@bullpr: Great points to raise, I can definitely understand your feeling towards Marvel. Its very something similar to how i feel, but with myself… well to me, when I think about the aspects of comics, mainly Marvel and DC that I am unhappy with, the causes, the reasons, where I attribute them, isn't just with the company and the creators… it overlooks a very important element and thats the fans. I really enjoyed the recent Elektra series, but it didn't sell well enough and so it got cancelled. X-Factor by Peter David was very character focused, continuity minded, consistent in other ways, as it has been since he revived and revitalized X-Factor… and despite having not so popular characters for most of the time (Jamie Madrox, Siryn, so on) eventually it got cancelled… where as Uncanny will always sell well. Simply, unfortunately for me, most fans will generally buy Uncanny X-Men and not X-Factor, most fans will rather have a big flashy book with a bigger name writer, with Wolverine, Cyclops, Iceman, Magneto… than a book with tighter characterization, better odd to continuity and lesser famous characters. I myself was pretty critical of Fractions Thor, but I know that the way comics work, there wasn't really anything I could do to avoid having to have a Thor book I didn't enjoy. Not because Matt Fraction is a bad guy or artistically bankrupt, just his vision of Thor doesn't gel with mine. Fraction is great on Sex Criminals though, and was great on Hawkeye. Have you read much of Aarons other works/books?
That and fans naturally tend to get a bit more cynical over time, as they become more familiar with the tricks and repetition that can come more apparent with time. I don't really have a problem with female Thor. Don't like the current stories as much as Gorr arc, or the one shots with Young Thor and the Dragon and modern Thor and his various things he gets up to on Midgard (those two issues were awesome) but I don't have a big problem with it myself, and that might be because I actually read a lot of comics and tend to have low expectations. That and a lot of comics I do read aren't from Marvel or DC. Hinterkind, Saga, Alex and Ada, Sex Criminals. Lots of creative fun stuff out there. That wide selection helps take the sting off for me when one of my favorite characters at Marvel/DC is written by a writer whose ideas I do not like.
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