tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252129938551938631.post2388038337104065652..comments2024-03-25T22:28:29.238-04:00Comments on Tony Isabella's Bloggy Thing: THIS PLACE GIVES ME THE CREEPSTony Isabellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07356415470545816484noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252129938551938631.post-22603475621535101212013-01-12T08:48:22.362-05:002013-01-12T08:48:22.362-05:00[T]he Joker always escapes and always kills again ...<br><i>[T]he Joker always escapes and always kills again and it defies logic that no one hasn’t just emptied their gun into the murderous clown's face.</i><br /><br />Amen. I'm not the bloodthirsty sort either, but even if I didn't personally believe that it was right to take out the Joker based on past and certain potential for future crimes I can't buy narratively that <i>somebody</i> wouldn't have nailed him, ideally Gordon, a detective, or a beat cop in a standoff that could be entirely justifiable as lethal force in the face of immediate danger to themselves and civilians. There's a scene in <i>No Man's Land</i> that made me angry (one among many in that misguided experiment) for exactly this reason.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252129938551938631.post-81738318491240852282013-01-07T07:21:01.532-05:002013-01-07T07:21:01.532-05:00The solution to the "killers get away free&qu...The solution to the "killers get away free" situation is ridiculously simple - so simple that only a modern comic book writer (present company excluded, naturally) couldn't get it.<br /><br />The Joker is a mass murderer and keeps getting away. The solution? DON'T WRITE THE JOKER AS A MASS MURDERER. Yes, it is a VERY easy trick to show someone as evil by showing them as killing. It takes no writing skills because a lot of people think that killing is evil. And then, when the Joker is caught, they can write him as going free because "the Joker always goes free" - another cheap and easy writer's trick.<br /><br />Make him evil by other ways. Stealing has always been a good bit. Taking hostages is a great way to show evil intent, and that supplies story - Batman has to find and save them before the bomb goes off.<br /><br />Heroes don't kill. If a writer creates a situation where a hero has to kill, then it's a bad story.<br /><br />As for heroes fighting heroes - that should happen ONCE. In the Marvel Universe, it should have stopped occurring after Fantastic Four #26 - "Enter... The Avengers!"<br /><br />If it does reoccur RARELY, it's an interesting story take. If it's an annual crossover event, it's lazy and sloppy writing. Which seems to be a job requirement at DC and Marvel these days anyhow.<br /><br />I remain,<br /> Sincerely,<br />Eric L. Sofer<br />x<]:o){<br />The Bad Clown...ELShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08227481611148130555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252129938551938631.post-3343201109561625122013-01-05T16:59:07.038-05:002013-01-05T16:59:07.038-05:00I recall the ending of the Kobra/JSA storyline cau...I recall the ending of the Kobra/JSA storyline causing me to drop that book. I had really been enjoying it up to that point, but felt a better ending could have been arrived at. I completely agree with you, Tony.<br /><br />While I didn't read the AvX books I don't seem to have missed much and the idea of Scott killing Prof X, just makes me ill. Yeah, I know he'll be get better, but still. Here I think Starman makes some good points.Steve Chaputhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05125192472002278757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2252129938551938631.post-59920668194189466022013-01-05T08:11:25.630-05:002013-01-05T08:11:25.630-05:00I dislike how over the past ten years Marvel Comic...I dislike how over the past ten years Marvel Comics has become entirely about the heroes fighting other heroes and the villains largely get left in the background or are co-opted into being yet another gang. The one writer I felt did anything decent in the wake of Civil War was Dwayne McDuffie, who was the one writer who thought "Hold on - how would Doctor Doom react to the American superheroes fighting with each other?" and rightly concluded that he'd be playing up his role as a peacekeeper on the world stage, if only because he could get The Accursed Richard's goat by paint him - not unfairly - as a fascist lunatic who was jailing children.<br /><br />When was the last time we saw a really good Doom story? Been a while, hasn't it?<br /><br />AvX suffered from the same problem as Civil War but ironically, the opposite problem at the same time. While the idea for Civil War was an interesting one, the execution left a lot to be desired - chiefly because the main writer had one view as to who was "right", most of the other writers contributing thought the other side was right and nobody much was focused on the idea that both sides had legitimate points to make. <br /><br />Somehow, the lesson Marvel took from the fan backlash was that nobody will ever view Captain America as being wrong and so they set AvX up with the conceit that clearly everyone would see the X-Men as the bad guys in this scenario. Never mind that The X-Men had taken better steps to deal with the Phoenix based on past experienced, vs. The Avengers who were pretty much winging it. Also, Captain America's plan involves kidnapping a teenage girl and taking her from the only family she's ever known so they could try and do what the X-Men were already doing anyway, but with the added stress of the already tormented Hope now going through the added stress of being in fear for her life.<br /><br />That's why I think Cyclops turned the way he did at the end - because The Powers That Be couldn't understand why the fans wouldn't take one side in the Avengers vs. X-Men conflict and people kept pointing out holes in Cap's plan and behavior. TPTB couldn't handle that, so they had to make Cyclops a killer of his own spiritual father and a traitor to every ideal he'd ever held as a hero in order to let Cap save face in the face of his loss.<br /><br />Starmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06094232300119392822noreply@blogger.com