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Have Rangers helped or hindered their title hunt? -Opinion
The morning after the afternoon before, and Rangers fans wake up to their first win at Rugby Park in the league since 2011.
How do we assess the overall start Rangers made to the season in Kilmarnock?
The first clear benchmark to aim for is this was absolutely the first test of the season. Forget all the friendlies and the European lightweights, this season opener is already one of the four hardest matches of the season out of the way. No team has taken more from Rangers at home than Kilmarnock recently, bar the obvious, and to begin with arresting that slide is huge.
Already, Rangers have taken the same amount points from Rugby Park in one match as they took from there in total in the league since October 2017. Almost two years.
Many have tried to downplay the gravity of this win by arguing Rangers were poor, and that Kilmarnock, humiliated in Europe by Welsh minnows, are currently horrific with no Steve Clarke to guide them – so can we remind them that in the previous five league meetings prior to his appointment, Rangers secured only one win. It wasn't just Steve Clarke, Kilmarnock were an outright bogey team whoever their manager was.
So that is significant.
The further positive is that it gets Rangers off on the front foot – an opening season win for only the second time since promotion. The only other manager to get Rangers off to 3 points was Pedro's hapless side – and they were a lot, lot worse at Fir Park in 2017 than Rangers were yesterday.
There are, of course, drawbacks. Rangers' performance v Alessio's side certainly wasn't convincing – a number of players, especially the summer signings, failed to impress, and regular stalwarts like James Tavernier and Steven Davis did not perform their best by some distance.
Kilmarnock could indeed have won this match for better finishing, and Rangers' defence looks frail – Steven Gerrard ruined the Katic Goldson duo by breaking it up last season, and now it has no chemistry at all.
And while Rangers had a lot of the ball, it lacked purpose, penetration and concise patterns. There appeared a lack of tactical approach in this match, with the aim being pass to death and try to feed the flanks.
But while these are more than nitpicks, the end result is the part that matters.
Rangers took three points in the kind of match they wouldn't have last season. Indeed, they didn't.
But Gerrard needs to get a settled XI and a consistent and effective tactic – and it doesn't get an ounce easier on Saturday when Paul Heckingbottom's strong-fancied Hibs come to Ibrox.
If Rangers come through that one with another 3 points, it's already the best start to an SPL season since promotion. But in 2017 Hibs were the second opponent too and won at Ibrox so we'll take nothing for granted.
We're not saying the start is promising, but equally while our title hopes were doused a little by the quality of performance at Rugby Park, it wasn't completely put out. Celtic made a statement, but we don't need to make a statement to win a title.
Just win games. Keep doing that, however we do it, and we're in with a shout.
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Good win yesterday but he is going to have to change tactics. Jack and Davis do the same job and against an 11 man defense he would have been better adding in Defoe and sacrificing a midfielder.ReplyDelete
I agree with all of the above, rangers wee very lucky on Sunday that they did not loose the game, rangers in the second half did not turn up Kilmarnock were the only team wanting to win, the defense is absolutely rubbish, but hey lets not blame the players the Manager,s neck is on the front line its up to him to halve a stable team.ReplyDelete
One league game played - too early to be making judgments on players or title chances.ReplyDelete
We were a couple of hundred seconds away from a disaster yesterday - but it would have been the performance not the draw that would have led the self-flagellation in the post mortem this morning, and it still should be. In this first game of the season if we had performed well and been unlucky to draw, i'd be disappointed but ok with it. I'm more disappointed that we actually won badly. Winning ugly is the stuff of champions when you're playing badly in January with injuries, suspensions and players off-form etc. It's not how you start the season. I would exonerate Tav though - he did not play well and clearly misses Candy, but he drove the team up the park in the last few minutes to get Aribo's chance, that got the corner, that led to the goal. A bit more leadership from those around him earlier in the second half would have been nice to seeReplyDelete
Last season we played Aberdeen off the park with 10 men and came away with only 1 point .We didn`t play well yesterday but deserved to win because even in a poor second half we were better than Killie .Sorry Mr Unknown you are talking rubbish. I would rather just win at this stage of the season , if we do it when not playing well then so be it .Think what we will do when we are playing well .ReplyDeleteReplies
The win was important but the performance was equally so and it wasn't good. It wasn't just that we didn't play well. It's the attitude of the players who think they can choose when and when not to play. It's the unbearable passing from side to side. It's passing the ball at a snails pace instead of zipping it around. It's the unwillingness to play the ball out quickly from the back when the opposition do eventually send some players forward. It's the inability to shoot from distance. These are all deep seated problems with our players and if they or the manager don't recognise it and do something about it then it's second again for us this season.Delete
Let's all calm down please...although I too was shouting at the TV yesterday as we should have beaten this poor outfit easier. A few contributors tho the pitch once again a disgrace not waterered slow and sticky. Referee allowing them to continually leave a foot shocking . Killie had no game plan just stop us playing so we need to get used to this for the rest of the season or we need plans B and C to address this . Onwards .ReplyDelete
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The state of Mississippi is found at the top of several state rankings, many of which are normally not positive.
