Marvel: "Biggest Event Ever"??

[Shadowman99]

I wonder if the All My Children or General Hospital fans go nuts every time their favorite soap drags out the tropes.

Are they as rabidly fanatical as comics fans?

Some are. I've heard stories of fans getting mad at the actors for what they do on the shows, or depressed when a character dies.

Yeah. But those people are mental.

[lorddunlow]

I wonder if the All My Children or General Hospital fans go nuts every time their favorite soap drags out the tropes.

Are they as rabidly fanatical as comics fans?

Some are. I've heard stories of fans getting mad at the actors for what they do on the shows, or depressed when a character dies.

Yeah. But those people are mental.

And we're not?

[Chiclo]

I knew a guy in college who tried to use soaps to start conversations with young women. It wasn't a bad plan on paper. There was a large tv in the student union and every day at 11:59 a woman (not necessarily the same woman every day) would run up and change the channel to NBC, turn around and say "Oh, I am sorry, were you watching that?" and before one could object, there were about a dozen other womern soap opera fans crowding us off the couch. Anyway, Trent came up with the idea to pick out a pretty girl and ask her "I just started watching, what is happening?" He seriously used this line on about three women and went out a couple of times with them but complained that all they wanted to talk about was Days of Our Lives.

Once I saw the women get a little intimidated when a handful of men (mostly foreigners) were watching soccer. The soap opera women watched a different tv in another part of the building. I wondered if they were afraid that the foreign soccer-watchers might riot if they pulled their daily routines. I was one of those watching the soccer that day, I think it was English Premiere League, Arsenal and Tottenham, maybe? Kin yids, yeah?

[Cyberstrike]

I wonder if the All My Children or General Hospital fans go nuts every time their favorite soap drags out the tropes.

Are they as rabidly fanatical as comics fans?

Some are. I've heard stories of fans getting mad at the actors for what they do on the shows, or depressed when a character dies.

Yeah. But those people are mental.

And we're not?

Comic book superheroes are basically soap operas on paper and digital devices.

[Shadowman99]

I was one of those watching the soccer that day, I think it was English Premiere League, Arsenal and Tottenham, maybe? Kin yids, yeah?

Yeah, that'd have been Tottenham

[CaptnAmerca]

Pass.

I just got done with the latest non-event event known as Original Sin. All it ended up doing is wasting a couple of issues of monthly titles I actually like.

[String]

I wonder if the All My Children or General Hospital fans go nuts every time their favorite soap drags out the tropes.

Are they as rabidly fanatical as comics fans?

Some are. I've heard stories of fans getting mad at the actors for what they do on the shows, or depressed when a character dies.

Yeah. But those people are mental.

And we're not?

Comic book superheroes are basically soap operas on paper and digital devices.

Well, that's one reason I grew to love Smallville, it was a soap opera with superheroes.

This blurb could describe the new Secret Wars....or perhaps this upcoming rehash:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=56268

[Thomas]

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/ ... ntrol.html

Another Marvel event announced. Who still cares?

[lorddunlow]

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/ ... ntrol.html

Another Marvel event announced. Who still cares?

I'm unfortunately drinking the Marvel Kool-Aid. At least I can admit I have a problem - that's the first step.

[ilzuccone]

first that article is hilarious.

second this will make it really easy for me to not buy any events next year (like i said i'm a sucker for events)

third is this part of the disney money machine trying to pump money out of the market?

[ilzuccone]

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/ ... ntrol.html

Another Marvel event announced. Who still cares?

I'm unfortunately drinking the Marvel Kool-Aid. At least I can admit I have a problem - that's the first step.

I'm actually thinking of just grabbing these in the back issue bins. i can imagine there will be a lot left over

[lorddunlow]

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/ ... ntrol.html

Another Marvel event announced. Who still cares?

I'm unfortunately drinking the Marvel Kool-Aid. At least I can admit I have a problem - that's the first step.

I'm actually thinking of just grabbing these in the back issue bins. i can imagine there will be a lot left over

Marvel Unlimited app. Bring it! (6 months after initial release, of course.)

[ilzuccone]

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/ ... ntrol.html

Another Marvel event announced. Who still cares?

