Mar 28, 2008
This is the future of Marvel? Old Man Logan?!
Old Man Logan is going to be Mark Millar writing The Dark Knight for Wolverine in the Marvel U. *yawn*
Again, this is why I am not the biggest Millar fan, either he does something completely original or he hacks stuff up. If this is the future of Marvel (along side Next Avengers) maybe I may have a RSSP instead of spending it all on my addiction. Blah.
You can read about it and more about how sad Kick-Ass is here:
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=151733
Wasn’t that what Wolverine: The End was about?
Also – while I wouldn’t call Kick Ass sad, per se – it is highly overrated.
I thought marvel already ripped off the Dark Knight with that spider-man mini last year?
Yeah I guess your right about Kick-Ass, CrackerBob, but I do find it sad plus highly overrated.
Zeek – I thought Spider-Man Reign was more Frank Miller’s Ronin than Dark Knight.
Hey Crackerbob where is the Dark Knight version of Thor? Oh right, they can’t make one for the third string heroes. Hahahah…
Thor would never deign to be placed in a book that rips off Batman. Only lame ass heroes like the emo spider do that shit.
Kick Ass has definite potential, I like the idea of it, but it’s just not working for me. Of course, I’ve only read the first issue so far, so it could be better.
I just feel, like it seems you do, that the book is getting hype and a free pass just because it’s Mark Millar, kind of like his Fantastic Four, which also isn’t working for me.
Actually, I read 2 of these and the story isn’t that bad. He’s sort of out of the loop, living a normal life and almost all the heroes are dead. The villians won more or less. He left and gave up fighting, and is forced to fall back into what he once was to save his new family in a world without heroes. I’d say give it a chance, it seemed a bit more intriguing than “The End” series.
Hi Evermore,
Well my co-hort William S is reading the story along and giving me a good play-by-play. I think I will be trade waiting this one as William has mentioned enough of the 2 issues that sound interesting although Millar is very hit and miss with me.
I just read issue five and I have to say that this story so far has been very gripping. Usually I am not a fan of story arcs that are set in alternate reality’s / future settings but I find this one very well done and entertaining.