>>83891300
>>83919389
>>83971653
>>83999895
>>84021291
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>>84134128
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>>84365543
It's been a long time coming, Anons, but here it is, the end of an era. It's the end of Power Man and Iron Fist.
And what better way to start the ruining of a great series than with an event tie-in?
Yes, this run features a character named "Captain Hero".
So it's not enough that he can fly and has super strength, now he can turn invisible, too!
Oh, and he can transform. I forgot. Flight, shapeshifting, super strength, and invisibility. Why not throw in force fields while you're at it, for maximum horseshit?
Shit, I forgot about the whole "collapsing building" thing. I checked issue 6, and near as I can check, there's no issue where the Beyonder got them out of K'un Lun (and remember, that was WRITTEN by Editor-In-Chief Jim Shooter). Do you Anons want me to do the entire issue 2, or just the pages where Luke and Danny are?
>"Amazing!"
>"Dangerous..."
>"I'm hungry."
Luke Cage, giving absolutely no fucks since 1972.
Yeah, that's pretty much what Secret Wars II was. "The Beyonder shows up, interrupts the plot of the run to be everyone's new friend.
This and the first Secret Wars are the only thing I've seen Jim Shooter personally write, and I have no idea why he gets wanked on so much if THIS is what he thinks good writing is.
Wait, Nick Fury actually DOES know Danny? I thought that transmission from last time was faked.
>>84386171
>those last 3 panels
>civilwar2.png
And since you guys suggested I do the ads.
Actually, shit, Imma order some pizza before they close.
I feel like every Secret War II tie-in was some shitty fanfiction. And I know shitty fanfiction.
>>84386502
No, that was Secretest War. The war so secret, it was never published.
>>84386630
Typical Marvel, changing an established character into a minority.
>>84386694
Those damn SJWs were at it even back in the 80's! They've been playing the long game.
Oh, and a two-page ad.
>>84386753
Even longer.
Must I remind you that they tried to get more blind people to read comics when they made Daredevil?
>"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine?!"
>>84386880
That's nothing, they tried to get Fishpeople to read back when they made Namor!
>>84386630
Secret Wars 2 is the absolute worst but those new mutant tie ins are no joke someof my favorite marvel comics
This kind of nonsense is why The Hulk is still a threat.
Actually, one of my favorite parts of PAD's Hulk was when the military "solved" the Hulk problem by just ignoring his rampages for attention, and he fell in line eventually.
But then the last issue happened, and the Status Quo...
Don't call him a "bozo" Fury, just call him what you want to call him. A fucking idiot.
>>84386928
>Fishpeople
/pol/'s wrong about a lot of things, but they are 100% right about anything they say about fishpeople.
Also, they smell.
>>84386948
Really? I'll have to add it to the backlog.
>>84386948
Well, someone better do more when it is time.
>>84385273
Iron Fist vs. Missile
Taking any bets?
So, I guess Iron Fist wins.
Sorry Anons, bets off.
>>84387303
Reality warpers always cheat.
But there is a trick to killing them.
>>84387358
I don't think kicking him in the balls will work.
>>84385724
Oh boy, Disco Mode Beyonder.
Is this a major Beyonder appearance? Or one of the "Oh hey, the Beyonder, now appearing in Secret Wars II" appearances?
>>84387442
>Or one of the "Oh hey, the Beyonder, now appearing in Secret Wars II" appearances?
It's one of these.
>>84385824
Whose costume has changed.
>>84387434
Well, the way to do it is to shoot them before they know you are there.
For those of you who are mad about Captain Falcon, and weren't here for last thread, it isn't the first time Misty has been with another man!
>>84387485
Did it? I couldn't tell. Then again, I really fucking hate Bobby.
>>84385824
Captain Hero >:(
>>84386021
Man, fuck Secret Wars II.
>>84387695
It's Luke Cage.
Put that gun down before you hurt yourself you idiot.
>>84386391
I read his Legion of Superheroes and it was good, but that was when he was in high school.
Remember that Misty and Colleen are best friends, and they knew eachother before Danny ever entered their lives.
Maybe you could blame their mind meld, but if you don't, even Colleen sees Misty's recent stuff as low.
Careful Misty, that's seven years of bad luck.
Starting with that repair bill.
>>84387746
And remember, they released a friggen Omnibus for that event.
And, to interrupt that drama, here's Tapdancing Captain America.
Can anyone from /k/ confirm this claim?
>>84386630
Denny translating Street to English is fucking hilarious.
