Posted: 13 December 2016 at 12:08am | IP Logged | 5
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What bugged me to no end was how Clarermont introduced Madelyne Pryor so quickly after Jean's death.----------------- There's that elasticity of time again. It was 30 issues later, nearly three years. Or, at that point in my life, a sizeable portion of my life so it didn't feel so quick to me.
Which is why I think marvel need to realise that when they remove/replace a character for 12 or more issues, they can alienate potential new readers for their entire future reading life. Example. If I'm seven and cannot get an Iron Man comic that stars Tony Stark for three years, I'll be ten by the time I could. That is nearly half of my life at seven, a third at 10. You have lost that reader.
For years now, the MCU has been saying that Tony is the son of Howard Stark. For years, the comics have been making the fact he isn't a major plot point. That's a difficult connection for new readers to make. How long has Thor not been Thor now? when Walt Simonson did that, it was done and dusted in four issues. No one alienated.
Sorry to go off on a tangent, but actually, this has just occurred to me. Could the reason the internet goes so 'this is the most stupid thing I've ever heard. It's the end of the world' whenever new plot points are announced be that we realise there will be three years of this rubbish rather than a quick, done and dusted, four issue tale? See Captain America being a Hydra spy as another example.
Anyway, back on topic, I really couldn't decide. I love CC/JB X-MEN but I also love JB FANTASTIC FOUR. Dark Phoenix and Days of Future Past. Don't think I could give them up. But then, neither could I give up the Trial of Galactus. So for me, a no win situation
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