I wish I was working at Marvel right about now, true believers.
This is an exciting time to be in the comic book industry. Marvel alone has made the past year one of the best times to be a comic fan. House of M, The Other, DeciMation, the Ultimates, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Astonishing X-Men (which has seen the resurgence of the Hellfire Club). And now, Civil War, which has the Marvel heroes fighting each other. Oh yeah. I know some people won't know what I'm talking about, so I'll give you a recap on all those things in a bit. I'm not done drooling. On the DC side of the fence, we have seen the return of not only the Joker (in an almost year long absence) but also the Joker's original villain persona of the Red Hood.
In the form of Jason Todd. Who was killed by the Joker in 1989. But he's back, and he's an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. He toyed with Batman for a very long time, slowly taking over the underworld and pissing off DC villains left, right and center. So this eventually leads to a showdown where Jason is going to force Batman to kill either him...or the Joker. And it ends with a bang, where for a year, Batman leaves Gotham in the hands of Two-Face, aka, Harvey Dent?! And Jason heads to New York and takes over the mantle of Nightwing with Dick Grayson's knowledge?! DC has finally gotten their shit together too.
Now for recaps. SPOILERS!!!!!! BIG HONKING SPOILERS, SO IF YOU PLAN TO READ THE BOOKS, QUIT READING THIS RIGHT FREAKIN' NOW!!!
House of M: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlett Witch) and her brother, Pietro are the children of Magneto. Wanda has the ability to change reality and tip the scales in her favor. But then she has a nervous breakdown and kills Hawkeye, an original member of the Avengers. So the X-Men and the Avengers decide to do something about Wanda. They decide to kill her. But not before Pietro convinces her to use her powers to give all the heroes what they really want. For mutants, they are really homo superior, running the human race. For Spidey, he is loved by all of New York and is married to Gwen Stacy, and spends time with his son and Uncle Ben. Cyclops and Emma Frost are married to one another. But then it all comes crashing down when they figure out what happened through the help of Lola, a mutant. The book ends with a huge fight and Wanda simply uttering 3 little words. "No More Mutants." Then the world goes to white, and when they wake up, 97% of Marvel's mutants are gone. Their mutant powers have been stripped from them, and it ends with many mutants that were once high and mighty being no more. The best part? Nobody knows where Xavier is during all this. He could be dead, he could incapacitated, he could be in Bermuda with his brother and sister, living the good life.
In The Other, Peter Parker dies. Killed by an attack from Morbius. Then, while in a cocoon/afterlife-ish type place, he is approached by a creature that looks like a cross between Venom and Carnage. And he is asked, "what happens when you cross a spider...with a man?" Then he's brought back to life with new powers. Very awesome indeed. DeciMation dealt with the events following House of M.
Essentially I am wicked excited about the stuff going on in Marvel right now.
In the form of Jason Todd. Who was killed by the Joker in 1989. But he's back, and he's an unstoppable force to be reckoned with. He toyed with Batman for a very long time, slowly taking over the underworld and pissing off DC villains left, right and center. So this eventually leads to a showdown where Jason is going to force Batman to kill either him...or the Joker. And it ends with a bang, where for a year, Batman leaves Gotham in the hands of Two-Face, aka, Harvey Dent?! And Jason heads to New York and takes over the mantle of Nightwing with Dick Grayson's knowledge?! DC has finally gotten their shit together too.
Now for recaps. SPOILERS!!!!!! BIG HONKING SPOILERS, SO IF YOU PLAN TO READ THE BOOKS, QUIT READING THIS RIGHT FREAKIN' NOW!!!
House of M: Wanda Maximoff (Scarlett Witch) and her brother, Pietro are the children of Magneto. Wanda has the ability to change reality and tip the scales in her favor. But then she has a nervous breakdown and kills Hawkeye, an original member of the Avengers. So the X-Men and the Avengers decide to do something about Wanda. They decide to kill her. But not before Pietro convinces her to use her powers to give all the heroes what they really want. For mutants, they are really homo superior, running the human race. For Spidey, he is loved by all of New York and is married to Gwen Stacy, and spends time with his son and Uncle Ben. Cyclops and Emma Frost are married to one another. But then it all comes crashing down when they figure out what happened through the help of Lola, a mutant. The book ends with a huge fight and Wanda simply uttering 3 little words. "No More Mutants." Then the world goes to white, and when they wake up, 97% of Marvel's mutants are gone. Their mutant powers have been stripped from them, and it ends with many mutants that were once high and mighty being no more. The best part? Nobody knows where Xavier is during all this. He could be dead, he could incapacitated, he could be in Bermuda with his brother and sister, living the good life.
In The Other, Peter Parker dies. Killed by an attack from Morbius. Then, while in a cocoon/afterlife-ish type place, he is approached by a creature that looks like a cross between Venom and Carnage. And he is asked, "what happens when you cross a spider...with a man?" Then he's brought back to life with new powers. Very awesome indeed. DeciMation dealt with the events following House of M.
Essentially I am wicked excited about the stuff going on in Marvel right now.
