What are your thoughts on the current direction of Marvel Comics and Marvel Studios?
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So, I'm rather indifferent to Marvel at the moment, I love Marvel Comics, especially the X-men yet I am only buying 3 monthly books, one of which I'm thinking of dropping. There are many reasons for the lack of interest and it all pretty much occured around the start of Schism (X-men) event. To list a few issues I have:
- The All New X-men book is not good, not for the writing but the 'idea' behind it. It's easily the worst story idea I've ever read in Marvel. I like time travel but this is stupid. Especially as the rules of Marvel's time travel have been ignored for it.
- Hickman's Avengers is just bad, no better than bad fan-fiction. "We need to get bigger." was mentioned like 15 times an issue for the first 10 issues, it's like an 8 yr old wrote it.
- Characterisation of Cyclops and Murderine.
- Too many books, characters are spread thin and customer's wallet too.
There are many other problems with the comics department, yet the Studios is doing very well. The films in a new and well connected universe, slightly different to what we know in 616 or Ultimate. Thor 2 wasn't as good as the first and SHIELD has been entertaining, just unsure how/when they are going to introduce mutants into the 'Avengers' film world. X-men films might have it covered by they've got an issue when they try and introduce Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
Anyway, your thoughts?
Hmm, pie.
