>>84409607
Welcome back Anons! Since we're here for Luke Cage, we're skipping forward almost 20 issues, to tbe prelude of Luke's next appearance in The Defenders!
And now we're well into Steve Gerber's run!
In case you wanted to know what Nighthawk's origin story was, here you go!
Oh, and I skipped the OG Guardians team up with the Defenders.
>Gerber!
>BUSCEMA
>KLAUS IN THE HAUS
i need to read more of his defenders, I got to a guardians of the galaxy crossover and stopped
>>84434682
They could've just said "Loser Batman" and saved some time.
>>84434682
>Pennysworth's amply able lap
Too easy.
>>84434750
Who'd win in a fight, Moon Knight, Daredevil, and the various Nighthawks, and could the victor beat Batman?Don't actually answer that, I don't need that discussion in my threads.
>>84434732
You could always do a storytime for his run. Lord knows we need more long-term storytimes on /co/
>>84434682
>>84434721
jesus it's pretty impressive this guy isn't more fucked up
Fucking hell, those tit-cones look pointy in that second panel. They look like she could stab someone with them!
>>84434833
already juggling and thinking about some! also gotta read and figure out how to make posts to go with so the thread has life
>>84434875
The common trick I've heard is to make the OP post on your phone, and then every other post on a computer, so that it's constantly being bumped. As for actually getting people to post in it? That's pure dumb luck.
>>84434870
Val best Marvel girl
>>84434918
I think consistency helps a bit.
Holy shit, a Super Stan cup! I should buy one right now!Seriously, who the hell is "Super Stan"?
>>84434951
That, and try doing it at the same time every day. I work nights and frequently do 12 hour days, so I just do mine after work, explaining why they're so late.
>>84434953
Wait, Clea got a cup?
>>84434953
Stan has always been a 'personality'. It's a cartoon Stan Lee in Spider-Man costume with Vision cloak and gloves
>Cheerleader Clowns
I can't even think of anything funny to say. That's just weird.
>>84435014
I'm actually ashamed I didn't think of "Stan Lee". I just thought it was a C-List Marvel Superhero from the 70's I've never heard of.
>>84435019
i'm reading Gerber's Man Thing and it also has clowns featured in an issue...
>>84435019
This is clearly some kind of clown sorcery.
>>84435054
Sorcery USING clowns, or sorcery done BY clowns?
And in case you're wondering when this issue was taking place in context with other Marvel stories.
I get the feeling that Glenn's letter will make some people angry.
She smacked her so hard in the 2nd panel, the C in the sound effect got smacked too.
>>84435097
It can't be both?
Yes, messing with THE HULK. God damn it Strange, I thought you were supposed to be smart?
Wait, Plantman? THAT'S who this is? I thought it was the Super-Adaptaoid using the powers of someone I've never heard of.
Spider-Man hadn't always used Hostess Fruit Pies to attack his foes, you know.
>The Eel, the Porcupine, and Power Man!
>>84435162
You have to be an absolute loser of a kid to write into Marvel and ask for them to stop showing off all these badass guys (and Nighthawk)
Hulk is clearly not the type to be cheered up.
>>84435364
There are such vast depths of shitty Marvel villains
Have pistols EVER worked against the Hulk?
>>84435421
I don't know about the Porcupine, but we've already seen the Eel twice.
>>84435425
Hulkistorian answer: no
>>84435383
I had a feeling that you, in particular, would have some thoughts on that letter.
>>84435425
You know, Hostess fruit pies really would be a more sensible solution.
>>84435440
I think he's an Avengers dude. Maybe a Pym villain?
>>84435425
Rulk killed a Gamma dude with a pistol i think
What, did he change his mind? "Okay, maybe 50 million is a bit much. How about ten million?"
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>>84435521
this is such an amazing introduction to the character
>>84435546
Well this is actually his SECOND appearance in this series. He was here last time, fighting Doctor Strange and Nighthawk.
Remember when Stan Lee had thick dark hair?
Wait, if Strange could teleport all this time, why didn't he teleport all three of them, and much sooner?
