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.
