@CircularLogic: @Jonny_Anonymous: What he's trying to say is that they're great books, but as with what happens with comics, no matter how great they are, people look back at them and go 'Oh, that wasn't very good was it? I didn't like this, or that. Actually, it was a distinctly average affair.' There's just complete polar views, some view it's great, and some think it's awful. It's obvious in this very thread, people calling out the concept of Jen as the thing, or the art style, or Fraction is a terrible writer, and then there's people like me saying 'well, no. He's pretty good, actually.'
People do this all the time. Waid and Ringo's run is one of the all time greats, in my opinion, but people look back on say, the Ben in Heaven thing and say 'That wasn't good was it? Killing him off and then bringing him back. YAWN RESURRECTIONS.'
Same for Hickman's return of Jonny Storm storyline, the same of Millar's Nu-Earth Story, or say, Simonson's Malice storyline, or Byrne's Galactus storyline. Comic fans either look back at total toss with Rose tinted glasses and go 'THAT SPAWN STORY ARC WHERE NOTHING HAPPEN FOR SIX ISSUES WAS EPIC' or they look back and go 'THAT STORYLINE THAT WAS MET WITH INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM WAS TOTAL RUBBISH. HE SHOULD NEVER WORK AGAIN.'
Never wish a creator out of work, never knock a man for trying something different. Fraction doesn't always hit the mark, but he always tries, and that's worth a whole lot. I'll be reading this, and I'll following the various voices of dissent from the Peanut gallery, calling out the book on why it's crap etc etc, and how they can't wait to buy the next issue to complain. Yawn. His Hawkeye is excellent, his Defenders, less so. This is the way it works. Not everything Morrison does is gold, or Hickman, or say, I dunno, Bendis? Everyone does a fluffer once, but they're there and they're working and it's all good.
As I always say, if you don't like it, don't buy it.
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