Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Aug 8, 2022 23:22:51 GMT -5
Read a comic and a comic TPB earlier.
Was nice outside. No rain. So sat on my pier listened to a podcast and read....
Penny Century #5-Loved what little bit of the Brothers Hernandez work I have read. This while I am sure would be even better if I had read the close to 100 issues of Love&Rockets came before it,still worked and made me laugh a few times.
Manifest Destiny Vol 1 Flora and Fauna-Damn this was good. Hoping it keeps the same creative team till the end. Seems I picked the right time to start this series,since the TPB of the last few issues comes out later this month. This is Lewis,Clark and Sacagawea traveling the western part of the US. But there is monsters. These weird Centaur/Bufflo hybrids. And these plant like Swamp Thing creatures.
Great art great writing so happy I got this trade on clearance last year.
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Post by thechase on Aug 9, 2022 1:08:32 GMT -5
Dan of the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast reportedly talked to Zeb Wells and found out direct from him that the big 'mystery' of what Peter did, as well as his current stance with MJ, will be resolved around the time Dark Web launches.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Aug 9, 2022 9:14:34 GMT -5
I doubt anything will improve between them even if the current mystery is resolved. Wells simply doesn’t like Mary Jane.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 9, 2022 9:25:19 GMT -5
I said it before and I said it again the fact X-men exist with the entire Marvel universe yet have the anti mutant thing going on makes no damn sense. Honestly the fact the movies have their own universe made them better cause we can have a world where they hate mutants and not worship Captain America or Spider-man
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Post by thechase on Aug 9, 2022 9:55:16 GMT -5
I doubt anything will improve between them even if the current mystery is resolved. Wells simply doesn’t like Mary Jane. Get ready for more misery in the meantime, according to spoilers for ASM#7 {Spoiler}Peter visits Oscorp and bumps into Mary Jane and her new boyfriend Paul, and it's tense and awkward, and of course there's no answers as to what's going on. MJ is there on business, wanting Osborn's opinion on the Krakoa drugs she's giving her Aunt Anna (Yes, MJ is asking the man who killed her best friend for advice), and then she makes preparations for the Hellfire Gala, which of course has already happened for us.
Oh, and for some reason, one of the Oscorp interns is Kamala Khan
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Post by chrom on Aug 9, 2022 10:19:41 GMT -5
I doubt anything will improve between them even if the current mystery is resolved. Wells simply doesn’t like Mary Jane. Get ready for more misery in the meantime, according to spoilers for ASM#7 {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Peter visits Oscorp and bumps into Mary Jane and her new boyfriend Paul, and it's tense and awkward, and of course there's no answers as to what's going on. MJ is there on business, wanting Osborn's opinion on the Krakoa drugs she's giving her Aunt Anna (Yes, MJ is asking the man who killed her best friend for advice), and then she makes preparations for the Hellfire Gala, which of course has already happened for us.
Oh, and for some reason, one of the Oscorp interns is Kamala Khan *Facepalm*
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 9, 2022 14:07:25 GMT -5
For me personally I don't care about Pete and MJ being together one or another any more. If they are great, if they're not fine.
One More Day sucked, but that's been 15 years ago. They were married from 1986-2007, so they've now NOT been married almost as long.
For me,if I want to revisit the marriage, I have decades worth of comics I can pull out of the longbox n read.
But then the older I get, the less I care about canon or continuity. Your mileage may vary.
Does this particular Spidey story I'm reading right now entertain me? Then I'm good.
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Post by thechase on Aug 9, 2022 14:27:07 GMT -5
For me personally I don't care about Pete and MJ being together one or another any more. If they are great, if they're not fine. One More Day sucked, but that's been 15 years ago. They were married from 1986-2007, so they've now NOT been married almost as long. For me,if I want to revisit the marriage, I have decades worth of comics I can pull out of the longbox n read. But then the older I get, the less I care about canon or continuity. Your mileage may vary. Does this particular Spidey story I'm reading right now entertain me? Then I'm good. If you factor in all of the alternate universes, they've been married far longer. Post-OMD has never had a year to just itself, it's always compared to what came before because what it took away has never been benched or shelved. Even reruns of the newspaper strip from 2014 to present are still ongoing, with a healthy Peter and MJ marriage front and centre. You can downplay it as 'alternate universes', you can downplay the upcoming Lost Hunt in November as pre-OMD and a 'period setting', but what you cannot argue is that the marriage is 'never coming back', For all the bluster about the Spider-Marriage 'never coming back', the reality speaks for itself: It never left. Why some keep tutting at us and insisting we 'deal with it and move on' when it's all too evident that money and nostalgia ensures Marvel never will? Marvel want these debates to continue, they don't want the readership to 'move on', Lost Hunt will create new Spider-Marriage fans as well as entertain old ones, it will better acquaint current readers with the concept of 616 MJ as a mom, something Wells is developing, it will give present readers a taste of Peter as an adult with real responsibilities...why would you educate readers about that phase of his life when the current P.R speak is he has to be 'relatable' in more 'delicate' ways that avoid all of those responsibilities? In short, why didn't they just talk about Lost Hunt to the C2E2 crowd since it was going to tick all the boxes for them that way? Hey, you want the marriage again? You're going to get four or five months with it, enjoy that. These are very mixed signals, they are saying one thing at C2E2, but are doing another thing altogether in November that runs counter to what they were saying.
