[quote]Professor X wrote:
Vash wrote:
Professor X wrote:
Vash wrote:
Hush . . .
Sweet God. Everything from that run got retconned to hell and back again.
The character Hush had sooooo much potential; he’s basically the non-enhanced anti-batman (that being Dethstroke). But, there’s only so much you can do to that character, I guess.
Grant Morrison’s run on Batman is turning out great.
Immortal Iron Fist is one of, if not THE, greatest comic books currently being produced.
The Tournament in Heaven contained the best martial arts in comics I’ve ever seen . . . and I’ve always been a Karate Kid/Val Amorr fanboy. Check that out.
Agreed on Iron Fist. I just hate that they don’t do more with Luke Cage.
F’in’ srsly. like the curent sub-plot with Rand reopening and backing Heroes for Hire, and being the financier of the outlaw Avengers that Cage is fronting.
I think the prime reason Cage is not getting as much development is no one really knows what to do with him. He’s going to be carrying the “Sweet Chris’mas” baggage for a hell of a long time, and it’s going to take some very talented writers to develop him at the same time they trim the fat.
(see, I didn’t even once mention the difficulty of white writers updating and de-sploiting a blaxploitation characature! Oh, hell, oops . . .)
It isn’t that hard. They did it very well with Blade so they can do it here as well. It just needs someone bold enough to make some changes that will last. His overall character may have worked way back in 1979, but today, it is a little played out. This a man who is bulletproof, weighs over 400lbs and can not be injured aside from minor bruises from some of the strongest villains in the world…but he’s that broke and still fits the same stereotype.
If you have a chance, find that Black Panther comic (I am not sure of the name but it is fairly recent within the last year or so) where it is just him and Luke Cage. It was one of the funnier comics I’ve read and THAT is where they need to take the character full time…a streetwise, cool, smartass who works as a bodyguard for (a Puff Daddy clone in the comics) who turns on him when “Puff” pimp slaps a woman in his entourage…while Black Panther just happens to be in the club looking for a future wife. The man catches a bullet in his hands and simply says, “ouch”.
His link to Black Panther could be the very link that gives that character substance.
they are making a movie right now on that character. Hopefully that is where they are taking it.[/quote]
I like the way he’s portrayed in New Avengers a ew father who wants what’s best for his daughter, a man raised on the streets who is thrust into a cosmic world who can’t really relate to the most of the team except for Spiderman who he’s got a love/hate relationship with great stuff