>>84386848
>>84386895
Soggy's may rule, man. Soggy's May Rule.
I can't tell, are we supposed to think he's a badass, or just an edgy prick?
>>84387984
Tapdancing Captain America hunting for underaged girls.
>>84388109
I used to be a thug like you until I took a bullet to the knee.
>"You're doing my partner wrong."
>"Misty's being a flake is somethin' I got no control over, but I can sure as heck stop you."
So has Luke had this talk with Captain Falcon over dating the love of his best friend's life, or is Marvel still pretending that all black people are a monolithic group?
And now you all know the context to "My 'loud angry negro' bit didn't phase him"
>>84387601
The logo definitely used to be rounder.
>>84387761
I think it's that ersatz Billy Dee Williams.
Certainly not Danny at this point.
>"I know what Danny needs..."
>Misty walks into the door
I'm sure you all know where this is going.
Well, I expected the half-naked woman. Luke cage being thrown through his wall by Chiantang? That's a surprise.
>>84387964
Fucking hell. I though I was joking with the Billy Dee crack. He's gone FULL LANDO.
Great, a magical dragon who's gotten super tech.
>>84388171
Black Lives Matter too much for him to complain about Sam bird dogging Danny's woman right now.
>>84388301
I know it's been years since I've seen Star Wars, but I don't remember Lando kneecapping anyone.
Maybe in the special editions?
God damn it Luke, change your shirt, you've had the time.
>>84388296
This whole page has so much going on.
>>84387753
And here is is, doing it in the actual comic.
>Luke Cage can't swim
I mentioned him swiming early on so that when it comes up here, as a plot point, you'll know. And he's swam since, so I don't know why Priest thought he couldn't.
>>84388498
I bet it's a fake Luke.
>>84387131
>>84387218
no joke, they're maybe my fav Claremont X-issues, It's insane.
so fucking good,
>>84388556
And you got it in one!
>>84388552
I KNEW IT.
He didn't say anything about sweets or Christmas.
>>84388552
Luke's origin involves him swimming, even.
>>84388586
On the other hand, credit where it's due, he remembered to rip Luke's shirt.
Here's hoping something similar will happen when Captain Falcon is just the Falcon again.
And here we see Colleen straight up decapitate a fucker while he's down.
Colleen Wing don't fuck around.
>Cage: Unleashed!
>(Yes, it's time to get Ugly!)
Oh, this should be fun.
This one is a particularly unsubtle issue about black America.
And yet it somehow isn't as hard to sit through as some of the runs Marvel is publishing today.
>"Late this afternoon, Cage almost single-handedly invaded a midtown united states armory, nearly destroying the installation in the process"
Yet another day in the life of Luke "Power Man" Cage.
Seriously, who makes a coat like that? Doesn't the bottom get dirty? What if it gets caught in a door?
>>84388772
Well, the writer IS blacker than most of Marvel's current writers.
Although being black didn't make Hudlin better at writing race issues.
>>84388882
Yeah he's an edge lord of the 80's, but I'm a sucker for that waving coat action.
Hell, this page alone makes it look like he'd trip over the coat!No, this coat rant isn't just autism, I'm just poking holes at this try-hard cool cop.
>>84388882
No need to worry, his coat is perpetually flowing in the wind, even when he's indoors.
>>84388911
Speaking of, I'm not storytiming the bit where Luke Cage appears in Hudlin's Black Panther. Not only does it retcon the issue in Priest's run where they met, but it's Hudlin.
>>84388953
I actually tried to get one of those coats for myself when I was younger. I didn't look hard enough to ever actually FIND one, granted.
So is Sam still a social worker in Captain Falcon, or is he just Captain America 24/7?
LOOK AT THAT FRIGGEN THING, HIS COAT MUST GET IN THE WAY OF THE EXHAUST!
>>84389070
In highshool (and college), I had/have a coat that had a collar that goes up to my jaw.
I know, how stupid it looks, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut it makes me feel cool.
>>84388967
Tyrone King definitely seems like the kind of cop that would end up gunning down someone innocent, so far.
He has a casual disregard for public safety, and a very powerful handgun.
So has Marvel ever made a "superhero insurance" joke to imply it actually exists in Marvel, or does this guy have to pay for the repairs out of pocket?
>>84389029
Man, people really like calling Luke an oreo, don't they?
... Honestly, this feels just like a contrived way to let Tyrone get in on the action so Luke doesn't show him up.
