tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post7617785364670262600..comments2024-03-27T11:32:34.392-07:00Comments on NOT A HOAX! NOT A DREAM!: AVENGERS: THE ORIGIN #1 - 5Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-27917208827803945332020-05-13T08:56:34.552-07:002020-05-13T08:56:34.552-07:00I suspected GotG would be somewhat successful, sim...I suspected GotG would be somewhat successful, simply based on Marvel's track record at the time, but I never could've imagined it would take off like it did. Black Widow and Hawkeye becoming household names -- fine. Thanos, too, given they were already building him up in the Avengers franchise.<br /><br />But Gamora? Drax? Rocket Raccoon?? I never could've imagined that.<br /><br />I stopped reading AVENGERS during Bendis's run, so I totally missed the period where they became ubiquitous. (I actually hung on way longer than I should have, considering I couldn't stand Bendis's writing on that series. I'm not a fan of his in general, but I'm even less a fan of his team books, where everyone sounds exactly the same.)<br /><br />I was also thinking recently about other stuff that has changed in the past 10 - 20 years, sometimes first in the comics, sometimes first in the movies, but all becoming "the way it is". It's bizarre to me that my son will grow up in a world where Bucky was never really dead and where Hulk was "always" an Avenger. Hulk spent about fifty years on the outs with the Avengers, but nowadays, in every adaptation, he's a valued member of the team. It's crazy.<br /><br />Anyway -- yeah, you're right about the movies and the timeline. IRON MAN had been out for two years when this series was released, and IRON MAN 2 was in theaters the same year these issues came out. It's weird to me that they were still going with the Howard Hughes lookalike thing when Robert Downey Jr.'s version was already pretty iconic. And yeah, the idea that he was tromping around in that bulky 1950s spaceman suit for any appreciable period of time after he got back to civilization is kinda silly.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-68979986804392991022020-05-11T16:57:42.167-07:002020-05-11T16:57:42.167-07:00I am trying to remember a time when the Avengers w...I am trying to remember a time when the Avengers were not one of the big guns at Marvel, even though I pretty consistently read them over the years until Hickman's run ended and I got out of comics period, and man, it feels like it was a lifetime ago.<br /><br />Mind I still don't believe how big the Guardians of the Galaxy got. I did not see that coming at ALL.<br /><br />The oddity of Marvel's sliding time scale here is even Tony Stark in the movies made a better looking Iron Man suit than the one that's on the covers here. Weren't they going with the same basic "Stark gets wounded in Afghanistan" timeline that the movies appropriated? You'd think he'd have built a better suit than that when he got home! A choice made all the stranger by the simple fact that we saw that he did just that in the movies! If you're gonna keep classic looks, I agree, just make it timeless, don't set it in the 21st Century. Jackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00605826105741513741noreply@blogger.com