I love mainstream comics and I always will. I will always enjoy keeping up with the Spider-Manses and Batmen and everybody else. They've got me hooked and I'll always be interested.
That being said, THEY NEED TO STOP DOING THE SAME THINGS. ALL THE TIME.
It's really getting out of hand.
Three years ago, Captain America got shot and died. Last summer, they revealed/made up that he had really just been shot with a time gun and was "unstuck in time." He eventually fought his way back to the present, only to find that his former sidekick had taken on his mantle.
Last year, Grant Morrison wrote about 120 pages of blather that didn't make any sense and then killed Batman at the end. And then he wrote another 160 pages of nonsensical blather and killed Batman again! Now it seems that Batman is stuck in the timestream and attempting to get back to the present. Once he gets here, he'll find that his former sidekick has taken up his mantle (and become more interesting than he has).
See what I mean?
And now, after about a decade each of "dark" stories and "putting their characters through the wringer," both companies are promising a more optimistic universe after each ends their current big event. Marvel is ringing in "The Heroic Age," which will put their classic teams and line-ups back together, restore classic heroes to their classic situations, and hopefully have Punisher stop being Frankenstein. DC is releasing "Brightest Day" and claiming that theirs is just another story and not a company-wide change like Marvel's, but I doubt it. They are still promising universal changes and I seriously doubt something called "Brightest Day" will bring about a less Heroic Age.
These are only two big examples, of course; there's literally thousands of similarities. For a while I followed both companies' titles, but it really is the same stories being told twice, and I gotta say...
Make Mine Marvel!
Except for Batman and a few other cool things, Marvel just has better characters than DC and that's all there is to it!
Now, if you make me pick out of all current comic-bookdom, it'd probably me more like "Make Mine Umbrella Academy and Also RASL Whenever It Does Actually Come Out" or something, but between the Big Two (One?) Marvel's just a little cooler, right?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
I literally agree with every bit of it, Tim. Also you seem awfully practiced at this writing thing.
Post a Comment