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Regardless of the implications for the Marvel Universe post-'all this' though, it does seem like incredibly shoddily-written tat. If this was ever going to turn out all right (as looked possible after the Illuminati thing, but now seems unlikely,) it would have needed a writer who betrayed at least a working understanding of the characters involved (relationships going back twenty years, which hav survive numerous alien invasions, attempts at mind control etc, who hav defend teh Hulk, ie, who wouldn't, necessarily, turn on each other at the drop of a bad incident or two, so you'd have to explain their reasoning a little,) as opposed to the bad Mark Millar they've left in charge. As it is though, it reads like something a thirteen year old kid might have banged out on the back of a Cheerios packet after one too many ritalins, as a means of explaining to Marvel Comics that he was not very happy about school and so on (not on ritalin as a younger old woman, I remember thinking that a way of improving the Fantastic Four would be to kill at least two of them, and then watch the others suffer - the letters to Marvel were understandably not answered,) and while OK, Mark Millar hasn't been well lately, I'm still not sure why the board of directors is allowing him to make such a mess of a franchise that's otherwise been quite healthy, recently. It's going to take the Bullpen a couple of years to tidy this up, which would be fine, I suppose, but it's not even all that entertaining watching them get themselves into it.
*takes medication, calms down a bit*
And there probably will be a twist in the tale. Well there's going to have to be anyway, otherwise how is say Spiderman (whose adventures admittedly, I've always found a bit tiring,) going to go back to just fighting the Lizard or whoever, if in every single episode he has to deal with SHIELD? It's going to get terribly old, and very quickly. Boring enough to write this stuff, I'd imagine, with that much back story, but who in their right mind, as a thirteen year old kid, is going to want to read it?
Meanwhile, the grotesque gnome of Coatbridge, Scotland, pleasures himself quietly into his wad of filthy lucre ...
(MILLAR, in high-pitched, Jimmie Krankie squeal)
'Stan, Jack ... They may remember you fondly, but they'll never forget me!'
I suppose the last thing to ask, as a deadpool-type scenario, is which of the Young Avengers we feel is going to get ass-raped first? |
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