I like Mysterio and Chamillionaire. Ben Reilly I've only read a little bit of-he broods the whole time. Jackal can be disturbing, he is more like a Batman villain.
Every single character here wasn't in the last one (except Spider-Man who died and had been reborn from a Spider-Egg so he could now have organic webbing).
In 2004, they relaunched the Handbooks and released a one-shot each month. 20 total. Avengers, Spider-Man and X-Men received two (2004 and 2005). As this one shows, there was still plenty of notable Spidey stuff - Mysterio, Chameleon, supporting characters - who didn't receive any profiles in the 2004 one. In the case of Avengers, there were characters like Monica Rambeau and Living Lightning who were obviously not important enough to be in the first Avengers one. In 2006, they did a 12-issue series that was the more traditional A-Z format. But, they ignored the profiles available in the 2004/2005 one-shots which completely negates the point of an A-Z (most the major characters not getting profiles!). After that, they went back to themed one-shots which released infrequently. 2007 they did a "A-Z Update" miniseries which filled in a few gaps and went back and gave some of the old 2004/2005 profiles another pass (since many of the 2004 ones were single page affairs). In 2009, hardcover reprints were printed. 14 volumes, hardback, 200 pages each. These compiled everything from all these while also offering a lot of fleshed out profiles from the 2004/2005 stuff (U.S.Agent for example only received a one-page entry in Avengers 2004 and none since, but in the hardcovers he has a whole 3 pages). In terms of data, this was the definitive of these. The pictures chosen were still hit and miss. The text, the power grids, the A-Z format, the detail and the wide range of characters - this was perfect! And Tom Grummett did all the covers too, trying hard to appeal specifically to me. 2010, we got another miniseries, another A-Z mainly detailing new characters or characters who hadn't been covered yet. Improving on the one problem with the hardcovers, it was here where they began using 1 artist for the majority of the profile art. New pieces done for the bulk of characters. After this, there were more one-shots that continued things. 2011, paperback reprints of those hardcovers began. They included small updates on the profiles of the stuff that had happened in the two years. These got to a 5th volume... 2012 - Axel Alonso became EiC and axed the line (at the same time he axed the Essentials collections and about 20 ongoing comics). He said they no longer represented the company, they were "embarrassing" and that they catered to a type of reader Marvel did not consider their core audience. 2010's Deadpool Corps: Rank and Foul, 2011's Captain America: America's Avenger, FF: 50 Fantastic Years, Thor: Asgard's Avenger, Vampires: Marvel Undead and 2012's Defenders: Strange Heroes are possibly the best Handbooks they ever did. I would have loved to see another A-Z by which I mean a complete A-Z including everything they did and everything they were still missing with most the profiles with art by Gus Vazquez. There were still a few problems (the team entries, entries for objects mixed in, entries for story arcs) but the quality of character profile would far make up for it. They released two or three comics around 2020 they dubbed Handbooks but they were not. They were magazine features with "fun facts" and "trivia". Like something from a Star Wars filofax. Between 2005-2011, they also released a few similar things. Things like "Nova Corps Files" which is the most self-explanatory one. The Nova Corps reports on various Cosmic entities and threats, written from the perspective of in-universe. There were a few of these sorts of ones, supplementary materials that touched on Handbook ideas written from an in-universe point-of-view. Even more so than any of these Handbooks, there were 3 one-shots in 2011 - Heroic Age: Heroes, Heroic Age: Villains and Heroic Age: Mutants. They were my favourite thing ever. They were "written by Steve Rogers" - they were his short reports, he was going through and assessing the currently active characters, writing up about them and his relationship with them. It contained some of the best characterisation of Steve Rogers and offered amazing insight - stuff like that he is intensely proud of what Hawkeye has grew into, that him and John Walker are friends and on many of the villains he offered hope of their redemption. This is exactly the sort of thing I would adore writing. Like, Cap or Iron Man or whoever going through the MU heroes and assessing which heroes could be on the Avengers... like, really, the characterisation of Steve in those one-shots was the absolute best he'd been written in that age. I want to cover those but I do feel like I need to again chart the progression of that sort of format. I jumped into the Handbooks too fast, I did the Captain America: America's Avenger one years ago and I don't think the quality of it was evident without seeing how much it improved on these first forays. I should probably copy and paste this as a community post or something, I think a breakdown on the history of the 2004-2012 Handbooks was not what you were expecting to get as a response.
Yeah I saw Madame Web. My favorite part is when the teenage girls who are on the run from someone who wants to kill them and haven’t spoken to their parents all day, meet some guys in a diner and before you know it they are dancing on a table for the guys. Come to think of it that might have been one of the parts where “that didn’t happen.” Throughout the movie you will experience a scene only to find out it was a vision of Madame Web’s and the next scene is her preventing the vision from taking place. It’s very annoying and a cheap way to add stakes without risking anything.
@@SonofCapwolf There’s far superior Sydney Sweeney material for that purpose. The three girls don’t even do much besides be annoying teenage stereotypes and get rescued a lot. It’s the 50 Shades girl’s movie the whole way.
The Answer and Ace snubbed again
I went to look up where Ace had a profile and I found out horrible news. Kurt Busiek brought him back in his fake war shit.
One of these days you should do a video on your mini mate collection
God no. I'd be on for hours... just finding the bits that fell off.
I like Mysterio and Chamillionaire. Ben Reilly I've only read a little bit of-he broods the whole time. Jackal can be disturbing, he is more like a Batman villain.
