IAM Marvel Community II

[bebopeva88]

Looking for better comic discussion? Ever wanna discuss the intricacies of the inking on a particular comic, or share work from your favorite, possibly obscure artist? Did you read something really great, or notice something really cool that you just gotta talk about? Wanna revel in and commiserate in the joys and frustrations of being a Marvel fan? Welcome to the IAM Marvel Community -- a place of general Marvel talk where individual tastes are shared, reviews are given, news is broken, and stances are taken. Named in honor of The Irredeemable Ant-Man, any and all posters are welcome. Tell us your favorites when it comes to comics, get to know us, and join in the fun!

What originally began as a very early preemptive save The Irredeemable Ant-Man thread grew into the largest subforum thread Newsarama had ever seen, eventually outlasting the title, and turning into a community thread. This is an all purpose general Marvel discussion thread where people can hopefully get to know each other and talk not only about Marvel Comics, but anything else that comes up. This thread had 28,508 posts on Newsarama, and then they went and changed, so we set up refugee camp here. The original thread in all its classic goodness may be found here.

Here at CBR, we grew larger than ever, prospered, laughed, cried, bitched, poked fun at, and spoke wisdom for a year and a half, and things were a comic talk utopia of sorts.

Then came...THE SHADOW LOCK.

The Great Shadow Lock of 2010 came in an early morning stealth attack during the Board Memory Crisis that was happening concurrently. In order to spare the body, a really sexy limb had to be severed, though thankfully, benevolent moderator Expletive Deleted allowed said limb to be preserved, where it can be read in all of its 59,971 posts of baffling IAM 2.0 glory (and bathed in formaldehyde), here.

Which brings us to glorious IAM 3.0, making this post #88,481.

GET TO KNOW THE REGULARS -- ORIGINS AND ECCENTRITICITES LISTED BELOW IN EASY TO DIGEST, CONDENSED FORM!

* bebopeva88: Founder, President, dictator, and role model to many. Prone to going stabby when enraged. Has several personas, including, but not limited to bebopstradamus, an eerily accurate comic prophet, and P-bebop and N-bebop, which have been documented by other regulars as an overly positive, almost naive bebop, and a bile spewing negative bebop who will most certainly bring you down.

Loves: Wolverine, Jim Lee, Bloc Party, Cowboy Bebop, and the Phillies to a shocking degree. Loves Marvel, though it treats him like an abusive spouse, and he's confounded by DC's ineptitude. Word is, he's also responsible for shaping the minds of the current generation, so be afraid, oh yes, be very afraid. Resident comic art and anime guy.

Fan crush: Scarlett Johansson, January Jones, and...Jim Lee.

Pet creators: Jim Lee, Cho, Bachalo, Sean Murphy, Rocafort, Ellis, Charest, and CLAY MANNNNNNNNNNNNN

Particular comic likes: Jim Lee, Warren Ellis, Wolverine, Batman, Cho, Charest, Coipel, McNiven, Bachalo, Jae Lee, Cassaday, Dodson, Cheung, Williams III, the Kubert Bros., Art Adams, Quitely, Yu, Brubaker, Aaron, crime & noir stories, Noh-Varr, shiny holofoil covers and gatefolds, Eric O'Grady, Black Bolt, and how powerful Thor is. Because let's face it, he's SOOOOOOOOOOOO powerful.

Particular comic dislikes: the art of Rob Haynes, Steve Uy, Khoi Pham, Greg Land, Niimura, and Larry Stroman. The writing of nu-Claremont, Way, Austen, Casey and most Pak; Molly Hayes, all Flashes, most GL's, DC continuity, especially the Multiverse and multiple origins, Marvel's recent attempt to put awful creators on things he likes, IGN Comics' stupidity, Pixie, Legion,Aunt May, perpetually stupid and regressing Peter Parker, nu-Deadpool, Loeb's Wolverine, nu-Wolverine origin & continuity, and general treatment of Wolverine for the last 10+ years...ditto for Spider-Man.

