Comic Book Talk

[TheGillMan]

I guess I dont understand why the assumption is that it's gambit. There are s lot of characters on that cover.

Honestly, I don't know anything about this event or storyline. I'm just basing it on what others here have said. Hopefully it isn't Remy, and they actually do something that makes some sense.

I find it odd that the writers at Marvel keep doing stories every couple of months where a new Sorcerer Supreme is chosen. It last for a few months then reverts back to Strange. I get the need to shake up the status quo sometimes, but I feel the whole "New Sorcerer Supreme" thing is overdone to the point of ridiculousness now. Strange has lost and regained the mantle more times than Jean Grey has died and returned at this point.

 

[SDcomics]

From October 1970, Tower of Shadows #9.

Another Bernie Wrightson masterpiece. This issue adapts the H.P. Lovecraft short story "Pickman's Model" which was originally published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales. If you'd like to see a live action version, it was also adapted for the screen in Guillermo Del Toro's "Cabinet of Curiosities".

 

[SDcomics]

So this January Marvel's going to release Avengers #800. That is an amazing milestone. I've been assembling with this group for a long, long time. It was early in 1965 that my six year old self first discovered this team. The first issue I clearly remember seeing was number 18 ("When the Commissar Commands!") and I've been a regular reader ever since, through all the highs and lows. Thankfully there's been many, many more highs than lows. (We won't talk about Heroes Reborn and Rob Liefeld. Oh no. We shan't talk about that at all)

From Stan Lee and Jack Kirby to Jed MacKay and Javier Pina, it's been an incredible run. Thank you Marvel for 62 years of Earth's Mightiest Heroes!

 

[Chooch555]

Avengers 300 was one of my first comics. I read it after Cap 350 so even at 11ish years old I could tell that was out of order, but I loved it so much it didn't phase me.

Also, I liked Heroes Reborn Avengers. I was the right age and I still think some of those costumes slap or whatever kids say.

 

[Chooch555]

Also, also, I want that Avengers 800 cover as a puzzle.

 

[Justice]

I was obsessed with the cover of #200 as a kid. I found a copy at a flea market and read it so many times. Eventually I started tracing the cover and then moved on to drawing it. Except for that stupid Toys R Us shopping spree and at the top.

 

[TheSameIdiot]

That Russell Dauterman Avengers 800 cover is amazing.

 

[RichardSimmonsRobot]

Seriously...this has bugged me for ages. I HATED when they had random X-people like Cyclops as Phoenix (or even a non-mutant like Echo). The Phoenix Force choosing Jean was always tied to her psychic/telepathic abilities, so the idea of it just randomly inhabiting someone has really never made sense to me. The same goes for Sorcerer Supreme...I get why Doom, Clea, Brother Voodoo, etc. would be able to take that mantle, as they are longtime practitioners of the mystic arts. Gambit? What? Makes zero sense.

My issue is more so why Gambit is even in the running. Even early elimination characters that obviously aren't going to be it should make SOME sense. Pixie would make more sense than Gambit. The whole "Phoenix possesses Cyclops and then kills Xavier" never made sense to be, as to why the Phoenix would pick 5 people, then they all fight for more of the Phoenix pie to increase their powers, then they made it seem like the choice to kill Xavier was Scott's based on the history between him and Xavier at the time. If they had just said "Cyclops is possessed and the Phoenix killed Xavier because it didn't want to be stopped," it would have made more sense.

Everyone gets to be an Horseman of Apocalypse now, everyone gets to be a vessel for the Phoenix, and now everyone and anyone can be Sorcerer Supreme. It's like Publisher's Clearing House, "Stephen Strange may soon be at your door" with an oversized cape and camera crew!