Last edited by Tony Stark; 03-14-2020 at 08:23 PM.
"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
Yeah. That sort of thing can often be a problem with team books, which is why I find its usually better when the roster has as few solo book characters as possible. The writers tend to have more freedom with what they can do, and it generally gives stronger storylines and less continuity headaches for editors, writers and readers.
Unfortunately this book goes the opposite direction entirely, with Cap, Thor, Iron Man, Black Panther and Captain Marvel ALL having their own books.
Eh, I'd rather the books ignore each other, if the only other option is for Iron Man to become this bland background character in the team book. That used to happen all the time, and I hated it. The Big Three being written very blandly because the teambook writer didn't dare contradict their solo books. I'd much prefer to have the Big Three be active players in the team book, even if that means contradicting their solo books.
Its not an either-or proposition though, and should never be treated as such. Its possible to have the characters be active without contradicting the other books. It just requires a bit of communication, that's all. Sure, some continuity quirks will always happen--but they can be small, and the exception rather than the rule...as long as the writers (and editors) simply make an effort to a) communicate about what is going on and b) allow space in-story for other events to occur.
Some writers make the mistake of having the end of every single issue lead in to the next story, with no space between them. When you're writing in a shared universe (not just a team book situation, but ANY book in a shared universe where the character you are writing may end up guest starring somewhere else) you need to allow space for the events of other books to happen between issues of your series.
That requires communication, it requires that different series (with different writers) pace themselves in order to sync up, which is a constraint.It just requires a bit of communication, that's all. Sure, some continuity quirks will always happen--but they can be small, and the exception rather than the rule...as long as the writers (and editors) simply make an effort to a) communicate about what is going on and b) allow space in-story for other events to occur.
The "triangle-number" era of "Super Man" (when DC published 4 Superman comics, 1 per week) is the best real model for this. Each writer was told where to start, where to finish, and how to get from start to finish. The results were readable, but generic, stories that were more about shuffling characters around than anything else. (If you are familiar with gaming, it was a "monte cargo" campaign.)
Better to get solid runs of isolated comics than several series that fit perfectly, but have nothing else.
Current pull-file: Batman the Detective, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, Marvel Dark Ages, Nightwing, Superman Son of Kal-El, Transformers, Transformers: King Grimlock, Warhammer 40,000 Sisters of Battle
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"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
Was Tony in this week's Avengers? How was it?
"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
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Last edited by Tony Stark; 03-15-2020 at 02:07 PM.
"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
This is how Marvel works...they feel no need to have people on top of continuity so that when the Avengers are doing the group thing...the individual titles are not in sync. Cap is a fugitive, Thor is mega-powerful with Power Cosmic on top of being Thor, Tony is 'artificial' in his solo....but Avengers ignores all that.
I really wish the editors would be on top of it so it seemed like a cohesive story.
Tony was in this issue for one page--which is actually more than most of the Avengers got. This issue was focused on the ongoing villains in the book right now (Namor, Dracula, Mephisto, Red Widow, Phil Coulson, etc).
Tony was on one page talking to Thor, as Thor caught him up on the situation with the new Starbrand baby. Tony half-jokingly worried that the baby was his, but Thor assured him it wasn't. When Thor asked Tony about his adventures in the past, Tony declined to talk about it for now, since he's still too disturbed over it.
I hope Slott gives us some revamps of classic Cold War villains like the Cobalt Man, Titanium Man, and Crimson Commando. It’d be super hot if he got Immonen to join him, and bring him out of retirement.
Last edited by Shadowcat; 03-15-2020 at 07:28 PM.
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Titles:
/Doctor Strange/Captain Marvel\Scarlet Witch\
/Iron Man/Captain Britain/Wasp\X-Men\
/JSA\/X-Treme X-Men\/WILDCATS\
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"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark