I always thought it was a mask but it's not the clearest thing to discern
This makes me wonder if Jonathan Majors is just going to be his face 100% of the time or if he's ever going to wear a mask.
Oh Tony. You and your relationship with the X-Men .
(Oh wait, they actually referenced Superman).
Writing an Avengers adjacent book, and The Avengers main book often can be two different things. I know that Ewing did Mighty Avengers and then The Ultimates. Ewing's ability to handle a big, balanced cast of heroes that maintains their distinctive voice sales one on the need to put him on a main Avengers book.
That's why Karl Urban will have my eternal respect. The face is the actor's billboord. Most actors refuse to hide their profile full-time behind masks. It's sort of, you have to see it's them. That's why a hero hardly ever finishes a battle without his headgear being damaged enough for you to see who is the actor behind it. It's why Spider-man is always losing his mask in battles. One of Judge Dread's most distinctive characteristic is that he never takes his helmet off. Being a jugde is who he is, the judge persona is his one and only true face. Sylvester Stallone couldn't respect that (going as far as using blue eyes contact lenses. Why? Don't know. They had a stupid in-story explanation). Karl Urban did.
Peace
Last edited by Nomads1; 11-28-2021 at 07:38 AM.
Not at all bro. Yeah, thought that the striped blue was Kang's face. It's perhaps the most recognizable feature about him. So when he's unmasked and looks somewhat ordinary, I'm a little underwhelmed. That's the great conqueror?! That guy?!
So I'm not too concerned that Johnathan Majors is playing Kang. As long as he plays a great character with the mask on (and he's played a great Kang without the mask as well), I'm down for that.
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
As a follow up to a post I made several months ago, I reread Bendis' run on New Avengers, specifically during the time of Secret Invasion and Dark Reign:
At the time, I didn't like the series. There were all of the Bendis tropes that bugged me, like the "real" dialogue, decompressed storytelling, and characters not acting like they were supposed to act. I didn't like the line up at the time which seemed weak at the time. Also, with this occurring during the time of OMD/BND, Spider-Man's inclusion on the team triggered me to no end.
However, after all of these years, after different changes, and letting go of certain hang-up's, I found myself REALLY enjoying Bendis' run on New Avengers. Yes the storytelling was decompressed, but that allowed the story to take its time. The dialogue could be a little too "real" but there was still some authenticity. It didn't sound as dramatic as previous comics (though when Bendis wrote the Skrulls, he showed he could go into that territory). Were there times when heroes didn't act like themselves? Sometimes, but there were also moments when the heroes drew limits. No, we wouldn't act in this way. (I wonder how some of us felt about Clint attempting to kill Norman Osborn, considering in the past Clint was adamant that Avengers didn't kill. The story seemed to indicate that Clint was driven to an extreme, but is that a legitimate excuse?) Furthermore, I really appreciated how the New Avengers found themselves in such a weak position. Constantly hiding, the threat of capture ever present, these New Avengers were the underdogs. In a way, it reminded me of Kang Dynasty.
Honesty one of the stand out moments for me was the appearance of Damian Hellstrom:
The "I don't give a f" attitude, I was marking out hard during his fight against Dormmamu. I don't know how Bendis got me to care about a B-lister like Damian Hellstrom, but he did.
So yes, I dug this little stretch of Bendis' work on the New Avengers. Highly recommended.
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."