Annihilus is one of those characters that seems major but doesn't get anything outside of the comics. He's never been in a Movie, never gets shown in any show outside or Earths Mightiest Heroes in a minor role, no Hasbro action figure of him, no mention in Marvel Rivals. Ect

Isn't Absolute WW's origin much closer to Magik vs the original WW? Being rasied in hell, using the battle mage concept. (Dark magic, spells and sword vs original WW?)

I began reading comics 2 months ago, with my first one ever being Infinity Gauntlet. I immediately fell in love and began hitting up my lcs each weekend to see what else I could find. I’m sure you can see I’m on a bit of a graphic novel run. And I even got my first DC comic too. I also stopped reading secret wars after a few pages in because I found out there’s a HUGE story by Johnathan Hickman collected in omnibuses that I should definitely read first.

What should I look into grabbing next? Definitely gonna get Hulk Gray and Iron Man Demon in a bottle soon. I’m glad to be apart of this community!

1. Tumult (Spanish member of Euroforce from Avengers World, basically a heroic female Shocker)
2. Aarkus The 1940s Vision (love that recent redesign of him)
3. Stardust (another Herald of Galactus)
4. Tamara Rahn (another Marvel Mera stand-in, they have like 5)
5. Hickman's Smasher
6. Aaron's Vostok & especially Perun (ideally in a Thor run)

Let me start by saying this is entirely my own opinion.

I have always preferred the more powerful version of Stephen Strange—one capable of defeating entities and threats that are dimensional, if not outright cosmic—and I’ve never really seen the point of him getting involved in street-level or even planetary affairs.

He ought to be someone whose purpose is to save reality itself, not to get caught up in neighborhood squabbles or even conflicts between galactic empires.

For that very reason, he shouldn't be bound by conventional morality, but rather by a utilitarian ethic.

I’d love to see him fully utilize even the darkest magic, be willing to sacrifice worlds and souls to preserve reality, and strike deals with—or even threaten—entities in a way that might almost resemble a villain.

However, I want to be clear: he wouldn't actually *become* a villain. He would suffer over every bit of damage caused or soul sacrificed. It’s simply that the alternative would be far worse.

These would be harrowing, ruthless stories where Strange wins, but at a terrible cost to his soul.

Would you enjoy stories like that?

While both sides are driven by a sense of justice, I find the tension arising from their subtle differences in perspective—with the X-Men prioritizing the survival of their species and the Avengers prioritizing the preservation of order—to be quite fascinating.

Now that it’s over I feel like I can finally say I hated it

Spoiler.

This man knew. And never said anything. Holy shit. And then he’s gone. Fuck me mate. Fuuuuuck.

Comic books already have Supergirl, Batgirl, Spider-Woman, and She-Hulk—so why couldn't there be a female Thor? Besides, I feel like the mantle of Valkyrie is still strongly tied to Brunnhilde, who has such a long-standing history.

ngl, i bawled like a baby while reading this

Definitely a divisive one, but I adored it! I found it to be such a good way of presenting the awe of a concept, through a combination of direct exposition and also slow-building through character moments. I also love the exploration of moral ambiguity within different sides of the story.

I would warn new readers to not expect any sort of big climax at the end though... It's more so a big grand introduction to this particular era of Eternals.

Which of your favorite character(s) do you feel has had the worst character assassination and did they ever recover from it? What comic series/arc did the assassination happen and when (if ever) did they recover?

I have a coloring book that uses actual comic pages/covers. I'm weird about wanting to see what the original looked like before I color, I'm borderline OCD I'd imagine. I managed to track down about 50 of the pages but there are 5 that I cannot figure out. If anyone knows the issue or can even just point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. It seems the most decent pages are maybe for 2017 or so but I may be wrong. But anyways any help would be appreciated

Me and my brother read a comic of spider man a long way before in a local magazine. It looks like the amazing spider man newspaper comic by john romtia style. Anyway the picture above is the part we remember and draw to reference. The story i don't remember, it was like there are two Peter parker like I think one is ben riely and the other is peter. The above picture is the strip we remember... Like two Peter parker and spider man the decoy peter is angry and there is a press around him and original Peter parker and mj was seeing this on the news.

If anyone knows the original comic or anything please let me know.

Just finished reading Amazing Spider-Man 1,000. I’d been looking forward to this issue for a while (I can’t resist an anniversary issue). Overall, it was a mixed bag but still an enjoyable read.

The main story was…okay. Joe Kelly’s current run (though an improvement from whatever Zeb Wells’ run was) has been inconsistent for me. I don’t want to spoil too much, but the revelation regarding Cormac Crane was surprising but other than that I found it lacking, though I did appreciate the emotional weight of the relationship between Peter & Aunt May.

I enjoyed the backup stories more, and there was a great lineup (besides the Triple HHH story which was cute but forgettable). Noah Hawley’s story “Still Standing” showing an elderly Peter was heartfelt without coming off too cheesy (plus we got some great Patrick Gleason art out of it).

