I haven’t read a comic in years, but goddamn did Bendis rape Sentry’s character. It’s like that South Park with Lucas/Spielberg raping Indiana Jones.
Speaking of rape, did something happen to Wolverine while he was still a kid?
Lots of stuff but he wasn’t raped at least. 
In Wolverine Weapon X (the recently cancelled series) they revealed his first sexual experience was with a female Mexican immigrant worker when he was in his teens.
In the new Wolverine Origins he visits his childhood home stares at his hands, wonders about what might have been, looks back up at the house, then does the old “rape victim acceptance/empowerment/time let go and to move on” speech: “I am a victim. What happened to me…is not my fault. I forgive you. I forgive…myself.” Based on that, and how comics are trying to be real about some subjects these days, I just thought Marvel might be insinuating Logan might have been…“tampered with”…during childhood, to add more depth and possibly to explain that crazy-defensive streak he had toward younger people. Years before, based on his Eggo-like mate-poaching with Jean, I just thought “hey, dude’s thinking long-term…he’s saving that ass (Shadowcat, Jubilee…ANY female teen mutant who develops a crush on him after a rescue) for later, AND embedding himself in her mind as a romantic “bad boy/white knight” hybrid to make sure she’ll live to a tap-able age for him later.” He had a childhood trauma that Marvel may reveal later that makes him insanely protective of younger team mates…and from what I read of Origins concerning his youth, it hasn’t been portrayed/written yet.
And for those of you who read Origins #48 (latest issue): Am I the only person who feels Wolverine didn’t “finish things” with Daken properly? No spoilers, just “too much”, or “not enough”.
You should stop making up your own rape fanfiction and instead actually read the earlier issues of Origins. What happens in the house during his childhood was already fleshed out, it has nothing to do with Wolverine being diddled. Shit, you could just wikipedia it for fucks sake.
Oh, thanks. I couldn’t find the damn things, and only got into origins at around 23.
Just finished reading Secret Avenger’s #1
HOLY SHIT!!! to what Nova did & the ending:wow::wow:
Trying to get back into comics after watching the ending of Iron Man 2. It was just a 30 second (or so) scene but fuck it got me so hyped! So I decided to start out with the Civil War. I just finished reading all 100 or so comics of the arc, and fuck, Captain America was sooooo dope. Cap never appealed to me before but man he’s sick.
And yes I know I’m like 4 yrs late with the Civil War but I had stopped reading comics after Marvel vs DC and by the time Civil War came out I had just graduated high school and didn’t care too much for comics.
After Civil War I continued with Amazing Spider-Man (just cause he’s my fav comic hero behind Silver Surfer) and just finished the “One More Day” arc. TBH the ending kinda made me sad:sad:
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuut how the heck did Aunt May even come back to life in the first place? Last I remembered she died during the Clone Saga (I think I remember a page in the comic where Ben Reilly is standing in the rain angry as she died) and now she dies again, but comes back…also speaking of which how the hell did Norman Osborn come back (again.) The last I remembered of him was him coming back to kill Ben Reilly and tell Peter that he was in fact the real Peter Parker, and then he dies (again).
While I think I started off at the perfect spot to get back into comics (Civil War) it kinda put me in a bad position cause I skipped House of M, missed the Siege, Dark Reign, etc. I wanna go forward from where I’m at, but I want to go back and read what I missed (cause a lot of shit is like wtf). Where’s a good point to go back to? A friend told me I should start at Avengers #500.
thanks thanks and more thanks!
Well after Civil War, read the series that you liked in it and continue from there.
For example if you liked Captain America comic, continue it or read it from the start. After Civil War, you can go on to World War Hulk, then Secret Invasion, Dark Reign and finally Siege.
You don’t have to read House of M, unless you want to know how the Marvel U. ended up as when Wanda changed reality.
House of M (or is it avengers dissembled?) is prob one of the most significant things to happen to marvel mutants in a long time.
But really the only thing you need to know from it is wanda getting rid of mutants almost completely, which has a chain effect to the skrull, Civil war effects. I still can’t believe that was like 4 years ago. time files.
I can’t wait for Avengers Prime… Is it just me or is Marvel now Promoting Avengers as their Top Tier Team above the X-men concept?? about time…
Invincible Iron Man IMO greatest comic out right now.
Of course they are, they have to get the hype train started for the up and coming movie… I’ll take my mutants over avengers anytime tho.:arazz:
Actually haven’t the Avengers been promoted since Bendies started New Avengers?
Marvel started downplaying the major role of X-Men and mutants since Quesada was CEO I believe.
Right. JQ felt that the X-Men shouldn’t be the center of the Marvel Universe, it should be the Avengers. Since then most X-Men stories are pretty self contained while whatever happens in Avengers books go throughout the universe.
New Avengers is the flagship title now (I guess ‘right now’ it’s Avengers and New Avengers) the way Fantastic Four was in the '60s and Uncanny X-Men was in the '90s. A lot of X-Men books were still self contained but some of the bigger crossover stories were felt everywhere like Age of Apocalypse and Onslaught.
'70s and '80s I’m not entirely certain but I don’t think they really had flagship titles (IE what happens here is felt everywhere) during that time. You can probably say FF and Avengers give or take since some of the bigger stories came from there. '80s was probably dominated by Secret Wars and other company-wide crossovers because that’s when they were relatively new. X-Men did have a storyline that was felt everywhere with Inferno though. But Inferno was in '89 and that’s close enough to the X-Men’s '90s reign anyway.
I’m waiting for someone worthy to take center stage at Marvel, someone like Bru Hickman DnA or Parker
As much as I am not fond of JQ’s killing my interest in Spider-man completely, I Have to applaud the man for being a marketing genius (even if some of those are “heat”)
Since the Defalco and Bob Harras days I have barfed at the way the other marvel heroes have almost been undermined in favour of those books with a shiny Big X… full of the same themes of outcasts vs Biggots minus any real team dynamic.
Avengers was always the bang for your buck most of the time for me, tales of human emotion properly conveyed but never “Overshadowing” the “Superhero” concept most of the time. Superheroes being “Their Job” and I want to read about heroes doing “Their job” as opposed to endless bickering (no matter how emotionally poignant enough to make for an interesting read)
Simply put I want to be able to look up to my superheroes (The Avengers) and Not look at them (shiny letter 
)
still Iron Man’s my favourite title though.
Agreed, While I don’t like/agree with some of JQ’s decisions regarding Spiderman, he’s done some proper stuff for Marvel.
Cosign, the new story arc has me hyped more than I thought it would (even though I didn’t read anything about what the new story would be from #25 onwards
Anyways, Avengers Prime, n*ggas!
EDIT: Funny little tidbit regarding the 90s X-Men Marvel era- Aaron Stack/Machine Man had a short lived series called X-51 and the first issues had him go up against Mutant villains and Sebastian Shaw
Anyone else peeved that SHIELD #2 isn’t coming out to day? I regret picking up that book. The wait is torturous
At the very end of the Clone Saga, Norman was revealed to have come back to life via Goblin formula giving him a healing factor and was shown to have masterminded Aunt May being kidnapped and replace by an actress who died, Ben Reilly’s test results about who was real being faked and the disappearance/death? of MJ and Peter’s child.
Basically, Norman Osborn is the Marvel’s scapegoat for everything they regret.
So what did you guys think of Avengers Prime if anyone’s read it?
EDIT: Also holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~ at the ending for Thanos Imperative #0
wait the 1 shot or actually issue 0?