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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 2354172" data-attributes="member: 4090">There's a Marvel continuity? Really? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />(Sorry, I'm a bitter Marvel Zombie who dislikes the "No Continuity" strategem that has been more or less in place since Quesada took over as EIC. Continuity can be a pain, yes, and it has gotten out of hand at times at Marvel, but there are writers who demonstrate that it can be handled in a very efficient and non-disruptive manner- Dan Slott, Christopher Priest, Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza...)To catch up on the Avengers, aside from the "New" Avengers and the Young Avengers (and I'll echo the sentiment that YA is a really good book), the Great Lakes Avengers (remember those guys?) have tried to pick up where the Avengers left off after disbanding, and are currently starring in their own hilarious (and somewhat sad) limited series, written by Dan Slott. Great, funny book. I highly recommend picking it up.I think it's going to turn out to be Jack "Nomad" Monroe, despite seeming evidence to the contrary.His "clone", the often underrated Beta Ray Bill, recently finished his own limited series (Stormbreaker: The Saga of Beta Ray Bill), which started out great, then fizzled badly. BRB is currently stuck with a human alter ego on earth (shades of Donald Blake?), and his people the Korbinites have mostly been killed off... again.Yeah, Mac Gargan is currently the "new" Venom (why Venom doesn't look like Mac's Scorpion outfit, I don't know. I'd prefer that look to the Secret Wars Spidey costume with massive overbite and tongue look.) I think Eddie Brock is still alive (ie, he hasn't been shown dead on panel), but it's strongly implied that his cancer killed him. There's also a new Scorpion (some teenage girl) running around now.Yeah, Reed happened to whip up a "power-reversal-frazzamataztic-wonkotron" and fixed things. Also, despite Galactus' "humanizing", he appears to have somehow returned to his World-Eater guise. At least, according to editor Tom Brevoort, who has said that the Stormbreaker limited series (which has Galactus in it, though for no discernable reason) takes place *after* the Galactus/FF story arc. Who knows though; back to my opening statement, continuity at Marvel these days is terrible. The left hand not only seems to not know what the right hand is up to, but it's off having a holiday in Cancun and holding a margarita.Don't even get me started on what a mess the "reboot/relaunch" of Black Panther has done to the continuity of that character. Sigh, I miss Priest.It's back to normal, now. Peter David, he of the 12 year Hulk run (and the best incarnation of the Hulk, IMO, the Merged Hulk), is back on the title, for an indefinite period of time. Bruce Jones turned the Hulk into a "David Banner on the run" type of series, and introduced all kinds of wonky continuity issues (the Absorbing Man was possessing people's bodies?!?!?). Peter David jumped back on with his recently completed "Tempus Fugit" arc, in which is was revealed that Nightmare had created a little nightmarish paradise on the waking world, and was manipulating the hearts and minds of the world populace, including the Hulk. The beauty of the arc (aside from it just being an interesting story), was that it allows readers to decide for themselves just how much/little of the recent Hulk runs were and were not legitimate, and which were just nightmares, without outright invalidating any of them.In any case, the Hulk is back in (IMO) good hands, and Peter David is going to be returning to some interesting themes (possibly a reimagining of his Maestro/Future Imperfect concept) with the upcoming House of M tie-in. Plus, the current Hulk, while seemingly not my favorite Merged Hulk, at least isn't the dumb-as-dirt "Hulk Smash" version.Like the Black Panther. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />If only they'd ignore more than treat them like dirt or kill them. A good place to ask questions and catch up is at <a href="http://www.comicboards.com" target="_blank">Alvaro's Comic Boards</a></blockquote>

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