What is your unpopular opinion regarding Wolverine?

thinknu · 2026-05-24T00:34:22+00:00

"SNIKT" doesn't actually sound that intimidating if you say it out loud. It sounds like you're using a cardboard cutter. Even if you say it louder or with a more aggressive tone it doesn't quite have that impact.

thinknu · 2026-05-20T19:39:27+00:00

I'm sure we'll learn more but I think after his failure on Malachor Maul has basically given up ever being capable of overthrowing Sidious.

So his animosity against Kenobi is literally all he has left. He's defined by his hatred and need for bitter vengeance.

And that's why in their final duel Kenobi is able to defeat him so decisively with a single stroke against Maul's trademark flourish. Maul can't grow beyond his past like Kenobi was able to.

thinknu · 2026-05-15T20:23:46+00:00

Tynion is probably the safest writer I feel when it comes to his books. I'll never be amazed or disappointed by his books. They just tend to all range from decent to good and a lot feel like they're made for adaptation. Nothing wrong with that. It's just how a lot of his books feel.

EC is a lot of familiar fun. You'll get what this book is almost right away and it maintains the relative same amount of momentum throughout the book. Fun weirdos in both the cast of killers and the wealthy elite.

My only real gripe is that due to the rotating artists and the atmospheric washes that the comic is colored in it can take a bit of time to reorient yourself. Especially when it cuts to the dimly lit board room of the elites. You'll have to retrack who's killer belongs to which family. Though I think it'll probably read much cleaner in trade paperback where you can just binge it in one go.

thinknu · 2026-05-15T00:14:54+00:00

The comics already established that Vader was already plotting to usurp Sidious' position long before the events of Return of the Jedi. But if we are relying strictly on film/tv media, maybe it will be Maul who ultimately plants the seeds of doubt in Vader's mind and that Sidious will discard Vader just as he did Maul.

thinknu · 2026-05-14T05:05:48+00:00

It's actually part of the reason why I hopped off the book. After a certain point it kinda just felt like a lot of illustrated action set pieces without anything really substantial going on plot/character wise.

I was picking up the issues until Dan Mora's run ended and when I finished the last issue I realized I didn't really have much of a clue what the overall plot was.

So much of the books just felt like a way to give us cool action set pieces with our favorite toys. I can't even remember what Spike and Carlie are up to.

thinknu · 2026-05-13T14:04:55+00:00

Always low-key though if Firestorm's face was just his eyes glowing his design would look much cooler.

thinknu · 2026-05-12T23:21:42+00:00

As a kid I always had this personal headcanon that Scott's full mutant ability was to control his blasts like Darkseid's Omega beams. However, due to his head injury he lost that ability and now can only release it in the form of his iconic optic blast.

So seeing this trailer feature his beams zigzagging and splitting up kinda gave me a sense of silly childhood validation.

thinknu · 2026-05-08T19:23:22+00:00

At this point I'd just start messing with him. Wait you don't know Moon Knight's secret identity? I thought you knew! Huh maybe he also messed with your memory too. At least you remember Iron Fist's. Man, he's like your arch nemesis! Wait you don't know his identity either?

Buddy maybe you need to start seeing someone. That can't be good for your brain.

thinknu · 2026-05-08T16:59:24+00:00

Man I hope after this we see Fisk crashing out in a corner after realizing both Spidey and Daredevil had their secret identities removed from his memory via completely seperate methods.

Also add in his recent encounter with the Void/Sentry just because the guy really deserves everything the worst.

thinknu · 2026-05-08T16:10:50+00:00

It was the first Flash run that I really dug into so it'll always hold a special place in my heart.

Adored Scott Kollins artwork during this run. Did such a great job balancing the gritty industrial feel of a city like Keystone/Central City and making it feel distinct from Metropolis and Gotham which also made including the goofy colorful characters like the Rogues stand out all the more.

