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Gundars Berzins
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For me, Latveria immediately conjured Latvia (in fact, I think I got the two confused for a while as a child), though that is probably more eastern than Latveria is supposed to be.
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When I was a kid, I always thought it was Latvia only spelled wrong, thinking it was cool that Stan and Jack were using something for my heritage.
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Phil Frances
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I can't think of anybody else who has done work more akin to the sensibilities found in Lee-Kirby than John Byrne.
Totally agree on all levels.
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James Woodcock
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I'm not seeking retribution. I've often said that the only way to be an EiC is to have absolute power -- the aforementioned "death ray". Without that, all becomes chaos. ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------- I agree completely. In some ways this is the main reason I don't like anarchy. Absolute freedom of the individual = Everyone should be allowed to do whatever they want.
That's fine provided everyone has the same set of values you do. If not, Hitler is fine - it's what he wants to do.
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Carmen Bernardo
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Usually, if you get anarchy, it gets followed up by the "Hitler" type with a death ray. Sooner or later, that law of the jungle reasserts itself, and the Big Men shove everyone else aside.
In comics, this would be facilitated by a new owner finally taking the business and firing every one of the staff which had been previously driving that business under. Trouble is, that model hasn't been in practice for some time at Marvel.
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Kip Lewis
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I have to wonder, what do the other writers at Marvel
think about this. I mean, here you have Dan Slott
writing Spider-man for years, he has this major
storyline that's actually creating spin-offs (Spider-
Gwen is selling at record numbers???), and all of it
is being undercut by "the End". I just read one of
the books by Hickman leading up to it. He sends a
major character, who has a title, to his doom. What
about that character's writer? And then there are
others titles that have a great deal of story momentum
going on. On the other end of the spectrum, some
writers have just gotten started on something brand
new. This kills everything.
I would almost think the only way some writers would
be happy with this, if they knew that when all was
said and done, nothing will change for them and their
books. It's just another event to write around.
True, some would be happy to start with a clean slate,
but I can't imagine others would want to start over.
And if that's the case, then what's the point of this?
(Well, other than the money events bring in.)
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Joe Zhang
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I suspect recent developments and storylines will be left intact, like how a lot of Green Lantern and Batman continuity survived the New 52 reboot.
Also, I predict that the X-Men and all the mutant characters will be split off into a separate universe. The Inhumans will replace the role of mutants in the new continuity.
Edited by Joe Zhang on 01 February 2015 at 8:14am
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Kip Lewis
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I suspect recent developments and storylines will be
left intact, like how a lot of Green Lantern and
Batman continuity survived the New 52 reboot.
Also, I predict that the X-Men and all the mutant
characters will be split off into a separate universe.
The Inhumans will replace the role of mutants in the
new continuity.
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And that's why I wondered, then "what's the point?"
Though, it might be an excuse to tweek a few
"mistakes" they've made over the years.
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John Byrne
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I suspect recent developments and storylines will be left intact, like how a lot of Green Lantern and Batman continuity survived the New 52 reboot.•• The CRISIS model. It's like watching hoarders trying to clean house.
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Robert Lloyd
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The Marvel Universe is ending? Didn't it end long ago with the endless re-boots, Chromium Covers, variant covers,Spider-Clone sagas,re-numbering etc, etc. The Marvel Universe ended for me back in 1984 after the first Secret Wars. That saga in particular was used to sell toys and my favorite characters were reduced to parodies.
I could go on but the Secret Wars, while embraced by many fans was the end for me. I became a DC Fan gradually as the talent from Marvel started defecting and went to DC.
While I'm talking DC here, it's when George Perez and Marv Wolfman started The New Teen Titans that I started looking at DC again on a regular basis.
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Robert Lloyd
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If I read this correctly on the press release........ Everything is going to take place on "Battle World"?
What is that? Is the entire Marvel Universe going to become a tournament card game like the ones I see in some comic stores?
If I remember Battle World was the place the Marvel characters were on during the Secret Wars saga...which is making a return.
When I saw the press release that Secret Wars was coming back after 30 years I was in shock because it didn't work as a story back then. It sounds like the plot of a video game instead of a good story.
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Matt Hawes
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John Byrne wrote:
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I like that description!
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Carmen Bernardo
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The best "cleaning house" I can come up with is just starting over again from scratch. No Big Event. No "Everything you knew about the character up until now was wrong!" Not even starting over from #1.
Just give a single-issue story that brings the FF, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man and Spider-Man into the present day with their origin story starting now, and let the new crews take it from there...
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