kraven]

I'm not looking forward to that Venom mini, judging on the cover. Did they say who would write it?

 

[PhotoJones]

actually i take back my previous comment. MOST of the art previewed this week looks great. i forgot about that angel medina hackery.

 

[BrianWilly]

Oh Sally, you naughty little boozehound you.

Hey look, Sentry vs Hulk. Guess it's going down after all.

Sentry should win, but...who even knows anymore. Hulk smashing people is nice, but...this is pretty much Sentry's last chance to prove that he has any testicles left at all after his various...lesser...showings.

 

[jaydawg]

God, the Frontline covers... will they never stop burning my eyes?

 

[Dread]

Perhaps the reason why these JOE FRIDAYS haven't garnered as much attention is because after some 44 weeks, the novelty has worn off, and plus, Joe hasn't said anything provacative. I mean it's been weeks since he begged for the death of a C-Lister or offered a six figure bonus to anyone who can end the Parker marriage without a death or divorce (considering he was able to resurrect Bucky and not have fanboy suicide bombers after him, Brubaker might take a swing someday).

Even this week's snit about fans using the term "616" to designate the Marvel universe is no biggie. No, the pro's don't use it. But they also don't use a lot of the terms that fans use, such as "___ class strength" and so on. Much as the writers/producers of Star Trek didn't create the name Trekkie. Of course, Joe Q bashes on pre-Crisis DC while ignoring the fact that Marvel also has plenty of alternate realities, not including Ultimate, but whatever.

About all I can whine about is this:

Nobody's trying to prevent super heroes from saving lives and helping people, after all, especially not Tony Stark.

I didn't get every CW comic/tie-in/crossover, but, are you F'ing kidding me!? The SHRA has done nothing but interfere with heroes who wanted to go out and save lives. It entailed that if they didn't register, they had to be hauled in by the feds or SHIELD and thrown in jail (briefly, or permanently, depending on whether you read Millar or JMS). There is no legal recourse against signing it, you either sign it or are a wanted felon, with little leeway in between unless you are a hero who hails from another nation, or you have convient writer B.S. to maintain a cult hit status quo, like Danny Rand in IMMORTAL IRON FIST or Marc Specter in MOON KNIGHT (yeah, Marc's "too crazy to be useful", but Osborn, Bullseye, and Venom aren't). Villians were scared about the SHRA, but only because of paranoia about some stern law coming for them next, which as never come. In fact it's been a golden chance for countless villians to get on the federal payroll.

If you are a superhero who wants to fight crime and save lives, but if you don't sign the SHRA, you are hunted down and thrown in jail. That fact that Stark may wait until said hero actually defeated the mugger before siccing the cape-killers on 'im doesn't mean much. So, I just don't buy this statement at all. I mean even now, the Mighty Avengers are hunting down the New Avengers, and why? What would throwing them in jail possibly accomplish, besides for getting less heroes on the street? I see protestors screaming about "vigilantes" but none, say, calling for supervillians to get harsher sentences or even quicker executions.

 

[Electro UK]

Damnit! My first ever double post within 2 and a half years at the hype. I've failed my master.

 

[Electro UK]

Knives? HA! Iron Man laughs in the face of knives! And guns, and lasers, and falling objects, and pretty much anything else. ???

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh Sally, you naughty little boozehound you.

Hey look, Sentry vs Hulk. Guess it's going down after all.

Sentry should win, but...who even knows anymore. Hulk smashing people is nice, but...this is pretty much Sentry's last chance to prove that he has any testicles left at all after his various...lesser...showings.

I kind of don't mind the Sentry's being a *****. At least it's internally consistent--the Sentry returns, rids himself of the Void by tossing him into the sun, and now he's had pretty consistent weaker showings. I just chalk it up to the psychosomatic effect of believing he's been split in two and he's severely harmed half of himself.

The Annihilation: Conquest preview looks nice, although Moondragon's anatomy is a bit off in that jumpkick panel. I'm looking forward to Phyla and Moondragon's story most out of the Conquest minis.

Does anyone know whose art that is on the Iron Man preview pages?

 

[Electro UK]

Consider me getting that fighting/lesbian thing.

 

[PhotoJones]

I kind of don't mind the Sentry's being a *****. At least it's internally consistent--the Sentry returns, rids himself of the Void by tossing him into the sun, and now he's had pretty consistent weaker showings. I just chalk it up to the psychosomatic effect of believing he's been split in two and he's severely harmed half of himself.

The Annihilation: Conquest preview looks nice, although Moondragon's anatomy is a bit off in that jumpkick panel. I'm looking forward to Phyla and Moondragon's story most out of the Conquest minis.

Does anyone know whose art that is on the Iron Man preview pages?

my skills of deduction tell it's rob de la torre.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Is that the regular artist for Iron Man now or something?

 

[PhotoJones]

Is that the regular artist for Iron Man now or something?

i think so. i think i read that zircher was going to come back and do a fill-in or two, but rob's the new regular penciler.

 

[SouLeSS]

mmmmmmm....More annihilation. I'm going through withdraws (which sucks, cause they're only mini's (maxi's?)) because Heralds just isn't doing it.

 

[Darthphere]

*insert *****ing here*

 

[PhotoJones]

*insert *****ing here*

about what?

 

[Darthphere]

I haven't decided.

 

[herakles]

Oh Sally, you naughty little boozehound you.

Hey look, Sentry vs Hulk. Guess it's going down after all.

Sentry should win, but...who even knows anymore. Hulk smashing people is nice, but...this is pretty much Sentry's last chance to prove that he has any testicles left at all after his various...lesser...showings.

This is the one time I want Hulk to WIN! I think Sentry is SO OVERATED it's ******ed!

 

[PhotoJones]

I haven't decided.

let me know when you've got it.

 

[Dread]

I haven't decided.

See, I do a lot of whining, but I always decide on what per post.

Granted, repeating myself makes that easy sometimes.

 

[Horrorfan]

Ironman IS the good guy. It's that simple. Case closed.

In Marvel zombies, is that Dracula they are eating?

 

[Darthphere]

Iron Man is a *****ebag. It's that simple. Case closed.