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Post by thecrimson on Oct 10, 2014 19:11:15 GMT -6
Anyone getting Contest of Champions?
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Post by wyokid on Oct 11, 2014 11:16:16 GMT -6
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Post by Sage6Paths on Oct 12, 2014 4:25:50 GMT -6
That one of the most ridicules thing I have seen in a while. I'm guessing it's not his full costume because I would be pretty mad. |
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Post by Mr_Monster_Munch on Oct 12, 2014 7:23:28 GMT -6
This promo image gives me the feels. The feels of Frank Miller's Born Again. If we get to see him as a kid causing mischief in Hells Kitchen in the first episode of the series then that will get a big thumbs up from me. Please tell me this will be inspired by Born Again. |
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Post by wyokid on Oct 12, 2014 8:59:17 GMT -6
That one of the most ridicules thing I have seen in a while. I'm guessing it's not his full costume because I would be pretty mad. That costume is directly taken from Frank Miller and John Romita Jr's The Man Without Fear miniseries  This promo image gives me the feels. The feels of Frank Miller's Born Again. If we get to see him as a kid causing mischief in Hells Kitchen in the first episode of the series then that will get a big thumbs up from me. Please tell me this will be inspired by Born Again. I don't know about Born Again, but it's definitely inspired by The Man Without Fear. They've said it will take inspiration from Miller's run and Bendis's run. |
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Post by Mr_Monster_Munch on Oct 12, 2014 16:22:17 GMT -6
That one of the most ridicules thing I have seen in a while. I'm guessing it's not his full costume because I would be pretty mad. That costume is directly taken from Frank Miller and John Romita Jr's The Man Without Fear miniseries This promo image gives me the feels. The feels of Frank Miller's Born Again. If we get to see him as a kid causing mischief in Hells Kitchen in the first episode of the series then that will get a big thumbs up from me. Please tell me this will be inspired by Born Again. I don't know about Born Again, but it's definitely inspired by The Man Without Fear. They've said it will take inspiration from Miller's run and Bendis's run. Whoops. I got the two mixed up. I read them both back to back and made the mistake in thinking Born Again was the origin. I meant Man Without Fear. That's good. I like the decision to keep him in the black suit for the first episode or two. What I read of Bendis' run was pretty good too. Edit - It was actually sage6paths who recommended me the Bendis and Miller books to begin with (thanks, sage). I agree that those images look a bit dull, but I'm waiting to see some actual footage before I can decide on anything. So far the Netflix promo image is awesome and that's it, but the more Miller inspiration the better IMO. I'm cautiously confident. |
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Post by thecrimson on Oct 13, 2014 15:52:45 GMT -6
There are so many new comic books getting announced recently. We've got Gamora, Silk, Ant-Man, Spider-Gwen, and I might have missed something  Anything you guys are considering getting? I'm down for Silk and Spider-Gwen, though Ant-Man has me intrigued. |
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Post by wyokid on Oct 13, 2014 19:25:21 GMT -6
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Post by thecrimson on Oct 13, 2014 19:38:08 GMT -6
That's interesting. Also what are your thoughts on Secret Wars and Civil War in 2015? Are they rebooting the latter one? People keep saying it's a reboot, but nothing I've read makes it seem like that. |
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Post by wyokid on Oct 13, 2014 21:10:08 GMT -6
That's interesting. Also what are your thoughts on Secret Wars and Civil War in 2015? Are they rebooting the latter one? People keep saying it's a reboot, but nothing I've read makes it seem like that. Don't really care to be honest. I don't have much time for reading anymore and when I am it's all older stuff. |
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Post by thecrimson on Oct 14, 2014 16:33:22 GMT -6
Ok, now Marvel has teased Age of Ultron vs Marvel Zombies. I have no clue what's going on.
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Post by wyokid on Oct 14, 2014 19:37:55 GMT -6
Ok, now Marvel has teased Age of Ultron vs Marvel Zombies. I have no clue what's going on. Secret Wars would be my guess for this and many other teasers including Civil War |
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Post by Wolverine12 on Oct 15, 2014 1:48:08 GMT -6
This seems like its gonna be a cluster fuck. I normally give Marvel events the benefit of the doubt but this one is just not doing it for me.
