This could, I imagine, be construed as me getting up on my K-Box but . . .
So, all it takes for this whole Dark Reign tosh to be considered "awesome" is for Norman Osborn to go wanking off in a suit of armour that looks like Iron Man and Captain America pounded out a baby leading a bunch of faux-Avengers in a muddled rehash of Thunderbolts #1 and all of a sudden it's "awesome."
And comics are in better shape now as opposed to the 90's exactly how?
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I believe Pag Sugenis said it best in the very first strip of THE NEW ADVENTURES OF QUEEN VICTORIA: "We are teh not amused."
True that. True F'N that.
And the sad thing is, I've been a board today where people were wetting themselves with delight at the bad-assedness of Dark Avengers.
Either they're wrong or I'm just way past it . . .
If I were really, really, really biased in favor of Marvel, I'd say the self-wetting folk are newer readers who are, in fact, unaware that this has been done before. And not so damn long ago either. But that assumes Marvel's been getting a lot of new blood lately, and I have some trouble believing that.
Well, it used to be that the statute of limitations in pro wrestling for revisiting the past was 7 years. Mind you, they have better audience turnover than comics, but then, what does.
I can't imagine it's many new people, and most of those who think it's so awesome, only think so because the kewlest characters (Venom and Bullseye--no, really) happen to be in it, so if it's working at all, it's working on that level.
If that's true, I suspect we'll be sharing a bit of Muntzian "Ha-ha!" in about a year or two - that level is the very definition of short-term.
Well, given that the same people who say that Bullseye and Venom are "kewl" are the same people who say they DC characters in every form but DC comics, well . . .either what you say will happen, or we'll finally have to confront that people must no really know what they want from superhero comics at all.
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