I clearly have a space in my name.

No, Medusa and all the rest would be in it. Not saying Quicksilver and Wanda are the only inhumans, they're just Marvel's way of introducing the inhumans to the movieverse.

I'm not a big fan of Inhumans, though they do have their moments.

And Maximus the Mad is awesome.

After how good Guardians of the Galaxy was, no one should doubt Marvel Studio's ability to take a comic book that most people don't give a shit about, and turn it into gold.

That GoG was a great movie is one thing, but what's mind-boggling is how much money it made.

Because it was a great movie, I guess.

Eh, come the fuck on.

It was about a totally unknown team, the first part and whatnot.

And it still made more movie than sequels to well established popular movies. It's great, but it's also pretty shocking.

Difference with that is I loved the Guardians of the Galaxy comic books. Indifferent toward Inhumans comic books.

This is just me personally, of course. I'm sure other people are excited as heck. Plus, I'm sure I will see it and enjoy it. Just saying that right now I am indifferent to it.

Well then perhaps your shock is simply you trying to reconcile that a movie's success is not as based on previous public knowledge as you think?

It usually is, though. In the last few years at least.

There's a list, which I won't bother looking for pointing out how many of the highest grossing movies in the last few years were either sequels or remakes.

And don't act a fool, you know damn right that not every great movie is a commercial success and not every shit movie is a flop.

Of course. So here's the part where you explain how an obscure superhero team of misfits became very nearly MCU's biggest success, if my thoughts don't satisfy you.

Wait, how come I'm to explain if I keep saying I'm shocked/amazed by it's success?

Still - only thing I can think of is people recommending it to their friends after seeing it, because let's face it, the initial income wasn't that great ("only" like 300 mill in the first month or month and a half?). It got back to the top after a few weeks which is unusual.

When box office rises after premier it's usually a word of mouth thing, and signals major DVD/On Demand sales later on. I agree that the norm tends to be a drop off after launch, and this success is certainly something worth looking into for other studios. Here's some thoughts off the top of ma head:

- Chris Pratt is insanely likable, and echoes a kind of hero we haven't really seen in a while.
- The 'Space Opera' was largely ignored for a long time, and one done with sincerity probably scratched an itch Jupiter Rising and Star Wars 7 will capitalize off.
- The very idea that a talking raccoon is on the team probably moves tickets to this day.
- It has a peculiar direction and soundtrack just goofy enough to work.
- It doesn't really look and play out like a superhero movie.
- Thanos threatened to bath the cosmos in our blood. Naturally we had to see it to save our lives.

It helps that the trailers were awesome.

Marvels been digging into nostalgia hardcore for their 2015 plans.

Will they be including Morph?

He was a TV show thing but I wouldn't be surprised.

That's why I asked. I figured if they're going for the look/style of the show, would they bring back the made-for-TV characters, as well.

The look of the show invoked the Jim Lee designs of the time (though the show put X-Men on the map in the mainstream, so I can see them adding Morph just cause).

So... we're gonna have the teenage time-stranded X-Men, the current X-Men, and the 90s X-Men?

that shit hits me right in the warm fuzzy childhood bone, I'm happy as tits!

Don't read too much into these teasers. Supposedly it's just for the Secret War thing that'll go down. Don't expect a whole lot of these guys to stick around much.

EXCEPT FOR SPIDER-MAN BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T RETCON THE ONE MORE FUCKING DAY I'M BURNING DOWN A BUILDING WITH JOE Q IN IT!

Are the original X-men still in the present? God, that's dumb. Worked great as a six issue arc, but stretching it out like this is ridiculous. Battle of the Atom was the dumbest crossover in Marvel history.

Not only are they still around, young Scott has an on-going with his dad.

ugh

the whole arc is pretty cool

I never read and felt the same about Guardians but look how that turned out, its one of the best Marvel movies yet.

Apparently Marvel is set to do a crossover with

Shingeki no Kyojin OR Attack on Titan

I have no idea what that is

Manga/anime where giants eat people in the far future. Or something.

One of the hottest Manga/Anime going.

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So this ended up being almost completely spot on. Hilarious.

Marvel's next big crossover:

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Same concept as the original Secret Wars, but this time characters from various time frames and alternate universes are being gathered.

About to stop reading comics. As a kid, I loved alternate universe stuff. But that's because it was done sparingly. The past 10 years, it seems like every other story is a fucking time travel/alternate timeline thing, and at this point, I don't even care.

"Oh wow, a dystopian future where everything sucks. How will the heroes avoid this for the 500th time?" It's like all the creativity is gone. It comes off as really lazy. "Well I can't think of anything right now, so I'll just whip together some alternate character designs and call it a day. Wolverine is a bad guy. That'll make it interesting!" Ugh.

This at least is a little different. I did enjoy Exiles when it first hit, and this is sorta like that, except they have to fight eachother instead of work together.

I'm gonna check this out, but all those multiple universes are kinda getting on my nerves.

The latest Spiderman issue is a real clusterfuck. Shit, even this cunt shows up:

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Also, apparently you can do Marvel Unlimited for $10 a month with no long term commitment. It's pretty awesome. Reread the first 3 Ultimates books so far.

Ooh, that might actually be worth it. New releases too?

At least six months old.

Yeah, Original Sin #1 just dropped. But 6 months isn't bad when you consider there are also over 13,000 issues in the catalog. Still very much worth it.

Battleworld seems like their 'Crisis'. I'd be interested in reading a wiki breakdown after the fact.

In a way, yes, but I don't think it's going to be a reboot or anything like that. Just a kind of "who would win if so-and-so fought" type of deal.