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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 2144111" data-attributes="member: 8158"><p>Comics have been the best they've ever been for most of this decade, and the latter part of the nineties. Writers like Geof Johns, Mark Waid, and Kurt Buissek have done a great job at figuring what elements makes a classic character appealing and bringing it to the forefront. We saw guys like Hawkman and Green Arrow brought back better than ever, and the JLA and Avengers were both reborn to be exactly what fans expect them to be: the dream team of superheroes. </p><p></p><p>Having said that, 2005 is shaping up to be a pretty big disappointment.</p><p></p><p>I picked up <em>Countdown to Infinite Crisis</em> this weekend (80 pages for only a buck), and really hated it. If you haven't read it, I don't intend to spoil anything, but it does hearken back to the popular trend of the early nineties wherein the creative teams attempt to revitalize interest in a classic character by mangling it, corrupting it, raping it, having it turn evil, and maybe killing it when they're done so that they bring in some hip little snot-nosed kid in its place to say "hey, I ain't your daddy's hero". </p><p></p><p>Recently, we got to see Sue Dibny (Elongated Man's wife) raped and murdered in the pages of <em>Identity Crisis</em>, and we got to find out that the Justice League were a bunch of machiavellan brainwashers. Over in Marvel, we are being treated to the godawful "Avengers Disassembled" storyline. Issue #500 had Avengers showing up on the doorsteps of Avengers' mansion, blowing it up, and killing themselves and taking other characters with them. </p><p></p><p>I don't know what these guys are thinking. Didn't they learn from the mistakes of a decade ago? Haven't they figured out by now that trying to increase readership by trashing your characters doesn't work? It doesn't bring in lots of new readers (it's not like the Avengers have never had a dramatic breakup before) rather it just pisses a lot of fans off. Most see it for what it is: a cheap trick that is a cop-out for just writing good, solid stories.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felon, post: 2144111, member: 8158"] Comics have been the best they've ever been for most of this decade, and the latter part of the nineties. Writers like Geof Johns, Mark Waid, and Kurt Buissek have done a great job at figuring what elements makes a classic character appealing and bringing it to the forefront. We saw guys like Hawkman and Green Arrow brought back better than ever, and the JLA and Avengers were both reborn to be exactly what fans expect them to be: the dream team of superheroes. Having said that, 2005 is shaping up to be a pretty big disappointment. I picked up [I]Countdown to Infinite Crisis[/I] this weekend (80 pages for only a buck), and really hated it. If you haven't read it, I don't intend to spoil anything, but it does hearken back to the popular trend of the early nineties wherein the creative teams attempt to revitalize interest in a classic character by mangling it, corrupting it, raping it, having it turn evil, and maybe killing it when they're done so that they bring in some hip little snot-nosed kid in its place to say "hey, I ain't your daddy's hero". Recently, we got to see Sue Dibny (Elongated Man's wife) raped and murdered in the pages of [I]Identity Crisis[/I], and we got to find out that the Justice League were a bunch of machiavellan brainwashers. Over in Marvel, we are being treated to the godawful "Avengers Disassembled" storyline. Issue #500 had Avengers showing up on the doorsteps of Avengers' mansion, blowing it up, and killing themselves and taking other characters with them. I don't know what these guys are thinking. Didn't they learn from the mistakes of a decade ago? Haven't they figured out by now that trying to increase readership by trashing your characters doesn't work? It doesn't bring in lots of new readers (it's not like the Avengers have never had a dramatic breakup before) rather it just pisses a lot of fans off. Most see it for what it is: a cheap trick that is a cop-out for just writing good, solid stories. [/QUOTE]
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