Sparky Prime wrote:It's the classic Spider-Man costume, not the Superior Spider-Man costume. I recall seeing an article on Newsarama a while ago about Marvel Now! continuity being messy. That article mentions Slott had said on his Twitter page that part of "Age of Ultron" takes place before events of "Superior Spider-Man". So this actually is Peter Parker in this issue, not Doc Ock. Yet Superior Spider-Man will be involved with "Age of Ultron" later on... So no idea how that is supposed to work with the continuity, but there you have it.
Yeah, as I said I would yesterday, I skimmed this at the shop, and that's definitely Peter Parker the Amazing Spider-Man. Just glancing through, I wasn't sure what the exact nature of 'Age of Ultron' is, I kinda got the impression it was an alternate universe/bad future story like 'Age of Apocalypse' or 'House of M', is that not the case? Because if all this world-destroying, robots-eating-people chaos is going on in the mainline Marvel universe right now...the other books don't seem to have noticed. Or at least the other Spider-books haven't.
Also worth noting that, on the big 'wall of characters' spread a few pages into AoU #2, Spider-Man and Dr. Octopus's photos were conspiciously overlapped, so it's clear they're at least aware of the situation...
Sparky Prime wrote:It's the classic Spider-Man costume, not the Superior Spider-Man costume. I recall seeing an article on Newsarama a while ago about Marvel Now! continuity being messy. That article mentions Slott had said on his Twitter page that part of "Age of Ultron" takes place before events of "Superior Spider-Man". So this actually is Peter Parker in this issue, not Doc Ock. Yet Superior Spider-Man will be involved with "Age of Ultron" later on... So no idea how that is supposed to work with the continuity, but there you have it.
Yeah, as I said I would yesterday, I skimmed this at the shop, and that's definitely Peter Parker the Amazing Spider-Man.
No sir. Just saw tweets from Slott today that specifically say it's the Superior Spider-Man in Age of Ultron. So maybe Bendis didn't get the memo, or Otto's being really good at maintaining the charade and is wearing an old suit. Dunno.
Dominic wrote: too many people likely would have enjoyed it as....well a house-elf gang-bang.
Scourge McDuck wrote:No sir. Just saw tweets from Slott today that specifically say it's the Superior Spider-Man in Age of Ultron. So maybe Bendis didn't get the memo, or Otto's being really good at maintaining the charade and is wearing an old suit. Dunno.
Well see, what the hell do I know?
Like I said, per Avenging Spider-Man, I can buy that Otto's that good at the Parker act, it's just the suit that really threw me off (though at least the eyes seemed to be drawn more as reflective lenses in the panels I saw). I dunno, the whole thing seems like a fuck-up that they're having to cover for now, using tweets and all. Wasn't this originally scheduled to come out much earlier than it is now?
That's the rumor, it was supposed to come out earlier and pushed back to make room for AvX. It was advertised in that Marvel .1 back in the day, anyhow.
Scourge McDuck. Holy shit, that's awesome. I'm half tempted to bother JT for a namechange now.
Dominic wrote: too many people likely would have enjoyed it as....well a house-elf gang-bang.
138 Scourge wrote:No sir. Just saw tweets from Slott today that specifically say it's the Superior Spider-Man in Age of Ultron. So maybe Bendis didn't get the memo, or Otto's being really good at maintaining the charade and is wearing an old suit. Dunno.
Then what was Slott talking about when he tweeted a couple months ago that at least part of Age of Ultron would take place before the events of Superior Spider-Man, as that Newsarama article I linked said? If now he's saying it's all supposed to be Superior Spider-Man, then I'm thinking they decided to change some things about the story behind the scenes and is causing this confusion...
BWprowl wrote:I dunno, the whole thing seems like a fuck-up that they're having to cover for now, using tweets and all. Wasn't this originally scheduled to come out much earlier than it is now?
Yeah, that's what I'm getting out of all of this. I have seen reports that Age of Ultron has been in the works for a long time. So it's likely this was supposed to be Peter originally, and rather than make some changes to update this story current events, they're just forcing it.
I dunno, Sparky. I'm not close enough with Slott that I can ask him. But not having read Age of Ultron, I'd guess that maybe we haven't seen the part of the story that has Peter in it? Starts off in a fucked up future or present or some shit, maybe later parts will have flashbacks with Pete?
Honestly, these few posts aremore effort than I should put into a book I'm not reading.
Also, my phone thinks that Spider-Man is written by a spoon, judging by what it wants to autocorrect the writer's name to.
Dominic wrote: too many people likely would have enjoyed it as....well a house-elf gang-bang.
