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MOTW 9/17/14: You know we're trying to save all of you, right?
TexiKen
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Avengers #35, take a look at where the Marvel Universe is 8 months from now:
Sunspot owns AIM, Cannonball and Smasher live in space with their kid:
On Earth, SHIELD took over the Avengers:
Sunspot owns AIM, Cannonball and Smasher live in space with their kid:
On Earth, SHIELD took over the Avengers:
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"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
Steam / Origin & Wii U: Heatwave111 / FC: 4227-1965-3206 / Battle.net: Heatwave#11356
Like Waid's Daredevil, it's so consistently good that I think people just kind of forget about it.
SUPER SERIES SPOILERS
Our Lost Light was restored, and the crew came back after their disappearance. Buut...
My MOTW was Edge of Spider-verse #2.
This is the first single issue I bought since in years, and one of the first comics I've bought from a comic store in months. Thank god it the issue was actually good.
Argh! Why did I read those scans. This is going to make the wait for the next MTMTE trade all the more unbearable
Steam / Origin & Wii U: Heatwave111 / FC: 4227-1965-3206 / Battle.net: Heatwave#11356
I don't read Marvel/DC superhero comics anymore.
I read Edge of Spider-verse #2, based on the awesome character/costume design on the cover.
I would read an ongoing about that Gwen Stacy.
(You should read Ms. Marvel)
I tried Captain Marvel.
I got 17 issues into Captain Marvel's 2012 series, and I read the first one of the 2014 relaunch. It's nice enough, but it's still part of the overall Marvel comics pile. I haven't tried the new Ms. Marvel.
My problems with Marvel/DC is that the huge shared universe of characters that effectively don't age, where New York gets devastated every other Sunday, where partial reboots occur every so often, where creator changes happen (sometimes frequently), where huge crossovers happen on a semi-regular basis, and where long term repercussions of world changing events are minimal, just doesn't work for me as well as it did a decade ago. I know a lot of people can say "Eh, sure [insert plotline] was terrible, but the stories since then have been great." And that terrible plotline doesn't negatively impact their enjoyment of newer stuff. But it affects my enjoyment of the thing. I think that to really enjoy a Marvel/DC superhero book, you either can't let the tropes of the Marvel/DC universes annoy you, or you have to actively enjoy them.
It's not for me.
It was once. And hell, it might be again at some point in the future. But for right now? I just can't find any great long term enjoyment in the Marvel/DC comic universes. I tried, for the better part of a decade. It's just not for me. So, even knowing that there are going to be some stories in those universes that I'd enjoy in of themselves, I just don't bother. I already spend quite a bit on comics, and Marvel/DC's respective shared universes have annoyed me with too much regularity for me to have any desire to give them a greater share of my budget.
Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel are great steps in the right direction to fix one critical flaw of the Marvel/DC universes, the often terrible representation of women. But ultimately, that particular perceived flaw of the shared universes isn't the one that led me away from Marvel/DC.
So far.
To be clear, I get where you're coming from. This is just one of those "put it in perspective" moments where the perspective feels really weird to me.
I love comics! I'm generally buying 10-12 books a week. I've just gotten off the Marvel/DC train for the most part.
No, the "world turned upside down" thing about my preferences is that I really can't stand anything Grant Morrison has written, outside of his first few arcs on JLA in the mid 90s. I can't stand his X-Men, I hated his Final Crisis, I think his Batman is the worst, and I thought We3 could be most charitably described as not at all for me.
The thing is, not everybody likes the same kind of comics. Hell, the same person doesn't like the same comics throughout their entire life. There was a time in the 90s when I had a subscription to Spider-Man and I really dug the villain-of-the-week fight on top of the ongoing Peter Parker drama. Now, I...really can't stand it. The character has changed too much from the one I knew. I don't hate Spider-Man. The Spider-Man being written and drawn right now isn't necessarily bad. But I'm at a different point in my life now, and I just can't be invested in the way Marvel and DC are going.
It's not even that it's all "there's too much continuity!" for me as much as...well, memories are short, plots are recycled, characters get sideswiped. And it does affect how people react to characters. For example, Peter Parker has been married to Mary Jane for longer in print than he was ever dating Gwen Stacey. When I first picked up a comic book, they were already together. To me, Gwen Stacey is as much a part of Peter Parker's backstory as the radioactive spider and Uncle Ben - which is to say, both have been dead since before I picked up that first issue. So to me, the erasure of Peter Parker's marriage was a gutpunch, a misstep, and one that really should be retconned away (like the rest of JMS' terrible, terrible fucking run - does that man ever not fuck up an existing series?)...and yet it's still here. And people still hold up Gwen Stacey as the love of Spider-Man's life. To me, that's mischaracterization.
...but it's just me. And it's only because I grew up reading Spider-Man where Peter Parker was married to Mary Jane. Their marriage lasted longer than my parent's marriage. I was pissed when they broke up. But that doesn't mean every character needs to be unchanging, or that every change is bad. But it does mean that, for a while at least, I need to step away from the character. I need the space. Because I don't like how it is now.
Sex & the Cthulhu Mythos
To be honest, I'm not a big fan of comic book marriages in general. Locks off too many potential romances.
And it's not for everybody! Look at the Hercules series; part of the joke was that he was a slut. It's an aspect of his character.
Sex & the Cthulhu Mythos
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Dunno how much of that is accurate though.
yeah you're right, was reading an old Joe Q interview about it, though it was still pretty much an editorial decision:
Ugh.
Bendis gave them a perfect OUT with House of M.
I think they wanted to take MJ out of the picture and still have MJ be a "WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY" girl.
Which is goddamn nuts and stupid.
Is it weird that I think of Peter and MJ having sex with other people as adultry?
Hell so few seem to be able to do relationships very well at all unless it's a source of constant drama.