You know, I never thought I’d see the day a Marvel comics event would be covered on an MTV news bit.
In the wee hours of this morning I was reading, doing a bit of catching up for class. The TV was on but muted. I look up for half a second and I see Joe Quesada talking about the shock ending of Civil War #2 which was out last Wednesday. Then I read that Yahoo news also covered the event(MAJOR spoilers in those links. Just thought I’d tell you in case you magically managed to avoid them so far).
Even Howard Stern is in on the action.
Holy damn. The funny books sure have come a long way since I began reading the suckers. Back then you’d be lucky to find 2 people in 100 who’d know who Zabu was, much less the X-Men’s magically induced enemy, the Juggernaut.
Now all the pages of Marvel, DC, and some choice independents are scrutinized on the boob tube. To tell the truth, the industry could use the buzz. Maybe the PTBs will be wise and use this momentum to re-build the business.
Or maybe we’ll get more fucked-up fanboy flotsam like Northstar and Thor** vs Spiderman and Namor “serving up breakfast***” in a sunny suburban town.
As for the mega news itself, well I’ve only just started to read the Civil War event and I certainly haven’t bought the issue in question. I do know what the big deal is, I read about in CBR(spoilers in there, too) earlier this week. All I have to say is, they better stick to their guns and not pull that reversal crap that Marvel and DC have made famous over the last 60 odd years.
Otherwise, it’s nice to see the change. The kids are finally growing up and leaving the safe comfort of The Known.
As for Civil War itself, I’ll share an opinion on it after I read a couple more issues. Even though I have already chosen a side.
Officially:
Cap finally pulled the stick out
And unofficially:
what? i can moonlight
* By ‘world’ I mean fanboys from here to Katmandu.
** Thor using mjolnir to spike on Spidey was actually damn funny.
***In the sunny yesteryear of college. A handful of friends and I would play volleyball night or day. When someone was up to serve, we’d call it “serving up breakfast from The Kettle”. It was shortened and stretched into many phrases, as you may imagine.
