Marvel's Myths

It's been a while but it's time to vent.

For a long time I was a Marvel fan. I was not strictly Marvel, I would go through Superman phases, but I was die-hard X-Men, sometimes Avengers, and a few other Marvels would pass my way.

About two years ago I discovered a new universe. This was a universe where things made sense. This was a universe where writers spoke to one another, characters had psychological profiles, continuity was in tact, and stories developed that were the reason I read comics. Two years later, pieces of comics from years ago are coming into play and the world is the most cohesive, coherent, organic world I can conceive of. Welcome to DC comics.

Marvel on the other hand is struggling to keep up. What Marvel's leaders have in mind is beyond me. The way Marvel is keeping up blows my mind to the Nth degree. Let's just look at titles this season, not in the dirty past.

Marvel is going for a Civil War. They are setting up the Illuminati, a secret elite group of leaders. They have Storm of the X-Men getting married. The X-Men are going through an "Identity Crisis" supposedly in Deadly Genesis.

And every single one of these events had to be made up and had to have a history made up, and that is insulting to fans.

The New Avengers Illuminati Special starts with panels of these leaders speaking "years ago," panels which were created for this book, a history which was fabricated and has no basis in reality. These people never had this conversation.

Storm is all together made up. Storm never had this relationship. Being black doesn't make people destined for one another, even if they are two of the three black heroes in the universe. The Storm limited series is in place to give a backstory which never really existed to allow us to believe the wedding makes sense.

And finally, Deadly Genesis, the worst sin of them all. The big mystery about what Professor X did and how it will break the X-Men and reformat the psychological issues these people have to deal with NEVER HAPPENED. Somehow, the writers or the company wish us all to believe that as long as the current storyline shows you the fabricated history, it all makes sense.

DC doesn't fabricate. Threads that were dropped years ago come into play, and anyone can go back and read those comics for a real history, a real backstory, and a real universe.

It blows my mind how it continues to get worse and worse, and when it will ever end.