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Post by Mr_Monster_Munch on Oct 15, 2014 6:38:23 GMT -6
• How the British media shafted the people of Scotland. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/media-shafted-people-scotland-journalists• I hope that Cap 3 Civil War rumour isn't true. Marvel's cinematic universe doesn't have nearly the amount of characters for that to work. Sure, they could just add in lots of characters like Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, the Defenders, Black Panther and a massive cast of B-Listers like Hulkling, Tigra, Sif, Rescue and Mantis etc. but I don't think that would work very well. It would bring up too many questions about how all these heroes suddenly came to be. It would certainly be very difficult to pull off. I think they should leave it until the 2020s, perhaps have Civil War after the Avengers anthology. I'd much rather see Marvel bring more superhero teams to the big screen first, more earthbound heroes like the Marvel Knights or Alpha Flight. • The new Captain America movie should be titled, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty. As a Captain America title, it works perfectly in accordance to his comic book counterpart. Plus, it sounds so much better than The First Avenger, especially because it was Iron Man that was really the first Avenger in Marvel's Cinematic Universe. • As for the recently rumoured upcoming Marvel Comics events, it's going to take more than just remarketed past success to get me hyped. But nevertheless, bring on another WWH to cull Marvel's convoluted cast. The good guys are way too powerful. They need a culling to keep the readers engaged when the shit hits the fan. Otherwise, what's the point if you can't believe in the struggle of the heroes, how can you fear villainous outcomes or feel any sense of importance from any threats? The heroes have it too easy. It's just not fun knowing the heroes are going to win without breaking a sweat all the time. Whenever a bad guy or planetary or galactic threat comes to Earth, it always feels so trivial knowing that most of Earth's heroes won't even be needed to combat the threat. 90% of Earth's heroes are never needed. They're pushed to the wayside whilst the Avengers sort out the menace. I often wonder if there's any point having these heroes if they don't care whenever the Earth is about to be destroyed. Earth's heroes are so confident in defeating their villains, that most of them don't bother to show up when something bad happens. Both the fictional heroes and the readers can just lie back and wait for the bad guys to be defeated. There's no urgency to any emergency. Heroes like Shang Chi, Black Knight, Mantis and She-Hulk usually take a break when the Earth's about to be destroyed. There's no point in caring about what happens when most of the heroes aren't even needed. This is why a culling of Marvel's unused cast is desperately needed in order to make threats seem, you know, actually threatening? We need something dramatic to happen. Something that actually shakes up the MU. Something that makes fans care about the outcome. just imagine if no one died in Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad or any other series. It just wouldn't work. There would be very little point in caring about what might happen. |
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Post by wyokid on Oct 15, 2014 10:16:05 GMT -6
WB has announced their film slate  |
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Post by thecrimson on Oct 15, 2014 15:33:40 GMT -6
• How the British media shafted the people of Scotland. www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/media-shafted-people-scotland-journalists• I hope that Cap 3 Civil War rumour isn't true. Marvel's cinematic universe doesn't have nearly the amount of characters for that to work. Sure, they could just add in lots of characters like Daredevil, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, the Defenders, Black Panther and a massive cast of B-Listers like Hulkling, Tigra, Sif, Rescue and Mantis etc. but I don't think that would work very well. It would bring up too many questions about how all these heroes suddenly came to be. It would certainly be very difficult to pull off. I think they should leave it until the 2020s, perhaps have Civil War after the Avengers anthology. I'd much rather see Marvel bring more superhero teams to the big screen first, more earthbound heroes like the Marvel Knights or Alpha Flight. • The new Captain America movie should be titled, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty. As a Captain America title, it works perfectly in accordance to his comic book counterpart. Plus, it sounds so much better than The First Avenger, especially because it was Iron Man that was really the first Avenger in Marvel's Cinematic Universe. • As for the recently rumoured upcoming Marvel Comics events, it's going to take more than just remarketed past success to get me hyped. But nevertheless, bring on another WWH to cull Marvel's convoluted cast. The good guys are way too powerful. They need a culling to keep the readers engaged when the shit hits the fan. Otherwise, what's the point if you can't believe in the struggle of the heroes, how can you fear villainous outcomes or feel any sense of importance from any threats? The heroes have it too easy. It's just not fun knowing the heroes are going to win without breaking a sweat all the time. Whenever a bad guy or planetary or galactic threat comes to Earth, it always feels so trivial knowing that most of Earth's heroes won't even be needed to combat the threat. 