Comments on: This Week in Panels: Week 9

By: clay

clay — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:25:52 +0000

For me, I’m enjoying the plotlines more in the main Deadpool title, but I find Merc with a Mouth much funnier. Which is important in Deadpool. You’re right; Team-up needs to develop more before assessment.

Actually, I probably liked the Kelly-written ASM issue with Deadpool more than any issues of his own book since Cable & Deadpool was canceled.

By: Gavok

Gavok — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:08:41 +0000

@clay: It’s hard to judge Thunderbolts by the first issue, but it has promise. Especially because the next issue is the obligatory “Jeff Parker is writing this so…” crossover with Agents of Atlas.

Great idea with the Deadpool article. I’ll give that a couple more issues of Team-Up before starting.

By: clay

clay — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:42:56 +0000

Man, I gotta get to the shop. I missed last week. I was enjoying Diggle on Thunderbolts, but I’m a big Jeff Parker fan. Is the new issue as promising as I think it’ll be?

I’d also be interested in a longish form essay from you on how the current Deadpool books stack up.

By: AlLoggins

AlLoggins — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:06:09 +0000

You’re overthinking it. By which I mean you’re thinking about it period.

OMD was a magic answer because there wasn’t a logical method to do what editorial wanted for the character without extensive backtracking and loophole-closing that Marvel tries to avoid of late to the point that even footnote captions are seen as bad form. OMD has created a great many continuity glitches and logical failures in the overall timeline, but let’s face it: Spidey met the Beatles and Flash Thompson was a Vietnam veteran – and that was BEFORE the whole Deal With The Devil gig. It’s a bit redundant to start questioning the integrity of the backstory now.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:49:34 +0000

To kill Gwen Stacy to get to Spider-Man, Osborn doesn’t need to know that she’s Spider-Man’s girlfriend. If he thinks Spider-Man and Peter Parker are partners (since he takes all of Spider-Man’s pictures) that could lead him to Gwen.