20 Questions For You All For the 1/5 Comic Week
I am sure there are some spoilers involved in the following 20 questions. Feel free to answer or not - some of them ARE rhetorical, after all...
1. Now let me tell you, there will be no judging here, so be honest: Who was happy to see Araña die in Marvel Team-Up #16?
2. I can't be the only one who found this issue morbidly amusing, can I?
3. Aeon Flux #4 came out this week. What is the best comic adaptation of a movie that you have read?
4. Can you think of any decent female supervillain that I left off my list?
5. Did you know that Marc (Backlash) Slayton is apparently immortal, and has lived for thousands of years?
6. If so, was that ALWAYS part of his back story? I do not know how I did not recall. I wonder if Ed Brubaker knew that about him...
7. Am I the only one who thinks that, if you make every Spider-Man Unlimited story "offbeat," then it no longer really IS "offbeat"?
8. Did the 198 Files have 198 mutants in it? If not, what's up with THAT?
9. What do you think Ethan Harrow's superpowers appear like to the other people in Hard Time?
10. Why do YOU think there are so many interracial relationships in comic books?
11. So I'm reading Spider-Girl #94, and while I realize that Frasier made a very good showing by exploiting the whole "Everyone saying exactly what (and basically ONLY what) would NOT resolve the situation normally" routine, I can't be the only one who is not a fan of that routine normally, can I?
12. What is the coolest Batman action figure that you have seen?
13. Claremont has a character saying, "Bored now," Byrne has a demon who can only attack other demons, when will Terry Austin come out with a book where people all curse in Chinese? All kidding aside, I think Byrne's "Etrigan can only kill bad people" idea is a good one for the book.
14. How weird was Quicksilver and Crystal getting married? I mean, talk about out of left field!
15. Now, first let me say that I thought that Mythos: X-Men was actually pretty darn good. However, can anyone explain to me the point of having ANOTHER alternate take on the X-Men? Says the solicitation - " Filled with new detail and nuance, the MYTHOS books are also the perfect starter set for those readers new to the Marvel cast of characters, or to those who known them only from movies and television cartoons!" But if you were ACTUALLY just joining the party from watching the movies or TV shows (which is what I THOUGHT the point of Mythos was), then how would a retelling of 1963's X-Men #1 be accessible at ALL, really? Now, if the answer is "It was just a reason to let Paul Jenkins write some cool stories," then I'd be okay with that. But I just don't get it if this was supposed to somehow bring in new readers, because it really ain't all that accessible to viewers of the movie and/or TV show.
LIGHTNING ROUND!!!
16. Who was a less terrible member of the Fantastic Four? Lyja or Ms. Marvel?
17. Sable or Fortune? Who do you choose?
18. Atlanta Hawks home game or Supreme Power: Nighthawk - Which is more depressing?
19. Ellis' making Tony Stark an "Iron Man" - Like it or no?
20. Who's your favorite Shadowpact member?
posted by Brian Cronin @ 6:15 AM
3 Comments:
1. The icing on the cake was Terror, Inc putting her remains to good use.
2. Man, those are some gay lookin' costumes.
3. Er... AF wasn't an adaptation, it was a prologue. But since you asked, Probableee... hold on, I'm thinking. Ummmm... Gee. I think... Oh yeah! Macchio and Sienkewicz's Dune from 1984.
4. Joystick? Okay, that was reaching.
7. No, you're not. But I like the book anyway.
9. A G-G-G-G-GHOST!
10. A lot of the current writers remember the Storm/Forge relationship fondly, I think.
11. Well, it's a Tom DeFalco comic. What did you expect?
13. Hey, Whedon owes everything to Chris C. With all the good and bad that implies.
14. Wha-wha-wha-WHAAAAAAAAAA??? Do you mean remarried?
15. And aside from that, viewers of the movie/and/or TV show wouldn't bother going in a comic shop before they'd bother going into a borders. And besides, didn't Joe Casey do this already with Children of the Atom?
16. Lyja. Ms. Marvel II was cool until she Thinged out, though. Englehart tackling issues in the 80s was embarassing.
17. Sable.
18.Nighthawk, since it depresses me that even Way, spotty track record that he has, could turn out something so homophobic, misogynistic, and slow even for him.
It's still preferable to Supreme Power proper, though.
19. It's fine, though I'm certain it will be ignored by Millar for Civil War, and the Knaufs when their run starts.
4 months for an origin retelling virtually identical to Byrne or Busiek's? Fuck off and die, Ellis.
20. Did Witchfire join in that special? I'd pick her, because Willingham bounced Nightshade- why does this guy hate assertive heroines so much? And why do readers continue to ignore that?
Dan, I don't think Nightshade was bounced from the team ... I think she was kidnapped by Alexander and Superboy Primevil to be used to power their big machine with J'onn, Ray, etc.
"In all of comics history you came up with 6 examples."
6 examples out of, what, 9 prominent black heroes.
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