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What about Private Marvel, General Marvel and Ambassador Marvel?

I love how the Amalgam Universe fused Captain Marvel with Captain Marvel to create....... Captain Marvel.

"Lieutenant" is the funniest. There were three "Lieutenant Marvels" from the Golden Age Fawcett comic books and lieutenant was Monica Rambeau's martial rank. She should wince at being called "Lieutenant" because she was a civilian captain, felt she deserved to be promoted to captain in the patrol and was named "Captain Marvel" by the news before Genis took it from her.

"Spectrum shifts into different things on the electromagnetic spectrum" is a little too accurate a name for me anyway. It crosses the line from indicative to redundant. I didn't like "Photon" for the same reason. "Photon becomes photons!" Does no one at Marvel own a thesaurus? She was already known as "Daystar", why didn't she just switch to that much better name? I'd use any excuse not to refer to her as "Spectrum".

I hate superhero names that are just generic nouns. I need a little spicing up in codenames or at least a The.

Sadly, the X-Men are the biggest offenders. Just flipping through dictionaries and choosing words they like.

MAGNETO an actual machine that is now hard to google because of Eric. Jerk.

And so mutant power continues to outpace human "ingenuity"!

Only vaguely related, but I do really like an idea in later X-Men comics where they justify the super-codenames as part of the whole "subculture" aspect of mutants. That you have your "human" birth name and your "mutant" chosen name that reflects your abilities and/or personalities. And they also explore how that's far from a universally practiced thing, like that one bit in S.W.O.R.D. where Peeper brings up the idea and Fabian Cortez is just like "that's fucking stupid".

Fabian is, for once, right

It IS fucking stupid.

Yeah but it's cool. And that's what really matters in the end.

And then you have guys like Gambit whose name was clearly decided after they came up with his main gimmick and makes less sense when you look st how he's characterized.

As fun as the vampire BP rampage looks, hopefully this page isn't an indication that Shuri is going to kick his ass.

FCBD Ultimates Spoilers

Looks as though The Ultimate Fantastic Four may owe their eventual abilities to Reed Doom's experiments

Edited by Zarius on Apr 28th 2024 at 9:56:14 AM

Reed-Doom recreating the FF's powers is interesting because the rest of the Four are dead in this reality, murdered by Maker to ensure the Fantastic Four never formed.

Hank being an exterminator is hilarious. Maker made a man famed for befriending insects into some whose job is exterminating them. That's so fucking petty.

I cannot believe I'm this excited about an Ultimates thing after all this time.

Damn you, Hickman. Damn you and your craft.

"What does the letter on his head stand for, Mommy?"

Oh. They cooked. They definitely cooked.

@Bocaj (last page):

I know for sure that the original Marvel Zombies universe had the local version of Cap be named "Colonel America", although in fairness, he wasn't evil until he got infected by the zombie virus and had his mind warped by it (and even then, he managed to shake off the addiction to eating flesh after spending decades as a disembodied-but-still-undead brain, which stuck even after said brain was implanted into the recently de-brained body of T'Challa's son). Not sure about a Colonel Marvel, though.

In a funnier world, Cap would respond to that by accusing the kid of being a terrorist and tackling her.

Marvel Zombies was so weird.

Anyway, I'm glad I managed to make time to see both Black Panther movies. I wanted to see "The Marvels" because Monica Rambeau was in it, but I couldn't justify spending two hours in a movie theater at the time.

I ultimately don't even want comic books depicting Rambeau's interactions with Nebula and Ravonna Renslayer that much. I just think those two represent loose ends in her story to tie up if she got her own comic book. Moonstone feuding, definitely, Blue Marvel dating, certainly, Beyond Corporation smashing, well they're technically Aaron, Tabitha and Elsa's antagonists as much as Monica's, so I actually don't think they should be too central to her story unless those three are also getting involved with them, but they still give Rambeau something to do. Really though, I want weird extra dimensional stories, stories exploring the six forms of magnetism and how people often don't even think about them, and stories about the intersection of law enforcement and military, since The New Orleans Harbor patrol is one of the few organizations outside of police states and nations under martial law to be both. No Marvel character has the same story telling potential she does...Magneto pretty close but he's a unique beast in his own right who I think gets enough attention. Deserved attention, but still.

Blue Marvel is another character I think Marvel tends to under utilize. He and Virtue/Tiller are the only Marvel Superman knockoffs I actually like, and I still think Tiller worked best as Spider-Man's bumbling sidekick. Blue Marvel opens to the door to all sorts of things to explore like Fluid time, Values Dissonance, exotic forms of matter, the entire concept of the "Neutral Zone" that is actually full of hostile creatures, the fact Blue Marvel's the Insufferable Genius side of Superman that often gets ignored instead of a Smug Super, Beware the Superman, Good Is Dumb and the various other riffs on the character Marvel has done. Luckily Monica has a history of dating Blue Marvel so there would be potential for co promotion between titles(she's dated Brother Voodoo too, but he's at least gotten to be Sorcerer Supreme, so I think Adam Brashear should get priority. Still, if Marvel did say "no more Superman" Jericho Drumm would be fine)

Monica got a solo miniseries recently but it wasn’t that good.

Eve Ewing is still a fairly hit or miss writer.

She was decent on Ironheart which is where she made her name in comics, but Champions was shafted before she could do anything there, while Photon and Black Panther were both very underwhelming.

We'll see if she does any better on Exceptional X-Men with Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde, and 3 new OC mutants.

Edited by slimcoder on Apr 29th 2024 at 10:21:57 AM

Her Champions was fun, but it was hurt by the pandemic and that outlawed event.

God, what a stupid event that was.

Civil War (Now With More Teenagers)

Outlawed always felt more like an X-men event than Civil War, and the issue where the X-men show up only confirmed that for me.

It really reminds you that Marvel doesn't do kid sidekicks, really.