Comments | wizardru: Worst Retcons in Comics

wizardru

Worst Retcons in Comics

Nov 18, 2009 11:25

At least, according to iO9.com. Most of them are pretty spot-on, though I'm not on board with all of them. The parallax one, for example, is a retcon repair to undo damage by poor editor choice in the past. Some of Wolverine's stuff was never actually in comics, just discussions that writer/artists had in the early days (and that Lupine crap? ( Read more... )

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wizardru November 18 2009, 18:35:13 UTC

The Lupine stuff comes from Wolverine's core title written by....[shudder]...LOEB. It's mind-bendingly AWFUL. And as far as I can tell, it's kind of being ignored.

The whole parallax thing was a heavy-handed mallet...but the whole 'goes crazy, kills the whole green lantern corps and then becomes uber-super-villian' thing rang so false that they had to do something. Although I did like the idea of Jordan as the Spectre.

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wizardru November 18 2009, 19:01:32 UTC

Yeah, well that's the thing. Once in a blue moon, Loeb writes something good. But 95% of his output is terrible.

I used to think Bendis was great...when he just wrote Powers. Then someone let him become Marvel's #1 writer and it all went to Hell. Geoff Johns is closer to 50/50.

But the worst thing I've bought in years was the Red Hulk. It was just so AWFUL in so many different ways. Loeb really just doesn't know any of the characters he writes or their histories. The recent animated Superman/Batman Public Enemies suffered from being based on Loeb's work...and it rang false in so many ways. I'n not Captain Marvel's biggest fan...but if there's one thing I know about him, it's that he doesn't talk smack and attack unprovoked and unannounced on a foe. Any more than Power Girl should just be Doe Eyes and Tits, which is all she practically is, there.

Heck, I could write that stuff xerhino November 18 2009, 18:31:09 UTC

...in which Superboy prime, while mind controlled by the spirit of Silver Age Chuck Norris, does a roundhouse kick so powerful that reality itself jumps out of the way, scattering into a thousand different time lines.

Re: Heck, I could write that stuff wizardru November 18 2009, 18:38:37 UTC

I haven't read this week's issue, but I thought that the final fate of Superboy Prime, where they turn him into a classic parody of a comic fanboy, was awesome.

Because the whole idea of Supberboy Prime just got awful.

kinchyle November 23 2009, 20:41:36 UTC

This is why I completely disconnect my brain when I read comics. I read it and then return it to the library having met my mental distraction quota for the day. Spider-Man can teleport and Superman just developed yet another unheard-of application of his powers that take him one more step closer to godhood? Fine. At least it's not a car breakdown or dealing with my ex.

Although, after reading his Doom Patrol and Animal Man, I'm fairly certain I rather dislike Grant Morrison.