Comments on: Non-Jaded Comics Fan: The Summers Family http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/12/08/non-jaded-comics-fan-the-summers-family/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Fri, 24 May 2013 21:54:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Travel Offers http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/12/08/non-jaded-comics-fan-the-summers-family/comment-page-1/#comment-564773 Travel Offers Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:53:46 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=10229#comment-564773 Hi I like this article and it is so informational and I am gonna bookmark it. One thing to say the Indepth analysis you have done is greatly remarkable.No one goes that extra mile these days? Bravo.. Just another suggestion you canget a Translator Application for your Worldwide Audience ! Hi I like this article and it is so informational and I am gonna bookmark it. One thing to say the Indepth analysis you have done is greatly remarkable.No one goes that extra mile these days? Bravo.. Just another suggestion you canget a Translator Application for your Worldwide Audience !

]]> By: Joe H http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/12/08/non-jaded-comics-fan-the-summers-family/comment-page-1/#comment-454084 Joe H Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:34:45 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=10229#comment-454084 I find X-Men fans to be one of the oddest bunch of fans. One will love the crazy timetravelling, another hates it. One will love the X-Men's space adventures, the next hates them. Some love Gambit, others hate him. It's a strange double-edged sword the X-men have in having such a huge roster with characters with ties to space, the occult, time travellers, etc. You just never know what you're going to get. With a character like Captain America you most likely know what you're going to get. I find X-Men fans to be one of the oddest bunch of fans. One will love the crazy timetravelling, another hates it. One will love the X-Men’s space adventures, the next hates them. Some love Gambit, others hate him. It’s a strange double-edged sword the X-men have in having such a huge roster with characters with ties to space, the occult, time travellers, etc. You just never know what you’re going to get. With a character like Captain America you most likely know what you’re going to get.

]]> By: Nick Marino http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/12/08/non-jaded-comics-fan-the-summers-family/comment-page-1/#comment-454068 Nick Marino Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:34:31 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=10229#comment-454068 cable = meh. but the summers can be interesting when you get into all the corsair and starjammers stuff!!!! cable = meh.

but the summers can be interesting when you get into all the corsair and starjammers stuff!!!!

]]> By: Hawkeye http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/12/08/non-jaded-comics-fan-the-summers-family/comment-page-1/#comment-454065 Hawkeye Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:58:02 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=10229#comment-454065 Cable is definitely cool. The weird thing is he was created more recently, yet technically has more experience than most superheroes. They've been doing their thing for, what, 5-10, 15 years in their timeline? Cable was a soldier in a post apocalyptic hell since he was a kid... and now he's really old. And ridiculously powerful & well-trained. He fought some crazy battles in the future... wasnt it revealed he had Cap's shield or something? I think they go into that in Cable & Deadpool, which was pretty good series. It really evolved him, and was written by Nicieza. Providence was a cool idea... in comparison the new series seems like kind of a retread. Haven't read the last few issues though. Cable is definitely cool. The weird thing is he was created more recently, yet technically has more experience than most superheroes. They’ve been doing their thing for, what, 5-10, 15 years in their timeline? Cable was a soldier in a post apocalyptic hell since he was a kid… and now he’s really old. And ridiculously powerful & well-trained.

He fought some crazy battles in the future… wasnt it revealed he had Cap’s shield or something? I think they go into that in Cable & Deadpool, which was pretty good series. It really evolved him, and was written by Nicieza. Providence was a cool idea… in comparison the new series seems like kind of a retread. Haven’t read the last few issues though.

]]> By: Matt D http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/12/08/non-jaded-comics-fan-the-summers-family/comment-page-1/#comment-454056 Matt D Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:11:09 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=10229#comment-454056 To be honest, while I remember the Loeb X-Force run (and hating it as a kid), I don't really remember the Loeb Cable run at all. I just figure it follows along with the rest of Loeb's non-Sale runs. It's not just that Cable has had great writers attached to him, it's that he hasn't had any BAD writers attached to him, save for y'know, the stuff everyone bothers to remember him for. Mike Carey did a really good job with him in his X-Men run too. To be honest, while I remember the Loeb X-Force run (and hating it as a kid), I don’t really remember the Loeb Cable run at all. I just figure it follows along with the rest of Loeb’s non-Sale runs.