90% of Earth's heroes are never needed. They're pushed to the wayside whilst the Avengers sort out the menace. I often wonder if there's any point having these heroes if they don't care whenever the Earth is about to be destroyed. Earth's heroes are so confident in defeating their villains, that most of them don't bother to show up when something bad happens. Both the fictional heroes and the readers can just lie back and wait for the bad guys to be defeated. There's no urgency to any emergency. Heroes like Shang Chi, Black Knight, Mantis and She-Hulk usually take a break when the Earth's about to be destroyed. There's no point in caring about what happens when most of the heroes aren't even needed. This is why a culling of Marvel's unused cast is desperately needed in order to make threats seem, you know, actually threatening? We need something dramatic to happen. Something that actually shakes up the MU. Something that makes fans care about the outcome. just imagine if no one died in Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad or any other series. It just wouldn't work. There would be very little point in caring about what might happen. If characters in Marvel died and never came back, we'd likely have a less populated MU (think UU). And if that hero had a title then there goes the money from said title. The difference with GoT or Walking Dead is that those can continue on even when major characters die because they're one title. If Walking Dead was only about Rick and he died, then the title would be over. That's how comics really differ from other forms of fiction. The universe is made up of many solo books. Years of Future Past? scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10343017_10152733484137488_6439610460813140583_n.jpg?oh=950e7699ff6ca0523595604b4a16bc54&oe=54B93B1A |
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Post by Mr_Monster_Munch on Oct 15, 2014 17:47:32 GMT -6
If characters in Marvel died and never came back, we'd likely have a less populated MU (think UU). And if that hero had a title then there goes the money from said title. The difference with GoT or Walking Dead is that those can continue on even when major characters die because they're one title. If Walking Dead was only about Rick and he died, then the title would be over. That's how comics really differ from other forms of fiction. The universe is made up of many solo books. But the amount of heroes on Marvel Earth is so extremely vast to the point where many of them don't even get used. Some heroes haven't been seen in decades, which just goes to show how unimportant they are to the Marvel stories. So much gets pushed to the wayside when a threat comes along. I'm tired of always seeing the heroes use only a fraction of their forces to combat titanic threats. Remember that this is an Earth protected by thousands of superheroes. Plus more yet to discover. So there's not really any sense of danger to the events when Earth has such a vast battalion which it only requires a portion of. But all I'm suggesting is that some minor characters get killed. Why do we have thousands of characters that can't die? It seems so ridiculous to me. Character deaths can be amazing stories. It's always nice to see an iconic end. I'm talking actual hero sacrifices. Not the cop-outs we always get. Powerful, emotional feats of heroism, and it can all be as simple as one hero saving another. Just think of the potential in that, using character relationships in that way. To not kill off any good guys ever (even though there are nearly 2000 of them on Marvel Earth) when they are constantly facing countless dangers whilst defending Earth against supposedly dire threats, is not only meaningless, but very unrealistic (and not in a good way). But this isn't about realism. It's about making magical stories. And for that to be possible, twists, dangers, antagonists etc need to be represented as titanic struggles for the heroes to overcome. That's what makes it all worth while. Sure, we all know the heroes will eventually win, but wouldn't it be nice to think that that might not actually be the case? The Marvel Universe has become so inconsequential over these past few decades. Not completely, but near enough. Consequences are an important and integral part to every story. 2. TWD and GoT kill off it's characters just like most mature stories when there's a danger, but they're not exactly a last man standing sort of deal, and nor would I want the MU to be anything like that. I'm only suggesting some characters get killed. Yes, there are lots of characters in lots of different titles in the MU, but what about all those characters (literally hundreds of them) that Marvel don't even use? 3. The UU didn't fail due to lack of characters. The UU actually has more than it's ever had due to the sheer amount they started churning out. It's evident that it's not about how many characters you have, but what happens to those characters, who they are and the challenges they face. |
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Post by thecrimson on Oct 15, 2014 19:02:48 GMT -6
I SUCK at shooters. I mean, I thought I was decent at Borderlands but this new game? I rage quit hard. And I was recording at the time, but I'm not home alone so I didn't curse much...
