99% of what is happening in current comics is crap. It's the same stuff we've been reading for years, and it's not improving. Characters are being desecrated, stories are recycled, history is ignored and originality is condemned. Each time a writer tries something new, and succeeds, another writer comes along and strips away what was done. Look at Spider-Man in the Grim Hunt. He was shown to be the Centre of the Web, and now he's being beaten up by Spider-Woman. Most modern comics areterrible, and until people stop settling for mediocrity, things won't improve. It's the complacent people who are worse for the industry, not the "haters". The haters are the ones who gave us Watchmen, and the Dark Knight Returns. Complacent people gave us Siege.
*Is reminded of the awesomeness that is FadeToBlackBolt's rant to end all rants*
But seriously, it comes down to the past. We judge the present by the past. For example, I've read Batman: Hush, now I expect all Batman story arcs to be as amazing as Hush was. It's a ridiculous mind set which is toxic. I, personally, have tried my hardest to wipe my expectations in time for the new 52 and I've been pleasantly surprised so far (bar Green Arrow, that piece of trash).
And FTBB, Spider-Woman is freaking awesome when she's not in a team book. Oddly enough, Bendis wrote Agent of SWORD and that was freaking amazing.
Hate to break it up to you but as a story Hush was'nt amazing at all.There are TONS of flaws.
Waits for the Kevin Conroy fanboys to come and start moaning,this is EPIC and it's coming from a guy who does'nt like Year:One at all.The voice is creepy,now THIS is a voice which i can see intimidating criminals.
Does he have acess to all his resources? in a random encounter he gets all the way to Canary,he beats in h2h but if she uses her cry then he's finished.
He's an ungrateful and whiny little douchebag. Bruce and family offered him everything, and he still acted like an uppity little ****. Then when he died, thank God, Bruce memorialised him and never forgot what happened. So then Jason comes back, and rather than being happy at the fact he gets to live again, decides to spit all over the people who loved him, and model himself on their worst enemy. Then he falls into misguided self-righteousness and forms an inexplicable hatred toward the Bat-family, all because little Jason wasn't the centre of attention.
Jason Todd is is the embodiment of Bruce Wayne's rage. He's Batman if he grew up without a good home, without a mentor, without money, and without hope. Then when he's given everything by Bruce—empowered by him—he's shown a real chance at connecting with his past, his real mother. Then this chance is robbed from him, he is brutally assaulted, and all the world—even Bruce—leaves him dead. Sure, maybe he was dead, but shouldn't Batman have been able to keep tabs on his corpse? Shouldn't he have figured out what happened? Then, when he comes back, Joker is still loose, still killing, and he decides that Bruce's methods aren't effective. So yeah, he's rage without hope. He doesn't believe Gotham can ever be better than it is—it's no more deserving of redemption than its villains. Jason just wants to bring the bad guys down and make them pay.
Pretty sure Jason had all that,a good home,money, mentor etc so what went wrong?
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