tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post115091847272994205..comments2024-03-27T16:08:26.405-05:00Comments on Reporting on Marvels and Legends: What I Bought 6/21/06CalvinPitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11815632086057048846noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1151504876166906042006-06-28T09:27:00.000-05:002006-06-28T09:27:00.000-05:00anonymous: Am I being too easy on beechen? Probabl...anonymous: Am I being too easy on beechen? Probably. But there's this old saying "it's not the destination, it's the journey."<BR/><BR/>Now to me, that is a load of crap. So for me, it's less a matter of how Beechen got us to the end of the story, and much more about the end result of the story. <BR/><BR/>And the end result is Cassandra is a batshit crazy villain now. That's really all that's of any importance to me. The fact that are holes in the plot large enough to float Mogo through doesn't interest me much. And given that I've dropped the book, this is all kind of irrelevant.CalvinPitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11815632086057048846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1151472497952859132006-06-28T00:28:00.000-05:002006-06-28T00:28:00.000-05:00Oh PLEASE. Why is everyone being so easy on Adam ...Oh PLEASE. Why is everyone being so easy on Adam Beechen? Why does everybody have to say "I really hate this story, but I guess it might be DC editorial's fault". Come on. Bludhaven, the place filled with everyone she cared about, got blown up. Now DC might have given him a memo that said "Make Batgirl head of the League of Assassins". <BR/><BR/>But there's no way they sent him a memo that said:<BR/><BR/>1) Have an unarmed Robin beat up and hogtie David Cain, with nothing but sheer kungfu badassness.<BR/>2) Ignore that story that ended one month ago, where she knew she had "siblings", didn't care, and was willing to die rather than kill one of them.<BR/>3) For that matter, ignore the destruction of Bldhaven one month ago. Make her turn evil because she's so jealous that Cain trained another kid.<BR/>4) When she tries to convince Tim to join her, she should totally use lines like "Batman is happy Spoiler and your dad are dead. It makes it easier to control you."<BR/>5) Oh, and all those stories about her not being able to read or write, and her having trouble talking... could you retcon them away? Say that she knew how to read and write, and Batman taught her navajo too. And make her give long speaches, all that stuff with her having trouble talking was annoying.<BR/><BR/>Come on. DC might deserve the blame for the idea of Cassandra being a killer, but there's no way they told Beechen to do all the things that made this unreadably stupid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1151085372886655452006-06-23T12:56:00.000-05:002006-06-23T12:56:00.000-05:00Actually, the Carol/Ms. Marvel Magneto killed way ...Actually, the Carol/Ms. Marvel Magneto killed way back in <I>Uncanny X-Men</I> #269 was a clone created by the Seige Perilous- the real Carol was still out in space with the Starjammers at that time. The thrust of the story was that SP had spilt the personalities of Carol and Rogue into two beings, but they shared a life force and only one could survive. Not-Carol had the upper hand on Rogue before being gutted by Magneto, and I assume the body just ceased to exist with Rogue's life force returning to full power. That's why she wouldn't remember it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1150985892248587672006-06-22T09:18:00.000-05:002006-06-22T09:18:00.000-05:00len: Ah but they were mutant zombies. Or zombies t...len: Ah but they were mutant zombies. Or zombies that used to be mutants. I don't know, i'm sure that matters somehow. Though you would think somewhere in that mess of mutant powers there would be comeone would could resurrect people.<BR/><BR/>fortress: I can only hope she'll get a second chance. I just won't see it if it happens in Robin.<BR/><BR/>carla: it's OK, I'd said when "The Collective" began, it was Bendis' last chance to impress me, and I'd give him the full arc. I did, and he didn't, thus I'm gone. Besides, I've spent three bucks on stupider things than this.CalvinPitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11815632086057048846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1150962006109745732006-06-22T02:40:00.000-05:002006-06-22T02:40:00.000-05:00I WAS TOO LATE! Dude, my humble apologies you bro...<A HREF="http://www.elegantmess.net/snap/?p=55" REL="nofollow">I WAS TOO LATE!</A> <BR/>Dude, my humble apologies you broke down and bought the goddamned issue. That's three bucks that could have gone to better use.<BR/>And might I say that Cove there gets points for saying 'Xorneto'. That's just fun to say.<BR/>Ah, well. Disassemble away, guys.