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Tawmis
I am curious if they're going to simply disregard all previous continuity and do a clean reboot.
I believe it's a clean reboot AND completely separate to the main DC Rebirth Universe.
I may be wrong though.
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But I am in the minority, as a kabillion people love Squirrel Girl and Deadpool. :)
I'm not a fan of the Deadpool title. I like the film though.
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When it comes to comics, I just want the basic good vs evil type story, we saw throughout the 70s and early 80's.
Statistically though, there's only so many times that particular story can be told.
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But here's what I don't understand. Marvel has HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of characters already. Why make Thor a female? To appeal to the females who want a strong female character? Why didn't they simply use Valkyrie? (Just as an example).
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(I get it, in the end, because how many people would buy a Valkyrie book vs a Female Thor book?
You've pretty much just answered yourself there :P
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It's all about sales... And I think that's part of it... everything seems like a sales pitch, rather than an attempt to tell good stories... and I am sure there's good stories in these...
But you can't tell good stories for free.
Creators HAVE to put food on the table.
Printers HAVE to be paid.
Distributors HAVE to etc.
If the story is the same whether it's a non-recognizable character or a recognizable character if the budget depends on it, it'll be the latter.
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I tried the female Thor, and lasted about three issues...
And that's totally your prerogative.
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But I am sure, elsewhere good stories are being told
Again, you're using 'good' and 'bad' stories and writing, when you just mean stories that you don't enjoy.
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Well, it does make it bad writing to me.
That's a fair compromise.
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I am not speaking for the whole universe.
Heh, indeed; nor am I.
Or anyone else. Certainly not Marvel.
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Understood. Different strokes for different folks.
Amen to that.
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Originally Posted by
Tawmis
Is it just because the ink is colored red so YOU KNOW it's blood that makes it different?
But the majority of the blood is black; as per the Comics Code back then to desensitize.
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And then there's the story with - who was it? Llan? (Ugh, how did he ever exist?!?) - Where there was an entire city of dead people; dead bodies scattered everywhere (I can't remember the details - but Silver and Auric or whatever were in it too, with Nemesis).
But they were vague bodies, with less detail and certainly not graphic detail.
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Just always curious about the "fine line" for comics - where violence becomes "too much."
Oh, I'm not saying it's too much at all.
I fully support the right for comics to be violent.
As long as they're explicitly marked as such. Which Deadpool is.
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(I mean there's some that clearly, purposely, go beyond the envelope - for example Rob Liefeld's latest Bloodstrike, had a guy's "privates" ripped off... And I remember, in the original Bloodstrike, or Brigade, or it might have been in Supreme - the character Supreme was literally ripping members of Bloodstrike apart - like arms being ripped off and people torn in half...
I've seen as brutal, if not worse, in Deadpool comics.
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had a firm understanding between reality and comics
I think that the key, and a very sensible one.