I wasn't going to post this without talking to more knowledgeable people on the subject when I realized that this site isn't called 'Well Thought Out Judgments' and have all the free reign I want to say stupid things as opinions.
LET US BEGIN!
So, ever read a particular author and totally lose the story he or she is trying to tell due to their pet writing style or quirks? When it becomes less a Spider-Man story and more of a 'JMS Story'? When you pick up a Judd Winick title and wonder who's gay and/or has AIDS? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's getting the word out but at the same time, it's turning into a drinking game.
I have never liked Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I have never liked Angel. Joss Whedon and I can pretty much only agree on Firefly and after the movie, I'm pretty sure that's the end of that. I have forsaken my ovarian right to adore everything he does (OMGSQUEE!) and get a good story out of his stuff from time to time. Now that he's on the X-Men flagship 'Astonishing X-Men' (because having Uncanny, the first X-Men title be the flagship would be silly), I'm reading along with him the lively tales of his stereotypical character archetypes and it's gotten to the point where I don't even feel like I'm reading an X-Men book, just an episode of Buffy in costumes.
Yeah, I know, Buffy was inspired by Kitty Pryde, but why is Colossus so quiet? Why is Kitty leading the team more than Cyclops? And why in God's good name did Wolverine have to fall to comedic wuss? While it's funny for him to jump about in fear talking about 'a blue moose' (while moose is a very funny word, there is no way Beast could be mistaken for one.), it's also annoying and trite. And he does this all the time, the macho males are always taken down to the level of fools and the smallest girl is always the most deadly. It's turning a cliché, but there are only so many times before you start to scream 'YES! WE GOT THE POINT NOW THANK YOU!'.
From my limited 'snappy' knowledge base, Kitty has become every token young girl who 'kicks butt' he's nearly ever written, Colossus is now the 'angsting quiet boyfriend who may or may not lead to some sort of destruction', Beast is the 'means to ends' for information, Cyclops is horribly broken down for a guy used to telepaths, Emma is a bitch (despite it having been years since she's been on the side of evil, why is this all coming up now?) and Jerry Mathers is the Beaver. If this is the flagship, there should be characters in here that have been solidly confirmed for many many issues, and while the changes to motivation and characterization would be fine if there was a little more reasoning behind it, I just can't shake the name of the author.
Now that Whedon's going to Runaways after Vaughan, how long do you think it will take before Molly Hayes becomes some sort of super soldier fighting bad ass?
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I wasn't going to post this without talking to more knowledgeable people on the subject when I realized that this site isn't called 'Well Thought Out Judgments' and have all the free reign I want to say stupid things as opinions.
LET US BEGIN!
So, ever read a particular author and totally lose the story he or she is trying to tell due to their pet writing style or quirks? When it becomes less a Spider-Man story and more of a 'JMS Story'? When you pick up a Judd Winick title and wonder who's gay and/or has AIDS? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's getting the word out but at the same time, it's turning into a drinking game.
I have never liked Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I have never liked Angel. Joss Whedon and I can pretty much only agree on Firefly and after the movie, I'm pretty sure that's the end of that. I have forsaken my ovarian right to adore everything he does (OMGSQUEE!) and get a good story out of his stuff from time to time. Now that he's on the X-Men flagship 'Astonishing X-Men' (because having Uncanny, the first X-Men title be the flagship would be silly), I'm reading along with him the lively tales of his stereotypical character archetypes and it's gotten to the point where I don't even feel like I'm reading an X-Men book, just an episode of Buffy in costumes.
Yeah, I know, Buffy was inspired by Kitty Pryde, but why is Colossus so quiet? Why is Kitty leading the team more than Cyclops? And why in God's good name did Wolverine have to fall to comedic wuss? While it's funny for him to jump about in fear talking about 'a blue moose' (while moose is a very funny word, there is no way Beast could be mistaken for one.), it's also annoying and trite. And he does this all the time, the macho males are always taken down to the level of fools and the smallest girl is always the most deadly. It's turning a cliché, but there are only so many times before you start to scream 'YES! WE GOT THE POINT NOW THANK YOU!'.
From my limited 'snappy' knowledge base, Kitty has become every token young girl who 'kicks butt' he's nearly ever written, Colossus is now the 'angsting quiet boyfriend who may or may not lead to some sort of destruction', Beast is the 'means to ends' for information, Cyclops is horribly broken down for a guy used to telepaths, Emma is a bitch (despite it having been years since she's been on the side of evil, why is this all coming up now?) and Jerry Mathers is the Beaver. If this is the flagship, there should be characters in here that have been solidly confirmed for many many issues, and while the changes to motivation and characterization would be fine if there was a little more reasoning behind it, I just can't shake the name of the author.
Now that Whedon's going to Runaways after Vaughan, how long do you think it will take before Molly Hayes becomes some sort of super soldier fighting bad ass?