which on gerry conway or ross andreu? and iircc one or poisssbly both of them where libs when the punisher was created....and i mean old school libertarian libs like the writers of mad magazine (rip) john carpenter or steven king before the tds and he went full lib tard. they knew the right was full of idiots who blindly followed a indiotic philopshy but so was the left so really they just took shade at both and tried to strike a happy medium in between.
Honestly that's probably what i miss most in comics from like the 60's to the 90's maybe the pre second term bush era 2000's. You had some people like stan lee and Steve ditko who despite being on very different end of the political spectrum, were mostly able to put their ideals either aside or only moderately push them in their work (putting aside the almost cowlike behavior ditko did while he worked at marvel but again may he rip) like in everything else creators put the stories first then the characters than maybe they'd put a little of themselves or what they belived in. Nowadys its just "LOOK AT ME! SEE HOW VIRTOUIS AND GOOD I AM! I MADE THIS CHARACTER LGBTQXYZ EVEN THOUGHT THE ORIGINAL CREATORS NEVER INTEDENDED FOR IT! ISN'T THAT SO MUCH BETTER AND MORE FORWARD THINKING THAN THOSE OLD RASISCTS FROM THE 50S!?
sorry, but it does say "sperg" about comics here.
honestly, the virtue signalling crap always gets me pissed. it's pretty much killed the possibility of a long lasting and genuine Carol Danvers Captain Marvel fanbase, or an Ironheart one. At least, while Kamala Khan is sort of mary sue'd, she's not toxic. I do think that she's shilled too much though, for a relatively new hero.
Not just that, there was all this build up with Jinny Hex's box and the green lantern power battery hijacking (did anything ever really come out of Teen Lantern besides setup?). It really felt like Bendis had plans for this run to go twice as long as it ended up going, and ended up getting it cut shorter than he signed on for. Apparently DC didn't want a fun book that focuses on fan favorite characters. Instead they'd rather push more Dark Nights shit down our throats for almost a fucking year.
The Jinny Hex box was fun as a concept. The Teen Lantern thing is something that Bendis should have been able to save for later.
honestly the dark nights shit could have easily been relegated to backup stories or sth. covid has everything spotty in terms of release.
Yeah, this has always been the classic Bendis quality arc. Great hook, great beginning, he can never stick the landing. Even legendary dogs like Secret War and Civil War II had pretty good first issues.
oh boy, this is true.
remember when we thought the leaked death in civil war 2 was gonna potentially be johnny storm? because i recall that being the big speculation.
anyways, Rhodey made sense from a writing standpoint but I think marvel overestimates the actual popularity of the MCU centric capes like war machine, falcon, and whatnot that they kinda wound up pushing until Disney bought fox lol.
I feel like an underrepresented DC villain is Onomatopoeia.
Also, Connor Hawke got put in the hospital a lot.
Oh man we never did get the conclusion to that Onomatopoeia story did we? The one where he showed up as some dude named Baphomet?
Conner got hospitalized a ton and then coma'd and amnesia'd. I like him but it feels like they kinda didn't know what to do with connor and ollie in the year or two before the New 52. The whole cry for justice sperging and resulting horseshit kinda fucked up the Green Arrow book at the time.
I was thinking more about Robin, Superboy, Impulse and Wonder Girl as fan favorites, but yeah they definitely shoehorned in some unecessary characters. The whole book should have just been that core 4 imo.
Unrelated, but Amazing Spider-Man is alright this week. It reads like mostly fallout for Last Remains which is fine by me, especially since the first thing Pete does is go to Liz and see what's up with Harry. Feels a lot like Spencer's showing us the things people are asking about and covering his bases, which is good. Hopefully it's not just a case of "harry went nuts and turned into a demon". I really want it to be something more than that.
Amethyst was also there but I'm not sure if she's a fan-fave or a "fan"-fave. Her background's good for potential stories tbh.
Spidey has been nailing it these days, The Knull event has been pure fun and reminds me of what comics should just be. (I like the concept of Dark Nights but man it's just fatigued after a certain point, plus they didn't do too much with the whole "Infected" plotline other than make some characters edgey and create fake tension. It's all full of fun concepts that didn't mesh well together and would have worked with a far better writer+editor or sth.
no really, Infected Jim Gordon had so much potential but they didn't use it. Infected Jaime Reyes, Shazam, Donna Troy, Supergirl. All fun concepts to follow up on. Infected Hawkman was explored a little but honestly without the existence of the JSA or the Hawkman-Atom friendship or Hawkman-GA rivalry, it sort of just wasn't up to par with what they would have done preN52.