>>84435575
i know, i meant to the issue/story line
>>84435590
Remember the Fantastic Four?
So going by the placement of the sound effect, I can only assume that Luke just punched him in the dick.
>>84434918
>Hulk no!
>YES!
What a jerk.
>>84435521
It's a shame when I think about it that he wasn't part of the team to stop Hulk from losing his fucking shit a few months from now
Oh, but THAT you can teleport out of? What the hell is the rules to his teleporting?
Wait, so Marvel really made up their own version of Conan to fight Hulk, even though they could literally just have Hulk fight the actual Conan?
>>84435714
Crazy Magazine sounds so bizarre and so Steve Gerber. They would write reviews for made up albums
>>84435714
Hulk is in the microverse
>>84435040
This has got to be a fetish.
>Mark shittalking Gerber's writing
Come on, I like Starlin too, but you don't need to be a dick.
>>84435714
Arkon justified himself when Wonder Man was in the movie of it
h8 the avengers story with him
Reminder that last issue, Val literally lifted this bitch by the neck with one hand. I know Marvel civilians are retarded, this is an extra level of retarded.
>>84435772
He's putting Gerber over for having everyone be so chill and hanging out at doc strange's house all the time just socializing
Almost like a benis comic but still good because Gerber can put out quality when he's not a lazy shit
>>84435820
It is not Arkon who Hulk is fighting and Arkon has never justified himself
>>84435820
Not Arkon, the one Hulk is fighting, "Kronak the Barbarian".
>>84435876
>>84435877
Why are there multiple Not-Conans!!!!
Who's this guy, Adam Warlock's brother from the future?
>>84435318
I would be 100% okay if the new Spider-Man movies used this kind of product placement. It's hilarious.
So yeah, this is how Luke Cage joined the Defenders. One of their members literally pays him to be a member.
Remember that, it will hurt later.
>>84435903
Arkon exists because Roy Thomas is a little autistic nerdy shit
The one that Hulk is fighting exists in the microverse because he's still there after shrinking down to fight a parasite in the brain of his ex-girlfriend's husband that was implanted in there by the Russian mutant genius the Gremlin (Jr. after the first one defected and died after fighting the Hulk and changing his ways)
>>84435906
Vain shapeshifter space overlord dude. Defenders villain
So how many cosmic cubes has Red Skull had? Is this the same one that ended up being Kobik?
Because I would forgive everything Spencer and Zub have ever done if Kobik changes everything back, for Twinkies.
>>84435993
>Arkon exists because Roy Thomas is a little autistic nerdy shit
To be fair, that's literally why we have Iron Fist.
>>84435425
No but maybe this time it'll be different!
HOW DID ALL FIVE OF THEM FALL FOR IT?!
>>84436056
There has been a lot of good and a lot of bad from Roy Thomas being the apex fanboy
>>84436030
Just the one
>>84436092
I'm reminded of the end of the Kree-Skrull War, where Rick Jones summons a bunch of Golden Age heroes. Has Marvel done ANYTHING with their Golden Age characters who weren't Invaders?
>>84435506
Gotta have haggle room in these things.
Damn it Luke. I like you, but stop trying to act tough!
>>84435575
Wait, was he fighting the racketeers at his own office?
>>84436119
The Invaders only existed because our boy Roy wanting to make Golden Age stuff relevant so probably not. Even Robinson the Golden Age geek just plays with the Invaders instead of pulling out more literal whos
>>84436200
Because it's Luke Cage, and it's a day that ends in the letter Y.
>>84436119
The V Batallion?
Was this back when you could get cigarettes in prison?
>>84435686
Magic, ain't gotta explain shit.
>>84436290
Have they even done anything since FabNic Thunderbolts?
God damn it Strange!
If you could get an entire comic page on a shirt, what page would it be?
>>84436369
No.
Woah, victory for Cage.
Roy Thomas fucked the Vision with his Golden Age shit, gun to my head couldn't explain it. Glad we agreed to kinda ignore it.
