Brian Michael Bendis is takeing over Marvel!

[Darthphere]

I'm glad he dropped the Flash, actually. He gave us a pretty massive run, probably topped only by Waid in total number of Flash issues written, and it was phenomenal from start to finish. Better to end on a high note and secure his place in Flash history than wear out his welcome. If he felt he said all he needed to say with the Flash, I'm glad he left.

Yeah, then he decides im going to make him disappear during IC and never mention him again. Makes me think he mightve wrote himself into a corner Flash-wise.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

From the interviews and panels I've seen, it seemed more like Wally's removal and Bart's ascension were more an editorial decision to continue the motif begun in Crisis on Infinite Earths of the Crisis resulting in a new Flash. Granted, it worked a hell of a lot better in CoIE than it did this time around, but I don't think Johns is necessarily to blame. I'd say fault lies more with Didio and the editors for pushing the agenda and Bilson and Demeo for writing a horrible first issue.

 

[Darthphere]

Ill agree.

 

[Anubis]

Well, if I recall, the Flash sucked after the original Crisis too. (Though I didn't think the book sucked, that still seems to be the consensus around here.) Took awhile for the right writer to come on and get things together.

 

[deemar325]

From the interviews and panels I've seen, it seemed more like Wally's removal and Bart's ascension were more an editorial decision to continue the motif begun in Crisis on Infinite Earths of the Crisis resulting in a new Flash. Granted, it worked a hell of a lot better in CoIE than it did this time around, but I don't think Johns is necessarily to blame. I'd say fault lies more with Didio and the editors for pushing the agenda and Bilson and Demeo for writing a horrible first issue.

I totally agree.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Well, if I recall, the Flash sucked after the original Crisis too. (Though I didn't think the book sucked, that still seems to be the consensus around here.) Took awhile for the right writer to come on and get things together.

I've only skimmed through the first few issues of the post-CoIE Flash comics, but I thought they were kind of lame. Granted, it was mostly because I already knew about the Speed Force and it sucked seeing Wally stuck at roughly the speed of sound and having to eat constantly to keep his energy up, though. Guice also wasn't quite the badass artist back then that he is now.

 

[deemar325]

I like how the Speed force was really Barry Allen's spirit 'Energy' all this time.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

All the dead speedsters' energy, actually, but yeah, I liked that as well. The speedsters get their very own Heaven.

 

[deemar325]

All the dead speedsters' energy, actually, but yeah, I liked that as well. The speedsters get their very own Heaven.

It's kinda on of those ideas you think should have been there from the beginning to me.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Technically, the way Waid introduced it, it had always been there. The others just couldn't consciously access it until Max Mercury showed them how.

 

[deemar325]

Ah...cool.

Damn I wish Johns stayed on Flash!!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I wish Waid would come back to the Flash more, myself. Seems appropriate given that he created Bart as Impulse in the first place.

 

[deemar325]

Well it looks like Flash is one of the OYL books that's fallen by the wayside.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah. Although, on the plus side, the fact that Nightwing, Flash, Robin, and a few other books have sucked since OYL mean that I can now drop them and support Manhunter under my current budget constraints.

 

[deemar325]

Better to go for quality than for familiar but crappy.

 

[Sin Eater]

Yes, congrats, Elijya , and good luck. Sincerely.

 

[Not Jake]

Yeah guy needs some time off, he's to great a talent to be over burdened like that.

I agree. Same for Bendis though.

 

[Not Jake]

You are one sick puppy.

does that mean you want to pet me

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

Jake why would you want to stick anything up a guys ass?

Years of neglect as a child

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

I know Secret War was delayed due to the art, but New Avengers, that is because of Bendis in my opinion.

I think that was probably Finch too. Remember, he already technically did four issues (five, I think he did some on Avengers Finale) And ended Avengers on the same month. Note that that issue was also double sized. Immediately jumping onto New Avengers is why he Steve McNiven had to fill in for the second story arc.



This month, Bendis gave us two issues of New Avengers within a week

 

[Darthphere]

BKV gave us two issues of Ex Machina in 2 weeks, your point?

 

[deemar325]

does that mean you want to pet me

Means I'd like to beat you to a bloody pulp, but I'm nowhere near you so I'll settle for our back and forth squabbles.

 

[XBRoughneck]

Could Bendis please take over Black Panther? Pretty please with sugar on top.

 

[deemar325]

Bendis would actually be good on BP, but it'll be a talking heads book for sure.

 

[Not Jake]

Means I'd like to beat you to a bloody pulp, but I'm nowhere near you so I'll settle for our back and forth squabbles.

Oooookay...don't exactly know how to respond...I mean, I know it's okay to threaten to beat someone to a bloody pulp for being gay, but...uh...your skin color is different than mine. Don't know exactly what to do here. I want to threaten physical harm back...but...I mean...it's kind of taboo...ever since the whole Martin Luther King Jr thing...you know...and, you know, would my white threat even cross the cultural gap? It's a gay threat, too, not just a white threat. A gay white threat. I mean, gay white, straight black, there's, there's a lot of difference there, you know? It's like, you're my Bizarro. Or I'm your Bizarro. I mean, you know, I guess gay is more backwards than black, in today's society, you can't argue that gayness is more accepted than being black, so I'm probably your Bizarro. Me am Bizarro. Yeah. Anyway.........do you want to spit some rhymes or something with me sometime? Basketball...maybe we can play some basketball. I would like to at least try and maybe win a game of HORSE against you before you, you know, beat me to a bloody pulp because of my sexual preference. Yeah. Not one of those effeminate gays that can't play basketball. Not sure I can jump as high as you, but I can shoot. Um...yeah. I'd like to beat you at HORSE. Not beat you to a bloody pulp. I'm colorblind, that's what I like to say. I'm colorblind. Can I talk about this? I'm uncomfortable talking about this. You're white to me! Or, wait--I'm black, is what I mean. Unless...oh, this isn't, this isn't right, it's...we're the same non-racially associated color. We're the same! In God's eyes. Well, except, except for the gay part. Yeah. God does not like that. So, yeah, I do not want to do you physical harm because of your race. Just to be clear. Not a racist.