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Tweak says, "What I said you got angry?"

cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-30 15:14:00

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title: amazing spider-man

Two pages from the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man #601

OH NOES THE TYPICAL PARKER LUCK!!!

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	box_in_the_box 2009-07-31 01:59 am UTC (link)
	He's taking too damn long to die, and the fact that so many HEROES - and so many members of the civilian populace - seem perfectly content to let him ruin the world in the meantime? Really does make me think that the ultimate villains in the Marvel Universe are the civilian public themselves. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	punishermax 2009-07-31 02:01 am UTC (link)
	He so far hasen't done anything drasticly bad, he created HAMMER which is basically just a dickier version of SHIELD, made the Dark Avengers , which are slowly imploding, and the Dark X-Men will last of all a month before Daken peaces out and does his own thing. Sentry is gonna end up flipping a shit and murdering Norman more than likely. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

box_in_the_box
2009-07-31 02:07 am UTC (link)

Everybody knows he's the Green Goblin! Everyone saw him murdering uniformed police offers and young women live on national television! And thanks to Phil Urich's book, everyone knows that he killed Gwen Stacy, and yet, people LAUGH about his "thing for blondes," and JOKE about the fact that the window of his office deliberately faces the G.W. Bridge.

I mean, for fuck's sake, a Hispanic jurist gets a dozen angry white men crawling up her ass for making a "wise Latina" remark, when she's being considered for the Supreme Court, and yet, you're telling me that NOBODY in the MU would be saying HOLY SHIT NORMAN WTF over all the COUNTLESS things that he's ALREADY done, when he's gaining FAR greater powers?

If Jon Stewart existed in the MU, he could devote an entire spin-off show just to savaging Norman's reputation, with nothing more than what's already PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE.

Quesada and company keep trying to sell this new status quo as "more realistic," and yet, it is inherently impossible to reconcile with any reality that even remotely resembles our own.

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	punishermax 2009-07-31 02:10 am UTC (link)
	Dude, humanity is retarded, and Norman has already played them perfectly. His tenure as Thunderbolts leader, his rescue of the PResident, his killing of the Skrull Queen and his live interview baring his soul and for America have all been calculated moves to make him palatable. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kingrockwell 2009-07-31 02:14 am UTC (link)
	"humanity is retarded" I take serious exception to this. Humanity isn't retarded, just everyone in the fuckin' MU. (Reply to this) (Parent)

box_in_the_box
2009-07-31 02:16 am UTC (link)

Dude, humanity is retarded

The problem is that humanity in the MU is somehow even more idiotic than in the real world, which is, once again, inherently impossible.

Norman has already played them perfectly.

Except that, as has already been pointed out in this thread, Norman simply doesn't possess the mental stability to "play" anyone this perfectly, not when he's so OPENLY nuts that he's threatening to kill children IN THE UNITED NATIONS.

I'm one hell of a cynical and misanthropic guy, and even I know that there's one hell of a huge gulf between "realistic" and "nihilistic."

And if humanity in the MU really is this stupid and evil, then Magneto was right all along, and they don't deserve to be saved. At the very least, I'm not going to care about any plot which hinges upon the heroes trying to save them.

There must be SOMETHING good about the world and its people, for them to be worth saving, and that goodness simply DOESN'T EXIST in the MU now.

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	punishermax 2009-07-31 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Simple, Read Ultimatum and come back. Everything will look a million times happier. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	box_in_the_box 2009-07-31 02:27 am UTC (link)
	Dude. Being reminded of the continued existence of Jeph Loeb's writing career will NEVER improve my mood. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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