In the context it was cool. It took like 6 avengers to knock madam masque WHO HAS JUST GUNS, off a roof ( STUPID ) but then all her guns were ont eh roof and he was like “take one everyone”
It made total sense.
I ain’t readin no mini’s about the stupid fucking hood. He is so gay.
This.
Bendis tried to be all Johns about the hood and make a bunch of loser villians matter again, but he forgot that Johns doesn’t take 300 villains in a gang and make them always try to gang bang someone. He takes one villain and makes him extra badass. One at a time.
A new masters of evil needs to be formed. They were always the best Avengers villain. I think the whole premise of this current huge cross over is that like everyoneis in the masters of evil or something. I don’t know or care anymore.
This is just like Geoff John’s super cool run on the Flash, except you’re right, he did it wrong. Sorry, just grouping up a whole bunch of lame C-list villians doesn’t automatically make them collectively interesting again.
I don’t know how you make Captain Cold such a badass, I didn’t think it was possible. And yet he did it. That was like the coolest run ever, where they used to devote like an entire Flash issue (NOT SOME SEPARATE MINI, JUST ONE SINGLE MONTHLY ISSUE) to a certain villain, and pimp him up like that.
Bendis is good enough of a writer to do that as well, he’s made tons of lame villains cool again in Daredevil…INDIVIDUALLY.
Agree. When you focus on one person, you can make them cool. Heck, Dr. Fear in DD went from being a D-list Scarecrow rip-off to actually being pretty fucking awesome. Dude played DD like a violin, went to jail like he planned, and had all the female security guards as his bitches because of his fear toxins.
Suddenly we don’t have to keep using the Kingpin/Bullseye/Hand for every DD story.
Tizzy’s constantly recommending questionable books, but The Hood was created by BKV and Kyle Hotz, bub. Any BKV comic written post-2000 is a must-read. So go get it. Or I’m gonna slap your balls. With Carpet Lint’s MOUTH
Don’t be rush to judge it. The mini is very good and the depiction of Hood is completely different to how he is used currently. I’m not saying buy it but if you could get the chance to read it, I would recommend you do, you’ll prob. like it.
Oh and it’s written by Brian K. Vaughn who also introduced the Runaways.
Also The Hood isn’t accessing all of Dormamu’s powers IIRC, and if he did…or rather if he let Dormamu take control of his body, then the Avengers would be facing Dormamu.
Well I don’t really care about Hood, but as such…Bucky’s team are prob. facing Dormamu now
Ah well just look at the good side of stuff. Also get Y the Last Man or Sano or Zephy hammer your ass or something:looney:
…but yeah Vaughan’s mini of the Hood is The Hood’s FIRST appearance and it was in a Marvel MAX comic. It had cameos and appearances of some Spiderman and DD villains.
Think of it as Earth-23847 Hood @_@
So I’ve loved X-Men for a while, the movies and the Evolution cartoon series but never really read the comics (or any American comics, really). Someone loaned me the omnibus for Grant Morrison’s New X-Men and I read it start to finish without a break, it was amazing.
Someone recommend me some other stuff to look into, anything X-Men works.
Read Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men next. If you want you can ignore the rest of this post, make sure you read his Astonishing run and come back.
Now for the usual routine of bombarding a new reader with lots of suggestions… :looney:
Magneto Testament is REALLY GOOD. It cleans up Magneto’s history detailing his time in a concentration camp when he was a child during World War II. They use lots of historical facts in the book so there’s tons of liner notes. The TPB just came out too, so this is the newest comic I’m mentioning. :tup:
An oldy but a goodie is the Dark Phoenix Saga. There’s a TPB for that as well.
Don’t know if your into DVD-Roms but you can read 40 years worth of Uncanny X-Men. Note that the early Stan Lee / Kirby stuff is a chore to read, not really on par with their old Fantastic Four stuff. But the DVD-Rom is out there and you can catch up on the bulk of X-History if you want. It’s out of print but some comic shops stores still carry it.
Don’t worry about bombarding me, the more you throw at me the less I have to come back and ask for more! I’ll check out Astonishing X-Men when I get home.
That sounded a lot like me, and then I read Whedon’s Astonshing X-men. LOOOVE that series. Also really, really love Morrison’s New X-men when I re-read it recently. Lots of great themes and moments throughout that run, it might even be better than Whedon’s Astonishing(which is saying a lot, since I love that run like crazy).
That’s “Y: The Last MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!11111!!!1” to you, bub.
Also, I think it is a fallacy to compare Johns’ work on Flash’s rogues gallery with what’s happening with the Hood and his scrub squad. New Avengers and Johns’ Flash are two superhero comics with different sensibilities. Flash was more eighties-style character-driven storytelling. I mean, you had character-building stuff like that one issue all about Lenny Snart and how he loved his sister. New Avengers is more reflective of the post-Authority era of comics: big fights/explosions happening every issue, punctuated by very broad strokes of characterization with the occasional interlude displaying interaction between team members.
Damn straight I can bring pretentiousness to mainstream superhero comics. Haha, where you at, Clinty?!
As others have mentioned, Astonishing is a good logical next step. But I will also recommend Mike Carey’s X-Men(Adjectiveless) run and Chris Yost & Craig Kyle excellent (but bloody) tenure on New X-Men, if only for both runs having a lot of good action.
I just wanna say that I just realized you have a Farscape quote in your sig. You win an internet. Maybe two.
Mike Carey’s X-Men is good, but it becomes PHENOMENAL once it makes the move to X-Men Legacy (at least until Daniel Way ruins it by crossing it over with Origins…).
^Eh? The Wolverine Origins tie-in issues were OK, and the book has been good for the past few issues (or dare I say the Legacy issues have been good from the start)
War of Kings: Skaar one-shot was pretty action packed, though I wonder if they’ll actually focus on this later on.
…or if it will be a set-up for the post Planet Skaar arc.
I’m going to be hitting my comic book shop tomorrow.Has anyone read the X-Men/Dark Avengers:Utopia one-shot? I want to know if it’s good before I buy it
If you want you can ignore the rest of this post, make sure you read his Astonishing run and come back. 