Going to follow up the Ellis theme with his run on Thunderbolts. I think this may have been my first exposure to Ellis’ writing. Either that or The Authority.
Thunderbolts Pt. 1
Cooper Jackson
Jaxson Martin
>Osborn Stories
>Moon Knight
>Secret Avengers (Ellis)
Aaron White
Already Osborn is a monster. It's not often you see genuine immediate worry, especially from someone like Bullseye.
Benjamin Morgan
Such a great moment.
Brandon Evans
Hudson Martinez
Cool!
Jonathan Jackson
Norman Osborn...aka Tommy Lee Jones.
>After seeing him as Two Face, I think he has the acting chops for it. He just needs a competent director to reel his ass in and really play up the sadism.
Nathan Nguyen
He's too old now but Under Siege/Fugitive era TLJ would be kino
Christopher Ortiz
Jackson Hernandez
>Five bucks says he doesn't even remember your--
God damn this hits harder than it used to.
Anthony Powell
>Maybe she'll get lucky, you mean. What're the odds.
Sometimes you have to be fucking real for people to get the message. It's how I finally started winning against my nana in arguments. Make them follow their own line of logic and make them verbalize their beliefs.
Jose Watson
Hudson Jones
Ellisbolts was okay. I get having it be basically Marvel flavored Suicide Squad, cause it was impossible to avoid that angle forever, and it did have some genuinely great shit.
My main critique is that I'm a huge Moonstone-fag, and Karla just kind of devolves into a fairly cliche and uninteresting Starscream shtick.
Ryder Powell
this and authority are both excellent imo
Joseph Clark
I forgot how much of a leap forward Extremis was for the Iron Man mythos.
David Taylor
Joseph Cruz
Jonathan Hill
Alexander Walker
When it comes to exposition, there's a fine line between accessible and just beating the reader down. I love newscasts assuming they aren't too patronizing.
Matthew Robinson
I fucking love this line up of Thunderbolts. Much more effective than the followup team (which honestly felt off to me). Diggle closed out this group of the team with a two issue story and I felt fucking killed it. He hand a great handle on all the characters. Then the team switched up and the book became all over the place.
Jaxson Stewart
Ellisbolts kills all her previous character development and devolves her into crazy manipulative super slut; also powers. You can try to chalk it up and blame it on the AvengersXThunderbolts book where she's housing two Moonstones and gets the crazy amped up by an amplifier.
Her characterisation is legit good under Busiek and Niceiza. Ultimately a selfish woman but the presence of Jolt, a kid, opens up her maternal instincts and can actually lighten up a bit because of that - otherwise she falls back to a psychological manipulative power player. She never really used the sex angle to get what she wanted which was cool.
Ethan White
Adam Harris
>I had the Mighty Morphin Power Ranges - Zordon Main Room playset. It was amazing.
I so want to see the packaging the Captain America action figure came in.
Cooper Gomez
Jayden Davis
Logan Bennett
Osborn let's her know that despite him buttering her up, her life is ultimately in his hands and she is only breathing right now because it conveniences him.
Leo Morales
>Going to follow up the Ellis theme with his run on Thunderbolts.
So, are we going to circle back around to Moon Knight vs Thunderbolts while we are at this? Sure it's not Ellis, but it does connect all this.
Anthony Rogers
Hunter Anderson
Nicholas Morales
I love Bulseye from this time period. I still remember him in Shadowland freaking out his guards by talking about how Bob was going to come back to life and save him because they were friends.
Jack Perry
How the hell did Osborn get this job anyway?
Nathaniel Sanchez
Does he even have any powers? Why would he be under the jurisdiction of the superhuman registration act?
Bentley Ross
You're in charge of the MCU adaptaion of Thunderbolts. What's your lineup and rationale? Let's say six members to have variety but not be a "league" if that makes sense.
I want the Thunderbolts to be a government sponsored rehabilitation program. Convicts volunteer for reduced sentence time or more fancy accommodations when parole is not an option. Given that they may operate in the public, the real psychos are not on the team. If you choose an existing character its the MCU version, if they haven't appeared yet they be the comic version.
>Vulture
> Titania
>Spymaster
>Moonstone
>Ant-Man (Scott Lang)
>Mysterio
Ryder Robinson
Poor lil D lister
Camden Carter
Apparently he has superhuman strength and durability. Don't think he started with it though.
Blake Jenkins
Deadato's art doesn't usually work for me but it was perfect for this series.
Carter Campbell
Mason White
Landon Allen
I know the writing isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I thought it was also great for Dark Avengers.
I think I'll post the continuing issues tomorrow, and then post Dark Avengers to keep up with Osborn. I was in college during Dark Reign and I adored this era.
Luke Sullivan
I might be one of the few people on this earth who likes the idea of Penance in retrospect. Kind of wish we had more Speedball stories talking about how he is feeling about everything now that time has passed.
I just like the idea that one day something REALLY bad happens and he puts the suit back on to show he means business.
Benjamin Richardson
I liked how your handled it and it's a shame his new warriors got canceled before he could do anything with it
Anthony Flores
>I just like the idea that one day something REALLY bad happens and he puts the suit back on to show he means business.
My fucking man. It's basically his version of Pete's Blacksuit.