World War Hulk

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Heh, I can understand how you work with subscribing. Truthfully, I don't subscribe to any...I just make a weekly trek to the local comic shop. Course, I only do this because I'm not completely sure how much cash I'll have on hand from week to week so my pulls can fluctuate.

And don't talk about Ultimates 2. Please. Ugh, that was just maddening. It wasn't BAD but the delays and then the sudden "I'll be out next week!" was just a bit too much for me. Only Ultimate line I really follow anymore is Ultimate Spiderman, which is everything that's great about Spidey and then some. But oh, I miss Bagley already.

 

[Vigilance]

Weekly trip to the comic store, even a monthly one, is too much dedication for me. Also, I can read a comic in like 15 minutes. It rarely feels worth the effort.

Besides the 4 I'm subbed to now, the only other comics I've subbed too recently were Ultimates 2 (big mistake) and Astonishing X-Men (which was 18 flavors of doubleplus awesome).

On the trade side, I am fully addicted to the Marvel Essentials. I have 5 Avengers Essentials, 1 Iron Man, 1 Wolverine and 6 X-Men.

They're cheap, I don't give a damn what happens to them and I get like 500 pages of reading that will last me a week or two anyway.

 

[RichCsigs]

So why didn't the nanobots work on the Hulk?

SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS

Spoiler

One of the initiative kids was bribed into getting a hold of one of the needles with nanobots in them (Pym had them for some reason) for some bad guys (I want to say AIM) and replace it with a dummy. Guess which one Stark fired into the Hulk.

Off topic, how does one do the spoilers with the little tab button instead of the way I did it?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Off topic, how does one do the spoilers with the little tab button instead of the way I did it?

[ sblock ] [ /sblock] without the spaces.

 

[Richards]

Cool - Thanks for the info, RichCsigs.

Johnathan

 

[Felon]

No need to get wound up about it mate. I just happen to intensely dislike Bendis' writing of late and his handling of some characters in the Marvel Universe. His dialogue (which many people will defend as hip and realistic :\ ) is cheesy and forced, and nothing compared to what Alan Moore could do. His characterization of some Marvel heroes has been some of the worst I've seen (check out the aforementioned Illuminati for an example). He has reputation as Marvel's top scribe which I think is totally undeserving (that honor I reserve for Ed Brubaker).

That's all a pretty good summation of why Bendis is overrated. He's part of the big decompression trend that makes superhero comics so insanely boring to read these days. Superheroes don't actually fight anyone anymore, it seems. They just stand around trading quips.

That's why WWH is such a breath of fresh air. It does a decent job of delivering, although they pulled that crap with Hulk and Black Bolt where they cut away right as the action's about to start and then cut back once it's all over (apparently, the actual action is a triviality; they're doing us a favor by sparing us the dull details).

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

That's all a pretty good summation of why Bendis is overrated. He's part of the big decompression trend that makes superhero comics so insanely boring to read these days. Superheroes don't actually fight anyone anymore, it seems. They just stand around trading quips.

I'd say Ultimate Spiderman, Mighty and New Avengers are full of action...ESPECIALLY Mighty Avengers. All of the issues that have come out so far are entirely action, with only short cuts away. And its GOOD.

New Avengers is a good deal of talk, but Bendis writes the dialogue WELL. And there is definitely action.

Ultimate Spidey...a lot of talk there, but it fits for Spidey and Bendis nails teenager dialogue while keeping the fun mid-fight jokes that Spidey is all about.

That's why WWH is such a breath of fresh air. It does a decent job of delivering, although they pulled that crap with Hulk and Black Bolt where they cut away right as the action's about to start and then cut back once it's all over (apparently, the actual action is a triviality; they're doing us a favor by sparing us the dull details).

...despite all I just said, I do love how WWH just jumps straight into the action and is practically all fighting the entire issue each issue. I enjoy good writing and dialogue and what a lot of people consider 'slow' comics, but its nice to turn that around and just get some good old fashioned superhero destruction.

 

[horacethegrey]

That's all a pretty good summation of why Bendis is overrated. He's part of the big decompression trend that makes superhero comics so insanely boring to read these days. Superheroes don't actually fight anyone anymore, it seems. They just stand around trading quips.

The last point is one of the main reasons why I can't stand Bendis. It seems every character in a issue he writes is trying their hardest to be a stand up comic. Never mind using dialog to show character, for Bendis it seems dialog is all about wisecracks and inane thoughts. :\

 

[Vigilance]

Bendis' characters get their talk on fo sho, but I like that for two reasons: 1) it's really GOOD dialog, funny and quirky in a Whedonesque sort of way and 2) the characters don't all sound alike.

I can tell the difference between the way Bendis writes, say, Daredevil and the way he writes Spider-Man.