tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33311991.post3584681017201865015..comments2024-01-02T07:48:42.623-05:00Comments on Comics And...Other Imaginary Tales: Two Reviews Dark Avengers #3 and X-Factor #41Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00352163584546054887noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33311991.post-59949374681514704952009-03-22T08:45:00.000-04:002009-03-22T08:45:00.000-04:00You might be interested in these comments re DARK ...You might be interested in these comments re DARK AVENGERS #3; the problems with time travel are addressed.<BR/><BR/>**********************************<BR/>The artwork in DARK AVENGERS #3 is certainly nice to look at, but the story is a complete fiasco.<BR/><BR/>If a mother had talked to her depressed son about his imaginary friend, tried to reason with him about it, etc., there would (could) have been a point to the material. There is no point to the Osborn-Sentry sequence, because Osborn is wrong about the Void, presumably, and giving the reader an extended, repetitive child psychology lecture -- Dr. Phil for nine-year-olds -- is insulting. Another writer might be able to make something of the God-Satan (split personality) analogy that’s the basis for the Sentry; Bendis’s Sentry is just a defective character that shouldn’t be appearing in print.<BR/><BR/>Bendis’s approach to time travel is unworkable. Morgana can’t travel into her future the way Bendis has her doing, because, from her perspective, all futures are potential. Any future she travels into cannot be the (prime) Dark Avengers’ future, just as any time traveler moving from the present would be going into an alternate future. She can also be killed; Bendis’s treatment of her in that respect is wrong. The Dark Avengers can’t go into the past and kill her, for the usual reasons. So, the handling of time travel in the storyline is a complete failure.<BR/><BR/>The blame should go primarily to Brevoort. Given his position, one shouldn’t have to tell him that he needs to attend a beginner’s workshop on writing SF and fantasy. If Bendis’s material is appearing in print unedited, Brevoort’s name shouldn’t be in the credits.<BR/><BR/>SRSSteven R. Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455970917202165964noreply@blogger.com