[Marvel Zombies] Parker + MJ

[TheLe]

How messed up is THIS?

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January 2007 - Diamond Select Toys has announced a new addition to their Marvel Milestones statue series:

MARVEL MILESTONES ZOMBIE SPIDER-MAN & MARY JANE STATUE

From the best-selling Marvel Zombies mini-series comes this horror-filled interpretation of what can only be called the wedding of the century! This nine-inch statue, based on the cover of Marvel Zombies #5, was sculpted by Rudy Garcia and is limited to 2,000 pieces – each featuring a hand-numbered base with matching box and Certificate of Authenticity.

SRP $125.00



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[Klaus]

Marvel Zombies is one of the most atrocious ideas to come from Marvel since Joe Quesada became EiC.

 

[TheLe]

Marvel Zombies is one of the most atrocious ideas to come from Marvel since Joe Quesada became EiC.

I dunno. I think "Avengers Disassembled" was pretty awful. What a ripoff...

`Le

 

[Klaus]

Yeah, but Marvel Zombies is just damaging to their own properties. It's like Marvel is willingly pushing away potential new readers by putting out such revolting imagery. Imagine a potential fan wanting to try a Spiderman comic after watching Spidey I, II or III, then going to a comic store and seeing Spiderman holding a half-eaten Mary Jane on a cover... yeesh!

 

[ByteRynn]

Hurting? I think fans will look at the rotting zombie cover and think, "I can have both Spider-man AND zombie fun? AWESOME!"

I think Marvel Zombies has been great, and I have not seen anything to disuade me from purchasing anything with the Marvel Zombies logo on it.

 

[TheLe]

Yeah, but Marvel Zombies is just damaging to their own properties. It's like Marvel is willingly pushing away potential new readers by putting out such revolting imagery. Imagine a potential fan wanting to try a Spiderman comic after watching Spidey I, II or III, then going to a comic store and seeing Spiderman holding a half-eaten Mary Jane on a cover... yeesh!

I dunno about that. I think "the clones of spider-man" and "5 Jim Lee X-men #1 covers" did far more damage to Marvel than a miniseries on zombies.

And honestly, comics have moved away from being "for kids" long ago. The death of the "comics code" is just one example of what I mean.

I do see where you are going with this though -- this particular statue is quite terrifying and may be slightly beyond "good taste" if the comic store owner decides to put it on display. But I think the "Marvel Zombies" concept isn't any worse than other comics I see on the shelf today.

`Le

 

[WayneLigon]

Nothing bad can come of more zombies. There will probably be more after the Marvel Zombies/Army of Darkness crossover.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Nothing bad can come of more zombies. There will probably be more after the Marvel Zombies/Army of Darkness crossover.

Which will be amazing.

Really, I can't see the trashing of Marvel Zombies. It is so hilariously great! I mean...its...zombies!

 

[AFGNCAAP]

IIRC, AFAIK, the whole Marvel Zombies thing is just another reality in the Marvel multiverse; there was an Ultimate FF issue where Doom got the zombie FF to fight the Ult. FF.

I think they're just trying to play on the popularity of zombie flicks, overall. It'll work for a while, then I suspect it'll be played out & it'll lay by the wayside for the most part, only to be dredged up every once in a while in various books.

I can even accept the big changes going on in Marvel via Civil War & all that. But IMHO, there's something else that's killing Marvel.

Bad continuity + frequent late releases/delays. Last issue of Ultimates 2 isn't out `til March. Characters dead in one book show up alive in another, in a point of time after their deaths, with no reference/mention/acknowledgement of said deaths.

Don't care about how much big name talent's in their corner. Heck, sometimes it feels like these issues came about/became worse in order for Marvel to cater to said big-name talent.

 

[TheLe]

I can even accept the big changes going on in Marvel via Civil War & all that.

I think Civil War too will hurt Marvel, just as the House of M did. Civil War started out great, but it is starting to suck in all sorts of way and is becoming less and less believable. Don't forget the blatant attempt to bring back Captain Marvel. And the shock value of "Peter Parker is Spiderman" unmasking is going to be BAD for the spider-man books in the long run. It totally breaks 40+ years of continuity, which is a bad idea. Almost as bad as telling long time readers that the Peter Parker you have been reading is really a clone.

`Le