I'm having a hard time getting into Hickman's Avengers.
I disliked Infinity and the comic before that, and even now with issue 35 and 36 I feel like it's just 20 pages of nonsense.
Remender pulls stuff out of his behind but I'm still loving his comics. Hickman's stuff seems more carefully planned but just completely falls flat when executed.
Originally posted by krisblaze
I'm having a hard time getting into Hickman's Avengers.I disliked Infinity and the comic before that, and even now with issue 35 and 36 I feel like it's just 20 pages of nonsense.
Remender pulls stuff out of his behind but I'm still loving his comics. Hickman's stuff seems more carefully planned but just completely falls flat when executed.
Hickman's an ideas guy. He has lots of ideas in his head all playing out in huge scales of space and time - but he isn't really a good enough writer to make it all come alive and actually matter enough to make people care. Maybe he would work better teamed with a co-writer to flesh it all out better.
so, this whole count down thing from 8 months.....? not really working for me. i keep asking myself--why do i keep reading? not sure. guess i keep waiting for the payoff in avengers. still can't get over how the multiverse is ending but the whole story is relegated to one avengers books. makes no sense to me at all. this events have a feel of an event worthy arc, but we just get the unending arc in one avengers book. seems to demean the significance to me....
uncanny? i like that mags finally killed the skull. not sure exactly how onslaught was released though. he was a combo of xavier AND mags so......? 😕 anyone have any idea how that happened?? i like how they build it up too--releasing the greatest threat EVER to the marvel u. 😂
anyone have any interest in the axis?? another avengers/x-men crossover already seems like....overkill to me. not sure how following up to the apoc twins arc and 'killing' everyone can be topped so quickly. wish the books would actually slow down for a bit.
ironman is also an avengers related books as well, and i have to say i liked the iron metropolitan idea. is it weird to anyone else how powerful the rings are being portrayed though?? mandy was NEVER that powerful and he certainly didn't talk to them like they were little all-knowing computers.... i was extremely disappointed when i learned malekith was the big guy behind the collection of the rings though. malekith?? what an odd and....dumb choice for an ironman villain. boo....
SPOILERS:
so, FINALLY some progression in the plot!!! the new new avengers (27) was actually pretty damn good. strange is obviously an absolute and total beast now (in the future??). seems like alal and the ivory kings are to blame for the incursions and now it's going to turn into a classic battle to take them out. looking forward to seeing rabum alal and the kings. obviously they are pretty damn powerful, curious to see HOW powerful given what strange seems able to do now.
it took far too long imo to get to this point, but i'm hoping now we will see some speedier plot development (i mean, really, wtf was the point of having thanos and the cabal even IN this arc?? too much extraneous material, not enough focus on moving things forward imo....)
Originally posted by krisblaze
I'm having a hard time getting into Hickman's Avengers.I disliked Infinity and the comic before that, and even now with issue 35 and 36 I feel like it's just 20 pages of nonsense.
Remender pulls stuff out of his behind but I'm still loving his comics. Hickman's stuff seems more carefully planned but just completely falls flat when executed.
you still think it's flat? i think some recent plot advancements are helping. it's taken FAR FAR too long to reach this point though. the whole working backwards in time thing is too confusing to be effective for me. it only adds more confusion to a plot that was already hard to follow. captain america's jaunt through time where he saw franklin was just ridiculous imo. i will say i'm eager to see who/what is behind the whole incursion event thing though. judging by the time frame we still have a few months left before that happens though.... 🙁
this events (the incursions) seem EVENT worthy. i can't believe life just keeps going on in all the other books with all these incursions going on. something so big seems like it should be WORTHY of an event--and it's rare when something at marvel seems worthy nowadays. this is by far and away, the single longest comic arc i've ever come across though--some 30+ issues in i think and we're really not close to the end yet. i can't explain how stupid i think that is.... at this point it has become IMPOSSIBLE for the payoff to be big enough to make up for this mess.