Mile Morales is just a token blackish character used to push more white female leads. Waiting for him to die so that Spider Gwen(dumbest fucking name ever) takes up his role and seeks vengeance for his death that will be forgotten in less than a few months.
Iām more upset about the pro-pig anti-bacon agenda being pushed with the recent debut of Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham. Where will the vegi-nazis stop? Do we really need more versions of the same characters running around? And seriously, Ducktor Doom is clearly fowl play.
Ugh. Comics. Serious business.
Peter Porker > Peter Parker
Actually that could be said for just about any random spider related person. Even those without powers like Tarantula.
Honestly Iāve been sick of all of these spider fucks for a while now, they really need to clean house on them like they did with all of the Gamma people during the Doc Green arc of Hulk.
*Re: Modern Comics
Iām more than aware of āsocial progressionā running throughout comics history. Green Arrows āMy Ward is a Junkyā storyline is one of my favorite comic stories of all time, likewise as a wee lad reading through my dads old Captain American and Falcon comics had an effect on me. Seeing a badassed black character being the partner, not the sidekick, of one of my favorite characters was pretty fucking cool. Yeah, it was in line with the current civil rights and war on drugs stance the USA had at the time but the writing was legitimately good and didnāt come off as overly heavy handed. For my money those stories still stand the test of time, just look at these two panels:
For a modern example that I really liked was Black Cap America in All-New, All Different Avengers dealing with the public deriding him as the āaffirmative actionā captain America. Sometimes the writing is heavy handed and I didnāt always like the writing of Falcon as Cap but he has his strong moments. Alternatively, I really really like Miles Morales and think his comic is pretty well written. In fact heās so well written that heād be a good superhero without the moniker of āSpider-Manā, though I donāt know how well his comic would sell unfortunately.
I donāt like female Thor partially because I feel like she renders my girl Valkyrie moot. I donāt get why they didnāt just push Val instead. *
Secret Wars was a good jumping-off point for Marvel. Nothing more needed to be said after that epic. Donāt see myself going back any time soon.
I wouldāve agreed with you until I read Civil War II: The Oath and Captain America: Steve Rogers #10.
Kind of hard to believe Iām hyped for a Marvel book with the word āeventā attached to it lol.
Fuck the Doc Green run. I liked all the Hulks. I want them back.
Spider-Manās my favorite fictional character but itās really annoying that we currently have three people named Spider-Man living in the Marvel Universe at the same exact time. Peter, Miles and Spider-Man 2099 Miguel OāHara.
Now now now, letās not be talking ill of Miggy.
He just needs his old costume back, and writers to remember he has no Spider Sense, has organic webbing, has talons, better vision, and venomous fangs.
Clean up the rest of the bullshit Spider-Verse and Secret Wars (IV?) left behind.
Anyone else ever finish reading a comic, manga or graphic novel and come out thinking: Man, that would have been way better as a movie. Iām curious because I recently-ish read āSupergodā by Warren Ellis and that was my thought on the book. The premise was very interesting (with a decent screenwriter and a decent budget I imagine it would make a very watchable movie) but holy crap was the pacing terrible. Art wasnāt great either. -_-
Usually not, I just wish the book was written better.
I feel like comic books are a good middle ground between films and books.
They leave less to your imagination than books, but more than films.
Also about modern mainstream comic books:
They have no balls, and never will have balls.
During the cold war, Captain America fought communists and everyone was trying to demonize drugs as much as possible, as governments around the world tightened up anti-drug laws, so the governments could freely invade those long haired hippy communists homes and put them to jail for having opinions opposing the governments agendas, and not because these drugs are more dangerous than coffee, cigarettes or alcohol.
They always take the popular stance no matter how bullshit it is and try to offend as few people as possible.
90% of the crap they release are retarded power fantasies designed for kids with low self esteem anyways, which often collides with the so called messages they try to send like equal rights for all kinds of people in X-Men, when mutants are obviously not equal to humans and thus not properly reflects actual problems in society.
People in the X-Men actually have a point when theyāre afraid of mutants and trying to protect themselves, while white people have no fucking business oppressing people of different heritage.
The topic is handled terribly by the X-Men and is much more on point in The Boys.
When youāre looking for honest material you usually gotta stay away from Marvel and DC and the likes and look for good writers doing material for smaller publishers.
Back when I was more into comic books, Vertigo had some good pieces here and there, but I donāt know what the status of the sub label is nowadays.
