I can only touch on some of these because I'm fairly behind on comics/have dropped some titles outright.
I'm guessing Dr. Strange doesn't die and it'll be some kind of "symbolic" passing of the torch thing, because Marvel likes to do that every couple of years to briefly introduce some new Sorcerer Supreme. He has a movie coming out sometime soon, so that all but guarantees they'll be using him in comics.
tbh they only passed the torch once, and it was to Dr. Voodoo. (Who I think was a really good choice as Brother Voodoo was extremely underutilized. Maybe they'll try using Jennifer Kale more since she's tangentially tied to the Midnight Suns/Sons group that's coming in a game? Or maybe they'll try something with Wanda. I could see them trying to turn Baron Mordo into more of a hero and use a design based on his MCU actor.)
Dropped Avengers, not because it was bad, just...sorta lost interest. In comparison, I dropped JL because I barely recognized any of the characters.
Yeah I kinda just pick up Avengers every few months bc while I like the setup they're doing with the ancient heroes, legacies, and tying in other bit of Marvel history, it's a little slow paced.
Maybe
T'CHalla's a fine enough character, I kinda wish they'd just flat out make the whole "Agents of Wakanda" group into auxiliary Avengers in the book anyways.
(I like the whole Gorilla Man, Ken Hale, being so desperate for death that he fucks up. Whenever we get a full-ass Agents of Atlas return, that's probably going to be addressed.)
Behind on Iron Man, but it's been pretty okay overall. Didn't know they were setting up some robot thing, but it makes sense given the previous arcs. Probably for the best it got dropped, I don't know if it'd be all that great, I imagine it'd hit on all the usual robot sci-fi tropes we've seen dozens of times.
no they set that up and it's kinda an alright event but I do wish they built it up properly because it could have been more interesting.
Iron Man's current volume is just him chasing Android! Korvac across the universe with a rag-tag team that includes Gargoyle, Frog Man, and Scarlet Spider. It's pretty aight.
I don't read Punisher so this is third hand info, but I think Punisher killed Stevil. Or he was at least hunting him down last I heard. I like the idea of Cap having a group, but I'm always a little weary of picking up Captain America these days because it feels like certain writers just want to use him as a mouthpiece.
they used Coates for about a year or so, he just used the book to sperg. The only interesting concept was Coates bringing back the whole "lady liberators" name from the '70s and trying to make it into a secret society of women that help shape the world and etc.
Te Nehesi Coates made Black Panther accessible to modern academics but his work just isn't too much of a fun read. I guess he brought back THUNDERBOLT ROSS as THE RED HULK so its all balanced out for me tbh.
I have a soft spot for the FF, and I'm just glad they're all allowed to exist again.
yea but we finally saw Johnny storm become an Avenger which means all of the FF have officially been mainline Avengers for a period.
Black Batman is the rando Lucius Fox son that I think always existed but has no character. I only touched on Future State, but didn't really care about him then. I always liked the Batwing costume, feels like they should have just given him that.
no we can't have
Africans show up in comics, that'd just activate some almonds in people. get them asking the wrong questions and all that.
It feels like everyone had some kind of plan for Pyscho Pirate that never saw the light of day. I think he died again in the recent multiverse thing? Wasn't really paying too much attention to that because it largely focused on rando multiverse characters and Roy Harper being a Black Lantern for some reason.
it was clumsy but now we've got THE GREAT DARKNESS as a general entity now, if you remember the whole GREAT DARKNESS SAGA from classic bronze age Legion of Superheroes and the OG Crisis.
I'll take it over them trying to push politics. It seems making the multiverse and the whole "Crisis" events as public knowledge to the DCU is interesting. They've apparently brought back Pariah from the OG crisis and we're now seeing MULTIVERSE-2.
It's going to be comics bullshit but I hope it's fun.
Superman Theory was a neat idea, but totally not something any writer was onboard for and is most likely subsequently forgotten now that Doomsday Clock is done.
I'm fine with it existing but I wish they'd take advantage of it.
Doomsday Clock took an interesting approach in just using Firestorm as the one who gets screwed. It always feels like a DC event isn't a DC event unless Firestorm, Captain Atom, or a Flash gets screwed over.
Naomi sucks and is clearly Bendis's author pet that will most likely cease to exist whenever he stops writing DC stuff, I didn't even know there was a disabled Flash but not surprised they dropped that character. Chinese Flash (Avery?) is okay and was showing up every now and then, now that Wally is back, wouldn't be surprised if she fades into obscurity like the rest of the Chinese characters.
I like the idea of them existing, it's a corny idea to me.
Grant Morrison's japanese batman's showing up in the current Robin book. You remember the guy?
Naomi has an upcoming TV show on CW network so DC will likely continue using her. If I remember right Bendis has said that second volume of her solo is in the works as well.
Avery is going to appear in Justice Incarnate and likely will play a part in Williamson's big event next year because she is his creation.
I was surprised that Guardians were cancelled, googled a bit and found out that Richard Rider was also turned gay? What?
no the thing is that it never read like he was gay or bisexual. it just read like he just straight out says he loves him like a brother, kinda akin to how Tony Stark refers to Steve Rogers after Civil War iirc.
Or Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm.
or Nightcrawler and Wolverine.
etc.
Avery is an alright character and I don't have many hangups with her since she's had her time to meld with the rest of the DCU.
Naomi seems like Bendis trying to cash in. I do think she's a little bland, but she's kinda inoffensively bland outside of just kinda being "there" in current JLA stuff.
Bendis existing must chuff some SJW egos because he's done everything a pop culture writer wants to do, but it feels like he just doesn't have any fucks to give at this point.
I love Fantastic Four, but I wish they'd get back to the whole "Is Franklin really a mutant or not" thing, which happened right after the whole X-Men vs FF mini where they had a slapfight over Franklin coming to live on Krakoa. Since then, Slott has done jack shit about it.
My theory is that Franklin still is a mutant, and someone (most likely Sinister) is somehow "hiding" Franklin's X-gene so he can have a new genetic plaything without the X-Men getting up his ass.
Also, i'm glad Skye left. Her whole JOHNNY IS MY SOULMATE thing was so fucking annoying. Who wants to be soulbonded to a fuckboi they barely know?
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Sinister's probably going to have a very public cap in his ass over what he's done.
Skye and Johnny are just a really fucking funny thing to me. She initiated all of that on him and never communicated jack shit. All she had to do was just talk it out with the family more but uh. . .
the one time Johnny needs support is when she decides to leave. . . really? Sure she got an overdose of the same cosmic energy and all, but couldn't she have at least tried to figure things out instead of having his weird culture-shock thing where *gasp* Johnny Storm has had a history of women.
Like damn, you initiated this, go figure it out and talk.
(I find it funny as hell that Sue Storm officially and canonically stalks Johnny on his dates now and retroactively.)
Skye could be an interesting heroic death because that's a big possibility I see with comics.
alone, I encountered like two of them back to back
