I'm not the type to just smack down somebody's best efforts, but I've been buying Ms. Marvel for damn close to a year, waiting patiently for something to happen in the comic. I suppose that at some point in the last few months, my sense of futility finally came to the fore. Ms. Marvel is lost in the dark, and there's no light at the end of the tunnel.
How is it possible to screw up with such a strong premise? The character is a busty blond superhuman who was placed in probably the best sweet spot in the history of Marvel comics at the close of "House of M". She knows that she has the ability to be the premiere superhero on Earth, if she can just get out of her own way. Yet the comic is a stagnant piece of shit. Seriously: here's an interesting character who the fan boys love, with a great set-up, and yet a year in the writer, Brian Reed, has yet to advance the storyline in any substantive way. He's done two tedious parallel universe story arcs and a tired alien invasion story.
Marvel should can this guy and find somebody who can write a storyline without having the outline handed to him by Brian Bendis.
Well for me issues 9-10 were the highlight of 2006 (or season 1 to them.) Take that Rogue! House of M was warped together by Wanda's power and every heroes' desires, so it was as fake as a 12 inch dildo.
Although Carol is inspired to do better, she's learned it's not easy and she's been zigzagging so far. Back in Ms. Marvel's first series she wasn't always sure what she was doing. The latest Newsarama interview has Reed promising more focus from Carol as she assumes leadership of the Mighty Avengers.
The latest Wonder Woman revamp has been more of waste of time. Waiting months for that tripe? And it's obvious that Diana should be Wonder Woman, so why waste our time 'wondering' about it?
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2007-01-07 23:23:09
Both books will have new creative teams and judging from the interviews both will be better. I hope.
Ms. Marvel will get a new artist and has a new editor who hopefully after Civil War shakes out will guide the writer some or can him.
WW's editors finally realized that having a writer who has started to take Diana back to the dreadful 70's and can only put in the effort when he has the time is a waste of time.
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2007-01-07 23:57:41
...creative team on WW?
MaceWindu
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2007-01-08 10:17:58
Jodi Picoult is writing WW in the next arc. As for Ms. Marvel, Frank Cho needs to draw the whole book, and not just the cover. As far as the story, the first arc was kinda mediocre,the Civil War arc was great, and the Rogue arc was good, but a bit short.
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2007-01-08 14:21:19
Frank Cho can't turn out work fast enough for that. Very few artists who turn out high-end work can perform on a monthly schedule.
Delmo
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2007-01-09 00:51:45
...Jodi Picoult?
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Jodi Picoult
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2007-01-09 01:29:59
The new writer on Wonder Woman, I think.
(Heh.)
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2007-01-10 20:36:27
Yes. She's the new writer. She writes romance novels. She went to Princeton with Jim Lee, and he got her into comics, I think.
