Between the announcement of Captain America 3 : Civil War , the cancelation of the Fantastic Four funnies , and all the other Marvel madness that occurred over this past week , there was of course only one motion I could guide off with . On the plus side , though , I get to spill about vampire erections . Could be worse !
What’s So Civil About War, Anyways?
Kuma61 :
I am getting very concerned about what ’s happening with Marvel , not just the Movies but also the comics . For the Movies it appears that Captain America 3 will be Civil War which was a severe series that no Marvel fan really liked . Why select this for the next movie ?
As for the comics they are canceling Fantastic Four and possibly X - hands . I know you said this probably has nothing to do with the fact that Fox and Sony own the motion picture rights but I do n’t sleep with why Marvel would cancel these series otherwise .
Are the comics at the beck and call of the movies then ? Does Civil War picture mean Marvel may get the rights to Spider - Man ? Is Captain America going to go in the motion-picture show ? Is any of this a good thought ? Is this the ending of Marvel ? ! !
Kuma61 , first of all I need to compliment you for submitting the across-the-board yet most concise email to the mailbag regarding Marvel ’s late flurry of newsworthiness . I also want to tell you everything ’s run to be all right , but candidly we just do n’t have enough information now to know for certain how things are give-up the ghost to shake off out . But I can set your mind at relaxation about a few thing , I think .
First of all , the movies : Yes , the Civil War comic plot line was a mess , but it was a mess that stimulate a fortune of insurance coverage . I.e. , masses may not have wish it , but they sure as shooting knew about it . It ’s a title that has brand awareness , even if that consciousness among amusing fans is “ bleh . ”
But just because sort saysMarvel is turning Captain America 3 into a Civil War moviedoesn’t mean value we ’re of necessity proceed to get a straight - up adaptation . Pitting Captain America and Iron Man against each other is an challenging thought , but I ca n’t think that Marvel would sample to turn the uber - dear Tony Stark character into the accomplished asshole he was in the comics , mainly because it would greatly impress succeeding Iron Man and Avengers movies if he basically turned malign for this moving-picture show . So even if Civil War is the fundament of the movie , expect Iron Man to be significantly less awful .
https://gizmodo.com/robert-downey-jr-may-set-up-civil-war-in-captain-ameri-1645993876
mean of it this elbow room : Avengers 2 is called Age of Ultron , but it has nothing to do with the comics ’ recent Age of Ultron event , which is respectable because by all invoice it was terrible . There will have to be some major differences in the movie Civil War — some because pic are shorter , some because Marvel does n’t want to completely bankrupt America ’s love affair with Iron Man , and some because they would make no good sense in the cinematic universe — as many people have betoken out , superhero registration is a non - outcome because there are like six heroes and almost all of them have had their public identities revealed already . So if Cap and Iron Man are going to fight down each other , it ’s probably go to be over something else , and hopefully it ’s something that makes them both look less silly .
As to your question about Spider - Man , which I take over is because of the Civil War promo image Marvel Comics let go on the same mean solar day , I can assure you that for the comics . There is no reason to suspect it has anything to do with the Cap 3 / Civil War , despite it confusingly getting discharge on the same day as the film news program broke . It certainly give us no denotation whether Marvel and Sony are suffer close to a hand to share Spider - Man in the picture , or if the webslinger will seem in the Civil War picture .
I can say this with confidence because Marvel Comics has been releasing promotions for several 2015 events . See if you may tell what they all have in uncouth : Secret Wars , Civil War , No More mutant , Age of Ultron Vs . Marvel Zombies , and today we haveX - Men : Years of Future Past . There ’s clearly a theme go on here of Marvel come back to their greatest hits , and if the others are n’t attach to forthcoming Marvel movies then there ’s no rationality to mistrust Civil War is , either . ( Also , Cap 3 wo n’t do out before 2016 , so it does n’t make much sense to have a tie - in Civil War event an intact year betimes ) . candidly , I ’m not even sure that these are all going to be substantial events — I suspect they might all be promotions for another , bigger event , in which Marvel revisit its prominent floor … but that ’s unadulterated speculation on my part , although I feel it ’s bolstered by Age of Ultron Vs . Marvel Zombies , which vocalise like the least interesting comic consequence ever , and I have to think Marvel bonk this .
https://gizmodo.com/marvel-plans-biggest-comic-event-ever-with-return-of-se-1644751301
And as for the Fantastic Four and decade - Men comic : Yes , the FF comedian are being cancel , but they were n’t selling very well . That ’s at least as potential an explanation as craze CEO Ike Perlmutter trying to penalise a multi - million dollar flick dealership a competitor owns by canceling a comic that only sell 30,000 or so copies a month ( Marvel frequently scrub Good Book with sales that low ) . As I ’ve say before , Perlmutter would have to be vindictive and harebrained to think canceling the cartoon strip would touch Fox or the FF in any way — not impossible , but not particularly likely . As for the X - humanity , Marvel is not canceling them that we know of — yes , there ’s theoretically some type of “ No More Mutants ” event come up in 2015 along with all the others , but Marvel sells over 20 books per month with mutants in them , or about 25 % of their yield ; if Marvel Comics was forced to scratch all of these serial , the result would be catastrophic for the amusing side of the troupe . Also , if Perlmutter was that insane , he ’d also be insane enough to cancel the Spider - Man deed to thwart Sony , and of path no one ’s even hint at that take place .
