Marvel's Wedding, Continuity and their C-King!!

Original post date: 02/25/2006

This is my first post in this blog...well, my first post ever in any blog. Have been thinking of trying my hand at this for quite sometime, if nothing else just as an extension of my site. This particular post is from one I made on a forum and is built up from that.

Have my fingers crossed!!

Here goes....

In case you were wondering, the C-King is for BP's 'offical' standing as King of Wakanda, and the 'C' is for his 'fan' standing....not to mention his record-breaking sales...Yeah, like that is going to
happen!! EVER!!

Stan Lee formed his characters with a 'real' life base....meaning, unlike 'billionaire' Batman or 'happy, honest, reporter' Superman, who have/had an idyllic life, characters like Spider-Man, X-Men, Hulk etc. has a lot going wrong in their 'personal lives'.

It seems that in following the same philosophy, the future writers, have shoved one middle finger up 'continuity's' a$ while the second one, up, 'proper power definition's'.

That explains how they can propose a C-list character, whose previous history has been 'officially' annulled, gets a new series, and only after the first seven issues, either start with specials or crossovers....and now he is going to be married to an A-list character, with just the hope that he will become atleast a 'B-' if not 'B'.....and they propose to set him akin their topmost star (above the rating).

If anyone was confused, let me clarify. Black Panther is the character, and his new series started by totally dumping whatever the old one had accomplished...'offically'. Just after the first arc
(+1 other issue), issue #07 was 'House of Lost Marbles' (HoM) special, #8 and 9 had the X-Men crossover, while the next ones have Blade, Luke Cage, ninjas and Who the Fu** cares who else.

And from #14 onwards, he goes on a world wide 'sniffing' quest just so they can somehow cover five issues to correspond with Storm's miniseries. Even the freakin' wedding, is not going to his show (and its HIS series...or atleast its supposed to be). He is just supposed to appear there and get hitched onto the Storm and through her the X-Men and maybe the Avengers bandwagon. I mean, come on, is the series called 'Black Panther' or 'Marvel Team-Up with a side dish of Black Panther dumped on whichever poor soul we an get our hands on' Series.

I mean, come on, they are already telling you that he is going to marry her, then WTF are those filler issues for? Just in case yor run out of toilet paper while on the cra**er?

Moreover, if the previous BP history was really dumped, how can they quote two issues (not even a dozen pages) to sell this Goddess and Dump wedding? Even the supposed 'target audience' stunt, is only to generate racial publicity, with one side saying its a good thing that minority characters are getting their due attention, while the other saying its pure PR. I whole heartedly agree with the 'get the due' point, if in fact it were so. I mean DC has a Black Green
Lantern, and now even the 'Spectre' is of the same race. Even though not strictly an A list character, the Spectre has a lot of clout in the DC universe.

All this because Marvel knows, at the end of the day, even white boys (n' gals) and other race readers (I come in the 'other' category) will get drawn into the conterversy and more or less end up buying it.

Get a clue, Joe Q says that marriage harmed Spider-Man's character....yeah, real harm. He fell from being the most famous, most selling Marvel character to....oh, sorry, he didn't fall anywhere. In fact, he has had not one but two 'sh** your pants' money making movies, not to mention the video games attached with them. Now Mr. Queseda is going to work his wonder with a 'on life support' character/series like BP and make him the next Spider-Man. Yeah, not even when pigs sprout wings and get MIT/Harward/Wharton degrees. Even after forty years,
all BP has to show for himself...NOW, is a dozen issues, because frankly, the rest DIDN'T HAPPEN. But, then they go into the garbage bin where they chucked that fan-favored history into and draw up whatever they find to their liking.

Even the Legendary, Epic, Universe shaking....give as many names, but no one (ok, a handful people) cares romance...is being retconned in. And what about that little bird known as 'CONTINUITY'. Oh, just blow it away with a 'selling' cannon such as E.J.Dickie. I am just waiting for the retcon by which BP single handedly saved the entire universe from the Brood, the Shi'ar, Galactus, Thanos, Dark Phoenix....all at the same time, all while wiping the floor with wimps such as Magneto and Apocalypse.....and lets not forget, mutant monkeys from Niganda.

At one time, Marvel's faithfulness to continuity used by leagues better than DC's and the people at DC knew it...just as did the readers. Even those turn of the 15th century villains in the 'wild kingdom' crossover, they were totally out of it (continuity). That doctor/scientist stealing mutant powers. He was from Genosha, got out before the sentinel attack and worked in a mutant hating/enslaving government atmosphere. Meaning that whole bull cr** with Magneto never happened?

So, as the situation goes, I myself am really looking forward to what's in store for Storm. 'Cause if marriage harms a character such as Spider-Man, it should naturally do wonders for Storm...after all she is the opposite sex. (emphasis on opposite...N-S polarity). And with BP being the next Marvel top-shot, she will automatically rise up with him. With the hints of a kid, that will happen faster than you can say 'Fat Fu*****g Chance'. With the whole family thing, they are simply trying to create a second Reed-Sue-Frankin-and-Valeria Richards, and in true Joe Q fashion, instead of the decades long history of the originals, the V2.0 family with be formed in a matter of months. Hey, its the e-mail age.

Just hope they don't complete the nine month long pregnancy in 9 days....

...even that will have a horde of crossovers.

Now with Storm #1 out and BP #14 on its way, its only a matter of time before the P.R. bridge is put into high gear in an effort to make the general (Marvel) comic fanbase actually give a care about this unlikeliest of unions.

Oh, they are perfect for each other. Why? Just because they just happen to share the same (general) skin color and race. They want us to believe, that in a continent of more than 800 million people, in countries so far apart, these two met as KIDS and now they are just perfect for each other. Meaning, the Forges, Mistys and what nots, are just fillers.....just to get the practice 'humping' done before they move onto the main dish.

Its simply cheapening...not to mention putting off. As of Jan 2006 I am not buying any Marvel comics (except for Wolverine, Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Spider-Man) and won't be for the forseeable future.

Thank you very much Mr. Qlueless. You just lost a reader.....with all my 'freed' funds going into DC's 52 series.