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17 February 2009

New Avengers 49

If you were looking for justification for both why decompressed storytelling in comics has worn out its welcome and why Marvel’s just ripping you off at this point by increasing their cover price, look no further than New Avengers 49. That’s Brian Michael Bendis trying to recreate a cinematic zoom, and in the process spending three pages to show three panels’ worth of action. It could have been a panel where Jarvis is shot, a panel where Luke looks through the hole the bullet came from, and panel where Bullseye is shown as the shooter. Instead, you get a panel of Luke looking out eh window, the same shot from another angle, seven panels showing the same thing, then a full page showing Bullseye. I used to love Bendis’s stories and ritually bought everything he wrote. Now I’m glad I’ve stopped. I’ll just wait for Powers trades1.

Okay, I still love Ultimate Spider-Man.

21 July 2008

Secret Invasion Tie-Ins

Along the lines of what I was saying earlier, Don MacPherson illustrates nicely the problem with Brian Michael Bendis’s tie-ins to Secret Invasion in New Avengers and Mighty Avengers:

You know, I’m really getting bored of these Avengers flashback issues that fill the readership in on what was really going on in these titles right from the start. […] It’s Elektra… does anyone really care when she went from being a human ninja warrior to an alien ninja warrior?

Exactly. We already know what happens. The backstory has to be very compelling to overcome the fact that its narrative tension has already been broken.

23 May 2008

NEWSARAMA.COM: BALTIMORE '07: BRIAN BENDIS TALKS SECRET INVASION

NEWSARAMA.COM: BALTIMORE ‘07: BRIAN BENDIS TALKS SECRET INVASION

Newsarama's continuing coverage of the 2007 Baltimore Comic Con and Diamond Retailer Summmit.

25 March 2008

Secret Invasion Preview

Marvel has a short prologue to its Secret Invasion story up on its website. You might need to log in to see it, but Bug Me Not can help you there. This is the exact right way to use the internet to promote their publications. They could have gone even further by doing a series of these, one each week, like some TV shows have done with webisodes.

10 September 2007

Secret Invasion: Why a Mini-Series?

I’m sure that Brian Michael Bendis’s Secret Invasion is going to be fun, but why make it a mini-series? Why not just make it a huge arc in New Avengers, or maybe crossover with Mighty? It’s working with Green Lantern, with Corps. basically being its Frontline. DC isn’t hyping it as much as they could be, and I guess if it were a mini-series it might get more attention, but it also does away with the problem where the mini gets all the attention while the main title has to tread water.