The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition - Part 1

[runawayboulder]

It was impressive at the time because Cap wasn't held in such high regard by most writers those days like he is nowadays. Starlin gave him his first kick-ass moment it what was a dog's age.

Back in the 80's-90's (until Mark Waid got a hold of the character) he wasn't always the pillar of the Avengers. Mark Gruenwald seemed to have a possessive hold over him and whoever was writing the Avengers at the time always wanted to prove that the Avengers could have success without him. It always ended the same on 5 or 6 occasions where Cap would leave/resign/disappear or what have you, only to come back after the members basically beg him to.

I think they were just lazy and didn't want to do the paperwork. Cap was like Will Ferrel in The Other Guys, he loved that filing all that s**t.

 

[KevanG]

I just finished reading from War of the Kings through Thanos Imperative and they were all really amazing stories. I've found recently that Marvels best stories have nothing to do with thier big names (Cap, Spidey, Iron man, ect.) but with very low tier/popularity cosmic characters (and Thanos of course). It was just amazing with the Cancerverse, loving every page of the elder gods references, Black Bolt vs Vulcan and Thanos just kicking ass.

I haven't seen anything near as good from the main titles as this. The only one I liked recently was Siege and for the most part it was just them killing off Sentry. I have so much hate for Sentry . Is the reason for this just because it stays away from the main titles and gives them the lesser characters, like Rocket Raccoon??????, to play with?

 

[Ipodman]

Lol... and that's why Rocket Racoon is appearing in Ultimate MVC3 -.-

 

[CConn]

How important is it to read the Annihilation tie ins? (Silver Surfer, Nova, etc.) Cause I'm not sure if I have a long enough attention span to read more than 6 issues.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I guess the tie-ins are not especially important to the main Annihilation story, but they're all pretty good. Especially Annihilation: Super-Skrull and Annihilation: Nova.

 

[Anubis]

If you buy the trades, you'll get the tie ins anyway.

 

[Lucien]

The Silver Surfer tie-in is pretty crucial setting up Ravenous, Surfer rejoinging Galactus and the other Herald's involvement in the plot.

It's all top quality stuff tho, so it's worth reading all the tie-ins, and there aren't actually that many anyway compared to events these days.

 

[CConn]

If you buy the trades, you'll get the tie ins anyway.

I've given up paper comics.

 

[Hawkingbird]

Marvel has claimed that they can scientificly explain everything in their comics. Really want to know how the hell can Rouge fly. Yes I know she stole the power blah blah blah. I'm not some newbee, been reading the comics since childhood and my Dad since the 60's.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Ms. Marvel could fly so rouge can fly. Cosmic energy and such.

And marvel can't explain everything scientifically in their comics, that's why magic is called magic.

 

[The Morningstar]

How important is it to read the Annihilation tie ins? (Silver Surfer, Nova, etc.) Cause I'm not sure if I have a long enough attention span to read more than 6 issues.

Not that important, but they are worth getting. All of them are pretty good. Silver Surfer's series has some amazing set pieces.

It might also be worth getting the issues of Thanos that lead into it. 7-12 iirc.

 

[Panthro]

Besides Greg Pak's "The Incredible Hercules" what are some other good or great trades for Marvel's Herc?

 

[KevanG]

Not that important, but they are worth getting. All of them are pretty good. Silver Surfer's series has some amazing set pieces.

It might also be worth getting the issues of Thanos that lead into it. 7-12 iirc.

Actually The entire run is awesome.

 

[THANOSRULES]

How important is it to read the Annihilation tie ins? (Silver Surfer, Nova, etc.) Cause I'm not sure if I have a long enough attention span to read more than 6 issues.

They are all worth it, but if you had to pick 1 you have to read the Nova book...You F-ing have too.

That and the Prologue book.

 

[THANOSRULES]

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.

Lim was a huge factor as well.

 

[The Morningstar]

Actually The entire run is awesome.

Very true. If only for the scene where Thanos blasts Galactus out of his ship and skidding ass first across a moon. Losing his pretty little hat along the way.

 

[Panthro]

How many Captain Marvels (or Mar-Vells) has Marvel had over the years, in both 616 and/or Ultimate(s)?

 

[Anubis]

Six

 

[Punitore]

i have to buy some punisher comics online and i need to know something before. if any of you own pwj v.1 comics can you answer this question, is there a continuation between pwj 21 and 22? ..i guess 17, 18, 19 is a 3 numbers story but i don't know about 20, 21, 22 ..does 21 continues on 22? i hate when i find out a story goes on in the next issue. i can't find any synopsis.. so, is there anybody helping me? thanks.

 

[THANOSRULES]

There are 7, counting Ultimate that I can come up with


Captain Mar-Vell
Genis Vell
Monica Rambeau

Phyla vell

Ultimate Mar-vell
Fake Skrull Khnr
Marvel boy-Noh varr

 

[Anubis]

The Skrull doesn't count.

 

[KevanG]

If you're talking about anyone who has claimed the name it should but... Dammit Anubis, your avatar is distracting me in the middle of my, um, words, what?

 

[THANOSRULES]

I don't understand Secret Avengers, I mean they are all Avengers, non of the missions have really been super secret. Whats the point?

 

[Franklin Richards]

So I'm reading this article about Franklin Richards over at Comic Vine and it talking about how he might be the most powerful mutant in the 616. Some X-Men fans were saying that some mutant they called "MJJ" was the most powerful.


I hate this WoW / Texting world of acronyms. Who the heck are they talking about?

 

[Anubis]

Mo Jo Jojo