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Post by berkley on Jun 26, 2022 20:53:53 GMT -5
The silliest of the silliest could be the real names of comic book characters where the writer wants that name to describe the personality Victor Von Doom? Really? Johnny Blaze? Did they know he's be a Lit-Up Ghost Rider from the start? Jack Russell-Werewolf By Night? Let's name him for a dog breed because he'll eventually be furry One of the worst things about Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was that they canonized "Blackagar Boltagon" in the MCU!
Really? Sorry to hear that. I'm always amazed that anyone ever thought that was a good idea - but apparently someone involved in the MCU still likes it!
I think DC should change Superman's Kryptonian name from Kal-El to Super-El Mann-El because otherwise it makes no sense to call him Superman.
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Post by badwolf on Jun 28, 2022 16:02:06 GMT -5
One of the worst things about Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was that they canonized "Blackagar Boltagon" in the MCU!  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 29, 2022 6:01:49 GMT -5
Marc Gruenwald named Black Bolt that way.
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Post by Duragizer on Jun 30, 2022 0:58:49 GMT -5
So I take it McFarlane wanted to make "Arachknight" a thing?  Glad that never caught on. |
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Post by Confessor on Jun 30, 2022 6:07:31 GMT -5
So I take it McFarlane wanted to make "Arachknight" a thing? Glad that never caught on. I think that cover blurb was just tongue-in-cheek riffing on the Distiguished Competition's newest successful Batman series, Legends of the Dark Knight. I can't believe that MacFarlane was seriously trying to coin "the Arachknight" as a new nickname for Spidey. |
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Post by james on Jun 30, 2022 6:48:42 GMT -5
Marc Gruenwald named Black Bolt that way. Really? I never knew that. Interesting. I always thought he was just Black bolt. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 30, 2022 9:13:33 GMT -5
Marc Gruenwald named Black Bolt that way. Really? I never knew that. Interesting. I always thought he was just Black bolt. And I believe it was first revealed in one of those Handbooks. |
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Post by badwolf on Jun 30, 2022 9:27:00 GMT -5
And I believe it was first revealed in one of those Handbooks. yes... something that didn't need to be done. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 30, 2022 10:18:08 GMT -5
And I believe it was first revealed in one of those Handbooks. yes... something that didn't need to be done. Is his brother's real name Maxagar Imusagon? |
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Post by Farrar on Jun 30, 2022 10:59:55 GMT -5
And I believe it was first revealed in one of those Handbooks. Agreed! Btw I believe BB's Boltagon name was first revealed in 1984's Fantastic Four Annual #18 (BB and Medusa's wedding)--scripted by Mark Gruenwald. Medusa got a name too, "Medusalith." Ugh.  After the Annual, then that name--but with Blackantor changed to Blackagon--was used in BB's entry in the Deluxe Marvel Handbook. And the rest is history  Medusa's surname changed slightly from what's in FF Annual #18; it was changed from A naquelin (in the Annual) to what's been used ever since: A maquelin. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 30, 2022 11:14:58 GMT -5
And somehow people decided that Gruenwald was full of good ideas.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 30, 2022 11:18:13 GMT -5
There's obnoxious and there's downright offensive - I'd put Pieface in the latter category. Which even after doing research about it, still doesn't make sense to me. Hal just calls him that because his face looks like an Eskimo Pie?
I actually do like Thomas quite a lot as a character. Wonder if the duplicate power ring Hal made for him still works?
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 30, 2022 11:28:30 GMT -5
And somehow people decided that Gruenwald was full of good ideas. What, you didn’t like Capwolf? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 30, 2022 11:37:08 GMT -5
And somehow people decided that Gruenwald was full of good ideas. What, you didn’t like Capwolf? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure that I've ever read anything that he wrote. He came along after I'd stopped buying Marvel in protest over bringing back Jean Grey and by the time I started reading any Marvel again (and it was never that much) he was dead. But over the years of seeing the baffling ideas he came up with time and again, I've convinced myself I've not missed much. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Jun 30, 2022 11:42:49 GMT -5
What, you didn’t like Capwolf? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure that I've ever read anything that he wrote. He came along after I'd stopped buying Marvel in protest over bringing back Jean Grey and by the time I started reading any Marvel again (and it was never that much) he was dead. But over the years of seeing the baffling ideas he came up with time and again, I've convinced myself I've not missed much. I've been reading the entire volume 1 (68-96) of Cap and was very excited to get into Gruenwald's run from how much everybody I heard praise it. One thing that irritated me the most is Mark slowly getting rid of the sense of normalcy in Steve's life that I had grown accustomed to. I'm not a man who minds change, but it just seemed unnecessary
He also has story problems, even though he writes characters and their personal growth well, and most of his big endings for arcs have utterly crapped the bed. It seems like he's writing with a younger audience in mind even though most of his stories are incredibly grim in tone (i.e. "streets of poison", "the captain")
Still though, greatly prefer him to Englehart
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