He was making some joke after seeing the Thor movie trailer... and Monty thought it'd be funny to mention Thunderstrike. Thanks a Lot Eich! I blame you, and my parents.
New York Comic Con Announces New THUNDERSTRIKE Series Before Marvel?
http://blog.newsarama.com/2010/08/01/new-york-comic-con-announces-new-thunderstrike-series-before-marvel/
Looks like it will be brought to you by the same team who brought the original "Thunderstrike" book to you. Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz will finish up their run on Spider-girl and set their sights on a limited series, starring my least favorite Thor spin-off. Good Luck Tracie, we may see Frog Thor and Beta Ray Bill after all.
I don't understand all the hatred for the 90's is coming from, I know we all were conned into some generally horrible trash but that doesn't mean the entire decade should be torn from the history books. Also of all the concepts Thunderstrike is one the least offensive and once divested of his 90's attire he won't feel out of place. I mean Thunderstrike isn't even a full on 90's character, I mean he isn't that different than War Machine. If anything this is just due the Thor movie coming out, which means another Beta Ray Bill miniseries is probably in the wings. I think we need to scale back the cries of a 90's revival until we see the likes of Americop, Nightwatch, any Marvel UK charcter, or Adam X getting anything more than a cameo.
ReplyDeleteAlso the general feeling going around is that this isn't going to be about Eric Masterson, rather his son Kevin. Which would make more sense seeing how DeFalco has shown he clearly likes Kevin and I think DeFalco is of the mindset that pointless (deaths and) resurrections cheapen a shared universe. Plus if it is Kevin the Young Avengers could finally get that Thor analouge, since if it is Kevin Cassie Lang is sure to show up in the story.
Ahhh, you're taking all the fun out of making "fun" of Monty. I completely agree with you about him not being a weak character and really no different than War Machine. And I had read the concept of it beening Eric's son, which sounds like an awesome idea.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, Its more what he represents, especially that foil cover and his costume.
Thunderstrike takes me back to a time when Image had a billion #1 (first) issues and they were all foil covers. And it was months before issue #2 ever hit the stands.
In the 90's Marvel had spin offs of all their main characters and Captain America was a wolf. The X-men were literally events with back to back cross-over and each issue contained Wolverine.(thats not changed has it?)And of course, blue hooded scarlet Spider clones.
DC made everyone darker and everything was an event all on the tails of Superman's death. The Breaking of the Bat, Hal turning evil, Wonder Woman losing the mantle, Green Arrow dying in a firey plane explosion, Flash and the speed force, Aquaman and the loss of his hand and growing a beard.
But nothing represents the 90's to me more than Cable... and his shoulder pads and big guns.
No disputing a lot of great things came from the 90's. Kingdom Come, Vertigo, Wildstorm, Top Cow, and other companies sprouted. The Nightwing & Robin (Tim Drake) series, The Age of Apocalypse, Bone, and McFarland's Spider-man, The invention of the superstar artist and Wizard Magazine to name a few. But like all things, once something is a success, it was then exploited and over done. And the 90's loved goddy costumes, big guns and shoulder pads on foil in 3 variant covers, all with a #1 on the cover.
Hmmm I am a little uneasy about the Mighty Thor looking like me, having just reread the Marvel Civil collections :S ...ponytail, big boots.. obviously The Norse Odin son would need to work out a bit more to get into as good as shape as me, lmao..
ReplyDeleteBut thank you for the reminder of the little rectangle in the bottom corner and what went there before the barcode :)
Me and my still poly-bagged copy of X-Force #1 completely understand this it ‘s just many people scapegoat the crash of the industry on the books when it was actually more the actions of the companies themselves and the speculators. I personally like a lot of what the 90's offered, but to fair I wasn't that big into comics at the time maybe an issue every now and again. (To be fair, again, I do enjoy odd things in general, for example I am a big New Universe and Marvek UK also I have a soft spot for the Electric Blue costume, just to name a few.) Especially the late 90's when the industry was starting to rebuild itself. The fact that they were willing take chances with radical directions like Heroes Reborn, No Man's Land among others. Even the fact through out the 90's the willingness to try new characters, admittedly a lot of them sucked. Though Lee/Kirby didn't hit a homerun on their first superhero (Doctor Droom) after all.
ReplyDeletePlus I am thinking about getting it just to support old style comic writing, I loathe decompression and writing for the trade. I pay for action and adventure, not backgrounds and talking heads.
As for the ponytail, the 90’s will never be remembered for it’s hair, but characters can grow away from their follicle fashion failures. Mullet, I need say no more.
This IS all my fault.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't I mention Gen13 insted?