Back once again with another in an attempt to create a lexicon for comics criticism and, to paraphrase Von Clausewitz, criticise the current state of comics by other means.
Zeitgeist Failure--Term which describes any project released at exactly the wrong time and which totally fails to speak to the current social and/or political climate of the time and usually results in something as wrongheaded and almost quaint as, say, trying to credibly sell Norman Osborn as head of a vast government conspiracy that grinds on through every third Marvel book or something. Basically, we're talking a catastrophic failure to read the mood of your audience.
Or, to be more succinct (for once), this.
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What do you make of that bit in "Civil War" where Goliath is wrapped in chains and a white sheet, and then buried? Very much, I suspect, an unintentional FAIL on Millar's part, but still, that sort of imagery was rather ill-timed even before Obama...
We're lucky he wasn't hanging from a tree, honestly.
That image, like "Civil War" itself is tasteless, inexcusable, poorly thought through, and really everything I've thought about Millar's work for . . .God, ages now. *L*
I'm no end of mystified that the people in charge don't seem to really think this stuff through all that well.
It's pretty troubling that not only is Quesada totally detached from the Unfortunate Implications of the stuff he publishes, but none of Marvel's editors are either capable of commenting on it or have any desire to do so.
Well, that would require them to actually function in an editorial capacity, and what are the odds of that happening in the Age of Quesada?
To paraphrase Veronica Mars, "I happen to have those odds right here: a googleplex to one!"
I think Veronica's being way too charitable with that figure. :)
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