Keith Giffen and Marvel (with A Little Bit of DC)

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I was reading Keith Giffen's column on CBR and thought I'd share a few nuggets of awesomeness.

"As much as I deplore the gimmick, I'm hoping Hank Pym turns out to be a Skrull. Giant-man was, is and continues to be my all time favorite superhero and the whole wife beater angle still galls."

"I recently picked up a copy of Previews, the comic book ordering catalog, and paged through it figuring it had been years since I'd last checked one out. I got about halfway through it before my eyes started bleeding. My hat's off to the comic shop retailers who have to slog through this tome every month. I mean, talk about four color overload. And what's the deal with Marvel and that separate comic book sized insert? Strikes me as the print equivalent to a gated community. What? Too good to mingle with the rest of us?"

"So, after all is said and done, exactly what was “Countdown” counting down to? A Valium dependency. Of course that could just be me."
 
Haha, Giffen's awesome. He said he hated the Karate Kid and was glad he died, which kind of sucked, but those make me forgive him for it. :)
 
I don't mind the wife beater angle myself. His whole path to redemption has been handled decently. What's annoying is every unimaginative Avengers writer likes to beat the dead horse a bit.
 
Giffen is the man and I agree with everything he said! :up:
 
I don't mind the wife beater angle myself. His whole path to redemption has been handled decently. What's annoying is every unimaginative Avengers writer likes to beat the dead horse a bit.
I agree, but if Skrullowjacket could lead to an erasure of that particular dead horse, there would be nothing for crappy current writers to beat. I honestly might not mind losing that long character arc if it meant getting Hank Pym stories without some obligatory mention of the one time he hit his wife in the middle of a complete mental breakdown again.
 

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