G'day folks.
I read over this post doing a slow burn the entire time. Not about the event itself. I bear no ill-will towards Sean Fish and his wife, but having Manticore marry Psyche, in my admittedly extremely biased opinion, just royally ticks me off.
I collected all of the print 'City of Heroes' comics as they came out. I enjoyed the stories and the characters, right up until about the last 5 issues, when, IMO, the interior artwork and writing went downhill like a go-cart with no handbrake. The only reason I picked up the last few issues was because of David Nakayama's cover art for them.
There is NO way anyone will ever convince me that having Psyche and Manticore get married is plausible. In the early issues, while it's made clear that Manticore's interested, Psyche rebuffs him, consistently, every time. Then he nearly gets her killed by going 'undercover' in a very poorly considered plan to infiltrate Lord Recluse to find out his plans. (Don't get me wrong, I liked that story line...I really wanted to take one of my characters to Brickstown and point-blank blast Manticore for what he did to Psyche. =P )
Suddenly, the comic's going to come to an end, and whoops, bang, tadaa! Suddenly everything's just hunky dory and gee golly whiz, they're getting married.
Horsecrap. I don't buy it for an instant, and I despised the last story arc of the comics for forcing it down our throats that way. The entire pre-invasion story line was forced and poorly thought out, IMO. The whole last three issues felt contrived and forced, and ESPECIALLY because suddenly they just ignored all the previous character development just so they could have a happy ending. I will never forgive the writers for doing that - it still steams me up, and this post finally motivated me enough to post something about it.
So bravo for the special event. I hope everyone else has fun, but I won't be participating, and I will be pointedly ignoring any 'announcements' about Psyche and Manticore.
(Disclaimer: I admit, I have an axe to grind here. I really like the Sister Psyche character - so much so that I commissioned a picture from David Nakayama with her in it, and I was writing a short story involving her and one of my characters. I'm now not sure I'll finish it, for the previously mentioned reasons.)
Regards,
MechaDeuce
(aka B. Van Vliet)
