tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post3156285800757345693..comments2024-03-14T04:51:02.804-05:00Comments on the Adventures of Wyatt Earp in 2999: Great Marvel Comics of the Late 1990s (Yes, They Do Exist): IntroductionJustinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-39480909900666994612010-09-24T12:29:47.743-05:002010-09-24T12:29:47.743-05:00Well, I'm not really COMMENDING Onslaught for ...Well, I'm not really COMMENDING Onslaught for its anti-logic, just saying that it did work. And, of course I'd agree that continuity fixes aren't NECESSARY for enjoyment; when editorial was knocking their heads together to unwind the Clone Saga, I'd've been very glad just to open a Spider-Man issue and read "Never mind! Hey, look, there's Peter Parker, who is and always has been Spider-Man!"<br /><br />But it is of course not up to me, and today's fans DO demand reasons for these things. But I can't TOTALLY dismiss continuity; pretending that every Marvel comic ever published is really part of some enormous, sprawling epic in which every piece fits perfectly IS part of the fun, as long as you let it be fun and not work.Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-32565285637776369102010-09-23T14:19:52.446-05:002010-09-23T14:19:52.446-05:00While I appreciate you relating Onslaught to persp...While I appreciate you relating Onslaught to perspective in a picasso why do we need to fix continuity? Why can't we just let it stay broken and tell fun stories. Let the readers pick the back story if any at all. Major retcons and fixes always kill me. As do universe spanning books. And since onslaught, and heroes reborn I don't think marvel did that again until recently with house of M, then Civil War, World War Hulk, Secret Invasion, Siege, Dark Reign, Age of Heroes, and who the fuck knows what else. Anytime they do universe spanning stories I stop buying. I'm not falling for their marketing scheme and buying all the crossover titles just to get the full story.<br /><br />To their credit Marvel has gotten better at it since Onslaught. But still the last universe spanning event I bought was Seige, because I love those damn Asguardians, and I regretted it. Even then I only bought the main title and none of the crossovers.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-80798831289306755412010-09-22T20:24:03.766-05:002010-09-22T20:24:03.766-05:00Actually, Onslaught is kind of elegant in its cont...Actually, Onslaught is kind of elegant in its continuity fixing BECAUSE it is so inelegant. The Onslaught entity itself didn't really make sense, the way the superheroes beat him by going inside that blue bubbly field and having the X-Men shoot their powers at them didn't really make sense, how exactly they ended up in the pocket universe because of Franklin Richards didn't really make sense, and how they came back through the Negative Zone didn't really make sense.<br /><br />In light of that, it's the perfect fix, because what is there to argue? It's not clear how teen Tony and mutated Wasp go in and grown-up Tony and human Wasp come out, but you never have any kind of coherent system in place where you could complain that one element or another doesn't fit, so nobody bothers. It's like looking for errors of perspective in Picasso!Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-1053555040418737982010-09-21T17:13:43.568-05:002010-09-21T17:13:43.568-05:00Josh, dude, this is the internet...nobody's EV...Josh, dude, this is the internet...nobody's EVER too young for nostalgia and entitlement!<br /><br />You and I are on opposite ends, though, because I STARTED buying Marvel again just after Onslaught. If you remember the Chris Jones we went to school with, I bought Onslaught: Marvel Universe (the last bit of the crossover) and the Jim Lee Fantastic Four #1 off him in the sixth grade. <br /><br />Onslaught's not a good story, I don't think anybody's going to try to convince you of it, but it did provide a convenient place to do a mini-reboot for the Avengers and FF titles. It was kind of like a low-stakes Crisis on Infinite Earths ("Crisis on One Earth, and a Pocket Universe").Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16490957677766912068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-35368735561604039772010-09-21T14:25:18.977-05:002010-09-21T14:25:18.977-05:00you know, I made it through all the crap in the ea...you know, I made it through all the crap in the early nineties and all the way up to Onslaught. That is where Marvel lost me. As a kid I couldn't afford all of the crossover books and they were sooooo terrible about that. You absolutely had to buy all the titles to get any of the story. Or face editor notes marked by "*" and a "see book x otherwise you were totally lost. That's when I made the plunge to image... followed quickly by a 5 or 6 year complete opt out of comics.<br /><br />I'm looking forward to this little jaunt down nostalgia lane. (for the most part we're too young for that in comics)Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04140996920838605221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5414785286921467267.post-20750522443873279462010-09-20T02:11:16.622-05:002010-09-20T02:11:16.622-05:00Whoa, you've got a schedule and everything!
O...Whoa, you've got a schedule and everything!<br /><br />Okay, I read AF, Thunderbolts, and Deadpool, ya got me...plokhttp://circumstantial.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com