First some responses…
God…I hate you.
But this disturbs me, because although your words are stained with poisonous lies, I’m surprised at how close the comparison is and how easily that could be believed. I mean…even down to the dubious nature of Heathcliff’s true parentage. Although there’s no parallel with the redeeming Hareton/young Catherine marraige at the end, and I’m not sure what the Wuthering Heights version of the fat cook is. If I didn’t know any better, I would have accepted that as fact.
However, I DO know better, and it is a historical fact of record that Paul Jenkins was high on smelling salts and being sodomized by Bill Jemas all throughout the writing process of That Book Which We Shall Not Name.
Surprised you threw that out there though - maybe flaunting your precious English major and trying to pretend it wasn’t a complete waste of the prime years of your life? Good thing I caught it because I just coincidentally have a particular fondness for fictional works published between the years 1832 and 1900. It’s a fetish of mine.
Shut your dirty mouth - YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS LAME
I actually thought Morrison coming up with the idea that the “X” in “Weapon X” was actually a roman numeral for 10 was one of the cleverest things ever conceived in the X-universe. That’s a bit like calling it the tallest midget ever, but still…blew my mind.
Like that was back in the day where affixing the letter “X” to any word would automatically make it cooler. They were throwing the X around with clearly no regard for human life - that he actually took that and twisted it into something was impressive as hell.
Making Cap essentially “Weapon I” was too cool as well. Neat how they could never improve on the original. (THAT’S RIGHT, I > X, WHAT BITCHES?)
Too bad Marvel’s editorial idiocy pretty much completely flubbed everything that happened during that run, and how current continuity essentially washes it hands of the entire thing. I like how they gave it to Grant Morrison to shake things up - they put a cool “NEW” in front of the “X-MEN” in the title, okayed the new costumes, brought in some (relative for X-books) unconventional art with Quitely, pimped it as a new age of Marvel storytelling…and then when he actually accomplished all those things and shook everything up…Marvel was like “Whoa, he shook things up too much - we were just expecting like a slight costume recolouring or something. Recon everything and blame it on a Xorn clone army of IMPOSTERS!”
So stupid. Didn’t help that during the last story with Silvestri, Morrison was clearly on some insane mind bending drugs.
I’m actually very impressed that they’ve waited this long and still haven’t brought Jean back yet. I mean…if they couldn’t even wait for an entire crossover to bring back Hawkeye (HAWKEYE!!!)…waiting this long for Jean Grey is mighty impressive.
This actually makes all books feel like Marvel’s doing the One Year Later thing as well. …'cept they’ve done it accidentally, because they can’t ship a single book on time.
The thing is…One Year Later is probably the worst comic book idea since allowing fans to vote Wolverine over Lobo, so I don’t know what’s worse - doing it accidentally, or doing it purposely.
New Avengers was the first time I saw Spidey in the new costume, and I was just like “When!?! …and why?”
I have to admit, after like five or six straight months of New Avengers issues whose sole purposes were to waste my money and the world’s trees - this was a good issue. Ignoring the editorial blotch-ups that surrounded it. Last month’s Hawkeye/Scarlet Witch issue was one of the top ten worst single comic book issues I’ve read in the last two years. The Batman Annual that explained Jason Todd’s return and the entire run of the new Flash book would round out the remaining spots. …just…BAD comic books.
Probably helped that I’m Leinil Yu’s bitch and anything he touches I will buy. If he’s the new regular artist for this book, then it’s fucking OVER for me. I’ll buy like six copies every month.
I told you though! This is a fucking gansta Avengers team. Spidey, Wolvie, Cage, Iron Fist, Cap (oh come on, like it could be anyone else) as Ronin - that’s some street shit right there. I was saying they should start with fighting ninjas and stuff like that and turn the book into a martial arts epic - and Bendis delivered. I whine a lot about how he does it, but he’s a good writer - I’ve never said otherwise.
Having Doctor Strange there is retarded though. Can’t they just use all those old JLA excuses for when they didn’t want Martian Manhunter around because they were fighting a telepath or when they didn’t want Batman around because he’d figure it out too quickly and end the story in three pages? Just say he’s off fighting Shuma Gorath again or something, busy in the astral plane and too busy to be pretending to struggle with some Hand ninjas. They always say Wolvie’s off somewhere with the X-Men, or how they always used to say the Fantastic Four or the old Avengers were off-world fighting the Kree or the Skrull or something…can’t they do that for Strange when it’s a ninja story?
They should just replace him with Cloak or something, since teleporting the group out every issue is all Dr. Strange is going to be doing in New Avengers anyway. He’s like this plane’s Sorcerer Supreme - they use him as a fancy chaffeur in this comic.
Or a fancy “driver” for you Americans who don’t enjoy learning about other cultures and languages.
