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   The ten biggest unresolved cliffhangers in Marvel Comics history

19 Aug 2012 02:24 AM   |   11085 clicks   |   Newsarama
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Mentat    [TotalFark]  
11) Why does Deadpool have so many pouches?

19 Aug 2012 12:37 AM
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unlikely    [TotalFark]  
If they had been clever they'd have had the stupid slideshow countdown end on a 404

19 Aug 2012 12:46 AM
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kmmontandon     
unlikely: If they had been clever they'd have had the stupid slideshow countdown end on a 404

You mean 616.

19 Aug 2012 01:01 AM
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ManateeGag    [TotalFark]  
Mentat: 11) Why does Deadpool have so many pouches?

that's not unresolved. Rob Leifeld is just a horrible artist obsessed with pouches.

19 Aug 2012 01:32 AM
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Handsome B. Wonderful     
Unresolved?

19 Aug 2012 02:48 AM
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Mega Steve     
ManateeGag: Mentat: 11) Why does Deadpool have so many pouches?

that's not unresolved. Rob Leifeld is just a horrible artist obsessed with pouches.


And weird, malformed physiques.

19 Aug 2012 02:48 AM
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RoyFokker'sGhost    [TotalFark]  
Mega Steve: ManateeGag: Mentat: 11) Why does Deadpool have so many pouches?

that's not unresolved. Rob Leifeld is just a horrible artist obsessed with pouches.

And weird, malformed physiques.


And shoulderpads.

19 Aug 2012 03:03 AM
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Mad_Radhu    [TotalFark]  
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19 Aug 2012 03:19 AM
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Mad_Radhu    [TotalFark]  
i281.photobucket.com

19 Aug 2012 03:20 AM
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TalenLee     
... which they then mention how they get resolved, much later.

fark's sake.

19 Aug 2012 03:55 AM
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Vertdang     
Per most of the slides, almost all of these "cliffhangers" were later resolved in other lines/issues.

/useless slideshow is useless.

19 Aug 2012 03:56 AM
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docmattic     
"Unresolved"?? Your slide show blog sucks.

19 Aug 2012 04:56 AM
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deSelby     
I swear, that tiny "Start Here" button was hiding from me. It took me far too long to track it down and poke it.

But in the end nothing escapes a poking.

19 Aug 2012 05:08 AM
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narkor     
Nextwave: Agents of Hate was the best thing that could have happened to Machine Man

19 Aug 2012 05:08 AM
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swahnhennessy     
Omega the Unknown was further resolved by Jonathan Lethem a few years ago.

19 Aug 2012 05:37 AM
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LowbrowDeluxe     
I'm good with lists, and so-so on slideshows, and like odd comic lore....

this sucked.

19 Aug 2012 05:44 AM
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RaptorRed     
Mentat: 11) Why does Deadpool have so many pouches?

For the lost body parts.

media.comicvine.com

19 Aug 2012 05:49 AM
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AaronSynn     
How about Kevin Smith's Daredevil/Bullseye miniseries 'Target' which he abandoned half way through?

19 Aug 2012 06:17 AM
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MagSeven    [TotalFark]  
deSelby: I swear, that tiny "Start Here" button was hiding from me. It took me far too long to track it down and poke it.

But in the end nothing escapes a poking.


Me too! I was pissed at first. Then I read the list and was REALLY pissed!

19 Aug 2012 06:29 AM
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doglover    [TotalFark]  
Mentat: 11) Why does Deadpool have so many pouches?

They're full of magazines and grenades.

19 Aug 2012 06:41 AM
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Ed Grubermann    [TotalFark]  
1: Don't care.
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10: Don't care.

Well, that sure was fascinating.

19 Aug 2012 07:12 AM
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dendawg     
Ed Grubermann: 1: Troll comment.
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I'd better GTFO.



FTFY

19 Aug 2012 07:21 AM
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FueledByEthanol     
Perhaps subby doesn't know the meaning of the word "unresolved"?

19 Aug 2012 07:54 AM
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Tyrone Slothrop     
FueledByEthanol: Perhaps subby doesn't know the meaning of the word "unresolved"?

More like the writer doesn't know the meaning of "unresolved".

19 Aug 2012 08:42 AM
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Gergesa    [TotalFark]  
I just want to say the way they resolved the "who killed the X-men" thing was terrible. I mean really bad.

