Which Marvel era are you a fan from?

DAZ0273

70's Giant Sized Man Things

@Alfje17 said:
80s kid, grew up with Spider-Man and Avengers comics.
... still waiting for Boomerang in this game

Boomerang could be fun with a gimmick similar to 3/5 Hawkeye's arrows. We have hardly anybody from the Sinister Syndicate - only Rhino? Boomerang, Speed Demon, Beetle and proper Hydro Man missing!

skittledaddy

90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

@Alfje17 said:
80s kid, grew up with Spider-Man and Avengers comics.
... still waiting for Boomerang in this game

Wait long enough and he might come around...
Circle back in a few years and see if he has joined us.

ThaRoadWarrior

90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

Y'all think we'll ever get that Silver Sable + Black Cat movie as Sony continues to milk the spider sidecharacters in vehicles that don't feature spider-man?

WilliamK1983

Other? I mean I guess you could be from the Golden Age or something?

@DAZ0273 said:

@WilliamK1983 said:
Honestly don't think I've ever read a marvel comic book. Was just never really my thing. Was big into collecting sports cards, baseball mostly, and some of my friends collected comic book character cards so that was my initial introduction. This was 5th-6th grade so early 90s.

When the first Thor movie was released I went and saw it at the drive-in. Had no clue it was a comic movie until the opening credits and Marvel is flashed on the screen. Only went to see it because I thought it was some sort of fantasy tale a la lotr. Anyways, I was hooked after that. Saw every movie, show, whatever so many times I've lost official count. Watched up until Far From Home, essentially the end of the Infinity Saga. Everything after that has been str8 trash.

I was going to put an MCU option on but as it has kinda stretched over two decades and is still going it was hard to fit it in the frame of the other options. No question at all that MCU fans are a big part of everything too!

We are for sure, but for me I always kinda feel comic adjacent in a way. Like I always preface things by saying in the mcu because I know what's up on screen isn't necessarily cannon from a comic book.

I have some free time I could dedicate to reading comics but I wouldn't even know where to begin. Thor is my guy so what would be a good starting point?

DAZ0273

70's Giant Sized Man Things

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
Y'all think we'll ever get that Silver Sable + Black Cat movie as Sony continues to milk the spider sidecharacters in vehicles that don't feature spider-man?

Silver Sable is far too bland to carry a movie. Black Cat may e could but honestly just use her on a Spidey film where you get a great love triangle with MJ who loves Peter and Cat who loves Spidey.

SuperCarrot

80's grim n gritty

I have some free time I could dedicate to reading comics but I wouldn't even know where to begin. Thor is my guy so what would be a good starting point?

Mighty Thor 337-382. Walt Simonson writer/artist on most of it (I think he gets some help on the art here and there). It is considered by many the definitive Thor run. You will recognize some of it from the movies.

Borstock

I just liked the '90s animated series.

DAZ0273

70's Giant Sized Man Things

@SuperCarrot said:

I have some free time I could dedicate to reading comics but I wouldn't even know where to begin. Thor is my guy so what would be a good starting point?

Mighty Thor 337-382. Walt Simonson writer/artist on most of it (I think he gets some help on the art here and there). It is considered by many the definitive Thor run. You will recognize some of it from the movies.

Sal Bucsema has a run on art duties and whilst he is no Simonson it isn't his worst work.For MCU fans this run has the notability of introducing the Time Variance Agency in issue 372 complete with very obvious Judge Dredd "parody". Simply put though this is the best Thor ever - the Shakespearean nonsense is downplayed and Thor is noble, vulnerable, wise but also with a wry sense of humour. Also of course, Frog of Thunder!

rainkingucd

90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

I am so much 90s X-Men I still have the Claremont X-Men #1 book, and the complete Series 2 set of cards!

Alfje17

80's grim n gritty

@DAZ0273 said:

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
Y'all think we'll ever get that Silver Sable + Black Cat movie as Sony continues to milk the spider sidecharacters in vehicles that don't feature spider-man?

Silver Sable is far too bland to carry a movie. Black Cat may e could but honestly just use her on a Spidey film where you get a great love triangle with MJ who loves Peter and Cat who loves Spidey.