Origin:Stabbed by a radioactive hobo whilst oogling a Jim Lee illustrated X-Men issue, bebop fell into a coma, upon which he awakened weeks later as a stronger, smarter, still very white comic fan dictator. Those who opposed him were crushed, and those who sided with him were permitted to be underlings. Unhappy with the current state of the things, he decided to shape the world into a vision of his own via a most assured method -- by molding the minds of the upcoming generations. Once he deems fit, the bebopocalypse will be unleashed, and once that happens, well...things will go 'slode, that's for sure. And bebop will rule all.


* RedRonin: Leader of a vicious simian army; hates Jim Lee's art despite having otherwise good taste in comics; ignores Booster, calls Kernel retarded every 12.7 minutes; surely doomed during the bebopapocalypse due to his Lee hate; only his Charest love may spare him; warns of impending simian doom, prone to shocking outbursts about his hate for PETA. Likes to be coy about his ethnicity, but we all know he's Samoan. Self proclaimed resident a-hole (except when it's Hurnslice, as seen in the "Staples Incident").

Fan crush: Kristin Bell, Christina Hendricks' boobs...and Stuart Immonen.

Pet creators: Immonen, Charest, Hickman, the Knaufs, Sean Murphy, Skottie Young

Particular comic likes: Iron Man, Black Panther, Warren Ellis, Travis Charest, Yu, Aja, Disco Dazzler, Coipel, Immonen, Lark, dreaming of Larroca's departure from IM, Jason Aaron, Medusa, Darkhawk, Skottie Young, and Brandon Peterson, despite his blindingly garish colors and shininess.

Particularly dislikes: The art of Jim Lee (I think he's faking it though), Uy, Pham, Stroman, and Land; Amadeus Cho, the creepy RASL guy, most anime, DC's continuity/stupidity, num, Boostered, Twilight, Greg Pak, Legion, IGN Comics' stupidity, Frank Miller, Fraction's butchering of Iron Man...and also the majority of things done to Iron Man over the past decade aside from Extremis.

Origin: Raised by apes, who stole the hairy baby from his unsuspecting mother, RR rose through the ranks to eventually become leader, after being so much of an a-hole to the former leader, that he swallowed his own tongue. Retreating to Samoa to escape large gatherings of people, he eventually came to the US mainland -- California to be exact, a baffling move by non-simian standards. Wielding a mastery of misogyny and racism, he masquerades as a student by day, and presents a danger to all as Simian King. Watch your genitals.


* Sentry/Void aka Kid Impulse aka S/V: Human DCU encyclopedia; thinks being British is an occupation, had horrid taste in art, but is slowly improving. Prone to loving and leaving writers an a regular basis, and also to highly anticipating something, and then quickly hating it. Resident music guy. Has 28 comics that first got him into comics, and gets run over by cars. Provides occasional revelations about his likes, each one more shocking than the last.

Fan crush: Kieron Gillen

Pet creators: Kieron Gillen, FVL, JRJR (looks-wise), Skottie Young

Particular comic likes: The Spot, Bart Allen, Umbrella Academy, Scott Pilgrim, Gillen, FVL, speedsters (particularly Bart Allen), Manapul, David Aja, Skottie Young, and smiley heroes

Particular comic dislikes: Nighthawk, Longshot, Pixie, Hal Jordan, people messing with Bart Allen

Origin: Found in a dumpster behind a Manchester club, young S/V was always singing Brit pop, and proclaiming every other comic he got to be the one that got him into the hobby. In an event that has never fully been explained, he somehow downloaded the entire history of the DCU into his brain, most of which fit, but some of which was crowded out due to the resident info related to obscure British bands and break up songs. He serves as a general IAM ambassador overseas, but mostly I think he goes to concerts.


* Kernel: resident thread Butters; enjoys posting seemingly drunken pics of himself; took like a year and 2000+ posts to finally effing read IAM; used to have a mullet; now can drive and has a job, which he doesn't let anyone forget. Likes raping Books-A-Million, and hating on books that are otherwise universally loved.

