I would be cool with it. Even the little bit shown in WandaVision fits that title.
Seriously, what IS wrong with you? Why do you hate John Byrne so much?oh man. That is a great question.
Days of Future Past was fairly brief, with two, maybe three issues at most, all under the Uncanny title. The dynamic change from the "usual" everyday mutant experience, although often filled with peril, mirrored normalcy. Then DFP comes along and flips everything upside down. A dreadful bleak future. Dead mutants, even the heavy hitters are gone. A desperate hypertensive secret mission is devised to reverse all that had transpired. It was an excellent time travel/paradox plot.
Not sure if Marvel ever rebooted The Brood Saga after I stopped buying comics on a weekly basis. I remember the original story, which solely fell under the Uncanny title like DFP. I will say this as a movie horror fan. That story reminded me so much of John Carpenter's The Thing. I mean, HOW can the team survive after being abducted and transformed into hideous Alien looking parasites? And yeah. They LOOKED like Ridley Scott's creatures but the transformation process reminded me moreso of The Thing because the eggs they laid inside a host converted the entire body instead of the parasite popping out of the person's body. The story was sublime and awesome.
The Dark Phoenix Saga still takes my breath away. To me, Jean Grey was a beloved character. She was originally the meek Marvel Girl, who matured over time into a well-rounded mutant superhero of her own before the infamous space shuttle mission. Cosmic being and mutant merged into one being. After that new hybrid character take root over a short time, Chris Claremont and John Bryne allowed TDPS to take Jean and the rest of the team down into a hell hole, with the Hellfire Club being the catalyst of Dark Phoenix's emergence. I could be wrong but I think it was the first time the title itself went cosmic. Jean freaking destroyed an entire solar system. An ENTIRE solar system. Like it was nothing. Xavier and Beast got her mind back under control just in time for the Shi'ar to swoop in and put The Phoenix on trial for genocide. Jean makes the ultimate sacrifice in the end, saving Scott and the everyone else (maybe in the entire galaxy or more) from utter destruction. I am almost tempted to say TDPS was the biggest except...
Age of Apocalypse.
Age.
Of.
Apocalypse.
Marvel Comics had this idea. Place the X-Men at the center of its universe. Have events warp reality itself into a totally different one even more bleak than what was seen in DFP. And connected EVERY <expletive> X-Men publication title to that story. No X-title (What? Seven? Eight? I do not remember exactly how many publications got lumped in) was spared. Every character in the "normal" universe was twisted under Apocalypse's shadow. Good guys became bad guys. Bad guys became good guys. So much to discuss. Do not have that kind of time though lol. Little things were fantastic. Like. How the HECK did Wolverine end up one handed?????? Oh. Cyclops optic beamed that hand into nothingness that's how. And that reveal did not surface until well into the saga that last an ENTIRE year. TWELVE months. 12. And his Horsemen! All bad <expletive>. And the main man himself, Apocalypse, was so utterly evil, not only wiping out the whole homo sapien race in favor of homo superior all over the North American continent and was about to expand his genocidal campaign regularly across the globe before he was stopped. He was even more cruel towards mutants he considered weak.
And all this happened without Charles Xavier.
Biggest? In my opinion, it's AOA. Final answer.
Edit: Left out Byrne's name again. What is WRONG with me?
I'm like Raj from The Big Bang Theory:Seriously, what IS wrong with you? Why do you hate John Byrne so much?
Hey. I have zero problem with anyone disagreeing with me. Days of Future Past was awesome and does not really take a backseat to any other story.AoA is the biggest, it spanned more titles and longest.
DPS is my favorite, it just "felt" like the biggest. The team changed after that. Jean Grey was a beloved character, but she was a touchstone for the rest of the team. She was the mediator, the calm one, the encouraging one, the one the rest could talk to, so when she does her heel turn..........
DoFP, you're right it was only two issues, but it was probably the "biggest" 2 issue story ever written. I still remember the cover, "This Issue. Everybody Dies"
I cannot recall reading or hearing that story before. Maybe I have and forgotten it. Thanks for posting that.It's funny that you mention Ridley Scott and Alien in the Brood story. They actually did a single issue homage to Alien with Kitty Pryde playing the Ripley role.
Byrne has recalled that "We wanted to do an homage to the movie Alien, and I don't know whether I was demented or what in those days, but I honestly thought when I was drawing it that people wouldn't instantly realize where we got it from. I thought I was being really clever, how I was making little twists and turns to change it. Only the ending where she used the Blackbird (jet) to blast the N'Garai to death was the same. And then Chris kind of wrote [the script] even more like the movie. By the time I actually read it, it was like, 'Oh, well, wait till the lawsuits come...' But they never did."
I ain't getting no real work done today.
I'm like Raj from The Big Bang Theory:
Hey. I have zero problem with anyone disagreeing with me. Days of Future Past was awesome and does not really take a backseat to any other story.
Great issue cover.
I cannot recall reading or hearing that story before. Maybe I have and forgotten it. Thanks for posting that.
Perhaps the movie bigwigs did not think much of a comic book rendition of Alien. I'm glad. The Brood Saga was fantastic.
I was happy when they did the re-design. There was zero need for them to have made Carol look like a knockoff of Mar-vell.Original Ms. Marvel costume
New Ms Marvel costume
This will be my final off-topic nerd out (keep your fingers crossed
Man. It's been a looooooooooong time since I saw those prices.
This I agree with.
This I cannot agree with. Not me. Nope. uh uh. No way.In fact I actually enjoyed the entire Phoenix and Dark Phoenix saga thru 90's animation series ,than i did the Marvel comics.
Well, practically everything does fade eventually. Other than that:
Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness
8.50 of 10.00
A bit of advice for anyone going to see it. Buckle up. You are in for a ride.
Special effects? Superb. Great visuals of sorcery AND witchcraft and some sci-fi thrown in too.
As expected, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong are a perfect pair as Strange and Wong. Glad to see they allowed Rachel McAdams much more screen time in the sequel. Elisabeth Olsen brings the house. Thanos is fortunate he did not run into her now lol.
For what it is worth, America Chavez, played by Xochitl Gomez, who I believe will be a MCU fixture for some time to come, is not ridiculously overpowered for practically the entire movie. However, the character demonstrated enough that what she did show is only the tip of the iceberg.
So MANY spoilers. Hopefully, many will see it sooner than later so they can be talked about (without being deleted, lol). Just a couple more things to mention for now:
Next up for the MCU: The Thunderer Dude...
- I have zero idea what happens to WandaVision now.
- The first ending credit scene pops up early with a very familiar face not seen throughout the movie and any previous MCU movie or series. It is a brief appearance but I think it is worth the wait.
- The second ending credit scene happens at the very end of the scroll with a face seen during the movie. It is not that much BUT you might wait in order to have a good honest chuckle before leaving.
Well crap! (If I agree.)