Love Black Cat, but if there's no love triangle with Pete and MJ/Gwen, then what's the point? You could just make Entrapment 2!

Timemachinego

90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

You can tell I'm a 90's kid, New Warriors was the first comic I started picking up monthly (from the grocery store, remember those days?). I still have both a mint version of the first one I bought (#4) and the ACTUAL first one I bought with it's chocolate fingerprints and all. From there I was mostly an X reader; Avengers and Spidey and the rest didn't really click for me until I "had" to start reading some of them to make sense of whatever big event was crossing over into everything. I guess their old strategy of tieing in like their ENTIRE catalog yearly worked on me.

bigjojo04

80's grim n gritty

@WilliamK1983 said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@WilliamK1983 said:
Honestly don't think I've ever read a marvel comic book. Was just never really my thing. Was big into collecting sports cards, baseball mostly, and some of my friends collected comic book character cards so that was my initial introduction. This was 5th-6th grade so early 90s.

When the first Thor movie was released I went and saw it at the drive-in. Had no clue it was a comic movie until the opening credits and Marvel is flashed on the screen. Only went to see it because I thought it was some sort of fantasy tale a la lotr. Anyways, I was hooked after that. Saw every movie, show, whatever so many times I've lost official count. Watched up until Far From Home, essentially the end of the Infinity Saga. Everything after that has been str8 trash.

I was going to put an MCU option on but as it has kinda stretched over two decades and is still going it was hard to fit it in the frame of the other options. No question at all that MCU fans are a big part of everything too!

We are for sure, but for me I always kinda feel comic adjacent in a way. Like I always preface things by saying in the mcu because I know what's up on screen isn't necessarily cannon from a comic book.

I have some free time I could dedicate to reading comics but I wouldn't even know where to begin. Thor is my guy so what would be a good starting point?

MCU is what got me into the comics as well and led me to getting a subscription on Marvel Unlimited. I think you can start off with a free week trial, at least that’s what I did when I started my subscription there a few years back so I imagine that’s still something that anyone could do.

As for where to start, I’d recommend starting from the very beginning honestly, that’s just where I started years ago because it’s been very enjoyable reading and seeing where all these characters started and how far they’ve come to what they are today. Thor started back in Journey into Mystery #83.

**Side note: My favorite individual comic of all time is probably Thor 390, though if you start with that one you’ll definitely miss a lot of context as Steve Rogers is actually The Captain in that issue rather than Captain America.

DAZ0273

70's Giant Sized Man Things

@bigjojo04 said:

@WilliamK1983 said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@WilliamK1983 said:
Honestly don't think I've ever read a marvel comic book. Was just never really my thing. Was big into collecting sports cards, baseball mostly, and some of my friends collected comic book character cards so that was my initial introduction. This was 5th-6th grade so early 90s.

When the first Thor movie was released I went and saw it at the drive-in. Had no clue it was a comic movie until the opening credits and Marvel is flashed on the screen. Only went to see it because I thought it was some sort of fantasy tale a la lotr. Anyways, I was hooked after that. Saw every movie, show, whatever so many times I've lost official count. Watched up until Far From Home, essentially the end of the Infinity Saga. Everything after that has been str8 trash.

I was going to put an MCU option on but as it has kinda stretched over two decades and is still going it was hard to fit it in the frame of the other options. No question at all that MCU fans are a big part of everything too!

We are for sure, but for me I always kinda feel comic adjacent in a way. Like I always preface things by saying in the mcu because I know what's up on screen isn't necessarily cannon from a comic book.

I have some free time I could dedicate to reading comics but I wouldn't even know where to begin. Thor is my guy so what would be a good starting point?

MCU is what got me into the comics as well and led me to getting a subscription on Marvel Unlimited. I think you can start off with a free week trial, at least that’s what I did when I started my subscription there a few years back so I imagine that’s still something that anyone could do.

As for where to start, I’d recommend starting from the very beginning honestly, that’s just where I started years ago because it’s been very enjoyable reading and seeing where all these characters started and how far they’ve come to what they are today. Thor started back in Journey into Mystery #83.

