Marvel Can Kiss My...
Captain America is dead. I'm going to type that again. Captain America is D.E.A.D. Captain America. Icon. One of a handful of pointmen for Marvel Comics. Marvel's first truly successful character. Jack Kirby and Joe Simon's oldest and most enduring character. Dead. Killed by a sniper. A sniper. A bullet. No epic showdown. No two fisted slugfest on top of a nuclear missle flying at the speed of sound over the Atlantic. No supervillian. No nothing.
I'm pissed off at this, if you can't tell. I'm pissed off at sloppy writing. I'm pissed off that one of my favorite characters of all time got snuffed out in a boring way just to stir up controversy and make some sales. Is it stupid that I'm pissed off that a fictional character died when there's lots of real life tragedies happening every day that I should be pissed off about? Sure, it's stupid. But my life is fiction. I live in a stupid little town full of stupid little people who do stupid little things. Real life sucks ass, and I want as little to do with the damn thing as possible. In other words, I reserve the right to be really, really angry right now.
Marvel. Fucking Marvel. Con artists and thieves is more like it. Their list of crimes stretches on into forever. How many creators have they screwed over? How characters have they ripped off or stolen? Marvel and DC and Archie literally conspired to Murder EC Comics back in the 1950s. Then Kirby and Lee come along and build the Marvel Age of comics from scratch, but when Kirby wants his original art back so he can give it to his grandchildren, Marvel says, "Fuck you Kirby, you're gonna have to sue us if you want it back!" And how come Lee gets credit for everything? Lee MAYBE came up with SOME of the basic ideas. Hell, he had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the creation of Captain America. Or the Silver Surfer (my favorite comic book character ever) for that matter. Man I'm pissed.
And you know what's sad, is that it takes some talentless hack writer writing some stupid crappy story and killing off one my favorite characters for me to think about how crappy an organization Marvel Comics really is. Hell, DC's no better. They sued Fawcett Comics because they claimed Captain Marvel was a rip off of Superman. Anyone with a brain in their head can tell that Captain Marvel isn't anything like Superman, but DC won the lawsuit, which drove Fawcett into bankrupcy (spell?), then DC had the audacity to buy up Fawcett! Scumbags!
Anyway, this is the last straw. I'm boycotting Marvel comics and other Marvel products. At least for six months. Maybe forever. I'm not buying any DCU comics for a good long while either. I'm still down with Vertigo and Wildstorm, because at least those branches have creator ownership policies. I'm just saying, enough is enough. Enough crappy storytelling. Enough callous disregard for characterization. Enough heinous deeds.
Or, as the title says, Marvel can kiss my ass.
I'm pissed off at this, if you can't tell. I'm pissed off at sloppy writing. I'm pissed off that one of my favorite characters of all time got snuffed out in a boring way just to stir up controversy and make some sales. Is it stupid that I'm pissed off that a fictional character died when there's lots of real life tragedies happening every day that I should be pissed off about? Sure, it's stupid. But my life is fiction. I live in a stupid little town full of stupid little people who do stupid little things. Real life sucks ass, and I want as little to do with the damn thing as possible. In other words, I reserve the right to be really, really angry right now.
Marvel. Fucking Marvel. Con artists and thieves is more like it. Their list of crimes stretches on into forever. How many creators have they screwed over? How characters have they ripped off or stolen? Marvel and DC and Archie literally conspired to Murder EC Comics back in the 1950s. Then Kirby and Lee come along and build the Marvel Age of comics from scratch, but when Kirby wants his original art back so he can give it to his grandchildren, Marvel says, "Fuck you Kirby, you're gonna have to sue us if you want it back!" And how come Lee gets credit for everything? Lee MAYBE came up with SOME of the basic ideas. Hell, he had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the creation of Captain America. Or the Silver Surfer (my favorite comic book character ever) for that matter. Man I'm pissed.
And you know what's sad, is that it takes some talentless hack writer writing some stupid crappy story and killing off one my favorite characters for me to think about how crappy an organization Marvel Comics really is. Hell, DC's no better. They sued Fawcett Comics because they claimed Captain Marvel was a rip off of Superman. Anyone with a brain in their head can tell that Captain Marvel isn't anything like Superman, but DC won the lawsuit, which drove Fawcett into bankrupcy (spell?), then DC had the audacity to buy up Fawcett! Scumbags!
Anyway, this is the last straw. I'm boycotting Marvel comics and other Marvel products. At least for six months. Maybe forever. I'm not buying any DCU comics for a good long while either. I'm still down with Vertigo and Wildstorm, because at least those branches have creator ownership policies. I'm just saying, enough is enough. Enough crappy storytelling. Enough callous disregard for characterization. Enough heinous deeds.
Or, as the title says, Marvel can kiss my ass.
1 Comments:
I think I read one Star Wars book that happens after Chewbacca died. I feel your pain
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