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Re: Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!! by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/18/2004, 2:00pm PDT
Bill Dungsroman wrote:

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

They blew up Hawkeye real good in Avengers, too. If your schtick is shooting people in the chest with arrows while wearing a mask this hasn't been a net positive month for you, most likely.
That part of the comic was gay. Jeez, they just had the Vision torn in half (which was great) one or two issues ago. Then, this really stupid Hawkeye bit. ONOS my arrow pack is on fire and will blow up! Fortunately, I have enough time to grab a jetpack and fly several thousnd feet intot he air to heroically blow up a space ship, all the while heroically screaming "NOT LIKE THIS!" Cheap.

Although I did like the issue before that, when Hawkeye informed Captain America that, yes, he does have an arrow for every Avenger.


Yeah. I like Bendis, but -- geez, you already have to swallow a great deal of ridiculousness that a guy who has nothing but a bow and arrow has managed to survive for this long among a roster of people who can throw lightning at you or vaporize you with their armor or whatever. But my disbelief had been suspended. Him dying when we all know he's coming back shortly in that manner was just TOO ridiculous. There's some sketch comedy show or episode of the Simpsons or something when a couple characters are falling out of the sky and they scream and have to take another breath to scream again and so forth. It was like the same thing. LET ME GRAB THIS JETPAK OHHH THE HORROR wait I have to steer it over here ah right THE HUMANITY ARRRRGH!

Stupid. Possibly the first stupid thing I've seen that guy write, though. I guess he deserves a freebie.

I will give Bendis almost complete props for making me care about Scott Lang, Ant-Man, and then killing him off for good. I liked him when he was hanging around when Baron Zemo and the Masters of Evil (almost) defeated the Avengers in that one arc where Zemo tore up pictures of Captain America's mom in front of him, which made him truly and irrevocably evil. You could almost see the moustache growing out of Zemo's mask so he could twirl them properly when that went down. But anyway, Lang made pop culture and movie references which you almost never see in comics that at least made him different to read than most of the other third-stringers out there. Bendis brought him into Alias where he was trying to date the lead character, only she started fucking Power Man -- we've all been there: you meet a nice girl who is interesting and as it turns out she's taking it up the ass on the sly from a giant black man who can lift (press) two tons and has skin that doesn't break.

Then, a couple years later he gets blown up by being in the wrong place at the wrong time by a guy with a deck of cards for a face. Brutal. A metaphor, perhaps, for the rest of us? Maybe.


the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!
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