Hey, Marvel -Time For a Laxative? (it will make sense if you read on)

Nice cover. Plain and a bit Darwyn Cooke but okay.

 Having read Marvel's Avengers #s 62, 63 and 64 plus that Avengers Forever bilge (not the Roger stern/Kurt Busiek series) I can tell you two things:

1) no, I am NOT buying any of the tie-ins to this farcically called "epic" which has no real characterisation and is basically another Marvel grifter scam to make money out of comic buyers.

2) Jason Aaron has proven (again) that he is a spent creative writer. There is no real characterisation and no investment in the characters. I actually read through 62-64 and got absolutely nothing out of it. Including that Avengers Forever mess tie-in this is just an epic mess. Great covers. Art is okay. But FFS it is just a long drawn out messy fight sequence where I would not have been upset if every Marvel character died. 

nice homage cover

The most silly concepts (almost childish ideas that make no sense) were thrown in. Have I written that this was all one long messy fight that made no sense?  Why is it people think that Jason Aaron can actually write an epic or even series without turning away long time readers? These are some of the most pointless stories and fight comics in Avengers history and I am a BIG Avengers fan (I even like the movies ) from volume 1 on. 

Since the 1990s it appears all of the credible writers were pushed out for younger "hot guns" (wet Kleenex more like) who are just thrown in and told "get on with it, hot-shot! Make us great again!" 

You need to be able to get the reader drawn in and invest themselves in a character and I know this is all building up to another reboot which almost everyone (except Marvel and the same applies to DC) knows is sending fans away and messing up big time.

In contrast look at Paul Levitz and Alan Davis' Avengers War Across Time. Oh, man. Characterisation, carefully presented and choreographed action and...it can be read more than once. This is professional comic creators at work. 

I look at the current Marvel output and remember that there was a time in the 1980s when I was buying EVERY Marvel monthly title and a good few DC. Marvel produced Secret Wars and they and DC realised that a big event could earn big time. So they rolled up those issues of Crisis on Infinite Earths and Secret Wars shoved them so far up their collective company asses that creative and imaginative concepts were out. Big event -ruin everything.

 Constipated creation. BIG laxative and...shit out another reboot and so on and so on ad infinitum.

Told you the post title would make sense.

Yeah, we need a major crisis series from DC and Marvel that reboots them straight back to 1987. It will never happen because those in charge at Marvel (and DC) are permanently sat, straining on the toilet,

oooh. New publicity shots of the editor in chiefs of Marvel and DC at work have just been released!

C.B. Cebulski  (Editor-in-Chief, Marvcel)

Marie Javins  (Editor-in-Chief DC)