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Bill Collins
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I can imagine it now...Batman and Joker sat at a
table,endless pages of their talking heads as they
discuss their dysfunctional relationship!
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Another pin point of light. Axel Alonzo is out as Marvel EIC to replaced by CB Cebulski. 
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I am eternally optimistic about the future of comics in general and of DC and Marvel specifically, but I just looked this new guy up and I see nothing in his writing or editing history that leads me to understand how he gets put in charge of Marvel's legendary and iconic line up.
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I used to enjoy Bendis for a while there, back towards him just starting to write in the main Marvel universe. I never did care for the Ultimate universe both as a concept or as story (I was laid up in the hospital and a buddy had made a 'omnibus' of the universe in it's reading order so I was able to read all of it, except all of the Spider-Man. That I just gave up on as it just wasn't my version of Spider-Man (note: this was before they switched up Parker so it's nothing to do with Miles) and I moved on.Two things I did learn from reading those books are.

1. I really think Marvel made a massive mistake with making the MUU. This was where a lot of writers would get starts or be allowed to try things that just don't make sense after decades of stories. Worse off those books created massive confusion on who was doing what in what universe. The Xavier is a evil bastard started in the MUU and was then brought over to the normal universe without much explanation. In the latest Mavel cross over, the "Captain America is Hydra" they give mutants the same land they gave them in the MUU and called it "New Tian", yet the only Tian was in the MUU during Hickman's run on his 'epic universe changing story' (that honestly starts to all look the same when you read his stuff close together.) that had Reed Richards as the big bad. My point being, even with the universes all being merged up there are tons of places where writers forget that something only happened in the MUU not the regular universe.
2. More importantly, Bendis really seems to write for TV. His scenes are all drawn out in the same areas like there's a concern about location costs. It's a big peeve of mine when we've these other writers that care little for the medium of comics they're working with. I've always felt these had a style of their own and trying to force TV drama into them doesn't always work out well.. in most cases it falls flat. I also have issue with his everyone makes snarky comments regardless of who it is, or who else is around. The uni-character that he gets a lot of grief for writing is true.
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Xavier is bad, Reed is bad -- and ennui-engorged writers can't deal with noble authority figures.
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What's worse IMHO, are the so called fans who eat that stuff up with a spoon.
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Bendis...the guy who wrote Luke Cage having anal sex with
Jessica Jones...in a comic.No thank's.
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I am eternally optimistic about the future of comics in general and of DC and Marvel specifically, but I just looked this new guy up and I see nothing in his writing or editing history that leads me to understand how he gets put in charge of Marvel's legendary and iconic line up.

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He might have been given the job for the same reason Quesada was allegedly given the job, because nobody else wanted it. Of course, this is all pure speculation on my part.
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New E-I-C <copy-paste name here> has inherited a huge challenge. He pretty much has to fire all of Marvel Comics and replace them with good editors and storytellers who respect the characters. No small task as these days many creators find attention and success through wallowing in controversy, irrespective of their level of talent. 



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Did anyone else find it oddly puritanical that following the anal sex episode between Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, events took place that led to marriage and a child between the two? As if permissive "friend-sex" could take place, but only so long as it eventually led to a committed relationship and the establishment of a proper, moral family unit?

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If you're hoping for comics circa 1985 (moreso if you want them before), then you'll be holding your breath for a very long time.  That ship has sailed.  It's not only sailed but made land somewhere and dug in stakes.  

I was drinking with a friend of mine a week or so ago.  He was an avid comic book fan decades ago and had picked up some comics to see where they were at.  He found them impenetrable, but couldn't define why.  I said it was because comics now are made to be read in five minutes or under for the absurd price of $3.99 a pop (I can buy a movie on iTunes for $4.99).  When he was a fan, comics took a half hour to read and actually made you think.  They got your juices flowing.  Now?  Not so much because you (not me) are trained to "read for the trade".  What you used to get in a single issue is now spread across five or six issues and, as a result, feels watered down and "less than" what we fans got even two decades earlier during the shitty times!

That doesn't even take into consideration the poor characterizations of classic characters and the bastardization of classic titles.  

There's no "bang for your buck" when you're spending $4 for what is essentially a vapid "happy ending" after five minutes.

The comic book business model has to change as well as the decompressed storytelling in order for the medium to feel worth it to the average consumer.  It just has to otherwise it's going to quickly go down the same drain as content that is free.  If I can read a current comic for $4 in the same span of time as an SNL clip I get for free, with no more depth or insight than a random Reader's Digest issue, then the product has to change. 

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Comics used to read like a book with pictures. Now they read like movie scripts.

There is little depth to the prose in comic. I can read an entire weeks worth of new comics in the same span it used to take me to read one in the ‘80’s. I know this because I do it each Monday on Marvel Unlimited - read the new stuff that I want to read, and then read a couple of back issues. It really brings home the difference in story structure and prose
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