19 Aug 2012 08:45 AM
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Manfred J. Hattan     
Gee, you should see some of the unresolved plot lines in the Hanna Barbara and Warner Bros. universes. How does that coyote not die?

19 Aug 2012 10:15 AM
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NeedlesslyCanadian    [TotalFark]  
I'm still waiting on X-Men 3 and Spider-Man 3, myself.

19 Aug 2012 10:20 AM
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jso2897     
I'm curious to see when Stan Lee loses it completely, and starts gnawing on people's ankles.

19 Aug 2012 10:42 AM
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Dalek Caan's doomed mistress     
Why did Marvel rehire Liefeld?

Actually, why does anyone hire Liefeld in the first place? I can understand the first time he was hired, no one knew any better. But after that? Yeah, wtf?

19 Aug 2012 11:14 AM
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Jurodan     
List is useless without Slapstick.

/I called my congressman and everything!

19 Aug 2012 11:42 AM
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kroonermanblack     
dendawg: Ed Grubermann: 1: Troll comment.
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I'd better GTFO.


FTFY


Omg! Someone disagrees with me! CALL OUT THE TROLL BRIGADE! THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION.

19 Aug 2012 11:49 AM
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urban.derelict     
Spiderman should shoot webs out his asshole like a real spider would.

19 Aug 2012 01:47 PM
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FuryOfFirestorm     
I know it's not Marvel, but I'd like to see Kevin Smith finish "Batman: The Widening Gyre" sometime this millennium. I don't want to have to wait half a decade to read the conclusion, just like what happened when Smith took several years to finish the conclusion of the Black Cat/ Spider-man miniseries, "The Evil That Men Do".

Dude needs to put down the joints, stop doing crappy reality shows (Comic Book Men and Spoilers), and start banging out the rest of the series. Just because you're starting to look like GRR Martin doesn't mean you have to adopt his sloth-like writing pace, Kevin.

19 Aug 2012 01:57 PM
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HeartBurnKid     
kroonermanblack: dendawg: Ed Grubermann: 1: Troll comment.
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I'd better GTFO.


FTFY

Omg! Someone disagrees with me! CALL OUT THE TROLL BRIGADE! THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION.


Posting just how much to say you don't care is pretty much the definition of a troll comment.

19 Aug 2012 02:04 PM
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Arkanaut     
I didn't know or give a crap about most of those (I mean Dazzler? Really?) but I'm intrigued by the idea of the Thing splitting off from the Fantastic 4 and doing his own stuff.

19 Aug 2012 02:04 PM
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HeartBurnKid     
Mentat: 11) Why does Deadpool have so many pouches?

oneofswords.com

19 Aug 2012 02:05 PM
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MoronLessOff     
urban.derelict: Spiderman should shoot webs out his asshole like a real spider would.

You should go watch Spider Babe.

19 Aug 2012 02:09 PM
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Mad_Radhu    [TotalFark]  
urban.derelict: Spiderman should shoot webs out his asshole like a real spider would.

Venture Brothers has that one covered.

19 Aug 2012 02:09 PM
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Solid Muldoon     
What about that little purple dude who was making stairs so he could walk to outer space in that issue of Daredevil? Never mentioned again, so far as I know.

19 Aug 2012 02:22 PM
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kroonermanblack     
HeartBurnKid: kroonermanblack: dendawg: Ed Grubermann: 1: Troll comment.
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I'd better GTFO.


FTFY

Omg! Someone disagrees with me! CALL OUT THE TROLL BRIGADE! THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION.

Posting just how much to say you don't care is pretty much the definition of a troll comment.


No, it's not. Someone doing something that you personally find annoying is not trolling, despite how generalize we've made that word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%2 8Internet%29

He could have had an interest in the article, clicked it, and found all of the 'cliffhangers' retarded, actually solved, etc. Or he could have simply found all of the ones they listed absolutely not interesting while he eats his glue-sandwich. I don't know. But it doesn't make it trolling.

19 Aug 2012 02:37 PM
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scalpod     
urban.derelict: Spiderman should shoot webs out his asshole like a real spider would.

Given that he was bitten by a radioactive spider, he should've developed venom related powers - no symbiote needed.

19 Aug 2012 02:52 PM
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HeartBurnKid     
scalpod: urban.derelict: Spiderman should shoot webs out his asshole like a real spider would.