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In this final video in the Windows 10 Isolated User mode series Dave takes us through several engineering aspects associated with trustlets. First he describes how lsass.exe (the Local Security Authority Subsystem Service responsible for enforcing security on Windows) now can have a companion process running in the Secure System (LsaIso.exe otherwise known as Credential Guard - tasked with protecting secrets). He then delves into more generic trustlet concerns and how the Secure Kernel in Isolated User Mode deals with these challenges.
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Great! Even more in-depth would be nicer. I hope Microsoft will soon release a whitepaper documenting all the details, requirements, limitations, third-party pentesting results, etc. Thanks!
It would be good to mention that Isolated User Mode is only available on Windows 10 Enterprise and on the Server SKUs.
Overall, it was brief but right to the point. Like Jason said it would be nice to be able to watch whitepaper documentation, or at least a more in depth look at all these function for the die hard fans. Perhaps for a low subscription fee of some sort.
Are these in order?
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Part 3: More on Process and Features (This Video)
Really enjoying these videos!
@timreilly:Yep! Good catch - I am planning to do more of these with the Windows team (hopefully soon).
great series. more like this please.
Super-informative series. (Far, far more informative than anything I've seen in writing anywhere.) Thanks a lot. Thought I pretty much understood the major security architecture changes that shipped in Windows 10; turns out my knowledge was barely scratching the surface.
But one important question: when is the new hypervisor/secure silo architecture in general, and the Credential Guard feature in particular, coming to Windows clients that don't use Enterprise licensing and management? Or maybe put another way, when is the capability to protect identity secrets other than domain identity credentials--like Microsoft Account authentication credentials, as the most obvious non-enterprise example-- going to be added to Windows 10? (And made available at least to Pro edition users.) Also importantly, it sure would be really, really great to see a broadly available Credential Guard capability ability able to protect credentials used to access 3rd-party network/Internet services with high security requirements (medical records databases, payment processing systems, etc.)
BTW, are any of these mechanisms the same as those that protect private key storage for the new Passport auth element in Windows 10? Still a bit confused as to how all these pieces of the Windows 10 security story fit together, I guess.
Anyway, I'll just close by throwing out another friendly reminder to keep in mind the small businesses and others who don't have Enterprise domain systems but still have important stuff to protect. :) In any event, thanks for the series Ch. 9, and keep up the impressive work Kernel group.
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We at DFO are constantly looking for ways to improve the commentist experience. The thing that built this site was the sense of comraderie that existed on the open threads at our former home. We wanted to keep that sense of community going.
Realistically, we all live in different cities and countries, so it's very difficult for us to get together in real life. The Las Vegas DFO Convention last December was a smashing success (shut up tWBS, I know I didn't go, but I had a valid reason!), but that may only happen once a year if we are lucky.
The Southern California DFO contingent has been pretty good about getting together for beers. The last time we toasted to our good friend WhyEaglesWhy who flew in from Australia on his getting-engaged-World Tour and showed us the gigantic rock he bought for his bride-to-be. If you are in the LA area next weekend, we will be having the second annual DFO Pub Crawl in lovely Atwater Village on Saturday, March 4. RTD will be putting together a post later this week with details but from what I heard we start out at The Morrison at 2 PM and head east from there.
Ok, so what am I getting at? When we got together last, SonofSpam suggested a poker game and we all thought it was a good idea. Since the rest of you couldn't possibly all fit at his house, I did some research to see if we could do something online. Turns out you can!
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The goal is at some point to have a DFO-wide Commentist Poker Tournament with a grand prize to the winner. The key will be to coordinate a date that works for the majority of DFOers.
