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by **Punchy** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:26 pm

Eli Katz wrote:Well, I don't find that satisfying.

I don't really either, but it's never going to change, so you just have to accept it and move on.

The only reason to read a Bendis magic story is just to see what hilarious mumbo jumbo he'll come up with for magic words.

by ****** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:28 pm

Punchy wrote:But in the MU, the answer to the question 'How did that happen?' can always be answered with 'It's magic', and that should be satisfactory, it's a mysterious unexplainable force.

If I felt like everything that happened in the Marvel Universe could be arbitrarily explained away with "IT'S MAGIC!", I wouldn't be buying many Marvel comics.

by ****** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:29 pm

Punchy wrote:I don't really either, but it's never going to change, so you just have to accept it and move on.

The only reason to read a Bendis magic story is just to see what hilarious mumbo jumbo he'll come up with for magic words.

That's not a very good reason to spend $4.

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:31 pm

The fact is the moment I saw this was going to be a Bendis magic story I knew it wasn't for me.

by **Punchy** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:31 pm

John Snow wrote:If I felt like everything that happened in the Marvel Universe could be arbitrarily explained away with "IT'S MAGIC!", I wouldn't be buying many Marvel comics.

But it can. And the same is true for the DCU.

But you have to just find a way to get your brain around it, and get on with reading them.

by **Victorian Squid** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:32 pm

John Snow wrote:That's not a very good reason to spend $4.

I spent $4 today on lesbian pulp novels from the '60s.

by **Greg** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:32 pm

If Bendis doesn't give Voodoo a good showing by the end of the arc, I'm gonna become a Punchy hater.

by **Punchy** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:33 pm

Greg wrote:If Bendis doesn't give Voodoo a good showing by the end of the arc, I'm gonna become a Punchy hater.

Why me? It's nothing to do with me!

by ****** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:33 pm

Punchy wrote:But it can. And the same is true for the DCU.

But you have to just find a way to get your brain around it, and get on with reading them.

DnA books aren't that way. Brubaker books aren't that way (even Reborn, stupid as the explanation may have been it was still an explanation). Just this one. As 4thy would say, it's "shoddy".

by **Greg** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:34 pm

Punchy wrote:Why me? It's nothing to do with me!

I'm just saying, though.

by ****** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:34 pm

Charles Mansion Reilly wrote:I spent $4 today on lesbian pulp novels from the '60s.

That sounds to me like a superb way to spend $4.

by ****** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:36 pm

Punchy wrote:Why me? It's nothing to do with me!

You're the only one defending Bendimagic just like 4thy is the only one who believes Avengers Tower was built on the site of Avengers Mansion.

[spoiler] :deadhorse

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by **Greg** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:37 pm

John Snow wrote:
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You forgot to put the 'd at the end.

by **thefourthman** » Fri Jun 18, 2010 3:40 pm

Punchy wrote:That's the nature of Marvel and DC superhero comics though, don't condemn Bendis for just doing what every other writer is. If you malign him for this, you may as well give every Marvel or DC comic a bad score. You have to take certain things for granted, and you can't apply the same storytelling conventions that you would a standalone Noir comic to a Marvel Universe book.

That is one of the most asinine things you have ever said.
Good story telling is good story telling.
Weren't you one of the fuckers who said it was bullshit to look at a kids book differently when you are reviewing one?