>>84436442
One of those asinine Bendis spreads with just two panels copypasted over and over
But this is a genius idea for a t-shirt in all seriousness
If I was Nighthawk, I'd be so confused by that crowd that I'd wonder if I'm still seeing things.
>>84436512
That one page from Disassembled
For a Batman ripoff, you're a fucking idiot, Nighthawk.
I have no idea why the font on the 3rd panel is so weird.
This is a random bunch of characters.
The Hulk, Daredevil, Spider-Man, Conan the Barbarian, Howard the Duck, the Human Torch, the three big Avengers... and Mar-Vell.
>>84436563
Nighthawk is the thinking man's Hawkeye
I love how two different characters sent a letter suggesting that Gerber is insane.
>>84436545
The sad thing is, I have no idea which one you're referring to.
>>84436696
The thinking man's overconfident dumbass?
... What the fuck?
>>84436766
Correct
Sorry Luke, the ole' Wilson Fisk won't work this time.
>>84436766
I just remember this one time when Eel teamed up with Electro and they were fought by Spider-Man and a Betty Brant in tights.
Good times.
I'm thinking of skipping the ads if we see them twice in one thread.
>>84436670
Marvel's Captain Marvel was always kind of a forced meme.
>Riot in a women's prison!
If it's anything like how these "women's prison" movies usually are, I expect most of the pages will need to be spoiler'd.
>>84436784
It's an elf with a gun, duh.
>>84436856
I dunno, I loved Genis, Mar-Vell had a special place in my heart, and I even enjoyed that fuck-up Phyla.
>>84436727the one with all the copy pasted Wanda panels
>>84436890
But why?!
You know you're in a screwy group when LUKE CAGE is the calm headed one.
Who describes a gash as "cute"?
>>84436923
Around Elves, watch yourselves.
>>84436923
Hint, name of a baby food brand
He's literally paying you, Luke. He is, for all intents and purposes, your boss.
I wouldn't be surprised if the warden tries to get in Val's gown.
I would be even less surprised if Val broke one of his bones.
>that first panel face
>>84436914
I'm not saying they're terrible or that they don't have fans, I'm just saying Marvel's been trying to make it a household name for decades and it never really worked or stuck.
If this was released today, this one page would be the premise of an entire issue.
I won't lie, I would totally get a poster of that one on the right.
>>84437096
None of them got quite the forcing that Carol's getting. Even Genis, the only one to get a series renumbering, got one after that U-Decide nonsense.
Wow, she punched him so quick, the sound effect didn't get there in time!
>>84437126
It says it's a Godzilla poster, even though it looks more like a giant crocodile. I would by the shit out of a black velvet blacklight Godzilla poster.
>>84437240
It just looked like a generic dragon.
>"You want to pay her bail? All right, we'll get right on i-"
>RING RING
>"Oh, I guess we won't."
>Feclcia
Man, Black Cat put on some weight.
>>84437276
Matt, you're breaking my heart
>full power punch to the chest
>doesn't even step back
So who wants to bet that Luke Cage will make a joke about breaking INTO prison?
So going by the fact that Val has to DODGE a knife unlike Luke Cage, at the very least he is physically more durable than her.
So basically the cover of this issue was COMPLETLY unrelated to what was actually happening in the issue.
>>84437372
I thought that was just because the woman was doing a full charge and she was hoping she would hurt herself.
>>84437327
I can only assume that enough people back in the day disgreed with your assessment that of what the Defenders were meant to be.
Although given the writers didn't do that, who can say.
Seriously, are Matt Murdock and She-Hulk the ONLY working lawyers in Marvel? Now that he's with the DA and She-Hulk got Bendis'd, the conviction rate is going to skyrocket.
Wow, they actually wrote the word "nyaaah" in a Marvel 70's book.
So is her outfit actually metal, or just shiny?
So this page reminds me, why does Aaron's Doctor Strange no longer have his classic greys? I mean, even Bendis didn't fuck THAT up.
I could easily believe that if a movie today tried this, it would get EXACTLY this reaction.
