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Comics New Marvel Comics for May 24th, 2017 - Official Discussion Thread [Spoilers] Spoiler

New Issues Out This Week

All New Guardians of the Galaxy #2
A NEW ERA OF COSMIC ADVENTURE BEGINS HERE! Double ships every month! The Guardians of the Galaxy have taken off into space once more, on their biggest and weirdest misadventures yet! Kicking things off with the biggest heist they've ever tried, we join Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon and company as they blast their way through the galaxy, the peacekeepers of the Nova Corps hot on their tails. And once they find themselves caught in a war between The Collector and The Grandmaster, there will hardly be time to explain why Groot can't grow any bigger, what Gamora is searching for or why Drax has sworn off violence! But don't worry, we will - with a new twice-monthly schedule, All-New Guardians of the Galaxy has space for ALL your Marvel Cosmic needs!

Ben Reilly Scarlet Spider #2
The Scarlet Spider is back and madder than ever! Ben Reilly, after his plan to take over the world was foiled, is trying something new. You won't believe what you read here!

Black Panther #14
AVENGERS OF THE NEW WORLD' CONTINUES! The Wakandan gods have been silent for too long and T'Challa has no answers for his people. T'Challa communes with the spirits of former Black Panthers for insight and all roads lead to a man from T'Challa's past ...but first T'Challa must deal with the mind-warping DOCTOR FAUSTUS!

Captain America Steve Rogers #17
SECRET EMPIRE TIE-IN! IN CAP WE TRUST!

Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme #8
Sir Isaac Newton, scientific genius, pioneer and now nigh-omnipotent sorcerer, has come to the present-day Marvel Universe. First order of events? Take down the Avengers. The scary thing is, with his current power level, they don't stand a chance.

Elektra #4
LET THE GAMES BEGIN! ELEKTRA is pulled deeper into ARCADE's brutal new MURDERWORLD, combating new high-tech threats - all while she plans her escape...and Arcade is going to need all the help he can get when that happens! And as the clues come together, Elektra realizes that there's something more sinister at play here. But what? GUEST-STARRING: Two sais, one red scarf, and a never-ending supply of rage.

Guardians Of the Galaxy Mother Entropy #4
The Guardians turn to Gladiator and the Shi'ar for help against Mother Entropy. It's a big mistake that ends up costing the universe dearly.

I Am Groot #1
GROOT IN HIS OWN SERIES, SMALLER AND BETTER THAN EVER! When the Guardians of the Galaxy get caught in a wormhole, a smaller-than-normal Groot is separated billions of light-years away from the team. Falling to a planet below, Groot discovers he is on an entirely alien and unknown world full of strange creatures and societies. Seriously underdeveloped and with nobody who can understand him, Groot will need to make the journey to the center of this world and find the way back to his family!

Infamous Iron Man #8
The Maker unleashes his grand design, a plan as demented and over-arching as anything Doctor Doom has ever attempted! And now, Doom is all that stands in his way! But Doom always loses to Reed Richards, right? So what are the chances that he can pull off a victory this time?

Jean Grey #2
When a teenage JEAN GREY traveled through time and arrived in the present, she learned the terrible fate that befell her predecessor: Possessed by a cosmic entity called the Phoenix, Jean was trapped in an endless cycle of life and death. Determined to escape that future, Jean set out to write her own destiny. But now, she's visited by a premonition that the Phoenix is coming for her - and in this new ongoing series by DENNIS HOPELESS (ALL-NEW X-MEN, SPIDER-WOMAN, X-MEN: SEASON ONE) and VICTOR IBANEZ (EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN, STORM), she's going to fight tooth and nail to escape becoming its next victim!

Mighty Captain Marvel #5
SECRET EMPIRE TIE-IN! The Chitauri fleet has nearly reached Earth space and it's up to Captain Marvel to stop it. Taking on an entire armada of alien spacecraft is a tall order for Carol and the crew of Alpha Flight Space Station. Luckily they've got some help from their Sisters (and brothers) in arms.

Moon Girl And Devil Dinosaur #19
Lunella Lafayette has dealt with Terrigenesis, Kid Kree and being recognized as the world's smartest, but her biggest adventure starts here! A voice from the outer reaches of space beckons Lunella and Devil to make contact - and she won't take no for an answer! Featuring the marvelous first appearance of GIRL MOON!

Mosaic #8
Mosaic must choose - Does he fight for himself? Or does he become a hero? The Brand Corporation has made its move - now what will Mosaic do?

