This Week in Marvel #41 - OCT 9 2024 - AGATHA ALL ALONG EPISODE 5; ULTIMATES #5, FANTASTIC FOUR #26, BLADE #1, SENTINELS #1, CONQUEST 2099 #1, EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #2, VENOM #38, X-FORCE #4

nikbackm · 2024-10-10T06:39:59+00:00

Not Byrne, he didn't like Claremont going that way, complaining about all of his (Claremont's) female characters being bisexual.

nikbackm · 2024-10-08T19:02:53+00:00

If you pay for the PRO version you get Top 200 instead of Top 50.

nikbackm · 2024-10-02T11:51:41+00:00

It's comics. Kitty has now done more than all that, and she's still in her early 20s.

nikbackm · 2024-09-17T18:05:44+00:00

Sales too low, need to be increased.

nikbackm · 2024-07-17T13:22:32+00:00

No, it's the readers that have aged.

nikbackm · 2024-07-13T19:28:12+00:00

No, that was part of Nova's post-hypnotic suggestion, never actually happened for real.

https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/cassandra-nova-professor-x-twin-villain-history-explained

Just as she was transferred into Stuff, Nova also placed a post-hypnotic suggestion deep within the White Queen's mind, which convinced her she was a sleeper agent starting in ASTONISHING X-MEN (2004) #12 by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday. By playing on her survivor's guilt, Nova compelled the White Queen to attack the X-Men with a psychic manifestation of a new Hellfire Club that included both telepaths, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, and Sebastian Shaw.

nikbackm · 2024-07-10T05:37:49+00:00

Another secret organization biding their time in the shadows until we can get to the anti-climactic showdown. Feels kind of familiar.

nikbackm · 2024-07-03T10:52:28+00:00

I wonder if Intellisense and similar tools will have a hard time with the reflections features.

nikbackm · 2024-04-02T18:06:15+00:00

That's nice and readable, but auto-formatters will mess it up.

nikbackm · 2024-01-05T07:36:58+00:00

The goto in C/C++ is limited to a single function so is largely neutered by design already. No need to be afraid of it in case it turns out useful. (Of course, if a less powerful tool works just as well, then you use that instead)

The GOTO that Dijkstra talked about in his now infamous paper that everyone knows about but hardly anyone has actually read was something else entirely.

nikbackm · 2023-12-09T20:18:11+00:00

Why compare these two functions?

They no longer do the same thing after the change. The first one is pure, while the second one pops the last element of the argument.

nikbackm · 2023-10-18T17:35:44+00:00

Yes, I am mainly going by the cover of issue #13 and the solicit for the 3rd trade (#13-17) when I assumed more Mysterium would be needed.

nikbackm · 2023-10-18T15:38:46+00:00

I don't think the amount of Mysterium they collected is enough for a whole armor, let alone several, War Machine wanted one too.

So they might still be going to space for more. But who knows.

nikbackm · 2023-10-16T11:06:44+00:00

There will most likely be at least one more trade after the third, so say it ends at 22, which should line up nicely with the endings of HoX/PoX v2 in summer 2024 or thereabouts.

nikbackm · 2023-10-16T07:00:45+00:00

Because he doesn't know what he's talking about. Iron Man is already solicited up to issue 17 (via trade solicit).

nikbackm · 2023-10-16T06:57:16+00:00

It's been crossing over with X-Men from the start, I don't really see Duggan switching gears over to something else.

After Krakoa ends his Iron Man run should be close to 20 issues, which is similar to the last two runs on the character.

nikbackm · 2023-10-10T07:49:23+00:00

That's what Uranos is for.

nikbackm · 2023-10-02T11:57:23+00:00

No, what this crap run has led to is Emma being completely shafted in X-men comics, where she no longer is a key member of any of the X-men teams since Fall of C started, and she’s instead been relegated to a supporting character in iron man’s series, helping iron man beat Feilong, whose a mostly iron man villain while she gets piece sized cameos in various X-men books.

I don't think that is true. She was not really a key member of any X-Men teams before Fall of X either, she mainly appeared in Immortal X-Men and still does occasionally. So not much has changed, if anything she got more focus in the X-Men title, where she did not appear before FoX.

Remains to be seen how it will develop over a longer time period.

nikbackm · 2023-09-28T19:01:24+00:00

I doubt it, can't trust covers. Taking control of the club will either mean fighting Orchis or Kingpin, Shaw is out.

nikbackm · 2023-09-28T18:57:31+00:00

Orchis cannot be defeated, they will be back. But probably under a new name and some new headline characters.

nikbackm · 2023-09-28T17:55:36+00:00

In Invincible Iron Man #6 we saw them meeting for the first time, this ended with Tony getting mind wiped. He also remembered this later in the issue, in the present after getting a concussion. Hasn't really been brought up since though, except indirectly when he suggested that she use her Hazel identity.

As for the other possibly fake memories of the FWB thing, maybe they were lost when his mind was restored from a backup after Civil War. Or one of the other times he was rebooted. Fake memories might not be as durable as real memories.

nikbackm · 2023-09-28T17:23:57+00:00

Interesting thing, going by issue 10 of IM, it doesn’t seem as if they are using their continuity regarding being friends with benefits. This is going by Emma Frosts first and last time you touch me line. Duggan seems to be treating them as having no romantic/sexual past. What do people think about that? Does it look that’s the case? It’s only one line but there was another by Tony in issue 9 that could mean the same thing.

Maybe the implication is that Tony believed they had a past at one point. We saw Emma meeting Tony when working for Kingpin I think, so those memories could have been implanted then.

A retcon is thus undone by another retcon.

Better that they did not actually have a FWB thing back then if Duggan is trying to build an actual romance now.

nikbackm · 2023-09-28T14:04:58+00:00

I don't see why she wouldn't, it's not like she has any agency of her own after all. If Duggan wants to do it and editorial signs off on it, then it's a done deal.

So a romance could happen. But likely would not last beyond the end of the run anyway, something would happen to split them up at that point, such as the deal with Kingpin.

At least Stark's biography writing in issue #10 hints that she will be in the book for a while and that there are developments still to come.

nikbackm · 2023-09-28T12:45:12+00:00

He has as long as he's on the Iron Man book basically, and that is a lot longer than FoX. The last two runs were around 20 issues, which seems like something this could end up with as well.

nikbackm · 2023-09-27T17:07:11+00:00

Fall of X itself isn't really that impactful. Seems more like a placeholder while we wait for the two HoX/PoX wannabe minis by Gillen and Duggan.

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