From the farthest corners of space, A Marvel Cosmic Appreciation

[emac1790]

I didn't felt like this needed a new thread so I'm asking here, have you guys been enjoying the new GotG and Nova series?

I've been burned by Bendis and Loeb before, so I don't even waste my money on their books. And after reading and hearing about the stories, I'm glad I didn't get the books. I'm sure someone else can fill you in.

[pinoypanzer]

I didn't felt like this needed a new thread so I'm asking here, have you guys been enjoying the new GotG and Nova series?
Do I need to know a lot of backstory? I have read everything cosmic until Thanos Imperative but I haven't kept up with infinity at all.

Am I okay with just reading the Nova and GotG TPB's and maybe the Infinity TP?

IMO Bendis' Guardians of the Galaxy just pales in comparison to DnA's version. Bendis' strength is writing street level characters particularly solos (I enjoyed his Daredevil stories) but he is just bad at team books and large scale stories in general so I dropped it and I'm only picked it up again since he is going to address the whole cancerverse situation and in typical fashion he is unnecessarily dragging out the story.

As for for the new Nova, I didn't like it and I dropped it but I gave it another chance when I learned that Gerry Duggan was taking over (starting at issue 11). I enjoy Duggan's Deadpool and his Nova is decent. I like how he has re-introduced more cosmic characters and I like Duggan's stories in general.

[Radjack]

Thanks for the replies guys! I was never a big fan of Bendis team books either so I guess I'll pass on GotG. Same thing for Nova.

I hate how Bendis drags the story way longer than it needs, he's about 80% of the reason why I moved to trade waiting with my collection (back when I still followed most marvel titles).

[emac1790]

Just finished the new Winter Soldier book. I think it fits cosmic Marvel nicely.

G3000's plot is like a recent movie....

[stingnewell]

Just finished the new Winter Soldier book. I think it fits cosmic Marvel nicely.

G3000's plot is like a recent movie....

I've heard good things about Guardians 3000 but I was rather skeptical on Winter Solider. To me he works best like Widow doing political espionage.

[emac1790]

I've heard good things about Guardians 3000 but I was rather skeptical on Winter Solider. To me he works best like Widow doing political espionage.

Cosmic/space espionage. That's something different.

[stingnewell]

Cosmic/space espionage. That's something different.

Not the theme but the character. Guys like Bucky and Nick are more iconic for their down to earth setting in espionage story telling not space frontier. Besides if their was a Cosmic/espionage I would have gone with Gamora or a new character with spy training from either the Skrulls, Rigellians, Kree, Dire Wraiths or Shiar race.

[stingnewell]

Hybrid




Hybrid was conceived when a male Dire Wraith who lived in the fictional town of Clairton, West Virginia under the identity of "Jacob Marks" married a human woman named Marjorie whom he had fallen in love with, and allowed himself to be convinced by her to sire a son. The baby instinctively used his powers to assume a human form at birth, and so was believed by everyone to be a normal child. Jimmy himself was not aware of his true nature. He is said to be the first hybrid offspring of a human and a Dire Wraith.

When Jimmy turned 15, however, he was visited by strange men. Jacob allowed this despite his wife’s protests. The men revealed themselves to Jimmy to be Dire Wraiths as well, and they told him the truth about his origin. They then began to teach Jimmy to use his latent powers, as well as the ways of evil. Eventually Marjorie tried to run away with Jimmy, but he refused, and frightened her with a display of his mental powers.

One day, however, Jimmy's teachers stopped coming. Unknown to him, this was because they had been banished to Limbo by Rom. This infuriated him, and in his anger he lashed out against his parents, even using his powers to turn his mother into an extremely old woman.

That same night, Rom arrived at the Marks' farmhouse to investigate Jimmy. The boy revealed his true, monstrous forms to the cyborg hero, and then fought against him. Finally overcoming his guilt in allowing his Wraith masters to use Jimmy, his father tried to kill him with a pitchfork, only to be himself killed with it by Hybrid. Rom tried to banish Hybrid to Limbo with his neutralizer weapon, but it failed, and Jimmy knocked the weapon out of his hands.

Just then, the X-Men arrived at the farm, seeking a powerful mutant they had detected with Cerebro. Jimmy reverted to his human form, giving the appearance that he was a normal child attacked by a robot. This led to a battle between Rom and the X-Men. Eventually, Jimmy revealed his true form to the X-Men as well and fought them, until Sprite used Rom's neutralizer at full power to dematerialize him.[1] Jimmy's mother died of old age during these events.



