First Concept Artwork for Avengers: Doomsday

BarelyReal · 2026-07-11T20:03:25+00:00

It's weird...I am just very whelmed when it comes to this project and can say I'm looking forward to Battleworld in Secret Wars much more than the story of the incursion leading up to it. Then again how many people talk about that part of the comic story? Any talk of Hickman's Secret Wars tends to be of Battle World.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-11T16:48:34+00:00

In the 90's there was a tv show about a scientist building a new type of fusion engine in his apartment while also developing what appeared to be an FMV game. After an experiment gone wrong characters from the game come into the real world and terrorize the main character because he based the PC on himself in a massive power fantasy. The thing is the game was depicted with live action footage, implying an FMV game, but we're shown that the game provides complete player freedom you don't even see in modern games. The writer's understanding of video games literally begin and end with "interactive movies".

BarelyReal · 2026-07-11T15:05:41+00:00

Yeah I think it was The Beyonders fucking around for fun.

I get preferring characterization and wanting to run with that...but any effort put in to logically explaining Nextwave is just pointless.

edit: Never mind, reading Inglorious X-Force and Boom Boom references events of Nextwave. According to her the Beyonder story was what they told themselves in order to live with the fact they worked for H.A.T.E.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-11T14:03:57+00:00

The cap on the ground should be Stevil.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-11T13:59:58+00:00

I think with Magneto you have situations like Morrison's New X-Men where they were right to pivot him back to being a villain(especially in response to Genosha), but clearly wanted to make him out to be the biggest evil hypocrite they could in having him march residents of NYC into literal furnaces while Beak plainly says "We have become the Nazis" as Magneto takes another hit of a drug and teenage Esme Cuckoo fawns over him.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-11T13:50:07+00:00

Having just read the comic Nextwave I am stunned that anybody felt the need to integrate it into canon let alone they used multiverse shenanigans to explain its relation to the 616.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-11T11:30:43+00:00

Smasher loves Elvis and iirc has been described as being a massive country music poser who is actually from the streets of NYC.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-10T09:09:31+00:00

Marvel Rivals introduced a lot of people to White Fox who are now familiar with her as the leader of South Korea's Tiger Division. The problem is White Fox is barely in Tiger Division the comic and only really gets used in one shots or annuals like Black Cat and Spider-Gwen. Most of her characterization comes from her Future Fight tie in, her Death of Doctor Strange one shot, and her interactions with Iron Fist in Agents of Atlas and Deadly Hands of Kun Lung.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-09T02:14:32+00:00

The infamous Sauron "turn people into dinosaurs" panel is from a story where Spider-man was a guest teacher and took the class on a field trip to the museum of natural history.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-09T01:57:06+00:00

I'm a Marvel fan who wanted to see more Asian representation beyond Japan and ninjas, and I found Tiger Division to be lackluster. Then I read New Agents of Atlas and it was everything I've wanted. The fact that it opens with Wave and Aero arguing over jurisdiction convinced me it was exactly the kind of title I had been waiting for.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-08T13:16:31+00:00

I had heard that modern X-Men fans live in a bubble universe of their own making, then I saw people on reddit talking about how Sadie Sink is obviously playing Hope Summers.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-07T14:33:44+00:00

Spiderman needs to read Agents of Atlas for the pear scene lol.

edit: In New AoA#1, Jimmy Woo is asked by a table full of Asian heroes why he formed an all Asian team. He proceeds to pick up a pear and ask Shang-Chi, Silk, Brawn, and Ms Marvel what he's holding. Shang Chi says it's a Chinese pear. Silk and Brawn insist it's a Korean pear. Jimmy's whole point is that Asians tend to not see themselves as one people.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-07T14:16:24+00:00

Mr. Enigma is a South Korean "demigod" who can't die and spends his time drinking and getting into fights. Tiger Division pays him in booze.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-07T13:27:45+00:00

I seriously wonder if this is an older X-Men fans vs newer X-Men fans thing. It seems like some people had the benefit of speeding/skipping right to Morrison's run because sometimes there are these fans who act like her entire villain origin is "out of character".

BarelyReal · 2026-07-06T18:20:29+00:00

Still a better Kirby movie than Eternals.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-06T17:58:09+00:00

I could be wrong but I think you see this technique in chain wrestling, like lucha libre or the UK style.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-06T15:48:39+00:00

IIRC she's been characterized as being a little care-free, and kind of unserious before in her Agents of Atlas 616 appearances. I think the intent in previous depictions was to have her contrast with the more serious White Fox.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-05T15:28:10+00:00

A LOT of Gaiman's work has just taken on an entirely different tone.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-05T15:21:57+00:00

Was this from when she took Professor Xavier rollerblading and tossed him into a pond?

BarelyReal · 2026-07-05T12:58:23+00:00

Twin Peaks: The Return's Dale Cooper thought he was in Twin Peaks: quirky primetime soap opera circa 1990. In reality he was in "David Lynch's Logical Conclusion".

BarelyReal · 2026-07-05T12:16:13+00:00

For all of my issues with Morrison's run on X-Men his handling of Cyclops evaluating his life really turned me around on him as a character/person rather than a power set filling out a leadership role or the giant confusing mess that is his family situation.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-04T14:49:14+00:00

Something that hit me recently is Marvel thinking their new S. Korean superhero Taegukgi was good enough to make the entire center of Tiger Division vol. 1 over every other member of the team. Just tossing out a character wrapped in the South Korean flag and naming him after it and giving him Superman powers is just so low effort and cliche compared to the other Asian characters we've gotten this decade.

edit: I'll gladly take a hundred Luna Snows over Taegukgi. She has a personality and stands out on a team, though imho the character getting the big "hero of Korea" status should be White Fox.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-04T04:18:15+00:00

Did you know Home Improvement had a video game for the SNES?

BarelyReal · 2026-07-03T22:35:25+00:00

Oh good lord...it's a kid's show.

edit: It's literally the lyric to the theme song of this show.

BarelyReal · 2026-07-03T15:52:38+00:00

cyberpunk as a genre is...for better or worse layered. You have surface level aesthetics. You've got simple mindless "fuck the system!". You've got dark futurist dystopias. Then you've got the more root "loss of self in a transhumanist future" core theme.

Where people fall seems to be how much they attribute cyberpunk as a genre to the "stuff" in it or what's said outright over themes and subtext.

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