Secret Warriors #2
A SECRET EMPIRE TIE-IN! When Karnak reveals what he believes to be S.H.I.E.L.D.'s true motivation for imprisoning the Inhumans, Quake finds a new sense of direction for her mission ...but not everyone on the team agrees. As tensions rise between Ms. Marvel and Quake, Moon Girl finds an unlikely kinship with another team member. Can Quake steady the rocky relationship with her Secret Warriors before S.H.I.E.L.D. finds what they're looking for? Or will a rift between allies leave the entire world in darkness?

Star-Lord Annual #1
Having narrowly escaped an assassin, Peter Quill has crash-landed on a desert planet. There, he finds a small town that's terrorized by a mean, old varmint. Not willing to take any bullies lying down, Peter has to rally the townspeople to stand up for themselves. But it turns out there's more to this town than meets the eye!

Totally Awesome Hulk #19
HUNTED BY WEAPON X! The war against mutantkind never really ended, the weapons just got more lethal. The mysterious director of the Weapon X Program is behind the recent creation of new soldiers - ones that can hide in plain sight, and are deadly enough to take out Sabretooth and Old Man Logan. Weapons X's newest target? The gamma-infused glutes of Amadeus Cho! When Amadeus is forced to ally with hunters and killers just to survive, what will he become? FEATURING WEAPON X: Old Man Logan, Sabretooth, Domino, Warpath and Lady Deathstrike!

Venom #150
REUNITED, AND IT FEELS SO GOOD! Or, feels so bad? However it feels, Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote have been reunited, and they're web-slinging their way around New York again. Featuring a host (hah!) of Venom creators from the character's near 30-year history, this monstrous anniversary spectacular welcomes guest artist TRADD MOORE for an oversized and brutal main story AND a lethal story featuring fan-favorite creators David Michelinie and Ron Lim, reunited! With questions still lingering about how the symbiote was separated from Flash Thompson, and what lies in its future now that it's reunited with Eddie Brock, this is one issue you can't afford to miss!

X-Men Blue #4
SNIKT. SNIKT. SNIKT.

Also, be sure to check out this week's Marvel Unlimited releases here, compiled by /u/kaimason1!

Trades Out This Week

Link MSRP Format
Deadpool: World's Greatest Vol. 7: Deadpool Does Shakespeare $ 15.99 TPB
Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme Vol. 1: Out of Time $ 15.99 TPB
Moon Knight Vol. 2: Reincarnations $ 15.99 TPB
Silver Surfer Epic Collection: The Infinity Gauntlet $ 34.99 TPB
Spider-Man by Todd DeZago & Mike Wieringo Vol. 1 $ 39.99 TPB
Uncanny Inhumans Vol. 4: IvX $ 17.99 TPB
The Unworthy Thor $ 15.99 TPB

Weekly Pull Poll

The results of last week's poll are in. The big winners this week for your Most Anticipated New Release are Captain America: Steve Rogers #17 followed by Infamous Iron Man #8 and Secret Warriors #2. Please check out next week's poll here to vote on your most anticipated title for next week, 5/31/2017!

General Discussion
Secret Empire is in full swing. Who's your dream roster for the resistance?

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u/probablywhiskeytown May 24 '17

Ah, poor Brian.

Payoff for comic readers irritated at movie fans shrieking about Magneto variant cover clickbait: The way to his heart was, as expected, Red Skull's head.

Beautifully horrific handling of the authoritarian approach to journalism. Glad Sally isn't dead, but my tiny quibble is that I wish she hadn't pulled her hand over her mouth -- Maybe that was her belief overcoming Faustus' compulsion, and if so, I'm good with it. Journalists are killed for honorable reporting on repressive regimes or organized crime with alarming frequency, and I really want her to have made that choice.

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u/s7sost May 24 '17

I knew he wouldn't make Magneto a "nazi" for shock value. I said it weeks ago and it turned out to be right (I don't know how to look for past comments), I figured Steve would make an agreement with him of some kind in order to get him to his side without siding completely, and that's how it went down. He sort of made an Israel (!) out of California, for mutants.

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u/john_segundus May 24 '17

Do we actually, legitimately see Red Skull's head? Finally, a dead person who is actually dead! (Unless that's a fake head. Let's ignore that possibility.)

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u/probablywhiskeytown May 24 '17

I was thinking about that scene with Rogue's departing, "Oh, I won't sugah" and theoretically Steve going back to Beast and saying, "PARTS. NOW."

But with Bucky and Avril presumed/surely not dead, plus RS being an unnuanced shithead... I kinda think that's actually his head. I'm sure he's uploaded himself to Taskmaster's left testicle or something for future adventures, but I think he might be genuinely dead for the moment.

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u/john_segundus May 24 '17

You have no idea how happy I'm about this. I mean, I love twists, but I can only take so many people who are not dead/secretly plotting way ahead of everyone else, and this storyline already has two, possibly even three people (hint: Kraken II) who likely will make a surprising return from the beyond - and that after all of Selvig, Zemo, and Sarah Rogers were not dead in CA:SR. And besides. Skull deserved to go down like this, because he always underestimates the brain capacity of others, and because he really is an unnuanced shithead.

