Ten hour flight??? From where to where? Yeah, I like the Marvel books. I still have some issues about Civil War--mainly, would Cap have that quickly started a resistance movement--but i loved it overall. More than most in fact. And now, knowing the Skrulls have evidently replaced a whole bunch of people? Hmmm...maybe that would explain how some of the former heroes not only gave in quickly to the SHRA, but started doing incredible distasteful and immoral things like cloning Thor and MVP, sending former heroes to that Negative Zone gulag, taking people's children if they didn't register, etc. The callousness some of them (Reed and Hank Pym especially) have shown is shocking in some cases. Skrulls, perhaps?
I'm hoping the new FF storylines will get better. That book frankly hasn't been great or widely read since the days of John Byrne, when Franklin's powers came on big team, or when Galactus tried to eat Earth and all the heroes opposed him. What's going on in the Panther books? Haven't read them in six months. -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Lockhart, Daryle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I just caught up with Cap (and the rest of Marvel) on what became a 10 > hour flight last night. Captain America is a great, great comic right now. > I dare say killing off Steve was the best thing for this story. I read > bunch of Marvel stuff, and for as much as I didn't see how it would play > out...the Registration Act storyline has brought Marvel BACK! Even Bad > Fantastic Four issues (as the current one is) are great because you're > more invested in the characters. > > Speaking of Skrulls, even She-Hulk was more enjoyable to read. I'm not > sure I dig what Hudlin is doing with the Skrulls in Black Panther, but at > least they're there, which makes it interesting. > > > > On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:18:27 -0500, wrote: > > > Cap's comic has been really good for a while now. Go back and find the > > whole "Winter Soldier" storyline that helped bring this along. The > > action is good, i love the art work, and Bucky, the Skull and others are > > cool. By making the Black Widow front and center they've brought back > > that Cold War spy novel feeling. Even the Falcon's interesting in this > > book! And Tony Stark--whom some may "boo hiss!" because of his role in > > bringing about the new world of the Superhuman Registration Act--is > > portrayed in an interesting mannger. He keeps fighting his guilt over > > the battle with STeve and Steve's death, but still doing what he thinks > > is right in bringing on this near police-state. Really fun stuff. > > And in April, all of Marvel gets rocked with "Secret Invasion", wherein > > we'll find out how many Skrulls have been impersonating superheroes, > > supervillains, and people in positions of power, and for how long. From > > what the Marvel guys are saying, it's huge! > > > > -------------- Original message -------------- > > From: "ravenadal" > > From March 6, 2006 issue of Rolling Stone: > > > > Metaphors for the effects of the Bush Presidency on the American > > spirit don't get any harsher than this one: Last year, Captain > > America, who had been fighting Nazis, supervillians and sometimes his > > own government in the pages of Marvel comic books since 1941, was shot > > dead. > > > > And now, in the series' latest sign of the times, a new, more morally > > compromised character has taken over the stars-and-stripes uniform: > > Cap's former kid sidekick, Bucky, who spent a few years as a > > brainwashed Russian assassin and is now a gun-toting killer. > > > > Ed Brubaker, the former indie-comics writer who's been working on > > Captain America since 2004, sees his riveting version of the comic as > > an "espionage thriller." "It's not meant to be totally reflective of > > the American psyche," he says. "But at the same time, I'm part of the > > American psyche, so maybe there is something of that seeping out there." > > > > In an even more directly relevant plot line, longtime CAp villain the > > Red Skull is now the head of a multinational corporation - and he's > > aiming to destroy the country by foreclosing on mortgages and driving > > up oil prices. Brubaker has been hoping to do that storyline ever > > since the Enron scandal. "How much of our country are we giving away > > to these vast corporations that have no one to answer to at all!" he > > says. "If there's any politics of my own in the book, it's that part." > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
