Re: The Defenders

by MajorHoy Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:52 am

Lucy McGough wrote:Some birds can sleep while flying.

But how would they mate and raise the eggs until they hatch?

by Lucy Ingram Wed Jul 30, 2014 10:10 am

Oh. Yeah. Good point.

Swallows and that have nests built under the eaves of houses, but they still never touch the ground. And they probably mate while flying.

by **tony ingram** Wed Jul 30, 2014 11:01 am

That sounds utterly exhausting.

by Lucy Ingram Wed Jul 30, 2014 11:22 am

Superman and Wonder Woman did it...

by MajorHoy Thu Jul 31, 2014 1:05 am

Lucy McGough wrote:Superman and Wonder Woman did it...

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by Lucy Ingram Thu Jul 31, 2014 10:06 am

by MajorHoy Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:41 pm

That's not necessarily "sex" . . . that's just P.D.A. with a little bondage thrown in . . . nothing they couldn't show on The Teletubbies or some other kiddy TV crap aimed at pre-pre-schoolers. Not nearly as suggestive as (hide your eyes if you're easily offended! Shocked

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by Lucy Ingram Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:13 pm

Wait... every time "he protests" before eventually giving in? Is Catwoman date-raping Batman?

Also, the human torso does not look like that. Even if you're Batman.

by **tony ingram** Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:35 pm

Where is Catwoman keeping her internal organs these days? There doesn't appear to be room for them in her torso...

by Lucy Ingram Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:43 pm

She also looks kinda skinny for a woman who spends her nights swinging from rooftops. Shouldn't she be all muscular, like Wonder Woman or Jessica Ennis-Hill?

by **tony ingram** Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:44 pm

Lucy McGough wrote:She also looks kinda skinny for a woman who spends her nights swinging from rooftops. Shouldn't she be all muscular, like Wonder Woman or Jessica Ennis-Hill?

Perhaps she keeps her muscles in the same storage facility as her kidneys?

by Lucy Ingram Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:58 pm

In another dimension Shocked

by MajorHoy Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:27 pm

The last Defenders series from Marvel was based on the Netflix series and written by BMB.

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Wonder if/when a group may get launched with that name again (and who'll be in it).

by **tony ingram** Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:30 pm

I just want Nighthawk back.
The real one. Crying or Very sad

by Lucy Ingram Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:07 am

All comics characters come back eventually. You just have to wait long enough.

by **tony ingram** Sat Jun 09, 2018 12:00 pm

Lucy McGough wrote:All comics characters come back eventually. You just have to wait long enough.

Trouble is, Marvel tend to resurrect characters, then just forget about them again. Like the Jack of Hearts, resurrected in a limited series years ago and then never seen since, or the Swordsman of the Avengers, or the Gargoyle. I think Nighthawk has likewise vanished into limbo.

by MajorHoy Sat Jun 09, 2018 4:04 pm

tony ingram wrote:
Lucy McGough wrote:All comics characters come back eventually. You just have to wait long enough.
Trouble is, Marvel tend to resurrect characters, then just forget about them again. Like the Jack of Hearts, resurrected in a limited series years ago and then never seen since, or the Swordsman of the Avengers, or the Gargoyle. I think Nighthawk has likewise vanished into limbo.

And "Swordsman" gets confusing because first there was Jacques Duquesne, then years later there was the Swordsman from another world/Earth/universe/timeline who also was with the Avengers (I think he hooked up with the team back in the 1990s along with Magdalene), and recently Mark Waid/Chris Samnee introduced a new Swordsman in their second issue of Captain America (under the Legacy relaunch/revamp).
Plus, haven't they brought back the dead original version (Jacques) a few times?

by **tony ingram** Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:55 pm

MajorHoy wrote:
tony ingram wrote:
Lucy McGough wrote:All comics characters come back eventually. You just have to wait long enough.
Trouble is, Marvel tend to resurrect characters, then just forget about them again. Like the Jack of Hearts, resurrected in a limited series years ago and then never seen since, or the Swordsman of the Avengers, or the Gargoyle. I think Nighthawk has likewise vanished into limbo.
And "Swordsman" gets confusing because first there was Jacques Duquesne, then years later there was the Swordsman from another world/Earth/universe/timeline who also was with the Avengers (I think he hooked up with the team back in the 1990s along with Magdalene), and recently Mark Waid/Chris Samnee introduced a new Swordsman in their second issue of Captain America (under the Legacy relaunch/revamp).
Plus, haven't they brought back the dead original version (Jacques) a few times?

Jacques returned along with the female Yellowjacket in the limited series Chaos War: Dead Avengers a few years ago. Those two were the only resurrected Avengers still alive at the end of the series and they were last seen heading off in a quinjet, but this has been totally ignored ever since.

by Lucy Ingram Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:24 am

tony ingram wrote:Jacques returned along with the female Yellowjacket in the limited series Chaos War: Dead Avengers a few years ago. Those two were the only resurrected Avengers still alive at the end of the series and they were last seen heading off in a quinjet, but this has been totally ignored ever since.

