Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E. Vol 2: I Kick Your Face In

[meganbmoore]

 I have abosultely nothing coherent to say.

Pure, OOC deconstructionist crack.

In all the good ways.

I sincerely hope that it is not considered canon, but instead is considered to be extreme deconstructionist crackfic, which is what it reads like.

Please just go read entries in  scans_daily's tag for the series whilst I put my brain back together.

 

Comments

[kingcrankycat.livejournal.com]

The subtitle "I Kick Your Face In" is oddly appropriate, in that regard.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Also paraphrases lines from the book a few times, and is literal once or twice..

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

It's awesome. Pure, unadulterated awesome.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It just kinda makes you stare at the page with incoherent joy and amazement.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

I really couldn't get into this book. Everything I looked at just made me seethe with rage.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It's most likely to make people to that, or just read it in wide-eyed fascination, with little or no middle ground.

[foenix.livejournal.com]

I could've let it slide until these ruined versions of the characters started turning up in other books.

I'm blaming Skrulls. ;)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ah, shoot, it's being treated as canon? Now that, I don't like. As AU deliberately OOC crackfic, i love it, but...

[themachinehead.livejournal.com]

Boooooooo. Nextwave had robots and dinosaurs and turned Machine Man from a boring stock android guy with an awful 70's costume and stretching limbs into the superhero version of Bender. Action/Humor comics shouldn't make people seethe with rage.

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

... Who are you, and what have you done with Foenix?

[aoimidori.livejournal.com]

but instead is considered to be extreme deconstructionist crackfic,
I am under the belief that this is exactly what it is considered to be, which is why I LOVE it HARD.

AND HAVE YOU HEARD THE THEME SONG? :DDD

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm told these versions of the characters have appeared in other titles, which lessens my love somewhat. I like them as parodies of themselves in an AU, but not in MU proper...

[aoimidori.livejournal.com]

They did appear in some Civil War issues (and then some) but they hardly played any importance in main storylines. The Nextwave issues are still pretty much standalone.

(Although it probably helps that I didn't read the other titles they appeared in. I caught a glimpse of Aaron in She-hulk, and that was it for me. And it's not like I follow She-hulk, haha.)

[irenak.livejournal.com]

Oh, Nextwave is LOVE.

It's canon-ness has been iffy: it was, then wasn't, then was again. And then maybe it wasn't. But with Aaron Stack's Ms. Marvel appearance (http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/3832652.html#cutid1), it's pretty much been confirmed as canon.

I'm actually one of those people who's kind of thrilled about it being canon in the same way I'm thrilled about the canon of Squirrel Girl defeating Doctor Doom that one time. Because sometimes when the rest of the Marvel universe is wallowing in angsty self-pity, it's nice to know that at least some heroes are pretty much okay with the whole kicking-peoples'-heads-in-and-blowing-stuff-up end of the deal.

Also, The Captain bears an eerie resemblance to Paul Blackthorne and that's never not going to amuse me.

[themachinehead.livejournal.com]

More people should listen to you.



Fun and canon are not mutually exclusive. I mean, as a young comics reader, I have to wax nostalgic about how light-hearted comics were in the 90's, because at least then there were at least a few alternatives to the melodrama of the X-Men or the angst of Spider-Man (which reached all-time highs in the 90's).

But oh, Nextwave must be bad, because they "ruined" a character that had been written out of stories for over ten years by making her the "straight woman" to the rest of the cast's insanity.

In conclusion, Nextwave was awesome, and I feel bad for people that couldn't enjoy it.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

*nod*

I just find the idea of it as AU crackfic to be so much more fun and the idea of it as canon kinda depressing for some reason.