I'm unfortunately drinking the Marvel Kool-Aid. At least I can admit I have a problem - that's the first step.

I'm actually thinking of just grabbing these in the back issue bins. i can imagine there will be a lot left over

Marvel Unlimited app. Bring it! (6 months after initial release, of course.)

I prefer owning a physical copy. but that is a very good deal

[Dr. Solar]

I knew a guy in college who tried to use soaps to start conversations with young women. It wasn't a bad plan on paper. There was a large tv in the student union and every day at 11:59 a woman (not necessarily the same woman every day) would run up and change the channel to NBC, turn around and say "Oh, I am sorry, were you watching that?" and before one could object, there were about a dozen other womern soap opera fans crowding us off the couch. Anyway, Trent came up with the idea to pick out a pretty girl and ask her "I just started watching, what is happening?" He seriously used this line on about three women and went out a couple of times with them but complained that all they wanted to talk about was Days of Our Lives.

Once I saw the women get a little intimidated when a handful of men (mostly foreigners) were watching soccer. The soap opera women watched a different tv in another part of the building. I wondered if they were afraid that the foreign soccer-watchers might riot if they pulled their daily routines. I was one of those watching the soccer that day, I think it was English Premiere League, Arsenal and Tottenham, maybe? Kin yids, yeah?

Men that watch soap operas are not a sexual threat.

Foreign men that watch soccer are.

Unless they're English.

[ilzuccone]

I knew a guy in college who tried to use soaps to start conversations with young women. It wasn't a bad plan on paper. There was a large tv in the student union and every day at 11:59 a woman (not necessarily the same woman every day) would run up and change the channel to NBC, turn around and say "Oh, I am sorry, were you watching that?" and before one could object, there were about a dozen other womern soap opera fans crowding us off the couch. Anyway, Trent came up with the idea to pick out a pretty girl and ask her "I just started watching, what is happening?" He seriously used this line on about three women and went out a couple of times with them but complained that all they wanted to talk about was Days of Our Lives.

Once I saw the women get a little intimidated when a handful of men (mostly foreigners) were watching soccer. The soap opera women watched a different tv in another part of the building. I wondered if they were afraid that the foreign soccer-watchers might riot if they pulled their daily routines. I was one of those watching the soccer that day, I think it was English Premiere League, Arsenal and Tottenham, maybe? Kin yids, yeah?

Men that watch soap operas are not a sexual threat.

Foreign men that watch soccer are.

Unless they're English.

[dornwolf]

Okay Marvel is officially *SQUEE* with us now.

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[lorddunlow]

Okay Marvel is officially *SQUEE* with us now.

http://www.newsarama.com/22589-spider-m ... h-you.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Waiting for Heath to weigh in...

[slym2none]

Marvel (and DC) continuity is a joke. I am glad I don't buy comics anymore, because I would just have to quit them now if I never had before.



-slym

[etos45]

I would be all for them restoring the "correct" timeline with MJ (and even the kid, I always hated that they did that). I stopped reading Amazing Spider-man around the time they brought Harry back and I quit collecting them when they pulled that stupid Doc Ock body switch. Restoring the pre-Brand New Day continuity might bring me back.

[Cyberstrike]

I would be all for them restoring the "correct" timeline with MJ (and even the kid, I always hated that they did that). I stopped reading Amazing Spider-man around the time they brought Harry back and I quit collecting them when they pulled that stupid Doc Ock body switch. Restoring the pre-Brand New Day continuity might bring me back.

The same here. I wouldn't have had a major problem if Marvel had Peter and Mary Jane had a polite divorce (and that does happen) that would have allowed them to remain friends and move on with both of their lives.

Instead of all that nonsensical crap involving that whole deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May who got accidently shot by standing to close to Captain America after surrendered at the end of Civil War (and from what I read the Punisher was the shooter, get job there Frank), and that basically wipes Spider-Girl and the MC-2 Universe out. Harry Osborne brought back from the dead, Peter's secret identity is restored, the marriage is wiped from memory, by magic. And Joey Q saying since it's magic it doesn't need to be explained how any of this worked.
I mean even JMS who wrote some of that garbage (and he has to blamed along with Joe Quasada for this stupid idea) thought the whole "it's magic it doesn't need to be explained" idea was stupid.

