Sigh

[yendi]

The advantage to having drop-kicked DC/Marvel to the curb years ago is that I don't always catch every bit of awfulness that's been perpetrated over the last five years.

The drawback is that sometimes, I'll learn about something monumentally stupid, like, oh, Doc Samson's dissociative identity disorder-driven heel turn and eventual redemptive suicide, and I find myself despairing of the fact that there's not yet an app for remotely kicking Joe Quesada in the nads.

Seriously, the DC and Marvel Universes, like Gotham City in 1989, need an enema. And then writers and editors who recognize that good storytelling can take place without being driven by ZOMG EVENTS which, in the long run, even up having no impact anyway.

Comments

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

WHAT?

[yendi]

Exactly. Oh, did I mention that the entire Red Hulk thing is just the Wade Eiling/Shaggy Man thing repackaged and with 68% more stupid?

[cbpotts.livejournal.com]

I find myself despairing of the fact that there's not yet an app for remotely kicking Joe Quesada in the nads

This is why I love reading you.

[wednesday]

Oh god, is this more Brightest Day crap?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

yes, but... what?

aaaugh. doesn't understand DID and also is effed up if they're doing "redemptive suicide" plots....

Hey kids! comics!

[afeldspar.livejournal.com]

Brightest Day is DC; this is Marvel crap.

[yendi]

Yeah, it's like Marvel got sick of the ways they used to fuck up, and decided to take their game to the next level.

[yendi]

:-)

[wednesday]

Ah, that's right. I kept seeing the "DC/Marvel" and "event" and forgot about Quesada. That'll teach me not to look characters up.

[wakingdreaming.livejournal.com]

I really like a lot of the stuff Vertigo is doing right now but I don't really read any regular DC stuff. And I don't read anything at all from Marvel.