Hey, I'm just commenting that what Slott said before goes against what he's saying today. Seems to me that Marvel decided to change their mind on when this story takes place and the comic itself doesn't really help that matter. They'll probably have a tie-in or something that patches things up down the line, but for right now, it's just confusing given the contradictions.
"Age of Ultron" was being pushed at least 2 years ago, maybe 3. (I know that Marvel;s FCBD 2011 book referenced it. And, I am 90% sure that Marvel pushed it during the "Heroic Age", not long after "Siege".)
The writing and art were probably (at least mostly) done before "Superior Spider-Man". The easiest thing would have been to not cross "Age of Ultron" over with "Superior Spider-Man". But, editorial/marketing would likely have seen otherwise. Now, guys like Slott and Bendis have to make statements and edit by decree....while both books are coming out.
Dom
-of course, even being 3 years late is better than "Multiversity" being at least 5 years late....assuming it ever comes out at all.
The Superior Spider-Man #6:
It’s like Batman kept trying to tell us, that slippery slope is a dangerous thing. Riding high off his simultaneous dispensing of justice and Massacre (it’s confirmed in this issue that Spidey did kill him), Otto finds that taking the law into his own hands on that level feels pretty good. It also attracts the attention of the Avengers, however, who here just convene to talk about the obvious changes that have occurred in the hero (so apparently the amazing blindness to his personality change is limited only to Peter’s civilian friends), and it’s nice to see that even they aren’t *totally* opposed to killing off a villain if the situation merits it (Wolverine, naturally, has no problem with the practice). Oh sure, this issue starts out in typical form, Otto swinging to meet everyone’s favorite new midget-tutor-physicist-love-interest Anna, bragging about how unlike Peter, he can actually balance his superheroing with his life and be on time for his engagements, but things quickly take a dark turn down memory lane as we and Peter are plunged into more Freudian-excuse-flashbacks of Otto’s, in this case, surprise surprise, that he was bullied as a child! This bodes badly for the information-age super-prankster-villains introduced in this issue, tempered by Otto witnessing a couple of Anna’s classmates taunting her (though not for her size, but rather the size of her car, which I thought was interesting), who don’t do too well either. In the end Otto, finally flustered by the stress building up from dealing with the imbeciles around him at work, his newfound school stress, and those mean ol’ meanypants bullies, cuts loose in a temper tantrum of brutalizing the two petty crooks over a live internet feed, with a lot of Spidey/Peter’s closer friends watching. Is the jig finally up? Was Otto as Spider-Man always just one kill away from going over the line to a truly dangerous, irresponsible vigilante? Who’s truly ‘Superior’ now? Answers to none of those questions will probably be forthcoming, as the next issue is apparently going to focus on the Avengers trying to bring Spidey in and the big fight that’ll ensue there, but here at least it was nice of them to follow up on the ‘How far over the deep end did killing Massacre push Otto?’ thread so quickly and succinctly. Sadly, as hard hitting as the story turns out to be (it’s got extremely nice pacing, with Otto’s demeanor and the situation around it gradually boiling until it spills over into the intense show of violence we see), the art drops in this issue, trading the previous artist (who I’ve shamefully forgotten the name of, but rest assured he was turning in some great stuff) with the infamous Ramos (you know that shot of ‘big neck Wolverine’ that gets passed around the internet? He’s responsible for that) and that guy’s art is just no fun to look at, all cramped panels, and twisted, exaggerated anatomy and bizarre proportions. He’ll probably be sticking around at least for this story arc, but hopefully it won’t be much longer than that. At least Slott’s writing of this series is still exactly where I like it to be, and the vicious gear-shift that occurs here shows that he has no intention of idling in a status quo when there’s THINGS he can be doing with this book. Looks like we’ve got a character arc on our hands, boys!
Van Lente’s GI Joe #2 came out this week too, but my shop was sold out when I got there. So that was fun while it lasted. Seriously though, they’ll probably get more copies in in a week or two, and I’ll just download scans or something in the meantime.
I notice that Spiderman is using the old costume in this issue, which I suppose (kind of) reconcile the costume seen in "Age of Ultron".
Action Comics #18:
And, Morrison's run ends. Not having read the lead up, I am not sure what to make of this issue. As is typical, Morrison's writing does not quite mesh with what is established elsewhere. Morrison is more ham-fisted than usual in driving home the "Superman as an idea/franchise" theme Grade: B/C (This might go up or down if/when I get around to reading the rest of the book.)
MLP (Rainbow Dash) microseries #2:
-see the pony thread.
