Today in A Bit Too Made for Me
Okay, so Diz has created a new animated series about the Avengers entitled Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Okay, first off: I lurve it. So much. Stupidly so. Marvel obscuria just shoots at you like t-shirts out of a t-shirt cannon. Every villain in the MU is locked up by SHIELD, and let loose by a mysterious villain (Loki. Can we just admit it's Loki?). The Avengers form to stop them. Iron Man's a dick, Captain America feels lost in time, the Hulk is angry and violent, Hank Pym is a little less wife beat-y and a lot more Bill Nye, and the Wasp is not as Paris Hilton-y as she could be, which means she is awesome. Thor is dull, but that's about normal.
They are even playing with the fact that the Marvel IPs have been farmed out like carrots because they can’t mention, say, Dr. Doom (“I just ruined someone’s day. Guess who it was! Hint: his name rhymes with Boom!”).
It’s put the team together, and sends them out in various configurations to learn things about themselves and punch bad guys in the face. Yay! I mean, seriously, Mandrill? If you’d have told me a year ago that I would be watching an animated show that featured Mandrill as a villain, I’d have laughed at you until lack of oxygen caused me to pass out.
So the show has been enjoyable so far, introducing loads of stuff from MODOC (in a kids show, he's a conqueror, not a killer), Wonder Man, the Black Panther and a passel (yes, passel!) of stuff you’d need an index to understand. It's exactly what I think of when I coined the term "OHOTMU porn".
So I watch it and I think "who the hell is going to enjoy this?" Okay, yes, me. And Mike Marano (hey, Mighty Mike!). And Papajoemambo. Possibly comedian Patton Oswalt. And loads of other guys over 30.
But we're not an audience. This needs to be able to appeal to kids. I know, I know, my mantra has been "Fuck the new reader! My first comic was issue two of a JLA/JSA crossover!"
I remind you, I am not a businessman. I'm usually not even a very nice person (not that you can’t be an excellent businessman and a jerk). Don't take advice from me.
The Marvel trivia flies off the screen, little knowledge shrapnel being sprayed at people like out of a wood chipper, with no regard for people new to the canon or even people less than intimately familiar.
Honestly, I fear for new viewers. I need to frequently pause it and explain things to Cynra that I take for granted but no normal human being would have half an idea what it is. I don’t know how accessible the show is to normal people.
But I can’t figure out how normal people react to anything, really.
But, God, I hope we get to see the future time Guardians of the Galaxy. And maybe the Eternals?
Okay, first off: I lurve it. So much. Stupidly so. Marvel obscuria just shoots at you like t-shirts out of a t-shirt cannon. Every villain in the MU is locked up by SHIELD, and let loose by a mysterious villain (Loki. Can we just admit it's Loki?). The Avengers form to stop them. Iron Man's a dick, Captain America feels lost in time, the Hulk is angry and violent, Hank Pym is a little less wife beat-y and a lot more Bill Nye, and the Wasp is not as Paris Hilton-y as she could be, which means she is awesome. Thor is dull, but that's about normal.
They are even playing with the fact that the Marvel IPs have been farmed out like carrots because they can’t mention, say, Dr. Doom (“I just ruined someone’s day. Guess who it was! Hint: his name rhymes with Boom!”).
It’s put the team together, and sends them out in various configurations to learn things about themselves and punch bad guys in the face. Yay! I mean, seriously, Mandrill? If you’d have told me a year ago that I would be watching an animated show that featured Mandrill as a villain, I’d have laughed at you until lack of oxygen caused me to pass out.
So the show has been enjoyable so far, introducing loads of stuff from MODOC (in a kids show, he's a conqueror, not a killer), Wonder Man, the Black Panther and a passel (yes, passel!) of stuff you’d need an index to understand. It's exactly what I think of when I coined the term "OHOTMU porn".
So I watch it and I think "who the hell is going to enjoy this?" Okay, yes, me. And Mike Marano (hey, Mighty Mike!). And Papajoemambo. Possibly comedian Patton Oswalt. And loads of other guys over 30.
But we're not an audience. This needs to be able to appeal to kids. I know, I know, my mantra has been "Fuck the new reader! My first comic was issue two of a JLA/JSA crossover!"
I remind you, I am not a businessman. I'm usually not even a very nice person (not that you can’t be an excellent businessman and a jerk). Don't take advice from me.
The Marvel trivia flies off the screen, little knowledge shrapnel being sprayed at people like out of a wood chipper, with no regard for people new to the canon or even people less than intimately familiar.
Honestly, I fear for new viewers. I need to frequently pause it and explain things to Cynra that I take for granted but no normal human being would have half an idea what it is. I don’t know how accessible the show is to normal people.
But I can’t figure out how normal people react to anything, really.
But, God, I hope we get to see the future time Guardians of the Galaxy. And maybe the Eternals?