>>84389132
I figure it's like how Batman's cape is supposed to be ankle-length at most, but when he's posing near the edge of a building artists go crazy and give him a cape that's longer than he is tall.
>>84389184
Speaking of a powerful handgun, here is is using it to knock a villain strong enough to chuck a car across multiple blocks into a wall.
>>84388967
>I think he's got it in for the blacks, y'know.
That's a fucking understatement
>>84389105
He has a modified Mighty Avengers hotline. I mean technically it's still social work, but it's not accredited.
>>84389222
It was mostly a thing in Busiek's run, but as I said, it's especially unsubtle here.
>>84389307
Is Tyrone King supposed to be a parody?
>>84389384
See, I've been wondering this this entire time, but I can't tell since I don't know if the dates match up. Also, nobody's called him on his shit yet.
Seriously, here he is riding with two superheroes, one of which being Luke Cage, who has fought everything from super soldiers, dire wraiths, and fucking SATAN, and it's the cop they're freaking out over.
>>84389363
>He has a modified Mighty Avengers hotline. I mean technically it's still social work, but it's not accredited.
Yeah, but only "technically". That's like saying Batman's a public servant since they have the Bat Signal.
>>84389222
When people who aren't racist argue with black people who don't share their exact views they love to take their 'blackness' away from them. I once got called an Uncle Tom by a white Canadian who is so liberal he's a step away from an anarchist.
>>84389366
It takes special kind of paranoia to think that cops are going to let a cop killer off lightly.
Round Two.
FIGHT
>>84389541
Some people think the reasons are more important than the actions. They were already getting annoyed that the cops only went after him once he killed a cop, remember.
>>84389439
Secret Wars 2 should have ended with Cage vs. The Beyonder...........with our Heroes for Hire winning with Pizza.
>>84389637
Only if it's like those Hostess Fruit Pies ads, and not like Popeye.
>"You killed a black woman!"
>"You killed black kids!"
>"You killed black cops!"
Like I said, this issue is race-bating: the issue..
>>84389542
>BEAT EM UP, GUY. GO FOR BROKE!
>>84389720
Winner: Luke Cage!
>>84389745
*GASP*
What a twist!
>>84389718
Well, so was that issue with the racist firebug whose name I've forgotten.
I feel like any computer that needs to be whacked multiple times to get the information shouldn't be being used by the friggen police, it causes problems.
Slightly related note, my father was once arrested because he shared the first and last name of someone with a warrant out for his arrest, even though he told them they had the wrong man. The way my dad told me, he didn't get free until he was up before a judge, and the judge told the arresting officer "Yeah, you have the wrong man." That last part sounds like horseshit though, I feel like they should've noticed sooner.
>>84389745
>Cage: OKAY!!
>Danny: Good work "Terry".
>Cage: STAND UP!
>>84389790
I think his name WAS "Arson".
Almost there!
>>84389966
The red suit looks so wrong.
Wait, wasn't this guy's hair brown last time?
>>84389980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50
>>84389993
Hence why everyone else gave him a green one. Until Bendis. Because Bendis.
>Danny has an entire closet full of Green costumes
>Still picks the red one
>>84390004
Maybe Gordy's just a succession of guys taking the same name, and apparently failing completely to deal with whatever ATLAS plot they accidentally stumbled into.
>>84390041
The white suit is better than this at least. The red suit looks outright villainous.
And apparently Danny can't read Chinese. Sounds like bullshit.
>>84390108
Given the context it appears in, that may have been intentional.
For everyone who ever made fun of Naruto because an orange ninja sounded stupid, here are three yellow ninjas who are played dead straight
If you made fun of Naruto for literally any other reason, continue to do so, because that series deserves it.
See? Even dressed like this, they still sneak up on Danny.
>>84390162
I'm okay with it as an evil super mode alternate costume.
>>84390234
Danny with the old Anime "Cross attack then next scene they drop."
And I now want a PM/IF Anime or OVA.
>>84390322
I dunno if I'd trust the japanese to do Luke Cage. Maybe a Deadly Hands of Kung Fu series...
>>84390208
I remember Five Element Ninjas and one of the ninjas literally had a shiny gold outfit. That is the least stealthy ninja I have ever seen.
>>84390322
That's older than anime.
It's probably from like the second Samurai movie ever.
>>84390382
Fuck, I forgot that nonsense.
Gangsters to the left, ninjas to the right, and Danny stuck in the middle kicking ass.
Notice that the Iron Fist power has looked different since he changed outfits. It's part of why I dislike the red, personally.
>>84390433
Don't forget that he's winning.
