Jan. 18th, 2008

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It's got to be match to Ned Beauman with this wonderful slapdown of The Amazing Spiderman. He starts off with a critique of the comic industry's general approach to long running series before concluding:

In any given year, only a vanishingly small number of superhero comics are worth your time and money. The Amazing Spider-Man, even since its recent change of creators, is still not one of them, and Mephisto's not to blame: rather, the quality of the writing makes it, at best, Barely Adequate Spider-Man.

Ouch.

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I wonder if the winner of the Darwin Award for 2007 happened to get the idea from Warren Ellis' Fell? Or might it just be that thoughts of the Great Ellis are too profoundly filthy for his merely human skull to contain and have started to reshape reality in their own image? Now that I think about it, this would explain a lot, including 98.763 percent of the internet...

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