You joke but I want thisAkirasan: HEY KIDS, YOU WANT A NEW BOOK ABOUT YOUR FAV CHARACTER? NAH. HOW ABOUT X-TREME X-MEN?
X-MenSo I just read House of X/Powers of X and I loved it. But there's a lot of X-men comics right now. Which ones are worth reading or do I have to read all of them to follow the story?
What, you don't like barry making poop jokes???On the one hand, I'm super into it, but on the other hand, Oliver was like one character that I really didn't like Bendis' voice for. He sounded really immature and dickish and unintelligent. Him, Barry, and Ray Palmer are two characters that Bendis has written that don't sound right.
I mean, I'm not really much for poop jokes or Barry Allen individually. Fusing the two is like a Voltron of undesirability.
It was absolutely amazing, pure fanservice
Oh man, now that you mention it that pic of Hulkling (right?) really looks like Jay Cutler.I can't unsee the models that Dekal draws/copies in every piece. It was pointed out to me and that's all I see now. He draws a fitness model or some shit and then puts some of the character attributes over it lol.
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 themeIt'll be Kyle. A) he's not doing much and B) King has already written him before.
Oh man, now that you mention it that pic of Hulkling (right?) really looks like Jay Cutler.
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
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.
Fantastic quality, pictures don't do em justiceI've always wondered about the quality of these. I've seen Demon Slayer ones I liked.
"Adam Strange is one of a long line of characters—like Tarzan and Flash Gordon, stolid men with dimpled chins who thrive in 'foreign lands'—who stand in as a metaphor for a 19th century European dream of colonialism," said King. "Of course, colonialism was nothing like this dream, and it's that contrast that interests me: the bloody gap between the myth and the reality."
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?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 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.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 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 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?
So the co-lead is the villain? Sure then.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?
Empyre gets a Hick-Men tie-in. Other tie-in titles to be announced later this week.
My guess was always Booster, who is in all of those comics.