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Beyond Cyborg looking horrible, if they can't figure out how to make batman formidable without guns, use a different villain or something else.

Also, it's nice to see I'm not the only one who thinks comicvine has gone downhill content wise. There used to be multiple reviews, well written articles, among other things. That's why I started going to comicsalliance. It's not as good as comicvine in its heyday but it's much better than whatever this is these days.

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Can Peter get somewhere on time? Just once? Like, let him have his family day and not appear to be a disappointment and let him come out to world War 3. It's not that I don't get it, but this has been going on for his entirety.

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Wow. Marvel was supposed to be giving female heroes more of a spotlight, not turning it into a gimmick. So, that's Thor, Iron Man and Hulk now? Am I missing any?

Marvel's entire method for creativity has become flash in the pan combined with running something into the ground. Stop having heroes fight each other and stop acting like giving a female hero a male hero's title is the same thing as giving theme equal attention.

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I think the general consensus is that marvel has kind of given up focus on their comic properties in favor of movie properties. That way when no amount of cgi can make Downey not look like a mummy, that's when they can start the movies featuring a young black woman.

The idea of passing on the mantle is fine. It was one of the best things about DC for years. It just makes no sense that falcon, who isn't a soldier, is Captain America. That Thors name was Thor but now has to be called something else because it's treated as a title and a female Thor can't have her own name. That this new character can't even be Iron Woman or War Machine II or something, I don't know, new. They just introduce characters to shoehorn them in to massive roles. Miles is an excellent fleshed out character. I wish marvel would learn the difference between creating good characters that earn their place in the world rather than pandering, thus sounding racist/sexist themselves

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I have to say it sounds like Johns, a person even the slightest fan of DC likes, is being given a raw deal. He has to hype up something even he sounds like he has no idea why it's moving forward. In this interview he makes the same statement twice, but in a contradictory fashion (toys/characters on a shelf).

What made the line look good at first was its desire to all jump in at once and tell something fresh. Swamp Thing, Animal Man, the first arcs of Batman and Aquaman knocked it out of the park. Mostly because they went to horror-themed places. Wonder Woman did well because for a character that was taken way too serious for years, they made her fun. Everything else though was more or less forgettable except for a few exceptions. The reason I say all of this is because the state of comics now are kind of insane and even Johns comes across that way of having to explain it away.

The competition between DC and Marvel left the books years ago, which is why DC I think had better stories for sometime. Now they're going the way of marvel where everything has to look like the movies. That's why we now have to have three jokers so people don't get up in arms when one appears in a book with grills and tattoos like Lil wayne just because the movies, which have yet to even remotely succeed, have him looking that way.

I find it also interesting that he mentions so many writers and leaves Snyder, who has been a home run king for the publisher for a bit, out of his pitch. The thing that stinks is DC, much like marvel, tends to spread themselves too thin over disillusion. Movie viewers and comic readers have never crossed over for more than a month or two upon release. Watching a two hour plus movie is less of a commitment than a monthly or bi weekly title. Those are facts. Sorry to rant but you can tell from this that he is a fan. He's going to the movies probably because maybe his ideas, that are good, will be put into film which will inevitably spill over into books. It's just a shame that they can't have less books and focus on story these days. Keep the stories separate since both audiences will never really overlap.

And I never thought I'd have to say this but don't let God be doctor manhattan.