Your view on current Marvel Comics/Studios

[The Fury]

DevilRising said:
In short, I think it sucks. I haven't bought comics (and I grew up a "Marvel Guy") since at least 2005. And it was painful hanging on that long, because their shit, especially my beloved X-Men, went sharply downhill as soon as they let Grant Morrison take the helm. But it was declining even in 1999 or so before that. Since I quit buying, I keep up in a peripheral way, just to keep tabs on what new stupid thing they're doing in their storylines....and it never fails to disappoint/anger me. I'm glad I stopped.

And for that matter, DC has gone down the shitter in recent years too. Which is really too bad, because both companies have SUCH great histories and rosters of great characters, but they just both.............suck now.
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So I dunno. In general, I guess you label me a bitter fan, who absolutely LOVES classic Marvel and DC stuff, but hates their modern shit because they just don't even seem to try anymore.

There seems to be more bitter fans than usual at the moment. The catering for the new fans from the films and their dollars means the Marvel Universe and it's stability has taken a hit for the last few years. 

These new fans in terms of X-men want only 1 thing, Murderine/Stabberine/Wolverine. This baffles me that writers in their right minds would want him on their team. His history is confusing, his character is messed up and his powers inconsistant depending on the writer. For some reason in many books he is in, he's the morally sound one, then go goes and kills 3 more random guards. 

It also used to be that Marvel was able to entice great writers to their side, that seems not the case anymore. Avengers, one of their biggest books, is writen by Hickman who's most notible work is... oh, Fantastic Four. There lies the issue, many of Marvel's recent great writers made their names on other things, Brian K Vaughan, Ed Brubaker, Mark Millar, Mike Carey and yes Grant Morrison. Sadly in my view they are left with 2 good writers, Bendis and Brian Wood. Bendis just can't write X-men, he should have stuck to more of noir style books. He's also taken Cyclops in the worst direction they could have. The reason X-men is ruined is because they are continueing on this idea that Cyclops thinks he's right when he would have realised long ago that he isn't. 

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Nearly went off on one there. X-men = poor. Although try picking up the first trade of Brian Wood's X-men, I enjoyed it.