It’s not just that Cable has had great writers attached to him, it’s that he hasn’t had any BAD writers attached to him, save for y’know, the stuff everyone bothers to remember him for.

Mike Carey did a really good job with him in his X-Men run too.

]]> By: Lucas Siegel http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/12/08/non-jaded-comics-fan-the-summers-family/comment-page-1/#comment-454054 Lucas Siegel Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:27:20 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=10229#comment-454054 To be fair, Matt, Cable #20 written by Jeph Loeb is one of my all time favorite single issues. It was the "Hour of Last Things" issue of Legion Quest just prior to Age of Apocalypse. You make a great point though, he has had some GREAT writers attached to him over the years! To be fair, Matt, Cable #20 written by Jeph Loeb is one of my all time favorite single issues. It was the “Hour of Last Things” issue of Legion Quest just prior to Age of Apocalypse. You make a great point though, he has had some GREAT writers attached to him over the years!

]]> By: Matt D http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/12/08/non-jaded-comics-fan-the-summers-family/comment-page-1/#comment-454053 Matt D Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:20:05 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=10229#comment-454053 The thing people don't realize about Cable is that he's one of the best written characters of the last fifteen years. Nicieza I, Robinson, Casey, Weinberg, Tischman, Nicieza II. Yeah, there was a Loeb run in there too but it's best to ignore it. and Duane's doing a pretty decent job with him right now too. For what it's worth, I think Cable/Deadpool 7-10 "The Burnt Offering" is one of the best Marvel stories of the last decade too. There are no bad characters, only badly written ones, and Cable has rarely been one of those. The thing people don’t realize about Cable is that he’s one of the best written characters of the last fifteen years.

Nicieza I, Robinson, Casey, Weinberg, Tischman, Nicieza II.

Yeah, there was a Loeb run in there too but it’s best to ignore it. and Duane’s doing a pretty decent job with him right now too.

For what it’s worth, I think Cable/Deadpool 7-10 “The Burnt Offering” is one of the best Marvel stories of the last decade too.

There are no bad characters, only badly written ones, and Cable has rarely been one of those.

]]> By: Lucas Siegel http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/12/08/non-jaded-comics-fan-the-summers-family/comment-page-1/#comment-454052 Lucas Siegel Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:03:41 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=10229#comment-454052 Simon, check out Brian K. Vaughan's X-Men Icons: Cyclops mini series from a few years back, if you can find it. It's what made Cyke himself interesting to me, after years of being a fan of the rest of the Summers clan. Simon, check out Brian K. Vaughan’s X-Men Icons: Cyclops mini series from a few years back, if you can find it. It’s what made Cyke himself interesting to me, after years of being a fan of the rest of the Summers clan.

]]> By: Simon DelMonte http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/12/08/non-jaded-comics-fan-the-summers-family/comment-page-1/#comment-454050 Simon DelMonte Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:53:54 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=10229#comment-454050 I have almost no opinion of Cable, having left the X-books for most of his career, only meeting him for the first time in Messiah CompleX, where he was little more than a walking plot point. I like Rachel Grey, though, perhaps because her history is even odder than Cable's. Scott is the Summers I know best, and I respect the part he plays as the straight man of the X-world. I have often found him a bore, mainly after reading Joss' X-Men. But after reading Messiah CompleX, I concluded that he was dull because it serves Joss' purposes. In the hands of Brubaker, et al, he was still not Mr. Excitement, but he was interesting and you could see how he got to be the leader of all the teams. I have almost no opinion of Cable, having left the X-books for most of his career, only meeting him for the first time in Messiah CompleX, where he was little more than a walking plot point. I like Rachel Grey, though, perhaps because her history is even odder than Cable’s.

Scott is the Summers I know best, and I respect the part he plays as the straight man of the X-world. I have often found him a bore, mainly after reading Joss’ X-Men. But after reading Messiah CompleX, I concluded that he was dull because it serves Joss’ purposes. In the hands of Brubaker, et al, he was still not Mr. Excitement, but he was interesting and you could see how he got to be the leader of all the teams.

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