They hardcore tried to make him into Joker in the 90s. I prefer my Jackal as little dancing green dude in trunks.
Why did they need to another Handbook just a year after the last one? Are there any major changes?
Every single character here wasn't in the last one (except Spider-Man who died and had been reborn from a Spider-Egg so he could now have organic webbing).
In 2004, they relaunched the Handbooks and released a one-shot each month. 20 total. Avengers, Spider-Man and X-Men received two (2004 and 2005). As this one shows, there was still plenty of notable Spidey stuff - Mysterio, Chameleon, supporting characters - who didn't receive any profiles in the 2004 one. In the case of Avengers, there were characters like Monica Rambeau and Living Lightning who were obviously not important enough to be in the first Avengers one.
In 2006, they did a 12-issue series that was the more traditional A-Z format. But, they ignored the profiles available in the 2004/2005 one-shots which completely negates the point of an A-Z (most the major characters not getting profiles!).
After that, they went back to themed one-shots which released infrequently. 2007 they did a "A-Z Update" miniseries which filled in a few gaps and went back and gave some of the old 2004/2005 profiles another pass (since many of the 2004 ones were single page affairs).
In 2009, hardcover reprints were printed. 14 volumes, hardback, 200 pages each. These compiled everything from all these while also offering a lot of fleshed out profiles from the 2004/2005 stuff (U.S.Agent for example only received a one-page entry in Avengers 2004 and none since, but in the hardcovers he has a whole 3 pages). In terms of data, this was the definitive of these. The pictures chosen were still hit and miss. The text, the power grids, the A-Z format, the detail and the wide range of characters - this was perfect! And Tom Grummett did all the covers too, trying hard to appeal specifically to me.
2010, we got another miniseries, another A-Z mainly detailing new characters or characters who hadn't been covered yet. Improving on the one problem with the hardcovers, it was here where they began using 1 artist for the majority of the profile art. New pieces done for the bulk of characters. After this, there were more one-shots that continued things.
2011, paperback reprints of those hardcovers began. They included small updates on the profiles of the stuff that had happened in the two years. These got to a 5th volume...
2012 - Axel Alonso became EiC and axed the line (at the same time he axed the Essentials collections and about 20 ongoing comics). He said they no longer represented the company, they were "embarrassing" and that they catered to a type of reader Marvel did not consider their core audience.
2010's Deadpool Corps: Rank and Foul, 2011's Captain America: America's Avenger, FF: 50 Fantastic Years, Thor: Asgard's Avenger, Vampires: Marvel Undead and 2012's Defenders: Strange Heroes are possibly the best Handbooks they ever did.
I would have loved to see another A-Z by which I mean a complete A-Z including everything they did and everything they were still missing with most the profiles with art by Gus Vazquez. There were still a few problems (the team entries, entries for objects mixed in, entries for story arcs) but the quality of character profile would far make up for it.
They released two or three comics around 2020 they dubbed Handbooks but they were not. They were magazine features with "fun facts" and "trivia". Like something from a Star Wars filofax.
Between 2005-2011, they also released a few similar things. Things like "Nova Corps Files" which is the most self-explanatory one. The Nova Corps reports on various Cosmic entities and threats, written from the perspective of in-universe. There were a few of these sorts of ones, supplementary materials that touched on Handbook ideas written from an in-universe point-of-view. Even more so than any of these Handbooks, there were 3 one-shots in 2011 - Heroic Age: Heroes, Heroic Age: Villains and Heroic Age: Mutants. They were my favourite thing ever. They were "written by Steve Rogers" - they were his short reports, he was going through and assessing the currently active characters, writing up about them and his relationship with them. It contained some of the best characterisation of Steve Rogers and offered amazing insight - stuff like that he is intensely proud of what Hawkeye has grew into, that him and John Walker are friends and on many of the villains he offered hope of their redemption. This is exactly the sort of thing I would adore writing. Like, Cap or Iron Man or whoever going through the MU heroes and assessing which heroes could be on the Avengers... like, really, the characterisation of Steve in those one-shots was the absolute best he'd been written in that age. I want to cover those but I do feel like I need to again chart the progression of that sort of format. I jumped into the Handbooks too fast, I did the Captain America: America's Avenger one years ago and I don't think the quality of it was evident without seeing how much it improved on these first forays.
I should probably copy and paste this as a community post or something, I think a breakdown on the history of the 2004-2012 Handbooks was not what you were expecting to get as a response.
Yeah I saw Madame Web. My favorite part is when the teenage girls who are on the run from someone who wants to kill them and haven’t spoken to their parents all day, meet some guys in a diner and before you know it they are dancing on a table for the guys. Come to think of it that might have been one of the parts where “that didn’t happen.” Throughout the movie you will experience a scene only to find out it was a vision of Madame Web’s and the next scene is her preventing the vision from taking place. It’s very annoying and a cheap way to add stakes without risking anything.
All I know is that a man was arrested for wanking in the cinema over Sydney Sweeney in it. I don't think the movie will have anything as rich as that.
@@SonofCapwolf There’s far superior Sydney Sweeney material for that purpose. The three girls don’t even do much besides be annoying teenage stereotypes and get rescued a lot. It’s the 50 Shades girl’s movie the whole way.
@@robert2430 But you run the risk of Euphoria cutting to Zendaya when you’re about to cum.