The Merry Marvel Marching Society

[PrimaGaga 1025]

Marvel: Assembling a Universe is being shown tonight at 8pm on ABC instead of Agent of Shield. Im excited. 

[Otis McNutt 395]

Damn they just dropped a Bomb in Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe. Emily Vancamp is Agent 13 (Sharon Carter!).

[PrimaGaga 1025]

hulk vs iron-man looked sweet

[Otis McNutt 395]

hulk vs iron-man looked sweet

That was the Hulk Buster Armor, a personal favorite of mine.

[PrimaGaga 1025]

yeah, i know. i mean duh.

[pheonix561 2080]

I found a twenty-or-so page spiderman comic on imgur that I thought I'd post here. Here's the link to the original imgur gallery in case anyone would rather read it there, and here it is under the spoiler:

I'll post the rest in a few minutes when I can make a new post

[PrimaGaga 1025]

I actually have that one in trade. :>

I dont know if your link had the whole story, but the spoilers ended before it should have.

 

I believe Wolverine wanted Spider-Man to wait til midnight with him to celebrate his (Wolverine's) birthday.

[pheonix561 2080]

spoilered content ended early, yeah. You can only post ten pictures per post iirc. Here's the rest:

No, yeah, that's definitely why logan wanted peter there. He just wanted someone who still had faith in him to celebrate his birthday with.

There's another good spider man comic floating around imgur that's only eight images too, I'll post it soon.

[Necropolis 763]

On /co/ This and one about a sick kid with a spidey shrine get posted in feels threads a lot

[pheonix561 2080]

Yeah, it's a really great short story, coming from someone who never reads marvel or DC. My biggest misconception and the one thing holding me back from ever getting into superhero comics is the idea that all of the writing is mindless genre fiction where everything happens based on whats popular at the time, like how krypton seriously used to be racially segregated, and only just recently are homosexual characters acceptable. It's exactly like how big corporations will only start using ads that depict radical new ideas like same-sex parents with their adopted children when the majority of their consumerbase finds it completely acceptable so they can look progressive. Sure it's an entirely acceptable move to make as a business, and you'd be fiscally irresponsible not to advertise to your consumers, but at the same time it's always come off to me as mindless pulp shaped to fit the current times. It's a big part of why I love the watchmen and all that.
 

Comics like these are a great reminder that I'm wrong and I should really try to get past my ridiculous prejudice and find a marvel/DC author or series that really knows how to write like this. I never know where to start though. In the interim I'm just going to keep telling everyone to go read berserk.

This comic is a great example of what I'm talking about. Apparently the human torch died? And I should be sad about that but they're probably just going to revive him whenever they feel like it. What the hell is the point of being sad about it? It's good writing though.

[PrimaGaga 1025]

the Human Torch of the Fantastic Four has been back for a while now. It wasnt a big deal, but it was cool that his death resulted in the Future Foundation (I think) or at least that Spider-Man got to take his place for a bit.

 

Pheo, i suggest you find a writer you like, as opposed to a character, and follow him/her. I HIGHLY recommend Brian Micheal Bendis. He's known for turning the Marvel universe on it's head and for his stories to have effects that last years and years. Right now he's doing a lot for the X books. (All-New X-Men, and Uncanny X-Men) as well as Guardians of the Galaxy. If you can get into a writer, it will open a shit ton of content for you to further indulge in. You'll learn to love, or hate characters, and then when other writers write them, you'll start to care. 

[pheonix561 2080]

Awesome. When did guardians of the galaxy begin anyways? I hadn't heard of it before it had it's movie debut announced after the avengers came out.

[PrimaGaga 1025]

I also recommended Jason Aaron. I dont know too much of his work, but i hear his work on the current Thor series is pure gold. 

Guardians of the Galaxy have been around since before we were born. Though the new series is a lot lighter than the past. I havent read too much of the previous stuff, but ive heard it been compared to the work of H.P. Lovecraft. You know, crazy shit on a cosmic scale.

[Necropolis 763]

Awesome. When did guardians of the galaxy begin anyways? I hadn't heard of it before it had it's movie debut announced after the avengers came out.

Bendis's Guardians is kinda meh. He's stellar at books about single characters, like his Daredevil run or Ultimate Spiderman, but his team books are just okay. The Caveat for that is Heroes for hire of course.

My recommendation would be to catch up on some of the british wave of writers from the late 80s early nineties. You've read watchmen, but you should definately check out Alan Moores other stuff as well. Swamp thing, V for vendetta, and now you can finally get his Miracleman, which is being reprinted in issues but it'll get trades eventually

Theres also Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis, Grant Morrison(who may or may not be your thing), and Warren Ellis.

I would particularly recommend Transmetropolitan, Sandman, and Preacher. All series by the above writers that jave defined beginnings, endings and haven't been mined to death after ending

Edited 23 Mar 2014 by Necropolis (see edit history)

[PrimaGaga 1025]

I disagree. Although Bendis' run in gaurdians isn't the best, I still think it's pretty good. But All-New X-Men is most deff one of, if not the best marvel book running at the moment. I didn't even care about X-Men before it and now I like them more than the Avengers.