Comments on: He’s back! And no-one’s really happy about it!

By: Sleestak

Sleestak — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:31:23 +0000

I’m sorry, that whole living on borrowed time shtick seems way to close for Marv Wolfman’s proposal for the return of the Barry Allen Flash.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:43:46 +0000

I read it, but didn’t buy it.

The Captain Marvel story was the better of the 2 stories. I think it was competently written and drawn, but the basic plot not so much.

Don’t bother to read the second story. It means nothing.

By: Palladin

Palladin — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:16:44 +0000

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OPPS they did it again……..

By: Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:10:26 +0000

CHOOSING SIDES was much better than this. At least it had a half-decent Howard the Duck story, and the Omega Flight lead-in was quite good on its own merits. (And, yes, the rest of the book was just creators slinging together trailers for upcoming series, admittedly.)

By: Thacher E Cleveland

Thacher E Cleveland — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:14:58 +0000

I can just imagine the quickie meeting right after the pull him out of time into the present. “Wow, hey, you’re back! Yeah, that’s great…just great…yeah, it turns out you’ll die of cancer. I know, bummer, right? Look, hey we were wondering…do you mind being a prison guard in the negative zone? Great, great. Yeah, it’s for super-heroes. I know, weird, but we do that now. Weird, huh? Yeah, no, we’ll totally tell everyone you’re back, it’s real big news. Just…just wait in the negative zone and we’ll send out an email or something. Okay, great…back in the zone you go!”

By: jedifish

jedifish — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:35:56 +0000

ARGH. I can’t believe I wasted my money on this. I love the character but he should have stayed dead. For this they killed Genis. I’m afraid anybody’s run will pale after PAD’s excellent 61 issue run.

As for worst comic of the year, apparentely these people didn’t read Civil War: Choosing Sides, which Marvel had the balls to charge full price for a promo book. At least DC only charged $1.00 and told us up front what it was.

By: Hassanchop

Hassanchop — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:39:14 +0000

Boy did I HATE this issue. The most useless return. He has been running the prison and no one noticed during the big breakout.

He knows that he died of cancer. What.

Boy I do not want to read the comeback book.

Civil War has been a great big disaster. Great idea. Horrible execution.

By: Tuckenie (Chris Tucker)

Tuckenie (Chris Tucker) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:20:44 +0000

Yeah and to have him running a prison holding some of his old friends? Um… Wow Marvel. I really can’t wait to NOT buy this ongoing. At least have him come back in Mighty Avengers or something. At least DC would’ve had the decency of making the issue a dollar or something. Is it really too much to point out that the return of Booster Gold by similar means was WAY more heroic and effective? Captain MARVEL deserves better than this. It’s the company name for pete’s sake!

By: John Zito

John Zito — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:56:41 +0000

@Squashua

Agreed. Everyone wants to see Captain Marvel come back. The story was just unstoppable lame.

By: Squashua

Squashua — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:26:27 +0000

There’s nothing “lame” about his return – it’s the classic “Marv Wolfman Barry Allen returns from Crisis on Infinite Earths” gambit!

What’s lame is the story. And the backup.

I want my $ back, Quesada!

By: Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:07:40 +0000

It’s not bad so much as lazy and underwhelming. It just sort of wheels out Captain Marvel and expects us to be impressed. And then it stops dead halfway through, and fills the rest of the space with a generic Sentry back-up strip. It’s as if they think merely bringing back Captain Marvel is going to impress people, even though he hasn’t appeared regularly since before half the current readership was born.

I didn’t read it and think “Christ, that sucked.” But I did read it and think “Uh? That was IT?”

By: Gladiator X

Gladiator X — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:46:07 +0000

All I know is that there is at least one comics fan that’s incredibly happy about this.Captain Marvel was just about my favorite hero as a kid back in the 70′s and as good as Death o’ CM was,I sure didn’t want to read about him dying.

Make mine MAR-VELL!!!!!

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:38:12 +0000

How was that a promotional book? Just because it told us he was going to be getting a regular series soon.

I had no problem with the book. I thought it was the wrong character to bring back, but I like the idea of a character who knows exactly when he will die.
It was a little odd that he was the warden, and this could really go in either direction. I don’t think its “bad”. At least not yet.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:37:24 +0000

I was thinking of getting this…It may be in my file at my LCS…What makes it so bad? I have to know! Spoilers Please!

By: jake saint

jake saint — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:22:39 +0000

Will there be a talking tiger?

By: KHuxford

KHuxford — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:14:49 +0000

Whoever gets to do the series is going to be hampered by the lamest plot-device-bringing-back-a-dead-character (this side of a continuity punch). This was the worst comic I’ve read in a long time, mostly because it was a promo/free book masquerading as one worth paying for.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:09:23 +0000

I didn’t buy the comic. It was a Marvel comic by Jenkins after all, but depending on who they put on the eventual series, I could be intersted. There’s a good twenty names writing at Marvel right now (guys like Gage, Van Lente, and DnA) who I’d really like to see on a Mar-Vell book.

By: Live Free or Dan Coyle

Live Free or Dan Coyle — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:34:33 +0000

Clearly, none of you have read Star Trek: The Next Generation/X-Men: Second Contact #1.

By: Justme

Justme — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:32:32 +0000

I am just waiting for the returned character’s own monthly to start – then canceled before issue 14.

New game. After the monthly title launch -how many issues before it is canceled?

By: Dweeze

Dweeze — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:25:22 +0000

Flash 200 was the worst mainstream comic book of the last ten years, and that’s because it was such an incredibly bad ending to what, until then, had been an incredibly good storyline. But Civil War: The Return is a very, very, very, very, very close second. Very.

By: Squashua

Squashua — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:54:25 +0000

Jenkins phones this thing in. He’s officially burnt out. It was 100% self-negating filler.

My advice: DO NOT BUY THIS ISSUE.