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Post by Stephen Day on Apr 15, 2019 3:41:53 GMT
I loved this past issue. Chip Zdarsky explained everything having to do with Namor's recent insanity and wrapped up all of the history and continuity neatly.
I loved that the history with Destiny wiping Namor's memory was kept while adding onto it with the revelation that Namor time as a bearded Hobo, before being found and restored by Johnny Storm, was started after Charles Xavier tried to help him by creating a second personality in his head. Has Professor X always been this dumb?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2019 10:50:57 GMT
I loved this past issue. Chip Zdarsky explained everything having to do with Namor's recent insanity and wrapped up all of the history and continuity neatly. I loved that the history with Destiny wiping Namor's memory was kept while adding onto it with the revelation that Namor time as a bearded Hobo, before being found and restored by Johnny Storm, was started after Charles Xavier tried to help him by creating a second personality in his head. Has Professor X always been this dumb? Zdarsky seems like one of the more reliable writers working at Marvel these days. He and Al Ewing are basically the only reason I try any Marvel books right now. |
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Post by Amoebas on Apr 15, 2019 13:39:29 GMT
I loved this past issue. Chip Zdarsky explained everything having to do with Namor's recent insanity and wrapped up all of the history and continuity neatly. I loved that the history with Destiny wiping Namor's memory was kept while adding onto it with the revelation that Namor time as a bearded Hobo, before being found and restored by Johnny Storm, was started after Charles Xavier tried to help him by creating a second personality in his head. Has Professor X always been this dumb? This is similar to last week when we were talking about Busiek's Untold Tales. Adding to continuity versus retconning it in order to fit a story. While I'm not a Xavier fan (even less of a fan with that stupid Wolverine cameo) this new history takes nothing away Namor's continuity. Not many people have been able to do this... Busiek, Englehart's Vision history, Byrne's Vision/Human Torch history, Stern's Doc Strange/Rama Tut story and a small few of others I can't think of right now - and now add Chip Z to the club. And a high five to Chip for knowing, not just his continuity, but his comic book lore, like the Namor/Roman connection. I'm really digging Butch's art (and the complete opposite for the person drawing the 'current' story). The obvious question for this series now turns to who Roman's father is. |
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Post by Stephen Day on Apr 15, 2019 21:59:18 GMT
This is similar to last week when we were talking about Busiek's Untold Tales. Adding to continuity versus retconning it in order to fit a story. While I'm not a Xavier fan (even less of a fan with that stupid Wolverine cameo) this new history takes nothing away Namor's continuity. Not many people have been able to do this... Busiek, Englehart's Vision history, Byrne's Vision/Human Torch history, Stern's Doc Strange/Rama Tut story and a small few of others I can't think of right now - and now add Chip Z to the club. And a high five to Chip for knowing, not just his continuity, but his comic book lore, like the Namor/Roman connection. I'm really digging Butch's art (and the complete opposite for the person drawing the 'current' story). The obvious question for this series now turns to who Roman's father is. I could be wrong, but all of the examples you gave used to be more the rule rather than the exception. Now days it seems like they're more the exception. Chip Zdarsky and the aforementioned Al Ewing are one of the few writers at Marvel at the moment that have the desire to do this sort of writing. I find stories that add to a character's past without taking any history away to be generally more exciting that stories that are more the opposite. It's not that I can't enjoy the latter; I had a lot of fun reading Bendis' Avengers run despite all the problems with continuity I had with it. Having said that, a story like the one I just read in Invaders #4 will get me to a level of excitement that some like Bendis' Avengers run probably will never reach. |
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Post by Stephen Day on Apr 16, 2019 1:57:15 GMT
The obvious question for this series now turns to who Roman's father is. The way Roman's mother ran to comfort Namor in one of the flashbacks lead me to think that he might be the father. I'm not sure if that actually works though. |
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