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Nov. 4th, 2004 06:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewingedMy sleep schedule is all screwed up. Period. Of course, I'm not sure if I'll ever sleep right again. But, in the meantime...
I only had 4 books this week. 4 Marvel, no DC, which was odd, but there was some DC stuff I admittedly passed up in my denial of reality. :)
Exiles #54: Long long ago, there was a man named tony Bedard, who was a writer. He did this little book called 'Negation,' which was filled with surprises, neat characters, witty dialogue, and a story that seemed far-reaching and well planned in advance. Well, Negation went away due to things like low sales and a comic company that didn't give a damn abouts its readers to see through some simple closure, and this Tony Bedard moved on.
What I think happened was along the way, Bedard was kidnapped and replaced by an evil twin with a goatee, who has since took up writing Exiles. This was another stand-alone issue, with the Exiles themselves making a marginal appearance at best. Their goal being to...I swear...buy a cheese danish. Once they did that, they went to the next world. But, the readers were subjected to seeing why a cheese danish was able to prevent a Shi'ar Imperial attack. It's a weird little take on the 'butterfly flaps its wings in Tibet' thing, but I thought it stretched a bit too far. We still have Namora, who is just this side of dull, and Beak, who...well...I mean, he finally got interesting in Planet X, in the Morrison-cursed-be-his-name X-books... But he seems to be here only for name placement, and serves little real purpose. I was bored. I am bored with this. I keep wanting to see some headway, and it's not there. Bah
Uncanny X-Men #452. Chasing Hellfire: Part 1. The Hellfire Club in New York is suddenly gone, and the gist of what we get is that Selene might or might not be around, Emma and Rachel still hate each other but work together, and Bishop is shooting team members and I'm guessing there's more possession of some kind. And for some reason, I think Rachel is good-looking, with is more off-putting than it sounds from being on the other team. Andy Park's artwork is nice. It's not Davis, and he doesn't try to be, but there was plenty of stuff going on, especially in the Emma/Rachel mental slap-fight that was kinetic, and made it seem really active. Emma faces the new White Queen, Courtney Ross (That's who she says she is. Sat-Yr-9, anyone?), with the ending left up in the air. At least there was no X-23. :)
Avengers #503. No.
No.
Bloody No.
The special 'Avengers Finale' comes out next week. I'll get that. But after that, I'm done with the Avengers. This is not the team I remember. I've gone into detail into why I'm not big on the new direction in This Post (Note: I made a reference in that post and I said in there I did not remember who originally said what I paraphrased. I have since found out. The poster was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fripple and the post I paraphrased was Here so now I can properly give credit. Besides, fripple's LJ on comics makes my laugh a lot, so they're cool.), and I really tried to give the great and powerful Bendis a chance, because he's good because everyone tells me so.
Everyone? They're wrong. Powers is cool. He can do that. This...just No.
Look, though I agree with Spidey that Wanda marrying a robot was pretty freaky (still is, but her love life is one fucked-up after another), the rest of Why It's All Wanda makes no bloody sense at ALL. Look...if she really formed a little bubble around her with her imaginary kids back, and her having a home and a family, it STILL doesn't explain why all of this happened to the Avengers. Why, if she was happy, would she /care?/ She does not have that kind of power, and Strange comes up and basically has to tell all the Avengers (and the readers) what's going on, and it sounds fake. It sounds really fake, when he says it. You know, this was issue #503. That means there were 502 issues before this, including countless specials, annuals, and the like. Perhaps Bendis could have read like one or two of them before he crapped this into a word file and sent it off as a script.
As for Magneto showing up...Bendis needs to read other books besides staring into the mirror telling himself he's 'so kewl.' This violates a lot of what was going on in Excalibur, and his half-assed attempt to research it came up short on some serious details.
But, it's a new direction, and a new home for the Avengers, now. It's at the corner of 'I Don't Care' Road and 'No Longer My Fucking Problem' Boulevard.
Astonishing X-Men #6. On the heels of my Avengers-strafing that I just wrote, last night I got to thinking. Why? Do I like this book because I have liked what Joss Whedon has done with some noteable exceptions (like, the last two seasons of Buffy)? Do I like it because it's the new 'in' thing? What are my reasons?
Okay. Snappy dialogue. I have a weakness for it. A feel of cutting-edge, with a splash of references to make it feel like it fits into the history.