[dornwolf]

I would be all for them restoring the "correct" timeline with MJ (and even the kid, I always hated that they did that). I stopped reading Amazing Spider-man around the time they brought Harry back and I quit collecting them when they pulled that stupid Doc Ock body switch. Restoring the pre-Brand New Day continuity might bring me back.

The same here. I wouldn't have had a major problem if Marvel had Peter and Mary Jane had a polite divorce (and that does happen) that would have allowed them to remain friends and move on with both of their lives.

Instead of all that nonsensical crap involving that whole deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May who got accidently shot by standing to close to Captain America after surrendered at the end of Civil War (and from what I read the Punisher was the shooter, get job there Frank), and that basically wipes Spider-Girl and the MC-2 Universe out. Harry Osborne brought back from the dead, Peter's secret identity is restored, the marriage is wiped from memory, by magic. And Joey Q saying since it's magic it doesn't need to be explained how any of this worked.
I mean even JMS who wrote some of that garbage (and he has to blamed along with Joe Quasada for this stupid idea) thought the whole "it's magic it doesn't need to be explained" idea was stupid.

Don't forget JMS had his name removed from the last couple of issues. That to me says so much more than any interview ever will. If the writer won't stand by the work, what does that tell you?

[Cyberstrike]

I would be all for them restoring the "correct" timeline with MJ (and even the kid, I always hated that they did that). I stopped reading Amazing Spider-man around the time they brought Harry back and I quit collecting them when they pulled that stupid Doc Ock body switch. Restoring the pre-Brand New Day continuity might bring me back.

The same here. I wouldn't have had a major problem if Marvel had Peter and Mary Jane had a polite divorce (and that does happen) that would have allowed them to remain friends and move on with both of their lives.

Instead of all that nonsensical crap involving that whole deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May who got accidently shot by standing to close to Captain America after surrendered at the end of Civil War (and from what I read the Punisher was the shooter, get job there Frank), and that basically wipes Spider-Girl and the MC-2 Universe out. Harry Osborne brought back from the dead, Peter's secret identity is restored, the marriage is wiped from memory, by magic. And Joey Q saying since it's magic it doesn't need to be explained how any of this worked.
I mean even JMS who wrote some of that garbage (and he has to blamed along with Joe Quasada for this stupid idea) thought the whole "it's magic it doesn't need to be explained" idea was stupid.

Don't forget JMS had his name removed from the last couple of issues. That to me says so much more than any interview ever will. If the writer won't stand by the work, what does that tell you?

That if JMS thought the idea of wiping out the marriage by magic was stupid he should have quit and/or never been involved with it in the first place. I think the real reason why he came out against was because he felt that a lot of fans was going to blame him and it hurt his career. Remember when he took over The Amazing Spider-Man that book was a mess and wasn't doing very well. JMS saved it, and he used a lot of good will that be built up with fans with Babylon 5, Crusade, Rising Stars, and the brilliant Midnight Nation and it was the latter two that got me to read his run on The Amazing Spider-Man again.

Everything up to Sins Past was great and is some of the best Spider-Man comics ever written. Everything after Sins Past was pretty much below average and forgettable at best, or awfully stupid at worse with Sins Past being so bad that even JMS wanted to retcon it out of continuity.

What is sad if Joey Q had let JMS go with original plan for Sins Past it might have worked a lot better.

[Heath]

Okay Marvel is officially *SQUEE* with us now.

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Waiting for Heath to weigh in...

I say *SQUEE* 'em. *SQUEE* 'em all to hell and back.

[lorddunlow]

Okay Marvel is officially *SQUEE* with us now.

http://www.newsarama.com/22589-spider-m ... h-you.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Waiting for Heath to weigh in...

I say *SQUEE* 'em. *SQUEE* 'em all to hell and back.

[Psiot X]

Marvel really is just SQUEE with the fans right now. And they know they are doing it. They want the hype and controversy. Old lemons like us aren't fit for their new line of nade.

Until I know what's up with my Marvel characters of interest I am just going to read Valiant and other indies while this SQUEE takes care of itself. If they mess it up they can enjoy a well deserved PIANO RECITAL as fans will never forgive them.