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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 2146243" data-attributes="member: 8158">Well, there is the aforementioned "ultimate" line of comics, which re-invents Marvel characters from square one. No backstory baggage there.Be warned though, the "ultimate" version of the Avengers is called simply "The Ultimates" and I found it to be a very low payoff for two-bucks-and-change considering that the writer Marc Millar's big vision was "what if we formed a dream-team superhero group and then they had nobody to fight, except maybe each other?". That's the big hurdle comics need to overcome IMO. They need to inject a healthy dose of action into the stories. Don't they get it? It's fun watching two characters pit their superpowers against each other. I'm probably the only guy who doesn't like seeing Grant Morrison write books for powerhouses like the JLA and X-Men, because he almost always does an end run around the action scenes. Either the fight starts and he cuts away to another scene and we don't see the combatants until one is laid out, or--his usual preferrence--there is no fight at all because a character "cheats", pulling some trick that prematurely drops the would-be sparring partner in his tracks (his favorite chestnut is having telepaths shut down people's brains). Morrison fans love the cheating scenes, but it's like I said in another thread, no matter how much you love a magician's act, performing the same trick over and over wears the illusion thin.</blockquote>

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