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COMICS!!! |OT| January 2020 | A Barely-Thought-Out Depressoverse
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What X-Men development are you most looking forward to in 2020?
White: Continuing to flesh out this new X-World. We've announced a couple of new books, and we have a few more to announce yet. We've got a big X-Men crossover we're working on that I am pretty excited for. We've actually got some plans for next December that are really fun, if they come together the way we want them to.
Bissa: There are definitely some unannounced books that I'm dying to get out into the world, as well as storylines coming up in...all of the books I'm working on that are 100% wild. It's going to be a good year to be an X-Fan.
Robinson: You are about to meet your new favorite class of X-kids.
I hope Gabby is in the book Robinson is teasing.
White: Continuing to flesh out this new X-World. We've announced a couple of new books, and we have a few more to announce yet. We've got a big X-Men crossover we're working on that I am pretty excited for. We've actually got some plans for next December that are really fun, if they come together the way we want them to.
Bissa: There are definitely some unannounced books that I'm dying to get out into the world, as well as storylines coming up in...all of the books I'm working on that are 100% wild. It's going to be a good year to be an X-Fan.
Robinson: You are about to meet your new favorite class of X-kids.
I hope Gabby is in the book Robinson is teasing.
Hopefully if Kelly Thompson wrote an X-book, it would have Jubilee, Rogue, Gambit, and Trinary, because those are 4 characters stuck in a boring book. Actually, nevermind. Trinary isn't even being used anymore. She was Apoc's attendant in the first issue and then NEVER AGAIN.
You joke but I want this
Did anyone get that $5 off Marvel code from the CMX Unlimited Star Wars promo? Thought it was today, but I don't see the email, despite having read three star wars books from the list.
Are they finally gonna announce X-Corp
What, you don't like barry making poop jokes???
I mean, I'm not really much for poop jokes or Barry Allen individually. Fusing the two is like a Voltron of undesirability.
God, Snyder's Justice League is SO GOOD. I'm loving every second of it. Hoping to see an deluxe volume 2 soon.
🤔 (this is the resurrection issue)
Place your bets now, what is the shocking twist about resurrection? What makes Apocalypse so mad he smashes a stained glass painting of Nightcrawler?
Just finished the last few issues of WCA a few days ago (I didn't want to have it end so I kept them unread for a long time). I hope they give her something that lets her use a similar tone. WCA really did the best job of reminding me of the JLI comics I loved as a kid.
Oh man, now that you mention it that pic of Hulkling (right?) really looks like Jay Cutler.
It'll be Kyle. A) he's not doing much and B) King has already written him before.
see the fact that the Kyle panel is an explicit callback to The Omega Men would point me away from him, so my guess out of the 36 is Tommy Tomorrow, because I just checked his bio on wikipedia and he literally graduated from Space West Point and that's the kind of too on-the-nose by half shit that Tom King is way into, plus if you're gonna have a book about the rose-tinted vision of colonialism, the future space cop put in charge of an army of aliens from all over feels like bang on the theme
e: also the line in Heroes in Crisis sounds like the exact kind of formal exercise bullshit that Tom King loves to write, so again, it's the safe bet
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Messi has his statues, I have my displates
I've always wondered about the quality of these. I've seen Demon Slayer ones I liked.
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That's blatantly tracing someone and putting Hulkling shit on it.
So the book will start two blond, similar-looking white dudes?
Like, they're almost wholly cut from the same cloth that is feels like a waste.
What does Kyle add to the narrative?So the book will start two blond, similar-looking white dudes?
Like, they're almost wholly cut from the same cloth that is feels like a waste.
Kyle Rayner is very much not that. He is the contrast. He is not white, his life has never been the four-color punch em' up that Adam's has been. He's the voice of reason.
Tommy Tomorrow is literally just the same thing. So yeah, it'll probably be him as the most boring option.
I know who Kyle is lol. But what does Kyle's "voice of reason" add into a narrative about white men reckoning with colonialism and imperialism?
I feel like the fact that one of the first pieces of artwork revealed for the project is a defaced picture of Adam Strange would, in the hypothesis of Tommy Tomorrow co-starring, make the point/counterpoint of "the dream of colonialism", Adam Strange finding a home and love on Rann while having space adventures, versus "the reality of colonialism", Tommy Tomorrow telling a bunch of aliens what to do and making their lives worse.
Regarding the character, King said "We have hints. If you look closely at Heroes in Crisis and Mister Miracle and a little bit in Batman, you could figure it out."
If it's Kyle, how does that quote fit?
If it's Kyle, how does that quote fit?
I dunno if Kyle would add anything to the narrative lol, but hes still my number one pick for a compelling co-lead. Only because hes my favorite GL and doesnt get all that much to do in the books im reading.
It will be this Tommy Tomorrow person though. Never heard of him before, but that seems like the most likely.
Guess I could always just read Omega Men to get my Kyle fix.
It will be this Tommy Tomorrow person though. Never heard of him before, but that seems like the most likely.
Guess I could always just read Omega Men to get my Kyle fix.
I would like that a lot actually.
You don't think a Mexican American and former Omega Man might have something to do with colonialism and imperialism?
I'm just, throwing those things out there.
So the co-lead is the villain? Sure then.
No clue. How does Tommy Tomorrow fit any better?
Very interesting. I know Deadly Genesis gets a lot of flack, but I really enjoyed it and the resulting Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar storyline. Can't wait!
Second Coming #6 comes out today and (as far as I know) ends the series. It's been a real enjoyable ride so far and a lot more heartfelt than I thought it would be. Typical Russel zaniness.
My guess was always Booster, who is in all of those comics.
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I mean if we are putting all the hack writers in one Catwoman book...
My only guess was that it'd be Strange's wife Alanna, but they already confirmed she'd be included so it doesn't make sense she'd also be the main character. I think King's writing is better when it includes women in major roles. When it's largely just men it gets caught up in a lot of tropey masculinity garbo. Not really holding out much hope anymore.
The Tommy Tomorrow theory sounds right. Show one man directly benefitting from awfulness, show another strikingly similar man facing all of the consequences.
The Tommy Tomorrow theory sounds right. Show one man directly benefitting from awfulness, show another strikingly similar man facing all of the consequences.
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