Neat video. Interesting sound too - kind of a darker, less geeky Jonathan Coulton.
-Taibak
Wow. I uh.... wow. Is this something that was released with the intent being that people should listen to and enjoy it? Seems a bit more in line with Rancid's "Please play this song on the radio".
I disagree with retconning out the Kelly T-Ray stuff, though Nicieza offers an enormous amount of wiggle room for this, like the "Wade Anton Wilson" name, and the weird nature of T-Ray, and there's even a clue That This Is Malleable way back in issue #19.
I kinda wish he hadn't spent so much time on this, though, no matter how good it was. Far too often at points during the script I felt Nicieza was just metaficitionally whining.
Cable & Deadpool is kind of losing me a bit with these Deadpool issues. I know it makes me some kind of brain damaged fool but I've always rather liked Cable, and I've enjoyed what C&D has been doing with him. I like Deadpool as a co-star but not so much the main focus. The latest issue was also the weakest of the Deadpool focussed ones, which didn't help.
Alright, people, alright. Skottie Young didn't draw the flashback sequences in NEW X-MEN. You can stop e-mailing me now...
Personally I really liked the colouring on Loners and can see it filling a niche on the basis Young Avengers never comes out and New X-Men is for X-Men completists. New Warriors is the book I see floundering.
How does Loners tie in with the Registration Act, as surely it must do (given the premise of a recovery group for ex-heroes)? Or is it another case of Marvel not knowing what the Act is or does, so stories that should be associated either aren't, or are in the clumsiest way imaginable?
Out of interest, how well does Boy Who Made Silence convey deafness in what is essentially a silent medium?
Oh, and I quite liked the T-Ray/Wade Wilson revelations in those old Joe Kelly Deadpools. But then I was just getting back into comics at the time, and I haven't read them since, so I may be remembering them as better than they were.
I'm fully expecting New Warriors to sink like a rock, but part of me thinks it's going to be a book filled with the Young Avengers, On The Run, as it were.
Part of me just wants to see Grievoux succeed, at any rate. He's new. Someone on Jinxworld suggested Roger Stern as the new writer on Young Avengers, which made me laugh, a lot
That song is kind of mesmerizing. The music doesn't do too much for me, but as soon as that guy starts singing its like I have no choice but to listen to the whole thing. I like it.
New writer for Young Avengers? Have they booted Heinberg then? However much he messed up Wonder Woman, I hope he doesn't leave YA, as he's doing a great job there. And much as I like the book, I don't think I'd want it to be an ongoing with someone else at the helm. But then I'm beginning to think that a series-of-miniseries approach would be for the best in a lot of cases (Thor for one).
If the Young Avengers went on the run, then they'd be the Runways, wouldn't they?
I'm actually looking forward to New Warriors. It reminds me of the punk-ish kids from high school who had a vague idea of political and social dissatisfaction, then went about expressing it through forming an angry band and committing a lot of petty vandalism.
But now they have super-powers!
That's a side of anti-registration that actually has a fresh angle, and sounds fun.
Kelvin, in last weeks QNA thread on newsarama, Joe Q made the first indication, of sorts, that they would move Young Avengers ahead, with or without Heinberg. He's quite lucky with the New Warriors, Loners, Whedon's Runaways and the Initiative, there's no market for YA at the moment, and therefore, the book isn't being missed. For now.
Hey Paul,
Just a quick comment about Wolverine doubting evolution:
It makes absolute sense that Wolverine would be a bit of a skeptic when it comes to evolution. Look all around the Marvel universe you have humanoid intelligent creatures developing left, right and centre. On earth, you have mutants with totally different phenotypes appearing fully formed for no apparent reason, in response to no particular selective pressure.
In reality, most mutations are harmful. In the Marvel universe there are - or rather were - millions of feasible mutants. For there to be so many successful mutants, there should have been an increase of tens of millions of miscarriages in the Marvel universe.
The fact is that if mutants ever popped into existence in reality in the way the came about in the Marvel universe, it would not be proof of evolution, rather it would absolutely destroy every current theory of evolution. It would actually support intelligent design, and all those bloody retards that support ID today would be jumping up and down in delight!
I had to laugh when I read Joe Q's interview a couple of weeks ago where he said something to the effect of that mutation seemed like a feasible explanation for the development of superpowers today, but that it might not in 30 years time. The fact is that mutation only seems like a reasonable explanation for the development of superpowers because it only seems reasonable because of the way evolution is misrepresented in the media.
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