Pitt
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Post by Pitt on Nov 21, 2010 18:16:44 GMT
That sounds a bit like the Superman comic that John Cleese wrote.
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Post by The Shad on Jan 4, 2011 19:15:14 GMT
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Post by ShayMay on Jan 4, 2011 20:29:44 GMT
If I'm not very much mistaken, that's Frank Quitely doing the art in that picture.
*feels clever*
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Post by madhair60 on Jan 17, 2011 15:24:19 GMT
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Post by Baron Canier on Jan 19, 2011 17:14:58 GMT
They really need to give The Walking Dead the subtitle "What line will we cross next?".
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Pitt
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Post by Pitt on Jan 22, 2011 0:00:58 GMT
The same could be said of Invincible. I'm not sure that there are many more disfiguring injuries left that the characters can inflict upon one another.
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Post by Dave on Jan 22, 2011 6:43:38 GMT
I don't think it really affects anyone because I doubt anyone here was around when the comic code authority was put into place but DC comics and Archie have just pulled their books. Well, DC have this month and Archie will from February.
In an article I've read on Newsarama it said that Marvel stopped using the CCA back in 2001 when they refused to approve one of their books. Does anyone know what book that was and why it wasn't approved? Tried googling it, but for 10 year old news Google isn't that great lol.
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Post by The Shad on Jan 22, 2011 12:14:45 GMT
Does anyone know what book that was and why it wasn't approved? Tried googling it, but for 10 year old news Google isn't that great lol. I think it was X-Force, but I'm not sure. Also, Wonder Woman to get her own show.
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Post by Alex on Jan 25, 2011 19:51:55 GMT
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Pitt
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Post by Pitt on Jan 25, 2011 23:29:49 GMT
I've not read many comics lately, but from what I can gather the Green Goblin was given control of all superhero-related activities in the USA and formed his own team of supervillain Avengers. I don't know how that ended, unfortunately.
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Post by L. T. Dangerous on Jan 25, 2011 23:45:42 GMT
I've not read many comics lately, but from what I can gather the Green Goblin was given control of all superhero-related activities in the USA and formed his own team of supervillain Avengers. I don't know how that ended, unfortunately. Badly for him, he's in supervillain prison after trying to raid Asgard. As you do. He's getting his own mini-series. Yeah.
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Post by lordgazza on Jan 26, 2011 0:02:25 GMT
The "3" storyline is abit like Civil war for me. Yes, a major super hero gets killed off whoopdeedoo! Its shocking for awhile, give it a few months and you'll be over it. But is there any point to it when we all know full well that in a year or two and they'll be back safe and sound. The amount of comic book characters that stay dead is smaller than the Atom(Ray Palmer). Jason Todd was setting a trend for awhile until he came back as the Red Hood, which I always found interesting because around that time Bucky came back as the Winter Soldier too. It was strange to see two very similar characters, both previously being the sidekicks of non-super powered heroes, and seeing them both return after a very long absense from the comic book industry as very similar villians. Not only that, but their costumes were very similar too once Jason's Red Hood helmet is taken out of the equation. They also both try to replace their former partner after Batman and Cap. America respectively get "killed off". I always just found it very odd. If they really want to make the death of a character matter and not just become a running joke within the industry then they need to keep the characters who die in their graves.
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Post by Alex on Jan 26, 2011 1:08:03 GMT
The death of a comic book character really isn't about the fact a character has died - more the impact their death has on the comic's world as a whole.
The fact they'll come back eventually is just inevitable as a fact of life because these are on-going publications with no real ending.
That said, most characters that have been killed in the Ultimate Marvel universe have stayed dead. Beast was a notable exception, but his return was handled by someone who rather heavily mangled the whole of his run on Ultimate X-Men, and then they killed him off again anyway. This very likely isn't going to stick, though, really. Not when they killed off so many high profile characters in Ultimatum. (One of which begins with a 'W' and ends in 'olverine')
But, yeah, the death of a character does matter in how it influences the world around them - but it's hard for readers to care about the character themselves 'no longer existing' when we know it's really not the case one way or another.
