Comics are starting to actually make me angry!!!!!
Just the incompetence....
Three comics I read today -
Thunderbolts - awful!!! Terrible amateurish art, unbelievably bad storytelling, who are these people on the team, i don't know them?? Why did Norman say 'fetch me Songbird's head', when she was sitting right there by him. Who drew this - a four year old?? Aaargh!!!
JLA - this comic could currently single-handedly destroy any trace of credibility comics have got. It is just AWFUL. An awful team, an awful story, vomit (sorry) -inducing artwork. You can tell a comic's struggling when:
a) Tom Denerick draws it. Who is this guy? Does he draw with his feet? It's just the laziest, ugliest, unattractive art I've ever seen.
b) The Royal Flush gang are in it. A good idea, they look okay (despite their costumes being a bit skimpy), but somehow they never do anything exciting.
What is so hard to understand - JLA should be about the big DC seven, not rubbish D-listers like Vixen, Red Tornado and Firestorm...
XMen The List - okay...
So when did Normy get an underwater office? Where is he at the start of this comic??? When did Marrina come back to life? Why is Dazzler on the cover when she's not on the inside? Why did Wolverine bother showing up in this comic? Why did Wolvy skewer his old chum Marrina without a trace of sadness? Why on Earth did Cyclops call Namor 'My Lord'?
And okay - why the hell does Namor do what he did to Marrina???? Was she that beyond hope of redemption? I mean, if they'd Shakespeare-d it up, I'd have been convinced - you know, given it an air of epic tragedy, but this was definitely not Shakespeare...
And while moaning - why are the X-titles so bad at the moment? They're all over the place. Too many characters hanging around (Magik and Pixie just aren't both needed in this issue)...XMen Legacy is completely pointless...
AAARGH!!!
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I think being a writer or artist on JLA must be a thankless task. None of the big DC characters stays in one place long enough storywise to make their inclusion in a team work for more than a few months. So, right now:
Superman is off-planet
There's a new Batman
Aquaman is dead
Ditto Martian Manhunter
Green Lantern has been caught up in one inter-galactic crisis after another the past couple of years
Hawkman and Hawkgirl . . . are dead (I think...?)
That leaves Wonder Woman. The character no one seems able to make work either in a team or out...
Of course, there has been at least one successful version of the JLA that fearured mostly second-stringers -- the Giffen/Maguire JLA. Only...those characters...? Mostly dead right now.
I often think being Donna Troy must be a thankless task. She's a good character, but she doesn't fit in any more does she.
I completely missed MM and Aquaman's deaths - and Jean Loring's.
Oh yeah I loved JLA Detroit. Awesome!!!
I often think being Donna Troy must be a thankless task. She's a good character, but she doesn't fit in any more does she.
I completely missed MM and Aquaman's deaths - and Jean Loring's.
Oh yeah I loved JLA Detroit. Awesome!!!
I enjoyed the early issues of the Detroit League, but then, I don't know, it wass all so self-consciously "street"...
ha ha i thought you were 'street' Jamie...
hehehe yes Vox was definitely street...
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