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>>155277623Chip come on don't do this to me
>>155277623>>155277625Oh no no no no no
>>155277623>>155277625Damn, he's collecting all of them like pogs at this rate
>>155277623please no
And that's it. If you liked these, support your LCS or whatever.
>>155277623Well damn.
>>155277623>>155277625Jesus, why do they keep ruining them
>>155277539bump
>>155277623NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
>>155277605KINO.
Okay, how are Steve and Doom getting out of this?
>>155277623>>155277625lmao, so much for muh integrity and willpower
>>155278021Steve is obviously returning in some way since the solicits revealed that, but Doom is most likely staying in Hell
>>155277623>>155277625It's like they are fucking BBC led lemmings.What is wrong with Marvel heroes? Why do their brains always turn off around ol' Scratch? Does Ghost Rider have to lead them all into a hall and scream at them for half a day PSA about how no matter how bad it gets, he WILL make it worse?Fuck it, let Mephisto win, he's clearly putting the yard work in and the heroes seem all too eager to help him.
>>155277623>letting a demon dictate the terms of a democracy>implying steve would endorse even a best case scenario hollow sham, and not the peoples willHe would not fucking do that, he would not fucking say that etc.I'm so tired of Marvels nonsense.
>no m'am.. simply Fonzie
>>155278021Probably some bullshit loophole to do with their tethered souls. Like Doom coming back to life also pulls Cap's soul of Hell.
>>155278021AN UNKNOWN VOICE BOOMS FROM THE HEAVENS>DOOM.. YOU CLAIM TO BE PURE EVIL BUT YOU SAVED THE FANTASTIC 4 CHILD, A FUTURE FIGHTER FOR MULTIVERSAL FEMINIST RIGHTS.. YOU ARE REDEEMED >STEVE.. YOU PAUNCH DEH NAHDZEES. NOTHING ELSE NEEDS TO BE SAID. SHALOM>AS A REWARD FOR BOTH OF YOU, I SHALL GRANT YOU A LIMITED RUN SERIES WITH 666 ALTERNATE COVERS FOR THE GOOD OF ALL COMIC FANS
>>155278484I mean we're at this level of writing already, why not?
>>155277623>Peter made a deal to bring back his decrepit aunt at the cost of his entire married life with MJ>Steve made a deal to bring liberty and true freedom to all the nations of the world at the expense of his own soul>Tony's dad made a deal that would grant him power and greatness by selling him out and for his eternal servitudeI feel like we're going to eventually have a big event where every single person Mephisto's ever made a deal with or is involved with is going to come ahead into something in the future
>>155278744I thought we were heading this way for a whole now. So many characters have made a deal now.
>>155278768>Mayday having to roll up her sleeves and solo realizing the entire fucking roster is on Mephisto's sideOn one hand, it's ridiculous how contrived most if not all these deals are. The heroes should all know better.On the other, it's an interesting place to arrive at, Mephisto will snap his fingers and have most of the A-Team under his command at this rate.
>>155278768>So many characters have made a deal now.How many characters? I count Peter, Steve, and Tony so far.
>>155278890Otto, Miles, and Ben Reilly all have too, although I guess Ben went back on their deal so I'm not sure if that one counts
>>155278890Tony never made a deal with him, though he was part of the transaction due to his father using him as part of his deal
>>155278901Huh? When did all that happen for them? What's the specifics of the deals that they made?
>>155278901Otto's deal never happened in the main universe, you're referring to a different version of him from an alternate universe
>>155278911>OttoIt was at the tail end of his second stint as Superior Spider-Man. Basically his back was against a wall and Mephisto said he'd help only if Otto went back to his old body (free of any alleged brain damage that he claimed caused his past villainy). Basically his own little OMD.>MilesI'm a little vague on this one. It happened in Champions so it wasn't just Miles I think either Sam Nova or Amadeus Cho was there too. Ms Marvel died and they made a deal to bring her back, possibly at the cost of someone else's life I really don't remember.>Ben ReillyIt was during PAD's run shortly after he came back to life. Ben's soul was all fucked up from being killed and revived so many times and Mephisto offered to fix it (and also cure a little girl that Ben was trying to heal after some other bullshit). Ben reneged on it by committing thought crime.
