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Post by tingramretro on May 31, 2017 2:00:32 GMT -5
The only time I liked Wonder Man was when he was in the Avengers with the Beast. It's sad that their friendship seemed to be forgotten over the years but maybe it's just as well; nowadays it would probably be labelled a br*m*nce or some other execrable term. Their friendship hasn't been forgotten-it's very much in evidence in the most recent issue of Uncanny Avengers. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 31, 2017 1:58:07 GMT -5
Voted!
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Post by tingramretro on May 31, 2017 0:53:25 GMT -5
Is the original Nick Fury still around in the main Marvel universe? I didn't actually read the event, but IIRC, he is.. after 'Original Sin', he the 'man on the wall' he hangs out in some secret base on the moon and makes sure the aliens aren't coming. The movie Nick Fury (who is Fury's kid in the comic book universe), has essentially taken his place, though he may be dead right now.. they tend to use Coulson or Maria Hill mostly these days. Actually, Nick Fury Jnr is currently starring in his own solo series. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 31, 2017 0:49:56 GMT -5
Original Sin was pretty terrible, so I don't remember much, but I'm pretty sure he gave up that role to become the new Watcher. A one-eyed Watcher? Anyone spot the flaw in this? I think Watchers are omniscient; the actual physical eyes aren't a major consideration, I'd guess. Anyway, the same storyline gave him an artificial left eye.  |
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Post by tingramretro on May 31, 2017 0:48:38 GMT -5
Is the original Nick Fury still around in the main Marvel universe? Sort of, though he's believed to be dead. He was revealed as having led a secret life as "the man on the wall", making a number of questionable decisions in order to defend Earth from alien threats, and eventually murdering the Earth's Watcher, Uatu, in order to protect his secrets. Various heroes took a stand against him, and Fury turned out to be a lot more formidable than he should have been, but supposedly died in the end. In fact, he was taken by the Watchers who punished him by basically making him one of them, chained to the Moon and cursed to see everything but never be able to interfere. He's now called "the Unseen". The same storyline also revealed that Dum Dum Dugan has been an LMD since 1968; he suffered terminal injuries and Nick placed him in stasis, using alien machinery to project his mind into a succession of android bodies, though Dugan himself was unaware of this and believed the reason he never grew any older was because Fury had shared his Infinity Formula with him. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 30, 2017 5:03:06 GMT -5
jodoc
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Post by tingramretro on May 29, 2017 8:26:25 GMT -5
Wonderman was always a D list character to me. They never really knew what to do with him. He was even a villain opposing the Avengers at the end of Bendis' run. He's spent the last year or so trapped in Rogue's head. They finally rescued him last month. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 29, 2017 8:24:12 GMT -5
Personally, I loathe the Byrne issues of WCA. he completely destroyed Vision, who has never recovered as a character. And his stuff with Wanda was both cringey self-fan-service and a tired rehash of the dark Phoenix storyline. I don't think I could dislike the run more. Yeah, I hated the way Byrne just casually destroyed twenty years worth of character development with Vision. Stupid and unnecessary. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 29, 2017 5:55:27 GMT -5
I read the JLA/JSA cross-over in JLA #55 and #56 a few days ago, and it's a little underwhelming, despite the inclusion of some of my favorite JSers, like Wonder Woman, Wildcat and Johnny Thunder. But the existence of the JLA/JSA cross-over in #91 and #92 means that any other cross-over would have to be pretty bad to even begin to compete. And the story in #55 and #56 is just not even close to that bad. I love the cover to #56 though. I like it too, though looking at it, I can't help thinking that Hourman, Wildcat and Mr. Terrific are going to be in serious trouble in a minute... Very definitely not a fair contest, there. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 29, 2017 1:18:15 GMT -5
...is Justice somewhere as well ? I don't believe so. Not in the 616 Marvel Universe, at least. There was a Justice one-shot published back in 2011, for the 25th anniversary of New Universe line, but that was something of a reboot for the character and didn't have a whole lot to do with the original series. I'm not aware of him appearing anywhere since then, but I could be wrong on that score. You are wrong, and you're not wrong, depending on your POV. As I said, Earth 616 versions of characters from the New Universe have been appearing; the Avengers' Starbrand and Nightmask are not Ken Connell and Keith Remsen, and likewise, the character Jim Tensen, currently appearing in Ultimates II as a member of the Troubleshooters, is not Justice-but he is the Earth 616 counterpart of John Tensen. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 28, 2017 11:35:44 GMT -5
