NEWSARAMA - MARVEL DEBUTS CIVIL WAR TRAILER ONLINE
I’ll be honest. I love Marvel too much to be a real Zombie anymore. I want my quality product. I want editors who conference. I want basic continuity. I want a lot of things. I’m needy.
So, with a wince, I went to go look at the above. It’s a bunch of shots from the preview of Civil War #1 (or whatever the pages in Wizard were this month) and some flying word text put together like a movie trailer. You see, movies work well for Marvel and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
No biggie. Kind of a cute idea to market your book to the masses and get people hyped up for the big show, so to speak. I’m right ther with ya. We have the New Warriors (those poor schmoes. getting the Giffen/DeMatteis at DC treatment as a fun little mini gets used for dark plot) going up against Nitro (that is Nitro, right?) only to have him do his exploding bomb schtick… next to a SCHOOL! Oh no! The little boys and girls are caught in the blast and send of a nationwide shockwave that asks, ‘Are we truely safe from superheroes?’
Okay. Kind of scary, rather topical, I could get into this…. if 49 practically personally named, former mutant children hadn’t been blown to smithereens in a recent issue of New X-Men. Oh, and that’s right, it wasn’t a mutant or superpowered person who did this heinous act, it was a man. Just a guy who thinks he has God on his side and apparently has access to missles that won’t be detected by the Sentinels that are no more than a mile or so from the school which they’re there to protect.
But that’s neither here nor there.
Mutants, not four feet away, are getting the Real World That Hates and Fears Them Treatment and no one’s really making much fuss. Those human kids get hurt and they’re all over your newpaper.
What is Marvel trying to tell us again?
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I believe Marvel is making the point that Homo sapiens, who are an even larger majority on Earth than they were before the Scarlet Witch was turned insane by Bendis, don’t care about what happens to “dirty muties”.
But when it’s their own sweet “normal” children, then it’s a tragedy.
I believe Eminem made the same point about school shootings becoming a big deal when they started happening in middle class schools, whereas before supposedly no one cared that poor people shot each other.
If Marvel is taking story cues from Eminem, I weep for my reading.
We have the New Warriors (those poor schmoes. getting the Giffen/DeMatteis at DC treatment as a fun little mini gets used for dark plot)
Does this mean we’ll get an all new Speedball on-going series ALA blue beetle style? Why is Marvel playing with my emotions!??!?!