This is “Point/Counterpoint in the Blogosphere…” where we take a look at what has YOU talking. Twice a week, I’ll be showcasing two related discussion points about a particular topic, to help you keep up with some of the hot topics in comic fandom.
Point:
H at the Comic Treadmill is unhappy with the current direction taken by Marvel Comics, but attempts to examine some of the reasoning behind the changes in a generally optimistic manner:
Excerpt:
More questions I can’t begin to answer, but I don’t think it likely at all that if Quesada fails that the Marvel Comics line fails. Nor do I think Quesada’s strategy will fail to the point of the line of comics collapsing. More likely, the Quesada era will march along a bit longer and then the tone of the stories will shift to meet perceived consumer demand and/or the wishes of the next top dog. But for the next few years, I don’t foresee much change.
Counterpoint:
Charles at Ink Destroyed My Brush is a bit more pessimistic about the outcome:
Excerpt:
Where does Quesada think that this is going to leave the properties? Somewhere that they can make more million dollar pictures off of? Spider Man is just about done. I’m willing to be that the 2008 Iron Man movie is going to be a lot closer to the Iron Man that I remember, than the one that we’ll end up with in Civil War. If they had just made the FF as the Incredibles we’d have another billion dollar franchise to watch. No one is going to make this FF into even a fan film.
How can this be a good idea?
So what do you think about the current changes and their ultimate effects on the Marvel franchise?
November 2nd, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Two things, I give you a point for using the word ultimate in a sentence about Marvel.
Secondly, two years ago if someone had said “Warren Ellis will write a marvel comic that ties into Jim Shooter’s New Universe” you would have said they were addled.
Yes, this Civil War stuff is shaking up the status quo, but shaking up the status quo is fairly common in comics these days. Hawkeye stayed dead for how long? The Internet broke in half? No.
November 2nd, 2006 at 11:27 pm
I am just glad for walls being punched and people waking up and realizing they were dreaming and female mutants whose very powers cajn negate the changes she made. One day this period will be washed aside like all others, it still does not mean I have to like it.
November 2nd, 2006 at 11:44 pm
Heheh, do I lose the point for admitting it was totally unintentional and I hadn’t noticed doing it?
November 3rd, 2006 at 12:41 am
Really complaining is just silly when we don’t even know where this is all headed. One thing about Civil War is that the status quo is almost certainly getting a major shake up but who knows in what direction. Sure we all FEEL like the Anti-Registration forces are the good guys but I can’t help but feel like it’s leaning toward the Registration side winning. They can get away with this because whatever status quo they wind up with is gonna get torn up by a pissed off guy in green anyway.
November 3rd, 2006 at 8:19 am
Yeah, like the end of the Onslaught saga, with the apparent ‘deaths’ of the Avengers and the FF, had a lasting effect on the Marvel Universe.
To echo a common phrase in Claremont’s X-Men: “The more things change, the more they stay the same”.
November 3rd, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Methinks Quesada has been watching too much Guiding Light…
November 3rd, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Melissa, you keep the point BECAUSE you used ultimate in its pre-Jemas, lowercase adjective original meaning.