No superhero comic Bendis writes will ever be the best run of that comic, unless he’s the only person who writes it at all. His sole talent is to be insanely prolific because he cuts every story up into minute chunks and then stretches them to three to six times their necessary length. Sometimes that’s acceptable, if…

Dude.... I feel you! I could deal with Austen barely... and I loved the Morrison, Whedon, and Fraction runs... but Bendis is the reason I stopped reading X-Men. I can’t pick it up again until some new writer takes over.

I see what you did there

Wow, that’s just crazy! I haven’t seen a guy use an old-fashioned garter to hold his socks up since they invented Velcro.

I agree! I feel the same way about blacksploitation. Sure, they are hard to watch nowadays because of how racist/sexist they are. But it is a viable part of cinematic history in America and led to the creation of characters who weren’t “socially acceptable”.

Exactly! And their growth always created great moments between them.

I don’t think it will be the best at all. His All New X-Men was good, but I think he unraveled a lot of the great character development that the writers did to Cyclops from M-Day to AvX.

I see hate reading was a thing in the 19th century, and probably long before that. (Now I gotta find out if Montaigne did any hate reading.... Seriously, when did hate reading become a thing. Maybe it has its origins in the 19th century when the steam press and public education made more books available and accessible…

I can’t wait to read your novel.

Yeah, well, I feel that way about Joseph Conrad and lament that the dude ever learned English. Meh.

Meh.

Any amount is too much!

What didn’t you like? I have to admit I was sort of wary going into his run- especially with the idea of returning the O5 to the present- but I thought he got a lot of things right. I thought the books did a good job of balancing action, humor, and... for lack of better phrasing- mopey X-Men stuff. I did sort of hate…

Bummer! I actually really liked Bendis’s run- not quite as much as I liked Morrison or Whedon, but there’s a lot of good stuff in there.

Kate Bishop will be the new main Hawkeye, and seemingly have an antagonistic relationship with Clint Barton.

Counterpoint: Can we stop pretending the FF’s problem has anything to do with movie rights? People aren’t buying the book, they’re not buying the merch, Marvel has relaunched it four times in four years, nothing has stuck. It might just be time to let the FF go for a while.

It’s brilliant because while creating a character that is part of an underrepresented minority in comics, they managed to make her universally appealing by having her be first and foremost a fan, which any comic reader can identify with.

I’m just sort of... disappointed that this is the direction they’re taking the X-Men in... again.

I live/work 5 minutes from the finish line, and you are 100% right. It was a little scary that day for those of us within earshot, but the incessant “Boston Strong” touted by people from the suburbs or further away is just embarrassing.

Oh wow man, you must’ve been really scared to not be able to leave your house (assuming you were included in this which at this point I have to say is doubtful). I bet that took a long time, maybe say a year or two of getting shitfaced and yelling Boston Strong at sporting events, to get that trauma out of your system.