tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post1641721910177427901..comments2024-03-25T05:26:47.764-04:00Comments on The Peerless Power of Comics!: The Lost BoysComicsfanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-34586315864563357392016-02-14T07:46:33.247-05:002016-02-14T07:46:33.247-05:00To answer your question, Dale, I could have gone w...To answer your question, Dale, I could have gone with it one way or the other, even with the "scorched Earth" approach which Byrne took in this story--not only erasing the children from existence, but also wiping out any emotional evolution of the Vision and, in the process, setting the wheels in motion to dissolve the marriage. Byrne's only saving grace was to spread out the changes over several issues, rather than jam everything into one month's story--though I wasn't particularly pleased with the use of Mephisto, since he seems to be the go-to demon for initiating sweeping change(s) without the writer having to worry about lining things up logically or neatly. (Or, it goes without saying, believably.)<br /><br />That said, writers have been forming relationships and then doing an about-face and wrecking them in just about every piece of fiction you could think of, whether it's soap operas or nightly dramas or "telenovelas" or comic books--so we just have to cross our fingers and hope that things don't eventually implode or become too convoluted altogether. I've gone on record in saying I was never a fan of Englehart's changes in the Vision (though I suppose we have Roger Stern to thank for setting <i>those</i> wheels in motion)--but <i>everybody</i> took things too far, and there was no going back for either the Vision or Wanda, since there was a pall that hung over them like a cloud whenever they would find themselves grouped together. Frankly, I find both characters more interesting separately--but I think that ship has sailed for good.<br />Comicsfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10064955427593820783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4142199900369238852.post-24842815433159798252016-02-13T23:57:58.924-05:002016-02-13T23:57:58.924-05:00Weird isn't it? The whole thing....I mean why ...Weird isn't it? The whole thing....I mean why did Marvel let Englehart and other writers go through all that, but the time and energy into building their whole relationship and having kids, only to just let Byrne erase all that work in a couple issues? I don't know about Englehart, but I'd be extremely pissed and hurt about the whole thing. And sure, it's not like they were Englehart's characters to begin with, but Marvel certainly had no problem letting use his ideas and make the types of changes he did...and then just let Byrne burn it all away because "it just didn't make sense to him."<br />Bendis was no better, but at least Byrne's the better writer of the two.<br />What's your take? Did you agree with the erasing of the kids and the ending of Wanda and the Vision's relationship, or did you shake your head in disgust?<br /><br />I myself was too young at the time to have the sort of attachment that older fans did to Wanda and Vish's love story, but I can defintiely sympathize with the frustration they doubtlessly had at it all just being erased on a whim like it did.Mr. Morbid's House Of Funhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06721085161381688977noreply@blogger.com