Comic: Generations: Miles Morales Spider-Man & Peter Parker Spider-Man
Where Purchased: 9 Planets Comics and Collectables in Dearborn Heights, Michigan
When Purchased: September 20, 2023
When Read: November 17, 2024
When I returned to collecting comics in 2003, Brian Michael Bendis was the hot writer. I really enjoyed the slew of books he was writing....Alias, Daredevil, Ultimate Spider-Man. Solid stories and got me into characters that I hadn't really collected before.
He moved on to MY title, The Avengers, and started spearheading all of Marvel's yearly events.
It did reach the point where I noticed that he didn't give each character their own voice. In books with multiple characters, it often felt, to me, that you could switch around word bubbles or eliminate some characters and there would be no impact to the overall story. I also noticed characters would have really weird parenthetical asides all the time.
So I drifted away from his work when he started a series called All-New X-Men, which had an intriguing premise but just didn't click with me. After nearly 600 issues of Bendis-penned stories, I moved on.
This comic is part of a ten-issue anthology limited series that spun out of a Marvel event that I did not read. The overall idea of all of these Generations one-shots sees modern heroes being sent through time on a journey of self-discovery, each featuring a team-up of different incarnations of ten different superheroes. The goal of the series was to examine who these heroes are and suggest where they might be heading in the future.
I stumbled across several issues in a dollar bin at a Books-A-Million and liked the variant covers as well as the characters involved.
From there, I picked up most of the others, with this being the last of them I wanted. It is a fun read. It seems like there have been some changes to Bendis's writing and the art is evocative of early Marvel. A solid 8.
I picked this up on a 24 hour work trip to the greater Detroit area. I flew in, arriving at 8:30 AM local time for an event that started at 5:00 PM. Needless to say, I had some time on my hands. I was able to visit 5 stores throughout the day and grabbed about two dozen books.
I also ended up with a hundred dollar traffic ticket....which is a story for another time.
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ReplyDeleteYour thoughts on character perspective are interesting. We've been watching Northern Exposure as a family recently and it's gratifying to see how well it holds up 30 years later. A recent thought: every character in the show is experiencing their own private Alaska. They're there for different reasons and those reasons drive their daily impressions. I don't think most writers approach narrative that way. Characters act differently but that's not the same as allowing them the space to experience differently. It's impressive.
Thanks! I am not sure how back I am but Nan convinced me to give it a try! I missed "Northern Exposure" during its first airing. Might have to check it out.
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