The impact of this death, for example, is apparently the collapse of the Fantastic Four (rather than a replacement) which leads to the remaining members finding their way in the greater Marvel Universe alone in the middle of Marvel's latest event, 'Fear Itself'. Disbanding one of the world's most recognised super teams is a pretty big impact in and of itself.
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Post by Pitt on Jan 26, 2011 20:38:24 GMT
I think Uncle Ben is the only really "big" character who died and hasn't been resurrected yet. Valiant Comics didn't restore any of their dead characters to life as far as I know, but they're largely forgotten (which is really something else, because they were once the third biggest comic book company in the states).
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lordgazza
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Post by lordgazza on Jan 26, 2011 22:33:48 GMT
The death of a comic book character really isn't about the fact a character has died - more the impact their death has on the comic's world as a whole. The fact they'll come back eventually is just inevitable as a fact of life because these are on-going publications with no real ending. That said, most characters that have been killed in the Ultimate Marvel universe have stayed dead. Beast was a notable exception, but his return was handled by someone who rather heavily mangled the whole of his run on Ultimate X-Men, and then they killed him off again anyway. This very likely isn't going to stick, though, really. Not when they killed off so many high profile characters in Ultimatum. (One of which begins with a 'W' and ends in 'olverine') But, yeah, the death of a character does matter in how it influences the world around them - but it's hard for readers to care about the character themselves 'no longer existing' when we know it's really not the case one way or another. The impact of this death, for example, is apparently the collapse of the Fantastic Four (rather than a replacement) which leads to the remaining members finding their way in the greater Marvel Universe alone in the middle of Marvel's latest event, 'Fear Itself'. Disbanding one of the world's most recognised super teams is a pretty big impact in and of itself. I get what your saying but I think in general that impact the writers go for is often diminished by the fact the reader knows that this isn't the end for (insert character here). Of course such is the nature of an on-going and probably never ending comic book series so it has to be taken with a grain of salt. Ah Ultimate Marvel, not only did it get me into mainstream comics but the fact it takes risks like that is why I like it so much. It will be interesting to see where the Death of Ultimate Spiderman goes though.
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Post by The Shad on Jan 27, 2011 16:59:56 GMT
I've not read many comics lately, but from what I can gather the Green Goblin was given control of all superhero-related activities in the USA and formed his own team of supervillain Avengers. I don't know how that ended, unfortunately. Just read this. (everything under Siege) Infinitely better, and gives us the greatest troop rallying speech in history.
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Post by Adamis on Jan 27, 2011 23:35:06 GMT
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Post by Beeth on Feb 4, 2011 10:47:14 GMT
I kid you not. This is a real enterprise. www.tonerninja.co.uk/Were there an actual manga of this, I would certainly spend a couple minutes or so flicking through it in Waterstones.
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Post by Devo DrakeFox on Feb 13, 2011 16:18:51 GMT
Just read Batman: The Widening Gyre by Kevin Smith. Was rather shocked by the ending.
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Post by The Shad on Feb 13, 2011 16:54:16 GMT
Just read Batman: The Widening Gyre by Kevin Smith. Was rather shocked by the ending. Is that the one where Batman wets himself?
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Post by Baron Canier on Mar 9, 2011 19:03:16 GMT
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Post by Samface on Mar 9, 2011 19:22:19 GMT
I approve of this event or product.
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Post by Devo DrakeFox on Mar 9, 2011 20:35:15 GMT
Just read Batman: The Widening Gyre by Kevin Smith. Was rather shocked by the ending. Is that the one where Batman wets himself? Yes. ;D I actually had to go back through it for that, it's not exactly the highlight of the book.
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Pitt
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Post by Pitt on Apr 29, 2011 23:20:43 GMT
Has anyone ever read Gold Digger? It's a series I would like to try, but I can't seem to work out what the starting point is. I've looked at the listings on amazon.co.uk, and there's no clue to what the first collected volume is.
Anybody know about this sort of thing?
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Post by Dave on May 1, 2011 12:21:15 GMT
Just read Batman: The Widening Gyre by Kevin Smith. Was rather shocked by the ending. There's meant to be a sequel to that this year but solicitations go up to July, and still nothing mentioned! How did Batman wet himself? Don't remember reading that?
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