Those in my circle of friends know that I spend a lot of money each week in my local comic store and that I really do not make enough money to spend as much as I do. So I made a decision a while back to cut back. Of course this decision became so much easier when they re-launched Amazing Spider-Man a couple of months ago. I’m sure you’re up to speed that in order to save Aunt May, Peter and Mary Jane sold their marriage to Mephistos. In order for this to occur, the entire universe changed again in order to accommodate the fact that Peter never married Mary Jane. So in about 3 years, you’ve had the entire face of the Marvel Universe change 3 times. And this time was the last straw. I am almost 23 years old, and Marvel, after writing themselves into a corner for the umpteenth time, had erased the entire history of Spider-Man that I grew up with, by far my favorite Marvel character. I am too old to relearn a mythos. I just cannot do it. So in my mind, the world of the Amazing Spider-Man is dead. I cannot pick up that comic anymore. Then in a desperate attempt to catch everything up in Spider-Man’s world, they cancelled all his other series and are releasing three Amazings a month and made Amazing Spider-Girl a really alternative universe, not just a possible future. I’m afraid that Marvel has gone too far and that I can no longer read Amazing Spider-Man until someone at Marvel wakes the hell up. Then to add insult to injury, they made Peter even more of a loser than before, and Mary Jane a superhero. Just typing it here, makes my stomach turn over in disgust. I can’t write anymore on that.
Another comic I’ve had enough of is DC’s Flash. They killed Wally West. Then they killed Bart Allen but brought back Wally West and sped up the aging of Wally’s twins in order to give them powers and make West deal with fatherhood. Then they mixed in an alien invasion. I miss the days when it was the just the rouges and the Flash ran fast. I can’t read this comic anymore because they’ve added too much to it. I understand that the Flash has been struggling in sales and what not, but this is not fixing the problem. Adding new characters and twists when you are trying to re-establish a franchise just does not work in my mind because you lose a part of what made the comic attractive in the first place. I understand that the twists are supposed to try to add to the audience, but if you lose your original audience in the process, have you really won the day? The Flash runs fast, plain and simple. You want to give him a family, fine, but don’t add all this garbage surrounding them so soon to reintroducing Wally West back into this universe. It’s just too much to handle.
Finally, the last comic I did not get this week was Cable and Deadpool. Why you ask? Because they cancelled it. One of the best written comics in the Marvel universe was cancelled after issue 50 because it just did not have the following it needed which was a shame because I know the people who read it, myself included, could not get enough of Deadpool and Agency X. Of course, when Cable died briefly, they did a lot of random team-ups to keep the series afloat, and then with Cable doing his time-traveling thing again, you lost one of the main characters of the series, but Deadpool was far and away the reason why we read this comic to begin with so why not just re-launch it as Deadpool having his own comic. It breaks my heart to report that Deadpool is back to being a cameo king and plead for Marvel to being work on a Deadpool series again. Until then we will just have to keep reading Wolverine Origins. “What kind of a segway is that?” you wonder. Well, Deadpool has been in the last three Wolverine Origins trying to do the impossible. Kill Wolverine. At least, for the time being, I am getting my insane hijinx from our favorite Merc with a Mouth. This issue did not disappoint either. Everything you would want from a battle with Wolverine and Deadpool. Explosions, crazy fighting, shooting galore, and one-liners, OH THE ONE-LINERS!!! It is brilliant and the ending just leaves you cracking up as Wolverine has his claws in Deadpool’s sides and Deadpool has just blown out Wolverine’s brains, so there they are, supporting each other as they are catatonic as it is a race to see whose healing factor is superior when in the end it does not matter because neither one can kill the other. I cannot wait to see how this situation resolves itself. If you need a Deadpool fix like the junkie that I am, pick up Wolverine Origins and try to get the first two of this story arc because they are just as good. So that’s it for this week. Let me know what you think about Spidey, Flash, or the Merc with a Mouth and write back to us. Have a great one and keep reading.
-Ray Carsillo
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