Posted by Helen H June 29, 2007 in Asides
Any Pandagonians other than myself and karpad geeking out over this?
Update: Well, hell. I expected someone to have covered this post over by now; that’s why I posted it towards the end of my window. Now my geeky shame is on display for all to see!
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Is this about World War Hulk? Cause if it is, I am interested in how it goes, though I’ve admittedly been out to lunch for a while prior to Civil War started.
is that Frontline? I’ve committed myself to only buying the core book this time, after all the worthles tie-ins on Civil War.
I’m still gonna READ everything, just not buy it all this time. as such, I get a bit behind. I haven’t finished my new shipment this week. all I’ve read so far is The Sinestro Corps book. I fear Geoff Johns is going to end up in deep hackery before this is over.
nah, my big Marvel geekery is currently reserved for Annihilation: Conquest. As much fun as Hulk coming back and murdering the Illuminati is gonna be, non-pandering space lesbians, Star Lord, and ROM the Space Knight reentering center stage appeals to me more. also, those covers and character design by Marko Djurdjevics are fucking gorgeous.
World War Hulk is Awesome
“Xavier, I see you’re walking now. I can fix that”
Oh Great Cat be Praised! I have no fucking idea what you are talking about. I am not Count Dorkenstein von NeverGetLaid!
is that Frontline? I’ve committed myself to only buying the core book this time, after all the worthles tie-ins on Civil War.
Yup. It’s the only tie-in I’m going to read, or at least: I read the first to give it a chance, and it looks interesting enough.
togolosh: I use an excuse; my son loves superheroes. I mean, World War Hulk (what I’m talking about, if you’re counting) is Not Suitable for Children, but that’s still my excuse.
Yeah, the first issue of World War Hulk was great. (Spoiler Alert: Hulk smashes) Greg Pak has probably done more for the character then even Peter David’s great run, and actually made me interested in the character. I’ll stick with the core title, the Incredible Hulk and WWH: X-Men tie-ins, but I’ll be avoiding the Heroes for Hire tentacle-rape. Need to save some cash for Endangered Species, the new new new New Warriors (you should all definitely pick it up; superheroes fighting the Man!) and New Avengers-related Skrull paranoia. Annihilation: Conquest looks really good also. I’ve completely dropped everything DC since they turned Cassandra Cain evil for no fucking reason, but Sinestro Corps looks cool too. (Damn you, DC, DAMN YOU!)
And Marvel should bring back the Young Avengers about now. I haven’t gotten my Hawkeye fix in a while.
And Paris Hilton is a Skrull. Distracting us from the invasion, man!
I am not Count Dorkenstein von NeverGetLaid!
For hating on Hulk? Yes, yes you are. and you’re obviously a skrull. REAL Pandagonians are hipsters, and would therefore know that while it is not for everyone, it is indeed a hipster thing these days. If you doubt my words, behold the awesome that is Alan Moore. He only LOOKS like a homeless guy.
I got laid *because* I like comics.
Both of the men I’ve had long-term relationships with, I got together with because of comic books.
And my one relationship with a woman started because of Star Trek.
So ha ha! Geekery can actually *get* you laid!
That being said I have no clue whatsoever what this post is talking about. World War Hulk? Uhhh… what’s going on? I don’t read Marvel that regularly anymore…
That being said I have no clue whatsoever what this post is talking about. World War Hulk? Uhhh… what’s going on?
Short form, see if you can draw political parallels, to keep this thread relevant:
Iron Man and some buddies who think themselves smarter than everyone realized “If someone uses their powers in a bad way at some point, there’s gonna be a law to make everyone register their abilities. like gun control. and some people won’t be happy, so there might be fighting.” (see also, Civil War)
the continued “No matter who’s side he’s on in that battle, Hulk is gonna kill a lot of people for no good reason.”
they concluded “let’s shoot him into space.”
Namor, King of Atlantis and hot in a speedo who was party to this conversation, says “No, don’t shoot him into space. because I know how these narratives work. He’ll come back and be really pissed. and for him in particular, making him really pissed is a bad idea.”
Iron Man, ever showing maturity, replies “No he won’t, doody head!” and proceeds to shoot hulk into space anyway without Namor’s help. which he didn’t really need, because He’s already got a space ship and billions of dollars.
The plan is to shoot him to a planet with no animal life, just a giant ball of lush jungle, where he can be mad all he wants, and it won’t matter.
but using these BRILLIANT MINDS CAPIBLE OF SUPERSCIENCE which are the sole reason we’re supposed to trust them as doing the right thing when whatever it is seems obviously wrong (see also: Civil War, Shooting Hulk into Space), they failed to take into account that Hulk’s ship might not get there. It hit a wormhole, and got taken to a messed up radiation planet, where Hulk’s awesome invulerability isn’t as good. So he gets there, and things hurt. which makes him assume (reasonably so) that they shot him into space to drop him somewhere to die, because there he CAN die.
Anyway, after much hooplah (Planet Hulk story arc), Hulk gets enslaved, thrown into Gladiator pits, makes friends with some awesome people, rebels, fights for a while, makes more friends, frees the planet from the tyranical rule of their jackass king, and due to right of conquest, gets made the NEW king, to rule in peace with his awesome friends and new wife: one of the new friends he made, a former assassin for the creepy king, was just about as powerful as hulk, and they had a mutual love and respect thing going on. Hulk and Caiera (her name) start trying to set up shop with a just regime with a constitutional monarchy and such, when that ship Hulk arrived on a year and change before had its nuclear engine explode (a “safety measure” so that if Hulk ever calmed down enough to turn back into banner, he can’t use his own SUPERSCIENCE to fix it and come home), pretty much destroying the planet, killing hundreds of thousands of Hulk’s Loyal Subjects, and Caiera and their unborn child heretofore unmentioned in my summary, but trust me, it came up earlier in the books.
