- Who the **** cares about Angel's origin? Nobody gives a **** about mutants' origins because their origins are that
they're mutants. Why can't we get something more modern and interesting?
- The Newsarama writer who covered the Marvel Comics Presents panel can't write. The comic itself looks fantabulous, though. I'm particularly enthused for that Taskmaster story. I wish he were still wearing his purple costume from his last mini, but I'll take some Taskie action however I can get it.
- Bill Rosemann apparently doesn't know much about Eternal physiology. "Even as an Eternal, without a heart, how can you get your blood pumped?" Answer: make a new heart. Total control of their molecular composition, remember? Not that I mind that Thanos is staying dead. That guy sucked.
- No new Young Avengers until 2008? And the title isn't canceled? Sorry, two years between issues means the title is canceled to me. At this point, I don't care if Heinberg's next volume is solid gold--one delayed issue and I'm dropping it. No comic is worth these kinds of delays. Except Planetary.
Kind of a bad example, given that the FF thing was setup for Thor to be used in Civil War, but then that was changed at the last minute to Clor. Unless that really
is an appropriate example, in which case Brevoort is saying that the Marvel concept of foreshadowing involves planning things, showing some hints toward an outcome, changing their mind, abandoning those hints and doing something entirely different, and then finally following up on those hints in a totally different venue. Which isn't foreshadowing at all; I believe they call it insanity.
So, in answer to the person's question, which Joe Q totally dodged: No. No one at Marvel asks anyone anything about whether they'll be late or even be able to finish their commitment. Because big TV/movie names = big $$$, even if they are two or three years late, and if they never finish, well, at least Marvel cashed in on those first couple issues.
Uh... yeah.
Just like that, in fact. The continuity punch was the very definition of a cop out in action. Who cares if DC is guilty of it? Marvel is, too, and throwing the microscope back onto DC just because theirs were more recent until NA #31 looks kind of childish for professionals giving interviews.... which is a bunch of words that actually means nothing, again.
- The One More Day panel made two things clear to me: 1) Joe Q and JMS are ending Peter and MJ's marriage with this arc somehow, and I don't even care much. That's how far Spider-Man has fallen away from being my favorite character just a few years ago. 2) I really, really don't enjoy Joe Q's art.
- I don't really understand the 3-times-per-month ASM move. I mean, I understand it in that ASM sells better than the other two Spider-Man titles, so they figure, "Let's basically keep publishing 3 Spidey titles but put 'Amazing Spider-Man' on all of them and see if they still sell as well as ASM does now," but it's kind of ******ed. I haven't been buying SSM and FNSM because they suck. If they didn't suck, I'd buy them. Similarly, if one of the writers on ASM sucks, I'm gonna stop buying their issues of ASM, no matter how frequently they come out. I suspect others will do the same. It seems like such a cosmetic change that I just don't really see the point.
I don't care what anyone says, they will never convince me that the genesis of this idea was not
some writer or
some editor noticing that
everyone is saying a crapload of characters are not acting like themselves. Make no mistake--this
is the Marvel version of Emoboy Prime's continuity punch.