PokerStars gives you 30,000 in play chips to start. Since the minimum buy-in (set by PokerStars, not me and I can't change it) is 20,000, that doesn't give us a lot of wiggle room. There is always, however, a solution. PokerStars allows you to get 12,500 free chips every four hours. All you have to do is log on, grab your free chips, and log off. You can build up a nice bankroll that way.
There is a PokerStars app that allows you to play on the site with your mobile phone. However, I have tested it and I discovered that Home Games are not supported. The free chip offer IS supported, so you can log on while at work on your phone, grab your free chips, and then have a nice bankroll for that evening.
PokerStars "generously" gives you the opportunity to buy play chips with real money (and I suppose that is a big way that they are able to make money in the US), so you always have that option, but the point here is to have fun and I don't want anyone to have to spend actual money to have fun online. That's just against everything the Internet stands for!
We currently have 17 members in the DFO Poker Club. The maximum allowed by PokerStars is 50. I highly encourage everyone that likes to have fun, make dick jokes while playing poker on one screen and enjoying Moose gifs on another, and hang out with imaginary friends to join in. Please let me know in the comments if you have any questions.
Quick note: I will not be able to add new members until I get home which is roughly 6 PM Pacific. If you put in your request, please be patient. I'll get to you tonight. Thanks!
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The first thing that we saw upon entering the museum was the new installation for Science Stroke Art, as part of the stroke awareness month. It consisted of 1 million ovals on separate panes of glass. The installation highlighted some statistics about strokes – for instance, each oval represented 17 people who suffered a stroke for the first time every year (totalling 17 million), as well as each oval representing 6 people who died from strokes every year (totalling 6 million). Due to the nature of the layout of the installation, my photos don't really do it justice – you would get a much better idea of its appearance if you see it first hand.


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Okay so I have been a slacker. I have been reading but not blogging, so I figured that I better catch up with the blogging….
So today's book (really it was last week's book) is My Life With the Saints by James Martin, S.J. This book was different from the other books that I have read so far. It was part lives of the saints, part spiritual autobiography and part spiritual advice, making it, well, an interesting read. Father Martin is a Jesuit priest who entered the priesthood in an unlikely (or perhaps a likely?) moment in his life. He was a young executive for General Electric, who came home one day, burned out, and wondering if all there was in life was the grind of corporate work. He sat down and turned on the TV an caught the last part of an autobiography of the Trappist monk, and great American Catholic writer, Thomas Merton, and everything changed.
Seriously. Everything changed. Like Merton, Martin was an unlikely priest. And this book tells the story of Martin's encounters with Catholicism (in an non-linear fashion) and interweaves it with the lives of the saints, both those who are official saints (like Thomas Aquinas), unofficial saints, or those who may eventually become official saints (Merton, Dorothy Day) and those on their way to becoming saints (The Blessed Mother Theresa).
There are many things that are lovely about this book. One is that you don't have to be Catholic to enjoy it. Father Martin, although a cradle Catholic, was fairly ignorant of the intricacies of his faith. He grew up Catholic, but not deeply entrenched in Catholic culture (that is to say, he did not go to parochial school, his parents were not active in a parish, etc) so even by the time he decides to become a Jesuit, he is still unsure of many aspects of Catholicism. In this way, he guides the reader carefully. He presumes little, his voice is non-judgmental, but he is in all ways, gently orthodox. In that way, he is refreshing writer– it is sort of like having your own personal guide to the saints and Catholicism, one who is funny and insightful.
Each chapter starts off with the story of how Father Martin first encountered each saint. Sometimes it is in surprising ways, such as through a movie, then he outlines the life of the saint, and finally what that saint has to teach humanity. All the saints are different (obviously) and one of the most moving chapters is Martin's encounter with Merton (who is, I must confess, one of my favorite saints, despite the fact that he is not an official saint.) But each chapter works through the lesson, the saint's life, their humanity and Martin's life.
Now this may sound dry, but it is not. I found it to be a remarkably fast read, and at times very charming and funny. The saints were human, (that is of course, why they are saints) but often people get hung up on this ideas that they are so much greater than regular people. Yet Martin's emphasis on their humanity and how they interweave with his story of becoming a Jesuit is striking, because it reminds us that we all can become saints. Of course, one would in some sense, have to want to become one, and becoming a saint is decidedly difficult, but it is always possible.
