I like Mariko Tamaki. It looks fairly stand-alone and unlikely to be something other writers would care about for continuity, though, so I don't know if it's worth picking up.
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I'm sure she's written a comic that kirk5s hate.
Even though he never read it? Mariko Tamaki has really raised her comic book profile the past couple of years. She is taking over Batman at DC and still producing stuff for Marvel; and I imagine she is still working on her independent stuff as well.
I really liked her She-Hulk run that explored depression and anxiety really well.
She turned She-Hulk into Bruce Banner's dumb Hulk form, but with lady parts. That lead into jason Aaron continuing the assassination of She-Hulk by keeping her a literal "Hulk Smash" Hulk, which is literally antithetical to her whole existence. Tamaki is a worthless asshole who should never be allowed to write anything, and I'll never read anything that hack writes.
I'm sure if you don't give a shit about the character, you might find something to like in it. But its an in name only "She-Hulk" run, and actual fans of the character, not just me, aren't particularly fond of the run/writer that, to this day, ruined She-Hulk.
Man, I should have played the lotto.
Tamaki's She-Hulk and Aaron's She-Hulk are very different characters in most ways and her story wasn't about a simple Hulk who just says "Hulk Smash." Her She-Hulk was less controllable than typical, but not in the way you're describing.
The Black Knight will be getting a new series, Black Knight: Curse of The Ebony Black, starting in March. It's being written by Simon Spurrier, who's also writing the King in Black: Black Knight book, and will be the Marvel debut of artist Sergio Davila.
This is an amended cross post from another thread :
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/jds-comic-book-thread.143589/page-68#post-13644932
For courtesy 's sake it would probably be better to direct any comments over there, but as it's generally Marvel related I thought it might get more attention here.
It started off with a post about the big crossover "events" which seem to have become much more common.
I replied t hat I had read Secret Wars back when it came out in 1985 and that since I got back into reading Marvel a few years ago I've read many of the recent-ish events.
Secret Invasion didn't appeal, and neither did Infinity War, Seige, Avengers vs X Men or House Of M.
Civil War was good, as was, surprisingly. Secret Wars (2015). Civil War II was diminishing returns, Infinity and Axis weren't exactly great and neither was War Of The Realms.
Secret Empire I don't think was that good, but I did enjoy it.
The first Spiderverse crossover event was damned good ! The second inevitably less so.
Iron Man 2020 (which is listed as an "event") was a steaming pile of garbage, and that's being charitable.
I'm not liking X Of Swords and King In Black doesn't exactly appeal.
I'm pretty burned out on them, there are too many and they're not exactly great, but what are your ratings of them ?
https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/jds-comic-book-thread.143589/page-68#post-13644932
For courtesy 's sake it would probably be better to direct any comments over there, but as it's generally Marvel related I thought it might get more attention here.
It started off with a post about the big crossover "events" which seem to have become much more common.
I replied t hat I had read Secret Wars back when it came out in 1985 and that since I got back into reading Marvel a few years ago I've read many of the recent-ish events.
Secret Invasion didn't appeal, and neither did Infinity War, Seige, Avengers vs X Men or House Of M.
Civil War was good, as was, surprisingly. Secret Wars (2015). Civil War II was diminishing returns, Infinity and Axis weren't exactly great and neither was War Of The Realms.
Secret Empire I don't think was that good, but I did enjoy it.
The first Spiderverse crossover event was damned good ! The second inevitably less so.
Iron Man 2020 (which is listed as an "event") was a steaming pile of garbage, and that's being charitable.
I'm not liking X Of Swords and King In Black doesn't exactly appeal.
I'm pretty burned out on them, there are too many and they're not exactly great, but what are your ratings of them ?