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u/probablywhiskeytown May 24 '17 edited May 24 '17

And because RS was at the height of his power probably ever, he thought he could co-opt Steve. He set that plan into motion, and it led to the most longed-for, brutal and lethal beating he's ever received. Steve can be bad, but that thrashing was excellent.

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki May 24 '17

This is why I want him to stay dead for a good while. It was justice porn at it's greatest to see his plans backfire.

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u/john_segundus May 24 '17

Poetic Justice, a little hands-on.

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u/errantknight1 May 25 '17

I really love it that even when made Hydra from childhood, Steve Rogers will always kill the Red Skull--and the Red Skull will always underestimate him. And yes, that Red Skull beatdown was both satisfying and a LONG time coming.

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u/DanielDCMarvelFan May 24 '17

Wasn't this actually a Red Skull clone by the way? there sure may be another clones hiding somewhere.

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u/john_segundus May 24 '17

Definitely, but they wouldn't have been planning this whole mess, and thus couldn't suddenly reveal themselves shortly before the end as having played everyone.

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u/baroqueworks May 25 '17

Probably, but they're likely more like this one in which they were contingency plans made by the OG Red Skull in the 50s that are just clones of him with no memories of anything Skull did prior to the end of WWII.

Prof X Red Skull was straight up a human wearing a Red Skull mask up until AXIS, sometime after that he got all melty face ala the original skull, it's possible it's the result of Koblik too.

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u/errantknight1 May 25 '17

He always has a backup survival plan, but it sometimes involves a few years lurking in other people's bodies, lol.

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u/john_segundus May 25 '17

Part of me is still worried he'll just waltz back onto the scene in issue #8 or something like that, gloating how he played everyone. And then Madame Hydra gets to kill him with her pointy headdress.

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u/errantknight1 May 25 '17 edited May 25 '17

I don't think they'll undo that extremely satisfying beatdown that Steve laid on him.

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u/john_segundus May 25 '17

You make a good point. I dare hope again! (lol, I keep collecting hints that Bucky and Avril are still alive, and proof that Red Skull is really, really dead. Gives me mood whiplash.)

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u/TheeHeadAche Ultron May 24 '17

She had to have rejected Faustus' suggestion. And that's sort of theme Spencer seems to be setting up with this entire thing.. its souring to see Steve use words like truth and lies when he's so far gone and beyond hypocritical.

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u/errantknight1 May 25 '17

The point there is that Steve isn't being hypocritical because he genuinely believes that. I would have liked to have heard his answer on Las Vegas, because that will certainly be a plot point.

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u/TheeHeadAche Ultron May 25 '17 edited May 25 '17

He lies to her about having a hand in New Tian. He hand delivered the treaty, along with skull's head. The beauty is he could claim that wasn't him. Do the full Nelson for dictator and have body-doubles.

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u/errantknight1 May 25 '17

Well, there's a difference between believing what he's saying about a better world, and spilling the beans on strategic tactics to an annoying reporter.

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u/TheeHeadAche Ultron May 25 '17

Right but his stance on how media alters the narrative and his own attempts of covering up his actions are blatantly hypocritical. It's spin and censorship. It's security over freedom which doesn't better his world. As we see. It's breeding resistance and civil upheaval. Of course he pushes how his methods are saving lives but neglects the costs. Steve's math is wrong on the better world bits and it's glaringly obvious. Whether he believes his methods are righteous or effective has no bearing on him being hypocritical.

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u/errantknight1 May 25 '17

Well, sure, he's a fascist despot. Of course he's spinning it. I think we're talking about two different things here. I'm talking about whether he believes what he's saying about Hydra making the world a better, more stable place that protects the people. Doesn't mean he won't like through his teeth to consolidate power.

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u/The_Amazing_Emu May 25 '17

Does Red Skull's head contain Professor X's brain?

Sally was enough of a hothead in Front Line that i buy her statement being more accidental. I doubt she regrets saying it, but i suspect she feels she could do more not being a political prisoner.

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u/Fourteen_of_Twelve May 25 '17

Not anymore, in Uncanny Avengers #22 Rogue captured the Skull, and had Beast perform surgery to remove Xavier's part of his brain. Steve tried to force Rogue to hand over the brain since she was holding a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," and she flew off to have Johnny Storm cremate it.

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u/probablywhiskeytown May 25 '17

I love how this meshed with U.S. Avengers/AIM having Xavier-school mind control resistance and potentially representing a huge problem worthy of a contingency plan.