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Marvel Boy is here. What should I do?

z3r0

11:00 / 02.08.01

Marvel Boy by G Morrison just hit the newstands here. If you kind barbelither could give me a hint if it's any good, what's about etc, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks in advance,

Me

Jamieon

13:41 / 02.08.01

Yes, it's good. It tells the story of Horus downloaded into the Marvel universe: expect explosions, deviant sexual undertones, zen fascism, teenage punk rebellion, the memeplex as big green head, pocket battlefields and post invisibles hyper condensed narrative technique.......

Oh, and unbeings trawled from the tattered fringes of spacetime.......

And more explosions.

Warewullf

13:51 / 02.08.01

What he said.

Buy it.

It's good.

z3r0

14:48 / 02.08.01

Wow. Wow wow wow.

*gets so excited barely can type, runs to the newsstand*

z3r0

17:16 / 02.08.01

Hey, (last thing to bother you I promise)
Explain to me: What is this Marvel Knights series, please???

Jack Fear

17:24 / 02.08.01

Not a series, really--more of an imprint (like DC's Vertigo): the idea is to get high-powered creators working on "edgy" characters, for a slightly older audience. Examples: Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon doing THE PUNISHER, Christopher Priest writing BLACK PANTHER.

MARVEL BOY is a brand-new character, but most Marvel Knights books use existing Marvel characters.

z3r0

15:27 / 03.08.01

Too fast-paced for me. I know this is what is in these days, but the pseudo-jargon (memeplex blahblahblah) really got on my nerves... want my money back...

ynh

16:05 / 03.08.01

To nayone who's reading Black Panther.

Does it have, like, any Black Panthers political stuff in it?

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

16:48 / 03.08.01

Black Panter is very political.... just nothing involving the Black Panther movement. The early issues really did have some fantastic stuff in it though. Everything to a discussion of the Avengers as Aryan Stormtroopers to the Devil's Pants.

Not horribly edgy though. It's like The West Wing with Capes.

Z3er0. That pseudo-jargon is the MEAT of the tale. Don't just let it shoot in one ear and out the other, read it and make an effort to understand it.

Marvel Boy is... Condenced.

z3r0

17:50 / 03.08.01

Yeah, I'll buy the rest now... but still... that Morrison person sometimes annoys me with his "too cool to handle" psychochatting.

Though I liked the bit where the doctor says that Marvel Boy is converting pain signals in auditive data... pretty clever, the fuck

Jamieon

16:36 / 04.08.01

quote: Marvel Boy is here. What should I do?

See him standing there, posing in his special outfit. Look! Look at the Ponce! All dressed up for a night on the town - like a "dandy"; a "dandy boy". Come! Come over here "dandy boy"! What's that you say? All dressed up are you? A night on the town, eh?

Eh?

Who do you think you are, Dandy Boy? A "bit of a one"? A "bit of a one", eh?

You know what to do, Zero.

He's a slag.

And we all know what we do with slags, don't we?

[ 04-08-2001: Message edited by: runt ]

z3r0

23:00 / 04.08.01

HA HA HA, what the fuck???

his hair is even white!! that "Morrison" person really deserves a beating...

gman

14:34 / 05.08.01

quote:Originally posted by z3r0:
Too fast-paced for me. I know this is what is in these days, but the pseudo-jargon (memeplex blahblahblah) really got on my nerves... want my money back...

Memeplex: read Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene. It ain't jargon, it's scientific terminology... jargon is what's used by computer geeks or bankers to fool themselves into thinking they're intelligent.

Sandfarmer

14:49 / 05.08.01

I liked Marvel Boy. Hot babe in fetish gear. What's not to like?

Jamieon

15:32 / 05.08.01

Yeah, what most people interpret as "jargon" or "cooler-than-thou popspeak" is actually just Morrison attempting to compress the info. If the reader properly engages with the language, and the context in which it's imbedded, the meaning often becomes pretty clear.

belbin

15:20 / 06.08.01

It's good but not 'invisible' enuff fo rmy tastes. Too many ray guns 'n' babes in leather.

But I know that kinda shit turns you freaks on...

ynh

16:27 / 06.08.01

There are Ray-Guns? Damn, I may have to go buy this.

Jamieon

19:24 / 06.08.01

....And in some respects it's much more "invisible" than 'The Invisibles'....

Sandfarmer

20:19 / 06.08.01

Considering the differences between the average Marvel comics fan and the average Vertigo fan, Marvel Boy is much more subversive than the Invisibles and has the potential to twist minds on a much larger scale.

That's a pretty fucking long sentence.

Jackie Susann

09:06 / 07.08.01

I thought it was pretty boring, although the last three issues are okay (since they have an actual storyline). It's a superhero comic, if you like that, maybe you'll like this. Otherwise you'll be like me, flicking through marvel boy, xmen and ff in comic shops going, damn, i wish grant would give up this boring derivative crap and do something interesting again.

klint

09:06 / 07.08.01

In a word, I thought Marvel Boy was... bitchin'.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

19:32 / 07.08.01

what the fuck are thos pics?
the one guy could play a friendly sir miles in a flic

ENG

Jamieon

10:18 / 08.08.01

I always imagined Sir Miles to be a little more..... manly.

He's a good, upstanding British boy - the finest Eton has to offer.

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