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Post by thechase on Aug 9, 2022 16:00:07 GMT -5
Further spoilers for this week's Amazing Spider-Man {Spoiler}I'm convinced MJ is only in this relationship for the sake of the kids. When Paul is introduced to Peter at Oscorp, he fantasizes about beating him up, with Mary Jane begging him to stop. In the real world, he asks Peter if he'd like to have lunch with them
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Post by Duke Cameron on Aug 9, 2022 16:50:43 GMT -5
Further spoilers for this week's Amazing Spider-Man {Spoiler}{Spoiler}I'm convinced MJ is only in this relationship for the sake of the kids. When Paul is introduced to Peter at Oscorp, he fantasizes about beating him up, with Mary Jane begging him to stop. In the real world, he asks Peter if he'd like to have lunch with them {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} It makes no sense for Mary Jane to be with a guy like this considering her past with her abusive father. I can’t wIth till Peter destroys this guy.
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Post by chrom on Aug 9, 2022 16:54:56 GMT -5
I doubt anything will improve between them even if the current mystery is resolved. Wells simply doesn’t like Mary Jane. Does he have a Daughter? How long before he makes her into a Character and everyone talks about how perfect she is for Peter like Quesada did with his Daughter
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Post by Duke Cameron on Aug 9, 2022 19:57:12 GMT -5
For me personally I don't care about Pete and MJ being together one or another any more. If they are great, if they're not fine. One More Day sucked, but that's been 15 years ago. They were married from 1986-2007, so they've now NOT been married almost as long. For me,if I want to revisit the marriage, I have decades worth of comics I can pull out of the longbox n read. But then the older I get, the less I care about canon or continuity. Your mileage may vary. Does this particular Spidey story I'm reading right now entertain me? Then I'm good. Going back and reading old issues don’t cut it for me. Yeah, I can go back and read marriage era issues, but then I still know all the garbage the characters are currently going through and it bums me out. I started reading comics books about a year after the marriage had happened and it’s all I ever knew. I think the fact that Spider-Man was a married superhero is what got me hooked in the first place. Because I love comic book romances. I’ve always liked Mary Jane more than Spider-Man himself.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Aug 9, 2022 20:51:09 GMT -5
And that's fair. Like I say, any more I just want an entertaining story.
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Post by thechase on Aug 10, 2022 0:50:19 GMT -5
For me personally I don't care about Pete and MJ being together one or another any more. If they are great, if they're not fine. One More Day sucked, but that's been 15 years ago. They were married from 1986-2007, so they've now NOT been married almost as long. For me,if I want to revisit the marriage, I have decades worth of comics I can pull out of the longbox n read. But then the older I get, the less I care about canon or continuity. Your mileage may vary. Does this particular Spidey story I'm reading right now entertain me? Then I'm good. Going back and reading old issues don’t cut it for me. Yeah, I can go back and read marriage era issues, but then I still know all the garbage the characters are currently going through and it bums me out. Some of the older stories can still be enjoyed as some of the AUs like Spider-Girl keep the original timeline more or less intact, so they still 'matter', while building upon their own separate 'future' for the characters.
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Post by thechase on Aug 10, 2022 9:04:57 GMT -5
So upon closer inspection of ASM#7 {Spoiler}{Spoiler}Paul's 'fantasy' where he smacks Peter around could be interpreted as a flashback
More diffusion of the current status quo...MJ is appreciative of Peter's apology and is about to tell him the truth of how she feels when there's a convenient interruption from Paul. Mary Jane also gives Peter a warm smile as she glances back at him when she and Paul depart, almost like she's relieved
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Post by Duke Cameron on Aug 10, 2022 14:17:46 GMT -5
Going back and reading old issues don’t cut it for me. Yeah, I can go back and read marriage era issues, but then I still know all the garbage the characters are currently going through and it bums me out. Some of the older stories can still be enjoyed as some of the AUs like Spider-Girl keep the original timeline more or less intact, so they still 'matter', while building upon their own separate 'future' for the characters. [br Again, revisiting the past just gets me depressed knowing where the characters eventually end up. The story doesn’t currently have a happy status, so past happiness is pointless. Things like Spider-Girl and especially Renew Your Vows are great, but they don’t last and we’re told that they’re just variants. Not the real ones. I care about 616.
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Post by thechase on Aug 10, 2022 14:19:46 GMT -5
Some of the older stories can still be enjoyed as some of the AUs like Spider-Girl keep the original timeline more or less intact, so they still 'matter', while building upon their own separate 'future' for the characters. [br Again, revisiting the past just gets me depressed knowing where the characters eventually end up. The story doesn’t currently have a happy status, so past happiness is pointless. Things like Spider-Girl and.especially Renew Your Vows are great, but they don’t last and we’re told that they’re just variants. Not the real ones. I care about 616. I think Spider-Girl was referred to by Quesada as the franchise's 'natural' continuity, and she was always billed as the 'daughter of the real Spider-Man'
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Post by Starshine on Aug 10, 2022 17:11:30 GMT -5
So with Amazing Spider-Man being all about Peter, Paul and Mary, I have to ask, when are we seeing the debut of Puff the Magic Dragon?
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 11, 2022 9:27:37 GMT -5
So with Amazing Spider-Man being all about Peter, Paul and Mary, I have to ask, when are we seeing the debut of Puff the Magic Dragon? Spider-Man's web is discovered to be sealing wax and all that fancy stuff
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Post by thechase on Aug 11, 2022 13:22:32 GMT -5
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