Comments on: Civil War #7 Sucked https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/28/civil-war-7-sucked/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:46:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/28/civil-war-7-sucked/comment-page-1/#comment-3307 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:46:13 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=340#comment-3307 Annihilation was in fact quite great, and a shocking contrast to Civil War in terms of “big crossover even that is actually wonderfully entertaining, consequential in terms of its fiction, and consistent with the medium’s best qualities.” That and the recent Dr. Strange mini are the only Marvel comics lately that haven’t left a bad taste in my mouth. Even Dan Slott’s She-Hulk, which I adore, has irritated me more as it has gotten caught up in Civil War.

]]> By: Sarapen https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/28/civil-war-7-sucked/comment-page-1/#comment-3306 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 22:21:31 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=340#comment-3306 You should have gone with Annihilation. None of the characters are popular, so the writers could do anything they wanted. Quasar? Vaporized. Thanos? Had his heart ripped out of his chest. Nova? The leader of the free forces of the universe. Certainly a fine old time, just straight up whiz-bang and no ham-handed political “allegory”–is it allegory when you’re practically being beaten over your head with the moral of the story?

]]> By: emschwar https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/28/civil-war-7-sucked/comment-page-1/#comment-3298 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:05:54 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=340#comment-3298 Clearly you need to check out this version of Civil War:

http://mightygodking.livejournal.com/292662.html

Not that it’s saying much, but there’s no way it’s not an improvement over the original.

]]> By: Timothy Burke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/28/civil-war-7-sucked/comment-page-1/#comment-3297 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:41:12 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=340#comment-3297 Good point, CG–it aligns their universe so that everything has to be told in terms of the reconstruction of the shared fiction, rather than pluralizing the story-telling capacities of the shared fiction.

]]> By: Scott Eric Kaufman https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/28/civil-war-7-sucked/comment-page-1/#comment-3296 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:31:17 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=340#comment-3296 I read Joss Whedon’s proposed ending the other day, and that at least made narrative sense—but no, I don’t think anyone can say Marvel did anything productive here.

]]> By: cgbrooke https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2007/02/28/civil-war-7-sucked/comment-page-1/#comment-3295 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:11:51 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=340#comment-3295 I thought Carla Hewitt’s column today, about how CW precludes certain kinds of stories from being told, was good as well.

Interestingly enough, I read this entry back-to-back with yesterday’s, and I wonder if the some of the same arguments against centralization might not also apply here. The reduction of the MU to a referendum on registration seemed to render a lot of the characters 2-dimensional, and it will make characters and plots outside of the Initiative pretty difficult to write for a while.

cgb

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