When Worlds Collide...
So, what's the deal with Battle World/Secret Wars (or whatever the hell it's called) and Convergence right now? (I know the deal, just so we're clear, my questions just heralds a bit of rant.) Both Marvel and DC are running pretty darn similar and, I have to say, pretty uninspiring multi-arc, multi-issue, world changing (again?!) events, and I for one will be glad when they're done with it. Every time the comic Giants pull this sort of schtick it's basically because they have gone and got their knickers in a twist about some quirk of continuity or other, or there has been some fanboy outcry about Power Girl or Bat Girl or some girl (not that most of these guys would actually know anything about actual, real life girls - sorry, that was harsh, and horrendously stereotyped, but also probably true...). Ugh! Get over it and get it done already. I have actually been enjoying a few titles in DC's pantheon of late. Not many come close to Scott Synder and Greg Capullo on Batman, but Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino's run on Green Arrow was something special (the book has gone to crap since then, unfortunately, as DC brought in a team of new creatives who could only badly emulate the Arrow TV show). I even picked up Future's End, until it wouldn't end and I got bored of issues about half assed heroes doing half assed missions (now that had a stella issue 0, but sank fairly quickly after that). I don't read a lot of Marvel, as I find the art and the story telling a little childish for my tastes (Disney's influence, perhaps?), but I will be glad when they've all stopped doing these bloody irritating continuity fixing events. Give us some jumping on points for fresh storylines, tell us something new about the characters (like Scott Snyder did with the Court of Owls in Batman), don't reel out this fan-pleasing twaddle like Converge and Secret Wars. Be bold, allow your creatives to imagine the next iconic storyline, rather than rehashing old ones. In 10 years, no one is going to remember this turgid mess, as only great stories endure. Nuff said.
















