Perry, I replied to you when your post count was 7734. That's HELL on a calculator! Why you giving it to me?
Didn't even notice th.... I mean.
DAMN YOU TO HELL, DC BOY!!!!!!! I don't know why I'm leery...well,okay I know why. I haven't enjoyed a ton of Marvel big event books and tie-overs either. For my own imaginative self, I usually enjoy DC's crossovers. Or, I have in the past.
Wel these are not really crossovers. They are almost just like the DC books. A new rendition of a past story or a chance to see what would have happened "IF" or a look at how something ended that didn't truly end when it was first published.
Or, a totally new take on things like A-Force, the all female Avengers team.
I don't know if they are going to have any title crossover with another ... but hell this thing is so convoluted who the hell knows?
For my penny, depending on the artist, I could maybe convince myself to look at Future Imperfect. I have said I'm going to get Renew Your Vows with Spider-man, although with Slott writing, I'm just gonna get hella pissed. I just know it...but I'm going to try it.
Yep, Slott is either gonna make you feel like you got more for your money or he will make you feel like you wasted it all.
I gotta keep an eye on it, just to keep an eye on it. However, I've followed facebook threads, posts on the news sites, and there are plenty of retailers wondering what the hell is going on with Marvel's Secret Wars, and they have no idea how to order it. At least with convergence, they know it's a 2 month stunt, but people are really backing away and dropping from the Big Two in a hurry with stuff (all anecdotally, as this only comes from the retailers who post their complaints).
Totally agree with those retailers and you. Regardless of how cool, deep, simple, grand, fun or hated this turns out to be in the end, Marvel has done an absolute shitty job with this ... thing.
Just like you stated, Convergence is a very simple thing to understand. It is a two month, two issue "kinda event" that is just a shot to see how the comics or characters that you use to love find disclosure or two issues of just fun "what if" stuff. After the two months things return to normal ... well, not really, looks like DC is instead changing shit right after this and I don't think I am a fan of what they are doing. See Superman, WW and Bats for example.
However, DC's event (for lack of a better word ... or their two month stall thing?
) is grasped by all. It is understood what is going on. With Marvel ... no-one but them know what the hell is truly going on. And maybe they don't even know. I know that Secret Wars is 8 issues. Now it looks like they are going to ship two issues a month. So do all these new titles only last for four months? And I see they are canceling books like The All New Captain America. Obviously to restart after this is all over, and with a shiny new number 1 on the cover.
What they are trying to sell us is ... if we buy say Inhumans, that Inhuman: Attilan Rising title is what you would buy. If you normally buy Thor, that THORS title is what you would buy or if you buy Captain Marvel, that Carol Corps title is what you would buy.
But then you also have "Oh what the fuck. Why not?" titles like Aaron's Weirdworld or Where Monsters Dwell.
And then you also have a lot of those titles that are like what DC is doing ... just revisiting or twisting older titles or characters that fans love. Titles like Future Imperfect, Armor Wars, Squadron Sinister or X-Tinction Agenda (written by the great, wonderful Guggenheim
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I mean, most of it sounds really, really cool. I, and many others, just don't understand how it all works? It is just too confusing.
That said ... after it is all done ... I will be trying to read quite a lot of these books