>>155278947No that Superior Spider-Man run is very much in the main universe. It's literally the reason why we got status quo Otto back
>>155278904>mephisto can make deals with both Norman and Tony's dad for their sonsWhat the fuck is this logic and what are the rules? Can a sociopath trade the souls of all their family to Mephisto for power? You would think each individual has agency only for their own soul, otherwise metagaming villains are going to start familyfarm maxxing.
>>155278538I propose a new entity sitting above TOAA to handle such things. A multi-headed god. It shall be called Al-Sha'Re Huldrs
>>155278986Wait Norman's in on this too? What the hell did he ask for?
>>155279045Traded Harry's soul for success.Yes really.End of Spencers arc was very messy because editorial woke up in from their gas leak coma and railroaded into a Sins Past retcon. This is how you get short-sighted developments that lead to further questions.
>>155277607Good use of the JRjr design from Nocenti's Daredevil
>>155277722And Atlantis is destroyed again
>>155277759im not sure this should have been released yet
>>155277759how many times has this happened in the last two years.
>>155279283A lot.
>>155278744I think the problem I have is that none of these really should've needed to be done in the first place
>>155279520The problem is Mephisto is too handy a diabolus ex machina for hack writers to not be tempted by.He needs to be ol' yellered by the next creative team.
>>155277655>He has the capeNice
Why are Marvel Editorials and Writers such satanists? And why the fuck there is 3 events running at the same time?
>>155277623>We need Mephesto to be hot as fuck and all up in Cap's face>Also draw Spiderman as a pensive twinkJesus they told the artist to go FULL zesty this page
>>155278744Mephisto even got his own Thor to play with right now
>>155279712Your first question answers the second.And the firsts answer is they are really shameless hacks, with a guaranteed audience for their slop.
Well this ruffled everyone feathers
>>155277623>>155277625Where the fuck are Thor and Hulk? Mephisto is playing a little too hard right now.
>>155279831did it though?
>>155279831Generic tease of something the current team has no intents of actually addressing, character assassination and capitulation when Caps whole thing was never surrendering to evil even when it is easy or seemingly the only logical thing to do.Yeah it's pretty par for the tar and feathers.
>>155279836Thor is dead and Hulk is evil in a unrelated event.
>Armageddon>Doomed>Venom War>Infernal Hulk's event>Soon DNXOh my fucking god STOP
How many Armageddons have we got going concurrently?
>>155279931I don't even know what the worlds military or UN are making of this mess.
>>155279943At this point, Marvel's America should be a third world country, with how mich money it must spend to repair shit.
>>155279951>Marvel's America should be a third world countryisn't already one in the real world?
At this rate just send etrigan and constantine to have a "talk" with mephy since all ghost riders are fucking useless.
>>155279780>Mephisto even got his own Thor to play with right nowPardon? How did Thor get involved in this?
>>155278963Miles traded the life of a girl he saved for Kamala's. Amadeus was there but he wasn't really involved since it was Miles that accepted the deal.
>>155280246Why are marvel hell-bent on making their superheroes into horrible people?Did it start with Disassembled?
>>155280344Incredibly cynical and downright idiotic ideas have infiltrated that office.Like that deals with the devil is relatable to the audience, and not anathema to any common sense for even the most secular person.It's a demon. It has had all eternity to find ways to legally fuck you. It is a race of lawyers. Stop doing idiotic deals with no way of punishing it for reneging and screwing you.Goddamn Warhammer 40k Imperials get to take the moral highground over the Marvel hero here.
>>155277625It wouldn't be a Marvel hero if they didn't make a literal deal with the devil.
>>155280206Red Norvel is his hell thor now
>>155280470This is why DC is kicking their asses rn.
>>155280470I swear Marvel deals with the devil are like the equivalent of evil Superman plots, and somehow even stupider and more hackneyed.Once you have done with you are officially an unprincipled liability in the cosmic war for Mankinds soul, do not pass go do not collect 200 dollars. You're fucked.
