ThunderBolts #110

[Red]

Anyone else looking forward to this?

How do you think the book will develop?

Honestly I think the book will suck. Its ripping off Villians United in an effort to make money.

 

[Harlekin]

Are there alot of comic shops where your from?

Not an awful lot, and the ones I know of usually are not big on backissues dating back to before 1990.

 

[supermarvelman]

Honestly I think the book will suck. Its ripping off Villians United in an effort to make money.

Just like Annhilation is ripping off Rann/Thanagar War. Does Annhilation suck? Hell NO. I have faith Thunderbolts will deliver, probably 10X better than Villians United, just like Annihilation. Somemany people thought Annihilation was just capitalizing on R/TWar's success, and that it would be a poor-mans R/TWar, well it isnt and it is 10X better than R/TWar. Im sure Villians united where ripping off books that have come before it. Do you think that VU where the first to take villians and use them as "good guys".

 

[Harlekin]

R/TWar's succes? I wager that title was actually the worst recieved of all the Infinite Crisis minis. They were calling Annhiliation a rip-off based on the 4-lead- up mini structure, not the similarities if any to R/TWar.

Lastly, this title is far from a rip-off from Villains United. It's a Suicide Squad rip, which was just a Dirty Dozen rip anyway.

 

[supermarvelman]

Thank you very much. Most things a ripped-off now-a-days its very hard to think of something fully original.

Try creating a superhero that doesnt rip-off something in the mass media. It might not rip-off comics but it will most likely rip-off a book or a movie. Anykind of medievil story with elves and dwarves will seem like a rip-off of LOTR.

 

[Harlekin]

Still, this particular rip is a little overt. I mean, bad guys in employ of the government in return for a lessened service? Yeah, that's the Suicide Squad.

 

[Tropico]

R/TWar's succes? I wager that title was actually the worst recieved of all the Infinite Crisis minis. They were calling Annhiliation a rip-off based on the 4-lead- up mini structure, not the similarities if any to R/TWar.

Lastly, this title is far from a rip-off from Villains United. It's a Suicide Squad rip, which was just a Dirty Dozen rip anyway.

I agree. It even has that "let's put some kind of device on the villains so we can control them" thing that SS used. Heck, SS vol.2 used the nannites thing as opposed to the previous explosive bracelets. Personally, I'm not a big Spidey fan so the villains in this are meh-tastic to me. The other thing that bothers me about it is that it was conceptualized using the same formula as New Avengers, this from Marvel's own words. It was cool for the House of Ideas to admit that their so called "art first, $$$ later" was bunk, though.up: I'm still gonna give this a try because of the writer, but it's with extremely reluctant interest.

Considering Marvel's "no cosmics" stance, I never saw the Annihilation mini prequels as an R/T War rip-off. I always saw it as a Marvel experiment that was truly intended to fail and shut fans up in regards to being tired of only street level heroes. I'n delighted that if was succesful and that if you read it objectively it kicks CW's ass in all aspects.

 

[Marcdachamp]

Yeah, I'm sold. The premise is cool, and I'm really interested to see how Marvel's most popular villains mesh with my favorite returning T-Bolts. I dropped the book with #100, but I'm back with #110.