Still going through Dazzler. Keeping the letters pages is something all omnibuses need to do i feel. They even kept the face paint winner thing in. Although I don't believe they ever used it for her.
Angel/Warren Worthington is a creep. He keeps trying to get with Dazzler. It is to the point that he buys an actual restaurant out so that he can impress her...even though she's with her lawyer boyfriend. I don't even mean this in a sjw woke shit way. Its so odd. Not as creepy as the Kitty/Pitor shit (and before that Pitor loses his virginity to two women in the Savage Land and there's something unsettling the way it is written).
Dazz also ran into She Hulk, Spider Woman, and Absorbing Man. She's currently trying to find her missing mom.
Warren is a weird fucking character. Prior to the X-Factor stuff, he felt like a stuffed shirt. His money was the reason he did some things. I think he bankrolled the Champions? Anyways, his GF died or slid into irrelevancy and I recall Cameron Hodge became a villain. I've been neutral on Dazzler. She feels like Iron Fist and Luke Cage in that she's indicative of the trends of a time and place. Don't know how well she's evolved.
Modern comics are too edgy and depressing for me. When Mr. Fantastic and Iron Man started to blow up planets in Time Runs Out I decided comics just weren't for me anymore.
I feel like HIckman could have executed all of that far better. I get the idea, but it was one planet. Namor decided to join the Cabal and he paid the price for that in the end. (Executed by Black Bolt and T'CHalla)
Don't forget, Tony was fucked for half of that run because he was "inverted" and the entire situation was royally fucked. I liked the bit at the end where the Illuminati were admonished for not making all of this public and pooling everything they had. The ideas that went into this era were interesting. They had Superior-SPiderman, the Death of Wolverine, Geriatric Cap, Unworthy Thor, and Inverted Tony. I wonder if it was meant to show the most influential heroes as not being themselves so they wouldn't be able to pull the Marvel Universe out of a death spiral. We saw Strange essentially play with eldritch forces, sell part of his soul, and wind up getting the chance to become a god (and say no, letting Doom get the power).
The entire thing wasn't executed as well as I'd have liked, but it was still better than the retards who hijacked the Krakoa era for their own masturbatory purposes.
Anyways, Time Runs Out was kinda just a spectacle. Inverted Tony just used an incomplete Dyson Sphere and nuked an intergalactic alliance fleet that was to destroy Earth. Thor and Hyperion went out guns blazing. Black Widow and Spider-Woman lost the "ark" scientists, activated the contingency plans.
and we find out Doom rewrote the fantastic four to. . . make himself marry Sue Storm.
I don't even get that one. I'm guessing he's respected her, but wasn't it Namor who wanted to shag her?