>>84434586
The Red Guardians are cool. If they made a Black Widow movie, they could do worse that using the plot of the Hawkeye/Widow Widowmaker miniseries with he dead Red Guardian husband showing up alive and setting up a private army.
But that really doesn't work with a Widow that was born in 1984.
WHY DOES THE ELF HAVE A GUN?!
>>84437627
>Hulk attacking protesters
Don't you see Ross? You're not so different after all.
>>84434799
You're forgetting various other Marvel Batmen, I'm sure.
They're almost as lousy with them as Supermen.
>>84437674
Is that like a riddle or something?
>>84435019
It makes a touch more sense if you read the Headmen story from the start, which is I think like two issues before this.
>>84437684
Aren't most of them just different Nightwings? Superman, on the other hand, has the various Hyperions, Sentry, Blue Marvel, Gladiator, and that's just what I can remember at this hour!
>>84437728
That poor rock!
I'd love to have the kind of money where someone can say they want 300K, and rather than think they're being sarcastic, immediately say "YOU GOT IT!!" and get on the phone with the bank.
>>84437683
The last time Hulk was around protesters he ended up fighting Valkyrie (note: not kawaii Val-chan)
So Anons, who's your favorite comic Cold War era Russian? By that, I mean Russians created during the Cold War, not ones that were retroactively made to be around during the Cold War.
Holy shit, Aunt May's about to straight up murder someone.
>>84435129
I love these pages.
Marvel-Con '76 sounds like fun.
That racist arsonist was apparently named Wild Fire. I honestly kind of hope someone brings him back, seeing as how race relations are exactly the same, forty years later.
Is X-Men 99 where Jean goes Phoenix?
>>84437773
I can't wait to see if you're in such a good mood about her when we get to Fearless Defenders (which has Misty as a main character)
>>84437848
>Is X-Men 99 where Jean goes Phoenix?
Close. Issue 101.
>>84435318
AH yeah, there's the shit. Inject these ads into my VEINS!
>>84437896
That's how you get diabetes, Anon.
>>84437860
70s Defenders Val is best Marvel girl
Anything after that after getting mixed up in Avengers crap and fleshing her out more as a real Valkyrie with connections to those losers in Asgard is worthless
>A World Gone Sane?
Gerber, you've had an elf randomly shoot characters in the face as a recurring element. I don't believe you know what sanity is.
>>84437927
> losers in Asgard
Better than hanging out with The Hulk
Ah crap, give me a bit. I'll check to see if I have the Annual in my hard drive. If not, we'll skip it.
>>84437955
They have only ever been lads in Defenders and in TIH 206
>>84437728
Well, there was a one off female Batman in She-Hulk around the time Tim Burton Batman hit, that was a straight up parody.
Blue Peregrine MIGHT be a Batman?
Night Thrasher is basically Batman on a skateboard.
>>84435590
The ad drawing of his face really looks kinda rapey.
>>84437810
Don't know about the comics, but I think Doctor Strangelove had the best characterization.
>The average communist has no regard for human life. Not even his own.
Okay, we can't do them both Anons, so issue 41 will have to wait for tomorrow night.
>>84437835
>4000 years ago
Now THAT is salty.
Huh, so that's where he went.
>>84437938
Elves are a legit threat, don't be fooled by their lies and pointy shoes!
>Headman captured Nighthawk and seperated his body from his brain
Man, we just don't GET weirdness like that in comics anymore.
>>84438197
Yeah, but you expect them to use their elf magic, not to pull out a fucking gun.
>>84435772
When did Captain America live in Lubbock, Texas?
>>84438219
That's what they want you to think.
>>84438238
And I thought I was clever for seeing through their lies about making toys and cookies.
>>84438250
Elves have learned to be very crafty in their slavery at Santa's workshop.
>>84435903
Because Marvel didn't always have the Conan License, and because if you're doing a story making fun of Conan's hyper-masculinity and Hypoborea's questionable racial issues, sometimes it's better to just do it with a pastiche.
