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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2016 15:12:48 GMT -5
Here's a question- I read that Cho is the new Hulk, what happened to Bruce Banner? he held his breath until he passed out, and now we will have a new #1 with a Purple Hulk. |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Apr 1, 2016 21:08:26 GMT -5
Are the What If Volume 2 issues decent? I ask because two scenarios came to me and upon googling it, I find that they were actually explored (What if Spidey married Black Cat and What if Spidey had not been able to get rid of his six arms from ASM #101). I have read several from the original series and wondered if volume 2 was still intriguing? I know I have rarely seen them around.
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 1, 2016 22:12:27 GMT -5
IMO they're not nearly as good.
FWIW, I've only gotten a few, but they don't seem to have the same quality as the original series.
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Post by realjla on Apr 2, 2016 0:59:39 GMT -5
I agree. Plus, except for the 'Spidey with six arms' issue, they really went out of their way to screw him over in most of his appearances.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 2, 2016 2:32:28 GMT -5
The major difference in quality stems from the fact that Volume 1 of What if was based on major events that were the pillars of the Marvel Universe. The second volume had lots of minor stories that only followers of those particular comics could really get into.
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Post by realjla on Apr 2, 2016 14:49:30 GMT -5
They were good at revisiting the 'event' storylines one year later, starting with Roy Thomas's Evolutionary War re-write in # 1. Later on, there was an Atlantis Attacks story, and probably one for Inferno, as well(I didn't read the X-titles, anyway).
That first issue contains a line which should be in the Roy Thomas Hall of Fame for convoluted dialogue: When everyone is first displaying the effects of mutation(a big, bald head, and loss of ability to speak colloquial, idiomatic English), some bystander sees the heroes are also affected, and says. "Truly, they are as far beyond US as WE are to the men we WERE!"
O-o-o-o-o-o-KAY.
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Post by sudeepshrest on Apr 5, 2016 13:09:19 GMT -5
Okay so i am new to the comics game. I mean i knew about the characters but was not fully aware about the backstory and origins and what they have been through.I just recent researched about Good Ol' Darkseid and found that there is so much more to him than just being a powerful villain to Justice league or superman.His fight against Orion, wars against new genesis, exchange of sons, fact that Matron suggested the exchange of sons,his continous involvement to invade earth and recent Darkseid War storyline  Is he really dead after the God of Death Flash rips a hole thorugh him 
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Apr 5, 2016 18:34:38 GMT -5
No he's not really dead.
I know this because no comic character is EVER really dead.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Apr 5, 2016 19:10:35 GMT -5
Always wondered why Luke Cage's jacket on this cover was orange. Printing mistake? Did anyone at Marvel care back in the day when it did not come out yellow. I like the orangey look personally.  |
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Post by Farrar on Apr 6, 2016 9:19:49 GMT -5
Always wondered why Luke Cage's jacket on this cover was orange. Printing mistake? Did anyone at Marvel care back in the day when it did not come out yellow. I like the orangey look personally. It was likely deepened to an orangey shade here to provide more of a contrast between Luke and the background, since some of the background is also yellow (albeit a paler yellow than Luke's normal canary-yellow shirt). |
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Post by chadwilliam on Apr 8, 2016 23:10:34 GMT -5
A couple of Spider-Man questions:
1. We knew that Spider-Man was just a kid during his early years, but did the residents of the Marvel Universe? If they had to guess, would J Jonah Jameson, Doc Ock, Human Torch, etc have estimated Spider-Man's age as a teen-ager or somewhere within the adult range instead?
2. So Peter Parker was an outcast and Spider-Man was a well loved celebrity during those Lee-Ditko years. Did anyone ever comment on how strange it was that loser Peter Parker was the guy taking all those photos of Spider-Man for the Bugle? I know that when the tradition started, Parker asked not be credited, but at some point things changed. When did that change occur and was it treated as a big deal when Peter's secret was discovered? I do know that Kurt Busiek addressed this in Untold Tales but I'm curious about our chronology. |
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Post by realjla on Apr 9, 2016 3:38:15 GMT -5
Spider-Man was only a 'well-loved celebrity' at the very beginning, during Amazing Fantasy # 15, and early in Amazing Spider-Man # 1. Within a few pages of that first issue, his showbiz career is down the tubes. Jameson's anti-Spider-Man 'crusade' was effective up to a point, but I thought it was overkill when he was wanted by the NYPD off and on in the '60s, and just about constantly from 1970(death of George Stacy) through the Norman Osborn business, and then it became kind of a cliche for some cop to yell, 'Halt or I'll shoot!', continuing until Spidey finally got all charges dropped in '78/
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Post by Mormel on Apr 9, 2016 8:40:50 GMT -5
There was that early issue where Peter catches a flu, and does really badly in a fight against Doc Ock. Ock unmasks him, and can't believe that a teenager like Peter could be the real Spider-man, and dismisses him. Secret safe! I think the implication was that Ock expected an older guy behind the mask.
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Post by sudeepshrest on Apr 9, 2016 11:22:42 GMT -5
Have we ever truly seen the real Darkseid? I mean Didn't he reveal to some guy that his form that we see was just an avatar of his true self? Does that mean he is invincible? But he is Dead in Darkseid war. Confused. 
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 9, 2016 11:25:50 GMT -5
A couple of Spider-Man questions:
1. We knew that Spider-Man was just a kid during his early years, but did the residents of the Marvel Universe? If they had to guess, would J Jonah Jameson, Doc Ock, Human Torch, etc have estimated Spider-Man's age as a teen-ager or somewhere within the adult range instead?
2. So Peter Parker was an outcast and Spider-Man was a well loved celebrity during those Lee-Ditko years. Did anyone ever comment on how strange it was that loser Peter Parker was the guy taking all those photos of Spider-Man for the Bugle? I know that when the tradition started, Parker asked not be credited, but at some point things changed. When did that change occur and was it treated as a big deal when Peter's secret was discovered? I do know that Kurt Busiek addressed this in Untold Tales but I'm curious about our chronology. I always assumed Spider-man not being recognized as a teenager and the photo thing as just another example of suspension of disbelief. |
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Is he really dead after the God of Death Flash rips a hole thorugh him 
