What this guy is worried about, is an IM book that hates IM, and wants to punish him. I'd be more concerned about the latter.
Okay, I understand now. And yeah, that would worry me a lot, too. But nothing I've read about Fraction makes me think he's one of the haters. Granted, I'm not very well connected when it comes to comic book gossip, but he really does sound enthused about Tony just because he's Tony. But then, as you (I think it was you? might have been elspethdizon) said in another thread, Millar says he likes the Avengers and he still managed to write The Ultimates. So just because someone likes the character doesn't mean they aren't going to fuck them up. :-(
I think he's also extrapolating from Fraction's characterization in The Order, and associating him with the hatahs. I guess the danger of wanting to 'punish' the character is that in order to make the story work, you may end up dumbing him down, making him less effective.
Okay, I understand this better now, too. But I didn't think there was that much of Tony in The Order to extrapolate from. I've only read the first trade, but there was Tony throwing his money around (which we haven't seen much of lately but which he really does do) and there was Tony being dismissive of his own problems (when Henry asked him if he was going to meetings) and there was Tony being strict about the rules of The Order, which I really can't argue with. I'm not sure how you can extrapolate anything really awful from those three brief moments.
Ah, well. No way to know for sure until the book comes out. I'm just an eternal optimist. *g*
They're launching a second book. [snip] As so many people are saying - he's the new Wolverine.
*facepalm* Tony's not as popular as Wolverine! As much as I love him, I don't think he's the kind of character that can suck in a really broad audience like that. They're going to exhaust the character and the next thing you know they'll kill him off just to give the character a rest.
I can only assume that they're trying to build things up to capitalize on the movie as much as possible.
I have complete faith the Knauf/de la Rocca main book. If Fraction's book has even a fraction (ha!) of Director of SHIELD's unadulterated awesome, I will be a happy fan.
This is true. Director of SHIELD has been awesome. I don't like the style of the art very much (I'm from the school of Bright Shiny Art), but it's not my least liked style and it's very expressive, which is good. And the storytelling (both via art and writing) is awesome. *clings*
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Ahhh, that makes more sense.
What this guy is worried about, is an IM book that hates IM, and wants to punish him. I'd be more concerned about the latter.
Okay, I understand now. And yeah, that would worry me a lot, too. But nothing I've read about Fraction makes me think he's one of the haters. Granted, I'm not very well connected when it comes to comic book gossip, but he really does sound enthused about Tony just because he's Tony. But then, as you (I think it was you? might have been
I think he's also extrapolating from Fraction's characterization in The Order, and associating him with the hatahs. I guess the danger of wanting to 'punish' the character is that in order to make the story work, you may end up dumbing him down, making him less effective.
Okay, I understand this better now, too. But I didn't think there was that much of Tony in The Order to extrapolate from. I've only read the first trade, but there was Tony throwing his money around (which we haven't seen much of lately but which he really does do) and there was Tony being dismissive of his own problems (when Henry asked him if he was going to meetings) and there was Tony being strict about the rules of The Order, which I really can't argue with. I'm not sure how you can extrapolate anything really awful from those three brief moments.
Ah, well. No way to know for sure until the book comes out. I'm just an eternal optimist. *g*
They're launching a second book.
[snip]
As so many people are saying - he's the new Wolverine.
*facepalm* Tony's not as popular as Wolverine! As much as I love him, I don't think he's the kind of character that can suck in a really broad audience like that. They're going to exhaust the character and the next thing you know they'll kill him off just to give the character a rest.
I can only assume that they're trying to build things up to capitalize on the movie as much as possible.
I have complete faith the Knauf/de la Rocca main book. If Fraction's book has even a fraction (ha!) of Director of SHIELD's unadulterated awesome, I will be a happy fan.
This is true. Director of SHIELD has been awesome. I don't like the style of the art very much (I'm from the school of Bright Shiny Art), but it's not my least liked style and it's very expressive, which is good. And the storytelling (both via art and writing) is awesome. *clings*