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[John813]

Spoiler: Spol

At the very end, what was Sonya doing with the mindcontrol machines? Was it ingering that she took that technology from the Skrull for her gain?

 

[DallasEast]

None of it makes any sense. And the online criticism is well justified. Marvel’s quality control has really taken a drop off. Stuff like this would have never passed muster in years past.

I’m hopeful that the entire subplot with G’iah and the British agent is thrown out and forgotten about. The less said about it the better. Forget it ever happened.

It is a good bet that the subplot will be meshed with something later on, maybe even The Marvels. I would prefer G'iah being depowered to simply approximately four powers, with one of the sacrifices being her Tesseract power.

Humans are innovative. The Tony Starks. The Reed Richards. Humanity has geniuses but give me a break. The Kree is one of the most advanced scientific civilizations in the galaxy. They have been fighting Captain Marvel for a LONG time. Surely, they would have used forensic science and obtained a sample of Danvers' DNA from a battle scene at some point and made a Super Tesseract Kree to fight her IF DNA was that easy to grant an Infinity Stone power. My imagination is more flexible than average but it has been stretched pretty thin by that one detail.

 

[DallasEast]

Spoiler: Spol

At the very end, what was Sonya doing with the mindcontrol machines? Was it ingering that she took that technology from the Skrull for her gain?

Spoiler

Falsworth is MI:6 and every bit the intelligence agent counterpart to Fury. My bet is that every bit of technology she gets her hands on will be reverse engineered as leverage. Heck, she trusts G'iah about as far as she could throw her, lol.

 

[nobody]

Is it me, or did the MCU quality mostly start to drop off at Stan Lee's passing? Maybe I'm getting the timing wrong.

 

[DallasEast]

Is it me, or did the MCU quality mostly start to drop off at Stan Lee's passing? Maybe I'm getting the timing wrong.

Your assumption may not be far off, lol.

 

[Stash]

Is it me, or did the MCU quality mostly start to drop off at Stan Lee's passing? Maybe I'm getting the timing wrong.

I think you’re very close. For me, it was post Avengers: Endgame.

I feel that the planning was meticulous until that point.

But once their attention was diverted to television in addition to films, quality has suffered.

 

[DallasEast]

10 Best DC Characters Created By Jack Kirby​

By Ashley Land | CBR
July 29, 2023

One of the true fathers of modern comics, Jack Kirby has left one of the biggest footprints on the comic book industry. The legendary creator of characters like Captain America, Silver Surfer, and co-creator of the X-Men and Fantastic Four, Kirby is best known as a Marvel mainstay. However, in the 1970s, he departed Marvel Comics and went on to write some powerful stories for DC Comics. While there, he wrote, drew and edited some of the decade's most influential stories and created characters who remain staples of the genre.
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10 Metron
09 Highfather
08 OMAC
07 Kamandi
06 The Challengers Of The Unknown
05 Big Barda
04 Orion
03 Etrigan The Demon
02 Mister Miracle
01 Darkseid

 

[joseephuss]

Is it me, or did the MCU quality mostly start to drop off at Stan Lee's passing? Maybe I'm getting the timing wrong.

Maybe when they placed Kevin Feige in charge of Marvel TV and Marvel Comics.

 

[John813]

Curious if when Fiege gained pretty much full control over Marvel in 19 over Perlmutter and Alan Fine leaving the company had an effect too. I've read that those two in the past had delayed/put on hold movies/shows(for better or worse) and since 2019 Fiege has had pretty much the only say for films/tv but until Disney's boss Iger said they wanted to cutback on content just recently. Ignoring Ike's views, it seemed like he was a beancounter, something now Disney cares about now that they've had several "flops".
Then there was Loeb who was part of Agents of SHIELD and had wrote some comics as well who left for another company.

I knew Fine from 13-15 years ago, during Phase-1 and 2 of the Marvel franchise. He lived in a club near Palm Beach Gardens. Nice guy, and surprisingly humble/willing to talk to "regular people". He was one of the executive producers during the first 2-3 phases IIRC.

 

[The Ominous]

 

[DallasEast]

 

[DallasEast]

"We Didn't Know It Was The End": Jonathan Frakes On Directing Star Trek Discovery Series Finale​

By John Orquiola | ScreenRant
July 30, 2023

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In an interview with Variety conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strikes, Jonathan Frakes explained how he came aboard to direct the first half of Star Trek: Discovery's season 5 finale, only to later learn that Paramount+ canceled the show, which made season 5 the final season. Read his quote below:

“I directed the first half of the finale of Season 5, which turned out to be the real finale. So that was a very emotional end as well. When we did it, we didn’t know it was the end. And then [‘Discovery’ executive producer and director] Olatunde Osunsanmi had to go back up and do two or three days of new stuff to actually make the finale the finale.”​

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[quickccc]

10 Best DC Characters Created By Jack Kirby​

By Ashley Land | CBR
July 29, 2023

One of the true fathers of modern comics, Jack Kirby has left one of the biggest footprints on the comic book industry. The legendary creator of characters like Captain America, Silver Surfer, and co-creator of the X-Men and Fantastic Four, Kirby is best known as a Marvel mainstay. However, in the 1970s, he departed Marvel Comics and went on to write some powerful stories for DC Comics. While there, he wrote, drew and edited some of the decade's most influential stories and created characters who remain staples of the genre.
Read more

10 Metron
09 Highfather
08 OMAC
07 Kamandi
06 The Challengers Of The Unknown
05 Big Barda
04 Orion
03 Etrigan The Demon
02 Mister Miracle
01 Darkseid

Interesting.... I'm so very familiar with two of the aforementioned DC Comic entities,.. not so much the others.

