Weekly Comic Review thread (Spoilers Abound) - Page 60

Zubis · #**886** 11-03-2009, 04:20 PM

The scene in question (NSFW...if blood is an issue).
http://www.comicbookresources.com/pr...pid=1256833897
http://www.comicbookresources.com/pr...pid=1256833899

Meh they'll retcon it in a year or so and he'll be resurrected by Mephisto.

Genome · #**887** 11-03-2009, 04:27 PM

Oh, for the love of Pete. I am giving up comics.

Lexx · #**888** 11-03-2009, 06:41 PM

For what it's worth, Necrosha is nothing like Blackest Night. For one, it's not Marvel-wide. It's only in three X-Men books. It's also only mutants being brought back. But most importantly, it really is the characters being brought back. It's not just their corpses being possessed. Plus, this storyline has been in the works since 2006.

I know it's easy to point and lol at Marvel for having a zombie story right now, but it really is completely different from Blackest Night.

razieldumas · #**889** 11-03-2009, 06:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zubis

The scene in question (NSFW...if blood is an issue).
http://www.comicbookresources.com/pr...pid=1256833897
http://www.comicbookresources.com/pr...pid=1256833899

Meh they'll retcon it in a year or so and he'll be resurrected by Mephisto.

This is why I don't read Marvel.

Lexx · #**890** 11-03-2009, 06:52 PM

You don't read Marvel because people get killed?

*Indiana Jerico* · #**891** 11-03-2009, 08:53 PM

I, too, had to google stuff after reading the Punisher List one-shot. I'm like, "Jesus, they killed the Punisher and there was no buzz about it???" Half of me was expecting it'd be a clone.

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Der Squirrel · #**892** 11-03-2009, 09:41 PM

I don't think anyone cares about 616 Punisher anymore. MAX Punisher is the one everyone has always wanted and has been fantastic so far.

*Indiana Jerico* · #**893** 11-03-2009, 09:50 PM

Speaking of X-Men, I've been reading X-Force and I just wanna know about the continuity. When did the whole X-23 getting captured happen with respect to the whole Utopia thing? I mean, I noticed that in the Utopia issue, when Osborn sent his Avengers to battle the mutants in the recently exhumed Asteroid M that X-23 still has her other arm and then, during the Necrosha beginning, she's already regrowing it.

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Der Squirrel · #**894** 11-03-2009, 10:08 PM

That's a good question.

Also, how powerful is X-23's healing factor? I'm pretty sure no one has one as strong as Deadpool does so he can be as WACKY as possible, but is it weaker than Wolvy's?

Lexx · #**895** 11-03-2009, 10:23 PM

X-23's healing factor is a lot more powerful than Wolverine's. Technically it's identical, but only her claws are coated in Adamantium. It's explained that a big chunk of Wolverine's healing factor is spent constantly protecting him from the Adamantium poisoning he has since his whole skeleton is covered in it. So hers acts a lot faster and can do more.

About Utopia: The continuity simply doesn't mashup. The X-Force arc has been going on for a year now, and the Uncanny writer didn't want to wait for it to finish to use X-Force, so he had them active in Utopia even though Elixir is in a coma and X-Force was busy. He also screwed up by having Marvel Boy in one of the first issues panels even though he had deserted the Dark Avengers by then. But Bendis is higher on the totem pole than the X-Force writers, so that shit got cleaned up fast.

The way Matt Fraction, the Uncanny writer, explained it is that he's not going to let minor details affect a cool story he's dying to tell. I can respect that thought, but seeing as how I thought Utopia was a massive letdown, I can't get behind him screwing up X-Force's continuity for it.

*Indiana Jerico* · #**896** 11-03-2009, 10:40 PM

I also read somewhere that someone is trying to get Wolvie's healing factor shit together, for good. So it won't be fucking ridiculous (like what happened when he tracked down Nitro). Anyone know which book/s addresses this?

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Lexx · #**897** 11-03-2009, 10:51 PM

Oh God, that arc where he was tracking Nitro was just insane. It's best to pretend that never happened.

Der Squirrel · #**898** 11-04-2009, 12:08 AM

I generally liked Utopia, but my main complaint was that there wasn't more to Colossus vs. Venom, which was awesome.

Plus it had the best Sentry twist ever.

Lexx · #**899** 11-04-2009, 12:21 AM

I was disappointed in the lack of Bullseye vs. Archangel. They set up the fight, had the first shots......then nothing. That's pretty much how all of the fight scenes went. Plus, the plot seemed very superficial to me.

*Indiana Jerico* · #**900** 11-04-2009, 12:59 AM

Adamantium can supposedly cut almost all substances (except Captain America's shield), right? Then how come X-23 said it can't cut through Kimura's skin? WTF is her skin made out of?

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