“Slott talks about Amazing Spider-Man issue 698. Of course there’s spoilers! YOU DUMB ASS!” - Super Milk Chan. 
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More SHIELD casting news:
Call me crazy, but I really think Frankie Muniz could play an awesome SHIELD agent. I base this not on Malcolm in the Middle (which I love), but the episode of Criminal Minds where he guest starred as a serial killer. He completely nailed it.
I’ve never been a guy to want autographs or anything, but since I only work two blocks away, I’m thinking about going to that signing at Midtown Comics just to observe the feedback he gets from fans.
Loved the artwork in FF #1. Gonna hang in there just for that. Fraction’s dialog didn’t bug me this time around. Reed sounded more like a jerk than usual (even for him) but eh.
Marvel Tests Five Actors for Starlord Role:
Joel Edgerton (Zero Dark Thirty, Star Wars prequels)
Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire)
Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas, 21)
Lee Pace (The Hobbit, Pushing Daisies)
Eddie Redmayne (The Pillars of the Earth, Les Miserables)
Garrett Hedlund
James Marsden (X-Men, Superman Returns)
Sullivan Stapleton
I wouldn’t mind Marsden, but obviously it wouldn’t make sense if the first three X-Men movies are gonna be kept in the Marvel movie timeline.
All around, it’s a solid list.
All-New X-Men #3 Preview on Newsarama…
OMG, that HQ! Obviously spoilers.
CTG - I agree with you about Marsden for the same reason but it would be nice if he didn’t get punked in a movie FOR ONCE. Wolverine got his woman Jean in the X-Men movies and Superman has him raising his son FOR FREE. He gets punked in every other movie I’ve seen him in too. Sigh…
Y’know… I thought I was the only one that felt that way. X-Men I can understand since they’re pushing Wolverine to the moon as he’s the most marketable…
…but Superman? Really? That’s straight out of an episode of Maury. His wife is in love w/ the guy and he’s raising the kid. What makes it even worse is he wasn’t even the “d-bag other guy” from what I remember. Usually movies at least give you that so you can feel like he deserves it.
On another note, Superior Spider-Man #6 cover for Age of Ultron:
I really like the idea of numbering it #6AU instead of just #6. Makes it a lot easier for new readers to catch up on old events. I would’ve loved stuff like this when I came back.
Edgerton was awesome in Smoking Aces. Just realized that was him.
Kinda late to the party here, but I just read Avengers: The Children’s Crusade. Jim Cheung’s art is excellent, just tops for this kind of superhero spectacle. But the story itself is garbage. It’s so bad it makes me question my love for the original Young Avengers series. Children’s Crusade just paraded all the worst tropes on full display: time travel, magic, amnesia, mind control/possession, surprise resurrections and deaths, heroes versus heroes, switching sides, characters saying their own names out loud (in stylized font), tons of exposition, hamfisted reminders that two of the main characters are GAY!!! - I’m actually kind of shocked that Heinberg didn’t throw nanites and IMPOSTERS in there somewhere.
Ha! Well props for getting around to reading it even if you didn’t enjoy it. I think I’m the only one around here who did enjoy it. I don’t know, I guess I just like Heinberg’s take on Marvel characters.
Interesting. What did you enjoy about Children’s Crusade?
I enjoyed Children’s Crusade mostly because it was the Young Avengers in action. The gimmicks and tropes happening at every corner were cheesy, but I felt it made what would have been a pretty cut and dry plot of “Let’s find the Scarlet Witch” more exciting than it would have been otherwise.
The Doom / Scarlet Witch pairing and overall how Doom was written in the story, fixing Bendis’ ‘there is no Chaos Magic’ BS (lol I know you don’t care about that Zeph) and it did some repair to the damage done by Bendis’ “Scarlet Witch Crusade,” how it came after the fall out of Siege and was better than Siege IMHO, how almost every major player in the MU was present and felt they were in character, things like that.
I guess it was a fun read. I don’t mind cliches if it is written in a somewhat believable way I can swallow.
Yeah, that Heinberg felt it was worthwhile to revisit the Chaos Magic thing was one of the other things that irritated me. It’s just one of those things that I really don’t give a crap about either way, whether it “exists” or not. (Uh, it’s an imaginary story AND we’re talkin’ about MAGIC - one of the most vaguely defined yet reliable deus ex machinas around. Bendis had a purpose for introducing it in his story, but as far as I can tell, the only purpose Heinberg had for introducing the concept into his story was to wack off on some continuity porn.) The fact that Heinberg thought he had to reverse or correct something Bendis wrote like eight years ago just seemed like a waste of time. I get that there are some people who really care about minutiae like that, but why do they care? That’s what I don’t get. I don’t see what the big deal is.
And I also hate how the whole Children’s Crusade just served to bring Scarlet Witch back to the Avengers or whatever. Wolverine and Cyclops were the only sane people in the story. She’s a mass murderer, of course she has to pay for her crimes! It’s so dumb how writers always force heels to become faces again. And the way the heroes get restored is always done in the cheapest, laziest way possible. In real life, a murderer can repent, but he’s still got to face the consequences of his actions. In the Marvel Universe (and the DC Entertainment Universe), if a superhero commits a crime, it’s okay and all is forgiven because he/she was either possessed, mind-controlled, etc. (Yeah, I still think it’s stupid how Hal Jordan can be a Green Lantern again.)
Reading Children’s Crusade, I got the sense that it wasn’t really a story about redemption so much as it was a story about putting a toy back in the toybox. The toy might be a little worn out, but now it’s essentially the same toy we had eight years ago, before Bendis played with it. That’s just not fun to read. I must be a glutton for punishment to read the entire hardback in two sittings.
Good points. Maybe it’s putting a toy back in the box but it never felt right to me how Bendis demonized Scarlet Witch and tried to pass of magic as not being magic to get in the way of science. They wanted less Mutants, Genosha was already destroyed, it was already done. It was such a cop out to use ‘magic’ so any repairs were welcome by me.
In relation to Uncanny X-Force, Humphries calls Spiral a hero to millions of Marvel vs. Capcom 2 players. SOLD TO SANO! 
http://blog.newsarama.com/2012/12/04/marvel-now-next-big-thing-humphries-on-uncanny-x-force/
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More on Uncanny X-Force from IGN:
There’s a lot of good art in their article. Mohawk Storm - it’s like she never got rid of it.
Pretty cool article on the comic book tablet scene if anyone is interested:
i saw a new young avengers was coming, the forced gay thing ruins it for me and the bad crusade arc, kid loki and girl hawkeye are draws, but loki with out leah anymore ruins it,if after arena if hazmat,x23and finesse end up in the cast then ill nabb um up
Regarding ASM #699…
Spoiler
Anyone thinking Conners is gonna be the new Spider-Man? The hint was kinda heavy handed so it could just be a red herring also. I have to back and read Spider Island again to see if I buy the explanation of the body switch.
RE YOUR SPOILER: Coooould be. DUN DUN DUUUUN!!!
Lol ASM was great. Kind of wish more happened though.
Avengers was dope hell yeah HIIIICKMAAAAN!!! Gotta love the Gangnam Deadpool cover too!
Avengers, and Capcom stuff ha ha
Spoiler
Another Marvel character named Abyss. This is their fourth incarnation of Abyss and still none of them are the final boss of MvC2. :looney:
Loved it. Hickman definitely brung his SHIELD sensibilities to the title. It’s going to be an epic run! 