Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Avengers, Fuck Off
SPOILERS!
Yes, I'm a comic book geek. Mighty proud of it, in fact. So, be warned: Geeky rantings ahead.
As of recently, Brian Michael Bendis has announced his plans to pave over the entire lineup of the Avengers in order to make way for his own line in The New Avengers, in a long arc called "Avengers Disassemble". And, if the previews are any indication... well,it ain't pretty.
You just got done reading that, right? Two established characters, one of whom has been around for, oh, thirty years, get killed off like extras. Tony Stark shows up shitfaced in front of the UN. And Hank Pym is once again characterized as a wife beater despite the fact that he slapped Janet van Dyne once back in the Seventies.
Christ. Why doesn't Bendis just kill them all off by pissing on them until they drown? If I wanted the characters to be utterly destroyed before being killed, I would've hired Garth Ennis to write it.
Yes, I'm a comic book geek. Mighty proud of it, in fact. So, be warned: Geeky rantings ahead.
As of recently, Brian Michael Bendis has announced his plans to pave over the entire lineup of the Avengers in order to make way for his own line in The New Avengers, in a long arc called "Avengers Disassemble". And, if the previews are any indication... well,it ain't pretty.
You just got done reading that, right? Two established characters, one of whom has been around for, oh, thirty years, get killed off like extras. Tony Stark shows up shitfaced in front of the UN. And Hank Pym is once again characterized as a wife beater despite the fact that he slapped Janet van Dyne once back in the Seventies.
Christ. Why doesn't Bendis just kill them all off by pissing on them until they drown? If I wanted the characters to be utterly destroyed before being killed, I would've hired Garth Ennis to write it.