Fastball Special. Oh Baby!
Cassady's artwork, a lot less bloody and blatantly violent-for-its-own sake like it was on Preacher back in the day, makes me feel in some panels I'm looking into a window into the neighbor's yard, instead of a page of paper and colored ink.
We get a resolution to the Ord sitch, we find out how Fury and SHIELD are connected, action, patter, and Pete coming back to the Mansion and discussing that with Kitty, alone. Good. Kitty deserves some happy, even if Emma is plotting in the wings.
My reasons. This comic has the elements, in dialogue, plot, and art, that I personally like in a comic book. I think if I had my memory wiped without knowing the creative team, and I read it, I would still like it as much as I do. So, I will continue to recommend the book every chance I can, and continue to be a fan about this for as long as it lasts.
"Hell of a Thing..."
You know, when Hank says that in the book, I keep getting a mental image of Tony Shaloub saying that in Galaxy Quest. Why is that?
Edit #1: I mixed up the artists on Preacher, asterrasias pointed out to me. Thanks, man, and I withdraw that part of my weekly rant with apologies for the mistake.
I only had 4 books this week. 4 Marvel, no DC, which was odd, but there was some DC stuff I admittedly passed up in my denial of reality. :)
Exiles #54: Long long ago, there was a man named tony Bedard, who was a writer. He did this little book called 'Negation,' which was filled with surprises, neat characters, witty dialogue, and a story that seemed far-reaching and well planned in advance. Well, Negation went away due to things like low sales and a comic company that didn't give a damn abouts its readers to see through some simple closure, and this Tony Bedard moved on.
What I think happened was along the way, Bedard was kidnapped and replaced by an evil twin with a goatee, who has since took up writing Exiles. This was another stand-alone issue, with the Exiles themselves making a marginal appearance at best. Their goal being to...I swear...buy a cheese danish. Once they did that, they went to the next world. But, the readers were subjected to seeing why a cheese danish was able to prevent a Shi'ar Imperial attack. It's a weird little take on the 'butterfly flaps its wings in Tibet' thing, but I thought it stretched a bit too far. We still have Namora, who is just this side of dull, and Beak, who...well...I mean, he finally got interesting in Planet X, in the Morrison-cursed-be-his-name X-books... But he seems to be here only for name placement, and serves little real purpose. I was bored. I am bored with this. I keep wanting to see some headway, and it's not there. Bah
Uncanny X-Men #452. Chasing Hellfire: Part 1. The Hellfire Club in New York is suddenly gone, and the gist of what we get is that Selene might or might not be around, Emma and Rachel still hate each other but work together, and Bishop is shooting team members and I'm guessing there's more possession of some kind. And for some reason, I think Rachel is good-looking, with is more off-putting than it sounds from being on the other team. Andy Park's artwork is nice. It's not Davis, and he doesn't try to be, but there was plenty of stuff going on, especially in the Emma/Rachel mental slap-fight that was kinetic, and made it seem really active. Emma faces the new White Queen, Courtney Ross (That's who she says she is. Sat-Yr-9, anyone?), with the ending left up in the air. At least there was no X-23. :)
Avengers #503. No.
No.
Bloody No.
The special 'Avengers Finale' comes out next week. I'll get that. But after that, I'm done with the Avengers. This is not the team I remember. I've gone into detail into why I'm not big on the new direction in This Post (Note: I made a reference in that post and I said in there I did not remember who originally said what I paraphrased. I have since found out. The poster was
fripple and the post I paraphrased was Here so now I can properly give credit. Besides, fripple's LJ on comics makes my laugh a lot, so they're cool.), and I really tried to give the great and powerful Bendis a chance, because he's good because everyone tells me so.Everyone? They're wrong. Powers is cool. He can do that. This...just No.
Look, though I agree with Spidey that Wanda marrying a robot was pretty freaky (still is, but her love life is one fucked-up after another), the rest of Why It's All Wanda makes no bloody sense at ALL. Look...if she really formed a little bubble around her with her imaginary kids back, and her having a home and a family, it STILL doesn't explain why all of this happened to the Avengers. Why, if she was happy, would she /care?/ She does not have that kind of power, and Strange comes up and basically has to tell all the Avengers (and the readers) what's going on, and it sounds fake. It sounds really fake, when he says it. You know, this was issue #503. That means there were 502 issues before this, including countless specials, annuals, and the like. Perhaps Bendis could have read like one or two of them before he crapped this into a word file and sent it off as a script.