**Side note: My favorite individual comic of all time is probably Thor 390, though if you start with that one you’ll definitely miss a lot of context as Steve Rogers is actually The Captain in that issue rather than Captain America.

Thor 390 is definitely a big MCU milestone. I really liked Ron Frenz Kirby-ish art but Tom Defalco's writing left me cold as it threw out all of Simonson's Thor modernisation. I guess this era led us to Eric Masterson - maybe we will get ThunderStrike some day.

dianetics

I’ve never been a Marvel guy. But I will say I did get into the avengers movies.

I liked image comics. I read spawn, savage dragon, the Pitt, and the maxx. I did read the punisher and punisher warzone and I liked the deaths head ii short run.

Truthfully I really don’t like the hero genre and am more in line with things like Sandman or other counter culture comics.

MgoBlue51

90's X-TREME SHINY COVERS!

Bright colors with good contrast. I remember a lot of the venom as an antihero comic books, a lot of black to make the bright colors looks even more vibrant... and I loved them to death.

JoeHandle

70's Giant Sized Man Things

@SuperCarrot said:

I have some free time I could dedicate to reading comics but I wouldn't even know where to begin. Thor is my guy so what would be a good starting point?

Mighty Thor 337-382. Walt Simonson writer/artist on most of it (I think he gets some help on the art here and there). It is considered by many the definitive Thor run. You will recognize some of it from the movies.

Thor ... just about the entire run from Journey into Mystery days up to #400 is (literally) fantastic stuff. My favorites were the Epic Battles ... the times Thor took on Celestials ... his 1v1 vs the Midgard Serpent, fights with Fafnir and Fin Fang Foom ... crank up some Zeppelin, read some Thor, those were the days!

Kross

80's grim n gritty

I have always had comics in my house because my parents bought them for me as a kid. But I think I can put my fandom down to two things.

1. Claremont's Uncanny X-Men. I think I probably own 80% of the original X-Men/Uncanny X-Men run.
2. I remember one Christmas, my parents gave me as a gift a leather bound collection of Batman Year One and The Dark Knight Returns. Still my favorite Christmas gift of all time.

SuperCarrot

80's grim n gritty

@JoeHandle said:

Thor ... just about the entire run from Journey into Mystery days up to #400 is (literally) fantastic stuff. My favorites were the Epic Battles ... the times Thor took on Celestials ... his 1v1 vs the Midgard Serpent, fights with Fafnir and Fin Fang Foom ... crank up some Zeppelin, read some Thor, those were the days!

I definitely need to check out more of pre Simonson stuff, my knowledge on it is lacking. You sold me on it though…now to go open Marvel Unlimited.

bluewolf

80's grim n gritty

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
Y'all think we'll ever get that Silver Sable + Black Cat movie as Sony continues to milk the spider sidecharacters in vehicles that don't feature spider-man?

The movie has been canceled….then talked about as separate movies….then a TV show with them together….and maybe a movie again?

After Madame Web and Morbius underperformed, it’s a bit hard to imagine Sony doing anything with these characters in a standalone. I guess we can see what happens after Venom 3 and Kraven though.

Seems to me that only Spidey and Venom are popular enough to get people into movies but things are not going well in general at the box office and I’m guessing the Sony movies coming later this year will not do well.

bigjojo04

80's grim n gritty

@bluewolf said:

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
Y'all think we'll ever get that Silver Sable + Black Cat movie as Sony continues to milk the spider sidecharacters in vehicles that don't feature spider-man?

The movie has been canceled….then talked about as separate movies….then a TV show with them together….and maybe a movie again?

After Madame Web and Morbius underperformed, it’s a bit hard to imagine Sony doing anything with these characters in a standalone. I guess we can see what happens after Venom 3 and Kraven though.

Seems to me that only Spidey and Venom are popular enough to get people into movies but things are not going well in general at the box office and I’m guessing the Sony movies coming later this year will not do well.

Kraven got delayed again till December and will now release the same day as the new Lord of the Rings movie so Sony is doing their best job to make sure that movie also makes no money. Only good news from it is Venom 3’s release got bumped up by a month….