I might pick up that Namor one shot, maybe the Silver Surfer one too.
I might pick up that Namor one shot, maybe the Silver Surfer one too.
Aaron's handling of Jen so far has not instilled me with confidence on that front.
Well, I prefer the characters I care about to be written in-character and to act like themselves, so...yeah .No, just not written the way you might prefer.
Well, I'd think if you actually bring up legitimate examples then you would be doing more then just stating a preference.I could say that Tom King doesn't write Batman like Batman and point to many past examples of how the character should be written and how that differs from King's portrayal but at the end of the day, I'm merely stating a preference and King, as the creative talent paid to carry this character forward, is entitled to take the character in whatever directions they see fit as long as editorial okays it.
Comic writers are entitled to take characters in whatever directions they want but fans are equally free to call out what they see as bad characterization.
Oh please. Gail Simone on the Fantastic Four Wedding Special is like a slap in the face. You know she's going to ruin it with her awful sense of humor. What a waste.
Well, he's only written Jen in a de-Hulked state for one scene in one issue. I think we can give Aaron a little leeway, especially as that one scene proves that Aaron isn't going after a one-note approach to Jen.
Thor is being written in character and acting like himself. He just isn't being written the way he was, say, twenty or thirty years ago. Few characters, if any, are.
Anyone who read Batman as he was written pre-Miller and pre-Crisis by the likes of O'Neil, Englehart, Wein, Conway, or Moench, would be able to tell you that today's Batman is barely recognizable from the way he used to be portrayed. But the Batman of today is the way that current readers know, and prefer, the character. Just as today's readers see Aaron's Thor as the accepted characterization. Things change.
It's isn't calling out "bad" characterization so much as insisting that writers see characters the same way that you do.
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If her Hulk form is the one that's one-note, then I think that's as much an issue.
I don't think a Thor who's so boisterous, crass, obsessed with hammers, sexually forward, and who won't shut up about mead all the time is in-character for Thor. Aside from the hammer obsession, all of that is pretty much Hercules.Thor is being written in character and acting like himself. He just isn't being written the way he was, say, twenty or thirty years ago. Few characters, if any, are.
I'm saying he's not acting like Silver Age Thor anymore, but he doesn't even seem to be in-character from when he written a couple of years ago when Aaron first started writing him or even before then. Or how he was depicted in cartoons or movies (aside from Infinity War, where he was kind of like Aaron's Thor).
There is a change from Bronze Age Batman to Post-Crisis Batman but I don't think it's as stark a difference, and to some degree it's a change that was more organic and natural compared to Aaron's take on Thor.Anyone who read Batman as he was written pre-Miller and pre-Crisis by the likes of O'Neil, Englehart, Wein, Conway, or Moench, would be able to tell you that today's Batman is barely recognizable from the way he used to be portrayed. But the Batman of today is the way that current readers know, and prefer, the character. Just as today's readers see Aaron's Thor as the accepted characterization. Things change.
I don't know if people really accept Aaron's Thor's characterization. I mean, most everyone talks about how great his Jane Foster is and in Thor form she was written more like Thor is traditionally depicted as.
Well, when writers don't seem to "get" the character they're writing, what else is a fan to do ?It's isn't calling out "bad" characterization so much as insisting that writers see characters the same way that you do.
Amazing Spiderman 11 & 12 - Spencer has made ASM fun again. Has an old school ASM feel to it.
Immortal Hulk 10 - This title is simply brilliant! Might be my favorite Marvel pull right now!
Venom 9 - Cates and Stegman are killing on this title!
Aaaand Black Order is chained up by issue #2. My gawd they really have devolved into Team Rocket, haven't they?
Which honestly, if this is as 'lighthearted' as I kinda hope it'll be, this could be a fun villain-centric book so I'm really looking forward for the first issue come November.
However, Black Swan has a very weirdly happy expression to the situation they're in that concerns me.
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So much for me!! Marvel has been killing it for me and I'm super eager for December books.
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Spider-Geddon
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Winter Soldier
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