Lotuslaw

November 3, 2011 6:58 pm Is there any way for me to edit my review? I've got some grammar errors and typos that need a fixin'.

February 12, 2011 10:35 am

@ScorpionMasada:  Also, I disagree about witty banter and real danger being mutally exclusive.  Again, Peter David is a master.  For a more recent example, look at Abnett and Lannig over in the Cosmic corner.  As for seeing how to use Spider-Man, Busiek's "Untold Tales" is top notch, as is the excellent work done during the "Brand New Day" period.  Also, PAD did some good work writing Spidey during that whole Spider Totem garbage, but this was because he really got the character. 

You may be right, this may be a style issue.  I have liked Bendis's work in other comics.  But I just never have found myself caring about his Avengers. 

February 12, 2011 10:24 am @ScorpionMasada:  I've followed the whole run, and while I can agree his work with Luke Cage has been extensive, I still have not connected with the character.  This, however, may have a lot to do with the fact that his treatment of the characters *surrounding* Luke (and Jessica) have been so off that it undermines the suspeension of disbelief.  Looking back, I recall the same phenomona with Iron Man.  He finds a voice for certain characters (which are remarkably the same save for certain puncutations), but others are so weakly or poorly drawn (his BuckyCap, Ms. Marvel, Mockingbird, Wasp before he offed her, his nebbish version of Spider-man) that I can "see" the attention being lavished on the ones he is devloping.  This goes back to the issue of balance.

In a way, I never feel like i am reading the character's voice so much as I am reading Bendis's voice thrown into the characters.  Don't get me wrong; I have enjoyed issues and moments in his run.  But in the end, if Kang came and wiped Luke and Jess from the timestream, I wouldn't care.   

February 10, 2011 12:00 pm Judging by DC's superhero comics *today,* not many people checked off "Black People."  I think there might more green and red recognizable characters than there are African-Americans.  Just sayin'.

January 26, 2011 10:11 am I wholly disagree.  The tension of the "3" storyline is enhanced by the fact that you know one of the FF will die, but you do not know which one.  The family is split and paralell storylines each present deadly peril.  The story is written in such a way as to fold the knowledge of a death, but not which death, into the arc.  THis is by design.

In the Harry Potter series, we we told well in advance that important characters would die, but not which ones.  Indeed, the technique of "and one will die" is a time-honored plot technique.  In comics, toward the end of the Silver Age, there was a graphic novel "The Death of Captain Marvel."  Spider-Man 121, the penultmate chapter of  the arc with Gwen Stacy's death, has the famous cover with Petey saying "SOMEONE CLOSE TO ME WILL DIE!" and pictures showing various supporting cast.  You don't know who will die until you read the issue, but you know someone will. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_Gwen_Stacy_Died
 
Does it really make a difference that you know at the beginnig of the arc instead of the issue?  Sure, a shocking death is a storytelling technique as well, but not the *only* one.