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The Marvel Knights run helped bring Marvel Comics from the brink of Bankruptcy while also set up stories such as Spider-Man Blue, the MAX series, Hulk Grey by Jeff Loeb, and the current runs in Marvel Comics today. The dark nature of Marvel Knight redefined story telling because it brought a new era with a new generation of comic writers such as Brian Michael Bendis, Jeff Loeb, Jason Aaron, and Jonathan Hickman.
i cant wait 4 years to see, how marvel editorial ruined the X-Men again
Brian Michael Bendis is one of my favorite Comic book writers because of his work on Ultimate Spider-Man. Not only that, he revitalized the Avengers as a team which kicked off a new era in Marvel Comics after the events of Avenger Disassembled and would continue during Civil War before the start of Heroic Age with a new line up of the New Avengers that adds members such of Mocking Bird, DareDevil, and the Thing. Other than that, I love Bendis's run on the New Avengers because his run would last until Avengers vs X-Men.
Have to stop at the 15 min mark. Thank you for explaining this. Reading Secret Wars and needed to know about The Maker but you also help fill in so many more gaps that I'm not as confused now.
I just discovered this video. Superman is so much more than a superhero. For me he made being adopted ok. When I I was told I am, I recognized that Superman is adopted too. And that made it ok.
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I can definitely respect how Hickman made the X-Men interesting again, no doubt. However, while I am no fan of the X-Men in general, this run is what actually made me side squarely with the villains. Making their own home away from it all and just wanting to be left alone? I got no problem with that. But...man, where to start? Okay, they get recognised as a sovereign nation...by psychically forcing people to do so. They grant amnesty for all mutants, including Sabretooth, Magneto, Mister Sinister and Apocalypse. They are mass murderers, the latter of whom applauds the X-Men's new home. When a guy called "Apocalypse" gives you applause, you might just be in morally dubious territory. Copying someone's body and mind is not the same as resurrecting them, especially not in a universe where the existence of the soul is firmly established fact. This "resurrection" is still only for mutants, a "chosen race" if you will, who are the only ones allowed on the island. Unless they decide to make exceptions rooted firmly in nepotism. And that other law, "kill no humans"? That's only for show, they send the X-Force on assassination missions the world over to secure their interests. Sometimes to free victimised mutants, sometimes just to benefit the nation of Krakoa. And then we have the...what was it, the Crucible or something? Some sick festival that culminates in everyone murdering each other so that they can be reborn later? And the whole deal ending with Kurt casting aside the religion that's been a part of him since the start to form a new faith based on being a mutant. An...ethno-religion. Not to mention the political intrigue and backstabbing going on behind the scenes, with the official Krakoan government being a total sham, and the real ruling elite being people who all know each other from before, friend or foe. In short, the X-Men became the Inhumans. Is it interesting? Sure! No complaints there. My complaint is that I feel like I've gone insane somehow, because every time people talk about this run of the X-Men, they seem to think that what the X-Men has accomplished was a good thing, and not a steep fall into villainy. That is how I see it. The X-Men are the bad guys now. And it is interesting. But it is troubling to see how many people defend the idea of what is basically an ethnostate as long as it's done by people they like. Charles' dream truly is dead.
So free MCU chose to loosely adapt the Ultimate Captain Marvel. I see why it wasn't that great. It wasn't about bad performance but rather a doomed storyline.
Maybe I'm missing something because I just wrote off everything after AvX as not worth my time, but it's viscerally strange to see Cyclops as a subordinate to someone else's mutant agenda with it making the least sense for that person to be Xavier since Cyclops was telling him to fuck off constantly for the half a decade until he killed him. Tbh the fact that the focus of "what mutants should do" still falls on Xavier and Magneto yet again feels like another regression to status quo despite everything else being different. And on the "everything else", it comes across as really dense with technical jargon and lacking the personal touch or pathos that is the core reason I care about melodrama like X-Men. Like I reread a few issues of Morrison's New X-Men yesterday and the characterization is very unique and fitting to each character (with Cyclops for instance expressing relatable marital problems that a real person could be dealing with) while the cast of House of X feel sterile and samey like everyone's a Vulcan from Star Trek. I absolutely do not get the hype unless you have been actively suffering through the preceding decade of X-Shit that I perceived to be a complete dumpster fire.
Personally, I don't mind the reveal of the X-gene being created by the supersoldier program. I mean, it's an alternate universe, why make it the same as the original when you can put a new spin on it? Besides, the whole "next step of human evolution" argument that we see in 616 is nonsensical, as that is not how evolution even works. And then we have that issue that everyone likes to point out, in how mutants are a very poor stand-in for marginalised groups. The world hates and fears mutants because they have demonstrated time and again that some of them are capable of not only destroying the world, but the universe itself. That is quite different from growing up as a wee gay lad or having a different skin colour from most of your peers. Now, even if they are the result of human experimentation, that doesn't really change anything for them personally. They are still stuck with powers that they never asked for, the result of circumstances beyond their control. The core principle of being "born different" is still there, except now you can have a dialogue about human experimentation and eugenics that have a sad precedent in real life. All that said, I admit to not even liking the X-Men in general, and the Ultimate variety was mishandled all over the place, but that one detail about the supersoldier program, that I do not mind.
The show was so fucking ugly man
I really miss the ultimate universe a lot! I loved it, when Kitty Pride became president of her own mutant state while Captain America was the president of the USA at that time.
Wow, we really dodged a bullet. The "somber" Star Wars concept sounds terrible.
11:07 Oh, so THAT'S where the awful movie got it.
3:55 Stop talking. I love this picture. It is perfection.
Could you make a Video about the altanative (fixed) clone saga Its plays on a diffrent earth and is based of the original idea
I should do, it's been on my list for ages
I’ve watched the review of this comic on Atop the 4th Wall, and Linkara tears it a new one. It’s one of my favorite reviews on that channel.
If All-Star Superman represents the essence & humanity of one of the greatest heroes ever, All-Star Batman & Robin just give the worst depiction of Batman ever, while also serving as Dick Grayson’s origin story as a villain
Gotham City would be less corrupt and crime-ridden if the Batman dropped his no-kill policy. Just a thought...
Secret Wars despite its flaws, plays an important element of not only the Marvel Comics but also the comic book industry. It was the first crossover event in comics even before Crisis of Infinite Earths, as well as the first appearance of Venom which at the time was Spider-Man’s new Black Suit.
8:20 yeah but you forgot to mention how sue tries to kill reed when all he wants is to leave cos his work is important work given to him by the future sue who is this universes khang and while reeds work is to save this universe they fight him and leave him for dead, the real villain is sue storm who has till now cheated on reed many times
I just love how Professor X and Magneto are finally working together for a common just goal
For some reason, only part of this run has been collected in trade paperbacks. What is the best way to read the rest of this run?
I really like this animated movie
I just read the script and considering it was a first draft, I actually loved it. Picturing it in Aronofsky's super unsettling style was a lot of fun. I had some gripes, sure, but I would've liked to see it to fruition.