"ONE OF THESE AVENGERS WILL DIE?!?" Oh, heavens-to-Betsy, which one could it be??A) Could it be, oh, I don't know, maybe the one who isn't actually an Avenger?!? I'm thinking one of these guys is not like the other...
B) Since you put all the guys on the cover for the next issue, AND released that cover as a promo mini-poster to comic shoppes, it's not one of them. Of course, that's the perils of doing covers that are merely all your heroes standing around looking fierce..I'm not picking on Stuart Immomen here, because someone should have said, "Bro, we're trying to keep the events of #6 a secret...maybe we shouldn't do a 'everybody vogues' cover?"Sigh...I mean really, what was the point of that whole "who will be the new Sorcerer Supreme" storyline if you're just going to turn around and kill him off? Why all the elaborate set-up, just to toss Brother Voodoo onto the scrap heap?
Of course, he's not really dead--dude's got a brother who's "dead," and he had more dialogue in this issue than Ben Grimm or Ms. Marvel. And Doc Strange has been "dead" more times than I can count. But still, the whole enterprise has now taken on the feel of "we have no idea what to do with this book" wheel-spinning.
Speaking of wheel-spinning:
Hmmm...don't you think you'd want to handle this question BEFORE issue #7 of a new series? Instead of wasting 6 padded issues on a "let's kill off Brother Voodoo" storyline that pretty much ignored all the alleged stars of the book? I'm just sayin'...
A zombie Brother Voodoo could be the new "Jarvis"
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They went to all this work to build Voodoo up as the new Sorcerer Supreme, even high-lighting him as one of the prominent diverse heroes in the Marvel U. (In that Heroic Age book) Then they go and kill him. And you know this is just going to lead to the brother coming back to haunt the Avengers.
ReplyDeleteBendis recently commented how he liked it when fans could see through a writer's BS. (He was referencing the JMS/Superman thing) Well here I'm calling Bendis on his BS - going with the easiest and severely over used plot device in comics: kill a minor league character to "heighten suspense". Why not try writing stories, for awhile at least, where the heroes don't die - even the minor ones. It's an over-used plot-device, and I am calling Bendis on it! He build Brother Voodoo up - only to just kill him. You can have good stories, with suspense as well, without having to kill a character to achieve it.
As a guy who's been re-reading every single issue of Doctor Strange I have to say that picking Brother Voodoo as the new sorcerer supreme was a fail pick regardless. The guy was always an interesting character but he was always severely underpowered as well. But to then go and kill him off and bring his brother who we as readers have NO connection to back is just ridiculous. I mean it just doesn't make any sense. Bendhis has been hacking his way through the new Avengers since Siege and he clearly has no idea what to do now that the team is legit again. Let's start with not randomly killing people because that's what the writer's die roll said to do.
ReplyDeleteyou know what was really good? that brother voodoo series that got cancelled after five issues. i really liked that. the art was good, the writing was good, doctor doom was in it... sad that they cancelled it to do this to doc voo.
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