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Post by Mr_Monster_Munch on Oct 16, 2014 7:00:37 GMT -6
I SUCK at shooters. I mean, I thought I was decent at Borderlands but this new game? I rage quit hard. And I was recording at the time, but I'm not home alone so I didn't curse much... What game's this mate? I'm playing through the Metro Redux shooters at the moment. They're difficult at times. |
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Post by Sage6Paths on Oct 16, 2014 10:12:12 GMT -6
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Post by Mr_Monster_Munch on Oct 16, 2014 11:25:07 GMT -6
Holy shizniks! That's visual poetry right there. The return of Palpatine? I'm pumped. You seen the Chrome Troopers images yet? They're pretty awesome. The Chrome Troopers are a small private unit that work for a mysterious man who collects Sith artefacts.
(Many fans speculate that this unrevealed potential villain is a Sith). Let's speculate! You Sage, have just made my day. Thanks. |
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Post by Sage6Paths on Oct 16, 2014 13:13:31 GMT -6
Holy shizniks! That's visual poetry right there. The return of Palpatine? I'm pumped. You seen the Chrome Troopers images yet? They're pretty awesome. The Chrome Troopers are a small private unit that work for a mysterious man who collects Sith artefacts.
(Many fans speculate that this unrevealed potential villain is a Sith). Let's speculate! You Sage, have just made my day. Thanks. Yah I saw the Chrome troopers they look awesome. But I don't think that's the return of Palpatine actually. Sources indicate that might be Luke Effing Skywalker[/spoilers]. Though I don't believe yet because Hamill is growing his contractually obligated beard which would not make sense in the context of the picture. But the reason for this is because the cyborg has a similar hand to Luke |
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Post by Mr_Monster_Munch on Oct 16, 2014 17:08:46 GMT -6
Yah I saw the Chrome troopers they look awesome. But I don't think that's the return of Palpatine actually. Sources indicate that might be Luke Effing Skywalker[/spoilers]. Though I don't believe yet because Hamill is growing his contractually obligated beard which would not make sense in the context of the picture. But the reason for this is because the cyborg has a similar hand to Luke I just looked closer at that image and you're right, that definitely isn't Palpatine. He looks much younger It must be that Sith artefacts collector that was revealed a few weeks ago. At least we know that's the villain. It makes sense that as a Sith artefacts collector, he has Vader's helmet. I would also say he's blatantly a Sith Lord, looking the way he does. I think Luke being the villain would be a crazy twist. I don't think that will be the case, but I could be wrong. It's not the first time I've heard someone say Luke might be the villain. But right now I'm going to chalk it up as just fan speculation until I hear some more news about him. |
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Post by thecrimson on Oct 16, 2014 17:46:01 GMT -6
I SUCK at shooters. I mean, I thought I was decent at Borderlands but this new game? I rage quit hard. And I was recording at the time, but I'm not home alone so I didn't curse much... What game's this mate? I'm playing through the Metro Redux shooters at the moment. They're difficult at times. Borderlands The Pre-Sequel |
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Post by wyokid on Oct 17, 2014 16:13:02 GMT -6
Anyone else remember this?
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Post by Mr_Monster_Munch on Oct 17, 2014 18:50:59 GMT -6
Anyone else remember this? Yeah, I remember them. That's some hard gangster shit right there. Who's your father! |
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Post by Wolverine12 on Oct 19, 2014 1:22:12 GMT -6
I'm pretty mad at you guys, Wolverine dies and nobody bothers to ask me how I'm feeling...
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Post by wyokid on Oct 19, 2014 8:12:54 GMT -6
I'm pretty mad at you guys, Wolverine dies and nobody bothers to ask me how I'm feeling... Except for that PM you ignored  |
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Post by Mr_Monster_Munch on Oct 19, 2014 8:37:48 GMT -6
I'm pretty mad at you guys, Wolverine dies and nobody bothers to ask me how I'm feeling... Just think of it as him having a holiday (taking a vacation) in the afterlife. He's probably tired after all the killing he's done. He's lived a hectic life and deserves a break. |
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Post by thecrimson on Oct 19, 2014 17:33:30 GMT -6
I'm pretty mad at you guys, Wolverine dies and nobody bothers to ask me how I'm feeling... You didn't get my psychic message? |
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Anything you guys are considering getting? I'm down for Silk and Spider-Gwen, though Ant-Man has me intrigued.
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