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Post by BackinBlack on Feb 15, 2015 16:32:17 GMT -5
While in SLO I went to this comic book shop and found the first 3 volumes of the Ultimate Fantastic Four series. They were only $4.99 a piece, so I feel like I struck big. Really excited to read them. You should make a thread for them in the Books section, let us know what you think.
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Post by mr. excellent on Feb 21, 2015 16:03:26 GMT -5
Will do. Slowly working my way through issues 7-12 right now. So far, they're pretty fun. Definitely something I wish I had kept up with, but at least now I can go on binges when more time is available.
On a different note, I was looking back over Matthew Vaughn's resume, and I completely forgot he directed Stardust. Anyone see that movie? I loved it. Back in 2010 when KickAss came out I remember wishing he'd do a Spider-man flick. Looking at him now, I don't see him doing a character like Spidey.
Topic number 3, has it really sunken in to anyone that Venom is in the MCU now through Spidey? That's just cool. Controversial as it may be, I'm more interested in the Ultimate Spider-man origin of Venom than the classic origin. Not necessarily Ultimate Eddie Brock, but this idea that Venom is partially the result of corporations vying to make the ultimate biological weapon.* That type of story line totally fits into the MCU, and it need not be Peter Parker's father who worked on the symbiote either. The problem is, unlike Spidey's other villains, Venom actually does need to have a connection to Spider-man to actually be Venom. If not, he's just a borrowed concept to create something totally new. Either way, I think he's one of the few Spider-man villains that stands as a legitimate threat to the Avengers.
*Not exactly, but you know what I mean.
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Post by BackinBlack on Feb 21, 2015 18:51:54 GMT -5
See, this is the way I'd do Venom: Introduce the symbiote possessing someone in Guardians 2, and when they're defeated, the symbiote escapes and stows away on the Milano, and then gets off when Guardians arrive on Earth in Infinity War, eventually finding its way to Spider-Man either in that film or the second solo film after that. However, save Venom himself for the third movie. His character needs that kind of build-up and shouldn't be rushed like in Spider-Man 3.
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Post by Webber3000 on Feb 21, 2015 23:09:20 GMT -5
I like that idea! Now that Spidey's in a movie universe that deals with outer space, writers can really go crazy with the symbiote instead of it being some random unexplained alien goo.
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Post by mr. excellent on Feb 23, 2015 1:26:00 GMT -5
Let's hear it for our Oscar Award winning boy, J.K. Simmons. Pick up the phone Marvel, you've got 5 seconds before he's not game any more!!! lol.
Seriously though, he's always been this archetype for the starving actor. He makes fun of himself for it too, but he really does seem to enjoy the part as Jameson, so hopefully Marvel brings him back. Maybe even gives him an arc, as in the comics he has (at times) been developed beyond the cigar chomping skin flint he's usually confined to be.
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Post by Spazz on Feb 25, 2015 22:04:17 GMT -5
Ah, I missed out on the Oscars unfortunately. It seems I've missed out on quite a bit actually
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Post by Webber3000 on Feb 25, 2015 22:05:34 GMT -5
How typical of you... Haha, I kid, I kid. Good to see you're back Spazzyboi.
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Post by Spazz on Feb 25, 2015 22:31:42 GMT -5
Listen maaaan
Haha I thank you, it's glad to be on again. Life has been a little crazy lately
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Post by Webber3000 on Feb 25, 2015 22:38:38 GMT -5
Haha, what's up?
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Post by Spazz on Feb 25, 2015 22:57:19 GMT -5
Ah well, I've just been going through some stuff that's just been putting a damper on things ya know? Although, my music has been picking back up slowly but surely. I've also started working from home as a freelance transcriber so that's, something haha So, a bit busier than usual but also just being a hermit of sorts
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Post by Webber3000 on Feb 26, 2015 12:15:05 GMT -5
Haha, that's awesome man! Can't wait to hear your music, you've been putting it off for too long!
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Post by Spazz on Feb 26, 2015 21:24:01 GMT -5
Ah man I know haha it's been so off and on. I'm gonna be recording a bit tonight though, we'll see how it goes. Even if I don't get the whole demo done in that session, I may make a Soundcloud for what I do get done.
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Post by Webber3000 on Feb 26, 2015 22:55:06 GMT -5
Awesome! Haha, you'll know where to post it.
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Post by mr. excellent on Feb 28, 2015 21:56:06 GMT -5
On a completely unrelated topic, anyone notice these Civil War and Batman v. Superman comparisons lately? It's like everyone has started coming to this conclusion simultaneously. Some of them are pretty good.
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Post by BackinBlack on Feb 28, 2015 22:46:12 GMT -5
A lot of it may have to do with this vid that came out this week.
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