AKA FlashFreak
Favorite Characters:
DC: The Flash (Jay & Wally), Starman- Jack Knight, Stargirl, & Shazam!.
MARVEL: Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), & Doctor Strange.
Current Pulls: Not a thing!
I think the MCU Guardians is pretty close to DNA's Guardians, although they turned the joking up to "11" on the dial.
Mantis is nearly unrecognizable. I don't think they did Gamora too bad. I do miss Quill's often serious demeanor. He understood the stakes in the comics, and he doesn't seem to, really, in the movies. Drax is somewhat different, though not too much different than what Starlin did with him in Silver Surfer.
I forgive Loeb since he did so well with Marvel's Netflix offerings.
Mostly though, I miss the Australian Rocket that we met on TV's Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes!
"He's the Starlord! Respect him!"
DnA Guardians were great. The movie Guardians are also great.
They SHOULD be two separate things but unfortunately synergy had to happen. It’s understandable, though, as it was a big success in terms of film.
The DnA cosmic run has really been trodden on and pretty much disrespected. I don’t know why, as soooo many regard it as THE cosmic run.
A lot of DNA's stuff has been kind of disregarded or had dangling plots resolved in ways that didn't make too much sense with what went on in DNA's work.
I'm looking at you and the Guardians, Bendis, and Loeb's Nova, the background of which is heartbreaking. The same applies to you too, especially, Hickman, and what you did with the Inhumans. Although, I guess basically the whole company muffed it on the Inhumans, which is sad considering how good of shape DNA left them in for future use.
I think the movies are pretty recognizable as DnA's Guardians. Only Quill and Mantis have really been changed, Quill not so radically, just a bit too much.
I think Giffen doesn't get enough credit either. He teed it up pretty well for DNA.
I think DnA's cosmic Marvel, which was a direct growth out of Starlin's Thanos then Giffen's Thanos and Annihilation, was the last thing Marvel did that I really loved.
Last edited by Brian B; 03-18-2019 at 11:22 PM.
AKA FlashFreak
Favorite Characters:
DC: The Flash (Jay & Wally), Starman- Jack Knight, Stargirl, & Shazam!.
MARVEL: Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), & Doctor Strange.
Current Pulls: Not a thing!
I am a big fan of DNA’s run on Guardians and it was that run that cemented Quill as one of my favorite Marvel characters. With that being said, I agree that they should be separate things. However I do really hate how Quill is portrayed as an idiot man child in the films. I also hate how that bled over into the comics for years! Thankfully it seems that Cates is correcting that.
AKA FlashFreak
Favorite Characters:
DC: The Flash (Jay & Wally), Starman- Jack Knight, Stargirl, & Shazam!.
MARVEL: Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), & Doctor Strange.
Current Pulls: Not a thing!
I don't think Starlin and DnA have that much in common storytelling wise.
Starlin's cosmic Is about surreal stories with trippy imagery where the main character (usually Thanos or Warlock) interacts with abstract and metaphorical entities while monologuing about how deep and philosophical they are. Kinda like Grant Morrison's Vertigo stuff.
DnA's cosmic Is about violent action packed space opera with large scale battles with big starships and a gritty atmosphere and heroes who have no qualms killing the bad guys in a gory way, kinda like certain parts of Star Wars Legends or Warhammer 40.000. (Dan Abnett even wrote plenty of Warhmmer stories) Notice also how the cosmic entities, with the exception of Galactus, Aegis and Tenebrous are completely absent from DnA's stories.
Last edited by CaptainMar-Vell92 of the Kree; 06-30-2019 at 05:28 AM.