All in good fun, prove you're a cranky old Marvel fan.

[Gaastra]

Winning post!

Agreed I miss comic boxes on the covers.


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[DrNewGod]

Sam Wilson is just fine as the Falcon, a street level martial acrobat with bird telepathy and a flying suit. He sure as heckfire doesn't need to give up his own thing to be somebody else's legacy stand-in.

[Sutekh]

"Comics were the best when I started reading them."

There. Pretty much sums up comic book fans as a whole.

Not even close. I started reading in the early '70s, and they didn't really get good, IMO, until the '80s. And there's a lot of great stuff introduced after the '80s, like the Runaways, Young Avengers, Academy X, Avengers Academy, etc.

[Anthony W]

The 2010s is Marvel's worst decade

[K7P5V]

Hawkeye wears a rather flamboyant costume and works his butt off to prove that he's a good superhero.

...along with being a truly competent leader whose always got his eye on the ball

[Tony Stark]

"Comics were the best when I started reading them."

There. Pretty much sums up comic book fans as a whole.

You do get a lot of that around here. People don’t like to see things evolve.

[Anthony W]

Variant covers. It's crazy how everyone still (rightly) complains about the cover gimmicks of the 1990s but fall silent and in some cases actively encourage this stuff now.

[Alan2099]

Variant covers. It's crazy how everyone still (rightly) complains about the cover gimmicks of the 1990s but fall silent and in some cases actively encourage this stuff now.

What? You don't like seeing characters that aren't actually even in the book dressing up as or fighting the characters that actually are in the book?

[Babylon23]

Comic covers used to be trailers for that issue and not always pin ups that had nothing to do with the issue and only one cover per book.

This 100%. A cover should be a preview of what's inside and entice me to read the story. Pin up covers are boring.

Also agree on the cover boxes.

[Babylon23]

The Marvel universe ended sometime between 2001 and 2004. This is an entirely new universe of characters where confidence has been replaced by arrogance, character development by quips and tight plotting by decompressed naval gazing and "meta" in-jokes.

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Black Bolt's main power is electron manipulation and his voice is a side effect that he doesn't use unless there is absolutely no other way.

[Sutekh]

Black Bolt's main power is electron manipulation and his voice is a side effect that he doesn't use unless there is absolutely no other way.

Oh hell yes, good call! The uncontrollable devastating shockwave released when he vocalizes is a *weakness,* not a super-power! He killed his parents with it, and hates it! It makes no more sense for him to casually use that as a weapon than for Batman to pick up the gun that killed his parents, or Superman a bat made of Kryptonite, and use that as their favorite weapon! It's not even controllable, so when he does use it, the destruction goes in all directions, and is as dangerous to his allies as his foes, so it's not just out of character (and unnecessary), but downright irresponsible.

Meanwhile, with his electron-manipulation, he can boost his strength to punch like the Thing, project force fields strong enough to block the Thing or Torch's attacks, fly, shoot force blasts strong enough to fell buildings, move stuff around like Jean Grey, etc. He has absolutely no need to shout at every single new threat that shows up, since he's effectively solo-ed the entire Fantastic Four without feeling the need to make a peep.

[Steroid]

I liked it when writers were more interested in writing good comics instead of using the medium as a prop to show how smart they think that they are.

[Tony Stark]

This 100%. A cover should be a preview of what's inside and entice me to read the story. Pin up covers are boring.

Also agree on the cover boxes.

Agreed on all accounts.

[K7P5V]

The Thunderbolts are supposed to be about supervillains trying to reform. Not edgy anti-heroes who already qualify for regular hero teams.

Yeah! The existence of The Savage Avengers already proves that (LOL):