roach said:
the whole marketing behind the story is who's side will you be on. So far I have seen very little to make me as a reader pick the Pro-registration side. Everyone on the Pro side is presented as a major scumbag or stupid.
Its not as extremist as ULTIMATES 2 has been, but yes, nearly everything that is written for CW seems to point the reader clearly in support of the anti-SHRA camp, which is the obvious Liberal point. But is this a surprise? Marvel is obviously Liberal, as are DC and most comics/movies/tv shows in general, and I doubt they try to hide this. If the SHRA remains indefinately, it changes Marvel's Universe in such a way that even the worst editorial department possible wouldn't fathom making it permanent. And to be fair, JMS is a little less one-sided in his stories than even a "withstrained" Mark Millar and Paul Jenkins have been with CIVIL WAR and FRONLINE, respectively.
Perhaps the problem is that Marvel billed early solicts as "not clearly taking one side" when they very clearly are, and that was a mistake on their part. Its also not their first miscommunication hassle they've had and it usually frustrates me when they don't learn from their own mistakes, and they're being paid to. If you advertise something as one thing, and you get another, the audience feels "cheated" and that is not a good feeling to evoke (the FANTASTIC FOUR: DEATH IN THE FAMILY special illustrates this). On the other hand, one could argue DC comics lately haven't been nearly as deceptive, and they're seeing increased success. Frankly, if Marvel's ediorial staff were more honest about some things, despite how "black and white" that may make things seem, they'd be viewed better. As it is, "mistrust" in what Marvel says led to an "underpreforming" DEADLY GENESIS, but Marvel missed the point of why their solicts were underestimated or disbelieved, and instead felt it was because they lacked spoilers. Its not that. Its simply a "cry wolf" phenomina. They claimed a dozen times in the past that pointless X-Men mini's were "big", and retailers overordered them. So when one comes across that actually IS big, well, the retailers had learned not to bite as deeply, and Marvel noticed, but for the wrong reason.
