Baffling that I didn’t get into it earlier.
From what little I’ve read it takes the personal dilemmas of a character, from family abuse to cancer, before major world events, unlike the 616 run on all things. I look at it as if the main Marvel universe is incorporating in itself too much influence from the real world. Yet ironically it constantly is revolving in loops, always renewing and retconing itself, never quite changing anything, only applying the illusion of change.
On the other hand I only had to look at it once to understand that the 982 universe is the one that evolved, leaving past events and characters in the past, letting them grow old and making way to new ideas that built upon that past. At the same time maintaining that old school style of comic book writing. It is after all, one man’s, a fan’s, own fantasy, as it should be in my opinion. Having too many writers on one subject hurts the premise. Better to have one constant writer for a time, then change him for another when the time comes, not have them active simultaneously.
Btw, I got to say, Captain America’s death was 100% better in 982 than it was in 616. It was a great death, a hero’s death. The fiction medium can either be realistical, with all the gloom and uncertainties of real life, or it could be entertaining, fun, suspending disbelief. The superhero genre is far from realistical, so why can’t a superhero’s death, or a supervillain’s for that matter, be grand as a rule?
Ok, that was quite the rambling…
Anyways, I look forward to collecting ASG myself, and then eventually I might get some SG digests. We’ll see.