Months later, Hybrid was able to reform himself. This time he temporarily allied himself with the mutant villainesses Mystique, Rogue and Destiny against Rom. However, both Rogue and Destiny came to realize that Hybrid's ultimate goal was to use super-powered females as breeding stock, and they joined with Rom to defeat him.[3]

Hybrid reformed again in the fictional town of Cumberland, Kentucky, where he passed himself off as a miracle worker. This brought him into conflict with the New Mutants since the town was the home of one of its members, Cannonball. Rom found him again but couldn't prevent him from transforming his ally Starshine back into a human. Once again, Hybrid was disintegrated in the end.[4]

Hybrid reconstituted himself a fourth time, but this time his memories were affected; he couldn’t remember being anything else than Jimmy Marks. The mutant hero X-Man found him and helped him to recover his memory, accidentally recreating the evil Hybrid again. However, a part of his mind was still the innocent Jimmy, and with his help X-Man seemingly destroyed him.[5]

Hybrid was listed by S.H.I.E.L.D. as one of the mutants who lost their powers as a result of the events of House of M.[6]

Quasimodo compiled 189 threat analyses for Norman Osborn, then head of H.A.M.M.E.R. during the "Dark Reign" storyline. His dossier on the Dire Wraiths mentioned that the hostile crossbreed human/Wraith Hybrid remained hidden amongst mankind.[7]

Jimmy Marks reappears as an apparently homeless telekinetic boy under attack by the anti-mutant Purifiers; rescued by faculty members of the Avengers Academy, Marks is recruited into the Academy's recently expanded student body.[8] However, Marks has secretly become the Hybrid once more, possibly due to the return of Wraithworld to Earth's dimension;[9] Hybrid states that his intended goal is to establish himself as Wraithworld's king. Hybrid finds an ally in a future version of Reptil, who has taken over his past self's body in order to ensure that certain events occur to maintain his future's history. One of these events is the Hybrid "murdering half the Academy"; to facilitate this, Reptil begins to lead students and faculty to Marks' room one by one so that Hybrid may either feed off of their powers or, in the case of the women, enthrall them as breeding stock.[10] Together students and faculty of the Academy managed to win against Hybrid and banish him from this dimension.

[stingnewell]

[THANOSRULES]

You know something? How does it make any sense that Supremor would lock up Rocket Raccoon and want to vivisect him? Wasn't the statue to fallen GOTG and Rider on Halaa at the end of TI? Wasn't it the GOTG who saved Halaa in Conquest?

Rocket would be a celebrity and war hero to the Kree people...in fact, the whole GOTG would be.

There are just dozens and dozens of these type of variables and continuity fumbles that have totally degraded Bendis GOTG. Its a classic example of poor continuity really hurting a product.

[stingnewell]

You know something? How does it make any sense that Supremor would lock up Rocket Raccoon and want to vivisect him? Wasn't the statue to fallen GOTG and Rider on Halaa at the end of TI? Wasn't it the GOTG who saved Halaa in Conquest?

Rocket would be a celebrity and war hero to the Kree people...in fact, the whole GOTG would be.

There are just dozens and dozens of these type of variables and continuity fumbles that have totally degraded Bendis GOTG. Its a classic example of poor continuity really hurting a product.

Apparently Marvel is really pushing the whole back to status quo of The Supremor as a back to basic villain with The Kree in turn too serving him unconditionally, even though this is the same leader that allowed a Nega bomb to wipe out half his race. But yeah Marvel is doing a great job convincing me not to buy Bendis's Guardian's run.

[stingnewell]

[stingnewell]

Breaking News!
Cosmic news

Keynotes:

• Alonso hints at a new cosmic event
• Starlin hints of a cosmic event post Hulk vs Thanos
• Marvel editorials still shocked at the exceeding high demand for more Guardians 3000

Also not gonna lie but I really hope a Marvel cosmic creative team consisting of Dan Abnett, Jim Starlin, Ron Marz and Andy Lanning becomes a reality. Some will ask "Bendis and Loeb too?" My response "What Bendis and Loeb?."

[Darthkostis]

Thing is, the Bendis stuff are just so....predictable. Classic "bad kings vs nice princes" type of stories. Add the contradictions to the already established continuity and the dragging of many events, and you get a mediocre book.

[stingnewell]

Thing is, the Bendis stuff are just so....predictable. Classic "bad kings vs nice princes" type of stories. Add the contradictions to the already established continuity and the dragging of many events, and you get a mediocre book.

Well that and his dialogue is horribly repetitive along with his terrible characterization.