Maybe they got tired of being heroes and ran away to live on the Costa del Sol.

by **tony ingram** Sun Jun 10, 2018 12:33 pm

Lucy McGough wrote:
tony ingram wrote:Jacques returned along with the female Yellowjacket in the limited series Chaos War: Dead Avengers a few years ago. Those two were the only resurrected Avengers still alive at the end of the series and they were last seen heading off in a quinjet, but this has been totally ignored ever since.
Maybe they got tired of being heroes and ran away to live on the Costa del Sol.

Hey, I would!

by MajorHoy Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:14 pm

Lucy McGough wrote:All comics characters come back eventually. You just have to wait long enough.

You know Fred Myers is always going to come back!

by **tony ingram** Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:38 pm

MajorHoy wrote:
Lucy McGough wrote:All comics characters come back eventually. You just have to wait long enough.
You know Fred Myers is always going to come back!

Umm...who? Embarassed

by MajorHoy Sun Jun 10, 2018 6:15 pm

tony ingram wrote:
MajorHoy wrote:
Lucy McGough wrote:All comics characters come back eventually. You just have to wait long enough.
You know Fred Myers is always going to come back!
Umm...who?

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by **tony ingram** Sun Jun 10, 2018 8:52 pm

Oh, him!!!nIt didn't register! I should have remembered Boomerang's real name (I'd certainly have got it if you'd said George Harkness). Embarassed

by MajorHoy Sun Jun 10, 2018 9:04 pm

tony ingram wrote:Oh, him!!! It didn't register! I should have remembered Boomerang's real name (I'd certainly have got it if you'd said George Harkness).

Ah, but he's DC, and since this is the Marvel Comics section, . . . pirat

by **tony ingram** Sun Jun 10, 2018 10:04 pm

MajorHoy wrote:
tony ingram wrote:Oh, him!!! It didn't register! I should have remembered Boomerang's real name (I'd certainly have got it if you'd said George Harkness).
Ah, but he's DC, and since this is the Marvel Comics section, . . .

Fred Myers' original costume has to be the ugliest in Marvel's history.

by **tony ingram** Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:02 pm

So, did anybody read Defenders: The Best Defense? Thoughts?

by MajorHoy Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:00 am

tony ingram wrote:So, did anybody read Defenders: The Best Defense? Thoughts?

I'm only very slowly dipping my feet into Marvel Comics again, so no.
Only things that I've picked up new in a while were the recent Captain America Annual (because it took place back in WWII, but it was . . . eh) and #1 of the latest Winter Soldier series (also pretty meh).
I have put The Invaders on my pull list and am hoping for the best.

by **tony ingram** Sun Dec 23, 2018 5:57 pm

MajorHoy wrote:
tony ingram wrote:So, did anybody read Defenders: The Best Defense? Thoughts?
I'm only very slowly dipping my feet into Marvel Comics again, so no.
Only things that I've picked up new in a while were the recent Captain America Annual (because it took place back in WWII, but it was . . . eh) and #1 of the latest Winter Soldier series (also pretty meh).
I have put The Invaders on my pull list and am hoping for the best.

But expecting the worst?

by MajorHoy Mon Dec 24, 2018 12:43 am

tony ingram wrote:
MajorHoy wrote: . . . I have put The Invaders on my pull list and am hoping for the best.
But expecting the worst?

More like I'll wait and see how it goes, but refuse to get my hopes up too much just yet.

by Barry_Allen Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:58 am

How was that Invaders series then, Major? Wink

I was thinking to retrieve the reading of that series.. Cool

by MajorHoy Fri Jul 17, 2020 3:38 pm

Barry_Allen wrote:How was that Invaders series then, Major? I was thinking to retrieve the reading of that series..

I gave up on it at issue #9.
Might have stopped sooner, but that was the last issue in my "HOLD" file so I bought it.

Namor was a psychotic mess and the Original Human Torch became just a head moved onto a borrowed body. (At least, I think that was how it worked.)

Don't know if/how it got resolved, and at this point I'm not sure I care.

Now, if they gave us a new Invaders series based on the one-shot by Roy Thomas and Jerry Ordway from last year, . . .

(see: https://crikey.forumotion.com/t899-new-captain-america-the-invaders-written-by-roy-thomas)

by **tony ingram** Sat Jul 18, 2020 1:18 pm

Namor turned out to be being mind controlled. He was freed and joined with the rest of the Invaders to put things right. Tony Stark fixed the Torch, I believe.

by **tony ingram** Sat Aug 21, 2021 2:05 pm

by Barry_Allen Sat Aug 21, 2021 7:26 pm

Are these vintage (maybe Mego...) toys, Tony? Very Happy

by MajorHoy Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:42 pm

Barry_Allen wrote:Are these vintage (maybe Mego...) toys, Tony?