As for Magneto showing up...Bendis needs to read other books besides staring into the mirror telling himself he's 'so kewl.' This violates a lot of what was going on in Excalibur, and his half-assed attempt to research it came up short on some serious details.
But, it's a new direction, and a new home for the Avengers, now. It's at the corner of 'I Don't Care' Road and 'No Longer My Fucking Problem' Boulevard.
Astonishing X-Men #6. On the heels of my Avengers-strafing that I just wrote, last night I got to thinking. Why? Do I like this book because I have liked what Joss Whedon has done with some noteable exceptions (like, the last two seasons of Buffy)? Do I like it because it's the new 'in' thing? What are my reasons?
Okay. Snappy dialogue. I have a weakness for it. A feel of cutting-edge, with a splash of references to make it feel like it fits into the history.
Fastball Special. Oh Baby!
Cassady's artwork, a lot less bloody and blatantly violent-for-its-own sake like it was on Preacher back in the day, makes me feel in some panels I'm looking into a window into the neighbor's yard, instead of a page of paper and colored ink.
We get a resolution to the Ord sitch, we find out how Fury and SHIELD are connected, action, patter, and Pete coming back to the Mansion and discussing that with Kitty, alone. Good. Kitty deserves some happy, even if Emma is plotting in the wings.
My reasons. This comic has the elements, in dialogue, plot, and art, that I personally like in a comic book. I think if I had my memory wiped without knowing the creative team, and I read it, I would still like it as much as I do. So, I will continue to recommend the book every chance I can, and continue to be a fan about this for as long as it lasts.
"Hell of a Thing..."
You know, when Hank says that in the book, I keep getting a mental image of Tony Shaloub saying that in Galaxy Quest. Why is that?
Edit #1: I mixed up the artists on Preacher, as
terrasias pointed out to me. Thanks, man, and I withdraw that part of my weekly rant with apologies for the mistake.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2004-11-04 01:10 pm (UTC)And btw, Cassaday never did art on Preacher :) That was Steve Dillon. Cassaday comes to us via Planetary, Captain America (the recent relaunch), and Union Jack miniseries (back in the day).
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Date: 2004-11-04 06:14 pm (UTC)And yes, Evinlea was cooler, but maybe Bedard cared more about her since she was ultimately a traitor to her own race.
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Date: 2004-11-04 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-04 08:26 pm (UTC)What Exiles really needs is some little guy with a vocubulary limited to one word who can miraculously on occassion turn into some giant hulking beast and surprise everyone.
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Date: 2004-11-05 01:29 pm (UTC)Me, thinking: Yeah...back to the AoA...ohyeah.
No wonder she came back to the Exiles. She can see the sun again, that way.
And it took me a while to remember what you were talking about with the little guy, then it hit me..
Voiceover: Monchito, the Steroid Pokemon. Monchito is small, but when angered can grow to huge size and layeth the smacketh down on almost anything with it's powerful fists. It is weak against fire and crappy company owners who cancel their books mid-storyline and deny readers any sense of closure.
Monchito And The Man
Date: 2004-11-05 03:18 pm (UTC)Re: Monchito And The Man
Date: 2004-11-05 03:30 pm (UTC)Sorry, I gotta just agree to disagree with you on this. People deserve better treatment.
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Date: 2004-11-04 09:26 pm (UTC)*shovels cash*
Personally, I can't wait for Bendis to switch companies. I've always wondered what Batman would be like if he had to stop in the middle of every fight to have a metadiscussion about his outfit.
Or not. I think Bendis is actually one of the reasons I rarely touch Marvel anymore. He's like if you took some good writers, and then MURDERED THEM AND REPLACED THEM WITH BENDIS.
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Date: 2004-11-05 01:30 pm (UTC)Also, please, may I snag that Lyle Icon of yours? :)
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Date: 2004-11-06 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-11-07 03:04 pm (UTC)Um, why?
I still like Bendis on Daredevil, Ultimate Spider-Man, and Powers, but those may be more his kind of books. Team books, maybe, aren't his thing.
He's good at the gritty crime thing. He's good at the nasty underworld thing. He is not good at the team hero thing.
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Date: 2004-11-08 02:50 pm (UTC)