I really enjoyed Martin's voice, his light touch and easy style. This is a lovely book that is full of wisdom from the saints and a particular Jesuit.
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There's been so many Marvel NOW!s at this point, it's easy to forget about Marvel THEN! The House of Ideas is clearly a big fan of this one in particular, since they've used the NOW! banner multiple times to signify both "soft" reboots of new jumping-on points for readers, and company-wide relaunches alike. The most recent comes in the wake of "Civil War II", as titles begin new storylines or are even renumbered runs to capitalize on new readers drawn in by the crossover.
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Depending on who you ask, the current crop is something like the fifth of sixth wave of titles to carry the Marvel NOW! Branding. You'd be mistaken for thinking they're still trying to get it right. In fact, there's plenty that was bang on the money the first time around. The initial NOW! teasers and series began to appear all the way back in 2012, with many of the books launched ending their runs as recently as this year with the "Secret Wars" mass-reboot.
The first Marvel NOW! initiative introduced a lot of new concepts, ways of doing things and creative teams which remain unparalleled in superhero comics. It was an exciting time, the dawn of a new age... until it wasn't anymore. Still, it was nice while it lasted. Here are 15 things Marvel NOW! got right the first time.
15 Dueling Titles
The Fantastic Four don't have much of a place in the Marvel Universe post-"Secret Wars;" a stark turnaround from the previous state of affairs. During the initial wave of NOW! titles, Marvel's first family starred in two ongoing series, which allowed writer Matt Fraction to explore different takes on the same concept.
Regular "Fantastic Four" was a classic story, with classic Mark Bagley art following the traditional family unit going on epic sci-fi adventures. The other had Michael Allred's pop art and the story of a cobbled-together FF on Earth, with the premise centering on nontraditional families and social structures. Plus Doctor Doom. "Fantastic Four" and "FF," both written by Matt Fraction, were joined by two other interlinking books that shared a scribe: "Avengers" and "New Avengers," both from Jonathan Hickman.
The FF situation allowed the same creators to approach a classic premise from different directions. Hickman's "Avengers" was epic and widescreen, with the likes of Jerome Opeña and Andy Kubert on art duties. "New Avengers" depicted the character drama that came from and rooted that epic-ness, with Steve Epting and Kev Walker bringing their A games. It allowed for books that both complemented and commented on each other; enjoyed separately, but much richer together.
14 Diversity of Genre
"Captain America" is a book that has encompassed many different genres over the years, from wartime propaganda to patriotic superhero stories. The recent characterization has been as a paranoid conspiracy thriller, as Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting's "Winter Soldier" story arc was adapted for the big screen. Rick Remender and John Romita, Jr.'s relaunching of the book for Marvel NOW! took things in a totally, tonally different direction: cosmic Kirby-style space epic!
If that stood out in the recent history of "Captain America" as a title, it was also distinct among the rest of the NOW! line-up. The one thing the Marvel publishing line had in common at that point was the books were all different. Instead of just being "superhero" comics, as a genre, they encompassed dozens of different sub-genres. "X-Force" was essentially a heist narrative, for example, which happened to feature super-powered thieves.
"Deadpool" was, for perhaps the first time in the solo series's life, an honest-to-goodness comedy, and not just action with fourth-wall-breaking quips. There's still a relatively diverse bunch of books to choose from in the current Marvel publishing roster, but it doesn't really come close to the wide selection available during that first Marvel NOW! launch.
13 Diversity of Cast
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's "Young Avengers" ended with the teen heroes partying late into the night -- as teens are wont to do -- before riding off into the sunrise. As they did, all the while chronicling the flirts and trysts in their recent history, Kate "Hawkeye" Bishop notices something: "Am I the only person on this team who's straight?" To which Ms. America swiftly retorts: "I've seen the way you look at me. You're not that straight." It's a great gag and the only time the book's casual diversity was explicitly addressed.
For as much as Marvel has since tapped into "diversity" as almost a marketing technique (which has lead to great series, including "Ms. Marvel," the ill-fated "Nighthawk" and the new "Black Panther"), it was simply a matter of course for the first NOW! books. Besides the mostly-queer take on "Young Avengers," there was the all-female "Fearless Defenders" from Cullen Bunn and Will Sliney, with Misty Knight and Danielle Moonstar among the team's line-up.
