I dunno what the lead times are on those assembly line books nowadays but chances are that shit was either in the can way before the election or part of some decompressed multi-issue arc where they can’t really go off course without fucking up the trade or some company wide crossover or pissing off the editor who probably masterminded the whole storyline or some other awful bullshit.
I’m sure they’ll start tackling hard issues next year and the 20,000 people who read Ms. Marvel will applaud it while overlooking Marvel’s historic abuse of artists and its CEO being one of Trump’s best buds.
Yeah I see your point about the previous story arc being pretty heavy, I guess I am just pissed because this current one seems like such fluff and champions, like you mentioned, isn’t cutting it either.
and that cover art makes me want to shoot myself.
If you’re going to have filler or light issues do something fun like a crossover or something.
the introduction of all these new-nu versions of the characters is surely to try and set a half-way legitimate precedent for the inevitable replacement of the current cinematic universe actors. Pretty sure thats whats driving the overall editorial game plan.
I mean maybe? The X-men movies have been basically recast at this point already. New Scott Summers, new Jean Grey, new Xavier since X-men: First Class. This last Wolverine movie is the last we’ll see of Jackson’s Logan and Professor Picard. Batman has also been recast since the Nolan movies.
I don’t think movie goers need to be prepped to see someone new play an iconic character.
new-nu versions of characters has been a tool to bring in new readers since forever.
I dunno, there’s something about the approach taken by the marvel movies of using big name actors’ already established character types to embody their characters. The millar and hitch’s ultimates nick fury being based on samuel jackson, downey jr being an actual ex alcoholic. It would be jarring to the whole tone if movie Iron Man was suddenly some other dude. I honestly think that the comics are now being put to use as a lab to try out the viability of an iterative approach to the characters.
The X-men characters were replaced via an in-universe justification of films being set at different time periods.
The whole mcu (Marvel Cinematic Universe duh) has been dissapointingly unshakesparean/soap opera-ish, all the least tragic characters have been developed, the whole thing is just such a fucken dude’s club, even in the new spiderman trailer it shows peter getting lame rides in stark’s gross rich-guy limo.
I don’t think I finished watching the first Thor and I never bothered with the second one. Heard Hulk is going to be in the third and they might set things up for a World War Hulk movie.
Wtf will they do with the Inhumans? I can’t even imagine. It won’t feel right without the FF being there.
I had a whole thing this weekend arguing the face of a bigish youtube comic channel NerdSync. In one of his videos he was saying how Miles Morales makes Spider-Man a legacy character. Overall whatever, Miles is a cool character there’s some difference and earned diversity whatever. But my argument was that Miguel O’hara/Spider-Man 2099 and Mayday Parker/Spider-Girl did it first. Turned out to be a whole thing, but woo what a dumb nerd argument for a weekend.
Spider-man has died and come back, his identity revealed, married and then retconned single again, secretly a clone for a time… now he is doing a Tony Stark thing with Parker Industries. If he is a “legacy” character I wouldn’t blame it on Miles Morales.
I’m not sure if that counts as a retcon though, given that story shit happens with that being the result. It would be more tolerable if it was a straight retcon though.
Got some stuff while spending this week in Spain. I can’t still believe someone published The Music of Marie outside Japan. They even plan to publish two more of Furuya’s works. Need to pick the first volume of Dungeon Menshi while I am still here.
