I wanted to write a review of Marvel’s Original Sin event,
but as I was writing it came to me that the storyline didn’t lead to much.
Nothing major happened or changed for a majority of the marvel characters to take
back into their solo books. Marvel’s comic book events as of late have had no
lasting effects on the comic book universe.
Once, maybe twice, a year there is a Marvel comic book event
that is crammed into our faces with crazy amounts of marketing and solicitation.
Every event promises change and I’m sitting here like a black union soldier
waiting for my 40 acres and a mule.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying these new events are bad
reading. On the contrary they are a good reading and a fun ride but they lack
what I value most in a book. Avengers Disassembled, House of M, Civil War,
Secret Invasion, and Siege were great event because of the darker times that
followed them. In between these events characters dealt with the fall out of the
events in their solo books. That doesn’t seem to happen anymore except in the
X-Books.
After Avengers Disassembled, the Avengers were forced to recruit again when the Scarlet Bitch went ape shit and killed off the Vision, Hawkeye, Ant-Man (the one the didn’t beat his wife) and Jack-of-Who gives a fuck. They picked up fan favorites like Wolverine and Spider-Man.
The X-Books were reenergized with fresh stories after Houseof M as the Scarlet Witch slashed the mutant population lower than the price of gram of seeds and stems.
Civil War split the Avenger’s down the middle, killed Cap Lee Harvey Oswald style, promoted Iron Man to top cop and most importantly reminded us how far the New Warriors had fallen. (RIP Namorita and Night Thrasher)
Secret Invasion bankrupted Tony Stark, Crippled S.H.I.E.L.D., killed off the Wasp, and some how some way Norman Osborne came out on top (Where the fuck did he come from?); leading to the Dark Reign where the Marvel villains called the shots for one whole year.
In Siege, the heroes band together after years of bickering to bring down Osborne and save Asgard. Sentry and Ares take a dirt nap, nobody cares, and Nick Fury comes out of hiding.
And here’s where the problems start… Every event after Siege
is garbage as nothing of consequence happens.
The Heroic Age followed and brought everything back to the
light hearted status quo before Avengers Disassembled. Cap’s back, everyone
forgot how much of a dick Iron Man was, and Spider-Man sold his redhead to get
his secret identity back. There were no consequences or backlash from what
happened because the bad guys were the last ones to get their asses kicked in Siege.
Fear Itself was a total fucking cop-out as there was no
consequence from anything that happened. I think bullet points will help here:
- Thor kills the Thing … Franklin Richards revives him in the SAME FUCKING ISSUE!
- Thor kills his uncle and in turn dies himself… HE'S RESURRECTED IN THE EPILOGUE!
- Bucky Cap is killed… HE TURNS OUT TO BE ALIVE AND WELL IN THE EPILOGUE!
- Paris is turned to stone by the grey gargoyle and guess what... EPILOGUE!
Are you getting the picture here…
Avengers vs. X-Men is next as Wolverine goes crying to the
Avengers after he finds out the Phoenix that’s coming to earth isn’t Jean. The
teams duke it out and eventually Cyclops kills Professor X (oops!) and at the
end of the book comes the resurgence of the mutant population.
But not Age of Ultron... In which Ultron isn’t even the
villain. Readers just get lame exposition of how the universe is collapsing
from too much time travel and Galactus leaves the 616 to prey on the Ultimate
universe that no one gives a fuck about anymore. Oh and Marvel now has
convenient way to get Spawn’s Angela into the universe.
Infinity, I’m sure stood for the amount of story lines that
were going on in this year long event. I don’t know where to start as Avengers
fought in a space war, while on Earth Thanos is looking for his son, somehow
the Inhumans are involved and miraculously the Avengers make it back in time to
beat Thanos. What we got out of infinity… more Inhumans and the absent son of Thanos.
Original Sin lacks consequence as well. There are three
consequences from this book and only one has any significance. The watcher is
killed… Who cares? If you have an argument for the importance of the Watcher
that has to do with story progression leave it in the comment section and I’ll
gladly ignore it. Nick fury dies and then comes back as some sort of new
watcher called the unseen. The only thing of interest at the end of Original
sin was Thor losing the ability to lift his hammer. This is the type long-term
consequence I love. It changes a character for the better and now it’s
impossible to ignore the events of Original Sin in Thor’s solo book.
From what
I’m seeing of marvel’s new event Axis and its subsequent solicitations, there
are a lot of changes and consequences. Heroes and villains will
supposedly shift paradigms. Let’s hope
for the best… Until then Make Mine Marvel!
Also Read: Age of Ultron & Death of The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Superman would give all these dudes the business anyway. Bust his super sperm all up in their candy asses and blow the top off their dome pieces. Including you (F)art! ...now watch me get down with this.
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