>>155277539bumping for reading
>accelerating the Mephistowank in the comics after MCU hires Sacha Noam Baron Cohen as MephistoIt's really getting hard to defend both the comics and the movies as a respectable mediums in general.
>>155280750His mephisto is going go be as gay as Bruno.
>>155280206Happened in a Queen in black tie-in Mephisto directly says he's going to turn Red Novell into Hell's Thor
>>155280750What exactly is the powerlevel of Mephisto to run ramshod rewriting reality like this?Can he brainwash entire worlds at will or time travel or what? What actual rules does he follow?
>>155280818The fuck?
>>155277607He's fat
Isn't Mephisto Galactus tier? Thor should kill this red BITCH.
>>155280823He doesn't have any reality-warping powers, all he can do is conjure cheap illusions that solely affect humans and apparently himself since he was retarded enough to believe he could pull this kind of shit with a Beyonder.
>>155279055>yes reallyYou're acting like that wasn't cool as shit.
>>155279055I am not a fan of the magic shotgun. But damn, Spencer's run was good before that arc.
>>155281328It's nonsense though, how can you trade for someone elses soul? What are the rules for that? Can you trade your next door neighbours soul? What about your bus driver?Is it limited to familial connection? Why not have a bakers dozen kids and exchange their souls for mass produced wishes?
>>155281344I was fine to a point with the Spencer playing with a sane(ish) (and morelike lobotomised) Norman. It was Wells making Peter hug the killer of his child that just told me they had ceased giving a single fuck about treating Peter like a cognitive Human.
>>155278901It’s kind of ironic that the only 616 Spider-Man that hasn’t made a deal with the devil is literally named Kaine.
>>155281429Only a matter of time with all these deals going around
>>155280935in the Cates run on Thor Donald Blake/Jörmungandr kills Red Novell since he was Thor this led him to be stuck in Hel and manged to escape on Hela longship when she travels to midgaurd Hela knows this and uses his soal as payment to Mephisto as she travelled through Hell to get to midgard
>>155280823As of Infinity Gauntlet, where he was notably aware he stood no chance alone against the Infinity Gems, Mephisto is technically considered an Abstract, the persona of temptation and damnation to life much like Death is to, well, death. But his position is mostly one of managing a particular kind of soul rather than power from his station. In that sense he's like the cursed afterlife version of Dream of the Endless for dreamers, so >>155281264 is right that Mephisto should not be able to pull any influence over whole worlds or realms outside his ownership. After all if he could he'd have no reason to be a tempter instead of just taking over.Triumph and Torment cemented that he could only hold on to Cynthia von Doom's soul as long as it was damned, after she refused to save herself at the cost of Strange's soul the act of self sacrifice caused Mephisto to lose authority of her in his own realm.Chip having Doom tell Steve about Mephisto's predictable wants and having Mephisto bring up Steve's soul stinging leads me to believe he's aware of the Cynthia conclusion, so maybe this is leading into the setup for Doom and Steve's plan, but at the same time as others have said the current editorial seems intent to juice up Mephisto.
>>155277623>>155277625GEEE I DUNNO WHY DC IS CHALLENGING US FOR MARKET SHARE!
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>>155277636Namor coversBlack Panther / Namor: Doomed #1 Philip Tan VariantBlack Panther / Namor: Doomed #1 Taurin Clarke VariantBlack Panther / Namor: Doomed #1 1:25 Fabrizio De Tommaso VariantBlack Panther / Namor: Doomed #1 1:50 Taurin Clarke Virgin Variant
>>155277623>>155277625My money is on felicia hardy making a deal with mephisto next why do it simple to piss off back cat fans.
>>155277533variant coversCaptain America #15 Alex Ross Timeless Virgin VariantCaptain America #15 Skan Srisuwan VariantCaptain America #15 1:25 Aka VariantCaptain America #15 1:50 Alex Ross Timeless Sketch Virgin VariantP.S. Marvel really hate marvel characters maybe is dissney mandate
>>155281990Don't give them ideas next thing you know they will have carol make a deal with the devil.
>>155281990>>155282271Sarah Day was Mephisto all along. She sold her soul for better PR and still had delayed rollout.
