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honestly DC letting him create Naomi isn't a bad idea since she's a new char with her own stuff.
I think they should not have given him Superman and should have just like, given him something like the outsiders.
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I think they should not have given him Superman and should have just like, given him something like the outsiders.
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Just learning that he apparently aged up Jon by having him kidnapped and tortured (!) for 7 years makes me not want to read any of his stuff. How could you do something like that to Jon? He doesn't deserve to suffer and be taken away from his loving family
.Is the Jon age up going to stay a permanent thing? If it's at least only a thing in the Bendis run I can just avoid reading it, but if it's showing up in other runs that's a lot of stuff I'll have to ignore. Reading through Tomasi/Gleason's run I can't see how Superman or Lois would ever let him be kidnapped for so long unless there's some dumb reason that stopped them.
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I feel like the Jon age-up is going to get semi-dramatically reversed in a Legion of Super-heroes thing tbh.Just learning that he apparently aged up Jon by having him kidnapped and tortured (!) for 7 years makes me not want to read any of his stuff. How could you do something like that to Jon? He doesn't deserve to suffer and be taken away from his loving family
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Is the Jon age up going to stay a permanent thing? If it's at least only a thing in the Bendis run I can just avoid reading it, but if it's showing up in other runs that's a lot of stuff I'll have to ignore. Reading through Tomasi/Gleason's run I can't see how Superman or Lois would ever let him be kidnapped for so long unless there's some dumb reason that stopped them.
Anyways the weird thing he did to fucking Thorn for Legion of Super-heroes: Millenium was certainly odd but hey Thorn's the exact kind of Z-list character to do this stuff and and is just barely within the related cast of Superman and the JSA.
FYI turns out she's immortal and uh, transplanting a vigilante with these issues into this sort of thing is an interesting idea. I think Bendis is better at this kinda stuff than fucking around with established marquee A listers.
good thing he's got the Legion of Super-heroes to use as a sandbox. There's not that much to do with normal present-day DC outside of Superman himself and Jon, so fiddling with things shouldn't be too off the rails, although it seems he's working the current arc into some kind Great Darkness Saga type of thing. (I really appreciate the original Legion. They were officially ended in Zero Hour but had a very long and fun time with a lot of space opera and X-Men Christ Claremont level melodrama at times. Hell they even had a decent take on the whole falling in love with a mtf trans person as a side plot in one of the iterations and noone talks about it because it's not shown in Mary Sue terms.)
anyways man I love how Jon Kent gets dragged to the future and they ask him `hey do you know anything about Aquaman` and Jon's like "uh, I met him a few times but I know a ton about Batman. Cool dude." and the Legion just doesn't seem to get that Jon doesn't really interact with Aquaman much.
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Generally I don't mind if writers and artists want to create new characters, but an editor has gotta step in and determine whether the character merits her own book. What is Naomi's hook? Why does she deserve a book? What is interesting or unique about her?
Read the blurb on issue #2. Even the people supposedly praising the book are like "well, uh, she exists and things happen around her."
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It doesn't hep that as a super hero her backstory is 'black superman but even more poweful'. In fact 90% of Bendis' new characters are the same, they're all just race swaps that are better than the original in every way a la Riri Williams, Teen Lanterns and Naomi. Jinny Hex is kinda interesting but its pretty sad that Jonahs's bloodline is going to die with her.
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Naomi was so dumb.
It was hyped up as this, "teen girl discovers shocking secret in the DCU!" and it just turns out she's from another dimension or some shit.
Big whoop.
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i stopped reading superman several issues after Bendis took over. He destroyed Jon, he completely destroyed the Superman family, literally everything good Tomasi had set up, Bendis immediately dismantled as soon as he took over.
plus he invented Noami which literally had an issue in Superman's book where Superman and Batman both fawn over Noami because "wow she's so powerful. if she reaches her potential, she could be even stronger than you clark"
fuck you.
plus he invented Noami which literally had an issue in Superman's book where Superman and Batman both fawn over Noami because "wow she's so powerful. if she reaches her potential, she could be even stronger than you clark"
fuck you.
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I mean I'm gonna be fair here.
I wish they'd done this as a mini-series only to reveal that this was in the 1980s or sth and that she fucked off to outer space like Captain Comet did.
or at least hold off on integrating her right away?
She seems to go barefoot all the time which makes me wonder if Bendis is trying to admit something.
Anyways 10 bucks says the big secret isn't actually revealed just yet and that the being from another dimension is just a red herring of a "secret". Like, idk, make it so that she's connected to DC cosmology or sth in a way that isn't a cop out. Like, a 5th Worlder or maybe related to the Aurakles or sth.
