State Your Opinion on a Character!!!! (Reboot) - Part 2

[Iceman]

Love it!!!

 

[Mad Ones]

Love them! I've played the second and third ones. The second one had a ton of X-men characters, which was awesome. Jean in the third one was so much fun because you could transform into Dark Phoenix and just destroy everything for a limited time.

 

[KevanG]

I have the second and third. They're fun but I'm terrible at them. Give me Mortal Kombat any day.

 

[Anubis]

Not really a fighting game guy.

My brother loves that s**t.

 

[The Hill]

Only MvsC 1 was good. if we're counting X vs Sf and MSH vs SF, count those too. It went to crap after MvsC1.

 

[WolfCypher]

Only MvsC 1 was good. if we're counting X vs Sf and MSH vs SF, count those too. It went to crap after MvsC1.

XvsSF and MSHvsSF are counted. Yeah, I rather peaked with MvC1. I did like 2, but I preferred the scaledbackness of MvC1. I preferred Onslaught as the boss over random-ass made-up Abyss as the boss of MvC2, and Capcom became a totally different, totally worse monster by the time MvC3 came out. I got off the train before MvC3. But all the ones from XvSF through MvC2 are all right in my book. It was already a mindblowing experience to see Wolverine and Juggernaut in a game together with Dhalsim and Cammy, mindblowing still to see screen-filling giant beam Hadokens and exaggerated Yoga Fires, M. Bison attacking Sabertooth with a 40-hit ground-to-air combo. I didn't think this series could surprise me further. Simply putting in Venom and Mega Man was the zenith of the series for me. MvC1 has yet to be topped.

 

[WolfCypher]

Barry-Windsor Smith's Weapon X
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[runawayboulder]

Classic story. I loved the hell out of it and I really miss Marvel Comics Presents. I would love to see it come back but there's no real place for it the way Marvel floods their line. MCP was for the people that didn't have a book.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Never read it

 

[runawayboulder]

You should. It kinda is THE Wolverine origin story.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I think I had enough of origin stories of characters I've been following for years

 

[runawayboulder]

Suit yourself...

 

[Mad Ones]

What is even happening in that art. I know it's weapon X Wolverine, but seriously.

 

[slicer4444]

I agree with runawayboulder, absolute classic story. One of the best Wolverine stories out there.

 

[KevanG]

It was a good story and it was out before everyone needed a dozen origin stories a year. It also helped solve one of the big mysteries of what the heck Weapon X really was and what happened there. Pretty much every addition onto the story only made it worse though.

 

[WolfCypher]

Amazing Spider-Man 300​

 

[runawayboulder]

Love it. Classic story.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I love it, but it's the reason I think Eddie Brock is a huge moron

 

[Duke]

Classic story!!

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Weapon X was a half an half story for me. It was well done, but Smith still whiffed about giving us a definitive answer to many questions, and then the follow up stories just retconned and muddied the waters to all hell. It's a shame. These days I more or less tolerate Wolverine, rather than find him to be particularly compelling or cool.

TAS-M #300? If it was about Venom then I don't give a bowel movement. I have not an ounce of love for that character or most any story he's been in. Not even the early ones penciled by Todd or Erik.

 

[KevanG]

300 was pretty good. They did a decent story and I do like Venom, despite all the garbage they put him in through the years.

 

[WolfCypher]

Not my favorite all-time Venom/Eddie story, but easily in the top 10. I mean, it's the official 1st Venom story, and it had a good pace and their 1st battle was great. Not perfect, but high on my list. The McFarlane drawn Eddie and Venom will always be the definitive look of those two characters, forever. The very 1st ever Spider-Man vs. Venom tpb features incredible, amazing, rarely reused (shame, too) cover and back art of Spider-Man, Venom, and Eddie drawn by McFarlane that are easily my favorite pieces of art detailing these characters.

As much as I loved this milestone comic, I have to admit nothing has done neither the origin of Venom or Brock as well as the 90s animated series three part Alien Costume saga. And as huge a Eddie Brock fan as I am, I have to admit it took me till the late 90s/early 2000s to finally actually read this issue (I had learned about Venom's origins prior in the 1997 Uncanny Origins Venom issue).



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Weapon X? Part 1 of that story was the very 1st time I was ever exposed to Wolverine. My older cousin gave me all his hand-me-down comics, and that Marvel Comics Presents issue was one of them. Except for X-23's origins, I've hated every retcon and add-on writers have given this story. Simply put, the Barry-Windsor Smith story is the only version as is that matters to me.

To finish on a curveball, random, kinda related note, I always think of werewolves when I read Weapon X. I mean, right?

 

[lost&forgotten]

ASM 300 was ok, the two best things about it were Venom's design and the way he scared the living **** out of Mj. Now that we did 2 story arcs can we go back to characters? =)

 

[runawayboulder]

Venom was awesome until they wrote him out of Spider-Man's life in ASM 348 then brought him back a year later.

They had the perfect ending for him and blew it. But those first 4 stories with him were great, including this one.

 

[WolfCypher]

ASM 300 was ok, the two best things about it were Venom's design and the way he scared the living **** out of Mj. Now that we did 2 story arcs can we go back to characters? =)

Well this is my last foray managing this thread before we trade back, so when Spider-Aziz comes back, probably.

Venom was awesome until they wrote him out of Spider-Man's life in ASM 348 then brought him back a year later.

They had the perfect ending for him and blew it. But those first 4 stories with him were great, including this one.

It's funny, I loved that story, but I disagree with it being the best conclusion for Venom. Spidey puts together an impossible plan that could never realistically work (even for a fictitious comic book universe) with many huge variables and ways things can go wrong, in order to fake his death, and inexplicably his crazy-ass plan actually works perfectly, with Venom reacting to everything exactly the way Spidey needed him to, and then for no good reason, Venom, now believing Spidey really is dead, and satisfied, willingly exiles himself alone on the island? The symbiote would not want to stay docile on an island all by itself, and with Eddie's belief that he his a defender and a protector, Spidey being out of the picture, and Eddie has these superpowers at his disposal, I highly doubt he would have just stayed all alone on this island. It just came off ridiculous to think, after "killing" Spider-Man, Venom would just "retire themselves" to solitary confinement. I feel, anyway. Still I lived the actual story arc itself there, but I have to criticize that arc's choice of a ending.