The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition - Part 1

[Scarecrow_King]

Didn't DC just do the same thing with women creators? The companies are draining too much energy on being so politically correct. I can't make a just argument over whether or not it's detracted from the stories or not yet, but I'm pretty confident in saying that it's just a matter of time before it does.

 

[Manic]

I only have one thing to say about woman creators at DC: Why the hell haven't Gail Simone and Amanda Conner done a comic together yet?

 

[Scarecrow_King]

who's Amanda Conner?

 

[Manic]

She drew the first dozen issues of the recent Power Girl comic. In fact, she mostly draws Power Girl. Her style is a little cartoonish, but her proportions are overall good and she has a good grasp on drawing emotive faces.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

I'm fine with cartoonish. 'Ringo is one of my favorite artists. I'll have to check out some of what she's done.

 

[Manic]

God knows this is hardly the thread for it, but here's a page drawn by Conner.

Spoiler

 

[Scarecrow_King]

she's worked for Marvel before, according to her Wiki page. I'm gonna say it fits in this thread. thanks for the preview.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Nvm

 

[MarvelWarrior]

Does Marvel have any plans to bring back Nova from the Cancerverse or is he dead for good?

 

[Anubis]

Nobodies dead for good. Except Uncle Ben.....and even then there was an alternate Universe version of him running around for awhile.

 

[Panthro]

Did Thor really just call Hulk "a pain in the ass" in the most recent issue of "Fear Itself"?

Can "Thor: The Deth of Odin" by Jurgens and Immonen be read independently of the rest of the Jurgens run or is it crucial to have everything else of Jurgens available?

 

[Anubis]

Well, he IS a pain in the ass.

No, you can just jump in I guess. If anything, it's really the beginning of his awesome run (Even though it came right in the middle.)

 

[slicer4444]

where exactly does whedon's astonishing x-men run fit in with the uncanny x-men issues? I know it is in the same continuity but what issues does it line up with exactly?

 

[Manic]

where exactly does whedon's astonishing x-men run fit in with the uncanny x-men issues? I know it is in the same continuity but what issues does it line up with exactly?

While Whedon was writing Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny X-Men went through issues 444-491. In terms of trade paperbacks, that's Claremont's "New Age" trades and Brubaker's "Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar" & "The Extremists."

Or in broader terms, Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run takes place between the end of Morrison's era and Messiah Complex.

 

[Anubis]

It's broken up in between. Use your better judgement.

 

[Ipodman]

Anyone around here reads Bendis' Scarlet?? According to comicbookDB, there's five issues out, and all 5 are collected in a hardcover (which I saw in stores). I only have issue 1 and it's pretty good... Is this series continuing?

 

[Lord]

I know he's not from Marvel but i didn't find any other place to ask this question:
In the early spawn comics what does that clock that is allways appearing mean?
Is it some kind of countdown?

 

[runawayboulder]

It was his powers counting down....kinda like a battery timer. The angle was dropped at some point maybe 2 years in. I couldn't tell you to be honest, I proudly dropped Spawn after issue #9. One of the worst/overrated/ego driven comics ever. It nearly destroyed comics (with a lot of help from other areas of course).

 

[runawayboulder]

Also, I'm pretty sure the timer's expiration meant the devil would claim Al Simmons soul. That's why by issue 6 or 7 he was toting machine guns....

 

[Anubis]

I know he's not from Marvel but i didn't find any other place to ask this question:
In the early spawn comics what does that clock that is allways appearing mean?
Is it some kind of countdown?

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=296167&page=8

 

[Tron Bonne]

Anyone around here reads Bendis' Scarlet?? According to comicbookDB, there's five issues out, and all 5 are collected in a hardcover (which I saw in stores). I only have issue 1 and it's pretty good... Is this series continuing?

It's suppose to be an ongoing series, yeah, but...Bendis, of course, is writing like five other things, and he and Maleev just started Moon Knight. So, unless Maleev decides to pass it to someone else, it's probably going to be awhile before it pops up again. I think the sixth issue was actually solicited at one point even, but it's probably going to be like Bendis' other ICON ongoing, Powers, in that the schedule is going to be irregular as hell.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

Ok, I have some questions I have wondered about for a while...

In Secret Wars the Thing keeps randomly changing back and forward from Ben Grimm to the Thing, and he ends up staying behind on the planet when everyone else goes home, so he can feel human again for a while before he goes home.

Now, we are not told why the planet causes this change, but during the course of Secret Wars Reed Richards thinks to himself(not exact words, but same meaning), 'I suspect i know what is causing Ben to change back and forward, but i don't want to tell him as it's the kind of thing that can break a man, maybe it's best if he finds out for himself...'

So, howcome the change?


and concerning the genesis of Wolverine....

When exactly was it established, what issue or whatever, that Wolverine had a healing factor, because from what I can see in the early Claremont/Byrne/Cockrum issues of X-Men(I have read the first 3 Essentials books), the only powers they mention are his animal instincts and his adamantium claws.

Because I noticed during the story 'Wolverine: Alone!', when he is fighting the hellfire club, y'know, alone, lol, he talks about surviving a bullet spray only because he turns and it 'creases his side', otherwise 'it would have cut him in half', so it seems they did not establish the healing factor power at that point.

and in actual fact, when they did establish he had the adamantium skeleton? I did not notice if they did or not in that run. maybe I've forgotten.

 

[Anubis]

It was the point when Reed Realized that Ben could have always changed back to his human form if he wanted to, it was just a mental block.

 

[runawayboulder]

Wolverine's healing factor was first acknowledged in Uncanny #107 when Starbolt of the Shiar Imperial Guard fried him. It was only show as an immunity more than a healing factor but as time went on they established one. Since then, it's gotten way out of control at times.

Not sure about the skeleton though.....I'm sure it was around the same few year span. Claremont was the one that made him into a walking catchphrase.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

It was the point when Reed Realized that Ben could have always changed back to his human form if he wanted to, it was just a mental block.

Aye, that was my guess, I was gonna type that up, honest, lol, cheers.
But, I also thought, y'know, maybe that's not it, cause that would open the can of worms up for the comic when he got back to Earth, and they would lose that whole aspect of the Thing that made the character so compelling, the fact he was stuck like that.
So I guess they maybe did that for a while in the books, but then put the kibosh on it, as they are wont to do with such massive changes to a character's core essence(like Spider-man revealing his secret id).