But back to the main question : Is Marvel go mad ? It ’s too former too tell . I can tell you that making a Civil War motion picture seems like a bad idea now , but so did trying to make star out of the nth - grade scifi team Guardians of the Galaxy , and that seems to have turned out pretty damn well . I have to give Marvel Studios the benefit of the doubt here in that they ’ll come up with a version of the account where audience do n’t boo and hiss because Tony Stark has turned into a moustache - twirling fascist . As for the comedian side , like I said , I distrust something else is going on , if for no other grounds than I ca n’t imagine Marvel trying to pull off five or more big events next year and expecting them all to betray . Let ’s just take a cryptical hint , sit back , and look and see what materialise next .
Gotham Shitty?
Zach :
Dearest P.A.P. –
For masses that claim to be “ comic ( book , TV show , movie ) fans , ” I ’m remark a lot of hold off - and - see approaches to WB ’s newfangled serial publication ( Flash , Gotham , etc . ) . With VoD , torrent , and original ventilation , why are people look ? Go view the goddamned thing ! Why not , I do n’t know , find out the show yourself and draw your own conclusions ? It further irks me that people want to denounce all over Gotham without even watching an installment . Am I being petty when I feel this way , should I just relax , or am I ( middling ) justified ?
I understand the concept in theory — I ’ve been burned on enough shows that sometimes if I ’m not sure about a specific one and I have other stuff to watch , then I ’ll wait around to ensure it does n’t doss and burn . I did this a lot in my Anime Insider days when I was watch loads of shows at a prison term and needed to make the best use of my meter by avoiding crap .
But if you read io9 — and more to the point , if you ’re reading this ridiculous chain armor column — chance are you are a nerd , and Gotham , The Flash , everything else , this is what we ’ve been wait for . Watch it . If it draw and you do n’t wish it , give up but what the snake pit else are you watching ? What else are you doing that you ca n’t give these unexampled funny script TV express a try now while networks are trying to decide whether to keep these shows or not ? !
As for people who hate Gotham … I ’ve already announced this on Twitter , but as The Guy Who Like to detest Everything , I find myself weirdly charmed by Gotham . I ’m really savour it . I think masses dislike it because they were expecting Nolan Batman : The TV Series Prequel , when instead Gotham is much closer thematically to the 1989 Batman movie , which I find delightfully tonic . It ’s not afraid to get comic playscript - y and a flake silly , without reaching the point of absurdness like Batman Forever ( or even Batman Returns ’ more indulgent routine ) . It ’s not perfect — it has several glary flaws , admit the useless Barbara case and the fact that Wayne Manor only appears to have a undivided elbow room — but I like Gordon , I love Donald Logue as Bullock , and Robin Lord Taylor ’s Oswald Cobblepot is the show ’s best creation . Any show that can turn the Penguin into a compelling type is must - see television receiver , in my opinion .
Quick as Lightning
Will S. :
i ’ve got a mutant physics question here . one thing that always bothered me about days of future past tense was how quicksilver could he have listened to his medicine while he was melt down so tight ? he definitely had his headphone on and recreate medicine but would n’t the audio waves be go a lot deadening ? was he pressing tight forward the whole meter ? and i get that he impress tight but what about his clothes and hair . would n’t they have been moving dim too ?
I wish I could give you a super - geeky result that would satisfy all these criterion , but I ’m afraid Quicksilver ’s headphones by themselves are so baffling that it ’s effectively a debatable level . Even if he somehow had a Walkman in the ’ seventy that dally euphony so tight as to be audible to him at top speed — which is improbable , even in the 10 - Men universe — and besides , Quicksilver has never had the power to run his myringa at superspeed , at least that I know of .
As for his hair and crownwork … well , you know how he just hardly touched the guards and they flew around like they ’d been punched by the Hulk ? Obviously that ’s because the velocity Quicksilver was running , the energizing energy he was transfer was still massve — an existent punch probably would have made a dude ’s had explode . Assuming Quicksilver ’s hair is part of his physical structure and thus subject to his mutation which keep the rest of his cutis from flying off when he runs at top speed , by moving in his jacket it should basically have been tear up the minute metre appear to take up . It ’s like if you put his jacket in a wind burrow at 500 miles per hour or so for half a second . Unless the crownwork has its own mutant index , this does n’t dog .