Those are a couple of the more obscure books on Marvel's roster. One that definitely wasn't? The adjective-less "X-Men" title, by Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel, the cast of which included Jubilee, Storm, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Grey and Psylocke. While the creative teams remained mostly the same, it was a breath of fresh air for the characters on the page to not be exclusively straight, white and male.
12 A Hulk With Purpose
What is Bruce Banner's purpose? It's a problem every creative team wrestles with when they take on a "Hulk" book. Brian Azzarello and Richard Corben even did a story where Banner tries to end his own life, since his tendency to turn into an angry green giant and smash everything was a bit of a bad cycle, from which he couldn't escape. That's the problem with doing an ongoing title with the Hulk. He's a force of nature, so it's difficult to pen a compelling narrative about that happening again and again.
The genius move of Mark Waid and Leinil Francis Yu's "Indestructible Hulk" was that it started with the titular character missing. The first few issues focused on Maria Hill trying to track Banner down, but this wasn't the usual attempt to keep the Hulk locked up and away from populated areas. When she at last caught up with him, she offered him a place as an Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D!
This was the best concept applied to the character since "Planet Hulk." The new direction had Banner's intellect and Hulk's capacity as a living weapon to play with, which made for some great action sequences and a simmering subplot of whether or not S.H.I.E.L.D. had the tragic scientist's best interests at heart. Intrigue, pathos and smashing: "Indestructible" had everything you could possibly want from the Hulk.
11 Ruthlessness
"Comic book death" is such a joke of a concept that the very phrase is deployed when referring to fictional character deaths that you know will be undone. Sooner or later, whether they're a fan favourite or mostly-forgotten supporting cast member, there will be a glorious resurrection. Nobody stays dead in comics for long and, as such, it's hard to wring much pathos out of a heroic sacrifice or tragic end. They'll be back before you know it.
Credit is due to Marvel NOW! for working on that assumption. "Avengers Arena", from Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker, pitted a bunch of teen heroes against each other in a battle to the death. Those deaths certainly feel more permanent than your average, since even after a soft reset of the Marvel Universe, the majority of them remain six feet under. It's a premise clearly borrowed from "Battle Royale" and "The Hunger Games," a fact which was noted in covers for the series and by the villain Arcade, who put the whole dastardly competition together.
Understandably, fans of the book's cast -- drawn from "Avengers Academy," "Runaways" and "X-Men" -- were dismayed to see beloved creations brutally murdered. That they were so upset speaks to the book's success; for the first time in decades, readers were actually moved by the death of a superhero character! The stakes were actually high!
10 Character Twists That Worked
The twist is a time-honored narrative tradition, from the short stories of O. Henry to the movies of M. Night Shyamalan. Depending on who's deploying them, they can either be Earth-shattering revelations that provide fodder for future stories, or total damp squibs. Fortunately for everybody involved, the books in the first Marvel NOW! line were of the former sort. The first came in Kieron Gillen and Dale Eaglesham's "The Secret Origin of Tony Stark" arc on "Iron Man," where it turned out the hero's parentage wasn't as assured as we all thought.
Then there was... basically everything that happened in the "Avengers" and "New Avengers" series. The superheroic members of the Illuminati double-crossed each other, stabbed each other in the back, formed alliances and waged war, often in secret. Hickman and his artistic collaborators pulled out surprise after surprise, each feeling as earned and organic as they were shocking.
Perhaps the biggest twist of Marvel NOW!'s first wave came in "Thanos Rising." Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi's limited series dove into the early years of the cosmic nihilist, something Aaron compared to "the origin of an outer space serial killer." As well as fleshing out Thanos' nascent romance with the personification of Death, it added some serious mommy issues and perhaps the most surprising revelation of all: at school, he was an avowed pacifist. Each of these twists gave greater depth to the characters involved, and were just plain good reading to boot.
9 Not Totally Reliant On The MCU
You can't blame Marvel for better aligning their comics with the blockbuster movies that have been made from them. While comic sales continue to chug along at a decent rate, the movies make millions at the box office. They also bring in new fans who may never have read a comic before, so making the characters on the page familiar to those from the screen helps.
After the surprise success of the "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie, an ongoing title was quickly launched by Brian Michael Bendis and Steven McNiven. The cast was familiar from the big screen incarnation, with one notable exception. Joining Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Groot and Rocket Raccoon was Tony Stark, whose NOW! story couldn't be further from the light sci-fi/corporate espionage of the "Iron Man" movies. Instead, he went cosmic.
