This Week's Comics
Jun. 1st, 2023 11:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goobergunchAmazing Spider-Man #920: This has gotten a lot of heat online for killing Ms. Marvel and honestly I don't really know why. Sure, killing off a prominent character (who, frankly, hasn't gotten that much page time in this run) is a hackneyed cliche at this point but does anybody that has been reading comics for more than a few months believe that Kamala will remain dead for more than, oh, maybe a year or two at the most? I get being upset at D-lister deaths because, like, those characters actually tend to stay dead for the long term, but if you're a big enough name to get your own Requiem issue it is absolutely not going to stick.
Now I actually don't think this is a good thing from a storytelling perspective -- one of the reasons I love post-Crisis DC so much is that the universe actually got the chance to move forward and consequences were by and large permanent (at least until editorial changes in the mid-2000s). You couldn't do "The Return of Barry Allen" in today's environment. I'm not even sure you could do "A Lonely Place of Dying" in today's environment. The lack of permanency, frankly, weakened this issue because it's just hard for me to feel anything at all reading three pages of death scene. But it is what it is.
Oh and it also turned out that the kids Paul and MJ adopted weren't real so that's another dagger in Paul/MJ being a particularly longterm relationship.
Anyway the most important thing that happened this issue was that another one of my letters of comment were printed.
Detective Comics #1072: The Orghams force Batman to make a painful choice.
(I also grabbed DC Pride 2023 but will be reading it piecemeal over the next couple days. I'm always here for Tim and Damian cooly disliking each other though.)
Now I actually don't think this is a good thing from a storytelling perspective -- one of the reasons I love post-Crisis DC so much is that the universe actually got the chance to move forward and consequences were by and large permanent (at least until editorial changes in the mid-2000s). You couldn't do "The Return of Barry Allen" in today's environment. I'm not even sure you could do "A Lonely Place of Dying" in today's environment. The lack of permanency, frankly, weakened this issue because it's just hard for me to feel anything at all reading three pages of death scene. But it is what it is.
Oh and it also turned out that the kids Paul and MJ adopted weren't real so that's another dagger in Paul/MJ being a particularly longterm relationship.
Anyway the most important thing that happened this issue was that another one of my letters of comment were printed.
Detective Comics #1072: The Orghams force Batman to make a painful choice.
(I also grabbed DC Pride 2023 but will be reading it piecemeal over the next couple days. I'm always here for Tim and Damian cooly disliking each other though.)
