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I’m not sure that Tom Brevoort quite knows what he’s getting himself into with his latest blog entry on Marvel.com.
It’s fun to gripe! We all do it! And it can be educational and enjoyable!
So let’s all gripe here for a second. What is there about what we’re doing at the moment that you don’t like? You can be specific if you like (although I don’t really need to read the same four posts about “One More Day” again), but I’m speaking more in broad strokes, in generalities. By the same token, I’m not really looking to control the terms of your gripes.
So what could we be doing better? What frustrates you about Marvel Comics right now?
Suggestions vary, from very valid points that people have even touched on in comments here like
“Wolverine and Spider-Man are in too many books. Neither would work with New Avengers. I’m sick of both of them. Milking your two biggest cash cows, logic and quality be damned, really isn’t good for the characters. Are the characters the #1 priority or is the money?”
Or disdain for lack of creative stability and big name quick-hit writers…
Creative team stability lacks. Too many hit and run creators like Warren Ellis and Mark Millar, who do nothing more than create a big mess with no care about the consequences.
Calls for a moratorium on events…
I enjoyed Civil War, sat out World War Hulk, Annihilation and most of Messiah Complex, I’m looking forward to Secret Invasion. But I’d be grateful if you guys would cease doing huge crossovers after that for at least six months, if not more. I get the feeling that ever since House of M, things have been moving at a breakneck speed, jumping from one huge cataclysmic “event” to the next. We readers don’t get a chance to let plot elements like the post-The-Other status quo sink in, the Avengers seem to change their roster every two weeks (in actual Marvel time), and I can’t remember the last time the X-Men just took a break and played softball. Marvel comics need those quiet moments every once in a while.
and stuff that RJP would love
Are the X-men part of the rest of the world? They weren’t a part of Civil War, and they don’t look very important to Secret Invasion. They just cloister together and inbreed. And anti-mutant sentiments don’t really make too much sense in a post-reg world. With the Initiative giving people powers, how can people really hate and fear mutants now? And after all this time, why hasn’t someone come up with a cause for the X-gene? The X-books have always been scary and baffling to me, even more so after House of M. But I guess that is what Ultimate X men and First Class are for.
And someone called “jim_smith” gave voice to my one real lasting problem with recent Marvel editorial behavior.
When Marvel and its fans have a major disagreement on something (as in the case of One More Day), I often get the sense that people speaking for Marvel write off the disgruntled fans as being the stereotypical aging overweight loser comics nerd. To them this may seem inoffensive, like a Catholic telling Catholic jokes, but from this end it’s more like divas expressing barely-disguised disgust with the common rabble they have to put up with.
There are also the inevitable gripes about OMD/BND and lateness that aren’t even worth printing since every conceivable variation has already been stated.
And that’s really just the beginning!
Perhaps you should head on over and vent, too.
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