![]() I tell myself that I'm back into mainstream comics because the writing and art is good enough to erase the pitiful missteps of the '90s, but really, a good half of that excitement is because I love these characters simply because they are. This is a good time to be reading mainstream comics, and things are poised to get even better.Īnd here is my trouble with Marvel Ultimate Alliance. I'm even reading Moon Knight every month – a character I've never had any connection to, and never read any of the previous volumes worth of stories about – and I'm stuck to it. Captain America, traditionally one of the more two-dimensional characters in the Marvel arsenal, has, thanks to the handling of writers Ed Brubaker and Mark Millar, become probably the most complex and captivating of the bunch. I have an immense amount of respect for these characters in fact, the only "pocket" of Marvel's work that I've never really clicked with is the ever-popular X-Men world, which I've always found to be far too convoluted for my tastes – and I'm reading Astonishing X-Men in paperback form, because it's so well made. ![]() That's basically saying that superhero comics have become the best of the derivative media, but hey, almost all media is derivative, so that's saying a lot! It has something to do with my childhood obsession with Spider-Man comics, along with rediscovering that, after the hell that was the '90s, comic books with superheroes suddenly became not just good, but one of the best, most complex genre-storytelling mediums. While I've hated my fair share of Marvel books throughout the years – hundreds, probably – I have this strange affinity for anything related to the Marvel Universe and even its spin-offs (Ultimate Marvel, Squadron Supreme, that possible future universe where Spider-Girl is set, etc., etc., etc.). ![]() Jim Jarmusch, Kurt Vonnegut, Hideo Kojima, and Brian Bendis cause me to blindly buy into whatever they do, and I probably shouldn't be allowed to review anything they work on, at least by any sensible editor. Sure, I love all media in a strangely obsessive way – film, books, videogames, and yeah, comics, too – but there are a few creators and ideas that seem to click with me perfectly. This review is going to require a massive amount of restraint for me. ![]()
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