Motion comics! Hooray!
More ways to enjoy superhero comics: Apparently Marvel does this thing (Marvel Knights Animation) where it produces what are apparently called "motion comics" which involves animating the panels of a comic book -- more or less, it's not super-fluid animation or anything and only some of them have lip-flap -- and having it all voice-acted and with background music and everything so that it's basically like watching a comic book. They're not for kids -- well, they're as much for kids as the originals were, which in many cases means there's a lot of blood and violence and generally non-child-appropriate themes.
Whichever of you told me I should watch Spider-Woman: Agent of SWORD was absolutely right, because OMG that was amazing and the art was beautiful; I haven't actually read the original series but I don't think I really need to. Jessica Drew goes to Madripoor and fails to kill Skrulls a lot, basically. And it is awesome. And also now I really really ship Carol/Jess and I kind of ship Jess/Abigail Brand and it's probably very convenient that yesterday I found and read quakenbake's dirty hands ain't made for shaking (15,778 words) which happens to feature both of those pairings. So you should read that.
Although, can you blame me, I did watch Iron Man: Extremis first because who doesn't want to see the Extremis arc in shiny shiny animation? I didn't even finish reading the actual Extremis arc first (I read the first few issues last month and I think I fell asleep), but let me assure you it is really excellent animated (and not for kids unless your kids like to watch Tony Stark coughing up blood from massive internal injuries while pleading to be injected with Extremis before he dies) and now I understand why all of Tumblr gets angry when the comics try to credit Extremis to a character other than Maya Hansen (these days it's apparently Arno's thing) because Maya Hansen is amazing and now I am kind of sad that Iron Man 3 didn't do just exactly this. I have come to the conclusion that any story arc in which you alternately want to yell OH TONY and OH TONY NO is a good Iron Man story, and this definitely delivered on that. All the h/c! All the transhumanism!
Also, hey, how do you actually pronounce Extremis? Specifically, the middle vowel? MCU went for [ε] (like "extremity"), but the voice actors in this thing were saying [i] (like "extreme"). I would have gone for the second one, myself, but I tried to use the first one before I saw this because I figured MCU must know what they're doing, but now I doubt myself.
You can apparently also watch motion comics of Astonishing X-Men: Gifted (Whedon's run, I think; I vaguely recall reading like one issue of this once when it came out), Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers (that, uh, doesn't seem to be on Hulu), a Black Panther one that also doesn't seem to be on Hulu, and then there's a bunch more that look like they were all direct-to-DVD and mostly have "Wolverine" in the titles except for the Inhumans one.
Anyway. Comics that move! They're fun.
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Whichever of you told me I should watch Spider-Woman: Agent of SWORD was absolutely right, because OMG that was amazing and the art was beautiful; I haven't actually read the original series but I don't think I really need to. Jessica Drew goes to Madripoor and fails to kill Skrulls a lot, basically. And it is awesome. And also now I really really ship Carol/Jess and I kind of ship Jess/Abigail Brand and it's probably very convenient that yesterday I found and read quakenbake's dirty hands ain't made for shaking (15,778 words) which happens to feature both of those pairings. So you should read that.
Although, can you blame me, I did watch Iron Man: Extremis first because who doesn't want to see the Extremis arc in shiny shiny animation? I didn't even finish reading the actual Extremis arc first (I read the first few issues last month and I think I fell asleep), but let me assure you it is really excellent animated (and not for kids unless your kids like to watch Tony Stark coughing up blood from massive internal injuries while pleading to be injected with Extremis before he dies) and now I understand why all of Tumblr gets angry when the comics try to credit Extremis to a character other than Maya Hansen (these days it's apparently Arno's thing) because Maya Hansen is amazing and now I am kind of sad that Iron Man 3 didn't do just exactly this. I have come to the conclusion that any story arc in which you alternately want to yell OH TONY and OH TONY NO is a good Iron Man story, and this definitely delivered on that. All the h/c! All the transhumanism!
Also, hey, how do you actually pronounce Extremis? Specifically, the middle vowel? MCU went for [ε] (like "extremity"), but the voice actors in this thing were saying [i] (like "extreme"). I would have gone for the second one, myself, but I tried to use the first one before I saw this because I figured MCU must know what they're doing, but now I doubt myself.
You can apparently also watch motion comics of Astonishing X-Men: Gifted (Whedon's run, I think; I vaguely recall reading like one issue of this once when it came out), Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers (that, uh, doesn't seem to be on Hulu), a Black Panther one that also doesn't seem to be on Hulu, and then there's a bunch more that look like they were all direct-to-DVD and mostly have "Wolverine" in the titles except for the Inhumans one.
Anyway. Comics that move! They're fun.
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