Joe Q. sticking around...

[Stark Raving]

http://www.newsarama.com/forums/show...threadid=38544

Joe Quesada signs multi-year contract renewal.

Good sign or bad omen?

I don't read Marvel, so I don't really know either way.




And.....they're off...

[Knigge]

I liked when Q first started, because he was really taking things in different directions and experimenting with new things, people, ideas, etc, but lately its all back to the same old "lets create 10 X/Spider-books, use stupid variants, insert a vast more amount of advertisements in pamphlets, make more useless crossover 'events', toss every radical story out the window and hire hacks to change everything back to the way it was 10 years ago" bullshit. Don't get me wrong, I still thoroughly enjoy a big handfull of marvel books (most that come out this week), but I find myself turning more and more towards other things. I guess we'll see what happens.

[misfitX]

what he said ^

I'm still not sure about Quesada; whether or not his current battle plans have anything to do with his own vision, or if he's gotten caught up in the politics at Marvel. If the latter, then well, c'est la vie!

[Carter]

The most important thing to come out of Quesada's run as EIC is their TPB policy. I mean, they can't give away that shit in bookstores, but it's a step in the right direction.

[Chris Piers]

Overall, Marvel's doing a bunch of good things. They have their core characters in a pretty good place and they're great about trades these days.

[Popninja]

They might be doing a bunch of good things, but they're ****ing it up in a lot of places, as well. The biggest mistake Quesada is making is letting these writers come in and destroy everything that has come before. JMS comes to mind, as well as Bendis.

I know that line about destroying everything is a broad, sweeping statement, but what JMS has done to Amazing Spider-Man is downright sickening. And Bendis, as good as he is, just doesn't have a grasp of a lot of characters, so he makes the shit up as he goes. Sometimes it works, but sometimes he's so far off target, it's laughable. Or cry-able sometimes.

And the late books thing is criminal. Marvel was never late on books before Quesada took over.

[Ed]

I havent read JMS's run on spiderman, whats so ****ed up about it?

[misfitX]

well, they could just do what they did with Morrison's run. sweep it under the carpet and forget about it.

You're right they should just let Claremont write everything for marvel from now on.

[Popninja]

well, they could just do what they did with Morrison's run. sweep it under the carpet and forget about it.

You're right they should just let Claremont write everything for marvel from now on.

That's not what I'm saying. I just think there's something wrong with giving someone like Bendis carte blanche on any title he works on, and also giving him...what...40 titles to work on.

[Popninja]

I havent read JMS's run on spiderman, whats so ****ed up about it?

I left when JRJr left as artist, and I'm lucky I did because he did a story called Sins Past where apparently the children of Norman Osborn and Gwen Stacy come to take Spidey down. Thus making it that Green Goblin had mad sex with Gwen Stacy. Scary.

Needless to say, I won't be picking up any of his FF run.