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the 'new and interesting' direction took everything that was wrong with Voyager and the new Battlestar Galactica and dropped it into a successful franchise. so id rather get some more familiar trappings for a Stargate movie than see more of what SG:U has been crapping out.

much as i want some more SG-1 movies, i'd rather get one or two SG:Atlantis movies. especially to wrap up a lot of the loose ends from the end of the series. or give a half decent explanation how by the time of SG:U the stargate program somehow isn't public knowledge yet.

Agreed. Kinda 'meh' about the whole Dark Nella thing. But then Linkara was doing something during his reviews and that was kinda amusing.

i think right at the moment he's still baby Annihilus. so what does he know? mebbe the torch will be a burning binky?

Prolly not. the advanced preview of FF#588 shows them already talking about Johnny being dead. So the whole issue will probably show the rest of the family mourning and lead in to the decision to start the future foundation. and the last page of the "3" comic is an all black background with the "3" symbol dead center, and the tag reading "The Last Stand of Johnny Storm". so the death is implied, but this is comics, no body means they probably aren't dead. a body means they area dead, but if you're an A-lister hero/villain, you'll eventually come back.

not to really defend some of the decisions made here, but to be honest, Executive Producers don't really have any power when it comes to the creative process in movies, tv, etc. They're figureheads and generally not the ones who make the big decisions. i need to dig up the articles, but there were more than a few times Quesada and the folks who represent Marvel at these films wished they actually had input when making them.

yeah, it's a movie tie-in, no doubt. just wished they could've gotten Meloni for it. i mean they've gotten Conroy for damn near every Batman project they could put him in. but like i said, still gonna watch it.

ditto. that and at the time i wished he was the one to play Indy's son instead of Lebeouf.

some do. some comics age their characters in 'real time'. while i wouldn't mind seeing some progression along those lines, ill admit that i dont particularly want to see most given super-heroes stories end anymore than i want them to die. (oh look, someone already said as much) Also, with multiple writers, it means if someone leaves a book or project for whatever reason, the story doesn't have to end just because they're gone. Im also a big fan of having a lot of these heroes mucking about in the same continuity/universe. Not something ive seen with manga.

Not that im knocking it, just noting a difference in the style.

given that the choice to promote the new guy came completely the hell out of nowhere, im not laying any bets down on reversing old editorial mandates just yet. even then, im betting they wont fix that particular mess for another three or four years.

the concept is pretty meh, and it always irks me to see the levels of '90s haet that Venom (and in his own way, Carnage) gets, but i wouldn't mind seeing a fresh take on Venom at this point. I dug seeing the monstrous Gargan Venom on the Thunderbolts (and as a Dark Avenger), but watching them infect someone else with the suit, under Steve Rogers run as America's top cop? Blech.

plus ive got an aversion to picking up any spidey or spin off spidey titles until OMD gets rewrtitten, retconned, or wiped out. Besides, Remender doesn't exactly inspire confidence. i wouldn't go so far as to say his writing is sub par, but it's pretty close.

No, it'll be Wolverine, his left set of claws, his right set of claws, and a can of beer. Guest starring Ben Grimm from time to time.

much as i dig a lot Johns' work, bringing back Barry was definitely not one of the better ideas for them to come back with. especially after that fiasco that saw Impulse/Bart eventually buy it when he took over as Flash for a little while. But they 'renegged' on his death a couple of times over the years, though before bringing him back he was mostly used as a plot device. gotta love time travel.



i think im missing something here. i was responding initially to the idea that we won't have writers doing stints on books as long as Kirby & Lee did back in the original Marvel Bullpen days. im not quite sure where the problem with these other writers also having side projects has anything to do with that? i think i missed the point you were shooting for somewhere along the line there.

See this is a mistake in that when he first came onboard as EIC, Joey Q instituted a 'no coming back from the dead rule', and while it's since been shaken off, it did manage to last for a few years until someone came to him with what sounded like a couple of interesting ideas on how to bring characters back. In this, i have no problems since in a medium where virtually anything can feasibly happen, slapping the label "characters should stay dead" is pretty stupid. Also they were doing the epic crossovers and temp die-offs before JQ got put in charge, it's just that we've seen a lot more of them in the past few years and a lot of fans are beginning to get worn out by them.

As for the rotating writers, the past few years have seen both of the big two companies establish themselves a solid stable of writers that they cycle through through books, some of them even sticking with them for large periods of time. The four that come to mind most notably being Bendis with the Avengers & Ultimate Spidey, Brubaker on Captain America, Geoff Johns on Green Lantern, & Grant Morrison on either Batman or Batman & Robin. All 4 of these guys have been writing pretty steadily with those titles for at least 5 years. (hell Bendis & Bagley already surpassed Lee & Kirbys FF run a couple years back, AND Bagley's coming back to work on the USM title with Bendis. also they recently confirmed that Bendis has written more Avenger's books than anyone else in the franchise's history... disturbing as that may seem to some)

So there are SOME titles that get maintain a single writer, and the sales for a lot of those titles show that the business can support longtime runs.