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Young Avengers Preview
The lovely first few pages of the final issue of Dark Reign: Young Avengers are here.
And I hope to see some of you at the Royal Greenwich Observatory tonight! Cheerio!
And I hope to see some of you at the Royal Greenwich Observatory tonight! Cheerio!
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Young Avengers
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Just read issue five, it took me a couple of weeks to get to it as this series just lost me as it went along. Apart from the art being . . . less than wonderful to my eyes (splash pages of people randomly squashed into the frame with no sane relationship to one another, repeated images, nonsensical hair squiggles, freaky colours), the new characters were difficult to keep straight.
They're evil, no they're not, they're misunderstood, actually they're probably evil . . . I still have no idea what Coat of Arms can do.
As a final issue this was terribly disappointing; page after page of fighting with people urging one another to choose their gang. Was the penultimate page some kind of metafictive flourish, you disowning the book? And that last page, what the heck was that all about? What's George Michael got to do with the price of peas? Feel free to tell me if I'm being terribly thick here.
(I likely 'read' as annoyed, I'm not - more perplexed.)
I'd love to see your plot outline for this issue, help me make sense of things. You know I generally love your work so I'm surprised not to have enjoyed this far more.
I did enjoy Patriot telling Norman where to get off, but the run-in between the YA and the DA suffered from the linewide problem of the supposed 'bad-arse' Dark Avengers being unable to either beat any hero team to a pulp or be beaten by them. Hence, the nutty idea the Kate could last two ticks against Bullseye.
OK, will shut up now.
Okay, you don't do negative comment about other peoples' work here, right? That is to say, if you were a first time poster I'd have bounced this for saying that about the art. And I absolutely bloody did not disown the book at the end: I'm not sure where this trope of readers thinking the sentiments of comic book characters are those of the author came from, but those are Norman Osborn's thoughts, not mine. I think this was my best series, and I'm sorry you didn't like it, but don't put words in my mouth.
Aaargh, sorry, obviously no upset was meant. Thanks for the response. I wasn't actually putting words into your mouth, really - 'was the penultimate page some kind of metafictive flourish, you disowning the book?' is phrased as the (very late night) question it is. I was struggling to understand this one.
I'll have to have a crack at reading all the issues in a lump.
Not at all, I'm not saying you're wrong to have your own opinion on the book. I'm just saying that I don't allow criticism of my colleagues, who don't deserve my blog being somewhere that hosts negative stuff about their work. Thanks for understanding that.