May 24, 2016
Marvel Responds To DC’s Tossing Of Sadness Gauntlet
Description of plot points in the new
Captain America: Steve Rogers #1
here. Ew! It's like discovering film of your Mom making out with your elementary school principal, except for some reason it's trending.
These are corporate properties designed to move product, and sometimes that's a little more apparent than usual. It's really apparent this week! The way these companies occasionally seek to manipulate the affection and feelings of ownership that they themselves have encouraged in their fans is interesting to a point, but only a point.
Comics like these rarely satisfy. The focus on the characters as their own thing aggressively diverts from any insight into the human condition they might afford, even through amplification, and the attention paid to plot points and continuity almost always makes a low priority of the element of spectacle through which superhero funnybooks can be a beautiful thing to behold. What you're left with is static images declaring their own wikipedia entry updates. No thanks.
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