Dave and Charlotte heap copious praise on the newest A+ MCU project (I assume, I haven’t listened yet. -Zack)
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I’m really nowhere near the same wavelength as Dave on the comics. I think Marvel is doing pretty well in the comics department, and I believe that actually ending the Ultimate Universe kind of proves it. Marvel gave it a beginning, a middle and an ending instead of milking it with more and more books and I think that’s because they are pretty happy with their main Universe showcase things like:
– Ewing’s Immortal/Mortal Thor
– North’s Fantastic Four
– Zdarsky’s Captain America
– PKJ’s Hulk (special mention to Nic Klein who is the most insane artist in mainstream books right now)
– Mackay’s Moon Knight
– Stephanie Phillips’ Daredevil (which just started but it had an incredibly strong start)
In fact I would go so far to say that Marvel has been doing strong work event wise too, I mean Blood Hunt was not just an amazingly feat of artistry by Pepe Larraz, it also cleanly set up One World Under Doom, it had clear consequences and moved the plot of the whole Universe further, and it looks like Chip is building on top One World Under Doom in his run and towards Armageddon.
Ewing’s Venom run is crazy underrated too, he is just flexing his writing skills because it really made MJ as Venom work, he wrote a great Knull mini too, he is also going to write the Queen in Black as a sequel to the King in Black, he seems to be all in on the symbiotes and as a fan of the symbiotes I’m happy he got such a long run to show us what a great writer he is.
And I really like MacKay’s and Simone’s X-Men books, I miss Krakoa too, but I think both of them did a pretty solid job going back to the nineties era while also picking up several Krakoan inspired plot lines:
– X-Manhunt being about Krakoan Resurrection and the last Egg
– Age of Revelation clearly building on Cypher’s character twist from Inferno
– MacKay’s main villain group being led by the twisted Krakoan Beast
– and still publishing Hellfire Gala one-shots with some pretty nifty designs in them
You can’t say they are sweeping Krakoa under the rug, I think they are striking a good balance between doing nineties plots with Krakoan plot elements and in the case of Simone, also introducing some pretty fun and compelling new characters, obviously not as good as Krakoa but very few things are as good as Krakoa in mainstream superhero comics.
I have to disagree, I thought One Last Kill was pretty great, sure it does have the feel of a recap issue, meant for people to see Frank’s Netflix arc without watching 26 episodes, but as recap issues go this was a banger.
I also think that both Dave and Charlotte missed some important nuance in this one and with the risk of sounding pretentious they just don’t get it, for example when Frank decides not to kill Ma Gnucci is a pretty important moment that both of them treat like a joke, as in Frank must have a rule against killing women, but that’s not it.
That’s the moment when Frank stops killing people for personal reasons and starts killing people just as a punishment, in a way he forgoes that One Last Kill which would have completed his revenge in order to protect innocent people. The meme going around is that Frank turned from the Revenger into the Punisher in that moment, and it’s weird that both Dave and Charlotte missed it because the internet was full of Revenger memes.
In addition to that, One Last Kill has a double meaning, that of suicide, which is showcased pretty literally when Frank gets visions of his own daughter beckoning him to join her in the after life, man that was brutal and seeing them not even mentioning it makes me wonder if they bothered to engage with the material in a honest manner.
Totally fair to disagree! Thanks for sharing why. My only pushback is questioning whether we’re approaching the material honestly. I can promise that we are. It just didn’t resonate in the same way at all – that’s ok!