Given that he was bitten by a radioactive spider, he should've developed venom related powers - no symbiote needed.


No, what really should have happened is, he should have got cancer and died.

/and that's why arguing about what "should" happen in a comic book is silly.

19 Aug 2012 02:57 PM
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Gosling     
Whatever happened to that spider that bit Peter Parker? Is it still laying in wait? Patiently building up its army of glistening radioactive eggs, all of which will hatch at the appointed hour to unleash wave upon horrifying wave of spiders on the unsuspecting, oh so unsuspecting citizens of New York? Will Peter Parker wake up one day to find a gigantic, growling, hissing spider the size of a Buick staring him in the face with its hundreds of glowing eyes, any one of which can pierce into a man's soul as would a sword of the finest steel? Will he rush to the window to see thousands, nay millions of spiders, some with as many as 26 legs and mutating more by the minute, spearing through the ruins of what was once a shining beacon of freedom to the world? Oh, lamentable of lamentables, would a mutant spider being make unnatural actions- though they all be unnatural given its origin- and violate our dear maiden, the Statue of Liberty, long into the night, as America is helpless but to watch? What shall Peter do? What CAN he do? For they are the Great Creators of he!

...this went to a weird place.

19 Aug 2012 03:46 PM
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BafflerMeal     

19 Aug 2012 04:02 PM
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nocturn     
3.bp.blogspot.com

When Cyclops is falling down the crevasse, he hits his head, and "wrecks a subtle change upon a section of cerebral cortex that was damaged once before."

Did anything ever come of that?

19 Aug 2012 04:10 PM
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scalpod     
HeartBurnKid: scalpod: urban.derelict: Spiderman should shoot webs out his asshole like a real spider would.

Given that he was bitten by a radioactive spider, he should've developed venom related powers - no symbiote needed.

No, what really should have happened is, he should have got cancer and died.

/and that's why arguing about what "should" happen in a comic book is silly.


I'd say you have a point unless the venom wasn't powerful enough to kill a teenage boy and even if it were radioactive the tiny amount of exposure would have no effect beyond the poison itself.

Reality doesn't work that way, so quit arguing for it incorrectly... Yeesh!

19 Aug 2012 04:15 PM
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MoronLessOff     
nocturn: [3.bp.blogspot.com image 300x450]

When Cyclops is falling down the crevasse, he hits his head, and "wrecks a subtle change upon a section of cerebral cortex that was damaged once before."

Did anything ever come of that?


Yea, it turned him into Superman setting into motion his vaporization by Phoenix.

19 Aug 2012 04:15 PM
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MagSeven    [TotalFark]  
nocturn: [3.bp.blogspot.com image 300x450]

When Cyclops is falling down the crevasse, he hits his head, and "wrecks a subtle change upon a section of cerebral cortex that was damaged once before."

Did anything ever come of that?


If I'm remembering correctly, it just farked up his blasts for that issue. I think he couldn't use them. That was the change. Then he just got better by his next appearance.

19 Aug 2012 05:38 PM
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FuryOfFirestorm     
Gosling: Whatever happened to that spider that bit Peter Parker? Is it still laying in wait? Patiently building up its army of glistening radioactive eggs, all of which will hatch at the appointed hour to unleash wave upon horrifying wave of spiders on the unsuspecting, oh so unsuspecting citizens of New York? Will Peter Parker wake up one day to find a gigantic, growling, hissing spider the size of a Buick staring him in the face with its hundreds of glowing eyes, any one of which can pierce into a man's soul as would a sword of the finest steel? Will he rush to the window to see thousands, nay millions of spiders, some with as many as 26 legs and mutating more by the minute, spearing through the ruins of what was once a shining beacon of freedom to the world? Oh, lamentable of lamentables, would a mutant spider being make unnatural actions- though they all be unnatural given its origin- and violate our dear maiden, the Statue of Liberty, long into the night, as America is helpless but to watch? What shall Peter do? What CAN he do? For they are the Great Creators of he!

...this went to a weird place.


The spider died from the radiation shortly after biting Peter.

Not every explanation in comics involves a 12 issue mini-series.

19 Aug 2012 05:59 PM
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Shadowtag     
I got one. How did someone from Jersey manage to lift Thor's hammer?

19 Aug 2012 08:37 PM
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