Affirmative
Action Avengers assemble! Marvel has become the latest victim in a
politically correct mad gone world, chasing focus group numbers and
listening to the vocal minority, namely the “outrage culture”
championed by the Social Justice Warrior. Their pandering has
alienated many longtime fans. The question remains: Will this influx
of new readers stick around long-term? Will the gamble pay off? The
culture war rages on...
There
was one Avengers team for over 20 years. Then we got the West Coast
Avengers. A few years ago Marvel launched several Avengers titles,
diluting what was once an honor into something meaningless. Marvel
has also gone DC over the past decade, having multiple incarnations
of every hero. Take this group of doppelgangers for example.
The story in and of itself wasn't horrible, but Marvel is too DC for
my tastes anymore. Having multiple versions of every hero to try and appease
every person dilutes the brand for me. The Affirmative Action Avengers will be dispensing social justice to an offended person near you!
There
is an Inhumans story, as I guess that Marvel is hyping them up for a
future film. Then there is a Max Ride: First Flight three page
preview in the back. None of these things made me wretch, but then
again none of them are going to make me part with one thin dime,
either.
Junk
Food For Thought rating: 2 out of 5.
Hatter
M: Love Of Wonder
(Automatic
Press, 2015)
Regurgitated
public domain concept (Alice
In Wonderland) meets a
rebranding to score some “IP” for a hopeful film or television
option. The writing and artwork were decent enough to hold my
interest until I saw...this.
Sorry,
but this writer sucks ass. If you use text speak or acronyms like
this in actual writing then you blow.
Junk
Food For Thought rating: 0.5 out of 5.
Free
Comic Book Day: Dark Circle Comics #1 (Archie, cover date
June/July, 2015)
Archie
Comics have been doing a bang-up job reinventing their brand and
shaking things up. Once the squarest square that no self-respecting
comic book fan would look at, they have done things to make people
look seriously upon them for the first time in 40 years. Younger fans
don't realize this, but Archie had a superhero line going back to
their MLJ days in the 1940s into their Mighty Comics Group in the
1960s and a Horror line in the 1970s under their Red Circle imprint.
This
is a split book introducing two reinvented characters, The Black Hood
and The Fox. Both of these are terrific reads and I would even
consider buying them. I know that I would be all over a collection of
vintage material, especially 1940s Black Hood stuff. As it stands,
these reinventions are well done and are worth a look.
Junk
Food For Thought rating: 4 out of 5.
Free
Comic Book Day 2015 Secret Wars #0 (Marvel, cover date June,
2015)
Marvel
has two FCBD offerings this year, this one for the reboot that's
supposedly not a reboot (but we all know it'll be a reboot), Secret
Wars. Marvel has crapped up their continuity so bad over the past
decade that they have no choice but to burn it all down and start
over. This is page after page of talking heads doing a long-winded
explanation about what is going on, and is enough to make me keep my
money in my wallet. There is also a reprint of a Manga Avengers
crossover from Japan which is published in English for the first
time. Manga sucks and so does this.
Junk
Food For Thought rating: 2 out of 5.
Captain
Canuck
FCBD
Edition #0 (Chapter House,
cover date May, 2015)
I
have heard of Captain Canuck but have never read anything with him in
it. Everything is competently done but I won't be buying it. I have
too many irons in the fire.
Junk
Food For Thought rating: 3 out of 5.
Neil
Gaman's Lady Justice (Papercutz,
cover date 2015)
I
was reading this and enjoying it but couldn't get over the fact that
this comic felt very throwback, almost too much so. This was
confirmed on the inside cover (which I read afterward), as this was a
reprint of a 20 year old comic by the defunct Tekno Comics and will
be collected in a trade paperback.
Junk
Food For Thought rating: 3.5 out of 5.
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