Fan crush: Hayden Panettiere, Kanye West

Pet creators: Marco Checchetto (weird, right?), JRJR, Deodato

Particular comic likes: Spider-Man, JRJR, mullets, Deodato, Checchetto, Venom/symbiotes, Winick, The Dark Tower, his Gale hating fetish

Particular comic dislikes: hardcore Morrison fans, Bob Gale & Freak, Rulk's ID being promised to be revealed, yet it never occurring, Criminal, Batwoman

Origin: Birthed in the inbred infested swamps of the backwoods of NC, Kernel emerged from the womb with a mullet and a love for the absurd. Bankrupted due to his mother spending all of the family's savings on what should've been a cheap ebay auction, and losing all of his own personal assets on a Weezer CD, Kernel turned to a life of crime and comics raping in large book stores. After doing hard time, Kernel decided to walk the straight and narrow, and is now a student, with an actual job, and can likely be found discovering bands like Muse in 2009, using cool new terminology from 10 years ago, and listening to Kenye West.



TO BE CONTINUED FURTHER BELOW!

[Expletive Deleted]

Hey guys,

I've got a little bit of unpleasant mod business, here. You know all the server shenanigans that've been going on lately? One thing we're looking at as a potential source of problems is 5000+ post megathreads. And that's this thread, along with a few others here and there around the forums. So, fairly shortly, I'll be closing this thread.

This old thread should remain accessible if you need it for some reason, and I'll make a copy of the first post to use as the first post in a new version.

Thanks (and sorry),

-ED

Aaaaaaand we're back.

I left the thread title the same, but if you'd like a "2.0" or something like that added just let me know.

The last iteration is here: http://forums.comicbookresources.com...d.php?t=224294

[Skeets]

Here we go again.

[jlmoor]

YAY!!! Should the first few pages be about IAM just so people don't get confused? Is Eric still with the Thunderbolts? And will he survive the epic battle with Cassie to come?

[jlmoor]

Looking over the OP again, Phil Hester is supposed to be at the KC convention as well, yay!

BTW Thanks to ED for getting this up and running.........two days of having to do work at work would have been terrible!!

[KieronGillen]

Fifth!

KG

[DavidGallaher]

Fifth!

Braggart!

[bebopeva88]

Well this was hugely unexpected...

EDIT:

GET TO KNOW THE REGULARS, CONTINUED:

*Hurnslice: Formerly mysteriously named old guy; resident TV and film guru, and uber, massive, scary T:SCC fan. Does things that make his nipples bleed, and writes scripts whilst giving play by play updates. Former name dropper. Unleashes the Hurnslicer when angry, cornered, constipated, or overly confused. Has masculine French soapbox posters. Curses Dollhouse's name and all that it stands for. Nearly made a life enemy of Val Staples, before the Staples Armistice of 2009 was arranged.

Fan crush: Summer Glau, that awful Jesse devil spawn from T:SCC

Pet creator: insufficient database

Particular comic likes: Spider-Man, the Umbrella Academy, Bone, BKV, The Escapists

Particular comic dislikes: Domo, Larry Stroman, JRJR on non Spidey work

Origin: A fictional creation of 2 television writers, Hurnslice was miraculously and inexplicably brought into physical being at the beginning of the American cinema boom in the 1930's, perhaps even earlier. Dedicating his life to scriptwriting, running, and sneaking onto nearby studio lots, Hurnslice found love in T:SCC before watching it slowly die and have its grave desecrated by his arch enemy, Dollhouse. The trauma caused him to forget nearly all comic creator names. Rumored to be a 3rd Coen brother.



* jlmoor aka Skynet: Midwest mom o' buying any X-comic obsessiveness, she is the female force of the thread, and also a hostile A.I. bent on human enslavement. Despite this, her internet sucks, so we're probably safe for awhile, though she can get the jump on you individually, with her stealth prowess. Resident X-fan.

Fan crush: Magneto, Black Bolt

Pet creator: Whedon, Jenkins

Particular comic likes: X-anything, big event tie ins, Magneto, the Inhumans, particularly Black Bolt & Medusa

Particular comic dislikes: very easy to please...pretty much just anything that makes Magneto look bad

Origin: Her early days are unrecorded due to lack of records kept in the backwoods where she resides. At one point she was thought to be a family woman working in a crazy weird school district, until the ages of her children began to change, at which time it was confirmed that she has wholly transformed into a completely technological construct. Motives unknown, she hordes X-comics, and plots humanity's demise. The machines are coming.



