I don't really think it will be that emo. I mean one stage is anger, acceptance. Whats so emo about anger and acceptance? I mean, I know its fun to bash Civil War and have heaps of posters agreeing with your long ass posts, but I dont see an issue surrounding Wolverine and Denial being angst filled.
When you use the 5 stages of Depression as a MOTIF, you are creating an emo SPONGE.
The problem with overdosing on emo, "angst" or "gritty realism" is that it allows sub-par writers to give the illusion of depth when in reality they're just overdosing on dark emotions. I mean, of course when a tragedy happens, a character will feel bad. Is this news? I normally can live with it, but this is a sentiment that has gripped most of the MU for a year and I do get tired of it. You can have too much of a good thing. Independant movies do this all the time; I remember seeing one, I forget the title, where the film was claiming it was "profound" to claim that if everything in your life went horribly wrong, you'd feel miserable. NO ****, SHERLOCK!
The irony is that overdosing, not merely using, but O.D.ing, on emo-angst-darkness can be just as silly as space gorillas if overused, just the space gorillas have no illusions of depth.
So, yeah, I'm not buying it. I already am getting enough CW material (Marvel's putting out a whopping 46 chapters and counting).
Darthphere said:
I mean, I know what Dread is saying, but he reads Runaways every month or so and that comic is full of angst (do not deny it), and he only has good things to say about that comic.
There is a difference between emo and angst.
Emo = "general state of unhappiness or melancholy" (via wikipedia)
Angst = "intense feeling of emotional strife; condition of insecurity, despair, dread"
Angst is more like an event that can pass, Emo is a constant drumbeat.
To be fair, Marvel and modern comics have all but exhausted both in the past 10 years. There's very little that can be done that hasn't been done before. The only exception is perhaps X-23, whereas her lack of thought panels allows her more mystery.
What you are saying is, "Why can you worship RUNAWAYS which uses angst as a theme, but bemoan this mini before it even starts?" The answers are:
1). I am tired of CW emo-angst overkill, especially after watching Speedball suddenly become a masochistic, psychotic, suicidal freak.
2). RUNAWAYS at least has humorous interludes to break up the angst, usually at the hands of Molly; ironically, the character most posters here want to kill. Maybe there is something to be said that comics reflect the wishes of the audience sometimes. Molly is the lightest character on the team and required to pop their angst bubble with more innocent humor sometimes, and half the fans hate her. They wish she was older so she could join the angst too. I don't, but to each their own. CW material is humorless; not saying that isn't appropriate, but eventually it can become draining and soul-sucking if you overdo it. Some movies have made this mistake.
3). I'm a hypocrite. I've never denied it.
What I find puzzling is how some people on message boards believe other posters are like computers in the original STAR TREK; introduce some "logic" to disprove something they say as contradictory, and suddenly they blow up, vanish from existance, or short circut. You've proven that I can tolerate angst in some comics but not in others. Omigod! I suddenly have to, what? Erase all prior statements? Buy a series I don't plan to? Have my head explode? Pfft. If that happened, half of Congress would short circut.
As for
Ultimate Ronin, I don't care if it IS a man this time, which I doubt because Bendis is now almost in perpetual "imitate past stories" mode, but it is making me rethink staying on USM after Clone Saga. Eventually I am going to have to stop being the sort of fan I used to roll my eyes at (ones that stayed on books that disappointed them due to "waiting for it to improve" or "maintaining a collection") and cut it off. Bendis is staying on USM for the forseeable future so maybe I'll have to soon realize that expecting him to suddenly improve back to earlier levels may be impossible.