The rest of the Avengers found themselves in a very different place to the movie incarnation of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, despite starting with a similar roster. Still dealing with the fallout of "Avengers vs. X-Men," Stark and Captain America set out on a project of renewal, boosting the ranks of the team with characters that have still yet to get close to the Cinematic Universe. The big names remained recognizable to their onscreen versions, but went off in wild and wonderful new directions.
8 Love For The Misfits
Sometimes, there are corners of the huge Marvel roster of characters that can feel like the Island of Misfit Toys. While the likes of Spider-Man, the X-Men and the core Avengers lineup have an enduring popularity and solid core concept, others have to hang around waiting for somebody to try and give them another go. The cast of Young Avengers hadn't been used much since their debut under Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung, until Gillen and McKelvie rescued them from relative obscurity.
Same for David Haller, the mutant son of Professor X, better known as Legion. An X-Men antagonist from way back, creators have struggled to deal with past depictions of the character's mental illness and his connection with the "Age of Apocalypse" storyline. Simon Spurrier and Tan Eng Huat elegantly dealt with both in "X-Men: Legacy," a small success sales-wise, but creatively one of the best X-books in years.
For all its invention and affirmation of the classic characters, Marvel NOW! also saw loads of lesser-known heroes get a second chance, often to great success, simply by trying something different.
7 Allowing Wolverine To Have Fun
Depictions of James "Logan" Howlett as a tortured, troubled soul are justified. After all, he's a centuries-old mutant, with a life full of tragedy and oppression. Most of his loved ones tend to die while he, until the past couple of years, has been physically incapable of doing so. That said, the tendency to make Wolverine a growling badass whose attitude masks a deep angst is perhaps overplayed.
In general, the "X-Men" books can have a sour demeanour, owing to their status as the most hated and feared subset of the Marvel Universe population. But there are times they should be allowed to have fun. Readers got that with "Savage Wolverine," a Frank Cho title that played to the artist's strengths... which is to say, drawing over-the-top adventure stories with plenty of well-built heroes and dinosaurs.
A rip-roaring pulp yarn, "Savage Wolverine" was pure comic book spectacle. Bright colors, outrageous plot twists and dynamically-rendered action scenes made for a brilliantly entertaining "X-Men" adjacent series without the need for any gratuitous angst. Given the state of things for mutantkind right now, we could do with more of this.
6 A Superior Spider-Man
Dan Slott is an avowed Spider-Man fanboy. That much is evident from his reinstatement of obscure members of web head's supporting cast during his run on "Amazing Spider-Man" -- including Prowler and Spider-Man 2099 -- to his multiverse-spanning "Spider-Verse" event, which required an intimate and broad knowledge of the many alternate realities that had appeared during the character's existence. That's not to say he's overly precious about the character, however.
In fact, what he did as head Spidey scribe during Marvel NOW! suggests the very opposite. Off the back of his and Humberto Ramos's historic "Amazing Spider-Man" #700, Peter Parker had his brain swapped with the dying Doctor Octopus. Along with stealing his body, Ock took on Spidey's sense of responsibility, dedicating his supervillainous mind to fighting crime.
That's a brilliantly bonkers premise that absolutely turned an established, beloved character and series on its head. With the hyper-stylized art of Ramos and Ryan Stegman, plus the modern-day-Romita-Sr. look of Giuseppe Camuncoli's work, Slott and co. created one of the most daring and fun Spidey stories in years. More of that brazen disregard for the status quo wouldn't go amiss, if it leads to stories like this.
5 A Return To The Cosmic
The cosmic side of Marvel has been unfairly neglected since its '70s heyday of Roy Thomas and Jim Starlin's hippy space craziness. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning gave it the old college try with "Annihilation" and the new incarnation of Guardians of the Galaxy that came after, but Marvel didn't fully commit to returning the cosmic characters to their former glory until NOW!
It was during the publishing relaunch that "Guardians of the Galaxy" made their return with an ongoing title, just in time for their movie adaptation to net a whole new generation of fans. Off the back of that move, we also got Tony Stark going to space and joining the team, rocking an atmospherically-appropriate suit of armor and hooking up with aliens.
