Say What?! - Fish And Houseguests
The Fast and the Furious.
Teen Wolf.
Speed.
Jaws.
Titanic.
Sometimes, a second go-round the block is just not necessary. In fact, there are times when it just shouldn't be done at all.
This week saw the release of Avengers: The Initiative #22. It's the second part of a storyline dealing with the aftermath of Secret Invasion and cleaning up a bunch of loose threads. Both of these I'm all for and I usually quite enjoy writer Christos Gage's work.
However, my problem and the point of this article is the villain of the piece - Clor. Some of you will remember our blond friend as the clone of the Norse thunder God himself, the one who took out Goliath during Civil War. Well, despite a rather heavy-handed slap to the face by Hercules, Clor is reborn and ripping up Stamford's Initiative headquarters.
Clor was a good idea during Civil War. I was apprehensive at first, but i feel they made him work. It fit into Reed's 42 Ideas and made even more sense with the whole Skrull invasion retcon/aforethought. He served his purpose, killed Goliath and was taken out by the superior deity. End of story. Done.
Why the frak is he back again? His entire presence has been nothing but a catalyst for a fight at Camp Hammond. I'm all for action, but could you tone down the deus ex machina a tad? We finally have the real Thor back (and in a seriously kickass series, no less!), can we please put this one-time good idea to rest and just let him have had his moment in the sun?
Of course, this gets me thinking ...
What are some other examples of ideas that were great when they appeared once, but were nothing but spoiled by subsequent rehashes and watering downs?
Goblin
Posted to Comics, Say What?, Superheroes on 27 February 2009
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X-men time-travel "days of future past" stories...ugh...
eXiles.
Amazing at first, for a time one of the best books out there, now it's the worst specifically because it started picking up old ideas (2099, Maestro, AoA, etc) and running them into the ground.
It was like watching the Titanic go down, something pretty slowly sinking into crap.