Namor The Sub-Mariner Storytime (Part 2)

Welcome back Anons, to Namor the Sub-Mariner! Tonight we'll see more of (apparently) everyone's favorite Waifu, the Headhunter. But first?

What's wrong with your face?!

He looks like Swamp Thing's uglier cousin, for god's sake.

He got a non-stick coating so he could cook pancakes on it.

You'd know this if you were here last night. You WERE here last night, weren't you?

>"We came out to the ocean to get a story, only we're almost out of fuel."

You two are fucking idiots, and you're lucky Namor is in a good mood.

And here's everyone's reason for being here.

>"He's more than any one woman can control."

I'll take "lines that sound like they're from bad pornos" for $200, Alex.

When someone who literally calls herself "Headhunter" thinks you're fucked up, you've got issues.

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Byrne should have used her more. One of the most underrated designs ever in comics.

Never a superhero team around when you need them.

There is a VERY similar looking monster in the first issue of Alpha Flight

Wasn't this the plot of that Marvel Two-In-One issue with Power Man?

I dunno, as you will see she doesn't exactly have goals that can work multiple times.

Man, THAT looks like it could've hurt.

You mean Man-Thing isn't already Swampy's uglier cousin?

Depending on the artist, no.

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Savour these repetitive recap pages while they last.

I think by the time we hit the first H4H series Marvel had moved that kind of catching you up info into those gatefold covers with the cast lists.

It's one of those things that gets a bit annoying when reading in bulk like we are. But I'm also keeping links to all the threads in a series in the OP post, in case someone missed a thread.

A henchman right out of Batman '66 with a shirt identifying them by name?

>"I want to FACE my responsibility."

We get it, your face is fucked up!

>"You said there would be no pain!"
>"I lied, all right?"

Well, at least he's honest about it.

Well you've heard the phrase "corporate headhunter" before, right?

Yeah, but how many writers nowadays know enough about business to write one of those characters well?

Man, the clean-up is going to be a bitch.

Wrong potential waifu, user.

>It's one of those things that gets a bit annoying when reading in bulk like we are

Yeah. It was always there mostly because comics used to be almost entirely written for mobthly episodic consumption, and even if you had a full run of a series or something it's nice to get a reminder of what's going on.

The growth of collected editions through the 90s really made them more redundant, but also encouraged greater decompression.
Shooter was right to make as many issues new reader friendly as possible

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>implying Man-Thing isn't cute
He's got puppy dog eyes.

Ticker is waifu tier as well though.

I have no idea. How many comics that deal with big business are there? There's this, and Iron Man (which I have not read) and...that's all I got.

Fair point. As I've mentioned, I only got into this hobby well after trade paperbacks were a thing, so I've always been able to do big things like this.

Makes me wonder why Marvel bothered to retire their graphic novel line if people like Bendis can't tell complete stories in one issue.

Well there's the new Spider-Man which SHOULD, but, it's modern Slott.

Because retards will buy fragment floppies en masse in additions to the tradewaiting retards

Yeah, but Headhunter is the one who the people were asking for last thread.

Japan does a bunch of business comics. America does almost none. In yuropooristan there's Largo Winch, but that's basically James Bond if he were a CEO and not really ABOUT business.

As I understand it, doesn't Marvel literally decide what series lives or dies based on the floppy sales?

Of course she is. She's awesome.

If not the Big Two as a whole.

Be honest, who noticed this change before Namor?

Does stuff like Power Company and Damage Control count as business comics?

Say what you will about Namor, I don't think anyone in this thread can walk through a crowded area after being effectively crippled and still keep their head held high.

Wouldn't know, I haven't read those either, but do they deal with the corporate side, or the workers?

Exactly

OK so 70k people are going to buy this schlock where nothing happens cause of Bendis on the cover for 3 bucks a pop and then a bunch more people will buy a trade for 20 bucks, largely including those who have collected the floppies?

