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Re: Civil War Query?

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I might be you! Because I am also old and started reading comics when I was a tiny little thing! (My older brothers had years and years of X-Men comics that I started reading when I was like 7, and I started buying my own once I had enough money. Looking back on those comics, I am certain I missed like 95% of what was going on, especially anything that involved sex.)

I seriously think if the two events had more time between them, I wouldn't have stopped reading. But DC & Marvel fans went straight from Infinite Crisis to Civil War, and they were both just awful and dark and miserable and poorly written. And a lot of books were cancelled at that time, too, including pretty much all my faves. Ugh! I'm still upset when I think about it!

I actually avoided the Marvel movies for years - despite my old love of the genre, I didn't watch any of them 'til last year, at which point I was still kinda 'eh' about it. But a couple of my favorite fanfic authors had moved over in to the fandom, and I gave it a try. The Hawkeye comic is what actually got me back in to reading comics, and I'm still enjoying a lot of different stuff, but I'm also a lot more critical than I used to be about comics.

And yes, some arcs or even entire comics are still crappy and I dislike them. (Anything by Remender, ugh. Or, frankly, Mark Miller.) But the entire attitude of comics is, imo, different now. Mid-2000's, they were replacing all the humorous books with dark and depressing ones, and there were almost no happy or lighthearted books or moments. I remember being surprised at how humorous Nextwave was, for instance. They also killed or depowered a lot of the lighter characters. But I think comics now are a lot more lighthearted and hopeful. And diverse! Though I still haven't gotten back in to DC - I keep meaning to, but I'm just enjoying the MCU fandom so much right now, I haven't bothered.

I will check out that Civil War AU - that sounds really interesting! I would love to see the idea and its potential handled well.

Re: Civil War Query?

[(Anonymous)]

The recent Civil War miniseries is alright, but not an improvement by much. It's an AU where the fighting in Civil War just continued to even more ludicrous proportions (I'm talking a giant chasm down the middle of America with Iron Man's followers living on one side and Cap's on the other).

Personally, I'm really thinking the movie has the best chance of getting it right. Fewer heroes, a lot of great set-up in their universe showing the threat the public is feeling from the heroes, plus Bucky smack in the middle of all of it. We'll see though.