Hulk is obviously angered by this. Here he is, after surviving attempted space-shuttle assasination, finally making a life for himself, and Iron Man goes and ruins it again, without even TRYING.
Hulk has his surviving bunch build a warship, and head for earth to fuck shit up.
Reading it, hoping for good, but expecting it to sink into hackery and stupidness after issue 3, just like Civil War.
I got laid *because* I like comics.
A Scott Summers poster does not count, Alara…
So, um…what’s going on in DC?
Damn you people! I will be in the comic book store before the weekend is out!
Please rest assured that you remain a god in my eyes, because I know not of which you speak, geek.
I have no love for Hulk. I do not have Hulk LJ icons for posting rants with. I never cry ‘HULK SMASH!’ in the middle of The Daily Show and pound on pillows in fury.
Never.
So, um…what’s going on in DC?
Didio has ruined wonder woman as a character by turning her Mother into a Lesbian version of George Bush in the Amazons Attack crossover (which is poorly organized and not too well hyped, so no one knows what’s going on)
Green Arrow gt cancelled, although everyone’s favorite Liberal Slut is getting a Year One miniseries which looks gorgeous. oh, and he’s marrying Black Canary, even though Winnick tried his hardest during his run to ruin that couple by not allowing Ollie to grow up and being the sleeziest manwhore imaginable.
New Justicle League book is kind of blaise, but the Justice Society is kicking ass and taking names.
52 ended, and with it probably the only time anyone has EVER seen a quality book for a hyped crossover delivered on time for a reasonable cost without having a whole bunch of hack work going on. (Wiki it. it was seriously good.) Countdown has started, but I’m behind, and haven’t read any of that yet.
Oh, and Sinestro, BIG Green Lantern Villian, has put together his own army of people armed with EVIL Green Lantern rings (well, Qwardian yellow rings, actually) and has assembled a force including pretty much every universe shattering entity the DCU has ever faced. Superboy Prime, Parallax, Anti-Monitor, hugeass army, oh and the Cyborg Superman for good measure. I’m not sure if it’s gonna be any good or not, but I’m hoping.
Oh, and Paul Dini, the guy that wrote the fantastic Batman Animated Series during the 90s (you know the one) has been writing Detective Comics for a few months now. I highly recommend picking it up.
Karpad, you left out the best book DC has going now: The Atom. Terrific combination of genuine science and Lovecraftian horror, the best supporting cast in comics (can’t get enough Head, if you know what I mean), an Asian superhero without all the Enter the Dragon cliches…check it out. We all know Ray Palmer’s coming back eventually, of course, but I’m in absolutely no hurry for it. Hopefully Ryan will get renamed “Micron” or whatever and stick around.
I snerked.
I also have no idea what this post is about, but I have to admit to being all about some comic books (though less superhero books — Ex Machina is the only superhero book I’ve read in forever). I’m planning to hit the comic book store today after getting a haircut. (Was really only planning on picking up my own copy of From Hell but we’ll see what happens.)
Btw, karpad, I don’t know how you feel about Korg, but there’s an interesting side story starting up in Front Line in which he and that one “Costume Division” detective investigate a murder together - cause, you know, if they don’t find the guy, Korg’s gonna kill him.
I for one am longing for the day that Hulk feeds Tony his armour. Basically, i think Marvel should just have a year of people beating the crap out of Tony.
Lessee.. Hulk, Thor, Bucky, Falcon, Luke Cage…..maybe all of the young avengers and the runaways…..
That, and on the DC side, i’m waiting to see wally beat the ever-loving SHIT out of Inertia.
Oh, and Amazons Attacks blows goats, because Dan Didio hates us.
Jo,
By my count, this is twice in the last two months that Tony has appeared to be dead, if Bendis weren’t such a pokey damn storyteller (big fan) we might know what the hell happened to him with Ultron before he got his ass kicked by Hulk.
That, and on the DC side, I’m waiting to see wally beat the ever-loving SHIT out of Inertia.
I think that was this past Wednesday’s, actually. title was “All Flash.”
And while I was annoyed at “Let’s age Bart and make him angsty and stupid” and I’m glad to have Wally back, I really don’t think killing him off for being handled poorly was a good option.
Btw, karpad, I don’t know how you feel about Korg, but there’s an interesting side story starting up in Front Line in which he and that one “Costume Division� detective investigate a murder together - cause, you know, if they don’t find the guy, Korg’s gonna kill him.
Admittedly, my favorite of the Warbound was Caiera (just because I knew Quesada was gonna toss her in the refrigerator doesn’t mean she was a poorly written character worthy of nothing but immediate death and not killing her would have been pretty ballsy and awesome but alas), right behind her is Hiroim (I’m convinced WWH will end when Hiroim proves he was in fact the Sakaarson, and will save the world by standing up to Hulk and dying in the process. Hulk feels remorse for fighting Hiroim and ends the war, Tony Stark again avoids responsibility for his actions, and Hiroim becomes a sort of Space Jesus. HE DIED FOR YOUR SINS, TONY.) those two, I’d read a solo book for ‘em. Next tier, Miek and No name and Korg, I’d read a group book for. Not particularly interested in the red people. (there are two of them, I think) but they could be support in the group book and I wouldn’t mind.
but my main marvel focus is on the new Annihilation series. I doubt Galactus will be in this one, which disappoints me. He and the Heralds are fucking awesome, I read almost anything with them. Also, I think Galactus and Stardust make a cute couple. Galacdust OTP!