The way they're looking at it is: the beast must be fed. Summer is coming. There must be an Event. It must be big and shocking and bold.
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And honestly, what else do they have left to do? What big ideas are left in the House of Ideas?
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They're not evaluating the story in terms of whether it makes actual sense. They're evaluating it in terms of attention-grabbing aw factor
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and its ability to credibly pose a threat that would spill over into every Marvel book on the shelves for the run of the summer event.
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Nobody except maybe Nick Spencer actually believes in this story. They've just accepted that summer is the "silly season" in comics.
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Summer means that everybody turns into cyborgs or zombies. Summer means villains take over books and everything's made of spiders.
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Summer means up is down and left is right and we knock down the tower we've been building and begin everything all over again.
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If they really want something bold and brave and new and startling, they should skip this whole mess. Focus on storytelling, characters.
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Next year, it turns out Tony Stark is the only human being in the Marvel Universe. Everybody else is slightly smaller robots in meat suits.
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gene wolfe gonna be maaaad
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