5 bucks says they even forget to put her in the whole DC's Secret History thing where they focus on black characters.
all I can say is that I'm glad she's not obnoxious like Riri Williams. She seems to be a little mary-sue ish but I think it might be interesting to see how this plays out once the Metal events are over. I'd laugh if it turns out this is all related to the fucking "Vathlo Island" thing in pre-crisis DC where Krypton had segregated? all the black kryptonians to this island.
I mean if he did that'd be a cool twist but I feel like Bendis is going to just phone this in for the paycheck.
Anyways other new DC heroes in the past few years since rebirth:
- Sideways is interesting and seems to show up semi-regularly. He's just SPider-man with different powers.
- The new Firebrand and co didn't get written long enough to have any impacts. Points for using legacy names for characters though?
- Damage is interesting. I wish they didn't cancel it and actually did shit.
- The Immortal Men was a cool concept that got axed. It's a shame since DC has like two dozen immortals and a shitload of legacy heroes and villains.
- Naomi is a lukewarm thing but considering that DC doesn't have a marquee black teen girl hero at all, it makes sense to fill that slot. Although I'd argue that all they had to do was push Black Lightning's daughters to be A list or utilize Bumblebee better.
- Young Justice being back hasn't filled me up with that much joy. It's a bit of a mess. Still, it has potential for fun stuff.
- Tim Drake calling himself Drake now sounds retarded. Red Robin was a cooler outfit and name.
- Jinni Hex is interesting. I like legacy heroes.
- Teen Lantern is boring. There's no way the Guardians didn't trace that gauntlet to Earth before she found it. Furthermore, they just happen to be a super genius tech whiz kid from a third world country? What?
- The Justice League of China is fun. I like the ideas in it and in the "New Super-Man" concept but they cancelled those books early.
- Conner Kent's return is so weird because I think the Metal events are supposed to interact with him more but they're not?
- likewise, Impulse's return is weird and I wonder if he remembers all the bullshit that happened to him, including the fact that he sacrificed his life in flashpoint t ogive Barry more speed force.
- Black Kid Flash is loosing relevance and is probably gonna be around because noone wants to kill the black kid that happens to be a legacy hero. I have no opinion on him but it feels like he's going to wind up either retiring or dying.
- Heroes in Crisis was garbage and seems to have brought back Kid Devil just to kill him off again? I feel like they're gonna revive Roy Harper in a Lazurus pit and turn him into Green Arrow's "Red Hood" or sth.
- The Terrifics is great. Legitimately a fun book and I like how they finally let some interesting and important world-building events happen in there. Anyways it's got 2 shapeshifters and a shitload of geniuses.
- That's all I can think of. the Hawkman book ended nicely and I liked it a ton. Wish they'd revamp the whole "Power of the Atom" concept too.
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I think Naomi was a flop in terms of quality, but it's exactly the kind of project that Bendis is suited for. Something that was fairly self contained, and (mostly) in its own continuity. I know she interacted with a few actual characters, but let's be real, outside of her own titles (or other Bendis related titles) other writers aren't going to be referencing those events/probably forgot they existed in the first place. I remember she was supposed to get a second mini series, but I'm not sure if that is still happening. Apparently, she's getting a CW show, but with how little there is to work with, I'm guessing it'll be an "in name only" adaptation.
I know one of his big claims to fame was Ultimate Spider-Man, but I think another one of Bendis's flaws is he doesn't write teen characters well. But apparently nobody has told him this because so many of his new characters are teens. Or the titles he's taken over feature them. If I remember right, he either became a dad or his kid grew up to an age where they could start reading or whatever and that inspired Bendis to make younger characters, but then he never really has anything for them to do. And because he's the type of writer who likes heavier narrative driven stuff with lots of word balloons, his inability to write younger characters really gets highlighted. Again, it's something that could be fixed if he had a partner/editor to center him. I should also add his "adult" stuff isn't automatically good either, with Superman and his event Leviathan (that was him, right?) being examples of Bendis not working.
I know one of his big claims to fame was Ultimate Spider-Man, but I think another one of Bendis's flaws is he doesn't write teen characters well. But apparently nobody has told him this because so many of his new characters are teens. Or the titles he's taken over feature them. If I remember right, he either became a dad or his kid grew up to an age where they could start reading or whatever and that inspired Bendis to make younger characters, but then he never really has anything for them to do. And because he's the type of writer who likes heavier narrative driven stuff with lots of word balloons, his inability to write younger characters really gets highlighted. Again, it's something that could be fixed if he had a partner/editor to center him. I should also add his "adult" stuff isn't automatically good either, with Superman and his event Leviathan (that was him, right?) being examples of Bendis not working.
