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Subj: Re: I read a little bit more about it... Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 at 05:31:59 pm EDT (Viewed 477 times) | Reply Subj: I read a little bit more about it... Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 at 03:40:28 pm EDT (Viewed 531 times) | ||||||
Quote: ...not sure where... Newsarama, maybe? Whatever came up when I Googled the title. Anyway, the writer says that each issue will feature a little "Lost" like vignette introducing what the characters were like before they died, and that their relationships to the living was the major thrust of the series. The Vision and the Swordsman apparently get this treatment in the first issue. The interviewer asked whether the classic Vision would be face to face with the new Vision, since the living Avengers would be playing a role somehow, and the writer responded the better question was whether he would come face-to-face with "the love of his life" who murdered him. (I did note, however, that phrasing it as a question allows him to say "Well, no... no he won't" later.)Quote: Honestly, if the guy is telling the truth about being a fan of the character and "Avengers" being his book when he was young, then I don't think they can avoid having Vizh dealing with Wanda, whether she's "real" or not. While new fans are content to just ignore that the Vision ever existed or had a relationship with the Scarlet Witch, I think old-school fans and writers would be hard pressed to do a story like this "Dead Avengers" concept and not try to resolve how Wanda callously killed Vizh... it being the worst possible ending to their love story imaginable. Fair enough then, I didn't see that interview. Quote: Ultimately, I doubt they'll be using this series to bring any of these characters back to the land of the living. Mar-Vell is definitely going to stay dead, and nobody aside from the Vision is really worth bringing back without specific plans. As for Vizh, they've replaced him and I think they're content with that. I could maybe see them doing more specials or a continuing spin off about dead characters operating in the afterlife, but I'm not sure they'd want to as it would give death less of an impact than it already has in the Marvel Universe. Dying would just mean being transferred to the "Dead" book.Which was already kind of done in Paradise X anyway. Quote: (Now that I think of it, didn't they recently do a limited series like this with Dead Girl and Mockingbird and some others?) Yeah, dead villains were resurrecting themselves and Dr. Strange needed Dead Girl's help to descend into death's realm to stop them. Mockingbird, Gwen Stacey, and a third female I forget where a part of Dead Girl's book club, and Ant-Man (Lang) spent his time combing carpet fibers for demons. Quote: I do appreciate that this seems to help draw a distinction that the current Vision is *not* a continuation of the previous one though. I'd rather he be dead and mourned (by a handful of fans if nobody on panel in the Marvel Universe itself) then just have it taken for granted that as long as there's someone called the Vision active, it's close enough to count as the same character.It is a shame the Vision has never been properly mourned on-panel. At least his death was on-panel, which is more than I can say about Alpha Flight's. ~Hat~ | |||||||
