Thanks :lol

"Civil War comes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe early...well sorta. Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt purposed a little wager to Captain America star Chris Evans via Twitter over which team will win the this years Super Bowl. If Pratt's team the Seattle Seahawks win the big game then Evans must dress up as Captain America and visit the Seattle Children's Hospital waving the 12th man flag. If Evan's New England Patriots win then Pratt must dress up as Star-Lord and visit the Christopher's Haven, a nonprofit that provides supportive housing for families whose children are receiving outpatient pediatric cancer treatments in Boston, MA. Here is how the challenge went down."

http://marvelousnews.com/index.php?c...6&itemid=18458

Wow thats pretty awesome from both of them. I just love thos guys.

Secret Wars: Last Days and Secret Wars: battlworld branded books got announced.

http://www.newsarama.com/23301-marve...ttleworld.html

http://www.newsarama.com/23288-last-...-revealed.html

The third branding should be announced tomorrow.

Chris Pratt and Chris Evan's are both competing for nicest guy ever.

;A; whoever loses will be okay with it when you think about it!

Nobody loses, it's a win for everybody.

Heck, both of them dressing up no matter the result wouldn't surprise me. :lol

Could we just take a moment and talk about how awesome the new Ant-Man book is? I really wasnt expecting this one to turn out so good as it did. The 4.99 were a great investment and its really rare to see a mainstrem superhero comic that does not have a single fight scene in it.

These guys are great.

I really want to get it… but I'm really broke. :cry

Venom got a new suit design :D

http://www.craveonline.com/comics/ar...eady-new-venom

And it's fine...

But their reasoning really rubs me the wrong way.

"Kids today don't know Venom was a villain so let's just ignore that and keep making him look more heroic."

Just incredibly disrespectful to all the work put into him as a villain... And he's always been one of my favorite Spidey villains and I'll always think of him as that monster. But it looks like they never want that aspect to show up again.

Which I think is alot better for what the character actually represents now.

Venom hasnt been a Villain for ages and since Flash took over the symbiote they pushed him more and more into a heroic direction. Especially now that the symbiote that once posessed Brock is now nolonger there after this weeks issue of Guardians.

Venom is still a villain in the cartoons, and toys also depict his more villanous form, so I doubt they'll compeltely erase that role for him,
This simply is due to Flash's development in the comics.

The new suit is sleek, though personally I prefer the miltary one.

Pretty much. in other media you will always get the Brock-Venom. Just in the comics there is no real reason anymore to keep Venom a villain.

Sorry, but I just want Venom to be Venom again. The initial character as a „lethal protector“ with a little bit of silly craziness was the best the character was ever at. After that, it watered down drastically for me. He started eating people and was a freakin monster, then he becomes some kind of super-agent. That's not Venom for me.

I acknowledge that the Agent Venom comics are really good, but I still can't accept how they mangled Venom, or Symbiots in general. I mean just look at what a freaking mess this is with all the Symbiotes. Anti-Venom was an interesting concept that was never properly developed and got killed of too quickly. And they killed poor old Mulligan just so they can give Brock a Symbiot. Again. Which isn’t really doing anything. Last time I saw him he made peace with Flash and that's it.

The new costume looks stupid, like something Ben 10 would turn into. First they killed of Venom's most defining look, the sharp-toothed mouth with the big tongue, and now they kill the last thing that was left of the face? It looks ass.

I guess I'll still have to wait for the reboot, when Brock somehow ends up with the Symbiot again and is just being an anti-hero again.

Brock sucks. After his initial introduction in the comics he just became a character without any real purpose. the lethal protector era was just a dumb concept. they tried to make Brock an anti hero who could still somewhat work as a villain and it failed. The Character soon became nothing more but a joke. There was nothing left of his early presence as a dark mirror of Spider-Man and the novelty of "Oh he is Spider-Man but eeeeevil." rubeed off extremely quick.

Only with Flash Thompson as Venom did they finally manage to make Venom a character again and not just a gimmick. Flash has a personality you can actually work with and tell stories in the long run that are actually worthwhile.

With Brock you never had that. they tried to move that character forward and never could. Thats why that character fell into the background becuase they just couldnt manage to keep that guy relevant in any form.

What? Last time I saw him a few months ago he was still Flash Thompson with a suit. That could have changed since I don't bother following this crap, but it was still “Big-cliche Thompson” with a Symbiot, nothing more.

Dont know what you have read but that surely aint what he was in his solo series.

Yup I say let that remnant of the 90s die...

Exactly that...

He's not just Flash with a suit, the Symbiote was still very much alive, instead of Brock's Villainous Spidey, Flash's is full on Anti-Hero Spidey, he is a man who looks up to Spider-Man as his greatest hero, but due to his physical and mental limitations he can only manage to be a subpar version of him, a broken man trying to reach a goal that might very well be impossible for him.
Venom is still Spider-Man's shadow, but now on a more personal level, and of course, the psychotic tendencies of the Symbiote are still hidden inside.

if it's not for you that's okay, but it's a really good change for the character.