I'm loving X of Swords (but I've been a Hickman fan since his Fantastic Four days, and thus predictably enjoyed Infinity and Secret Wars as well), enjoyed Empyre (I appreciate the use of all the previous continuity), found War of the Realms meh (but then I'm not reading Aarons Thor), enjoyed Secret Wars (and Secret Wars 2; sue me) as a kid, appreciated Kree/Skrull War, Contest of Champions and the Avengers/Defenders War to varying degrees when I got the trades much later, hated Civil War (haven't read CW2, but can't see enjoying that one either) and AvX (both just stupid "mash up action figures" stories that tended to throw characters under the bus), loved Infinity War (the Marvel Crisis on Infinite Earths, and not just because of the delightful Perez art), found the two sequels had...diminishing returns (to put it nicely), found World War Hulk meh (but then I hadn't read Planet Hulk), thought Original Sin had interesting ramifications, but found the actual story meh, same with Axis (though meh there might be overly charitable), liked the random issues of Galactic Storm and Acts of Vengeance I've read, found Age of Apocalypse a convoluted mess (odd considering it had Waid and others I like working on it), thought some of the results in DC Vs Marvel were ridiculous (predictably given the voting) but enjoyed it despite the issues, loved JL Vs Avengers, enjoyed Annihilation (though I only have the main series), liked the time travel fallout of Age of Ultron but found the actual story largely forgettable, liked Standoff (though it reminded me that comic book Maria Hill is far harder to like than movie Maria Hill, in case I'd forgotten since Civil War), Phoenix Sagas status as a classic is well deserved, loved No Surrender and the other Avengers event by that team. Those are all the ones I've read that I can think of off the top of my head. I'm not sure if confined events like On More Day (shudder) or Armor Wars (well done) belong here. I haven't read House of M, IM2020, Secret Empire, Monsters Unleashed, Spider Island, Spiderverse, Atlantis Attacks (old or new), Siege, Secret Invasion, Onslaught, Heroes Reborn, War of Kings, Silent War, Inhumans Vs X-Men, Fear Itself, etc... I have the first two issues of King in Black waiting in my bag but haven't got them yet.
I've read one or two more of the ones you list.
Yeah, I like Hickman - read through his FF run, Avengers and Secret Wars and really, REALLY enjoyed them. Still don't like X of Swords. Not one bit.
Instead of being occasional big deal events, they're running one into another now and to be honest, getting in the way. I could probably forgive that if they were...better, but they're normally an interruption without contribution. A reason to insert something into all the titles that doesn't really justify it's intrusion.
They must boost sales, they wouldn't keep doing them otherwise, but...
Yeah, I like Hickman - read through his FF run, Avengers and Secret Wars and really, REALLY enjoyed them. Still don't like X of Swords. Not one bit.
Instead of being occasional big deal events, they're running one into another now and to be honest, getting in the way. I could probably forgive that if they were...better, but they're normally an interruption without contribution. A reason to insert something into all the titles that doesn't really justify it's intrusion.
They must boost sales, they wouldn't keep doing them otherwise, but...
Events at Marvel have been going on annually for twenty years now, and you're right that it made it difficult to follow any one character's story. In the 00's there were at least House of M, Avengers Disassembled, Civil War, Hulk Attacks New York, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign--then I got tired. I remember that in some of those events, X-Men would be in multiple locations at the same time.
They've announced a new X-Men series that will be part of The Reign of X, The Way of X. It stars a group including, Nightcrawler, Pixie, Blink, and Dr. Nemesis, as they "assemble to confront the dark mysteries of the X-Men's new way of life".
The second issue of the Curse of Man-Thing will be Spider-Man: Curse of the Man-Thing", featuring Spider-Man and The Lizard.
The second issue of the Curse of Man-Thing will be Spider-Man: Curse of the Man-Thing", featuring Spider-Man and The Lizard.
While Mavel doesn't need another Hickmanverse X-book, its nice to see Pixie again. For awhile during matt fraction's run she was being treated like the new Shadowcat/Jubilee, aka a young mutant who gets a fairly big role with the main X-Men, but after that she basically just became one of the background cameo mutants. So, its nice to see her get a role in one of the ongoing books. Now, if only the Young X-Men/New X-Men and Generation Hope mutants could get regular speaking roles again
I'm looking forward to reading all these stories for free in ten years on Marvel Unlimited when I catch up on my X-Men read through from the beginning. I was actually reading some of these books in real time until they did a crossover that said you needed everything.Oh good, the 20 X books currently out weren't enough.
Once I'm done with Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, I plan on jumping forward to the Hickman stuff. They've got Power/House and at least the first trade of each of the Dawn titles on Hoopla, so I can read them all for free. I've been following along on the Marvel website, and Io9 and what I've read sounds pretty good.
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