What do you guys think? Worried? Hopeful? I haven't been thrilled with the handling of the X-Men line under Alonso, and dispite some trash (OMD for example) Marvel under Quesade was the best it has been since the early - mid 80s.
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The 2000s was when Marvel stopped sucking... The only good thing out of Marvel in the 90s was Mark Waid's Cap run and Joe Kelly on Deadpool. Marvel under Quesada has had more critically acclaimed and seminal runs then anything that isn't called Vertigo.
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Miller on Ultimates, Ultimate X-Men and Kickass. Bendis on Daredevil, Alias, Powers and Ultimate Spider-man. BKV on Runaways. Fraction on Iron Man, and Iron Fist. Brubaker on Criminal, Captain America, Iron Fist and DD. Wheadon on Astonishing X-Men. Fraction on Iron-man. Araaon on Wolverine and Ghost Rider. Hickman on Fantastic Four, SHIELD and Secrete Warriors. Morrison on X-Men and Marvel Boy. Abnett and Lanning on GoG and Nova. Ellis on Next Wave and Iron Man. That is just off the top of my head, I'm sure I could think of more if I sat down and seriously tried to make a list.
If you think Marvel sucked in the 2000s you are an idiot. Not up for debate.
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I agree. Look at the talent Joe Quesada brought to Marvel during the past decade - Brian Bendis, Mark Millar, Ed Brubaker, Garth Ennis, Grant Morrison (for the first half of the decade), JMS, Paul Jenkins, Mike Carey and that's just the writers. Plus Warren Ellis was a major force on several fronts.
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Well not ground breaking or particularly amazing, neither Secret Invasion nor Civil War were bad by any definition of the word, they just were, and both had some amazing tie ins. I'll give you Ultimates 3 and Ultimatum were terrible, but other than those three Spider-man arcs Amazing Spider-man has been consistently better post OMD then it has been in two decades. Even at its worst (BND) Amazing was still head and shoulders above the Clone Saga and the rest of the 90s garbage. I would read OMD, BND and OMIT ten times over just to have chance to read Joe Kelly's Rage of the Rhino once.
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I agree with BB Z. Marvel overall sucked in 2000. They did have some good stuff, but the same could be said about any decade/era. All of their "Mega events" sucked as well. The only thing I really cared about is IF.
The new guy? I hope he does well and better than Joe Q.
Yeah the 90s overall were a pretty dire decade. I did enjoy some of it though - a lot of the Quasar run was fun (not the later stuff much), some of the very early 90s Avengers (at the end of the 80s/early 90s such as parts of Acts of Vengeance, Operation Galactic Storm), What If was still producing some enjoyable issues if you like that sort of thing, the later Captain America run, and Thunderbolts. And a few others that I can't quite remember. But as it went on it was mostly crap ponytails, leather jackets, earrings, stubbles, bad writing, bad art, and gimmick covers.
The 2000s were certainly commercially successful. The writing, art and print quality improved. Quite a few talented writers and even the bad stories still mostly looked better than the 90s. There was still a hell of a lot of terrible stuff - Ultimates 3/Ultimatum, OMD/BND/OMIT, Osborn doing Gwen Stacey, most of Civil War (a letdown in the end), Secret Invasion, Bendis disassembling the Avengers, a lot of X-Men stuff, a lot of the FF (just boring IMO) the Sentry mess, and plenty of others. Lots of letdown "events" where the plot went nowhere.
But I enjoyed seeing a lot of revamped characters come back and done well - Nova and the cosmic characters and Annihilation, GoG, Agents of Atlas, Iron Fist, and Thunderbolts was still a fun read. Hell they even managed to make Darkhawk sort of interesting.
However for establishing the Marvel Universe, and the introduction of important and long lasting characters, the 60s and 70s are hard to beat.
Other than Avengers, if you even count that, I still refuse to buy anything Spiderman since OMD until its fixed.
And he's always my favorite character since childhood. He's basically what got me into comics. Well him n the X-Men but mostly him.
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...chances are any one of us would vaguely dislike about 1/3 of Marvel's books in the next decade, be indifferent toward 1/3, and like about 1/3 if we were to read them all, regardless of who the EiC is.
Also, anyone boycotting Spidey due to OMD is missing out, the OMD stuff was indeed nonsense but it's been put in the rear-view for some time and has been a lot of fun. Do yourselves a favor and jump back 1-2 issues to the start of "Big Time." Or even a bit further back to Grim Hunt. Neither having anything to do with the continuity cluster****, but both really well done.
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