Marvel Solicitions for February 2011

[JewishHobbit]

I was turned off of it by his handling of Peter and MJ in the first issue. For a fresh new start to pick up new readers he handled it pretty crappily with that scene. And he claims he didn't mean it to be a laugh at the marriage but I don't buy that. Then to kill of Kingsley like he did to play up Urich, I just don't like the direction it's going right now. We've all ridiculed other writers for less.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't really get the Hank sex with Jacosta thing. I don't think that was ever really touched on in the comic, just fan speculation. I know there were a few scenes when Jarvis would walk in and it looked like it but it was just a bad angle of Hank doing some repair work on her heart or whatever. Are those what people are talking about?

Yeah, it's speculation. They were portrayed as really, really close so, of course, people assume they were boning.

 

[Varient]

Can The Hood and the ****ing Infinity Gauntlet go away already? Seriously.

I 2nd that?

 

[runawayboulder]

I 2nd that?

I'm Ron Burgundy?

 

[Dread]

I was turned off of it by his handling of Peter and MJ in the first issue. For a fresh new start to pick up new readers he handled it pretty crappily with that scene. And he claims he didn't mean it to be a laugh at the marriage but I don't buy that. Then to kill of Kingsley like he did to play up Urich, I just don't like the direction it's going right now. We've all ridiculed other writers for less.

Oh, I admit that "hyuck hyuck" scene with Peter and MJ laughing about marriage was salt in the wound. I said in my review of that first BIG TIME issue that it was scenes like that which have to stop and are a hindrance to building bridges between old and new fans. If that scene or gag is repeated every few issues I may be turned off.

As for Kingsley, I wasn't offended by that. But maybe that's because the Hobgoblin of my generation was Macendale, who's been dead since the 90's.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Oh, I admit that "hyuck hyuck" scene with Peter and MJ laughing about marriage was salt in the wound. I said in my review of that first BIG TIME issue that it was scenes like that which have to stop and are a hindrance to building bridges between old and new fans. If that scene or gag is repeated every few issues I may be turned off.

As for Kingsley, I wasn't offended by that. But maybe that's because the Hobgoblin of my generation was Macendale, who's been dead since the 90's.

I loved Macendale too since he was my generation as well. And I wasn't offended at Kingsley's death as much as just annoyed. I've never been a fan of when a writer kills off a bigger threat to make a new threat seem worse. It's weak writing in my opinion. Slott has time to turn it around and make something more of the death but as of where it stands it's just lazy in my opinion. That on top of the Peter MJ scene took any interest I had in the book away.

 

[runawayboulder]

Macendale was okay at first. It seemed like every writer did all they could to kick him in the nuts as often as they could, like they were pissed about Ned being killed off and they were taking it out on him. He was the original whipping boy before Spidey got it later on.

 

[Dread]

I loved Macendale too since he was my generation as well. And I wasn't offended at Kingsley's death as much as just annoyed. I've never been a fan of when a writer kills off a bigger threat to make a new threat seem worse. It's weak writing in my opinion. Slott has time to turn it around and make something more of the death but as of where it stands it's just lazy in my opinion. That on top of the Peter MJ scene took any interest I had in the book away.

I guess it worked for me because Phil Urich has been nuts for quite some time, and that wasn't something Dan Slott did. C.B. Cebulski had him "see" the Green Goblin and cackle a lot in THE LONERS, where he decided to steal Chris Powel's amulet and become Darkhawk because he couldn't withstand rejection.

Actually, now that is back in NYC and was working for Frontline, I am curious what he did with Hollow...

 

[JewishHobbit]

I don't mind him going crazy (well I do, but I don't fault Slott for that) as much as the killing of Kingsley to up Urich's character.

And Hollow was the first thing I questioned when I saw Urich back in the first issue. As with the last time she was seen prior to Loners, she'll just be forgotten.

Typical Generation X character, here today and dead/in limbo tomorrow.

 

[Dread]

I don't mind him going crazy (well I do, but I don't fault Slott for that) as much as the killing of Kingsley to up Urich's character.

And Hollow was the first thing I questioned when I saw Urich back in the first issue. As with the last time she was seen prior to Loners, she'll just be forgotten.

Typical Generation X character, here today and dead/in limbo tomorrow.

Slott usually knows his continuity. If we don't see Hollow or get a mention and the arc is finished, then it may be fair to moan. But who knows how the story will end. For all we know, she's Hobgoblin's ace in the hole.

And yeah, those Generation X characters are totally boned. Jubilee is a vampire and Chamber was mutated by Apocalypse, and of course M is part of the cast of X-FACTOR; she may have fared the best out of them. The rest, though? Dead or limbo. But they can join the stock pile of dead or discarded ACADEMY X characters.

Spider-Man on the X-Mansion, circa Christos Gage's SPIDER-MAN AND THE X-MEN [paraphrase]: "I thought my school was rough, at least it didn't have it's own graveyard!"

 

[JewishHobbit]

What kills me about Generation X was that during the entire run there were only two characters I just never cared for... Monet and Emma... and look who's done the best of them all! My favorites were Synch, Skin, Chamber, and Banshee. Well... at least Chamber's still alive, though altered and irrelivent now.