>>84390466
Hey look, a statue of Mr. Lao.
>>84390432
I forgot most of that movie too, but you never forget the gold lame ninjas.
Now he's literally fighting them on both sides.
>>84390507
Nor should you.
Danny, no!
>Luke cries a bit when he hears Danny is feeling better
RIP Luke Cage as a character
1972 - 1986
>The Final Chapter!
Are you ready to see how the Heroes For Hire finally meet their end, Anons?
AND HERE WE GO!
>>84390615
I don't think he got ruined right after the first series ended.
>>84390615
Well, I think the next issue is the last appearance of him in yellow on the regular until Thunderbolts.
Cage sets him up in a leather jacket, because 90s.
>>84390674
By Cage in the 90s it's like, who is this porch monkey
>>84390615
>>84390705
I dunno, I kind of liked him in the Heroes for Hire series, although I will agree that Cage wasn't that good.
>>84390693
Well, he has an appearance right set between this and his appearance in the Black Punisher trilogy.
Urg... this book. I'm gonna need more whiskey.
>>84390729
I just realized this is a negro book by negros now
Luke Cage and Iron Fist vs. an entire football team.
No points for guessing who wins.
>>84390673
Dammit, No! There's more suckers to get got! The Soda Machine gotta learn it's lesson, baby! Kung Fu Fools need to get the business! Cage & Danny need to into space and whip some ass, jack!
>>84390790
No, the artist is still white.
>>84390790
At least two of the long term artists on this book were black, you know.
>that bottom left panel
Look at them, aren't they happy?
>>84390810
Stay strong Anon, we can make it through this!
>>84390847
MD Bright worked for Milestone dude and everything lists him as African-American
There is some part of him that is a brotha
>>84390972
That's a neat thing to put on a resume. "I'm also an honarary black man."
You thought you were free of the garbage red costume? THINK AGAIN!
And Danny is just as mad as you are.
Uh oh.
>>84390922
Look he's Ned again!
So their entire partnership ended... over one argument.
How is it that nobody notices this guy?
>>84391163
This is the only time I remember Danny losing his cool and blowing up like this.
>>84391205
Or snapping like this. Luke is usually the angry one.
By the way, yes. For a while Reed Richards and Sue Storm were part of the Avengers, as Reed mentioned last page.
Danny Rand: he's like Jesus, but with Kung Fu.
>>84391234
Just let him die Danny. Kid's a brat, he's got it coming.
>>84391163
Well, it is a pretty serious matter worth getting angry over.
Danny's soul is, in his eyes, tainted. And Luke just tried to handwave it away with a lie.
That's a pretty serious breach of trust.
>>84391191
Also, weren't the in Chicago? What's King doing there?
I'm still kinda shocked we didn't get a full on Uncanny/Heroes for Hire team up.
>Job in Japan
>Invovles the Yashida Clan
>Luke, Danny, Colleen & Misty vs. Ninjas
>Logan gets mixed into it
>X-Men visting Logan get dragged in.
>Sunfire is involved and is a dick, Cage tells him basically Fuck You
>Badassery on both sides
>More Kung-Fu insanity with japanese ninja magic
>Cage & Logan hilariously try to outbadass each other
And here we see that Hank Pym can manufacture some variation on the Kree Nega-Bands.
>>84391279
It sounds great that that never happened
>>84391260
"This person is annoying, so I watched him die and laughed" is not what heroes say.
>>84391261
I'm not diminishing the seriousness of the argument, merely pointing out that, in the grand scheme of things, they were two of the best friends in Marvel, and it happened so quickly.
>>84391287
Ah, nuts, this is between Dane's flying horses.
Also, hello future Hero for Hire, Dane Whitman.
>>84391279
>>84391292
I dunno, with some work it could've been fun.
>He actually does have a force field in his friggen phone
>>84391287
>Reed: Are you sure It isn't cosmic radiation?
>Danny: I'm telling you it's Chi.
>Reed: From a Dragon?
>Danny: Yes.
>Reed:.........I find that hard to believe.
>Danny: Says the man who dealt with GALACTUS.
>>84391309
I thought Hawkeye was the one who rode the flying motorcycle?
>>84391337
>>84391347
Gordy's phone should join the Avengers.
Not him, just his phone.
So let's keep track of what this phone does.
Force Field
Particle Beam
And it returns to the hand a-la Mjolnir. And this was in the freaking 80's! I don't think Tony Stark had a phone that did that kind of nonsence!