Don't think Mego ever produced anything quite that good.

The Mego figures I tend to think of were basically the old Action Jackson-sized figures with cheap cloth (polyester?) outfits (even if you're talking about a flaming Human Torch).

by **tony ingram** Sat Aug 21, 2021 8:57 pm

Barry_Allen wrote:Are these vintage (maybe Mego...) toys, Tony?

No, these are Marvel Legends, although the earliest of those are still almost twenty years old now. Actually, I think Dr. Strange is a Marvel Selects figure, a slightly larger scale.

by **tony ingram** Sat Aug 21, 2021 9:44 pm

So, anyone else reading the new series?

by MajorHoy Sat Aug 21, 2021 9:47 pm

tony ingram wrote:So, anyone else reading the new series?

I don't think I've bought any new Marvel comics in almost a year at this point.

by **tony ingram** Sat Aug 21, 2021 9:57 pm

I've been buying and enjoying quite a few, and the new Defenders series seems to be delivering the payoff to some plot threads that have been building since Marvel Comics 1000.

by Barry_Allen Fri Sep 03, 2021 3:11 pm

So Marvel Comics 1000 was the starting point of these current Defenders (the series is published directly in tpb format here) plots? Shocked

by **tony ingram** Fri Sep 03, 2021 3:54 pm

Well, it all has to do with the new Masked Raider, and a powerful artifact called the Eternity Mask, supposedly a fragment of Eternity himself, which has been passing through various hands for over a century.

by Mbast1 Tue Sep 07, 2021 7:53 pm

tony ingram wrote:So, anyone else reading the new series?

I have the same problem with Marvel as DC (one of them, anyway), in that having been away for a few years, it's hard to find a way back in. Stories are all connected in expensive ways.

by **tony ingram** Tue Sep 07, 2021 9:08 pm

Mbast1 wrote:
tony ingram wrote:So, anyone else reading the new series?

I have the same problem with Marvel as DC (one of them, anyway), in that having been away for a few years, it's hard to find a way back in. Stories are all connected in expensive ways.

So far, this series seems to be readily understandable on its own, even though it spins out of Marvel Comics 1000.

by Mbast1 Tue Sep 07, 2021 10:24 pm

tony ingram wrote:So far, this series seems to be readily understandable on its own, even though it spins out of Marvel Comics 1000.

Ok, good. I'll check it out, then. Thanks!

by Barry_Allen Tue Sep 14, 2021 11:12 am

tony ingram wrote:Well, it all has to do with the new Masked Raider, and a powerful artifact called the Eternity Mask, supposedly a fragment of Eternity himself, which has been passing through various hands for over a century.

Do you know where and when Eternity was taken into fragments, Tony (I think I have missed this one...) ? Question

I remember an old Defenders story whose title, translated from Italian, was "A part of Eternity had disappeared", see cover below:

Btw, another cover of this anthology, which had one issue containing comics from Marvel Comics and the following one from Dc Comics, was dedicated to The Outcasts, do someone remember them now?

by **tony ingram** Tue Sep 14, 2021 12:52 pm

Barry_Allen wrote:
tony ingram wrote:Well, it all has to do with the new Masked Raider, and a powerful artifact called the Eternity Mask, supposedly a fragment of Eternity himself, which has been passing through various hands for over a century.

Do you know where and when Eternity was taken into fragments, Tony (I think I have missed this one...) ?
I remember an old Defenders story whose title, translated from Italian, was "A part of Eternity had disappeared", see cover below:

Btw, another cover of this anthology, which had one issue containing comics from Marvel Comics and the following one from Dc Comics, was dedicated to The Outcasts, do someone remember them now?

I think Eternity is still intact except for this one small piece which has apparently been floating around through various hands as the mask.

by Barry_Allen Thu Oct 28, 2021 10:10 am

Does someone remembers John Wagner & Alan Grant's The Outcasts (the 12 issue series published in 1987 by Dc Comics)? Last 3 issues remain unpublished here, since when in April 1991 we saw the publication of issue # 10, see the cover above..., while number 7 is pictured below Rolling Eyes

by **tony ingram** Thu Oct 28, 2021 3:51 pm

I vaguely remember it, but never got all of it. One of Wagner's few forays into the world of American comics.

by MajorHoy Thu Oct 28, 2021 3:55 pm

Barry_Allen wrote:Does someone remembers John Wagner & Alan Grant's The Outcasts (the 12 issue series published in 1987 by Dc Comics)? Last 3 issues remain unpublished here, since when in April 1991 we saw the publication of issue # 10, see the cover above..., while number 7 is pictured below

I believe I got all the issues in that series when they were originally published . . .

Then again, it helps that I'm in the U.S. and not all that far away from major U.S. cities.

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