@hawk2916 said:
@oldnightcrawler: oooooohhhhhh!!! I get it.
- You like Doop. So really if youre a fan its really no convincing you.
- You are right though I wont be buying Doop or the O5 Cyclops solo stuff. Imo there are far better characters currently in limbo that deserve to be put on a team and have a book.
- Unlike some people I dont drink up everything Marvel is doing. I dont always like the direction they are taking and tend to voice my opinion about it rather than agreeing with and trying to defend everything they do. Yet you seem to defend whatever they do when anyone raises an objection. If I have you pegged wrong on that I apologize.
- I jsut think solos are a waste and takeaway artist, writers, time and money that could be better used or better spent on making good quality product. Quantity doesnt always equality. At least thats been my experience.
1. I do like Doop, but that isn't my point. And no, you can't convince me that a story that neither of us has read isn't worth telling. That's not being critical, that's just being prejudiced.
2. If you don't like Doop, then you don't and that's your prerogative. I don't have any interest in, say, Cable, but I don't complain when he gets his own book just because I don't care about him. Like Doop is for you, I don't really like it when Cable's on the X-men, but him having his own book? why would I care? By your rational, Peter Milligan shouldn't get to write a story about his character, for fans of that character, because you'd rather read something else? See how that's kind of entitled sounding?
3. Apology accepted. I can see how it comes off that way. Personally, I think I'm pretty critical of most of what I read; and I certainly don't defend books that I think are bad -or good- against genuine criticism. But, even if I don't like something, I'm still inclined to point out when a criticism is arbitrary rather than actually critical, because actual criticism is constructive where arbitrary criticism is arbitrary. You saying that Doop doesn't deserve his own book is arbitrary because it's only based on your dislike of the character, and not based on having actually read the book; it speaks only of your own personal taste and doesn't speak about the thing you're criticizing itself. That's why I don't critique books I haven't read, because, really, I can't.
4. I'm really not as much of a fan of solo comics as I am of ensemble casts either. I don't read Wolverine's books because he interests me more with the X-men and I'd rather support that. Same with Cap' and the Avengers. Then again, even though I like Hawkeye with the Avengers, I still read their book because it's really good.
In the case of Doop, to me he's part of Milligan's X-force/X-statics team, but was far more compelling in his own stories than that group of characters was as a whole, so it makes sense to me that he would survive that series to go on to have his own.
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