Keith,
I am with you on most of it my friend. Although, I am one of those fans who
will not, WILL NOT, but cross titles just 2 follow a story line. I am not
going 2 do it. Besides, they always pull it back to the main book anyway.
Civil War was simply brilliant! And I am waiting on the battle between HAMMER
and Asgard. I have the first 2 issues of Siege, but I am going 2 hold off on
reading them until I finish my DC JSA vs. Kobra mini-series. I am reading book
4 out of 6 right now. Let me ask u this, have u gotten into the New X-Force?
The fact that they have a mutant team that Wolverine leads that actually gets
down and dirty and kill! AS long as they do not mess with this title, I will
continue 2 be loyal 2 it. Also finishing up Green Lanther's Blackest Night.
Kool mag also.
Fate.
--- On Mon, 2/1/10, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head
Soon
To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 4:02 PM
Man, have I missed a few million things...
"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody
hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik
To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com
From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 07:50:10 +0000
Subject: [scifinoir2] Marvel Comics' Complex Storylines coming to a Head Soon
Anyone else still follow Marvel Comics? For the last 2-3 years, I've been
following best as I can several major events shaking up the MU. There was the
Avengers Disassembled, where the Avengers were decimated due to the Scarlet
Witch's breakdown. That was followed by House of M, where the Witch reshaped
reality into one dominated by mutants, then restored reality, only to remove
the mutant abilities of ninety-nine percent of the world's mutants. Then there
was the Civil War, where Iron Man and Captain America fought over a government
order for heroes to register as agents. That culminated in Cap's death and the
ascenion of Iron Man to lead SHIELD. And that was followed by Invasion, where
it was revealed the Skrulls had for years replaced key heroes, leaders and
villains on Earth. They got within a hair's breadth of conquering Earth, but
lost. The fallout from that saw Iron Man disgraced, and the new hero of the day
as Norman Osborn, who know leads
SHIELD's replacement HAMMER, as well as the Avengers. Now we have the "Dark"
books, as Osborn and his criminal cohorts control things, but a growing
resistance of heroes are gathering to fight them.
Meanwhile, Thor and the Asgardians have defeated Ragnarok and are back from
Limbo, but are now preparing to do battle with Dr. Doom, who along with Loki
has conspired to exploit the Asgardians. As if that weren't enough, there's
Siege, where Osborn has decided the Asgardians must go, and is preparing to hit
Asgard with everything he's got.
Oh--and let's not forget Doomwar, where Dr. Doom has been manipulating the
near-death of T'Challa, and is now preparing to invade Wakanda, but is soon
going to have his hands full fighting T'Challa, his sister (the new Black
Panther), the FF, and Namor.
Whew! The Marvel Universe is going to all sorts or turmoil, and I haven't even
addressed Annihilation, War of Kings (involving the Inhumans and Cyclops' crazy
brother), the great Winter Soldier storyline (the return of Bucky), the X-Men's
travails, the Spidey books, or the fact that Daredevil now rules the Hand.
I know the concept of the megastory, the maxiseries, and the crossover
storyline has been done to death by Marvel and DC in the last few years. Many
fans groan and complain at the requirement to buy several different books to
follow the latest invasion or battle, and more than one fan feels the major
event is just a gimmick to make people do just that: buy many titles. Often,
it's felt, the "events" themselves are simply not that compelling. Exceptions
include Crisis on Infinite Earths, Heroes Reborn/Return.
But I have to say i've been caught up in Marvel's incredibly dense, far
reaching, and complex storylines. I dug the Civil War, though some aspects of
it were puzzling (Spidey reveals his identity to the world? Reed Richards
creates a cyborg clone of Thor?) I'm liking Osborn in control, and the battle
we know is coming to take care of that. I like the Black Panthers taking it to
Doom. Thor has never been more interesting, and I can't wait to see what
happens with Siege.
Guess I'm just a sucker for the high drama. I understand that Marvel's plotted
this for years, and that when the smoke from all these battles ends by April,
the major books are going to go "lighter", more retro. The Avengers will be
less grim, and I hear more of the Marvel heroes will return to more high
adventure, and less morally complex behavior. I guess the dark superhero years
are coming to and end. Too bad, it's been a great ride. Though, I guess I have
to remember that the lighter years still gave us things like the Kree-Skrull
War, the death of Gwen Stacy, etc.
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