Earths Mightest Heroes, or not

[selenak]

likeadeuce, I blame you for this. Well, you and Civil War. Coming across two trade volumes with the Avengers foundation story, Earth's Mightiest Heroes, written by Joe Casey, I aquired them. They work amazingly well as inadvertent foreshadowing. Ah, Marvel.

So, my impressions in form of a summary:

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[resolute]

This? This is very funny.

I was also talking to likeadeuce about the scan from Cable she posted, how in theatrical_muse it's pretty easy to get the relationship between Rachel and Cable in line with canon because, well --

Because you can see in your head the Marvel Master 3-Point Bible of Character Traits for all of their characters. And as long as you hit those points in your writing, you are "in character" and the fans don't kill you. What's easy is a) hitting those points and being boring and b) being interesting and violating pre-existing characterization. What is hard and valued is hitting the points AND being interesting.

For instance, I found "House of M" to be extremely in character and very interesting. I found X-Men Civil War to be in characters but utterly pointless.. I am finding Robert Kirkman's run on Ultimate X-Men to be out of character, and possibly interesting, but frustrating as all hell.

It's like Tony's master 3-point list includes manipulative, self-righteous, long-range-planner. As long as you hit those, you're good . . . ?

[selenak]

Haven't read X-Men Civil War yet (I just reached the third installment of Millar's central storyline and read six issue of Civil War: Front Line), but yes on Tony. Though it seems one should include the overdeveloped responsibility complex (shadow sided by when he does the alcoholism thing and abandons all responsibility altogether), or does that fall under point 2?

[likeadeuce]

*is amused*

hee hee hee. I don't actually have anything to add, as I've only read the wee bit of the Avengers origin story that is included in the "Avengers disassembled" TPB. But -- well, that sounds about right.

And there is really no reason whatsoever to read X-men Civil War. Cable already posted the good parts (first two scans). Although I did omit the scene in which Emma basically asks to go on the road trip with the guys, and Scott basically says NO GIRLS ALLOWED (although with the implicit subtext that Jean would have been allowed to come if not for the whole being dead).

[selenak]

Okay, X-men Civil War is off the list. And I hoped you'd be amused by my summary and find it accurate.

So... will we ever get a Tony pov on these events in theatrical_muse?