Oh, The Humanity

Lots of "news" out of Wizard World Phillie for the nerderatti to get excited about. Hell, even I'll admit to being happy about those Showcase Presents books. But a couple items in the Marvel news caught my eye. A couple items that might just signal the death-knell of Marvel comics as we know it.

First, you have this cover, for The Pulse #11:






Nice cover, right? Great, expressive features on all the characters, especially Jessica Jones. Jumps off the racks right at you. Except for one detail:






Yes, that's Professional Bad-Ass, Mr. Fan Fave Wolverine, with the world's dopiest look on his face. Somehow, Wolverine was perennially popular for all those years when they had spastic gorillas writing his adentures -- I have a feeling that this one image shall represent the end of Wolverine as we know him. You thought Kitty Pride as a ninja tarnished Marvel's cash cow, wait until this image circles the internet a few dozen times...

And as if that weren't bad enough, during the J. Michael Straczynski panel, the following words were uttered -- which have forever seared themselves onto my memory -- which once spoken can never be unsaid:

Along the same theme, Straczynski said that coming up in Amazing Spider-Man, Aunt May and Jarvis’ relationship moves to the next level, much to Peter’s dismay.

Let me repeat, for emphasis:

Aunt May and Jarvis’ relationship moves to the next level

Aunt May and Jarvis’ relationship moves to the next level

Aunt May and Jarvis’ relationship
moves to the next level

I don't know whether to laugh or cry - but I think I'll mostly be laughing when they wonder why all the kids at the 7/11 aren't falling all over themselves to buy the geriatric sex book.

Man, I never thought I'd ever see the day where geriatric sex was used as a marketing ploy by Marvel comics...

Eros, maybe.

Marvel, I can't say I saw that one coming at all.