Remember a year and a half ago when Marvel made all sorts of promises to us? Mutant Unity? The Avengers together? A new Captain America? and last, but certainly not least, no more all encompassing crossovers?
Well here we are 13-15 months later (depending on the series) and all but one of these promises have fallen apart. Schism is about to crack the mutant nation Utopia wide open and give us two teams of X-men, that are working more against each other with each other, according to my articles I've read. Not to mention that it looks like their public admiration is at an end as the Sentinels are sicced on them again. And to be honest, when I saw Captain Ameribucky get gunned down during a recent issue of Fear Itself I thought we were going to see some out there miraculous save, but according to all the Captain America #1 promos I've been seeing in the back of many June issues, this seems to not be the case. It would appear that Bucky is truly dead, again, and Steve Rogers Super Soldiers is once again taking up the stars and stripes of Captain America. And, then we have the crossovers...what is there to say? After the insane deluge of comics involved with Civil War, Secret Invasion and Dark Reign, we were promised no more company wide events like them for a good while.
Enter: the Chaos War. Not quite as all inclusive as its predecessors, but even still it used a few key characters in the Marvel Universe and had more then one or two limited series/one-shots. And now we have Fear Itself. A megalomaniacal mama of a cross over that involved EVERYONE in the Marvel Universe, except the X-men, at least not yet, who have their own problems (and somehow Wolverine is involved with both), and comes complete with one-shot, limited series, and guest peppered just enough through all of them to make us HAVE to buy them all.
It just seems like all the promises we were made about this supposed Heroic Age either didn't happen or ended so quickly that if you blinked you missed it. We are back sliding into the same old thing that SORTA worked before rather then sticking to the new ideas and try to come up with more ways to keep things fresh. I was really excited about all the things we were told that were happening in the Heroic Age and I was even happier that it wasn't a solid storyline that you needed to follow in every book but could just follow in your favorites as well as being a great place to pick up new on new books (I only started regularly reading the Avengers during the Heroic Age). And while it seems like the Avengers pretty much stick with status quo after Fear Itself, everything else just feels like an old rut that Marvel's falling into.
The Heroic Age
The new "status quo" for the Marvel Universe in 2010 after the events of Siege.
Heroic Age...well that was fun while it lasted...
@TheCerealKillz said:@Dracade102 said:@difficlus said:@JediXMan said:It's Marvel.
@War Killer said:@TheCerealKillz said:@Dracade102 said:@difficlus said:@JediXMan said:It's Marvel.
They're a corporation. You didn't actually expect them to keep their promises once they had what they wanted from you, did you?
If it pisses you off, don't buy the stuff. When enough people complain with their wallets, the people who want your money are more apt to listen.
In other news, Fear Itself is turning out to be surprisingly good.really?? I've read all of the tie in's and not one of them was what I would call "good"....it definitely could have been more self contained....it was only supposed to be a Captain America and Thor story anyway
Before we throw too many stones at Marvel...DC is just as guilty.MORE SO!!! :) LOL
@danhimself
@NexusOfLight said:
I dont know...its definitely leaps and bounds better then I was expecting it to be but there are also definitely too many tie-ins that seemed like that didn't need to happen. A bit more self-containment for this story would certainly have done it a world of good.In other news, Fear Itself is turning out to be surprisingly good.really?? I've read all of the tie in's and not one of them was what I would call "good"....it definitely could have been more self contained....it was only supposed to be a Captain America and Thor story anyway
lol you actually believed that crap?! its marvel, all they know now is crossovers, its the only way they think they can change team rosters now. Instead of simply saying oh hawkeye went to Aruba or Hulks fighting aliens in an alternate demensions hell, they have to make a huge meaningless, and often boring crossover to give their teams "new blood" and create new rosters.
marvel has been in a creative rut for years, they got lucky with civil war, but everything since then has been a steaming pile.
And yet i still read it and refuse to read DC...
@Matezoide said:
@thegreatfour said:@War Killer said:@TheCerealKillz said:@Dracade102 said:@difficlus said:@JediXMan said:It's Marvel.
i used to collect all teh spiderman , xmen ,avengers and deadpool but got so bored , then gave gl a chance with trades , now got all teh trades after rebirth . i dont even like spcae stories normaly lol . i love anything geoff johns done , and loved 52 , so now im more in 2 dc lol
@Gold Dust Boi: i used to collect all teh spiderman , xmen ,avengers and deadpool but got so bored , then gave gl a chance with trades , now got all teh trades after rebirth . i dont even like spcae stories normaly lol . i love anything geoff johns done , and loved 52 , so now im more in 2 dc lol
If it pisses you off, don't buy the stuff. When enough people complain with their wallets, the people who want your money are more apt to listen.this
@The Dark Huntress said:@Matezoide said:
@thegreatfour said:@War Killer said:@TheCerealKillz said:@Dracade102 said:@difficlus said:@JediXMan said:It's Marvel.
Meanwhile DC is resetting it's universe. Which would you prefer?well there not really resetting it
I follow what I want to and take little interest in these events, sometimes you don't even notice them going on.
If it pisses you off, don't buy the stuff. When enough people complain with their wallets, the people who want your money are more apt to listen.I hate to agree with this but....Absolutely right....
@sithfrog said:
Before we throw too many stones at Marvel...DC is just as guilty.
Oh, I have plenty of stones for both...
@Gold Dust Boi:
To continue reading comics without TOO MUCH disappointment, we probably have to accept the way they change history, undo good things, and often lie about their upcoming events and stories... The way people who watch Soap Operas accept the unbelievably stupid things that happen in soap operas.
technically the whole "New Captain America" thing happened a good 2 years before the heroic ageAnd now its happening again.
The day Marvel starts actually caring about giving us honest to good quality stories and actually sticking to the decisions they make instead of just reverting back to the same old status que is the day that Aunt May finally dies and stays dead..... -___-
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