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I think the real problem is that the focus of comics has shifted from creating to perpeptuating.
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I think the real problem is that the focus of comics has shifted from creating to perpeptuating.
(e.g. Fraction's Hawkeye).
Lol, well I hope I did't give that impression...I don't hold the characters themselves, as a fictional concept, responsible for anything. My ire is completely directed towards the editorial staff and writers.
When I say Spider-man "isn't the character I grew up with", I'm completely talking about the way he's been handled by creators over the last 20+ years.
I mean...they can feel that way? I was born 17 years after the original Ditko and Romita run, it didn't prevent me from going back and appreciating those stories. If anything, for new readers these days there's less of an excuse to not be familiar with the actual classic representations of those heroes - from online reprints, to the Marvel Essentials series, to the Omnibus collections. There was nothing like that when I got into comics, even trade paperback collections weren't really a thing until much later. The closest we had were the Marvel Masterworks line, and that was paying really steep prices for like 10 issues, and you couldn't exactly pick those things up at B.Dalton in the mall.
What I'm saying is Im happy with either of these approaches, but neither are what's currently on offer. (from MArvel or DC anyways, the Mignolaverse seems to be doing good).
I'm actually not a fan of comics synergizig with the films, especially as the films move farther and farther away from beig comicbook adaptions.
I got the Hawkeye toy that came with Pizza Dog just to get Pizza Dog.
Actually the Pizza Dog issue of that run is probably one of my favorite comics of the modern era.
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It's told entirely from the perspective of Hawkeye's dog. And all the words spoken are scribble other than the few words a dog might know. And his perspective is shown in like, concepts of how he connects people and ideas rather than words.
Another amazing modern single issue for me is Moon Knight (vol.7) #5
The way it creates "motion" with the static art is just fantastic.
It’s on the short list, for sure.
Now I’m trying to think of what else might be on that list....that’s tough....
The first Batman / TMNT miniseries was really good. The page where Michelangelo makes the pro and con list for Batman is so funny.
If you don't mind a really dark story about depression and suicide the recent Mr. Miracle series probably has a stand out issue.
This is why I want to write Moon Knight, and completely make him something unique; something he's better at, and not as some people think a knock-off Batman (Marvel has done some good with him off and on lately, I'll give them that.)
I know, however, how to spin him to shut the door on the old continuity and open a new beginning which doesn't make him "not" Moon Knight, and doesn't remove his past--just clarifies it to a modern audience to something they might understand. Both were inspired by the Shadow; Batman a bit by the Lamont Cranston identity of a rich playboy, Moon Knight by the "I've more than one secret identity."
Oh, he'd still be strange, in fact, a bit stranger than he has been lately (which I've mostly enjoyed.) But the multiple identities/DID elements would be more than "the moon makes you crazy," type cyclical concept, which is slightly post-dates Khonshu's time and people's ideas of the moon a lot.
give him multiple personality disorder tied to the phases of the Moon...
I didn’t mind Hawkeye using a costume closer to that if the films, for instance. Some other stuff. Plenty of bad examples of that kind of thing, though.
Comics, Film Series, Video Game Studios - anything creative you can possibly think of that was great enough to become a Brand has been absolutely destroyed by the same thing - megacorporate ownership, which inevitably comes with mega corporate management.I think the real problem is that the focus of comics has shifted from creating to perpeptuating.
What if he dealt with crimes, no one else did?
or Professor X silently being in love with Jean Grey, until they realize, no, wait, that's creepy, let's never mention this again.
Meh, Onslaught was amateur hour compared to the Xavier-related WTFness we got in the X-Men/Micronauts mini-series a decade earlier.Goddammit, you just made me remember Onslaught. I'm not going to forgve you all afternoon...
I was never really big into the X-Men but when X-Factor came out with Walt Simonson I bought those a lot. Loved the original team in those.
Meh, Onslaught was amateur hour compared to the Xavier-related WTFness we got in the X-Men/Micronauts mini-series a decade and a half earlier.
Honestly, reading through old X-Men comics again (I started again in the 60s and am currently in the late 70s): How anyone could ever think of Xavier as anything other than an egotistical asshole... Like it's what he has been from the beginning.
Dude is honestly just so up his own ass 99% of the time.
The best thing about the MCU is that they are using real-time (well, up until Endgame anyway with it being 2023).
I actually thought that the more recent X-men films did a good job of conveying this - a character who had high ideals, but was a disconnected member of the elite who, despite being able to read thoughts, was completely emtionally disconnected from his "students". He saw nothing wrong with forming children under his care into a paramilitary strike force to pursue his political ends.
The first Batman / TMNT miniseries was really good. The page where Michelangelo makes the pro and con list for Batman is so funny.