Week of July 6, 2016
In which Jay takes a sick day (but still gets stuck editing); Civil War II remains relatively civil; Deadpool V Gambit remains bafflingly delightful; and Miles weighs in on a few newly-announced titles.
REVIEWED:
*Pick of the Week
Filmed at Books With Pictures in Portland, OR. Special thanks to Katie Proctor.
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CWII X-Men #2 is good. The issues regarding Ulysses are laid out well. Lots of books are laying the debate out really well. I like that Magneto is a paranoid bastard who thinks the Inhumans are out to get mutants. That amuses me. The Gambit/Fantomex fight was awesome.
Deadpool v Gambit #2 is funny. It’s a genuinely good comic. I expected it to be awful, but it’s legitimately good. I’m shocked. As an aside, the villains are just random dudes from throughout Marvel’s line. Not Deadpool-specific villains.
Nuts…I had no idea Gambit was appearing in the Civil War tie-in. Now I need to check it out.
And yeah, I’d be down with any Gambit type book anyway, but SO happy this one is good! Plenty of literal laugh-out-loud moments, like Miles said, and a nice twist at the end that ties into another series/run I loved. Can’t wait.
I think Miles should borrow and wear a pair of shades in situations like this. Conversely, Jay should wear a fake beard.
Miles, you *nailed* the “EVERYONE!” in the tag. I needed that. 🙂
That stinger is my pick of the week. Maybe the year.
Guys, Marvel is really killing off the X-Men?!!!
There are no X books slated for this October, only “Death of X”.
I’M FREAKING OUT!
Keep Calm and collect old comics. The best thing that happened to the original team was their title getting canceled – that set the stage for Wein & Cockrum to create what tehy wanted to. X-Men will be back, whether as part of a marketing plan to be revealed in November (very likely), or reinvented by passionate creators a decade from now.
If they never take a break, Jay & Miles will have to do this podcast forever, so here’s wishing for a breather.
Looks like the X-line isn’t gone, it’s just not being promoted as part of this wave of Marvel Now 2.0. Can’t deny that Marvel is continuing to downplay the X-line, but with new stories starting as late as September (in one of the annuals), I’m guessing we’ll have our usual slate in October.
http://www.newsarama.com/30103-marvel-clarifies-what-the-marvel-now-catalog-is-and-isnt.html
We’ll be talking a bit more about this in this week’s video reviews.
Random aside: Are we sure that Boris Johnson and Tweedle Dope from the Crazy Gang aren’t the same person? And like how sure?
Tweedle Dope is more eloquent.