The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition - Part 6

[KevanG]

Ah. All I remembered that it was the X-Men and FF.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Am I thinking of the same one? It's where four x-men, Emma Frost, Gambit and some others get zapped by the same radiation as the FF did and they go nuts?

The one (just read it) is the X-Men turn to the Fantastic Four to save Kitty Pryde who, after the mutant massacre, is slowly discorporating. However, Reed's confidence is shot after his family discovers a journal that suggests that he might have deliberately gotten them to go to space so they could get superpowers. He refuses to help the X-Men. Then Dr. Doom shows up and offers to help save her instead.

It's written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Jon Bogdanove. It does a good job of giving the FF a prominent role and capturing their voices. Kitty Pryde's tragic state is also captured pretty well. Finally, it's a good father/son story between Reed and Franklin Richards. Overall, not too bad (although I realize I should have originally asked the question in the recommendations thread).

 

[Lobo]

Has Dormammu ever fought Galactus? I know he's fought with Eternity

 

[Mike Murdock]

If the last major Marvel event I read was Infinity, which events should I read before Secret Wars? What should I read for Secret War? To what extent do I have to read the previous Secret Wars (which there are apparently three, although I only know two)? Anyone know whether I should finish Secret Wars before the relaunch?

 

[The Hill]

What's the Punisher's stance on dirty cops? Like how does he deal with them?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't think he'd have any qualms offing them. They tend to do even more damage than a random murderer off the street because of their high level of access and ability to avoid suspicion for so long.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Isn't there a precedent? I seem to remember him at least killing a crooked DA in the Daredevil vs. Punisher miniseries.

 

[KevanG]

I know he won't kill clean cops and I think he prefers not to kill dirty ones unless they get in the crazy **** like slavery or try to kill him first.

 

[Mike Murdock]

Why is a cop different than anyone else in his view there? Why wouldn't he kill a cop who is a drug dealer/enforcer?

 

[KevanG]

Well he likes cops since they help people and are mostly good. Killing a dirty cop brings down the good cops on him and he'd rather not hurt them if he can help it. He'll kill dirty cops if he has to but he prefers to expose them as dirty first so the good ones are less likely to go after him.

 

[chamber-music]

The punisher dealt with a dirty cop in this issue

 

[Mike Murdock]

What did the cop do in that one?

 

[Webhead2006]

hey all i was wondering if any one can help me out with this. I am thinking about doing a reread of amazing spidey when vol 2. launched. And i was wondering if any one knew the chronologically order of amazing vol 2/back to vol 1 numbers and the other solo spidey books that came out around that time to the secondary titles where dropped?

Also if any one can help with that i was wondering the same for when amazing/peter parker spectactular spiderman and web was out for order of reading went for them.

 

[WolfCypher]

Has any superhero in DC or Marvel ever been outted as a racist? I don't mean against aliens, I mean against actual Earth races. I'm pretty sure some hero has showed prejudice against a Skrull or a Kryptonian, too easy...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, there's that infamous panel of a black guy asking Hal Jordan what he's done for the black skins lately. It was pretty ham-fisted because it was the '70s, but, in my mind, at least, Hal Jordan's totally a racist.

 

[Lobo]

Anyone have scans of Rhino punching Nova into space?

 

[javi1024]

For someone who's interested in reading the Avengers, what would people say are the essential stories to read to get a nice grasp on their history?

I'm only interested in pre-Bendis stuff. I've seen stories like Kree/Skrull War, Under Seige, Avengers Forever, and Ultron Unlimited on many Best Of lists.

 

[DawnWarrior]

I just read Operation: Galactic Storm and that still holds up. The Korvac Saga is quite good too. And Kurt Busiek's entire run really, especially the stuff with George Perez.

 

[Webhead2006]

Hey i asked a few days back. But just wanted to see if any one can help me out.

First I am looking for best reading order of asm, and the secondary spidey books when asm went to vol 2.

Then on flip side what is the correct order for vol 1s of asm, web, spectacular before the vol 2 relaunchs. If any one can help be great.

 

[WolfCypher]

Well its not an easy question to answer, which is probably why it was skipped. There isn't always an order. Sometimes a character with multiple monthly books will have an arc or event that spins out into all their books, in which case if Part 1 of said story is in ASM and Part 2 is in Web, and 3 is in Spec, you will obviously read ASM, then Web, then Spec in that order.

The opposite would be during that crap-ass Back in Black/"Let's cater to the SM3 movie and lie to the fanbase and say this has NOTHING to do with the movies" event (the era where Spidey went all emo and aggro because his Aunt was shot yet at the same time was still making jokes and quips and acting like nothing happened) where you could read any of the Spider-Man titles independently from each other or all of them in any order and completely ignore the rest, and it DID NOT MAKE A DIFFERENCE because they DID NOT affect each other, despite ALL OF THEM being apart of that "Back in Crap" joke.

Look over at DC. Plenty of Batman titles simultaneously released at once and they almost never connect or show any reading order. Batman Eternal was happening at the same time as Batman's Endgame, where in Eternal the entire city of Gotham was being ravished by all of Batman's villains, while over in Endgame...the entire city was...erm...being ravished..by the Joker?

So...you see the problem here? There is only a necessary reading order when editorial wants it, and otherwise they're just more books out there to read with no strong continuity between them.

 

[Webhead2006]

Ok man if any one ever has any info please pm me.

 

[SwiftFox]

The stupid quesiton of stupid questions - I get the impression that if BlackBolt opens his mouth at all, he destroys something. So how does the dude eat?

 

[WolfCypher]

Silently.

His voice causes devastation. If he speaks, he causes damage.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

has there ever been a formerly fat superhero?

I was thinking about it, with characters like Peter Parker, or Steve Rogers, they started out as scrawny weak guys (I always kinda took offense to this, when they would say that it was to make them more relatable to fans... like all fans are skinny weaklings...kind of a stereotype)

but on the other side of the stereotype scale, you have the overweight fans (again a bit of an offense stereotype, at the very least an out dated one) but, if believed to be true at all... who do those fat fans have to relate too?

 

[KevanG]

Well there's a fat superhero that was part of the Initiative. His body was invulnerable to changing so he couldn't get hurt at all but also couldn't lose weight. Not sure about otherwise though.