IMPERIUS REX! Namor Appreciation

**Thor-El** · 06-27-2018, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by Custodes

watchcartoononline.io They have all "The Merry Marvel Marching Society" on there. Bad quality, it was bad to begin with but, most of the other stuff is high quality.

These are bad quality but at least they are complete and in order. I think they are great and deserve to be collected and offered in digital or bluray.

**DragonsChi** · 06-28-2018, 12:33 PM

Originally Posted by Of Atlantis

Why do you say that? I think the potential is there.

Personally....I feel Jason Aaron specializes in overly aggressive/gory/mature books. That nature seeps into his other tittles in some form and while those elements can work for Namor, I think with the current climate ,as a character,Namor is in that is not what he needs. But I do believe that is the route Aaron would take him in.

Right now Namor needs to be written in a way and by someone who respects the balance of him. The regal king and the fierce warrior. The man who stops everything he is doing to save a helpless duckling but would still wipe out a city if someone endangered the people he loves. More so then that the character needs a writer who will redeem him from the gutter current marvel writers have trapped him. Namor needs redemption and writer who can bring that to the character while respecting the fact that Namor as a character need not apologize for anything.

Robinson would be a good and my first choice to write the character but I’m open to others of cource. But thats me.

**Custodes** · 06-28-2018, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Thor-El

These are bad quality but at least they are complete and in order. I think they are great and deserve to be collected and offered in digital or bluray.

I rewatch them from time to time. For Nostalgia. I remember rushing home from school ( Kindergarten-1st grade) to see them. I think Aaron would be good on a Namor solo book. Or even a Teen-Aged Namor book like he did with Loki a few years back. That was Aaron wasn't it? Maybe in the 1930s?

**DragonsChi** · 06-28-2018, 06:40 PM

Originally Posted by Custodes

I rewatch them from time to time. For Nostalgia. I remember rushing home from school ( Kindergarten-1st grade) to see them. I think Aaron would be good on a Namor solo book. Or even a Teen-Aged Namor book like he did with Loki a few years back. That was Aaron wasn't it? Maybe in the 1930s?

I thought that was Al Ewing and Kier Gillen(spelling?).

Don't think Aaron wrote a solo Loki(could be wrong), though he has written a lot of solo Thor.

**Custodes** · 06-29-2018, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by DragonsChi

I thought that was Al Ewing and Kier Gillen(spelling?).

Don't think Aaron wrote a solo Loki(could be wrong), though he has written a lot of solo Thor.

Oh yes. Sorry. You are right. That was Journey Into Mystery with Keiron Gillen writing. Wonderful books. He would be great on Namor. As long as he didn't pull any gender bending. Too much of that would annoy me. On Namor anyway.I realize Atlanteans might have a different view on sexual matters but, I've never really liked sex and Marvel. Or sex and DC for that matter. Old fashioned. I want heroics and battles not romance. A little romance is OK.

**Oberon** · 06-29-2018, 08:29 AM

To me comics are a lot like Soap Operas. Roles change, usually from Abused to Abuser to Redemptionist. In no particular order btw. I don't mind stories that feature sexual romantic things, but they should not be overplaying it. Some of my most favorite stories of Namor are the ones with romance - and I don't even have to think about Sue in this matter. Dorma, even Diane Arliss' attraction to Namor was a significant story arc for me. Others later are not as memorable. But maybe it was John Buscema's drawings of women. Always beautiful.

**Custodes** · 07-08-2018, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by Oberon

To me comics are a lot like Soap Operas. Roles change, usually from Abused to Abuser to Redemptionist. In no particular order btw. I don't mind stories that feature sexual romantic things, but they should not be overplaying it. Some of my most favorite stories of Namor are the ones with romance - and I don't even have to think about Sue in this matter. Dorma, even Diane Arliss' attraction to Namor was a significant story arc for me. Others later are not as memorable. But maybe it was John Buscema's drawings of women. Always beautiful.

That is how I explained them to my housekeeper. She is from Costa Rica. She thinks it's funny that I read comics (at my advanced age) I told her they are stories about people that I have followed since I was a kid. We age and they do not. I follow their careers and lives. I told her they are like Telenovelas. She understands that. Her mother is addicted.

**Oberon** · 07-08-2018, 07:48 AM

Exactly! She gets it. My son (35) has said for years that wrestling, WWF or whatever, are "soap operas for men" which of course sounds silly since lots of female fans out there too, but people like serialized adventures. People begged Conan Doyle to bring back Sherlock after he killed him off. Things like that. While at times there is the forbidden elements aspect (mostly sexual tension/romantic tension that never seems resolved), relationships or secrets.

There are 3 main roles for most characters with ongoing arcs; Abuser, Abused, and Redemptionist. There is no set pattern on order or time spent in those modes. Some characters are not extremely brought into their possible alternate roles and some are much more often.

**Valamist** · 07-08-2018, 07:30 PM