J. Michael Straczynski continues to litter current Marvel output with his trivial writings

Superhero Hype announced Marvel's doing a number of single-issue tales, some of which are penned by none other than the insufferably overrated Straczynski. For example:

The team-up is one of the oldest traditions of superhero comics. An uncountable number of stories are based around heroes and villains joining forces against a common enemy. The most memorable of these stories involve unlikely, if not unthinkable team-ups. To that end, a series of one-shots by writer J. Michael Straczynski will tell tales of Marvel Comics‘ most unlikely duos, starting with Doctor Doom and Rocket Raccoon.

Fun was the watchword for Straczynski in crafting this particular collection of comics. “I like to go where the fun is, and the idea of putting together Marvel characters who had either never been paired before, or only minimally, seemed like it would be a ton of fun.”

What's so "fun" about Straczynski's writing? It goes without saying that a writer who forced some of the earliest of bad metaphors for real life leftist politics into comicdom post-2000 cannot be trusted to deliver a tasteful story teaming an anthropomorphic galactic raccoon with a nasty autocratic tyrant from a fictional Balkan country, one who's been written with a disturbingly high count of murdering people, and if the most recent examples in particular are canonized, that's exactly what makes this pointless exercise in futility repellent. Let's also not forget Straczynski was the writer who depicted Doom sobbing under his armor mask over 2 decades ago at the site of World Trade Center's destruction in the pages of Spider-Man.

The stories will be set at various points in Marvel continuity. Comparable stories include Jonathan Hickman and Sanford Greene’s Doom and Chip Zdarsky and Daniel Acuña’s Avengers: Twilight. This will offer both new fans and established readers a chance to enjoy these one-shots.

“The more unlikely the pairing, the more eccentric the combo, the more fun it was to see it come to life,” proclaims Straczynski. “For the first time we could see the original Nick Fury in China along with the Flying Tigers taking on a newly awakened Fin Fang Foom. See the Ghost Rider slugging it out with none other than Galactus. Aunt May caught in the midst of a supernatural battle alongside Agatha Harkness.”

Hickman and Zdarsky are just as overrated as Straczynski, and with Marvel's better days far behind it now, what's to celebrate? These writers simply do not have what it takes to deliver the goods, and the modern editorial mandates and status quos make things worse. It's just no use.