Along with expanding the scope of the Marvel Universe again, paving the way for huge stories like "Infinity" and "Secret Wars," it meant readers were also treated to a new "Nova" book by the superb team of Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness, about a teen hero taking on a familiar mantle. NOW! gave creators a broader canvas to work on, and what resulted were even more inventive stories for readers to enjoy.
4 Fluid Continuity
Marvel NOW! very much sprung up in the shadow of epic events like "Avengers vs. X-Men." The beauty of the line is that, while it certainly acknowledge both recent and long-standing continuity, it took the opportunity of a new status quo to begin with a clean slate. As such, there was perhaps the smallest amount of editorial interference since the Silver Age.
Characters were free to float between books with little regard for whether it interfered with other, ongoing storylines. A nightmare for the more conservative reader, perhaps, but a creatively freeing one for many of the people working on the books. There's probably a good argument to be made that being free of the pressure to make everything work as a coherent shared universe leadS to some more interesting, experimental work.
Of course, that all went to pot as soon as the "Axis" storyline started kicking into gear and derailed everybody's plans, but it was fun while it lasted. For a glorious six months or so, nobody felt any need to buy everything single thing Marvel was printing, just so they could understand the story in the one book they actually cared about.
3 A Genuinely Funny Deadpool
While Deadpool is a character who always gets laughs, he's not always the star of a comedy book. Any run on "Deadpool" will be full of the fourth-wall breaking gags you'd expect from the Merc With a Mouth. More often than not, though, they're in the context of a fairly standard superhero narrative. There are bad guys to be brought to justice, alliances to be formed, that sort of thing.
He'll probably comment on the tropes as he commits them, but still: they're happening. A refreshing change of pace came in the relaunched "Deadpool" book, where they got an actual comedian to write it! Teamed with Gerry Duggan and Tony Moore, Brian Posehn brought his experience of working on TV shows including "Mr. Show" and "The Sarah Silverman Program" to the character.
This brilliant move resulted in some quips that weren't just "funny for comics," but overall entertaining. He, Duggan and Moore also made the stories involving the character similarly subversive and ridiculous, with the first NOW! storyline revolving around a zombie uprising of dead presidents wanting to return America to its former glory. Bringing in that outside talent paid off in spades.
2 More Anthology Books
At its inception, most Marvel books were anthology titles. Spider-Man debuted in "Amazing Fantasy" and Thor starred in "Journey Into Mystery," as opposed to a book carrying their names. Doctor Strange at least got to show up in "Strange Tales," which otherwise was mainly weird one-off stories. That's become less of the norm, even though rotating creative teams and smaller stories often allow for weird new narratives.
Marvel NOW! at least attempted a comeback of the form. "A+X" was the main followup to the "Avengers vs. X-Men" event, with each issue matching up members of their respective team as they attempted to make amends and find some common ground. Actually, it was just an excuse to put together weird combinations of characters and let an all-star line up of talent go wild.
Some of the standout issues included "Stray Bullets" creator David Lapham putting together Doctor Strange, Quentin Quire, Pixie and Eye-Boy, whereas Adam Warren brought some "Dirty Pair" vibes to his pairing of Scarlet Witch and Domino. A little more mainstream than the more recent "Stranger Tales" anthologies, but no less fun, and it made for some interesting adventures not weighed down by being a longer, more involved story arc.
1 Comics For Everybody
While comic books can often serve as a refuge for people who aren't catered to by more mainstream art forms and corners of society, it can just as easily be a difficult subculture to penetrate. In superhero books especially, there can be decades of existing continuity and history that comes into play with a single issue. Sometimes, a new reader can be alienated immediately due to a lack of presumed knowledge. Sometimes a book is clearly not written for them.
That's not to suggest the continuity-heavy stories that reward long-term fans are a bad thing. It's just nice if there's also something for the more casual fans, or the people just getting into comics, or the new readers who like the characters but not the generic stories of superheroics. Marvel NOW! was an initiative that felt like it catered to everyone.
There were books that leaned heavily on Marvel history ("Avengers," "Superior Spider-Man"). There were series with existing characters tailored to new audiences ("Young Avengers," "Nova"). Ongoing stories were continued ("Thor: God of Thunder," "Journey Into Mystery"), and there was a "Morbius the Living Vampire" series for the horror fans. During Marvel NOW!, there was a comic for everybody, which is arguably more than can be said even a few years later at the Big 2.
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