PREVIEW: Avengers Arena #2

[Venom Melendez]

if juston and darkhawk survive to the end of the series....i might pick up the trade, but pointless murder porn just doesn't appeal to me

I don't know about Juston, but i don't think his Sentinel will survive.

[Aaric Rivad]

Not really seeing anything funny in any of this. But then, I don't find mindless violence amusing. Maybe it's because I'm not nine years old.

This, and the fact that Arcade is written like a nine year old trying to sound like a badass.

They're really trying too hard to be cool with this one.

[sweetdumbass]

Dying in a preview, lol.
*ka-snap*

[mikekerrIII]

When she slams into whatever it is thats preventing her from leaving are those cracks that we see from her impact in it or some type of energy fluctuation If those are just cracks somebody needs to get a hold of Juston & have him ram the sentinel at warp speed over & over agian until the ceiling is shattered Or maybe get Darkhawk to take a crack at it.

Or Hazmat to blow a huge hole in it, if it is not adamantium that would be trivial

[Majin Gojira]

Or Hazmat to blow a huge hole in it, if it is not adamantium that would be trivial

Looked like an energy shield to me. Depending on how it's set up and how it works, there's several ways to deal with it, but none are easy if its an external power source.

[Venom Melendez]

Looked like an energy shield to me. Depending on how it's set up and how it works, there's several ways to deal with it, but none are easy if its an external power source.

Arcade would have prepared for any escape attempt.

[DeadXMan]

This, and the fact that Arcade is written like a nine year old trying to sound like a badass.

They're really trying too hard to be cool with this one.

Have never read any of Arcade's stories?

He had freaking Astro boy as his henchman the last time he was used. ( See Slott's Thing)

[MagSeven]

His Sentinel is there with him, we saw it when Arcade attacked them.

Cool. I see it now. Missed it the first time. I also have to wonder why he was at the Academy in the first place. He's just a smart kid right?

[vampiric_cannibal]

Not really seeing anything funny in any of this. But then, I don't find mindless violence amusing. Maybe it's because I'm not nine years old.

That scene was closer to a Youtube fails compilation than mindless violence. I'd still laugh at the later; I once watched Passion of the Christ in RE class and could not stop myself laughing hysterically.

You know what is worse than 16 C-listers in one Murderworld?
One C-lister spread across 16 Murderworlds.

[Hockstatter]

Avalanche died in a preview too. That's so Red Raven is in good company.

[WhitOro]

How can anybody say this is funny when Kev Walker is so good at drawing the shock and terror of the moment in his characters faces?

[Atom_basher]

I doubt red raven is dead. im willing to bet if she were dead, we would have saw an empty life bar

[vampiric_cannibal]

How can anybody say this is funny when Kev Walker is so good at drawing the shock and terror of the moment in his characters faces?

Black humour. Getting off on misery and bad luck. Schadenfreude.

[Majin Gojira]

Black humour. Getting off on misery and bad luck. Schadenfreude.

Eh, it doesn't really strike that tone very well. It's no Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. A lot of Black Comedies have gags that don't revolve around death/violence in addition to such gags (IE: Doctor Strangelove's "They'll see the big board!" gag), this doens't really have any gags what so ever. It's trying for drama and the writer has stated as such repeatedly. I normally try and discount authorial intent when I can, but the dichotomy between the intent and what people are taking out of it is fascinating.

[sweetdumbass]

Avalanche died in a preview too. That's so Red Raven is in good company.

He died off-panel.