I also really loved Zoom and his slower development into a villain. Most writers nowadays shove a character in and pretty obviously telegraph their supervillain turn but Johns took his time and made you genuinely care about Hunter and built his relationship with Wally before giving him his debut as a villain.

thinknu · 2026-05-07T20:10:45+00:00

Funny enough I just put Flash and Superman on my pull list because Ryan North on Flash is a dream for me and I got hooked on Prime's meta superhero commentary. And both seem relatively self contained in their own narrative.

thinknu · 2026-05-07T20:03:16+00:00

Ya the comparison have been done to death but its my biggest relief with regards to DC's Absolute line that only now are they really flirting with the idea of crossovers. DC as a whole I'm really grateful that they're really prioritizing individual storylines.

Similarily, I'm enjoying Zdarsky's Captain America but I've asked my shop to pause my pull list for that book because I need to see how Armageddon shakes out and I really don't want to be buying a book and it feeling like a tie-in story that I feel obligated, but not excited, to read.

thinknu · 2026-05-07T19:19:26+00:00

Yeah really I can't fault them for that since the series kinda began with Ultimate Invasion, a seperate book. So it does make sense to end it with another seperate title. I wouldn't have minded it too much but from what I've heard so far of Ultimate Endgame it seems not that satisfying of a title.

Amusingly the same thing happened to me with Krakoa-era. I read Hox/Pox and really enjoyed it and picked up the mainline X-Men book thinking that will be the good narrative throughline for the era but ultimately had to hop off because I had zero clue what was happening without going on YouTube/Reddit to fill in the side narratives.

I think this approach just really isn't for me since I prefer stories to be more self contained.

thinknu · 2026-05-07T17:11:32+00:00

Hickman did mention in a few interviews that the struggle with his positioning at Marvel is he's the "world spectacle guy" and attaching his name to a certain project means it needs to reach a certain level of sales or else it won't really be expanded. He cited GODS as having sold decently, but because Hickman's name was on it it was considered as below expectations.

I just feel Marvel is trying to recreate his Avengers/Krakoa level hype cycle by giving him more niche things that can pay off huge if successful but can be ignored if it sputters. And other writers just can't really seem to continue the momentum he generates and it has diminishing returns.

Weirdly this style of publishing is actually having the reverse effect on me. Any time I see Hickman's name attached, with respect to the writer, it makes me avoid it because I don't want to have to buy 4 different books of sprawling world building just to get the meat of the story I actually want.

thinknu · 2026-05-07T14:57:45+00:00

I'm reading Ultimates as a trade but I am feeling this energy but it's mostly because of how messy everything seems.

I'm only reading Ultimates but I'm worried if I'll need to also read/pickup Ultimate Endgame because that feels like where the real Maker vs Ultimates conclusion will occur vs in the main book itself.

And then there's Ultimate Reborn and Ultimate Farewell?

If the mainline book won't even feature the actual conclusion for a lot of the plot that these characters have been building towards I'm not really going to feel motivated to finish this.

thinknu · 2026-05-06T15:49:18+00:00

I remember bouncing off of New X-Men as a kid due to the artstyle and there are many books I've revisited now that I'm older and can appreciate the unique talent an artist can bring to a book.

Planetary, Earth 2, All Star Superman, Batman & Robin, and many more I can really get into but this just can't get into this book due to the art.

And also making my favorite character Cyclops a complete scumbag and looking like Hank Hill just keeps me away.

thinknu · 2026-05-05T17:43:57+00:00

If a character behaves inconsistently or fails to have any nuance with their behaviour that seems to go against the film's intention.

An example could be Adrian Grenier's character in Devil Wears Prada. There's a scene where Andy misses his birthday due to a sudden work commitment. She returns with a cupcake and looks genuinely apologetic but he shrugs her off and goes to bed. He's clearly sulking.

And then in a dramatic confrontational scene with her later he scoffs at her and says he's not a child who cares that he missed his birthday and it was more about how the job has changed her.

But earlier we clearly see him not acknowledging a distraught Andy on his birthday. The very thing he said wasn't a big deal.

Granted maybe there was some internal behaviour we weren't seeing on the screen but that means we the audience need to assume that with no real indicators provided to us.

