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Mister Fantastic? Or Mr. Terrific?

 

 

Also, Dr. Midnight brought a child into he world recently, if i remember correctly.

Mister Fantastic: if he was on the same course as Doom and didn't get his face blown off, it's a fair bet that he finished university.

That would be correct Rogan.

One of the few characters in the Marvel U with a doctorate and they refer to him as "Doc".

Shows how far Marvel has fallen from their glory days.

What am I talking about? I've got no bloody idea either!

It could be worse, Mister Fantastic presumably has a Doctorate, but it never gets mentioned.

The big fuck-off Deus-Ex (Did I mention my uncle ? The one with the indestructible body ?) wandering around that final story made it hard to give two tugs of the proverbial about Cheryl.

That wasn't the final story, John. That business with the Tate club?

He was only Doom, but when he conquered latveria, they gave him a honorary doctorate.

That would account for it:

"I run the bloody country! If I don't get my Doctorate I'm closing the university..."

I get the idea he rather fancies the idea, to be honest, so unless DC have somebody better in the pipeline (and in terms of actually selling comics, he's probably better than Milligan by their lights) he's likely a shoo in if he has put his hat in the ring.

Personally, I think the monthly Hellblazer comic is floundering pretty badly at the moment.

 

Mike Carey's run, which started off with such promise, slowly devolved into a sprawling tale that just didn't feel quite right within the pages of Hellblazer. With the exception of a one or two side trips, it felt more akin to Doctor Strange vs The Magic Dog & Friends. His decision not to delve more into John himself was made all the more frustrating when he chose to do so on very rare occassions indeed as he was bloody good at it. All His Engines is up there with the best in Hellblazer, Mike's run on the main title though was ultimately very disappointing. I remember babbling at James in Bristol, shortly after reading the second part of Out Of Season, convinced that we were about to hit some quality stuff - instead we got Stations Of The Cross....

 

Denise Mina is spending a bit more time in John's head, which is just as-well as her actual story was stretched to tedium by the fourth issue and soul-destroying by the seventh. Which, of course, didn't actually offer anything in the way of a satisfying resolution - gargh!

 

Thinking on it, Ward 24 was probably the last issue that really kicked my arse - not to sound too much like an advertising exec but Hellblazer is in dire need of a writer with some kind of edge - someone who can serve up truly nasty stories with John Constantine at their core.

What was the problem with Stations Of The Cross? It was obviously just there to set up the whole Constanteenies business, but it did it with panache. As for Ward 24 being the last story of Carey's run with any impact, come off it: what about the Gemma/Grauniad story, and those last two issues?

Denise Mina hasn't lasted long then.

John: Diggle's Swamp Thing story and Lady Constantine rather suggest that he'd dearly love to write Hellblazer. I'd sooner Vaughn, Milligan or Morrison myself, but none of those are half as likely, unfortunately.

Stranger's blue. Dr. Occult is the shit-colored one.

 

You also forgot Zatarra, Dr. Fate shit, it must be very easy to get a doctorate in the DCU, just ask Dr. Light I, II or III), that old crone is the one that tried to trick him, and there's Titania, Conjoker from the end of all things, that guy in the turban is Sargon the Sorcerer, i think, and that skull may or may not be Boston Brand, aka Deadman.

You can't be sure that most of these sorts even have a Doctorate: Doctor Doom doesn't, after all, as he never even finished his undergraduate course, let alone doing further degrees on top of that.

 

It's all so deadpan too.....

 

Shit, I need to move to the DCU. I never managed to get a doctorate.

I suppose Doom may have taken a correspondance course somewhere while he was recovering from having blown his face off. Possibly.

Those are the two that spring to mind as you're already reading The Punisher, Mark. As Rogan says, there are rather dodgy elements of Fury, but given the nature of the character, it doesn't seem inappropiate.

Will keep that in mind.

 

Anyone have any opinions with regards to Wreckless Eric?

Some of his stuff is great, some of it's a little too noveltyish for my taste. The current best of is well worth getting hold of, though.

The used and new copies appear to be booksellers shifting copies for less than the full cover price, which I have no objection with. No excuse for the gother than thou music book, though...

I have finally gotten Shoot Out The Lights and will be listening to it tonight.

You'll love it: that's one of the really good ones.

