FausticCaust
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Jonathan Hickman’s S.H.I.E.L.D. is a mildly disgusting wank of a comic book. I suppose one shouldn’t be surprised at this…
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@Howl4Me Thanks for the link. Hickman has always struck me as a pretty cool guy in real life. I met him once at ComicCon way back when he was promoting Nightly News.
@jabroniunc h/t
@JumpingJupiter I don't think I've understood your point about well-intentioned individuals in Hickman plots. Do you mean sarcastically that they're well-intentioned in the sense that they have designs that they think are in the best interest of the human race? Of Hickman's indy work, I've only read Nightly News and Pax Romana.
S.H.I.E.L.D. shows us a world where knowledge is not discovered, but is rather appropriated and acquired through unreasoning means.
All of the tech we see is shrouded in ritual trappings. When Newton decides to find something out, he doesn't experiment or deduce; he goes off on a quest to a hidden, snow-covered city and consorts with what is, for all intents and purposes, a demon, before stealing the information he was after.
Nostradamus (who possesses knowledge of the future by virtue of being, well, Nostradamus) is introduced as a source of narrative prophecy, and is tortured.
The great scientists have been reduced to cargo cultists using science words.
On another note, "maudlin" is exactly the word I've been groping for to describe Reed Richards' speech. Thanks!