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| 24 Issues over 240 pages and we are just getting to the prelude? WTF |
Jonthan Hickman and the Marvel Universe is a match made in
Omnibus heaven because his muther f**king stories will need Omnibus treatment
to try and collect one story in it.
Hickman’s Fantastic Four story went on forever and I can’t even
remember much about the conclusion, except future Franklin saved the world or universe. By the
time we got to the end I had cancelled the title and then picked up a trade or
two to catch up and the story still had not ended. He managed to add the Future
Foundation and tried to age Johnny a couple of years. Johnny already is being
written by Fraction like that never happened. The bottom line was after four
years or what ever the impact to the title was minimal. Some great ideas as
Hickman always has been a forgettable experience.
Now we have Hickman on Avengers. His current Avengers run is
about 16 issues (and what 10 on New Avengers) in and we have the Builders, the
New Universe characters involved, endless worlds being destroyed, the Black
Swan, various parts of the globe changing and now it is all leading into the
big Infinity event. Come on man, can’t you just tell us a story or two in a six
issues. At this point by the time you get to the grand finale I will not even
remember why I was reading this story. Hickman has these wonderful grandiose
ideas that make Morrison seem like the only drug he has used is caffeine. The
problem is it makes the characters into bit players in his drama. I see Hickman
as almost being too diffused and unable to focus enough to get in and get out
with his story. Every damn story does not have to be involved as Games of
Thrones.
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| Guaranteed to be launching the Inhumans series and at least one more book by the time it ends. |
The Avengers work
when you have the great team dynamics and fighting some cool villains or
impossible menace but Hickman has them handling crisis or some many fronts even
as a reader I can’t keep it all straight. Worse they try and tie the continuity
together by explaining how Reed Richard and Tony Stark are doing what they are
doing in other books and still finding time to be in the Avengers and/or the
Illuminati. Now we find out it is just building up to a new Infinity event. It
makes me long for the dragged out six issue Daredevil arcs under Bendis.
Even worse it seems like Marvel just uses one event to
launch new books to go into the next event. Age of Ultron was a disaster that
just set up story arcs. This never ending story may end the same way.
Let’s face I’m willing to commit to books and give writers a
chance by Hickman seems to be living up to his full potential on East of West,
while at Marvel he has so many great ideas and he decided to use them all at
once.
Story – beginning middle and end, it should not take 24
issues to get to the prelude of the event you are writing.
Exactly.Hickman is another pretentious writer that forgets he's writing a comic book - not Shakespeare....and what's worse, there's never any payoff. A reader longs for his newly created characters to be quickly killed off, and for his changes to be permanently retconned. What's worse is that nothing he does is not slightly interesting in the least. I've been reading comics since 1977,and he's the worst writer I've seen on Avengers in 25 years. We don't need a Bendis, or a self important Hickman, we simply need a writer that makes us give a damn about the characters again.We need a Shooter,Harras, Gruenwald,Stern,or Nicieza.
ReplyDeletegood posting you are so on about hickman's slow story pacing not to mention how he screwed over ROM fans in Infinity #1 what an asshole.
ReplyDeleteFinally. Someone that hates Hickman as much as I do. If I had a newborn when Hickman started his arc on the Avengers, that kid would be in preschool by the time he gets one complete story done with the series.
ReplyDeleteWhy does everything have to be an epic??? What happen to the days when the Masters of Evil and Ultron use to attack the Avengers because they just hated their guts?