Civil War continues to be way better than scans_daily told me it was

[elspethdixon]

I need a "Civil War Fan: No Apologies" icon, like those DMC Fan ones, to flash around at scans_daily. Because the more if it I read, the more I wonder what crack all those fans who loathe it are smoking. (Also, I've seen some of them claim to dislike Reed Richards. How can you not like Reed? He's an adorable Aspergers geek-boy, and so much better for Sue than Namor. Namor is a dick who deserves a beat-down from DC-verse Aquaman, who can show him how real Atlantians ought to act).

Because I am a good person, I'm at home today cleaning house rather than at my appartment reading comics (my mom broke her leg, which means she can't do laundry or vacuum, etc.).

And I even spent last night reading my history class text on the construction of race rather than reading/writing Avengers, Spiderman, and Daredevil. Even though it reminded me of fandom race wank and therefore made me want to hit things.

And eee, I finally got lostcatholic's Christmas present (parents: "Here, this came for you in the mail a couple of weeks ago."). I haven't started readig it yet, but it has a woman in a Victorian corset on the cover!

Comments

[htbthomas.livejournal.com]

Hey, how much have you read of Civil War?

I am of the camp: liked it up to a point... and now it's dragging and over-long. Maybe it'll read better as a trade.

I also read some of the tie-ins: Spidey (like), FF (meh - and I usually like this book), New Avengers (50/50), Frontline (like Embedded and The Accused, meh about the Atlantean one, HATE the poetry). I started out reading everything, and just couldn't.

So I'd be interested in more of your thoughts. :)

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Maybe it'll read better as a trade

That's essentially how I read it--I've been following Spiderman all along, but a week or so ago I finally downloaded all the Civil War comics and tie-in through December and read them in a couple of sittings. I deliberately didn't want to get sucked in until I had a substantial amount of stuff to read.

It reads much better that way (kind of like how second-season Lost was apparently meh for viewers tuning in real-time, but rocked hard core when I saw it for the first time on DVD). I have a pretty high tolerance for long, drawn-out plotlines, and get a perverse emo-drama pleasure out of seeing my OTPs suffer, so I'm all over it. I know some fans are frustrated because so many things still haven't been resolved/some characters' motives still haven't been fully explained, but I have faith that they'll get around to giving us most of those details eventually--And I can wait a month or so. Compared to, say, this summer's three-month hiatus from Lost when viewers didn't know if several main characters were alive or dead, the resolution is positively speedy.

Also, Infinite Crisis and its associated trainwrecks massively lowered my expectations--I'm prepared to forgive much in return for Civil War being so much better than that (plus, I suspect the Marvel writers are actually going somewhere with the storyline, whereas DC really seems to be making stuff up as they go along).

[htbthomas.livejournal.com]

I can see that. I've read huge chunks of comics that way, and really enjoyed it. It's too bad that I'm so impatient, otherwise I would be content to wait for arcs to end to read them...

I generally don't read DC, except for a few Superman titles. But my friends who do seem to be united in their disdain for Infinite Crisis.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

Namor is a dick who deserves a beat-down from DC-verse Aquaman, who can show him how real Atlantians ought to act

Happened. Arthur dropped a whale on him. No lie.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

The mental image fills me with joy ^_^.