Hey, if the act of the big two copying each other gets us out of the whole 'dark n' gritty' rut the comics scene has been in for the past two decades, let 'em copy!
I'd be more interested if I hadn't been hearing the bells tolling the end of the Iron Age and the dawn of Post-Deconstructionism for more than a decade, now, since Morrison's JLA run and the beginning of Astro City.
Each of the last three big crises over at DC was supposed to return the DCU to a bright, new Heroic Age, and each one pulled things deeper into the morass. I'm enjoying Blackest Night, yes, but I suspect that part of the inspiration was almost a parody of the gratuitous, ever-escalating shock-value of two decades of Big Events at both companies. "Everybody dies! Everybody comes back as zombies! Everybody's alive again!"
At least DC has a track record for that sort of thing, even if it is rooted back in the pre-Crisis decades. I don't think Marvel has any idea HOW to do Bright And Optimistic Superhero Stories.
More to the point, they don't know how to reboot their properties. The "Unlimited" universe was a great opportunity to put all the old cruft behind them, and start fresh. Instead, they shoved it into a corner and it's been withering on the vine since.
To Marvel, "change" means "move people from one comic line to another."
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Date: 2010-03-09 07:09 pm (UTC)Seems these guys are just trying to copy one another as usual.
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Date: 2010-03-09 07:26 pm (UTC)--Salen
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Date: 2010-03-09 07:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-09 07:37 pm (UTC)1. Breakfast.
2. Destroy DC Universe (again)/Punch Time.
3. ?
4. PROFIT!
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Date: 2010-03-09 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-10 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-10 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-09 07:22 pm (UTC)Heroics aren't EXTREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMEEEEEEEE!
After all, the 90s proved that the greatest super power was GUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNS!
--Salen "Black Bloodgun Deathwoozel" Stormwing
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Date: 2010-03-09 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-09 08:59 pm (UTC)Each of the last three big crises over at DC was supposed to return the DCU to a bright, new Heroic Age, and each one pulled things deeper into the morass. I'm enjoying Blackest Night, yes, but I suspect that part of the inspiration was almost a parody of the gratuitous, ever-escalating shock-value of two decades of Big Events at both companies. "Everybody dies! Everybody comes back as zombies! Everybody's alive again!"
At least DC has a track record for that sort of thing, even if it is rooted back in the pre-Crisis decades. I don't think Marvel has any idea HOW to do Bright And Optimistic Superhero Stories.
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Date: 2010-03-10 01:59 am (UTC)To Marvel, "change" means "move people from one comic line to another."
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Date: 2010-03-09 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-10 02:29 am (UTC)Sorry, that bugs me.
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Date: 2010-03-10 07:57 am (UTC)