Re: Katma Tui Fanthread

Posted by Thayne on 2006/3/18 5:49:06

So, lately I've been goin to the comic shop and looking into reference material. Hoping to kill the block I've been feeling. After buying some Fathom, Darkness, and Witchblade, I asked the guy at the shop what he'd reccommend. He asked what am I into and I told him early 90's Xmen and Image comics. With that he brought up some comic called Girl. I didn't waste a second thought on a title that already voices who it's prolly for. But then he says Avengers.

Now in all my years of collecting, the one comic I always dodged was the Avengers. For one thing, they constantly had the DC disease of assuming the position and smiling about it. If you have a shield, cram it down someone's throat. Don't assume the position! If you're wearing a suit of cybernetic armor, b!tchslap somebody! Quit wasting time! That was the major reason I went with Xmen instead of Avengers. I can't stand the whole goody good reputation they had built. I also didn't like the fact they had sooooooo freakin many members. East Coast, West Coast, this side of timbuktu...... Thin your numbers please.

Yeah, the Green Lantern Corps. has alot of members, but honestly aren't they sposa have like 1 for each planet, sector, whatever? Beats me why the hell earth has like 4 or 5 GL's tho. And yes the Xmen have alot of members, but don't they tend to retire, go on vacation, join other teams, or freakin DIE!!!

Moving along, there's also the issue of the members. I mean seriously, what kind of team recruits the Hulk and figures everything will be cool? At the very least you're gonna be going through new doors like some people go through socks! Why do you need reserve members? I remember seeing Spidey as a reserve member. He shoulda just stayed on his own. It's not like the usual ones weren't screwed up by themselves really. I mean look at Iron Man. They put a drunk in a pepsi can and said go beat somebody up. And y'know that comic shop guy just HAD to tell me Stark is funding the Avengers now! I can just see Stark griping at Captain America "Hey, yer cuttin into my beer money!" And what about that Pym guy? Wasn't he like Antman, Goliath, Giantman, and recently a wife beater? Well at least that's what the shop dood said. And apparently it's ALL the Scarlet b!#ch's fault. Apparently her magic is straight screwing everything up. According to that shop guy, there's only like 198 mutants left because of a wish she made. And she made Stark drunk for no reason. And y'know, anyone who'd flirt with an Andriod and then try to have kids with em........ That's some seriously messed up stuff!

So he shows me the Young Avengers and says they are just as messed up as the Xmen used to be. Oh, and he also told me Wolverine's in the Avengers now. So I figure if Wolverine's around, somebody's gonna die!!!