Then I really dont get you man. Flash is a fleshed out character in that who struggles with his past as a bully and the troubled life that led him to that and his suffering as an alcoholic later on. His trauma after losing his legs in the war but never stopping and trying to do good in the world and atoning for the wrongs he has done in the past. A broken man who inside was still just a kid that never had the proper guidance to become a man. His wish to be a hero like Spider-Man is what drives him to use the Venom symbiote for good. To try to be the best version of himself he can be without losing control of the beast that is still inside him.

If you really see just the old clicheed Thomspon in this than I really cant help you.

The main problem I have with this character is that they heavily reused traits from other characters to make him work. Remember Tiny? They carbon-copied the whole “alcoholic father I'm starting to drink too”-thing from a character that admittedly was similar to Flash, but still. I liked the idea of Flash changing and going to the army back then, because it was interesting that the same dude he always gave a hard time actually changed his life without him knowing it. But now he is a character that just isn't working for me, partially because of the whole “I'm Spider-Man kinda but in the end I'm Black Spider-Man with guns and call myself Venom”-thing. The character just isn’t doing anything interesting for me.

And I still don't see why he needs to be Venom. He could have any super-power or magical/technological gizmo and the outcome would still be the same. I know what they’re going for because of the relationship of Peter and Flash and because Spider-Man was a big part of Flash's life, but it’s just not working for me.

Venom needed the change, and if they ever do a reboot they should cut the majority of pointless Symbiots and rework the concept. Until then I guess I'll have to wait for Toxins own series.

I really liked the version of Eddie Brock presented in "The Spectacular Spider-Man", ie- a glimpse at what Peter would've been like without growing up in a loving environment & learning the kind of life morals that would eventually make him an effective superhero.

Spectacular was just a great show all around. Really sad that they decided to cancel that show and replace it with that piece of shit show that is Ultimate Spider-Man.

Woahwoahwoah. Explain that please? How is it even Venom then??

But since I don't read the comics, not like my opinion matters to anyone here... Just nostalgia speaking for my interest in the old Venom I guess.

The Symbiote was drawn back to its homeworld where Flash and the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy were filled in by the supreme intelligence of the Klyntar (the name of the symbiotes race) about the origins of the symbiotes. They are a hivemind organism that travels the cosmos in the search of the most brave and noblest warriors in the universe to maintain piece and order. The symbiote that got itself attached to Spidey and brought to earth was a renegade symbiote no longer collected to the supreme intelligence.

On the Klyntar homeworld the symbiote got integrated again into the hivemind and is now 100% in symbiosis with Flash Thompson. So Flash has now full control over the symbiote.

Holy retcon Batman!:lol

Wow. That's a shitty retcon if I ever saw one. Symbiots are a hivemind that searches for noble warriors to maintain peace? What the serious fuck? Next thing you know they give out power rings.

Thank god I haven't read this, I would have thrown that comic into trash immediately.

And since its a Bendis creation even if they would do a full blown starting from scratch reboot this wont go away anytime soon. The opposite would be more likely in that they would further cement this origin of the symbiotes.

You know they can depict Symbiots as a peaceful and somewhat noble race and make Venom and his kin the black sheep of the family, that's fine with me, since the Venom Symbiot was in a prison cell for a reason. But guardians of piece and order in the galaxy? That's just dumb.

And that' the first thing that get's thrown under the bus when they reset the universe, since then nobody will care from which planet the thing comes from.

And yet for some reason tried to kill Earth. Or something. I swear that's an Atop the Fourth Wall I watched...

They more than likely wont though.

Thats what Marvel want the symbiotes and especially Venom to be from now on.

I have no opinion either way about whose currently Venom (I miss Brock, but what I've read of Flash Venom is great and eh, I've always vastly preferred Carnage anyway) but wow, that "origin" sounds awful.

I have no real opinion on the origin right now. I like that Flash is Venom permenantly now but thats about it. I have more of a wait and see attitude about it and wanna see how this plays out once its used in a book thats actually good.

So. Spider-Man and the X-Men #1. That is a comic that exists.

It is one that makes the world a better place to live in. It's great. Amazing, even. Uncanny in its humor and likability. Spectacular all around, in my opinion.

Also, Ant-Man is a great time. I expected it to be good, but it is ASTONISHING just how good it was. I really hope Darla Deering shows up at some point. She's a great character, and DeerLang is absolutely adorable.

So glad that you finally got around to read that.

You can thank Algo for that.

Algo is just too much of a bro :lol

Indeed he is. :lol

Now you can experience the aesomeness that is the new Ant-Man book :lol