Let's Kill Some More Good Guys!!!!
In the tradition of Avengers Disassembled and Countdown it looks like my favorite teen teams of the 90's is biting the big one! After watching the trailer for the Marvel's Civil War #1 I get the feeling that they are going to do away with the New Warriors. And why the hell not? After the way Marvel has been treating these characters since Fabian Niceiza left the book, it doesn't surprise me. No one gives a shit about the Warriors, but Nitro!!!!!???? Nitro is going to off the Warriors, a guy who was taken down by Rusty and Skids!!!!? I know he was responsible for Mar-Vell's (Captain Marvel) death, but who has written him as a possible threat since then. I also put up the cover to issue two by Michael Turner. Those Young Avengers look nice, but damn that is a nice Liefeld-looking cover. Character in the foreground? Check; Characters standing as a group in the back with a huge splash of another character? Check; Rock field for them to stand on? Check! And where the hell did Spider-man's nose go? Whose side am I on? Damn, it’s hard to judge the book before it comes out. I could be completely wrong about this. I mean, I thought the previews to The Matrix sucked and I ended up loving the movie.
im not sure where i stand on this, it looks and sounds like a disaster waiting to happen
i think i have to go to spidey's side on default. he's always had good judgement.
the whole concept is something my friends and i would do when playing super-heroes as KIDS. i mean it's really just Mutant Registration on a larger scale. it's an idea every comic book fan has tossed around. i'm sure every writer has too. but no one could think of a way to not make it cheesey. but spiderman taking his mask off? cheesey. it's like sweeps month on prime time television. "oh! can't keep up with DC this year so let's pull some garbage out of our ass". i HAVE read this and a couple tie in issues (only because the titles were on my normal pull anyway) and it's all been a yawn fest. and despite it's cheesiness, i do like the tony and spidey friendship forming in the spidey tie ins. i read Civil War and the only thing that goes through my head is "how the fuck is marvel going to fix this when they're done?"