Why would you not take the time to publish floppies for basically nothing and turn a profit and also sell trades of it, instead of just selling the full story at one time and probably getting similar numbers as the trades made from the floppy format? I'm just going to fuck everybody if I'm Marvel or DC

Gratuitous Nita ass in the second panel.

Not that I'm complaining, you understand.

Shit, I couldn't walk around in that bathing suit with my head held high. Namor has probably never had those "show up naked in a public place" bad dreams, and doesn't understand why anyone would.

I was more referring to the whole "suddenly missing the wings that he's presumably had his entire life."
Namor has NEVER had a problem wandering around half naked.

>gratuitous shot of Nita's ass
>the entire comic, from issue 1 until now, is full of shots of Namor's ass

They're not big corporations, one's a business-styled superhero team, the other's a construction company of sorts.

>Why would you not take the time to publish floppies for basically nothing and turn a profit and also sell trades of it, instead of just selling the full story at one time and probably getting similar numbers as the trades made from the floppy format?

Because the Big Two hasn't updated how they pay their creative staff to do that. As it is, they have to take multiple books to make enough money to make ends meet, and if they have to do it every few months or work MUCH harder to do entire trades worth of pages in a month.

Best thing to do is spend your money on floppies that tell complete stories and hope the companies get the friggen hint.

Or according to Marvels, totally naked.

Yeah, but Namor is right there with Spider-Man and Nightwing in terms of ass shots. It's not funny pointing THAT out because everyone knows it.

Yeah, those are different kinds of books. Headhunter is basically a corporate supervillain, and I just don't trust anyone writing now to write her without sucking.

Remember why we're here Anons? Because it continues Luke and Danny's stories? Here we go!

>"Joy Meachum announced the return of Daniel Rand."

And here we see the man himself, somehow alive and well after getting Captain Hero'd!

I ain't paying nutting

And with that cocktease out of the way, back to Namor's story.

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So can Namor not Hulk-jump without his wings?

>Headhunter looks Namor in the eye and annoys him just because

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Oh good, at least now he's fuckin' dead.

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Man, that's a lot of smog.

You've gotta love that smug grin on her face.

Seriously, look at it!

This is basically THE Headhunter issue, so all you people who waifu here, here's the issue for you.

She's so smug that the red dye came out of her hair!

Yeah, she spends this entire issue with her hair white.

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Welp, there goes Namor. I guess this is Nita's book now.

Hey look, the OG Human Torch.

What's he been up to lately?

This arc has enough Golden Age wanking to make Roy Thomas blush.

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>the superhuman cousin of the superhuman she nailed to her wall bursts through her window
>her henchmen freak the hell out
>Headhunter continues to grin, and hopes to get her on her wall as well

Oh no, Nita got She-Hulked!

Nita's going to be spending the rest of the issue holding her top up.
I'd make a joke about this being "Byrne being Byrne", but I don't want you to start posting that pregnant preteen picture again.

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Damn "possible malicious code" nonsense.

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thanks OP wanted to read this ever since that waifu thread a few days ago

Oh? Is that why everyone went nuts last time?

lmao I love this bitch.

But it's kinda difficult nailing her voice, is she southern?

God damn, Nita has some 80's shoulders in that coat.

I feel like this shit sholdn't work.

Well you know it's gotta be those Italian cut jobs that are padded as fuck.

I don't know, I've never read of her anywhere outside this issue. Looking her up though, she's apparently a mutant. She's also in Villains For Hire, but that torrent isn't downloading for me.

>"You are a man of honor."

I never took Namor to be a shitty judge of character.

All right Anons, let's finish up with one more issue.

Dr. Doom has played him like a fiddle more than once.

Uh oh.

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Human Torch getting a woman's body? Isn't that more of a Claremont fetish?

If it were claremont one would be a blonde in S&M gear.

To you Youngins, there for decades there was no single country called "Germany", and there were people who didn't want the two halves to reunify.

>Namor reads the Daily Bugle

Well, I may be wrong about the whole "some people didn't want them to unify", but given that Namor isn't portrayed as wrong here, I can only assume it's something people genuinely believed.