*Skeets aka Nu-Kernel: Got lost, and found his way here after thinking this was a DC thread. Resident legal guru and wine class graduate. Likes DC things that I've purged from my mind, drops minis like they're on fire, and loves him some TV sitcoms and Buffy. Confirmed to be part of a dual entity collective also made up of Booster, this new organism was dubbed Skooster, and shortly after officially being recognized, and having the identity made public, the Booster persona was suppressed, and is currently MIA.


Fan crush: Kanye West

Pet creators: Yildiray Cinar, Chris Samnee, Mike Allred, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba, Kevin Maguire

Particular comic likes: damn near anything DC, Buffy, Booster Gold, Rucka, Scalped, Darwyn Cooke, The Stand, Mike Allred, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba, Kevin Maguire

Particular comic dislikes: Thor, Wonder Woman (except for the BN tie in mini), Bendis

Origin: Lovechild of an unnamed 49ers benchwarmer, Skeets was abandoned on the steps of the DC NY offices for unknown reasons. They sent him to CA to live with their West coast branch, where he took up law studies, which largely entailed getting to know about fermented grapes. Finding his way into comics, he has been displaying curious taste by dropping quality titles of late, and morphed into Nu-Kernel (though he can see when fingers are clearly broken in an X-ray on a cover, unlike Classic Kernel). He is also prone to becoming a dual entity known collectively as Skooster, this Siamese Twin being is spoken of in hushed tones throughout the Golden State.


*FiddleFaddle: Resident youngster, and purveyor of questionable taste. Prone to posting in strange syntax, using colors and bolding as some form of additional communication compensation.

Fan crush: creamsicles

Particular comic likes: Avengers: The Initiative, Spider-Woman, X-Men Legacy, Niimura's art

Particular comic dislikes: Unknown

Origin: a sentient being formed from a bacteria collective on the rim of a creamsicle vat, FF escaped from the Good Humor factory, and soon fell in with the wrong crowd (re: the X-boards). Currently a liaison to that psychotic place, he remains a source of amusement, and occasional confusion and befuddlement for his fellow IAMers.


*Excelsior: longtime lurker, he has decided to emerge from the shadows after learning of his comic creator heritage. Champion of Doctor Voodoo and Black Panther, he fights against KKKernel, his archenemy, and struggles to understand the rapid fire banter an inside jokes that pelt him each time he comes to the thread.


*Puunk: enigmatic, drive-by shooter/poster; not good at small talk, like X-books



M.I.A.:

comics91: still hasn't read the last 6 issues of IAM; African-American extra on The Wire due to his Baltimore war zone location; my occasional minion, and Comic News Lad; petulant toddler
Particularly likes: chillin', The Venture Bros., X-Men, Koi Pham *gasp!*
Particularly dislikes: safe cities

num48champ:Firestar lover, sig obsessed, no friends, causes gender confusion, posts here daily, didn't notice arthouse for like 100-odd pages, currently M.I.A...may have asphyxiated at a NASCAR event
Particularly likes: Jean Grey, Firestar, sigs, X-Men: First Class, Nascar
Particularly dislikes: mature comics

arp2008: Perpetually confused/lost guy who is either a trollish performance artist, or a 13 year old...perhaps both. Likes to flirt with dudes on the internet and attempts to use larger vocabulary incorrectly and misspelled so as not to seem like he's 13. Has no idea how to search for things/find out information on his own, and is the new nemesis of RR, usurping Kernel's coveted role.
Particularly likes: Naruto, Afro Samurai, X-Force, Clayton Crain, e-hitting on dudes, not trying new things that are inarguably good
Particularly dislikes: Sentry, Wolverine's prominence in things, Farel Dalrymple's art, understanding references

arthousecrap aka TheMagneticSteve: Secretary of Defense and foreign diplomat; spells things the charming Australian way; appreciates savagely witty wordplay, destroys any and all at battle of the bands; has hand writing like a drunken 4 yr. old girl; prima donna who needs to have the longest title -- it makes him feel special, though in his absence, it no longer is the longest...MUAHAHAHAHA; has my back with Mooninite one liners
Particularly likes: Playing music, ATHF, confusing Australian pop culture references, and uh...playing music
Particularly dislikes: showing up with regularity


