Miscellaneous Marvel ramblings
Feb. 28th, 2014 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkHonestly, I get irritated when I see things like "Marvel is (supposed to be) more feminist than DC!" or whatever. I feel that blanket statements like that are pretty useless because the level of feminist-friendliness varies dramatically from title to title for both Marvel and DC.
Also, I keep hearing all these terrible things about a lot of Marvel's top writers right now, and that's a pretty big turn-off (the only DC writer I've heard bad things about right now is Lobdell).
Aside from social justice concerns, I find myself having a really hard time clicking with most of Marvel's current titles. Thor? Nope. Captain America? Bleh. Iron Man? I read all of the Marvel NOW! run and was constantly asking myself why I was reading it. It seemed like the worst kind of sci-fi soap opera, complete with "Tony Stark is the Chosen One" and "Tony Stark was adopted!!!" nauseatingly clichéd plot twists.
The only titles that work for me right now are new ones, like Ms. Marvel and Loki: Agent of Asgard. Also, I'm going to give Moon Knight and Elektra a try. But considering how much I'm a fan of the MCU films, it really seems pathetic that I can't stand a lot of Marvel's current series.
Some links here for future reference:
Remender criticism
Some more Remender criticism
- Highlights: Of the recent stuff he's written, he fridged both Rogue and Scarlet Witch in Uncanny Avengers, fridged Sharon Carter in Captain America, and retconned Cap's continuity so that Steve's father was abusive and Steve actually sympathized with his abusive father
Bendis criticism (a summary post)
Gillen criticism (mostly dealing with Young Avengers, but there are mentions of his other stuff too)
- Kieron Gillen's ableism
(...And a few months ago, there was the whole incident in which Brian Wood was accused of sexually harassing a woman at a con.)
Also, I keep hearing all these terrible things about a lot of Marvel's top writers right now, and that's a pretty big turn-off (the only DC writer I've heard bad things about right now is Lobdell).
Aside from social justice concerns, I find myself having a really hard time clicking with most of Marvel's current titles. Thor? Nope. Captain America? Bleh. Iron Man? I read all of the Marvel NOW! run and was constantly asking myself why I was reading it. It seemed like the worst kind of sci-fi soap opera, complete with "Tony Stark is the Chosen One" and "Tony Stark was adopted!!!" nauseatingly clichéd plot twists.
The only titles that work for me right now are new ones, like Ms. Marvel and Loki: Agent of Asgard. Also, I'm going to give Moon Knight and Elektra a try. But considering how much I'm a fan of the MCU films, it really seems pathetic that I can't stand a lot of Marvel's current series.
Some links here for future reference:
Remender criticism
Some more Remender criticism
- Highlights: Of the recent stuff he's written, he fridged both Rogue and Scarlet Witch in Uncanny Avengers, fridged Sharon Carter in Captain America, and retconned Cap's continuity so that Steve's father was abusive and Steve actually sympathized with his abusive father
Bendis criticism (a summary post)
Gillen criticism (mostly dealing with Young Avengers, but there are mentions of his other stuff too)
- Kieron Gillen's ableism
(...And a few months ago, there was the whole incident in which Brian Wood was accused of sexually harassing a woman at a con.)
