| Posted: 24 February 2012 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | 7
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But, there's the world we've built for ourselves. Everything is incestously intertwined. The FF and the Avengers are in the same city, so they MUST deal with the same menaces. Every Marvel title should be ULTIMATE MARVEL TEAM-UP. *** I've said before, on similar topics, that the Marvel universe has lost much of its magic in recent years because it seems to have shrunk. When I started reading comics, the Marvel universe seemed to have four distinct sections or types of characters/ titles that rarely seemed to collide, making those rare occasions when they did intersect seem like something special. There were the public heroes, admired and trusted (much of the time) by the average citizens, characters like the FF or Avengers. There were street-level heroes like Spider-Man and Daredevil who rarely faced cosmic threats and stayed out of the big spotlight. There were the mutants, not trusted by the public and kind of off in their own corner of things. And there were those characters who the public seemed mostly unaware of and who operated outside the interests of even the more public heroes. Dr. Strange and Dracula were examples of this. Sometimes there were exceptions to this segregation, like the Beast joining the Avengers, but the rarity of such events made them more fascinating. A guest appearance by Dr. Strange always excited me. But now, with a huge crossover every year and everyone and their uncle joining the Avengers, the Marvel universe feels like a tiny, constricted, incestuous island with no breathing room for a single title to tell a big, thrilling story without silly repercussions rippling across everybody else's titles. Spider-Man, Wolverine and Dr. Strange have all been Avengers? That just doesn't seem right at all! Namor as an X-Man? Blechh!
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