Can I stay at your house?
When the last 15 years goes back all the way to 1992, then yes, it's very arguable. And the word "hack" gets thrown around here a lot. I doubt people even know what it means anymore, it's just another word for crappy now. And I like how you got all this from a cover (I must admit, it looks pretty cool to me) and a solicitation that doesn't even explain the cover. Good job jumping the gun.
Man, did I just defend Bendis?
Yes, you did. Which makes you a Bendis-Lover. There is no room for middle-grounds and reason in comic book message boards.
Kidding. Hey, I've admitted no end of times elsewhere I have a Bendis Bias. It doesn't help that he continues to underwhelm. I can list no end of titles and writers that don't get nearly the pub that Bendis does who EASILY DWARF all of his recent work.
Definition of "hack", from Dictionary.com:
a person, as an artist or writer, who exploits, for money, his or her creative ability or training in the production of dull, unimaginative, and trite work; one who produces banal and mediocre work in the hope of gaining commercial success in the arts:
It fits. Bendis was awesome as a noir writer. Then he became popular and his talent was stretched to where it wasn't best, and ruined. The parade of yes-men he has as editors don't help.
I still like Illuminati though.
Care to list writers who sold as well or better than Bendis and were equally hailed as the best of the biz despite their stories achieving mediocrity at best? Howard Mackie's star faded after a few years. Claremont in the 90's blew and he was retired for most of it. McFarlane and some others eventually left for Image.
Bendis is the best selling writer in the industry. His stores should therefore be the best. They aren't.
The concept of merging Wolverine with a symbiote lacks all logical reason, sense, or taste and I can't imagine any writer in any circumstance making it not suck, and out of all writers, it won't be Bendis. A man who adds characters to his team and then proceeds to either barely write them or get their powers wrong, or both. I was looking forward to The Hood being amped to become a decent villain, because we have so few of them these days, but "Wolver-enom" may be a final straw.
It's wacky, it's tacky, and it is SO 90's, it should have 7 hologram covers. Why not make it complete? Throw in guest appearences by Punisher and Ghost Rider while you're at it, and give them spiked shoulderpads.
Plus, this is atop his "Everyone is a Skrull" story, that rehashes all of the hero infighting that we just spent a year going through and WWH is vaguely trying to ease over. Of these heroes utterly failing in every mission they every attempt. I am getting sick and tired of it.
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