I think I've said something similar myself, in the past - the limitations and constraints of writing what was, nominally, a 'mainstream' superhero-universe book really brought out the strengths in Ennis' writing, and minimised his more irritatingly self-indulgent tendencies. I certainly can't think of anything he's written which I rate anywhere near as highly as the very best bits of Hitman, and even the weaker storylines (of which there were very, very few - it was a superbly consistent series, which is another thing which I like about it) stand up well against most of his other 'major' efforts.

The same probably applies to his Marvel stuff (even those for Max, which is most of it), so it's surprising how unimpressive that Ghost Rider series was.

The Nick Fury and the Thor ones, on the other hand, were rather impressive.

Ironically, John's last post more or less removes the point of putting Tom's comment in spoiler tags in the first place. Nice one, fella! ;)

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Just want to add my 2 cents and express my love for Hitman, it's probably the best series that Ennis has written and oddly the crossovers with the mainstream DCU are amongst the best of the issues when normally you'd expect a book like this to be dragged down by such things.

I feel that being reigned in a bit to write an all ages comic (ie a comic for thirty something Batman fans, rather than a comic for thirty something Watchmen fans) helped his approach immensely, and removing his regretable tendency to spend four issues with his characters in a cockwaving and cussing contest raised his game a bit. John probably isn't far wrong about it being the best thing he's ever done.

Sorry to break it to you dogpoet...

Arse.

Oh well, Carmody is dead right then: forget I spoke.

My HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER announced to the class that Holden reminded her of me because both Holden and I were "sexually frustrated".

You only have yourself to blame for making a pass at the woman in the first place, Jay.

[*]Giving freeview blowjobs, having a billionaire father and pissing around with pop music should not merit you more airtime than the extent to which we are fucking up this planet

I also hate twiglets.

Still, at least we've been spared any attempt by Miz Hilton to write books as yet: presumably she's been told to come back when her recording career tanks and she's had a few more bit parts in shitty films so that they can have a ghost write her autobiography for her...

(I was very disappointed to find that her sister's name isn't "Bangkok"...)

You're ginger? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

 

I mean...umm...no offence, dude. ;)

The term "redhead" is a lot more accurate.

Alf the sardonic puppet alien?

What, gingers? Yeah, fuck those guys.

Up yours, blondie.

wasn't the only reason they introduced him in the first place so that Kord would have a comedy sidekick?

I don't know if this issue's accent on heroes who died and came back was good or bad - on one hand, they might as well do it, and then be done with it, so they don't have to endlessly bog down their titles with "ever since i came back from the dead, i have been given a new way of looking at life" and the other stupid reminders of their blunders. On the other hand, this IS showcasing of one of the things that should, if they're already happening, stay out of such spotlight, otherwise you are practically telling readers "don't worry, everyone who dies will make it back soon".

Presumably a few sorts are still a bit narked about Ted Kord getting killed, and DC wishes to calm them down a bit.

Jeremy Clarkson: it'd be nice to see the swine's head explode live on television from the sheer pressure of the entirely unjustified smugness he uses it to store. (Not that I'd be watching, of course, but the clip would be on the internet soon after that.)

Stranger's blue. Dr. Occult is the shit-colored one.

 

You also forgot Zatarra, Dr. Fate shit, it must be very easy to get a doctorate in the DCU, just ask Dr. Light I, II or III), that old crone is the one that tried to trick him, and there's Titania, Conjoker from the end of all things, that guy in the turban is Sargon the Sorcerer, i think, and that skull may or may not be Boston Brand, aka Deadman.

You can't be sure that most of these sorts even have a Doctorate: Doctor Doom doesn't, after all, as he never even finished his undergraduate course, let alone doing further degrees on top of that.

So they'll be like 1000 pages each? How do you even read that? I bet they'll release a pedestal that you need to buy to set them on. Or a chain.

The first one is apparently the first twenty issues, which is still a slimmer book than Ulysses. One would assume at least one of the following collections will be fatter, though, unless they're planning to skip fifteen episodes (which, depending on the episodes in question, might not be a bad idea).

Of course. Sorry if my posts implied that.

I dig no generalizations either.

You weren't, I'm probably being oversensitive here. The amount of "Oh, he's just upset about what's happening in Lebanon," excuses being made for the twerp at the moment beggars belief, though.