Quinn

November 19, 2012 11:22 pm It all comes together when Ultron comes out of the closet.

November 14, 2012 1:06 pm Heroes Alliance is amazing, and a link to that website should be posted in every single discussion about this, everywhere on the internet. Thank you for doing it.

November 14, 2012 1:02 pm Seriously. How self-important is the "doing it for attention" argument? Yes, because there's nothing women like more than getting attention from men based solely on their physical attributes. It's why so many women walk back and forth in front of construction sites. If cosplayers are doing it for attention, I suspect it's for attention to their craft, attention to their talent at making a costume. They spent hours making something beautiful for their own enjoyment, knowing that, at best, the mainstream world doesn't care, and at worst their picture will show up on a snarky website making fun of cosplayers. What could possibly be more OG (original geek) than that? If this issue makes you mad, especially if your initials are T.M., then you need to go watch some Dancing Deadpool videos on YouTube and chill out. In fact, we should all go watch Dancing Deadpool videos. Right now.

November 5, 2012 12:47 pm "The book fans have been asking for! (By 'fans,' we mean Mega-fan Geoff Johns; no other fans need have opinions. Geoff Johns' fan-pinions obviously represent the bulk of fandom. If your fan-pinions differ from The Johns, kindly keep them to yourself, citizen. Especially fans of Stephanie Brown. Of which there are none, per DC Comics official corporate policy.)" Yep, I'm pretty sure that Vibe and Katana are the books that "fan" has been clambering for. The Green Arrow looks like it might not suck, though.

November 1, 2012 2:44 pm I agree with everything here, especially the current-masterpiece-level of Saga. Except for X-Force, which is weak.

October 30, 2012 3:00 pm So, if I stop reading Marvel THEN now, because I'm waiting for Marvel NOW then, will I still understand all the THEN that was then when NOW becomes now? I wouldn't want to waste money now on THEN when THEN is all going away later in the NOW, but I know that NOW is going to be now eventually, and right now I'm looking forward to NOW so much I'm as into THEN as much as I was before. Time travel is so confusing, even when it happens in one direction, a second at a time. A second concern: Will Uncanny Avengers still be Marvel NOW when Guardians of the Galaxy comes out, or will it have become Marvel THEN by then? I mean, six months is a long time for NOW to stay new, y'know?

October 9, 2012 2:39 pm Uncanny Avengers is about four dollars. Seriously, the plot of the book appears to be "Many people buy books called 'Avengers.' Many other people buy a book called 'Uncanny.' Perhaps if we put them together, all of those people will not notice and buy this book." I mean, sure, there will be characters punching other characters. Because it's Rick Remender, a character that he thinks no one cares about will die every couple of issues. Those things are true, but story is really about four dollars, one hundred thousand times. It's funny, though, that your case is exactly why I'm reading more Marvel comics and fewer DC than at any time since I was sixteen. I like what Aaron, GIllen, Humphries and Hickman are doing with their stores, and I'm happy to pay them for the privilege of reading. Meanwhile, the characters I love most aren't driving the stories at DC, editorial directives are, and that's boring me. (As this happens more at Marvel, I'll stop buying those, too.)

October 5, 2012 7:32 pm That's the big change: Peter Parker is replaced as Spider-Man by Cyclops, who spends every issue ranting about how much more awesome he is than everyone else: his life is harder, his responsibility is greater, his powers are cooler, his dead ex-girlfriend is more amazing, and no one talks about the red-head that he used to be with anymore. Come to think of it, all of those could apply to Peter, too. Mostly, it's about people who feel superior to the rest of the universe. Guest stars include Captain America, Doctor Strange, Hawkeye and Red Hulk.

September 20, 2012 5:14 pm Love this, love Kid Loki. I kind of wish he was in Avengers Arena. Kid Loki would kill at Survivor: Marvel Universe.

September 20, 2012 5:13 pm That would be an awesome 20 pages of exposition about the nobility of grass, and the war it wages against a universe where everything that lives is its predator. Of course, the font would be unreadable.