OmegaHans

I don't even remember this. Oh well...

If it hasn't set in for some of you yet we're coming to an impasse.

What's going to happen is a lot of readers are going to go. And this time they are not going to come back.

Then after a few years more new readers are going to fill in where those old readers once sat. It goes by reader eras. Generations. Different subject matter, different tone, different world and cultures around us.

It happens all the time. One target for the market to the next. People are either going to read it, or not going to read it. As for me, I feel I am one of those who have come to realize my era for reading these things is pretty much done. I cannot be surprised however, and many of us cannot, that there will be those new readers that will be thinking that Thor in their minds is a woman, that Steve is an old man and Sam Wilson is the only Cap they've ever known to this point, that Miles Morales is getting more recognizable in the Spidey suit than traditionalists. Why bother argue about it? Don't waste time. The torches are passing. At some point as a reader you get older, you had enough of your comics fill and following the current trends happening this moment, you give up. This generation of readers is going to reap the benefits of these books, because that's who they are geared for. More power to them if they like it and wish to read it.

Vision is becoming a family man, Doctor Strange is going to be totally rebuilt from ground up, Jessica Drew is pregnant and no longer wearing the red and yellow suit, X-23 is pushed more than ever as a new Wolverine, everything's set to #1 again.

I'd say the only thing I'd take a skim over out of all of this is Nova, since I see Rider again here. But other than that, my Marvel reading seems to be done. Good news for those like me is, there's always decades of back issues, masterworks and omnibuses to read again. Just to see if I missed something.

I am quite familiar now how Marvel markets, but I particularly have one issue I can think of at current when Alonso says that he's being "respectful to long term" readers and that "it will still be the same Marvel we know" which obviously isn't going to be the case, those are just market quotes and sweet talk to hold you long timers onto the product.

Know how out of the loop I've been with things in the MU? I'm just now finding out that Thor is Jane Foster. That Dr. Doom is the big bad in Hickman's Secret Wars which I'll be honest I have not been reading. I never bothered to care to find out really. That's how I know, I'm pretty much jaded out with comics in general. Maybe some of you long timers are in the same boat. You look back and realize House of M, Civil War, and Annihilation was 10 years ago, that current readers haven't read it yet, and that Ms. Marvel now looks like some geeky young girl wearing a scarf and a dress that looks more like an oversized nightshirt; you almost expect her to whip out a teddy bear any moment.

Yeah I'm done. Have fun, kiddies.

The traditional, hard to stop genuinely evil and aggressive villain antagonist has needed a good comeback in comics for some time now. The ones you were generally scared of being they could pulverize the heroes all at once, or work prep like a nightmare.

I'll be taking a look at this.

It's set for a whole new generation of readers.

Resistant to change, simply? No, you know it's more than that, it's more PC BS, G-Man, so don't be naive. Time for people to wake up and realize that people who have a political agenda are heavily infiltrating the comicbook industry.

I miss him and seeing his power rings and martial arts. If they were just going to kill him off and replace him with Zeke Stane as Tony's main big bad, it's pretty much failed to make an impact since Stane is a forgettable villain.

We need Mandarin back, and he needs to be powerful and resourceful again, have him take his kingdom back and make him like the far-eastern Doctor Doom. IM needs a really formidable threat again these days.

What a douchey looking Supes face. God I can't believe that's Romita Jr. art. Looks terrible. I mean it was alright when he drew Punisher, but this... bleggh. Hideous.

Whoopdedoo. You know what... they do this stuff to appease feminists. That's all it is. Somebody's got a big girl monkey on their back and its screaming PC at every turn.

Bendis can go flush himself down a commode along with everything else he writes in the future. He further ruined the X-Men for many X-Men fans that were reading before he got on it. He left a long lasting stain on the Avengers for years and it has still not went away completely. Civil War was the beginning of the end of the Avengers and the start of the big events and over publicized story arc trends that Marvel has been pushing at us for more than a decade now; the ones that turn out to be mostly hype and full of failed ideas, convolutedness and abrupt endings. Such the sheer absurdities of that trash called AvX.

He's the company's biggest lauded-up overrated show pony with a well known name and marketed acclamations and that's why the comicbook mainstream circles kiss his behind. His total collection of work on Marvel other than his Daredevil run and perhaps some of GotG, is and always has been greatly exaggerated in its sensationalism, along with riding off the coattails of those works before him and during amongst other writers in Joe Q's days. Bendis had left nothing but an atmosphere of deterioration in the Marvel Earth. Only writers like Loeb and Austen are worse.

That makes me a jerk to his beloved fans btw, I don't care. I say what I feel regardless and I'm not going to sugarcoat what I think of him for everyone else, no apologies. My respect is low for Bendis and there have been other writers in Marvel who I think have been so much better than him, and get not even half of his puffed-up acclamations. Abnett and Giffen, Andy Lanning, Ed Brubaker, Chris Yost, Peter David, Joss Whedon, hell even Jonathan Hickman and I'm not a big Hickman fan, but he's starting to win me over.