In The Mind of Spider-Plush

Today we're looking at Marvel Ruins... What a weird title, what DOESN'T Marvel Ruin? Anyway, Marvel Ruins is part of an imprint titled "Alterniverse", which was about.... Alternate universes. This is obviously inspired by the book "Marvels" by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, however while that one was about exploring the many marvelous characters, this one is about the horrible things that could've happened to them. So, here's Tales Of The Marvels: Ruins by Warren Ellis, Cliff Nielsen and Terese Nielsen. The cover shows Phil Sheldon, the reporter from Marvels, walking around the various corpses and bodies of Marvel superheroes like Spider-Man, Kitty Pryde, Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, and Scarlet Witch. Now I know what to recreate with all my action figures! I just need to find the "Old man with an eyepatch" figure from the latest Marvel Legends line.  The story begins with Phil witnessing how the Avengers Quinjet blew up. They died. Prepare...

This is AVENGERS 500! The beginning of a big storyline called "Disassembled". It looks promising enough. I only know about this story because of 2 different things. 1 is that I opened a Linkara video a few days ago, he was reviewing this comic, and he was like "OMG THIS COMIC SUCKS AAAA". Which is how all of his videos go nowadays, c'mon, cheer up. 2nd is the Spectacular Spider-Man storyline called "Changes", because it was somehow tied to this event.  AVENGERS: DISASSEMBLED. By Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch. How bad could this be?  First off, this storyline had a lot of tie-ins across various titles. Here is the list: - Iron Man. He does... Uhm... No clue - Thor. He fights Ragnarok. - Captain America. No clue. But Falcon was there - Fantastic Four. They fight the FRIGTFUL four- - The Spectacular Spider-Man. We'll get to this later. Right now, it's time to look at part 1 of CHAOS.  The cover looks okay, the Avengers are all rushing into ...

Remember the West Coast Avengers? Wow, weren't they great? They were just like McDonalds; they're alright and sometimes kinda shitty.  LAST TIME: Kate was looking for someone for her superhero team that ISN'T the WCA, she found Gwen Poole, ok, then they went back home, and Quentin Quire joined the team with his trusty ol' camera crew, and then they fought Tigra. And after that they found a guy named Bronkey Kong or whatever his name was, and it's MODOK in disguise but they took him home anyways because I don't remember, and then Kate and Clint went to a lab, and then they heard a sound, and then Quentin kissed Gwen, and then I forgot what else happened, but the review was over and I reviewed Young Avengers Presents (aka YAP) #6. All in a day's work. Dude, I felt like a stupid little kid explaining a movie to his parents. But I'm gonna feel like an unprofessional comic book critic when I review issues 3 and 4 of WCA (2018). by Kelly Thompson and Stefano C...

I had a hard time making this one. The Wasp was created by Stan Lee, Ernie Hart and Jack Kirby back in 1963. Why? Because. Janet Van Dyne has the incredible ability of becoming as small as an insect... AND FLYING, isn't she so fucking cool? She was a founding member of the Avengers, and she was even the one that NAMED the team. Shame she wasn't included in the first Avengers movie, she was there in the concept art, but she was missing from the final cut along with Ant-Man.  Janet has never had her own series... Unless it's with Hank Pym, so for this I'm just gonna choose random one-shots and guest appearances. FIRST OFF, Avengers Origins: Ant-Man & The Wasp by Roberto Aguirre Sacasa and drawn by Stephanie Hans. This cover was drawn by Marko Djurdjevic, and it is absolutely beautiful, I need this as a poster so that I can keep it rolled up and never put it up on the wall. This comic is a retelling of the origins of Ant-Man & The Wasp... Makes sense for a comic ti...

I know I said late February, but I got impatient.  You know the Avengers? They're pretty cool, they were created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby back in 1963, what exactly do the Avengers avenge? Absolutely fucking nothing, it's just an awesome name. Google says, "They avenge what has happened to earth", sure, if they say so. The Avengers are almost perfect, but there is one big problem... THEY'RE IN NEW YORK! They need to be in ALL OF THE US. That's why the West Coast Avengers were created, so they had someone to defend and "avenge" the west coast... And then there's the Young Avengers... And the New Avengers... And the Great Lakes Avengers... And the Dark Avengers- Let's just move on. The original West Coast Avengers team was created as an expansion of the New York Avengers, and the members of the old team were Hawkeye, Mockingbird, War Machine, Wonder Man, Tigra, Iron Man, The Thing, Hank Pym, and other guys. Oh, hey, the Wasp was there, she...

I recently acquired a secret internal document from the Marvel offices in New York, and in this document, there are several secrets about the company, secrets about the writers, and secrets about the Marvel Universe that were hidden for over 80 years. I shall now uncover 5 of these secrets. First off, the secret to why Marvel allows Sony to make these horrible movies based on characters related to Spider-Man. Well, you see, if Marvel themselves don't care about the characters, then why should they care if they appear in a horrible movie? Think about it. Did they care about Kraven? Did they care about Morbius? Did they care about Madame Web? NO! They didn't, no one even remembers the last time they appeared in a comic. The only one they seem to care about is Venom. And speaking of Venom, let's talk about the origin of his character, believe it or not, the concept of an alien costume that bonds to people didn't JUST come from the sick and twisted mind of Jim Shooter or wh...