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Name: Robert Posluszny

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Why does Marvel want to use its major cross-over event for 2012 to make me hate their characters so much?…

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I really hated this comic. I felt no pleasure from reading it, and I was frequently trying to understand how…

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I was very disappointed by this issue of Thor.  If I wanted to read it as a stand alone “What…

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June 25, 2013 12:45 am What do mean, "IF they tacked a 6-page epilogue to the end of" Avengers Forever? The final 5 pages are basically epilogue, although only the final page has the word epilogue printed on it. That story (like AoU) was also used to make minor tweaks to character continuity too, although it clearly didn't claim to have broken the Marvel time stream! But in terms of cleanly and satisfyingly resolving the active story while setting in motion future stories, I feel that Avengers Forever was vastly more successful and satisfying (in my opinion). Which is why Avengers Forever continues to get new printings, and why I suspect AoU will not fair as well.
June 24, 2013 7:43 pm That panel of Angela above was drawn by Joe Quesada.
June 24, 2013 7:40 pm For me, I mostly enjoyed reading Age of Ultron, it was a decent limited series. Kurt Busiek told what I think is a far superior Avengers time travel tale (also with art from Carlos Pacheco) called Avengers Forever, which I've re-read several times and suspect I'll read again. In contrast, I doubt that I'll ever want to read this again. So while it was enjoyable, it wasn't amazing, but that's true of most of the comics that have ever been published...
June 24, 2013 7:32 pm In terms of the Angela ending, that was very disappointing to me. I have no idea who the character is or why I'm supposed to care. The writer saved two whole pages for her introduction, which could have been used for 6-10 panels of exposition or explanatory story telling to engage me and to make me care. Instead I'm given a sparsely written, obscure, boring double-page spread that does nothing to advance the continuing parts of the story. It was so typical of the worst traits of modern comics, and pretty disappointing. And to think they poly bagged the comic to hide that "shocking" ending, which I couldn't understand even after reading the comic, and which I already knew was coming from USA Today.
June 19, 2013 11:57 pm The poly bag was completely unnecessary; the story lacked any real surprises that hadn't already been put out by Marvel in press releases, interviews, and solicitations. Maybe they just wanted to hide how many different people worked on the art to keep sales from deflating! In fairness, the story was fine, but I thought it was pretty unremarkable. In light of the build up I felt disappointed like the comic didn't deliver on its hype; I'd give it three stars.
May 24, 2013 11:03 am @bub, why would you assume that people on the Internet had faith in the world to begin with? But I appreciate the thought!
May 6, 2013 9:34 am The Kid's vague story could actually fit both the new Nova and the new Starlord origins pretty easily if they want to reuse that actor/character.
May 3, 2013 9:57 pm Was anyone else put off by the recap page using the introductory verbiage style from Hawkeye? "This is what he (Tony Stark) does when he's not a Guardian of the Galaxy." Ouch. Whoever wrote that needs a good "talking-to" by his boss. This is definitely a learning opportunity!
May 3, 2013 9:48 pm Even great writers can only make a variety of characters and story concepts appealing to the audiences that are already predisposed to be interested in the topic. The audience for Eric O'Grady (the irredemable Ant-Man) isn't the same as the audience for Peter Parker. Those audinces certainly overlap, but the people who tend to buy Spider-Man comics may, on average, be assumed to be looking for a certain type of character as the protagonist. And that character isn't a selfish jerk who rages out and critically batters minor league felons, or shoots helpless prisoners in the head while dragging the reputations of good people through the mud. It doesn't matter how well those stories are told, certain audiences just won't find those stories to their taste. That's how this series is for me. I'm not saying that Dan Slott is a bad writer, I'm just saying that he wants to write stories that I don't care to read right now. How is that so difficult to understand?
May 2, 2013 4:50 pm No rage from me. Just disinterest. Dan Slott should tell whatever stories he's interested in telling as long as he's the writer. And when the stories come back around to characters I like I'll check them out again. No harm, no foul.