Mutant Story Fail
By Timm 0 Comments
What happened to Marvel Comics?
Now that i no longer read them and hate them with a passion, its clear to me now that they are inexcusably broken.
i spent some of this weekend cleaning out my mom's old duplex and i ran across a bunch of my old comics stashed around my old bedroom. I read a bunch of them when the work was done and i analyzed some of the stuff i was reading before my solitary boycott of Marvel. Really, it all went south when they changed Psylock from an English model to a Japanese ninja. Then Storm into a kid. Rogue into a big haired... living daffodil white-trash anime heroine. and then there was Gambit. Yea, the Jim Lee era destroyed comics. Granted, some of the greatest story lines happened around that time, but in between the story lines he was stripping away the quality of the characters. The personalities were dying on these characters. Rob Leifeld was revamping some of the most interesting characters in the Marvel-U to be some of the most trite and redundant characters in the marvel-U.
Now, the original Chris Claremont and Louise Simonson vision was clearly one immitating life - they had a long term plan to seed the whole of marvel with an infinite number of easy-made superhero stories as Mutants slowly began to become a part of society that humans couldnt ignore. Characters like Psylocke and Dazzler who had jobs in the media were able to spread a peaceful and positive message in defense of mutants while Magneto and his extremist faction tried to rebel against the status-quo (the current state of affairs) in which mutants were a racial minority typically shunned. this came to its greatest fruition in the book District X where we examined the lives of mutants in the slums where that have gathered and began to live in mutant communities. Bishop, sent here to save the future from some evil mutant mastermind becomes partnered with a police detective to investigate mutant crimes and other disturbances in the district.
i remember seeing this advetisement in books:
such a good plot device. you have the pointed ear kid next to Franklin Richards (in his power pack uniform) and Franklin who looks so young and innocent has the word Mutie scrawled across his face. that screams hate. it sets you up for the story and the attitude of the antagonists. you hate the villains back in these days. everything was easier because they established it to be.
Could Marvel keep up the momentum? No. They didnt know a good thing until they destroyed it. So like all good things in Marvel comics (especially excalibur), they dropped the ball and defecated on its shattered remnants.
Now, Marvel, in its infinite and vast lack of wisdom, decided to go back to the good old days when comics were less story and more meaningless combat and deaths that were quickly rescinded for the next story arc. this is pre-Jim Lee era and even before Chris. why? the answer is simple... they have no f#cking idea what they are doing.