Last Crap Standing
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed a trade paperback called "Last Hero Standing" at Dr. Volts and thought it looked pretty good. Finding a good deal on the original 5 issue run on ebay, I picked them up and anxiously read them when they arrived a few days later.
Allow me to sum up my review in 2 words: total crap.
The storyline was too predictable and all the characters were at their lamest. And just when the hell did all the mainstream Marvel characters get replaced ("supplemented" might be a better word) by females?
Spider-Man now has Spider-Girl.
Cap's young blonde doppleganger is called American Dream.
Quicksilver's spot has been replaced by the fully clothed (dammit!) Blue Streak.
Wolverine's daughter Wild Thing is running around with just all the wrong crowds (kids!)
No more Henry Pym as Ant-Man or Yellowjacket, now its Cassie Lang: Stinger!
The Fantastic Four is all skewed with Ms. Fantastic (a Skrull - yikes.)
And the Falcon's seat at the Avengers conference table is crammed with the twin superhero chicks called Ladyhawks.
Anyway, the whole thing was one big yawn, from beginning to end, so for the love of Stan Lee, refrain from reading these books.
posted by Al Jordan @ 5:42 AM
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10 Comments:
I have all of the Spider-girl books. That is one of them. I'll let you read them from the begining and it'll all make sense.
I'm sure it's some kind of alternate future and all, which I accept (tongue-in-cheek anyway), but I still don't agree with the feminization of characters previously portrayed by males. There are plenty of female superheroes...stop altering the gender of the male ones! (That's the only point I'm trying make here.)
My issue is that they are constantly thinking they need to reinvent the classics. Nobody has the imagination or passion to create new charaters that will become classics, they're all riding the wake of giants like Lee, Kirby, Kane, Shuster and Siegel.
I'll agree to that.
But on the other hand, new characters and/or universes have been created and faded out pretty quickly. Remember Marvel's New Universe? Or their Epic line of comics? And what about the characters from Malibu? Is that even around anymore? With some exceptions (Spawn, etc.) there aren't many characters as strong enough as those deemed "classic" to survive.
You're right. But I don't think failure should scare them away from trying to succeed. I think they just need to keep trying new things. Sometimes they don't work, but when they do, they really do.
Why do we fall?
Well said. I just finished reading Green Lanern: Rebirth, and as big a fan as I am for Geoff Johns I'm pissed at the 6 issue story that was able to eliminate the past ten years of character development for Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, Sinestro, Kilwog, and Kyle Rayner.
As for the Spider-girl story it is the future where Peter and MJ have a daughter named Mae who has Pete's powers. The Fantastic Five are a grown up Human Tourch leading the group after Sue was killed, Thing lost an arm and Reed's brain was saved from death by his technology. Adding a teen age Franklin aka Psi-lord and female Skrull whos name I can't remember. Of the Avengers in the story there is a Juggernaut Jr on the team and the son of Hawkeye if I remember right.
The offspring of superhoreos can become legit and longstanding additions to the cast. Look at Racheal Summers and Cable. Both good characters. But they were not a reinvention of existing characters, which is why they worked so well.
The Skrull in the Fantastic Five (as they're called in this possible future) is named Ms. Fantastic. They call Reed "Big Brain" which is just a robot with his body. (Hell, why not just put it in H.E.R.B.I.E.?)
The son of hawkeye is called Freebooter.
Juggernaut Jr. is called "J2." I hated this character in this storyline. He didn't realize what kind of power he had and just kind of loped along with the other heroes like some kind of unstoppable Lenny trying to pet American Dream's soft golden hair.
Sorry, meant to say, a robot with his brain.
Now that this subject has gone the way of the dodo...I just read the last post and would like to point out that they have already done a female Punisher...at least twice (three times if you count the Amalgam version of Bullets and Bracelets!)
The Marvel Knight Punisher of 2099 is a chick...and there was a storyline in the comics awhile back with a bunch of different Punishers running around. A black guy from England, a female cop and a couple of other crazies.
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