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Why has Marvel made the decision to transform every title into an endless Green Goblin story? I bought issue one of the Agents of Atlas ongoing yesterday. The issue opens up with Norman Osborn. Most of the book is Norman Osborn hemming and hawing. When the protagonists finally show up in their own series, they spend it talking about Norman Osborn.
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I hadn't seen Agents yet. I'll have to look for it next time I hit the shop.
I'm having trouble because I keep looking for other types of comics, plot-wise. Superheroes are fun, but there could be so much other stuff going on that I sometimes dispair.
Still, the art in Agents looks pretty good.
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It's simple. Marvel went, "Hey, we came up with a character arc! Let's make sure none of our readers could possibly miss it!"
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They do only rarely miss an opportunity for cross-marketing. DC does that too. I like how they'll create footnotes in the comics so that you'll be sure to know about their other comics/issues that relate.
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quote:Originally posted by Achilles: I hadn't seen Agents yet. I'll have to look for it next time I hit the shop.
If you haven't read it yet, the original mini-series is one of the finest old school super-hero comics I've read in recent years. The artwork is gorgeous. Jeff Parker succeeds in making one care about characters who were for the most part disposable second-stringers even back in their original context. He know how to make it all fun without making it empty.
Which is part of why I'm frustrated that the ongoing is saddled with no less than six of Marvel's current mega-plots rather than being able to do its own thing.
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