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“… might be”?

I read this issue at the comic shop, only because Marvel hyped it so much. I was bored by the ending, and I know about Skrulls. (But I laughed thinking about the post on here from a week or so earlier — from the Curious Cat? — who predicted yet humorously inveighed against a Skrull reveal.)

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The real Electra was killed by Bullseye in Miller’s Daredevil?

Y’know, I’m totally down with that. Cool.

You hit on one of the big reasons I disliked this issue, that being that it was so incredibly light on content.

This comic felt like it was not written to entertain, but instead to get people talking about Marvel’s next big event. It wasn’t a comic book it was an advertisement.

To Mark Andrews:

Check out Frank Miller’s follow-up to the Elektra Saga
“Elektra Lives Again”.

Makes Cool look hot!

Have to disagree:

1. The “art” is hideous and completely wrong for an Avenger’s book. However this group of Avengers is wrong also.
2. Bendis does not know what he is doing.
3. Elektra-skrull has large breasts for a dead lizard.

“You hit on one of the big reasons I disliked this issue, that being that it was so incredibly light on content.”

It’s a Brian Michael Bendis issue and two different (well, they’re related) things actually happen in it, not counting a big fight. Sounds incredibly dense, for a Bendis comic.

I still question the eye thing. I tihnk its just odd coloring on the artists parts. I didn’t even realize they were yellow until someone else said it. I tohught they were green.

Or maybe she just has jaundice.

because Marvel hyped it so much

You know, it’s funny; for all the supposed “hype” about this book, the first time I heard a peep about it was when Curious Cat mentioned it…

Good God. And here I thought with the movies and the recap pages and so on Marvel was trying to be LESS insular.

We might as well quit kidding ourselves. Regular Marvel and DC titles aren’t “mainstream” in any sense of the word any more. They’re more like a company newsletter that we’ve all inexplicably agreed to PAY for. More and more it feels to me like Marvel and DC each put out ONE monthly book that’s 600 pages long, and we buy it in overpriced weekly chapter booklets and go home and assemble a mosaic that’s the month’s issue of “DC” or “Marvel.” Even Marvels’ Ultimate books are starting to work this way.

We essentially asked for it; we trained the marketplace this way over the last twenty years through our purchasing choices, so I shouldn’t bitch. But I do think it’s really unhealthy in the long-term. I miss superhero comics that at least pretended to be a mass medium. I love the idea of this column but I have a hunch it’s coming way too late in the game. The horse is out of the barn.

Hatcher, you’re 100% correctomundo.

But hey, at least we’ve got some fantastic stuff like The Spirit (until DC decides to do a bunch of crossovers with Batman or something), Jonah Hex, The Goon, Fell, and some other fantastic titles that pop up now and again. (All-Star Superman, though a part of the whole insular superhero publication trend due to its nostalgic significance, is still top-notch stuff that you can at least try to read on its own without embarrassing yourself.)