Not-Quite-Regular Official Members of the Irredeemable Corps:
Mr. Batman: like a less confused arp2008; clearly, a real pioneer; had a sig/avatar fetish, but liked Jim Lee's art, so that was cool
poppycock aka Monty Cristo: Lover of muffins, poster since page #1
TheGrayHulk: Lover of the 80's, poster since page #1
zeitgeist07: German Ant-maniac who may in fact be German-Hawaiian
alextastic: Late to the party, but boy, can he dance! Has asexual sig and name, futilely attempts savagely witty wordplay.
panicbxmb:Kirkmania supporter ;poster since page 2!
Dragavon: Future Eric O'Grady in training
gorilla_buoy: Fan of Ms. Marvel shower scenes since 1998
Fear: says randomly hysterical insano-things; coined Kernel's new nickname, "Mr. Potato Head", came back REALLY fast from 18th dimension 90 day banishment; cheers on his own stripping fantasies
Prometheus3
rwe1138
CaityNavyCop
CrankFrank
rabbitman
Michael Hawk
VintageStar
jrad32
Deathangel
CrankFrank
deworde
GLG
Clem
Mojo Rizin'
AgentX78
ClintP
Tanjint
greenshoes713
JonniRandom


...and this guy:

Boostered: Phillies fan, Invincible lover, obsessed with Ryan Ottley, adores Die Hard (battery fetish), formerly posted pictures to make a joke; annoying guy with insane/horrible tastes at times
Particularly likes: bebop*, The Venture Bros.* Futurama*, lots of awful DC stuff, Invincible*, TWD*, Ryan Ottley's art*, Booster Gold, sports*
Particularly dislikes: good things, save for those that are asterisked, mullets

Users banned from membership for life:
Optimus Prim (WHO GOT BANNED! Suck on that, OP)

Other banned/deceased members:
DeadPoolJr.
patiswayfly

Acclaimed members and creators on the title who post occasionally in this thread:
Phil Hester
Ande Parks
Dan Slott
Troy Hickman
Kurt Busiek
Kieron Gillen
David Yardin
Val Staples
David Gallaher
Gerry Alanguilan

[bebopeva88]

Aaaaaaand we're back.

So in the future, every time we hit 5k posts, we'll get a new "volume" (sales boost, woooo)?

I left the thread title the same, but if you'd like a "2.0" or something like that added just let me know.

I think it's fine like this, thanks...unless I think of something cooler.

The last iteration is here: http://forums.comicbookresources.com...d.php?t=224294

Thanks for not wholly deleting it.

[jlmoor]

I think it's fine like this, thanks...unless I think of something cooler.

IAM Community Legacy? Or Noir?

EDIT: Ultimate IAM Marvel Community!!

[bebopeva88]

IAM Community Legacy? Or Noir?

EDIT: Ultimate IAM Marvel Community!!

New Dark Ultimate Legacy Crisis Noir Marvel Community War.

[bebopeva88]

Fifth!

KG

You and the number five are seemingly tethered now.

Please pitch a 5 issue IAM mini.

Fifth!

Braggart!

High Noon/Hulk: Winter Guard David Gallaher? Welcome!

[bebopeva88]

Steranko's Turf #1 variant

[jlmoor]

New Dark Ultimate Legacy Crisis Noir Marvel Community War.

The other thread could be Prelude to: IAM: NDULCNMCW

[bebopeva88]

The other thread could be Prelude to: IAM: NDULCNMCW

No retcons!

I think this thread makes the perfect jumping on point for new readers, and I'm thrilled that Jim Lee is providing a variant thread sig for us.