Post by Adrian J. Watts on Jan 24, 2006 3:52:09 GMT -5
Copied and pasted from my email to the editors. I should probably start spell-checking these things; it might give me more credibility.
I'm kind - I say that the issue's BENDIS!ness "isn't bad". That's a huge step forward for me!
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I don't much care for retcons, especially when they seem too only complicate matters.
Why delay Wyndham becoming the High Evolutionary and set him up as a HYDRA commander in place of Otto Vermis? Why have BOTH of Jessica's parents killed by the wolf-thing? Jessica has already referred to her past with Morgan Le Fey in New Avengers - how is that going to work without the set-up involving Magnus, Mordred and her father's murder in the US?
It also has complicating effects on the history of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff - with Jessica's shortened lifespan (in a coma for eleven years instead of in an aging decelerator for several decades), either Jessica is MUCH older than the
twins or they lived on Mount Wundagore together.
Clearly, the High Evolutionary has not yet resigned himself to years of secluded study with his "New Men"; and yet, Bova has been produced. This is especially odd when considering that Bova was not the first of the New Men... existing continuity shows he had been working on their development ON WUNDAGORE MOUNTAIN, for some time before Bova was produced. According to this issue, though, that doesn't seem possible.
What's more, if I remember #1 correctly, Bova was once a human woman. Why make that change? It doesn't seem to affect anything, at least so far, but it contradicts many accounts of Bova's creation.
Having a closer look at Jessica's relationship with Jared and her time with HYDRA is one thing - I'm always keen to see how these groups work "from the inside" - but if ORIGIN is intended to make Jessica's history less complicated for readers of New Avengers or her upcoming ongoing series, I can't really see how it is working.
That said, the writing and art isn't bad and if this was a look at "Ultimate Spider-Woman" I'd probably be all over it like a beard on Tom DeFalco - but for a story set in the core Marvel Universe, it only seems to be unnecessarily
complicating matters.
Again, the story itself isn't bad - there just doesn't seem to be a lot of need for all the retcons.
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- Adrian
I'm kind - I say that the issue's BENDIS!ness "isn't bad". That's a huge step forward for me!
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I don't much care for retcons, especially when they seem too only complicate matters.
Why delay Wyndham becoming the High Evolutionary and set him up as a HYDRA commander in place of Otto Vermis? Why have BOTH of Jessica's parents killed by the wolf-thing? Jessica has already referred to her past with Morgan Le Fey in New Avengers - how is that going to work without the set-up involving Magnus, Mordred and her father's murder in the US?
It also has complicating effects on the history of Wanda and Pietro Maximoff - with Jessica's shortened lifespan (in a coma for eleven years instead of in an aging decelerator for several decades), either Jessica is MUCH older than the
twins or they lived on Mount Wundagore together.
Clearly, the High Evolutionary has not yet resigned himself to years of secluded study with his "New Men"; and yet, Bova has been produced. This is especially odd when considering that Bova was not the first of the New Men... existing continuity shows he had been working on their development ON WUNDAGORE MOUNTAIN, for some time before Bova was produced. According to this issue, though, that doesn't seem possible.
What's more, if I remember #1 correctly, Bova was once a human woman. Why make that change? It doesn't seem to affect anything, at least so far, but it contradicts many accounts of Bova's creation.
Having a closer look at Jessica's relationship with Jared and her time with HYDRA is one thing - I'm always keen to see how these groups work "from the inside" - but if ORIGIN is intended to make Jessica's history less complicated for readers of New Avengers or her upcoming ongoing series, I can't really see how it is working.
That said, the writing and art isn't bad and if this was a look at "Ultimate Spider-Woman" I'd probably be all over it like a beard on Tom DeFalco - but for a story set in the core Marvel Universe, it only seems to be unnecessarily
complicating matters.
Again, the story itself isn't bad - there just doesn't seem to be a lot of need for all the retcons.
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- Adrian