In fact Etrigan the Demon remains one of my very DC comics (that I am dying to make a live action film)

I heard of Mister Miracle but the title name seemed too corny so I never became interested.

 

[quickccc]

Maybe when they placed Kevin Feige in charge of Marvel TV and Marvel Comics.

Is it more Disney than it is Kevin Feige ... or both?

I was already fretting about Disney’s platform when it bought over Marvel Studios.
That Disney would take away some darker approach and elements (ala Netflix) to make more lighter family oriented version and platforms
especially in the TV streaming series - I could agree that it was the Disney streaming series that could be responsible for some of the over fatigue issues.

 

[Runwildboys]

"We Didn't Know It Was The End": Jonathan Frakes On Directing Star Trek Discovery Series Finale​

By John Orquiola | ScreenRant
July 30, 2023

<snip>

In an interview with Variety conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strikes, Jonathan Frakes explained how he came aboard to direct the first half of Star Trek: Discovery's season 5 finale, only to later learn that Paramount+ canceled the show, which made season 5 the final season. Read his quote below:

“I directed the first half of the finale of Season 5, which turned out to be the real finale. So that was a very emotional end as well. When we did it, we didn’t know it was the end. And then [‘Discovery’ executive producer and director] Olatunde Osunsanmi had to go back up and do two or three days of new stuff to actually make the finale the finale.”​

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Crap!

 

[quickccc]

Curious if when Fiege gained pretty much full control over Marvel in 19 over Perlmutter and Alan Fine leaving the company had an effect too. I've read that those two in the past had delayed/put on hold movies/shows(for better or worse) and since 2019 Fiege has had pretty much the only say for films/tv but until Disney's boss Iger said they wanted to cutback on content just recently. Ignoring Ike's views, it seemed like he was a beancounter, something now Disney cares about now that they've had several "flops".
Then there was Loeb who was part of Agents of SHIELD and had wrote some comics as well who left for another company.

I knew Fine from 13-15 years ago, during Phase-1 and 2 of the Marvel franchise. He lived in a club near Palm Beach Gardens. Nice guy, and surprisingly humble/willing to talk to "regular people". He was one of the executive producers during the first 2-3 phases IIRC.

I could agree about Disney cutting back on contents.
I had even anticipated that.

Frankly most of Disney's formatted series, i admit that I have had a difficult time getting interest.
The only ones that have been stand out has been Falcon/Winter Soldier .. i only found Wanda Vision intriguing more towards the final series.

But the She Hulks, even Loki, ..and ugh the Ms Marvel series I can see why superhero fatigue could set in ...
And that's just the streaming series.
Although even particular Netflix Marvel series wasn't received well with particular critics and audiences (ala Iron Fist, Defenders)

Sorry I just could not get into Nick toon like Ms Marvel, and i have major questions and disappoints about She-Hulk.
Has it been Hit and Miss on Marvel films at the box office ? - Such as the awful Thor: Love and Thunder

 

[DallasEast]

Interesting.... I'm so very familiar with two of the aforementioned DC Comic entities,.. not so much the others.

In fact Etrigan the Demon remains one of my very DC comics (that I am dying to make a live action film)

I heard of Mister Miracle but the title name seemed too corny so I never became interested.

Had a feeling you would enjoy the Etrigan mention. James Gunn has the type of imagination to introduce a character like Etrigan. It is just a matter of 'fitting' him into the DCU mainstream.

I tried Kamandi but the character and plot never grew on me. The Challengers of the Unknown was a good title that did not get a lot of traction. For me, the comic was Jack Kirby's way of writing Jonny Quest type stories.

OMAC surprised me. I drew (pun intended) a complete blank about him.

The same cannot be said of the rest of the New Genesis/Apokolips characters. I love every single one, including Mister Miracle. There was never a dead end situation or trap he could not outwit and escape from. I have often wondered if Kirby was greatly influenced by Houdini because THAT'S who he was--a cross of a great escape artist and a New demi-god.

 

[VaqueroTD]

Is it me, or did the MCU quality mostly start to drop off at Stan Lee's passing? Maybe I'm getting the timing wrong.

Definitely added to the novelty trying to catch his guaranteed cameo along with hidden post-credit scenes. Better than She-Hulk and talking outside the box to god creator Kevin Feige, that’s for sure. ***?!

 

[quickccc]

Top 10 Strongest Villains in The Marvel Universe!​

MEPHISTO

GALACTUS

MOLECULE MAN

THE BEYONDER

Onslaught

MICHAEL KORVAC

Annihilus

MAN GOG

KNULL

CHAOS KING

 

[quickccc]

Ranking the Top 10 Most Powerful Super Suits in the Entire Universe




1) HEAVEN PIERCING GURREN LAGANN

2) Harbinger of Doom (Batman)

3) GOD KILLER - IRON MAN MODEL 61

4) DOCTOR DOOM

5) Cyborg (DC)

6) Superior Iron Man Kit (aka Endo Sym armor)

7) The DESTROYER (Marvel)

8) En Sabah Nur The Apocalypse (Marvel)

9) Hell Bat armor ( DC comics)

10) Lex Luthor's War suit ( DC Comics)

" Honorable Mentions "

Blue Beetle

Iron Spider Armor

Jaeger ( Pacific Rim)

ANT MAN suit

Hulk Buster

War Machine Mark IV

Black Panther Suit

Dr. Octopus

ATOM