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Just a quick braindump of a few things I found interesting; real content will be coming soon, I swear on Elvis Drinkmo’s copy of Batman: Year One.

First of all, I am now on ComicSpace, though I have no idea what to do there. If anyone would like to friend me and show me the ropes, I’d understand.

I’m trying to hold onto my thoughts on the recent Messiah CompleX issues until I have a few more read, but that was a definite “Oh Crap!” moment at the end of X-Men 206. Wouldn’t it be interesting if that character was a traitor all along, since their first appearance? That would cast some things in a much different light, at least.

The rest of this stuff is from Comic Book Resources, because they’re badass and I lost the other stuff I wanted to write about. They may require another “Quickie” post if I can ever find them.

Part 5 of the 5-part One More Day interview with Joe Quesada has just been posted. After reading the interview(s), I’ve come closer to understanding Quesada’s point of view regarding Spidey stories being better off with him being single, but that doesn’t excuse the fact that the idea and execution of One More Day has been utter crap. Quesada mandated a horrible story with a terribly contrived plot and a deus-ex-machina ending that he doesn’t feel needs to be explained (It’s magic, we don’t have to explain it!) in the service of what he feels is the greater long-term goal of the character and his story. If he’s okay with that, fine, but he really needs to be honest about it, both with himself and his fans.

Keith Giffen has moved his intermittent online column from Wizard.com to CBR. Along with being very careful to separate himself from the recent Wizard-bashing, Keith gives us his plans for the column and his resolutions for 2008, or at least the first 2 or three months of 2008.

Finally, for the next 14 weeks, CBR will be featuring the cards from Marvel’s Skrull’s Most Wanted playing card deck week is the worst of the worst, the “Aces” of the deck, which basically amounts to the Illuminati, minus Dr. Strange, because nobody messes with Dr. Strange. Or because Dr. Strange is a Skrull like Blackbolt. It could go either way, really. I’m interested to see if Marvel will actually release these cards as a promo item; that could be a cool collector’s item.

That’s all for now, folks. Like I said before, I plan to get some real content up soon, after I catch up with a bit more comics reading.

tag: Administrivia, comics, ComicSpace, Illuminati, Keith Giffen, Marvel, Messiah Complex, Miscellany, Quesada, Skrulls, x-men

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