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Grim reaper is not a very good moniker for Bendis. Cancer or a virus is more fitting.
Basically, Bendis has his own stupid ideas of what to do in stories and he will do just whatever he wants. That is enabled by higher ups at Marvel and DC, since Bendis is buddies with them. That's why he is able to get away with tanking multiple series and ruining characters. Good luck to you if you are a writer at DC, but Bendis decides to play with or kill a character important for your series for some cheap shock value.
People wrote that his comics like Ultimate Spider-Man and Daredevil are good. That's true only if you can look past Bendisms present in almost all of his books:
- Repetitive dialogue that makes everyone sound like idiots
- Wheadon speak
- Infantile humor
- Stories moving at snail's pace
- Most of what happens is irrelevant padding
- Endings are always rushed, have little to no payoff, and are all around lackluster
- Introducing and then randomly dropping subplots
- Something interesting is set up only to be resolved off panel
- Characters' irrelevant and inane conversations, usually about pop culture
- Pants on head retarded ideas like Spider-Man and Wolverine bodyswap from Ultimate Spider-Man that USM apologists conveniently ignore.
- Demanding artists to draw endless, repetitive panels of talking heads
- The fact that Bendis can only write a few stock characters, and he will twist interesting well-established character to fit
- Playing favorites with characters in most obvious ways and blatantly self-inserting into some of them
- This is more recent, but his spam of raceswapped OCs for that sweet royalty money
I can't look past that, so I think that Bendis never wrote anything good. He is a rare case of a creator who's mediocre early work was his high point and then just declined continuously. Nepotism and low standards of American comic book industry (especially big two) are the only reasons why Bendis is able to get away with his bullshit.
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I own one autograph. It's Lee Meriwether in the Catwoman suit. Comics are so bad I'm ashamed to own it.
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I'm watching this right now. It's kinda horrible. Sunspot and Moonstone are horribly miscast. Monster was always drawn as having kind of a long, prettier Ann Coulter-y face with nice cheekbones and she was tall and lanky.
Sunspot is a brown handsome dude, very brash and arrogant.
I know they could have found someone with these qualities.
Magik is really cute though, she looks like if one of my personal lolcows cleaned up nice.
At least they didn't add Cypher and Warlock, they were annoying as fuck in the comics.
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Honestly I liked that Bendis used Luke Cage and Jessica Drew to the extent he did in his Avengers run as they rose from being D-listers from the Bronze age to like, modern day B-listers with Luke Cage being really close to A-List.
If Bendis was a mangaka he'd be one of the dudes churning out Isekai trash but the kinda stuff that sorta sells.
I agree, however, I see Bendis as one of the lesser evils we have to see and deal with.
aka I much prefer Bendis' mediocrity to Mariko Tamaki or other actual garbage writers.
bro. . .
Hang that shit up. I applaud your taste.
I liked the OG New Mutants before Liefeld got his hands on them. Sunspot being brash, arrogant, and a brown handsome dude sounds like they could have found a decent cast member for that.
Anyways Cypher and Warlock should be introduced and then killed in the same movie so we get that fucking off the rails story arc that involved Genosha, techmorphs, and whatnot.
hot take: if DC really fucking wanted to, they'd be able to push an Animal Man or Resurection Man book again.
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I was a dumb kid during the Liefeld era, I did buy his stuff, but soured on him by the time youngblood #4. I was mainly pumped about most of his contemporaries like Lee, Silvestri, etc. I'm revisiting those comics now and wow, he was always shitty.
New mutants back when it "sucked" was always enjoyable for me.
Even the "Birdbrain" saga was well written.
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i like the old new mutants stuff but man the Bill Sienkewicz art can be a little off putting at times.
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As a former Valiant fan, I can overlook crappy art if the story is compelling. Speaking of which, you'd think they would have done X-o Manowar instead of Bloodshot for a movie.
Or Ninjak since he would have cool toys. The facediaper look is so 2020.
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I like Ninjak but you just know the SJW brigade would be sperging about cultural appropriation and muh imperialism and etc.
that Faith Herbert movie ain't ever getting made because the audience just isn't big enough to justify that kinda budget on her. Maybe a movie or two for like the entire Harbinger story arcs but def. not bullshit just for Faith.
look man i just want a Gilad or X-O Manowar movie.
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Eh, I'd just have him as a hapas British dude, problem solved. Keep everything else about him, though. There was a hapas dude in Kamen Rider Fourze that kinda looked like Brian Dattlio from "Days of our lives", that's the look I'd go for.
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they'd still call a HAPAS british dude "white" unless he was homosexual or trans.
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I feel like this guy has the right look, no idea if he knows English or not
He's clearly got some Caucasian in him but Asian.