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sisterfrnkly · 4 months
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says a lot that this is from one of the less overtly romantic venom runs
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[Image description: 4 screen caps show a segment from Venom (2018) #11. All four have a plain, white background. The first shows the Venom symbiote on the viewer's left, outside a host body. The viewer's right shows speech bubbles from an out-of-frame Eddie. The dialogue reads:
Eddie: I THOUGHT WE WERE BEYOND THIS."
Venom symbiote: "EDDIE..."
Eddie: "I THOUGHT..."
The second screen cap shows the host-free venom symbiote reaching a tendril towards the out-of-frame Eddie. The third shows a close up of the symbiote's tendril, reaching for Eddie's outstretched hand, just centimetres away from Eddie's fingertips. The symbiote's dialogue reads: "IT...IT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE YOU STAY... YOU HAD TO NEED US." The fourth screen cap shows just Eddie from the side, kneeling on one knee, head down in anguish, left arm resting on his knee while the right arm reaches toward the symbiote, who's now out of frame. Eddie's dialogue reads, "...I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME." End image description.]
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theartofthecover · 5 months
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Absolute Carnage #3 (2019)
Art by: Ryan Stegman, J.P. Mayer and Frank Martin Jr.
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2019) #12
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One of my favorite moments in all of comics, also I need Bats (the ghost dog) in the MCU please
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King in Black 1 (2021) by Donny Cates & Ryan Stegman
Cover: Philip Tan (variant)
King in Black
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extraordinary-heroes · 8 months
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From “Silver Surfer: Black" (2019). Written by Donny Cates, Drawn by Tradd Moore, Colored by Dave Stewart, and Lettered by VC’s Clayton Cowles.
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King in Black #1
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avengerscompound · 2 years
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Tony Stark
Thor (2020)
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superectojazzmage · 9 months
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What was is that Cates was trying to do in his run, but failed at?
So basically, back during the whole Secret Empire period of Marvel, Donny Cates and Al Ewing both pitched ideas for big Hulk runs at the same time. Ewing’s pitch was a horror saga that eventually became Immortal Hulk. Cates’ run was his Smashtronaut story about “the Hulk’s Hulk”/an evil darkness entity and Bruce and Hulk having a super-adversarial relationship where they’re straight up enemies. Editorial basically made a compromise where Ewing could do his pitch first, and once he was done, Cates could do his if he still wanted to. So Ewing did Immortal Hulk, and Cates went off and did his Venom run (where he ended up using a number of ideas from his Hulk pitch; this is suspected to be where Knull originated from).
Immortal Hulk, of course, went on to be a massive hit and one of the greatest runs on Hulk ever, a series-defining run on the level of Peter David and Greg Pak’s work. It completely upended the status quo of Hulk and went in bold and insane new directions that really reinvigorated a series that had been badly stagnating. Ewing left the book hailed as one of the best Hulk writers ever.
So Cates had a pretty high bar to clear. And instead of reworking his old pitch to account for the changes brought on by Immortal… he just said “fuck it” and tried to do his pitch EXACTLY as he originally planned it, without regard for anything that happened in Immortal, and when he rarely did acknowledge Ewing’s work, is was in a very quick and dirty way that didn’t jive at all with how Immortal ended.
More than that, Cates’ run was SUPPOSED to be, apparently, a very dark and edgy sci-fi adventure kind of story that essentially raised questions about which personality was the real monster, Hulk or Banner, while also taking Hulk on a crazy cosmic journey. Cates seemed to really think he was breaking new ground. But he wasn’t. His run, particularly coming off the truly daring Immortal Hulk, was extremely derivative of better prior runs (an evil Hulk personality just like Paul Jenkins, going to space like Greg Pak, etc.) and showed a deep misunderstanding of the characters and prior lore, sometimes in deeply uncomfortable ways (Bruce’s especially vicious relationship with Savage Hulk in Cates’ run was clearly written without realizing that the previous runs REALLY drove home that Savage is LITERALLY a kid; turning Cates’ Bruce from a man at the end of his rope into a horrific abuser exploiting his power to torment an innocent child who — in the very previous run — had made peace with Bruce and risked his life to save him). It was an attempt to do something crazy and new that instead felt like a massive step backwards for the book. And that was before Cates’ crumbling personal life led to him struggling to keep writing and eventually having to step away early.
Philip Kennedy Johnson’s new run seems to be doing a vaguely similarish premise to Cates’ — Bruce and Hulk as enemies — but is doing it in a radically different and much more well-written way while being much more thematically and continuity-wise linked to Immortal Hulk, not only returning to the horror vibe of Immortal and picking up that run’s hanging threads and sequel hooks, but also all but ignoring Cates’ run. PKJ is essentially doing what Cates should’ve done and just picking up where Immortal Hulk left off while telling a genuinely new and unique story unlike anything Hulk has done before.
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samasmith23 · 29 days
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Considering that we later learn in Donny Cates’ Venom run that Carl Brock did indeed physically abuse his son while forcing him to plead innocent instead of guilty after Eddie killed a kid in a drunk driving accident, I’d like to think that this flashback from the classic Lethal Protector miniseries is a partial case of unreliable narrator considering that the housekeeper tells Spider-Man that Carl was never “cruel or abusive” towards Eddie. I mean… she’s either not aware of the truth or is aware but is trying to protect herself from Carl potentially firing her or worse…
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From Venom: Lethal Protector #3 by David Michelinie & Mark Bagley, and Venom (2018) #10 by Donny Cates & Ryan Stegman.
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theartofthecover · 1 year
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Vanish #4 (Incentive Variant Cover) (2022)
[Katsuhiro Otomo's AKIRA #36 (1995) cover homage/inspiration.]
Art by: Steve McNiven
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dynamobooks · 1 month
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Donny Cates & Tradd Moore: Silver Surfer: Black (2020)
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agentofagony · 2 years
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What loki and doctor strange fight looks like :
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What zelma sees :
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