I told you I'm not keeping up with the Marvel Universe any longer - not even trying. Between this major crossover event and that one, with several more already scheduled, one major character after the next is going completely against type and it's become about as interesting as watching the WWE - and specifically tantamount: traditionally "bad" guys are becoming the good guys, while well-established heroes are suddenly "showing their true colors" as villainous arch-enemies of mankind. Not only has it made it difficult to keep track of, it's pretty much rendered the entirety of the Marvel Universe up to this point moot.I don't think the current crop of creators has the chops to do better than what has come before them, so I'd really rather remember these characters - ahem, "properties" - the way I knew them before all of this nonsense.
That being said, I don't know how all this plays out in the current "continuity," but I guess this is Nick Fury's answer to whatever Norman Osborn is up to - the press release begins, "Nick Fury has assembled the next generation of Marvel super heroes — the sons and daughters of super villains — to fight the new order that Dark Reign has brought to the Marvel Universe!"
© C Harris Lynn, 2008
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I gave up long ago on trying to keep up with any comic universe. It was all those 'infinite' 'crises', doomsday realty shifting, starting from scratch, rewrites that lost my interest. What ever happened to having a back history and leaving it the heck alone.
You know man, I try to bring a little spin to these things - my POV or whatever passes for "insight" (I have been reading for nearly 30 years now and know the industry inside and out, after all - at least I did) - so I feel bad for just passing the PRs along with maybe a spellcheck, but I subscribe to 3-4 regular Marvel titles and I honestly could not tell you what is going on in them!
I mean, whatever is happening in the pages of those regular titles, it doesn't necessarily jibe with what's going on in the larger universe, nor with whatever the characters are doing in the other titles of which they are a part... you basically have 4-5 distinct characters with the same name and costume, and absolutely nothing else in common, running around in 10-12 different time periods, and half of them are villains in one timeline and superheroes in another and... just wha-at?
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