How Can Marvel Be Fixed? - I'm gonna ramble
Looking at the outbreak of failing mutants titles & cancellations on once proud franchises like Silver Surfer & The Punisher, what the hell is happening at Marvel? From the time of Jim Shooter to now, I've become less and less enthused about Marvel as a company. No longer is it the "House Of Ideas", it's more "The House of Bendis & Movie Tickets." Bendis does a bang-up job on Powers and Ultimate Spider-man, his Alias was great but enough is enough. Just because he is a talented man who can produce eleventy billion comics a month doesn't mean he should.
Let's look at this from another angle. Take New Invaders. It's a well written title with great characters and a fresh team dynamic. Now look at the horrible coloring style and lack of inking on the book. If this book had a decent inker it would be saved from the "soon to be cancelled" bin. There is a vocal following of the book, but you know it's coming. In this new era of M-Corp, unless it has Spider in the title, low selling books are canned.
That's what we'll call it from now on, M-Corp. The stands for "Mutants or else you bastards Corporation."
With all the mutant crap out there, I starting to wish a Sentinel would destroy their offices for being mutant collaberators.
Now throw in the "Young Guns" crap we're being fed. Yeah some of them are decent, but c'mon they are shoving these guys at us like they are the 2nd coming of Lee & McFarlane. "House Of M? Give it to Coipel. His Legion was gangbusters!" ........Jesus!
Do the lunatics run the asylum?
Deadlines are a thing of the past.
The EIC can't even turn his own book in on time.
Their core talent pool is solid, but they are filled out with a lot of mediocrity.
They are grabbing headlines, love & rancor for the Bendis-ization of Avengers.
Give me some books that aren't trade driven.
How many issues do I have to read to figure out if I like a story?
What is the company's direction?
Is there one?
Or is it more of just a throw as much shit at the wall and see what sticks attitude?
Will the tpb style of storytelling die, or will it only get worse so that they keep up with manga?
Why is the general thought of modern M-Corp making me angry?
phew, I feel better now.
Let's look at this from another angle. Take New Invaders. It's a well written title with great characters and a fresh team dynamic. Now look at the horrible coloring style and lack of inking on the book. If this book had a decent inker it would be saved from the "soon to be cancelled" bin. There is a vocal following of the book, but you know it's coming. In this new era of M-Corp, unless it has Spider in the title, low selling books are canned.
That's what we'll call it from now on, M-Corp. The stands for "Mutants or else you bastards Corporation."
With all the mutant crap out there, I starting to wish a Sentinel would destroy their offices for being mutant collaberators.
Now throw in the "Young Guns" crap we're being fed. Yeah some of them are decent, but c'mon they are shoving these guys at us like they are the 2nd coming of Lee & McFarlane. "House Of M? Give it to Coipel. His Legion was gangbusters!" ........Jesus!
Do the lunatics run the asylum?
Deadlines are a thing of the past.
The EIC can't even turn his own book in on time.
Their core talent pool is solid, but they are filled out with a lot of mediocrity.
They are grabbing headlines, love & rancor for the Bendis-ization of Avengers.
Give me some books that aren't trade driven.
How many issues do I have to read to figure out if I like a story?
What is the company's direction?
Is there one?
Or is it more of just a throw as much shit at the wall and see what sticks attitude?
Will the tpb style of storytelling die, or will it only get worse so that they keep up with manga?
Why is the general thought of modern M-Corp making me angry?
phew, I feel better now.
posted by thetechnocrat at 6:54 AM
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