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1. JumpingJupiter says:

   April 6, 2009 at 1:00 am

   Such enthusiasm!

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2. GutterIsATool says:

   April 6, 2009 at 5:20 am

   Excellent points! It’s time we demand realism in our comics!

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3. JumpingJupiter says:

   April 6, 2009 at 6:52 pm

   @Gutter: I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic…

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4. rwpos says:

   April 6, 2009 at 7:26 pm

   @GutterIsATool: I’ll jump in for JJ and assume that your response is sarcastic!  I understand your point, superficially, but I think that you’re simply willing to give weak writing a free pass because you have low expectations for the comic book medium.

   At the very start of this arc we were presented with the idea that Tony Stark, the hero of the book, had been made a national villain simply by failing to prevent an alien invasion and for providing technology that proved vulnerable to the attack.  The author presented a world where the public was quick to turn on its legitimate heroes for passive things, and thus was the conflict for the entire story arc established.  And now, a few issues in, he changes that concept by showing an already suspect national "hero" commiting a grevously wrong act without explanation, and without resolving the underlying conflict of the story.  This is lazy writing, where the author basically has his caracters do whatever he feels like having them do based on convenience.  It means that at any time he can simply resolve the story without explanation.  And I happen to expect better quality writing, even from a monthly superhero comic book that features amazing and unrealistic powers.

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5. GutterIsATool says:

   April 7, 2009 at 2:31 am

   @rwpos: Yes, it was sarcasm. Simply getting upset with the writer of a comic book for doing something unrealistic in their book is kind of absurd though. You put it so much better the second time around. I was just busting your balls a bit. I actually didn’t much enjoy this book either. The start of it the story arc did setup a very nice story that seems to have gotten a little lost. Even the sections that focus on Tony don’t seem to fit well with the original story. They seem more like events with the only purpose of stalling while waiting for some other event elsewhere in the Marvel universe.

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