How accessible is Marvel Now?
04-04-14, 05:25 PM
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Re: How accessible is Marvel Now?
And I've found that his old X-Men run doesn't hold up particularly well, either. I don't know if it's because I'm older, or that kind of writing is just out of style, but that's some terrible dialog. It's overly formal and stiff and comes off as 'written' and not things anyone would actually say.
Nevermind the plotlines that are dragged out for years and never resolved, the storylines that are cut off in order to accommodate the big fall crossovers.
Nevermind the plotlines that are dragged out for years and never resolved, the storylines that are cut off in order to accommodate the big fall crossovers.
04-04-14, 05:32 PM
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Re: How accessible is Marvel Now?
It is very wordy, though, and some of the dialog does seem stilted. I always imagine a Kirk-like speaking pattern for a lot of his dialogue, with a lot of pauses between speech bubbles.
This will seem ironic, because I loved Dark Phoenix Saga in trade form as a kid, but I also think his work suffers when you read it all at once instead of month to month. Some of the storylines like Fall of the Mutants that I thought were these grand stories seem much shorter without the wait between issues.
This will seem ironic, because I loved Dark Phoenix Saga in trade form as a kid, but I also think his work suffers when you read it all at once instead of month to month. Some of the storylines like Fall of the Mutants that I thought were these grand stories seem much shorter without the wait between issues.
04-04-14, 06:55 PM
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Re: How accessible is Marvel Now?
04-04-14, 07:51 PM
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I don't know, I suppose they're dated, but those first 50 issues or so have a real majesty to them that very few comics have ever had. I picked up the Marvel Masterworks trades a couple years back and had a blast re-reading them. There's a particular energy they have, particulary when he was working with Byrne.
I remember really loving Claremont's X-Men when I was a teenager; I started reading around "The Fall of the Mutants" crossover. That period, from about "Mutant Massacre" up until the end of Claremont's run, had some really dark, weird, surreal, twisted stuff in it. But a few years ago, I re-read it, and while there was still a lot of good things in it, Claremont's ticks really stood out and it didn't really hold together well.