>>84391383
And I forgot the image again.
GAH! AND I GOT THE WRONG IMAGE THAT TIME.
Okay, read >>84391347
Then this page
Then >>84391389
>>84391370
That is one hell of a phone.
Hopefully, I won't mess up again in this thread.
I do enjoy that Luke never actually answers. He's softened up a bit from how he used to be, but it's still plenty believable that he would straight up execute this motherfucker for what he's done.
>"A friend is a precious, valued asset, Power Man. We'd all be lost without them."
>>84391347
Yeah, him too. But Dane got one too, after he joined the Avengers and gave Aragorn to Valkyrie.
Cap used them on occasion, too.Hawkeye is West Coast Avenging at this point, and arguing with Bobbi
Fuck Captain Hero ... just fuck
*takes another shot of whiskey*
This bit about the importance of friendship is so cheesy, but somehow it works.
>>84391449
>"Real friends hold hands in public, Power Man. Proudly. Unflinching."
>>84391456
>>84391455
I've gotta love these doctors trying to argue with Reed fucking Richards.
>>84391474
It's a Cap thing. Yeah the other heroes jumped in but when Steve Rogers talks, people LISTEN.
>>84391481
Not just hold hands, they HUG.
Really? EVERYONE is asleep?
>>84391517
Panel 2 in needlessly action heavy for going down a hospital corridor.
>>84391550
When in doubt, blame the reality warper.
>>84391522
Fair point, that's basically his super power.
... he won't wake up now
>>84391557
Half expect Cap to yell "AVENGERS ASSEMBLE"
Well fuck...
good news, captain hero won't show up again. bad news is...
I like imagine there's a special place in Marvel hell where Captain Hero is eternally tortured.
Is that the Beyonder
>>84391596
I forgot how hard these bottom panels hit. I mean you're really not sure what's happened until here where it really sinks in.
and there goes luke, rather than be put away again
i can't even laugh at daredevil looking in the wrong direction (the first official blind daredevil joke?), but at least we know why we never hear from maxine outside of this series
What the fuck?!
>>84391661
Oh god, they really did the Daredevil looking the wrong way gag.
And there it is, the last issue of Power Man and Iron Fist.
>>84391673
Is he a robocop?
>>84391673
I'm going with Magic Trenchcoat, or Super Soldier Colt .45 Malt Liquor.
>>84391686
Well, that certainly left no loose ends.
Okay Anons, we've got two options here.
Do we go back from here and spend the next few days doing Luke's time with The Defenders? Or do we go forward with their story? Obviously we're not doing it tonight.
>>84391517
>>84391557
>>84391584
I'm laughing pretty hard thinking about these guys flying, running and stretching as hard and fast as they can just to go twenty fucking feet to the end of the hall, then calmly shuffle single-file into a hospital room
>>84391686
As down as this ending is........Cage went 125 issues. I don't think we'll see that again anytime soon. That's goddamn impressive.
Why kill Danny? What was the reasoning?
>>84391720
I'm fine for whichever... but I kinda feel that the vague ending of the series demands we move forwards to see Danny's resurrection, what the deal with Tyrone King is, etc.
>>84391720
I'm up for Defenders.
>>84391720
I'm curious where it goes from here cause this is where I stopped reading but I also like the Defenders stuff...so I could go either way.
>>84388035
He's only slightly exaggerating. At close range the bullet will tend to exit out the other side, rather than dumping all the energy in the victim.
Worksafe video of balistic gel, and a very not work safe pic of a 44 mag wound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yO6y48XiSI
http://www.bestgore.com/suicide/suicide-44-caliber-magnum-revolver-head/
The pic on the following page actually isn't too unrealistic of the effects, minus the whole flying through the window thing.
>>84391720
Go forward, young dragon.
>>84391743
Well, yeah, not with Marvel relaunching every book they can every 8 issues for a #1 sales spike.
>>84391757
According to Priest himself, on his website (which features spoilers for going forward so look up at your own risk):
>My run on POWER/FIST is likely most notorious for the series finale, in which Iron Fist was shockingly and inexplicably killed. This is one of those moments I find alternately flattering and annoying at once. Fist's death was senseless and shocking and completely unforeseen. It took the readers' heads clean off. And, to this day, people are mad about it. Forgetting, it seems, that you were supposed to be mad, that death is senseless and Fist's death was supposed to be senseless.
