Thank you Kurt Busiek !
Information from people in a position of first hand experience is always welcome here!
As an aside, I love your series Astro City!
Jack-in-the-Box in particular was a pleasure! I still smile at Brass Monkey's casual "Are you sick or something? You know I'm stronger than you." It deftly emphasized his menace despite his small size and Jack's protege's lack of experience or just good sense.
Also Samaritan's day. Also the Furst Family. Also ...
Excelsior!
Daoud
A new trailer for Ava DuVernay's When They See Us, a Netflix original series about the Central Park 5.
I remember this story because its been detailed for a long , long time in comics history that Gruenwald did that. That was why I blamed editorial basically running Avengers. Perhaps Gruewald felt Simonson and later Byrne would have long runs on the title to make it ok. He maybe didn't realize both guys would just take off from the title after so long.
"The story so far: As usual, Ginger and I are engaged in our quest to find out what the hell is going on and save humanity from my nemesis, some bastard who is presumably responsible." - Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.
“ Well hell just froze over. Because CM Punk is back in the WWE.” - Jcogginsa.
“You can take the boy outta the mom’s basement, but you can’t take the mom’s basement outta the boy!” - LA Knight.
"Revel in What You Are." Bray Wyatt.
I would've figured it was because they were trying to boost Emma Frost's status post-New X-Men that Jean stayed M.I.A. for so long, but that makes sense. Opinion on Jean Grey's OPness seems divided enough that there's a debate? Every discussion I see about Monica online (old and recent), there's an almost unanimous agreement that her strength is detrimental to any story she appears in.
I thought this was a gag of some sort or one-off character. Wiki tends to have a grain of truth to it so:
The Weapon X Project's experiments gave Clayton a Hulk/Wolverine-like appearance with the abilities of Hulk, Wolverine, Domino, Lady Deathstrike, Sabretooth, and Warpath like super-strength, super-speed, invulnerability, retractable bone claws, a healing factor, enhanced senses, and a probability field generation.
But MONICA was overpowered???
I give up. lol Well I gave up around the 2000s, seeing nothing to say I was wrong. Good gravy.
Yet folks still used her way more than Monica and even her younger version got a comic book series.
We have seen Jean married, have a kid & be central to storylines and events.
Meanwhile Monica and most of the folks I listed have been buried or screwed over or seen excuses for what they should or should not do.
I might read an Avenger's comic again if they ever get around to undoing the damage Bendis did to Count Nefaria. It's going on ten years, and I'm STILL holding a grudge. How did we go from 'the Nefaria protocols' to some greasy loser who couldn't take Carol Danvers and Wolverine in a fight? I'm bitter. I love the classic villains.
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."
Hero power-ups never last. Spider-man, T'challa, Nate Grey, Cable, Gambit, Rogue, etc. They might get a symbiote, or 'the other', or become the king of the dead, or get full access to their powers without dying, but that stuff may as well be the starman icon in Mario bros. Only the villains get to keep the upgrades.
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."
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Because the actual character Clayton Cortez is pretty good and one of the more likable characters to read. In world where the big 2 push original concepts than safe concepts Hulkverine would be called something else and designed to be its own IP. But instead it is very good character trapped in a generic legacy character formula and on its own he is fine
"Elite soldier turned into a monster created by government labs fights remain normal and look out for his wife and two kids"
The story is simple it is just that happens the monster in question is Hulk/Wolverine Hybrid. And they character they created is actually better than people will give it
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