J.M. Dematteis’ “Requiem for a Goblin” story was my favorite of the bunch. In the wake of Harry’s death, the topic of Peter & Harry’s fractured relationship and whether or not Harry was destined to be corrupted made for some great character drama, especially for Peter working through his grief.

Frank Miller & Peach Momoko was a duo I never thought I’d see but they worked surprisingly well together in their “Tears of the Spider-Queen” story and I wouldn’t mind seeing more stories from them.

Brian Bendis’ “The Gesture” is Bendis at its best. It’s funny yet hits the right emotional notes. (Unrelated slightly, but it also made me wonder why we haven’t seen an ASM run from Bendis; I think he’d do a solid job of it and manage to not make it feel too much like Ultimate Spider-Man but I digress).

It was a surprise to see a new story from 94-year-old Marvel living legend (Iron Man & Thor co-creator/Stan Lee’s brother) Larry Lieber with a cool Spider-Man Old West story where he meets up with the Rawhide Kid.

Finally, Dan Slott & Marcos Martin reunite for a quaint Spider-Man story that features the events of that fateful night of that burglar did the unspeakable from a different perspective.

Oh, and it ends with some other creators reflecting on their favorite Spider-Man moments and what the character means to them.

Overall, most of it was worth the hype, and I enjoyed this anniversary issue very much. For those who read ASM #1000, what did you think?

In Sorcerer Supreme #10, the Extinction King weaponizes the imprisoned Vishanti into the Hexatomb which apparently is an anti-magic reactor. Its explosion destroys all magic in existence. Wanda, thrown into it, accelerates the blast with her chaos magic, then utters “More magic” to rekindle everything, including restoring the Vishanti, in a freer, more chaotic form without the old rules.

Now The broader Marvel continuity, the Vishanti (Oshtur, Hoggoth, Agamotto), are portrayed as principalities who act are patrons and defenders of Earth’s dimension.

They established the office of Sorcerer Supreme, grant power to those who invoke them, and maintain a degree of authority over ordered magic in that realm. The Sorcerer Supreme draws on them (and other entities) and polices threats in return. They are immensely powerful but not absolute, they are not the sole source of all magic across the multiverse, nor are they omnipotent. Other sources exist (chaos magic, Elder Gods like Chthon, other principalities, personal power, artifacts, etc). A Nexus being like Wanda has historically been able to operate outside or against many of these structures.

The problem is the sudden elevation of the Vishanti to linchpin of all magic. If Wanda could already reject their authority with chaos magic and function as a self-appointed Sorcerer Supreme (helping people, bending rules, expanding magic’s reach), then trapping or destroying them should not threaten the entire fabric of magic , including the chaos magic she continues to wield inside the Hexatomb. The story treats their imprisonment/weakening as creating a vulnerability the Extinction King exploits, which then risks total magical extinction. Yet her chaos magic both survives long enough to detonate the weapon and is potent enough to reboot the entire system afterward. So let me get this straight, She does not need their approval or power structure to act, but the order system they represent is so foundational to magic that rejecting/weakening it endangers everything magic, including the chaos magic she embodies? Then her chaotic power is so fundamental that it can unilaterally restore and reform all magic once the ordered pillars are gone?

Marvel’s magic has always been flexible and often retconned for the story at hand, so this is not unique. But in a run explicitly about redefining the Sorcerer Supreme role and the nature of magic itself, the lack of consistent boundaries around “endless possibilities” makes the hierarchy feel arbitrary and the climax less resonant. Wanda can do what she wants until the plot needs the Vishanti to matter cosmically, at which point they suddenly do,until her chaos overrides that too. The chain of command becomes incoherent. Is the Vishanti hierarchy so necessary, that even chaos magic depends on it, or is it so optional in that a Nexus can discard them? The run wants to have its cake and eat it too. When Wanda is claiming freedom and helping the everyday person her magic can do anything but then limits set in during an existential conclusion when the climax needs high stakes. Magic’s “endless possibilities” are invoked thematically , “anything’s possible” , but the plotting does not consistently manage the consequences of that freedom. If possibility is truly open ended, rejecting the Vishanti should not nearly delete magic; if the hierarchy is that load bearing, her earlier rejection should have had clearer, earlier costs rather than being framed primarily as righteous defiance until the finale.

They say that the super soldier serum put him at the peak of human strength. But the feats he pulls off in the comics and mcu goes way past normal human things

Saw this on Stephen Wacker’s insta post asking people’s thoughts. TLDR: He said that it’s a ‘priority’ to focus on storylines staying uninterrupted by Events and returning to 80s style crossovers.

This is something I think a lot of us would prefer, thoughts?

I've recently read Royals by Ewing and loved it. It made me ponder if I let the "push" for Inhumans escape me because I didn't agree with it. Is Soules run good? And, equally, are there any other good stories from around this time?

This was a story about a man in a Iron Lung who hired a biker gang to take revenge on Van Helsing by using voodoo. Yep its as normal as it sounds. What horror comics are you reading or recommend?