I enjoy the concept being on the table for the future, but my entire problem is that the disjointedness of the Rebirth era just fizzled the fuck out of things. It really feels like "The Infected", in a fully restored DC universe with the proper classic Titans/JSA/etc. dynamics in place could have led to some fun stories and character development. It's just not really that effective if you just coast off exposition and horseshit forced tension.
Thank Odin. Bendis' Legion was extremely painful for me to read because the first comics I ever read were my mom's old Adventure Comics from the sixties that while extremely hokey, were a far more engaging read. It comes down to Bendis' fatal flaw as a writer: the man uses excess dialogue and plagiarizes from other creators to cover his paper-thin plots. His LOSH was particularly bad because it introduced every single Legionnaire from 1958 to 1980 (as well as a half-dozen of his creations) and gave them largely-interchangeable personalities with nonsensical plots. I cared nothing about what he was doing with President Brande, General Nah, or Superboy's great "destiny." Contrast with the post-Zero Hour reboot where Waid/McCraw/Peyer/Stern gradually reintroduced the characters while balancing several subplots. Hell, XS and Gates are two of my favorite Legionnaires of all time.
What really irks me is that that DC appeared emphasize that this Legion was the only one that matters continuity-wise. Now that "everything" matters post-Death Metal and that all of the characters remember everything that happened in DC continuity, does that mean all of the Legions matter too. I mean, there could be several divergent timelines that intersect with the main DC timeline ala Hypertime so Clark had the Original/Retroboot Legion, Conner had the post-Zero Hour Legion, Kara had Threeboot, and Jon could have the shitty Bendis Legion. Given how future is fluid, I saw DC's attempts to consolidate their future timelines as folly. (Though I'm all for giving a Jon a kryptonite bullet to the head because Bendis fucked him up beyond recognition.)
A writer like Jonathan Hickman could have done wonders for the Legion because he can deal with heady concepts like alternate timelines and the multiverse. Bends is a washed-up hack who wasn't worth the exorbitant page rate DC paid him. Unfortunately, with DC's current woes, I believe that he effectively killed the Legion for good.
Bendis's legion has elements of what could be fun but I think that he doesn't really care for characters in team books outside of like 2-3 of them.
Someone just give Bendis the YJ book or something that just plays on his abilities and let him tell his damned stories. I mean, he's at least a better writer than Tamaki.
New Universe was more hit than miss, but DP7, Psi-Force, Star Brand, & Justice were fun while they lasted. Marvel and Jim Shotter fucked it up before it started by rushing the whole thing and then being cheap bastards by dumping the top tier talent they had lined up beforehand just to save some cash. The editors could not keep their shit together, which resulted in books like Justice plain ignoring the "no aliens or magical worlds" decree until halfway through the book, and then changed course by declaring that Tensen was in an induced mental illusion and not really from some magic dimension. Ditto for Star Brand, which pivoted from "the SB was gifted by an alien" into "self-fulfilling time loop fuckery".
At least Hickman (may Allah praise his goats) had started introducing Starbrand, Nightmask, and modern takes on various other NU characters into the 616 canon.
New Universe was odd, but hey the whole "The Pit" thing was kinda a wild and petty thing to do. The subsequent 2000ish? revival was odd. Wasn't it called Newuniversal?
man Marvels tried reviving the New Universe and Squadron Supreme universe a bunch of times.
What's funny is that we still had the Hyperion from around the 2015 secret wars era book up to like what, Civil War 2 and the Secret Empire? What the fuck happened to him? I know we had some post-secret War squadrom supreme book that killed namor in the first or second issue and just had characters who survived as the last of their world and shit, like Blur and whatnot. I also remember the Supreme Power Nighthawk going to chicago, getting killed off panel in some Secret Empire thing, and some C list black villainess from the 70s took over his legacy? I don't know what the fuck happened to the OG Kyle Richmond thats been around since the 70s as a classic Defender.
I've tried but my autism power levels are too low.