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1150957731851226112006-06-22T01:28:00.000-05:002006-06-22T01:28:00.000-05:00Don't feel too bad about Cassandra. As you said, i...Don't feel too bad about Cassandra. As you said, it was probably due to an editorial mandate that Tim lose everything and anything that he considered important.<BR/><BR/>It, you know, makes him a "better" hero. (I swear, it's like Professor Zoom is running DC these days.)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, mandate can always change and Cassandra could always come back, at least, as a kick-ass anti-hero.<BR/><BR/>It's a role that probably suits her best, anyway.Marc Burkhardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06949686463975572297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1150951101729280682006-06-21T23:38:00.000-05:002006-06-21T23:38:00.000-05:00Xorneto... an element that decent Magneto writers ...Xorneto... an element that decent Magneto writers forget about. Xorn was just Grant Morrison weirdness gone crazy and left for someone else to clean up.<BR/><BR/>And what's the army of zombies??? Why does Magneto need an army of zombies? Why not, I don't know, maybe, mutants?LEN!https://www.blogger.com/profile/09704862235744833267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1150938458184155212006-06-21T20:07:00.000-05:002006-06-21T20:07:00.000-05:00cove: Well, I know earlier in this arc, Logan help...cove: Well, I know earlier in this arc, Logan helped Carol out when she was freaking out over having absorbed some of "Michael's" energy (it apparently overwhelemed her). he was holding her and talking to her in a familiar tone, so Benids remembered that.<BR/><BR/>As for the rest, I get the feeling that Wolverine regards what magneto did to him as simply a particularly extreme attempt to try and kill him, and seeing as how that's pretty common in his life, he doesn't take it too personally. I mean to be fair, Logan had tried to gut Magneto seconds before the Adamantium was ripped from his skeleton, so I'd say fair is fair.<BR/><BR/>I din't know about the Carol/Magneto thing, but she strikes me as less ruled by emotion as Logan, so she'd probably try extra hard to remain under control seeing as it was a pretty serious situation. Just a guess.CalvinPitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11815632086057048846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1150937299019657552006-06-21T19:48:00.000-05:002006-06-21T19:48:00.000-05:00The thing that really pissed me off about New Aven...The thing that really pissed me off about <I>New Avengers</I> (Xorneto headache aside) was how, in the middle of fighting a collective of lost mutant powers that had just killed Alpha Flight and was trying to possess Magneto in the middle of Genosha, apart from a token "yeah, this seems familiar and the Alphans were people," Wolverine appeared to have no connection to anything whatsoever. HE'S THE ONLY X-MUTANT ON THE TEAM! I understand trying to downplay his omnipresence, but did Bendis have to do it <I>in this arc?</I> If any New Avengers story deserves the full Wolverine treatment, this was it.<BR/><BR/>And speaking of characters seemingly forgetting their histories, shouldn't Carol have had a more visceral reaction to Magneto? I'm blanking on how Carol regained her autonomy, but shouldn't Magneto apparently killing her to save Rogue in UXM #273 be sort of a big deal that sends her in a berserker rage against him? Hell, shouldn't Logan still be pissed about X-MEN #25? Do Carol and Logan remember that they used to know each other? Did Wanda erase the 90s X-Universe while I wasn't looking?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1150927168050971242006-06-21T16:59:00.000-05:002006-06-21T16:59:00.000-05:00Yeah, I saw his appearence at the end of the book....Yeah, I saw his appearence at the end of the book. With any luck, he'll continue the trend I've seen in new Avengers - and get his tail kicked by out-of-control Iron Man.CalvinPitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11815632086057048846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19932777.post-1150927046314952872006-06-21T16:57:00.000-05:002006-06-21T16:57:00.000-05:00You have no idea how liberating it was to go into ...You have no idea how liberating it was to go into the comic shop, stare at New Avengers on the rack, flip it the middle finger, then leave with zero copies of said comic.<BR/><BR/>And now you tell me that in addition to the traditional suckiness of NA I now have to be up on my <I>X-Men</I> continuity to understand it?<BR/><BR/>Fuck off, Marvel.<BR/><BR/>I was also going to mention that not buying NA gives me a Sentry-free pull list...until I read <I>Iron Man</I>.<BR/><BR/>I'm not even kidding about that.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01346148754086281062noreply@blogger.com