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  1. I agree, but I'm also positive they're going to have two teams grab a different set of titles each and use that to split the belts again. Not sure why *that's* the approach they're taking, but hey.
  2. I still have to watch New Mutants but having just watched Dark Phoenix and now looking at this list, it's wild that Fox barely kept it over a 50% hit rate with the X-Men universe. Assuming I'm not wildly outside the consensus and think NM is great (which *has* happened with other superhero movies, especially last year) it's straight up 5 movies I think are Actually Bad plus one or two I think has good bits but I'm not wild about on the whole. Real weird franchise, in the end.
  3. The fact that Harley is calling Joker "Pudding-chan" is making me giggle. I don't know why but the specific nickname/honorific combo is just getting me.
  4. So what people were hoping Krakoa would be when "Get preggers" was the national motto and Scott, Jean, and Logan had a throuple room layout with the implication Scott was also hooking up with Emma on the side. I think Wells run is...fine. I get what it's going for and a lot of the critiques it gets, I don't think are super valid. That said, I hate how so many runs are being built around teasing MJ and Peter getting married again only to yank the football away, Peanuts style at the 11th hour. I've accepted that they're never going to do MJ/Peter as *that* kind of thing again and that broadly, modern Peter stories don't do much for me because the attempts to give him trials similar to when he was 16 or 21 at like 30-35 make him look like a very different kind of loser. As maddening as the drive to status quo can be for characters like Batman or Superman, for Peter it just really makes him feel like a manchild after a point. I'd much prefer him getting to become something like what Superman is now with the wife and kid and let Miles be the Spidey for young people, but editorial is determined that it can't happen so here we are. What sucks is that with this specific run and New 52 Superman both, instead of having the former "True" love interest just...move on and be a character in a different way, they create tension by pairing them with a character who seemingly exists just to make the reader mad that they're dating the former romantic lead instead of the protagonist. The determination to write it in this weird kind of cuckold by proxy way just makes it annoying and harder to actually move on from things. People were less hung up on MJ during Brand New Day when the focus was on Peter doing new things and MJ being a supporting character. Slott kept that going, but Spencer seemingly tried to get Marvel to flag by setting stuff up (similar to what Tynion and Snyder successfully did with Cass Cain, Spoiler, Tim as Robin, and to an extent, Oracle) but they didn't. That said, they saw the news articles and sales going along with the speculation and now we can't escape this, with Beyond and now the Wells run both using it as a core element. I don't think Wells is the problem on this, but that element of his run and the *bizarre* choice to kill Ms. Marvel in it are overshadowing the good and interesting stuff in there. (like the Norman stuff, the gang war, the Black Cat stuff for a bit, etc) My concern is that they'll throw a new writer on it and a lot of the same problems will just still be happening. It is what it is though. I can always read older stuff I've missed, Ultimate Spidey, or Miles/Gwen/Silk/etc. books which still hit the Spider vibe without the baggage. Gail's Tomb Raider and Red Sonja both got a lot of love at the time. It just depended where you were plugged in. Red Sonja especially was the first run in YEARS to get attention beyond its usual audience and the Swords of Sorrow event that spun out of it was one of Dynamite's bigger licensed successes. She did a really fun Domino series too which had similar energy to her Secret Six run. She also did some indie stuff like Crosswind and Leaving Megalopolis which caught some immediate press but got lost in the 2010s Image explosion or Seven Days which didn't get a ton of promo because it was part of the Catalyst Prime launch that sort of fizzled. Otherwise she's been doing small bits and pieces here and there while getting more TV gigs and apparently doing a lot more video game stuff. She's still as good as ever, and I'm excited to see her working on a bigger scale project again after a few years of experimental stuff and playing in other mediums. EDIT: I forgot Clean Room, which was one of the best Vertigo books barely anybody read and tbh is a top 5 work from Gail imo.
  5. The creative teams for the three announced "Core" books are all different flavours of good, even if I'm concerned about Jed McKay overreaching with how many big titles he's running right now. Also the titles for the teased second wave are all interesting, so that's something. Cyclops looks like teen Cyclops again which is...curious. Wondering if that's an artistic choice or if something's going to happen. Apparently part of the bit is that they're going to be recovering from the end of the Krakoan Era, with no centralized location or team, which is part of why there's three X-Men teams...they're all grouping independently of one another. I imagine it's tough to speak to all that much without spoiling the heck out of what they're currently doing, but they've definitely got my curiousity. If nothing else, getting Gail Simone back on a monthly book is a huge win.
  6. Wally and Barry being on bad terms makes sense off of like...Flash War, but they basically resolved it in Speed Metal and Dark Crisis so that *is* odd.
  7. https://www.ign.com/articles/akira-toriyama-creator-of-dragon-ball-and-manga-pioneer-dies-at-68 68 is way too young. Without Dragon Ball, there's a real argument about whether or not manga and anime explode in North America the way they did. One of the most influential creators ever and genuinely a great one. Truly awful news.
  8. Not to make it worse or rub salt in it, but AoA Blink also got a release in an earlier wave. Unless something massive changed, she was pretty available at below retail though.
  9. There's an alternate universe where Hickman was allowed to do the whole Krakoan saga as one book, in the same kind of form and feel as HoX/PoX. I think that probably would have rocked. But at the same time, I wouldn't have got Al Ewing or Kieron Gillen's stuff in there so it all works out in the end.
  10. Since it hasn't been mentioned here, it turned out Waid was actually leaving Shazam to write the summer event Absolute Power. All of it. Every issue. Every tie-in. Everything. 22 issues in total over like 3-4 months. Absolute madness. Dan Mora is drawing the main series too, being another guy with real absurd levels and quality of output. Should be a hoot.
  11. Kieron Gillen's next ongoing was announced this week. The Power Fantasy with Caspar Wijngaard who he did the excellent Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt with. The hook is that there's six superhumans in the world who all have Dr. Manhattan level world destroying powers and the world's continued existence relying on them never coming into conflict. Sounds very cool. Very curious where he goes with that concept.
  12. The Fear State collection also slots between either 1 and 2 or 2 and 3 and is worth reading too.
  13. Boy did he. Like I'm not posting the pages but Bleeding Cool did and I encourage y'all to see it because it is *something*. The Public Domain years are gonna be wild.
  14. The response to the EC revival has been real interesting. A big takeaway that I think tracks is that it's hard to really be EC now. EC was doing boundary pushing genre fiction for its time. If a revival's ambition ends at being a nostalgia act doing retro style horror and crime books, it'll be fine but sort of underwhelming.
  15. Oh, also DC Comics go back to Wednesday on-sale dates as of this summer. Which, as someone who still does a little time as a retailer, is gonna be a welcome return.
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