Post by Adrian Watts on Dec 9, 2005 3:57:07 GMT -5
Today, in my local comic shop, I asked a question:
"How, if Shadowcat killed Ken Harada three months ago, can he be alive in NA?"
"Because," I was told my seven or eight faithful BENDIS! followers, "NA is set about a year behind everything else in the Marvel Universe."
... excuse me?
Where does this come from?
The "evidence" that I was given:
- relation to Secret War
- presence of Purple Man in New T-Bolts
- presence of dead villains on the Raft
- Ken Harada not being dead
- The Sentry being a member/not being a member (wtf?)
... and some similar nonsense.
However:
1) Secret War was very late. That does not make it "set at a different point in continuity", it just means BENDIS! can't do his job (I understand that it was BENDIS!, and not Dell'otto (sp?) who actually made the later chapters late - apparently, after a minor art delay, he rewrote scripts to reflect later Marvel continuity).
So, we KNOW that Secret War isn't set at a different point in continuity, because there was a deliberate effort for it to catch up continuity-wise.
2) Fabian Nicieza said on comicboards.com (unless I copied and pasted something and attributed it to the wrong user) that, basically, BENDIS! screwed up (but he was much more diplomatic). He said that he had Purple Man to use in T-Bolts, and all of a sudden he was appearing in NA without any check on his status.
3) Apparently, the dead villains on the Raft thing was deliberate; it is supposedly addressed in Most Wanted and in later NA issues. We were mistaken in believing the characters were dead, actually, and it all ties in to the Harada mystery.
4) The Sentry IS a member... isn't he? No, yes... um... someone, help...
Basically, the evidence being given for NA being 'deliberately' set a year behind everything else contradicts other things that BENDIS! is 'deliberately' doing.
So... what? Is it a year behind? If so, why? And where is the evidence for people who don't read comic news websites? (Someone point out some evidence spelled-out IN A BOOK, and not in an interview, and I'll be happy.)
BENDIS! has turned me so twisted, seriously...
- Adrian
"How, if Shadowcat killed Ken Harada three months ago, can he be alive in NA?"
"Because," I was told my seven or eight faithful BENDIS! followers, "NA is set about a year behind everything else in the Marvel Universe."
... excuse me?
Where does this come from?
The "evidence" that I was given:
- relation to Secret War
- presence of Purple Man in New T-Bolts
- presence of dead villains on the Raft
- Ken Harada not being dead
- The Sentry being a member/not being a member (wtf?)
... and some similar nonsense.
However:
1) Secret War was very late. That does not make it "set at a different point in continuity", it just means BENDIS! can't do his job (I understand that it was BENDIS!, and not Dell'otto (sp?) who actually made the later chapters late - apparently, after a minor art delay, he rewrote scripts to reflect later Marvel continuity).
So, we KNOW that Secret War isn't set at a different point in continuity, because there was a deliberate effort for it to catch up continuity-wise.
2) Fabian Nicieza said on comicboards.com (unless I copied and pasted something and attributed it to the wrong user) that, basically, BENDIS! screwed up (but he was much more diplomatic). He said that he had Purple Man to use in T-Bolts, and all of a sudden he was appearing in NA without any check on his status.
3) Apparently, the dead villains on the Raft thing was deliberate; it is supposedly addressed in Most Wanted and in later NA issues. We were mistaken in believing the characters were dead, actually, and it all ties in to the Harada mystery.
4) The Sentry IS a member... isn't he? No, yes... um... someone, help...
Basically, the evidence being given for NA being 'deliberately' set a year behind everything else contradicts other things that BENDIS! is 'deliberately' doing.
So... what? Is it a year behind? If so, why? And where is the evidence for people who don't read comic news websites? (Someone point out some evidence spelled-out IN A BOOK, and not in an interview, and I'll be happy.)
BENDIS! has turned me so twisted, seriously...
- Adrian
