snap judgments

Civil War.

Like it, love it, hate it, want to send dirty socks to the Marvel editorial, we’ve called our troops home to… kind of hash out the same battle, just in a less mini-series-ish way and hopefully get thier hineys handed to them by the Hulk.  While Quesada might feel their mission is accomplished, the lasting ramifications are here to stay and while World War Hulk may just have Iron Man crunched like a tin can for his part in sending a friend and compatriot out into space, I’m getting that itchy feeling that it’s… probably not going to go the way I’d like to see it. With culpability and resolution and honesty. I mean, with a track record like Avengers: Disassembled (Wanda? Oh, she’s crazy and killed three members.), House of M (wherein the world was ONCE again changed by Wanda and she still gets to live scott free in eastern Europe with no resolution to her story or why some remember and some don’t or if Spider-Man and MJ remembers that Peter really wanted to be married to Gwen Stacy *deep breath*), the Other (no, really, what WAS all that??), how can I possibly believe at this point that no, I’m gonna kick that football into the stratosphere and Lucy is going to hold it still for me, this time for sure?

But, through it all, there were some brave and wonderful bloggers than came to the fore and provided review and humor in the face of adversity. Now that there’s some time to breathe, some time to heal and even more time to look ahead and worry, it’s nice to see that there are some who remember these are just the funny books. Marvel takes itself pretty seriously these days (they kill children, after all), but we don’t have to.

This post has been a long time in coming, but I would still like ot thank these brave soldiers who contributed to the War Effort:

MightyGodKing on livejournal has provided some wonderful re-writes of the entire Civil War, where in characters speak plainly, situations seem less you’ve-got-to-be-kidding ridiculous and more ha-ha ridiculous and the entire run of re-photoshopped work gave readers a little less seriousness and some pretty dead on commentary in public sentiment.
Of Course, Yeah and not because I took an awesome THIRD PLACE in his Draw Your Own contest.  Every humble little red strip was full of the snappy  behind the scenes sarcasm this series really deserved.  For every time you rolled your eyes and wondered if Bishop got a call the moment Tony found out Cable was on Cap’s side, or if it was just you that thought that Peter and Tony’s new father-son relationship was just a little too ’special’, no you weren’t the only one.

Chris Sims started with a poem and ended on an epic in the classy style of one Rich Berlew. These mega events can be a lot to digest and someone who can get to the heart of the WTF?-ery and do it in a wittty fashion, at least for me, was a great relief.

Rokk’s Comic Book Revolution was indeed revolutionary as it was the first review of the final issue of Civil War that was positive towards the events and laid out a clear and concise manner for what he enjoyed and had unimaginable enthusiasm when I had lost mine. Sure, I might not agree with the guy on a few points, but I would be an idiot not to recognize the truth in his words. If this was the common perception of the book, I’d lay down arms. Sadly, not so many bloggers are as well thought out, even the other side of the equasion.

And last but not ever least, it took a little stuffed bull to get to the heart of the matter.

Thank you, one and all.