Q&A with Chris Yost about Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Sunday the final episode will air.
I liked the AEMH Spider-Man episode this year, even though we got Drake Bell instead of Josh Keaton voicing him like we were supposed to. That one episode was better than the entire Ultimate Spider-Man series IMHO. Sigh…
Just hope Disney does a better job with their upcoming Avengers cartoon.
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Well pretty much since Ron Marz jumped on Witchblade at issue 80–think that was 2004–he’s essentially given the whole Top Cow universe an major clean up. It’s got an overarching story and backbone. The magic side of it was explained, and that leaked out into the other books giving it a better sense of collective continuity.
I guess the best way to put it is that he took that whole Image 90’s extreme thing Marvel/X-men/super hero rip off notion about the characters, threw it out the window, made the characters their own thing, and just made good stories, and that same notion of good, intelligent story writing leaked out into Top Cow’s other main work, like the Darkness, Magdalena, Artifacts, and Hunter-Killer.
We had legit crossovers between the core books that actually had a real direction for each book to head to before and after the event (even that huge Top Cow/Marvel crossover “Fusion” event was important in leading up to some stuff with Cyberforce and Hunter-Killer) and all throughout the stories, every character stayed in character with the writer’s respecting the origins (however crazy and zany they were) while still making something good out of it. No nonsense, end of the world every month on end.
Uncanny X-Men reboot confirmed
Cyclops and Magneto look horrible.
EDIT: More from Newsrama
I think they look cool. Especially Magneto all boss like with that helmet.
I didn’t have a problem w/ the helmet - but he just doesn’t look right w/o sleeves. You make a character sleeveless to reinforce physical strength andor girth. Magneto is not know for either. It just looks very out of character for him.
As for Cyclops’ costume… ugh! I’m hoping it looks better in the book. The new mask is horrible, but makes sense if you’ve read AvX Consequences #5. The rest of it is just some random line pattern. At least his old costume had some pockets and layers for contrast. This one looks like a straight body suit.
I’m hearing a lot of complaints about the election results but if you didn’t vote well I’m sorry but you lose the right to complain! Yes, still talking about the Avengers EMH fan poll lol!
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Only stuff I see myself reading a lot of on the Marvel front is,
(Both) Hickmans Avengers
Indestructible Hulk
Uncanny X-Men (wth is Mags wearing?)
Have to see what you guys verdict is on the rest of the Marvel Now stuff
Not really reading a lot of DC stuff with the exception of Batman, Red Hood & iVampire
And when I have the spare cash SAGA from Image.
I feel like I won the election. Thor favorite character. Loki favorite villain. Spidey favorite guest. Pretty sure the Avengers and Spidey movie had a big influence, but still this was all me.
The new uncanny book sounds good but he art is puke:(
I am huge fan of the Punisher Max series and out of them I would suggest the Ennis/ Palimotti run also would suggest Marvel Knights Welcome back Frank.
In regards to the new story arcs I really have to say they are all shart except the first issues of Deadpool Noir.
I would suggest God Loves Man Kills, Tales of Future Present, Age of Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix, Whedon First class for X-Men
Citizen Kang, Secret Invasion, Breakout,Ultimate’s 1@2 for the Avengers
original Marvel Presents Weapon X arc and Origins 1-20, Ronin, and Old Man Logan for Wolverine
any Mike Ditko Amazing Spiderman its just beautiful work.
I could keep going and going all of the old material is just the best IMO because they contentiously regurgitate the old stuff up back up with weaker and weaker writing. Its freakin sad.
Recently I am trying to collect all of the Niel Adams Batman’s and of course doing all of the Before Watchmen Story arcs.
Couldn’t read that comment because of that clown. Movie scared the hell outta me.
XxLiveevLxX - You mean Steve Ditko, not Mike Ditko. And I think you mean Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men.
There’s also a DC thread so you should talk about Brand X AKA Brand Ech over there. Ha ha old Stan Lee joke. 
As for regurgitating stories, comics do that all the time. Even some stories that you mentioned are actually regurgitations.
I’ll put it to you this way. The ‘Who is the Green Goblin’ mystery happened before I was born. The Hobgoblin mystery happened in my lifetime. So I got to enjoy that story as a kid, only it was longer and better than the original.
Rehashing stories isn’t always a bad thing. Some stories can be improved on while being written in the modern language of comics. Stuff from the 60s isn’t always the easiest thing to read. Not that those stories can’t be enjoyable in their own right.
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Sometimes thing are said best the first time around not the second, third and fourth time around the merry go round.
Certain plot arch-types will always occur in a circular fashion but certain story arcs are just crap when revisited like the AVX story that was so big in marvel recently.
Hell that pile of drek made Siege look well written.
First and fore most I am a Marvel guy but I would rather save up the money I would spend on buying a couple of current issues to spend it on buying a classic.
Like today just bought a VF Avengers #73 50% off at HPB worth it.
To close this mild rant and in response to your poetic Brand Eck Sano.
I say
“Excelsior!"
Millar talks about the possibility of crossing over Fox’s Marvel movies with Sony and the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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More casting news for the SHIELD series - nothing huge, but just FYI stuff:
This week’s probable pickups:
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[]All-New X-Men
[]Amazing Spider-Man
[]Gambit
[]Ultimate X-Men
[]X-Men Legacy
[]Wolverine & the X-Men (MAYBE)
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Will wait and let Fantastic Four bubble for a while before I decide whether or not to jump in.
EDIT: New interview w/ Hopeless regarding Avengers Arena
See, I like where Millar is coming from, and he’s the first guy to make me change my viewpoint of Marvel Studios needing to own all Marvel properties.
Marvel has a huge universe, this is true. And having different sections of the universe broken off into different studios would actually be a great idea. It kinda mimics what happens with Marvel’s stuff anyway. Avengers aren’t always crossing over with the X-men, while space stuff is usually happening in space as opposed to earth. I’m with him on that.
But still, my issue comes from the track record. Yeah, it’s great that the bulk of the money is split between the different groups, but it’s been shown that Marvel Studios knows how to give an audience a fun, popcorn, action, summer movie while still providing a generally good story for both the common people and the comic people while FOX gives overall subpar, see it once, forget it exists movies.
Maybe with Marvel Studios being an example of what the other studios should be doing with the properties, and Millar staying friends with the guys at Marvel and actually keeping with a solid, well structured approach on a real movie-verse, it’ll all work out for the best. Here’s hoping at least.
Yo damn AoA Nightcrawler
X-Force spoiler
Teleporting a shark directly into Blob’s guts was straight beast
I’m interested in it, but only because I get to see some of my favorite underused characters being used again. But still, the premise behind it is sort of disheartening. Either it’ll all work out and they defeat Arcade and the characters all go away again, or they stick to the script and all but one of them dies. Or the third option where it just gets cancelled and then everyone goes back to character limbo.
Regardless of the outcome, it better have some strong story telling.
Yea, that was pretty beast. W/ all my hype for Cyclops’ new direction and the direction of the X-books in general, I completely forgot to bring up how sick UXF continues to be. That was one of - if not the best - moments of the releases last week.