>Like my trials with the DC Comics character TRIUMPH, the readers missed the point and villainized the writer to some degree. They loathed and hated Triumph, completely missing the point that that was exactly what they were supposed to do; he was designed specifically to be annoying, like Dr. Smith from Lost In Space. Fist's death was supposed to be shocking and senseless. It wasn't bad writing. The fact that, thirteen years after the fact, people are still annoyed about it speaks to the quality of the work, the impact of which has apparently not diminished over time.
>I trepidatiously add that Marvel has, of course, resurrected Iron Fist, and done not much with him. He is, once again, a reasonably generic member of the Marvel stable, the occasional guest star. Marvel revived the Power/Fist team with HEROES FOR HIRE, but the formula called for a larger group of heroes and bigger adventures and antagonists, with mixed results. The simplicity of the Cage/Fist chemistry was certainly a component of HFH, but it seemed, subjectively to me, to be lost amid the sprawling cast and plotlines.
>>84391757
>>84391888
>The expedient thing to say is, Iron Fist's death wasn't my idea. It was my idea in the sense of that is how I chose for him to die— brutally and senselessly. I was ordered to kill IF because the editor was deeply resentful of Marvel's decision to cancel the book, a book the editor (comics legend Denny O'Neil) invested himself in and worked _very_ hard with myself and artist MD "Doc" Bright. We were all pretty upset, but Denny was outraged. POWER MAN & IRON FIST was a critical success and was selling in excess of 100,000 copies; not a major hit in those days but the book was certainly profitable. Then the company, for no apparent reason, decided to change the publishing schedule from a monthly release to bi-monthly, which automatically depresses sales, and, once the sales projections skewed downward, that became justification enough to cancel the book to make room on the schedule for a new line of books that became the infamous and notorious "New Universe."
>Angered by the slight to our work on the book, in an editorial meeting Denny's assistant suggested we kill Iron Fist and cast the blame on Power Man. Doc and I really did not like the idea, but the editors were adamant, insisting if we didn't write the story he'd assign it out to someone else. I agreed to write the story on the condition that IF's death be senseless and, actually, extant to the story itself. The story and plotlines had resolved themselves by the time Iron Fist fell asleep in the hospital and was subsequently killed. It was shocking and unexpected and completely meaningless— which is how we all felt the company had treated us.
>>84391757
>>84391888
>>84391907
>Neither Doc nor I have ever been offered work on those characters since. In Marvel's subsequent attempts to revive Power Man and Iron Fist, either singly or collectively, as far as I know, neither Doc nor I were considered for the job. In one specific instance, I was told by a Marvel staffer to, "don't even bother" submitting proposals for the character, as the then-Editor In Chief would not even consider a POWER/FIST project done by us.
>>84391720
As much as I agree with>>84391776, (although I my be projecting a bit) the further away we get, the less motivation there will be to post/ read his Defenders stint. Maybe a break from this seriousness, and re-do this last issue as a refresher before getting back into the main storyline?
>>84391907
>POWER MAN & IRON FIST was a critical success and was selling in excess of 100,000 copies; not a major hit in those days but the book was certainly profitable
POWER MAN AND IRON FIST USED TO SELL BETTER THAN JUST ABOUT ANYTHING DOES TODAY.
I feel that needs saying.
The Direct Market was pure poison to comic books.
>>84391915
>In one specific instance, I was told by a Marvel staffer to, "don't even bother" submitting proposals for the character, as the then-Editor In Chief would not even consider a POWER/FIST project done by us.
I feel like this is probably Bob Harras. Defalco doesn't seem remotely enough of a cunt to do something like that.
Damn.
>>84391915
>>84391907
>>84391888
Danny. Victim of circumstances. Still, this was a fun series, with alot of character. From Cage being a bitter guy who was wronged to a more open fellow. Danny was full of vengeance and hate, confused but then found his place as Luke's Brother.
Yeah, partners? Nah, we saw two guys become Brothers. Overcoming race, class, Soda machines & Kung-Fu treachery.
In any case, I'll keep the thread open and see what the thread goes with by the time the thread is closed.
>>84389844
>I'm not black, I'm a man
Real nigga shit, dude may be an edgy OC 80s guy, but at least he knows what's up
>>84392055
I'll put a vote in for Defenders.
DEFENDERS. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO DO IT.
That ending still enrages me, all these years later.
>>84391907
>cancel the book to make room on the schedule for a new line of books that became the infamous and notorious "New Universe."
New Universe? THEY FUCKING DESTROYED PM/IF FOR NEW-FUCKING-UNIVERSE?!!!?
>>84386021
Who should play the Beyonder in the movies?
