I think I may just drop everything except Moon Knight(which I'll continue until it's canceled or until secret wars catches up with it and starts to tie in), but other then that I guess I'll maybe just try the main series and possibly amazing spider-man: renew your vows. I've really been enjoying a lot of of the new stuff marvel has been doing like Spider-Gwen, Spider-woman(which i'm just gonna consider a new title this year since those first 4 spiderverse issues were terrible), Ant Man, and Howard the Duck....but the enjoyment comes with dread that every new solicit day i'm gonna see either CANCELLED or LAST DAYS OF ____. It feels like none of the stories going on outside of I guess the avengers books, since they are the ones driving this big event, have time to breath and really explore there characters.
I guess i'll just keep on catching up with classic iron man while i wait to get some new good iron man again(preeeettty sick of superior iron man at this point, and SW armor wars doesn't interest me at all) and for that new doctor strange book to finally happen.
Every Guardian of the Galaxy but Drax has their own solo title. And there are two team books.
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That's like, bottom of the barrel, guys. Or does a movie make them "a-list"? Can anyone define what that even means? Will people overlook all the Luke Cage and Jessica Jones stuff we'll see in a couple years? "Oh, they're a-list!" Well, they weren't yesterday. So now they're bad! Just that quickly!
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Funny you mention that because I do question what I'm doing here I must be a masochist.
Here's the thing: I can accept non-existent character growth for media targeted at children. I don't expect the Smurfs or Mickey Mouse to ever change because ultimately their personalities and motivations are very simple. Marvel is targeted at teens and young adults, and so characterization have to become more complex for the audience. More complex characters should lead to less static characters. Personally, I'm of the opinion that if you want to tell good stories, character growth is inevitable. If a character remains the same through their existence, what's the point of following their adventures?
I can accept that characters go through cycles, but I've been feeling like those cycles haven't been executed well...at least for my favorite character it hasn't.
Every time a publisher tries to push a B or lower list, it winds up failing. Look at Storm, Iron Patriot, Vibe, Katana, Blue Beetle, She-Hulk, Scarlet Spider, Venom, Loki, etc. They all had a lot of potential but most wound up not finding a big enough audience to justify a monthly title. The buying audience rewards A-list characters, people who keep A-list mantles warm and teams composed of mostly A-list characters and/or people who keep A-list mantles warm.
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Remember that Alonzo is part of the DC Comics fabric. So for him it makes perfect sense to outdo whatever DC Comics is doing. I think that Marvel needs to Hire someone for the position of EiC who has not worked over at DC Comics as everything are now similar to both companies. It's sort of like when Marvel hired Joe Quesada from Events Comics. For awhile, Marvel was quite different from DC Comics. But once Quesada left the chair to Alonzo, he wanted to go head to head with DC Comics by making Marvel into his own personal DC Comics brand.
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There used to be character development but they decided to completely abandon it in the late eighties and focus solely on "the illusion of change." I'm currently not reading Marvel titles so I've chosen not to support what they're publishing. Hate-reading or hate-buying is a self-defeating concept.
Depends what you mean by replaced. He'll always be Johnny Blaze, but if you're giving the main title and focus to someone else, in this case Alejandra (which flopped) and then Robbie (which also flopped) then yes, you're replacing him as the flagship Ghost Rider, at least for the time being and forseeable future.
A successful movie generally makes the characters a household name, especially paired with Marvel Entertainment's reputation. So yes. Doesn't hurt that they got an A-list creative team on the book either, and a massive push in marketing.
To be fair, none of those books have ever gotten the marketing push GotG or Spider-Gwen have gotten for example. And Scarlet Spider and Venom were both relatively successful.
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eh...
I really wouldn't call the kirby, ditko era the marker of staunch or superlative growth in characters. I feel it's always been largely restrictive to minis and short runs which can focus on more character centric aspects of the marvel heroes than any headlining on going
Does denny not count for some reason?
Seriously? Does he exist in some weird noncount zone.
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