>>84436784
This is why you don't fuck around with the fey, folks.
So Strange really can't fly without his Cloak of Levitation? I feel like a fly spell should be easier than some of his other spells.
Can anyone who speaks France translate that?
>>84436119
I think they did a Legacy for Blonde Phantom as a She-Hulk villain, and strictly speaking Agents of Atlas are all Golden Agers too.
>>84438319
Death! Death to the bozos!
>>84438325
Huh, I need to read Agents of Atlas, apparently.
>>84436266
Yeah, that a thing.
There was also that The Twelve thing JMS did.
>"I crushed the American and the Russian with my mind!"
I knew it! I knew clowns had mind powers!
>>84438353
Wait, you havent'?
Do that. It's that good ass Jeff Parker shit, and it's got a goddamn gorilla firing four assault rifles at the same time thanks to handfeet.
>>84438375
There's a lot I haven't read, I've only been into comics for two years. I still have to read the pleb shit everyone is just assumed to know before moving on to the obscure good shit.
>>84438444
>A nuclear power, 70% of whose population is illiterate
That's a big fuck you to India, would it fly today?
I dunno, if people were smaller but the resources were the same size, that would solve a lot of problems.
Didn't the villain in Ant-Man have a gun like this?
>>84438476
I dunno, maybe it was actually true 40 years ago?
I don't drink, but doesn't the "shaken, not stirred" actually taste nasty?
>>84438512
It's probably true now, I'm just saying we're so PC now that this might not make it past the censors.
>>84438526
>I'd told her to look for the sexiest man on the street
You bastard.
>M.C.P.
>"That's 'Male Chauvinist Pig'"
... Is that a thing people actually said with such frequency they could use acronyms and assume other people knew what it meant?
Wasn't this guy just the team's "token civilian"? When'd he become a badass?
Huh, so THAT'S what her power is.
>>84437126
Rock Reflections of a Superhero is legit enjoyable.
>>84438558
Snu-snu with Val makes a man grow strong, if he lives.
>>84438534
Well if it's an easily verifiable fact (according to google, it's 74% as of 2011), I don't see why. What are they gonna do, say reality is racist?
>>84438617
Forgot the page.
>>84438617
Pointing out facts is racist and sexist, yes. Let's not go there though.
So is it just a coincidence that this guy has golden skin like Adam Warlock?
>>84438650
It's just there to make him FABULOUS. Also isn't his idea the same as Darkseid's Anti-Life? Remove free will, make people satisfied in their one true purpose?
>>84438669
Darkseid would've probably been better served if he were a shining golden god, and not a rock man.
>>84438650
Yes.
He's from space.
Adam Warlock was created on Earth.
>>84437614
Because Cucumberpatch
>>84438686
>Adam Warlock was created on Earth.
Yeah, it's weird remembering that, given that basically everything since fighting Thor has been space-based.
>>84438697
Yeah, but in the movie he's got the gray's dyed in.
>>84437810
ROCKET REDS
And suddenly, The Hulk.
>>84438204
Steve Gerber was a treasure.
>>84438737
When all else fails, apply a blunt instrument.
Wait, I just realized. Why is Red Guardian dressed as Red Guardian, and not one of the Bozos like when she went inside?
>>84438752
"When in doubt, break shit."
>>84438762
Magic time-warp caused by the powers cosmic when the Hulk punched reality too hard.
>Everyone else hits their enemy
>Hulk wraps Ruby Thursday's head with metal
>>84438484
I consider being eaten by cats a problem.
How often do we get anti-villains who want to save the world, who give up because they decide we're not worth it?
>>84438526
Mixologists get all upset because if you mix a martini like that you'll bruise the gin (whatever the hell that means), however people familiar with the James Bond novels note that he drank vodka martinis, at a time when vodka was still distilled from potatoes and often had oils that rose to the top of it wasn't shaken. I just think people sperging out over cocktails is hilarious.
>>84438015
Moon Knight: Batman with MPD
elf with a bump
>>84437810
Anyone who doesn't say Rocket Red is wrong.