Luckily people like Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Alan Moore and a handful of other writers sneak cool comics into the heaps of shit Marvel and DC dump out every month.
Thatās how I feel after reading Mark Millar comics.
For all of the campy things that happened in the 2099 Universe, I really thought Punisher 2099 made the most sense and could have been a cool movie if done correctly.
That would have been nice. Itās also why I, at this point treat, graphic novels that tout being written and illustrated by the same person with some hesitation as the number of people out there whoāre legitimately good at both is far fewer than the number who try to fill both roles. IMO youād rather get can write but canāt quit draw over canāt write but can draw as at least with the former youāve got a decent story. The funny thing is that Iād still kind of recommend checking out one of the most egregious examples I have of canāt write can draw in āLegends: the Enchantedā just because itās some of the best artwork Iāve seen in any graphic novel (the story is pretty throwaway).
What are your feelings on the āWantedā movie?
Canāt say Iāve ever wished for a comic book to become a movie.
When you read a comic book you have full control. The characters can sound like anyone you want them to sound like. Anyone you know in real life, any actor that has ever lived past or present, any cartoon voice actor, anybody.
The dialog flows however you want it to flow.
The music you hear in the background can be anything you want. Any song with lyrics or any orchestral song you have ever heard. You donāt have to worry about licensing fees or a song being on embargo because someone else is using. Or, there can be no music period or no music for certain scenes. That is also a choice.
Yeah, you are married to the art. But at least with Marvel and DC, the characters have been interpreted many ways you do have some wiggle room to imagine certain aspects of a character looking however you want because there will be artwork out there to justify it.
In my mind Spider-Man has NEVER had tiny eyes in a comic book. McFarlane / Bagley sized eyes since day one. Thatās my story and Iām sticking to reading it.
So when someone makes a movie they take all of these choices away from you and they have real world limitations your imagination doesnāt have.
If you have someone talented like Nolan, the Russo Brothers, James Gunn, Robert Rodriguez and so on you can sit back and relax, enjoy their vision and let it add to yours.
ā¦But if you get Snyder, Singer, that Daredevil / Elektra / Ghost Rider 2 director who deserves to be shot, anyone who has ever touched a Fantastic Four movieā¦ RUH ROH! It quickly becomes a situation where you have to be careful what you wish for.
*How is The Boys? I really enjoyed Preacher (Herr Star is fucking gdlk) and was thinking about picking up the first trade and giving it a shot. *
Itās interesting but kinda ends weakly.
I love Miles and think Miguel is cool. I just hated how they handled Miles initial book. Put me off from the whole thing really. Same with Arana, I thought she was going to be pretty cool as well but marvel rather fill itās books with corny white women. Best actual true spider man that I read so far was doc ock spidey. That was fun, so was Kaine as Scarlet Spider. I might check out some other stuff later but honestly they just make it so hard to get into some times with all these cross overs.
Pretty much only read Invincible whenever they decide to release an issue. Been more into manga which still seems like slim pickings as well.
I enjoyed Ock as Spidey during the Superior Spider-Man arc. It was different and fun.
To me it seems Slott is burned out on Peter Parker Spider-Man and doesnāt really want to write him anymore. People constantly tell Peter in his own book that heās an idiot and he doesnāt even lead the action in his own book most of the time, other characters do and he reacts to it. Slott was better off writing Doc Ock as Spidey and I would rather he found a way to keep that going.
The worst Slott moment was towards the end of Spider-Verse. All the Spider characters were around alternate reality Unce Ben who had given up being a hero. You would think that Peter Parker would give him an inspirational speech to motivate him right?
Nope. Doc Ock Spidey actually curses at him and says something like āSHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET OFF YOUR ASS!ā And that works. Wow, justā¦ wow.
So now with millionaire Spider-Man, Slott is basically writing Iron Man. I get that writing Spider-Man is his life long dream, but what has he written like 200 issues by now? That would burn out anybody. I wish he would step aside for the good of the character.
In much less depressing news, Dark Horse will drop another Berserk volume in July! After 3 years. Damn! Nothing major will happen and the plot will not advance at all. But I still get excited whenever a volume drops lol!
Cosplayer Jennifer Van Damsel was used as reference for Captain Marvel on a cover for Civil War II The Oath issue 1. Thatās pretty cool! I saw her at New York Comic Con last year cosplaying as Cammy.