The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition - Part 1

[Anubis]

Yeah, that's comics.

Character growth is temporary at best.

 

[Thebumwhowalks]

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.

Ok, i forgot about that, thanks. and yeah, I bought my first Wolverine solo comics for the first time in about 15 yrs back when Civil War started up, and so got that run with the infamous, regenerate from a single surviving cell after being blown apart incident, which was too much, y'know, lol.

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.

I haven't read the first solo mini-series he did with Miller in over a decade, don't know what happened to my tpb of that, he might've brought it in there.

 

[Panthro]

Is the Infinity Gauntlet storyline worth reading?

 

[Anubis]

Sure.

 

[runawayboulder]

One of the best stories ever produced at Marvel. The tie-ins were great too. The Silver Surfer one where he fought the Rhino was one of the best single issue stories I ever read. Rhino was freeing animals from the zoo due to the end of the world. There was a real emotional scene with the big lug when a cop shot and killed one of the escaped tigers. It's the best I've ever seen anybody write him.

 

[runawayboulder]

 

[Anubis]

One of the best stories ever produced at Marvel. The tie-ins were great too. The Silver Surfer one where he fought the Rhino was one of the best single issue stories I ever read. Rhino was freeing animals from the zoo due to the end of the world. There was a real emotional scene with the big lug when a cop shot and killed one of the escaped tigers. It's the best I've ever seen anybody write him.

Flowers for Rhino from Web of Spider-Man was a good one too.

 

[Manic]

Flowers for Rhino from Web of Spider-Man was a good one too.

Flowers for Rhino? I'm taking a wild guess here, but was it a story where Rhino temporarily became really really smart?

 

[Anubis]

Yeah.

Basically a Flowers for Algernon rip off.

 

[runawayboulder]

Flowers for Rhino was from Tangled Web.

 

[runawayboulder]

And yes it was great.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

Infinity Gauntlet is something that's been on my list to read for a while. Is there a specific edition that's better than another? I know there's a Premiere Edition, but it seems like it would leave out a bunch of the tie-in stuff that I might enjoy.

 

[runawayboulder]

I couldn't tell you. I read it as it was released and bought one of the first trades that collected it in 2001. Actually the inside cover said it was a fourth printing so I don't know if that counts the first 2 printings of the issues then the first trade paperback or if there were 3 other trade collections prior. The one I have is the Marvel's Finest line and had nothing extra, no glossy paper, no sketches, no nothing.....

 

[Scarecrow_King]

kay, I'll shop around. Thanks.

related question: are the Infinity War and Infinity Watch series worth reading? Seems like a lot of content based around one storyline, and I'm not sure about spending the money on all of it.

 

[runawayboulder]

They are all related and written by Jim Starlin, the writer of Infinity Gauntlet. Infinity War was ok. Infinity Crusade, the final chapter in the trilogy was kinda redundant by then and didn't factor into the Marvel universe as much so I didn't read it. Infinity Watch was good - it primarily bridged the gap between Gauntlet and War. It lasted 42 issues so after Infinity Crusade ended, it ceased to have a purpose.

Bottom line......I compare the Infinity trilogy to the Matrix trilogy. The first one blew my tiny little mind, the second was cool and by the third I was like who gives a crap.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

awesome. thanks, boulder.

 

[runawayboulder]

No prob

 

[Ipodman]

I have the Premiere Edition of Infinity Gauntlet, and there are no tie in issues, only the main Infinity Gauntlet story. I like the series, but the ending was kinda.. "easy"??

 

[Justkidding]

After you're done reading Infinity Gauntlet, if you like it, of course, you should pick up Jim Starlin's Marvel: The End. It's pretty fun too. If a little bit redundant for the fact it's yet another comic where Thano's kills everyone and everything again.

 

[runawayboulder]

There was also the 2 issue Thanos Quest which served as a prequel to Infinity Gauntlet. It spun out of Silver Surfer #50, which was Starlin's last issue of his stellar run on the title. Pretty much what ended up happening was the Infinity trilogy was his mea culpa for all things he set up in his Surfer run. He was on a tear at Marvel for that time.

His work on Surfer helped push that title's success for years to come. It probably would have never made it to it's 146th issue if Starlin and Ron Marz didn't write it in back to back runs.

 

[Ipodman]

When I go into the individual threads for different books, I have this impression that everyone is hating everything that is out there... is there anything that most people here can agree is good? Used to be Hercules and Deadpool at least... are those still happening?

 

[Anubis]

Max DP is supposed to be really good.

I don't know if the new Herc is out yet but he's supposed to be powerless and protecting Brooklyn or something.

 

[runawayboulder]

I'm pretty far behind on Herc. The sales have been horrible and the series will probably make it only 2-3 more issues....tops.

Deadpool MAX is the best limited series Marvel has been putting out. It's by Dave Lapham, the indie writer behind the crime drama comic Stray Bullets. It's cult following has earned it a "second 12 issue season". I suggest grabbing the trade when it comes out because it's up to issue 10 with 2 issues to go. The trade should be released before the next installment of DP MAX in early 2012.

If you want some Deadpool from the 616 end, avoid his solo and go straight to Uncanny X-Force. Remender writes him as more crazy, just as dangerous but still funny as hell. The same characterization has carried over into the Fear Itself UXF mini.

 

[The Morningstar]

Is the Infinity Gauntlet storyline worth reading?

Yea definitely. I'd read Thanos Quest first though. It's where he gets all the Infinity Gems.

 

[Anubis]

People have said that [blackout]That scene where Cap stands up to Thanos after watching him kill pretty much everybody he showed up with to fight him is one of Caps defining moments, but I've always felt it looses it's impact because directly afterwards he gets b***h slapped into oblivion.[/blackout]