I think you're right. I barely follow Marvel anymore, so I'm not sure, but have the New Universe characters been incorporated ? Ellis was doing that newuniversal, which sounds really good, but that went down in flames with his computer (supposedly). Star Brand and Nightmask have made their way into the Marvel Universe. I don't read the new stuff, but I believe Star Brand joined the Avengers. He certainly appeared in their comic, in any event. Both Starbrand and Nightmask were Avengers, for quite some time. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 28, 2017 9:26:04 GMT -5
I think you're right. I barely follow Marvel anymore, so I'm not sure, but have the New Universe characters been incorporated ? The New Universe itself was supposedly destroyed along with most of the multiverse in last year's Secret Wars event. The only known survivor is Jeff Walters AKA the Blur from DP7, who was last seen as one of the new Squadron Supreme. However, Earth 616 versions of several New Universe characters have since turned up, including a new Starbrand, Nightmask, and Troubleshooters team. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 28, 2017 7:54:57 GMT -5
Britain's Have I Got News for You has some great commentary about Trump's tour. The show is a satirical news "quiz" program, with regulars Ian Hislop (editor of Private Eye magazine) and comedian Paul Merton. Guest moderator/quiz master is Ed Balls, former Labor MP and special guests tv producer and presenter Janet Street Porter and German stand-up comic Henning Wehn (a regular on the UK comedy scene). Plenty of nice jabs at Trump, plus UK politics and numerous Brexit jokes for and about Henning. This was aired after the Manchester attack. Some NSFW language. Hislop tends to go into the issue or event, with some pithy commentary, while Merton tends to sling one-liners. The show has been on since the 90s and was hosted by Angus Deaton, until his news scandal about a dalliance with a prostitute and drugs (and boy was the show interesting after that story broke!). Since then, it has had rotating gust hosts, including a fabulous turn by a barking mad Brian Blessed (Vultan, in the Flash Gordon film) and a fun turn by Dr. Who Tom Baker. Politicians are often guest and they tend to be pretty lit up targets, though most seem better sports about it than US politicians would, in the same position. A few tabloid journalists have also been guests/targets, especially from Ian Hislop. is hands down my favourite TV show and has been for the last 20 odd years. Just brilliant political satire and a lot of fun to watch. I've actually been in the audience on a few occasions. Definitely one of the best shows on TV. |
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Post by tingramretro on May 28, 2017 2:47:57 GMT -5
This is Crikey! the British comics fanzine I used to write for/edit. It was launched as a quarterly by Sequential Media in 2007, went bi-monthly with issue #3, and ended up running sixteen issues to August 2010, plus the digital Special shown. We were fairly successful, and I had the pleasure of getting to know a number of my childhood heroes through the mag; Dave Gibbons and Pat Mills both contributed pieces to Crikey!, Pat more than once, and we interviewed a number of people including Kevin O'Neill, Bryan Talbot, Dez Skinn and Enrique Romero. Alan Moore was supportive, but impossible to pin down for an interview. In the end, it was the collapse of Borders UK that killed us: we'd started out with limited distribution via mail order and in branches of Forbidden Planet, but sank a lot of cash into getting a high street distribution deal with Borders starting with #11. Things were looking pretty good. Then Borders went bankrupt and took our entire distribution network and a chunk of money wih them. Glenn Fleming, Crikey!s publisher, still wants to revive the title, but short of a lottery win...   |
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Post by tingramretro on May 26, 2017 1:14:12 GMT -5
Speak for yourselves, much of Europe doesn't have those hang-ups, thankfully. Nor does the UK, at least to that extent. I doubt The Sun would have stayed Britain's best selling newspaper half as long without the page three girls... I primarily speaking about the US and it's taboo of a natural part of life vs violence as entertainment. But there are other cultures and religions outside the US that still make sex a taboo or forbidden thing under many circumstances. The Galactus joke was maybe a bit over the top. I feel I should point out that nudity and sex are two different things. Bare breasts are not necessarily a sexual thing. I find it quite odd that in many places in today's world, women can be made to feel quite uncomfortable and embarrassed about breastfeeding in public. |
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