After reading Ultimate Spider-Man I got to think, you know, I've been wanting to read what an interesting concept it would be for everyone to know Peter Parker's identity... I was also curious about the Iron Spider costume...cuz it does look cool...and with that came Civil War...
I decided to start at "The Other" which sounded like an interesting concept and it was an ok read, but nothing I'd consider good, but ok I guess it's a way to have Spider-Man evolve, get new powers, get the new suit, etc...
As I've progressed through the story I was finding it harder and harder to read because...well it's crap. None of the stories are very well written and there incongruity as well as just being short and uninspiring for the most part... Of course that's just the Spider-Man titles issues that I've read so far which is the issue before Back in Black.
I just finished Civil War and not only is it bad writing with a story that goes no where... the ending is just horrible. The good guys who are fighting for freedom look like complete idiots when they stop fighting just cuz Cap says so. Cap goes back on what he's been saying the whole time which is 100% correct. And none of the characters on the other side actually learn a lesson or punished for the crap that they're doing and at least one of them know it's wrong. I haven't read FF but I'm supposed to believe that Sue and Johnny just go back to Reed and are all like "Cap stopped fighting so I'm not mad at you" wtf? Seriously? She has this huge moment of changing sides and seeing that what Tony and Reed were doing is wrong and she just stands down cuz Cap says so?
The entire build up is badly done. There is no turning point and there is no climax where "we paid a huge price, but we learned a lesson" and they just leave Spider-Man and several other characters just hanging out there and without saying a word to it other than "they're rebels"
And what's bad is up until the final page of this crap I was like they're going to have an epic turn around where they show that the every day person are heroes and need to stand against bad laws or Iron Man's side see that they've employed villains and this **** has gone far enough, resolving that they will now fight together against that act and have it over turned... but no they just have cap drop his shield and come to the realization that fighting a war and standing for your principles in the face of opposition is wrong...despite that being the opposite of what he said v.v
This leaves me with the Back in Black stuff to read and I'm not I want to... This hasn't been a good read, it wasn't what was advertised, and it sure as **** isn't something that the incompetent writers of SM and CW could ever write well after writing themselves into such a lousy corner.
And then I think...well at least One More Day fixed all this nonsense... I can forgive that whole MJ thing and the bad writing there. At least they were smart enough to see what trash they were putting out there...
But then I read that OMD was in the works for 2 years... and I look to check... and yup, "The Other" is exactly start 2 years before OMD which seems to me, without reading the comic before then that Civil War and all this other crap... they tried to destroy the Marvel Universe on purpose... So they could say "Hey look it was better than that crap before hand" but then I haven't read Spidey or Marvel before that arc much... (I read a few issues here and there) so I'm left with the overwhelming impression that Marvel comics are written by some of the most incompetent writers ever or writers/editors purposefully messing it up to promote themselves later on to have their crap ideas stick...
I've read over 4000 issues of DC comics and there has been some bad stuff in there but largely it is well done and nothing in there is as much sustained crap as what I've just read and it's one of my favorite characters in Marvel so... yeah I don't think I'll think about reading regular marvel for another decade after that.
On the other hand the mini-series of Civil War Front Line has been fabulous and I'd recommend it to anyone, though I'm not finished read it all myself each issue has been good and it's existence has pointed me to a good name Paul Jenkins whom I've never heard of before. So at least there is that one good thing that has come of reading this other wise crap fest of a comic universe.
After reading Ultimate Spider-Man I got to think, you know, I've been wanting to read what an interesting concept it would be for everyone to know Peter Parker's identity... I was also curious about the Iron Spider costume...cuz it does look cool...and with that came Civil War...
I decided to start at "The Other" which sounded like an interesting concept and it was an ok read, but nothing I'd consider good, but ok I guess it's a way to have Spider-Man evolve, get new powers, get the new suit, etc...
As I've progressed through the story I was finding it harder and harder to read because...well it's crap. None of the stories are very well written and there incongruity as well as just being short and uninspiring for the most part... Of course that's just the Spider-Man titles issues that I've read so far which is the issue before Back in Black.
I just finished Civil War and not only is it bad writing with a story that goes no where... the ending is just horrible. The good guys who are fighting for freedom look like complete idiots when they stop fighting just cuz Cap says so. Cap goes back on what he's been saying the whole time which is 100% correct. And none of the characters on the other side actually learn a lesson or punished for the crap that they're doing and at least one of them know it's wrong. I haven't read FF but I'm supposed to believe that Sue and Johnny just go back to Reed and are all like "Cap stopped fighting so I'm not mad at you" wtf? Seriously? She has this huge moment of changing sides and seeing that what Tony and Reed were doing is wrong and she just stands down cuz Cap says so?
The entire build up is badly done. There is no turning point and there is no climax where "we paid a huge price, but we learned a lesson" and they just leave Spider-Man and several other characters just hanging out there and without saying a word to it other than "they're rebels"
And what's bad is up until the final page of this crap I was like they're going to have an epic turn around where they show that the every day person are heroes and need to stand against bad laws or Iron Man's side see that they've employed villains and this **** has gone far enough, resolving that they will now fight together against that act and have it over turned... but no they just have cap drop his shield and come to the realization that fighting a war and standing for your principles in the face of opposition is wrong...despite that being the opposite of what he said v.v
This leaves me with the Back in Black stuff to read and I'm not I want to... This hasn't been a good read, it wasn't what was advertised, and it sure as **** isn't something that the incompetent writers of SM and CW could ever write well after writing themselves into such a lousy corner.
And then I think...well at least One More Day fixed all this nonsense... I can forgive that whole MJ thing and the bad writing there. At least they were smart enough to see what trash they were putting out there...
But then I read that OMD was in the works for 2 years... and I look to check... and yup, "The Other" is exactly start 2 years before OMD which seems to me, without reading the comic before then that Civil War and all this other crap... they tried to destroy the Marvel Universe on purpose... So they could say "Hey look it was better than that crap before hand" but then I haven't read Spidey or Marvel before that arc much... (I read a few issues here and there) so I'm left with the overwhelming impression that Marvel comics are written by some of the most incompetent writers ever or writers/editors purposefully messing it up to promote themselves later on to have their crap ideas stick...
I've read over 4000 issues of DC comics and there has been some bad stuff in there but largely it is well done and nothing in there is as much sustained crap as what I've just read and it's one of my favorite characters in Marvel so... yeah I don't think I'll think about reading regular marvel for another decade after that.
On the other hand the mini-series of Civil War Front Line has been fabulous and I'd recommend it to anyone, though I'm not finished read it all myself each issue has been good and it's existence has pointed me to a good name Paul Jenkins whom I've never heard of before. So at least there is that one good thing that has come of reading this other wise crap fest of a comic universe.