Marvel news

[yendi]

The good news, straight from Newsarama:

And speaking of collected editions, editor Tom Brevoort said Marvel is working on reissuing all 27 original Marvel Masterworks volumes, which they want to publish before they start publishing brand new editions.

This means I can get that third Avengers volume at an affordable price (well, semi-affordable)! Woohoo!

The bad news is, there are no plans to remove Grant Morrison and his mental self-masturbatory self from the X-Men.

Ah well. Win some, lose some.

Comments

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

You left your friends-only on again, pookie. :)

[yendi]

Ack! Thanks for noticing, love.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

You're not liking Grant Morrison on X-Men?! What, are you high?

His stories have been ambitious, and his characterizations of Cassandra, Emma and Hank have been beautiful. I can't believe you're not liking it.

[yendi]

You're not liking Grant Morrison on X-Men?! What, are you high?

No, no I'm not. But you may have hit the problem. Some drugs before reading it should improve my opinion of his drastically.

His stories have been ambitious, and his characterizations of Cassandra, Emma and Hank have been beautiful. I can't believe you're not liking it.

Believe it. And believe that shadesong can't stand it, either. Emma and Hank have been horribly rewritten and hacked with, and Cassie retconned into the X-verse, simply because Morrison won't play by the rules -- when you inherit a comic in continuity, your job is to work within that continuity. If you don't like it, tough shit. He used to understand this -- his Doom Patrol and Animal Man never played these bullshit games.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

I would accept that argument, except all the post-Crisis, post-Secret Wars retconning by both companies has made it clear they don't give a shit about continuity. Why damn Grant for doing what every other writer's allowed to do these days?

Tangential fun fact: I'm friends with Chris Staros of Top Shelf Comix. He knows my work email address, which begins with "gmorrison@" Sometimes people contact Chris looking for Grant Morrison, and he gets confused and gives them my email address.

I was once invited to write a comics story for an anthology as a result of this.

Well...

[alphafem.livejournal.com]

Now I know who bought the other copy of that Frida album... It's one of my favourites and didn't get the recognition it deserved, IMHO... :)

Re: Well...

[yendi]

Actually, I never had the original, but VH1 used to play it pretty regularly during their Big 80s show, and I downloaded the MP3. :-)

[yendi]

I would accept that argument, except all the post-Crisis, post-Secret Wars retconning by both companies has made it clear they don't give a shit about continuity. Why damn Grant for doing what every other writer's allowed to do these days?

Well, it's also the fact that there just bad dialogue, horrendous action, and bad characterization. But I was targeting the specific things that you (and many a net reader) were citing as being worth noting.

Tangential fun fact: I'm friends with Chris Staros of Top Shelf Comix. He knows my work email address, which begins with "gmorrison@" Sometimes people contact Chris looking for Grant Morrison, and he gets confused and gives them my email address.

Heh. I like CHris -- only met him twice (once at a Neil signing at Oxford, where he handed out The Starros Report, and once at Dragoncon a few years back). I wonder if he was really getting confused, or just having some fun.


I was once invited to write a comics story for an anthology as a result of this.

Occupational Hazzards?

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Well, it's also the fact that there just bad dialogue, horrendous action, and bad characterization.

Well, obviously one's mileage will vary. I never liked X-Men, nor read it much, prior to Morrison's tenur. Exchanges like:

Jean: How'd you get to be such a bitch, Emma?
Emma: Breeding. Top class breeding.

Really trip my trigger.

I wonder if he was really getting confused, or just having some fun.

He was really confused. Trust me on this.

I don't know what the anthology project was; I wrote back "I'm not Grant, but I'd still love to participate!"

There was no reply at all.

Re: Well...

[alphafem.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhhhhh I still have mine on the original vinyl... guess it's time I upgraded it to MP3...