From Marvel's May solicits, courtesy of Newsarama:
Wow. Their long separated teen hero team from the 80's now reunited as adults. Where have I heard that before??
Oh. Yeah. That.
Marvel's sincerest form of flattery is really gaining speed. Let's see, Marvel waited 20 years to...borrow...substantial portions of DC's Millennium for Skrullapalooza...9 years to "follow" JLAPE with Marvel Apes...8 years to have their heroes bumfuzzled because an evil villain is now running the country, which in no way resembles President Luthor...and now they're down to less than a year for just coincidentally having the exact same idea as DC.
At this rate, Marvel's Battle For The Cowl will be starting next week...
NEW MUTANTS #1
Written by ZEB WELLS
Penciled by DIOGENES NEVES
They’re back together again! Cannonball, Dani Moonstar, Karma, Sunspot, Magma and Magik have been gathered once more, but can they stand against one of the most powerful X-Villains of all time? Legion is back, and the villain that thrust us into the Age of Apocalypse is scarier than ever. But what does he want with the New Mutants?
Wow. Their long separated teen hero team from the 80's now reunited as adults. Where have I heard that before??
Oh. Yeah. That.Marvel's sincerest form of flattery is really gaining speed. Let's see, Marvel waited 20 years to...borrow...substantial portions of DC's Millennium for Skrullapalooza...9 years to "follow" JLAPE with Marvel Apes...8 years to have their heroes bumfuzzled because an evil villain is now running the country, which in no way resembles President Luthor...and now they're down to less than a year for just coincidentally having the exact same idea as DC.
At this rate, Marvel's Battle For The Cowl will be starting next week...
It's not just DC they're imitating, of course. Last year Marvel also flattered "Doonesbury" by turning Flash Thompson into an Iraq War veteran leg-amputee.
ReplyDeleteThat Flash Thompsom always going off to war, like that one time he went off to vietnam and came back with his new wife Sha Shan. :) The marriage didn't last though.
ReplyDeleteThe funny thing is no one ever mentions her...ever. It's almost like Flash Thompson made some deal with a powerful demon to remove Sha Shan from reality and wipe his slate clean. Oh...My....GOD! Flash Thompson made a deal with Mephisto!
And if Flash really did make a deal with Mephisto I am going to bet that Flash's marriage was more valuable, because unlike the half ass separation he gave Peter Parker, Mephisto made damn sure no one ever mentioned or thought about the vietnam war or Sha Shan ever again.
Was he actually married to Sha Shan, Anthony? I con fess my memory is fuzzy, but I thought they were just dating/engaged...
ReplyDeleteOf course, she first showed in New York as leader of a group of assassins trying to kill Flash, so it was probably a relationship doomed from the start...
Yeah your right, they were just engaged.
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