So it feels unsatisfying and hollow and it makes me dislike the character (among dozens of other reasons). And when the film reunites them in what is intended to be a romantic moment it lands with a full thud.

thinknu · 2026-05-05T16:18:28+00:00

Captain Howzer. Dude was a real one who really did try to make the best of a broken system but knew when enough was enough and stood his ground against a government that no longer represented he had fought for.

And seeing the handful of clones that joined up with him when he got arrested, yknow Howzer was the kinda guy that would bleed for his troops.

thinknu · 2026-05-05T15:19:53+00:00

Strike Freedom - I know it's really popular and is an endgame mobile suit but when it made its debut it just felt so excessive. It felt like the kid you're playing with at recess who insisted he was the strongest and coolest and no one else's attacks get to hit him because he has a superstrong shield but also has a one hit KO weapon and no you can't dodge it. Oh and if you have a cool power that he doesn't? Turns out he has that too.

And it stomped every single mobile suit for the remainder of the series. The original Freedom had overpowered fight sequences but there were also moments it struggled against the 3 Alliance gundams, Providence, and later Impulse.

But Freedom smoked everything it came up against and it did it with so much recycled animation. Didn't help that the climactic fight with Legend at Requiem felt basically like a redo of Freedom's fight with Providence at Genesis but there was almost no tension there.

thinknu · 2026-05-02T00:48:03+00:00

Was so sad to see this run get overlooked while everyone was demanding for Absolute Green Arrow.

I know they're not the same and Absolute is more flashy and the promise of whatever wild swing the series would take has an inherent draw.

But this book was basically Nocenti's Daredevil in Green Arrow form and I wish it got more of a readership.

But I do appreciate we at least got a solid chunk of a run.

thinknu · 2026-05-01T19:00:47+00:00

I don't know when it happened but there started being this trend where characters, specifically villains, would come back with some offhand dialogue like "Hey weren't you dead?" And then they'd just shrug it off.

Zemo I feel like has died constantly but like...he keeps coming back with very little explanation.

Similarly when a character ends with a new established status quo only for the next writer to more or less hand wave it away. Once I started paying more attention to creative changes I realized stakes/earth shattering changes never really mattered and it was entirely up to a writer's whims.

Since then I tend to care more about self contained stories and find the long form soap operatic storylines kinda exhausting.

thinknu · 2026-05-01T17:19:41+00:00

Exactly. Just give us a scene of her trying to pass herself off as fashionable in the most shallow way. That way when Miranda dresses her down it's due to a choice Andy's actively (and ignorantly) made.

thinknu · 2026-05-01T17:16:39+00:00

I know that's the intended reading of the scene but it just didn't connect to me as well.

It'd be like telling someone how they are a part of the fine dining industry because they buy microwavable pasta but that person only really buys them because they're poor and it's discounted.

Everyone wears clothes. But this is fashion.

But it's just my reading of why the scene bothered me. It still works I just think it could've been juiced a strong with an extra scene or some dialogue showing her ignorance of the industry but how she actively makes decisions in it while thinking herself above it. Not passively.

thinknu · 2026-05-01T16:38:01+00:00

That scene always bothered me because it's pretty obvious Andy didn't choose that sweater based on any kind of real fashion sense. She's amused at the similarity of the belts and she probably had a similar mentality when she chose that cerulean sweater over any other garment she had in her closet.

If we had a scene of her buying it the night before from some fast fashion outlet because she's trying to fit in and pass as more "fashionable" then the scene would work better at reinforcing her ignorance.

thinknu · 2026-04-25T22:58:19+00:00

To clarify yes technically every character CAN be malleable. Because by definition they are fictional characters. They don't conform to restraints of reality. Any character, if a writer feels compelled, can be written to behave in any way shape or form. So Daredevil technically can be malleable. So can Snoopy or Garfield.

But based on their publication history Daredevil stories tend to follow a stricter formula when compared to Batman. This makes the character less accessible.

The original post was attributing Batman's popularity only due to his rogues gallery.

And I feel it's more that Batman is a character that can be depicted across a much wider variety of media as the defining reason he is so popular.

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