Valley Morning Star reviews three Marvel titles
The Valley Morning Star writes some reviews of 3 Marvel books. But I wouldn't go as far as they do before saying that they still produce quality titles. Thor: Blood Oath may be quality (and good to know if the Norse thunder god is back in the MCU, as he should be), and maybe, just maybe Ultimate Spider-Man #84 is too, though I'm getting pretty disillusioned with Bendis, courtesy of his wallowing in crossovers like House of M. And who knows, the 11th issue of Captain America is probably also worth the price of admission. But then, that's probably not what I find troubling about this article either; rather, it's when we get to the part about Captain America #11, where they say the following:
What I find bothersome about the above quoting is that it makes it sound as though they're trying to push the fool notion that adults superheroes in the MCU literally consider teen heroes to be unfit for the job. Not so, and Capt. America, while he may have balked at letting Rick Jones become a new Bucky by wearing the old uniform, since the memory of his partner's loss was painful, he never had anything against Rick working as a crimefighter even on simplistic capacity. Suffice it to say that a lot of Marvel heroes, when written well, have a lot of respect for the teen ones, including the New Warriors, to name an example.
I really hate it when they make it sound as if "reality" is muscling its unneccasary way in on the world of fantasy, which is what the MCU is meant to be.
The biggest plot point of all concerning the Winter Soldier is that he may be Bucky, Captain America's sidekick during WWII. The youth was killed on a mission with Cap at the end of the war and is cited as the reason that Marvel characters no longer work with kid sidekicks.Correction: many of Marvel's own superheroes don't work with sidekicks because the teenagers who could take that role are so independant, whether they're part of a team or not, that as a result, who do the adults really have to work with? Plus, Spider-Man for one, and sometimes even the teen members of the X-Men themselves, were able to learn the ropes without having to rely on an adult trainer for the basic rules of combat. (And while Xavier may have been a leader then, he still left the training part up to his own team at that.)
What I find bothersome about the above quoting is that it makes it sound as though they're trying to push the fool notion that adults superheroes in the MCU literally consider teen heroes to be unfit for the job. Not so, and Capt. America, while he may have balked at letting Rick Jones become a new Bucky by wearing the old uniform, since the memory of his partner's loss was painful, he never had anything against Rick working as a crimefighter even on simplistic capacity. Suffice it to say that a lot of Marvel heroes, when written well, have a lot of respect for the teen ones, including the New Warriors, to name an example.
I really hate it when they make it sound as if "reality" is muscling its unneccasary way in on the world of fantasy, which is what the MCU is meant to be.
Labels: Captain America, marvel comics, X-Men
