Comments on: Comic Book Gallimaufry: Because Potpourri Is For The Ladies

By: Pedro Bouça

Pedro Bouça — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:25:53 +0000

Why would Fantomex need to be on X-Men when he is such an amazing solo character? He could be Marvel’s Diabolik!

(Don’t know who Diabolik is? Search the internet!)

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

By: JasonF

JasonF — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:20:30 +0000

“So, because he killed off a character you like, he’s a terrible writer. Does that mean Chris Claremont sucks for killing off Jean way back when?”

No Jean’s death was cool. It wasn’t lame “I will ride a space bullet into the sun and you guys just chill here and don’t try to save me” I am all for character death if it makes a good story but this story was lame. And that was only the end of what I thought was a series of sub-par story telling. After the initial giddiness of wow they brought back Colossus I didn’t really enjoy the whole story with SWORD and going into space to fight a world of war-loving aliens. Plus all of the sudden every character in Astonishing became a master of witty one-liners and comebacks. The kind of character interaction that I loved so much in Firefly kind of annoyed me in this run because it didn’t feel fresh or sometimes didn’t seem to fit the character.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:07:56 +0000

Cypher popped up just last week: *spoilers*

He’s some sort of zombie in the “X-Necrosha” books.

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:14:28 +0000

Is Cypher alive now? Or are you resurrecting him? I kind of liked the fact that his death lasted, as least for as long as I read mutant books regularly. (They could’ve brought him back several times in the ’90s for all I know.) I don’t like how characters get resurrected so much. If I were in charge, I’d keep all the dead people dead– except for Kitty and the Wasp. The people responsible for those deaths would be banned from comics forever.
Cypher was an okay character, but not that great. He did interact well with Warlock. The only problem is I hate Warlock.
I think if I were in charge of the X-Men, I would shrink the team down, to no more than seven or eight people. Like in the old days. (The others could still drop by and help out now and then.) Don’t you all agree that it would be good to have Wolverine gone, so that he would have time to do the stuff he does with all the other teams he’s in, and all his solo stuff?
And of course, once most of the X-Men have left and the team is down to a manageable size, the ones remaining would all be girls. That’s right, an all-female X-Men, just like we know Claremont wanted all along.
And it would go two or three issues, at least, between battles. Lots of personal life-type stuff. And slumber parties.

By: Nitz the Bloody

Nitz the Bloody — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:51:51 +0000

” I hate Joss Whedon. I though Astonishing X-Men was lame and giant space bullets even lamer. Why bring back one of the most loved X-Men only to kill off an even more loved X-Man. How long can he cling to Firefly and write terrible comics and still get love. ”

So, because he killed off a character you like, he’s a terrible writer. Does that mean Chris Claremont sucks for killing off Jean way back when?

By: Tekende

Tekende — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:25:37 +0000

Why is Cyclops not on your list of X-Men? What the hell, man. You can’t have the X-Men without Cyclops.

By: tk.

tk. — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:18:47 +0000

Who Would Be On The X-Men If I Ran Marvel: A steady cast for more than two consecutive issues, dammit. Also, Rogue.

By: BRIAN

BRIAN — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:13:41 +0000

i THOUGHT IT WAS JUST KITTY RIDING A GIANT DICK

MY BAD.

CHEERS,

By: Sijo

Sijo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:04:03 +0000

Your X-Men list works for me. Though you might need to change the title to Legion of Mutant Heroes.

None of the TV shows would work as comics, tho.

By: Chad Nevett

Chad Nevett — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:55:04 +0000

So, now I’ve been compared to Edge AND Dusty Rhodes? Brad, you sweet talker you…

Kind of surprised to see you mention doing wrestling comics after the history of absolutely horrendous wrestling comics that have been done, but… hey, why not give it another shot?

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:00:57 +0000

Buffy didn’t get at least a 6-issue reprieve from you with the most recent ish’s SGT. FURY cover homage? For shame. (Or maybe you got the other cover …)

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:41:48 +0000

“Old Man Logan” started out fun-summer-movie, but ended up depressingly violent. Not just too violent (although it was for my tastes), but the violence in the final chapter was very grim. I think Millar & McNiven tried for over-the-top “fun” violence, but the Giant-Sized issue seemed to wallow in it in a way that made me never want to look at or read the comic again.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:22:24 +0000

I think if you go into Old Man Logan looking for a summer blockbuster action movie extravaganza like Transformers or G.I. Joe, you’ll like it. If you go in looking for a character-driven indie roadtrip film with Hawkeye and Wolverine as John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph in Away We Go, you’ll hate it.

Veronica Mars would be fantastic as a comic book, if for no other reason than my wife would start reading them. Approach it like Dini’s first year on Detective Comics (mostly done-in-one, with a couple two-parters) and you’d have a marginal hit. Put a great writer on board and you’d sell even more copies.

Big Bang Theory would also make a hilariously meta comic, like Dan Slott’s She-Hulk. Probably would sell just as well, though, and that’s why it would never happen. Hey, remember when Marvel did that Mad Dog comic that tied into that Bob Newhart TV show about Bob Newhart being an old comic book writer? It’d be waaaay better than that, and they could work it into an episode of the TV series.*

* I had to go search Wikipedia for “Bob” in the middle of that paragraph just to verify that I didn’t imagine the whole thing. It really happened!

By: JasonF

JasonF — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:10:18 +0000

I hate Joss Whedon. I though Astonishing X-Men was lame and giant space bullets even lamer. Why bring back one of the most loved X-Men only to kill off an even more loved X-Man. How long can he cling to Firefly and write terrible comics and still get love.

By: Marcus Foote

Marcus Foote — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:53:27 +0000

Venture Brothers NEEDS a comic book series as long as it’s handled by the creators of the show. It’d make waiting between seasons (and now half-seasons… damn you, BSG, for starting this trend!!!) somewhat less painful.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:33:18 +0000

Glee would not make a good comic. Don't get me wrong, I loves me some Glee, but, as you may have noticed, Glee is sort of about singing which is hard to capture in a medium without sound. I find it hard anyone watches Glee for its brilliant characterisation and plot. Just writing out song lyrics is not going to work.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:23:47 +0000

I like all of the following shows:
Arrested Development
The Venture Brothers
The Craig Ferguson Show
The Office
30 Rock

The following shows are terrible:
Family Guy
Attack of the Show (mainly because of Kevin Pereireireieireira)

I haven’t seen any of the other stuff. You’re probably right that I didn’t state my opinions so aggressively when I was 16, because, well, I was 16. But, if you remember, when I posted on the X-Boards as Madman Dan, I divided the posters into factions based on which book they preferred and then pitted them against each other. I also got into posting battles with Jean Grey and such.

The difference is that now I don’t waste my time having arguments on message boards. I read as I please, say my piece, then usually move right along. I think this way is better.

By: Nitz the Bloody

Nitz the Bloody — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:37:49 +0000

I think it helps to evaluate Buffy Season Eight not as a continuation of the show so much as a franchise superhero comic set in the Whedonverse. On those grounds, it’s well above the current industry average, due to that Whedon brand of self-referential humor mixed with gender representation issues and emotional brutality. But it’s not a true Buffy Season Eight, because Buffy was very unique for the medium of TV.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:37:49 +0000

I like wrestling too, but would you really read a comic about it. I don’t think it’d translate well.