Ha-ha, good point! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 3:35:30 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon
They're gonna have to reboot "Damage Control", to fix this all afterward. "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:09:38 +0000 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon Yeah, the Blackest Night series is pretty good. Black Panther is really good too. I like the way they've really focused on T'Challa the genius and master strategist. Like Batman, T'Challa is dangerous not just because of his formidable fighting ability, but because he plans for every contingency. He has plans within plans, researches his enemies before taking them on, and has a network of people to help him in need. Doom's robots nearly killed T'Challa recently, which is why he's no longer Black Panther, but he and his sis are ready for battle. Siege...Doomwar...Secret Warriors (Nick Fury and loyal ex-SHIELD taking on HYDRA and Osborn)...it's gonna get really wild if Marvel intends to wrap all this up by April! ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Arterberry" <brotherfromhow...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 5:27:24 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon I'm jumping back into comics after a very very long layoff. I'm getting into Blackest Night" in Green Lantern & The Green Lantern Corps. I bought the last BP , that foretold "DoomWar" so, I'm there. From: Augustus Augustus <jazzynupe_...@yahoo.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Mon, February 1, 2010 7:13:02 PM Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon Keith, I am with you on most of it my friend. Although, I am one of those fans who will not, WILL NOT, but cross titles just 2 follow a story line. I am not going 2 do it. Besides, they always pull it back to the main book anyway. Civil War was simply brilliant! And I am waiting on the battle between HAMMER and Asgard. I have the first 2 issues of Siege, but I am going 2 hold off on reading them until I finish my DC JSA vs. Kobra mini-series. I am reading book 4 out of 6 right now. Let me ask u this, have u gotten into the New X-Force? The fact that they have a mutant team that Wolverine leads that actually gets down and dirty and kill! AS long as they do not mess with this title, I will continue 2 be loyal 2 it. Also finishing up Green Lanther's Blackest Night. Kool mag also. Fate. --- On Mon, 2/1/10, Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ hotmail.com > wrote: From: Martin Baxter <truthseeker013@ hotmail.com> Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifino...@yahoogro ups.com > Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 4:02 PM Man, have I missed a few million things... "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 07:50:10 +0000 Subject: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon Anyone else still follow Marvel Comics? For the last 2-3 years, I've been following best as I can several major events shaking up the MU. There was the Avengers Disassembled, where the Avengers were decimated due to the Scarlet Witch's breakdown. That was followed by House of M, where the Witch reshaped reality into one dominated by mutants, then restored reality, only to remove the mutant abilities of ninety-nine percent of the world's mutants. Then there was the Civil War, where Iron Man and Captain America fought over a government order for heroes to register as agents. That culminated in Cap's death and the ascenion of Iron Man to lead SHIELD. And that was followed by Invasion, where it was revealed the Skrulls had for years replaced key heroes, leaders and villains on Earth. They got within a hair's breadth of conquering Earth, but lost. The fallout from that saw Iron Man disgraced, and the new hero of the day as Norman Osborn, who know leads SHIELD's replacement HAMMER, as well as the Avengers. Now we have the "Dark" books, as Osborn and his criminal cohorts control things, but a growing resistance of heroes are gathering to fight them. Meanwhile, Thor and the Asgardians have defeated Ragnarok and are back from Limbo, but are now preparing to do battle with Dr. Doom, who along with Loki has conspired to exploit the Asgardians. As if that weren't enough, there's Siege, where Osborn has decided the Asgardians must go, and is preparing to hit Asgard with everything he's got. Oh--and let's not forget Doomwar, where Dr. Doom has been manipulating the near-death of T'Challa, and is now preparing to invade Wakanda, but is soon going to have his hands full fighting T'Challa, his sister (the new Black Panther), the FF, and Namor. Whew! The Marvel Universe is going to all sorts or turmoil, and I haven't even addressed Annihilation, War of Kings (involving the Inhumans and Cyclops' crazy brother), the great Winter Soldier storyline (the return of Bucky), the X-Men's travails, the Spidey books, or the fact that Daredevil now rules the Hand. I know the concept of the megastory, the maxiseries, and the crossover storyline has been done to death by Marvel and DC in the last few years. Many fans groan and complain at the requirement to buy several different books to follow the latest invasion or battle, and more than one fan feels the major event is just a gimmick to make people do just that: buy many titles. Often, it's felt, the "events" themselves are simply not that compelling. Exceptions include Crisis on Infinite Earths, Heroes Reborn/Return. But I have to say i've been caught up in Marvel's incredibly dense, far reaching, and complex storylines. I dug the Civil War, though some aspects of it were puzzling (Spidey reveals his identity to the world? Reed Richards creates a cyborg clone of Thor?) I'm liking Osborn in control, and the battle we know is coming to take care of that. I like the Black Panthers taking it to Doom. Thor has never been more interesting, and I can't wait to see what happens with Siege. Guess I'm just a sucker for the high drama. I understand that Marvel's plotted this for years, and that when the smoke from all these battles ends by April, the major books are going to go "lighter", more retro. The Avengers will be less grim, and I hear more of the Marvel heroes will return to more high adventure, and less morally complex behavior. I guess the dark superhero years are coming to and end. Too bad, it's been a great ride. Though, I guess I have to remember that the lighter years still gave us things like the Kree-Skrull War, the death of Gwen Stacy, etc. Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now.