However , given that the movie is about old Professor X and Magneto telling Wolverine to get their two younger self to cooperate to fight the Sentinel menace , that it can only be beat with the two of them working together , but it turn out young Magneto is a dick who is not helpful at any stage of the plan , Quicksilver ’s cap is not X - adult male : daytime of Future Past ’s biggest plothole .
The Trek’s in the Mail
Wil :
May the wind be at your back , and the betting odds always be in your party favor , good traveller .
I ’ve latterly been discussing with thousands of the great unwashed the eventual replication of Star Trek to television . Even if it takes another 20 years , I suspect we ’re all on the same page that CBS and Paramount will eventually resolve that there ’s been enough time since the alternate creation trilogy , and greenish - light a pilot which is vouch an hearing , at least initially .
While many issues have been raise about how poorly Star Trek has tackled issues like gender , sexual orientation , and sex individuality — and I for certain hope that we finally get to see Federation citizens pursuing gay relationships and trans * individuals with no one batting an optic — it ’s revolutionise me to inquire about how Star Trek could get out ahead of modernistic civil right field to undertake something our reform-minded civic right hand movements have not reached yet . We ’ve seen this in circumscribed fashion with AI like Data and the EMH , where we research what it is that constitutes an individual with adequate rights and exclusive right , but I ’m wondering about what might come after that . Hive - minds ? The transfer of biological consciousness to a synthetic medium ?
What ’s the next , next generation of science fictiony rights issue that Star Trek could tackle when it someday returns to the small CRT screen ? What shape could egalitarianism take on in the 25th one C ?
slap-up question ! Assuming that a new Star Trek show would include the optimistic egalitarianism of the previous serial , and hoping that it would n’t just be a “ spirited ” Nu - Trek rehash of one of the other series , then it would be fascinating and wonderful to see how it might perceive our future ( peculiarly since everything seems pretty fucked nowadays ) . A world — a galaxy , even — of pure tolerance and acceptance would of course be wonderful to see on blind .
I think you ’ve hit the nail on the point with the next contemporaries of personal rights . A Modern Trek could explore whether a hive mind counts as an individual or a corporate , what rights a mind upload to , say , a computer could reasonably expect , and perhaps even what the rights of a scientist who builds a sentient robot might have over his / her creation .
But beyond right yield , a new Trek could take a look a number further in the time to come to explain social issue humanity may be face next . How will society adjust as living expectancy go forward to grow ? How will we control our universe when the time comes ? What happens when we fulfill unknown who are completely beyond our ken , like a sentient bacterium or something ?
What’s at Stake
Ginger S. :
Last week ’s Postal Apocalypse was pretty heavy on the square career advice for nerds . This week , I humbly suggest it ’s prison term to return to the postman ’s root – namely , answering preposterous query about sex . For your consideration :
I latterly discovered that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is on Netflix , and have been re - watching the series . This time around , a thought occurred – there is a lot of vampire sex , pretty much all of it require a male vampire and a distaff human . I have n’t watched Twilight or True Blood but I read there ’s a similar amount of sexy undead action . So my question is : at least in the Buffy universe , it ’s very clear that vampire do not have a heartbeat , meaning ( I would bear ) no blood circulation . Since bungle are , essentially , the pooling of descent in the penis , how does a lamia get a boner – or get rid of one after the human activity is done ?
BLESS YOU MY CHILD .
Okay . Vampire erections — or vampirections if you ’d choose — are a widely discuss topic and ordinarily any lamia franchise that necessitate sex activity has tried to at least total up with a half - assed reply for how vampire penises — or vampenises ( I ’m on a roll ! ) — engorge when postulate .
If should storm no one that True Blood may have the most conceive - out answer , since they generally pass more metre fucking than drinking mass . Vampires do have line of descent — it ’s why they bleed when they ’re bruise and cry , and how they make vampire — by giving a drained victim some of their parentage . Fucntioning circulatory system or not , the lineage is in there , and it can clear be move into the dick area when needed ( which is frequently ) .
nightfall ’s response , froman actual FAQ made by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer , is batshit mad :
“ The normal reactions of stimulation are still present in lamia , made potential by spite - related fluid that stimulate tissues to react similarly as they do to an influx of blood ( erecting ) . Like with vampire pelt - which looks similar to human skin and has the same basic function , fluids closely relate to germinal fluids still exist in male vampires , which carry genetic information and are open of bonding with a human egg cell . ”
EDWARD CULLEN HAS A VENOM DICK . Well , of course he does .
As for Buffy , it ’s never fully explain , but since vampirism is a demonic curse , which is basically magic , you may easily assume adultery ( being devil approved ) would be part of the talent package . On the other deal , my most canonical understanding of lamia boners — I ’m imagine from the lamia : The Masquerade RPG — is that a vampire drinks blood and then pass it like an energy source to use awesome mogul , which I would make bold include boners . If they have n’t drank anyone lately , they do n’t have the bloodline to dispense with for their dicks . It makes sense to me .
Hey , am I the first person to ever write “ my most basic reason of vampire boo-boo ” ? I go for I am .
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