This was the war cry recently due to what people thought was
statutory rape by a drunken Sam Wilson a.k.a. The Falcon in a recent issue of
Captain America. This, of course, turned out to be a misconception and not true
so, that reason for firing Rick Remender is unsubstantiated.
Let me give you the real reasons for firing Rick Remender.
There are more than a few.
I had recently gotten back into buying monthly comics again.
It had been many years and I decided since my daughters both liked comic books
we would make a biweekly trek to the local comic book store. The girls and I
would ransack the quarter bin and then pick out some monthly titles. One liked
My Little Pony and the other was a huge Daredevil fan. I saw that a new Captain
America title was starting up and then, because of The Avengers film there were
about fifty eight Avengers titles. I went with Uncanny Avengers because Captain
America was in it. It looked like fun.
These are both written by Rick Remender.
At first I liked both titles. Captain America in Dimension Z reminded me of
the old Jack Kirby days. It was cool. The Uncanny Avengers with its meld of
Avengers and X-Men was cool.
Then a few issues went by.
Captain America was still in Dimension Z. Didn’t he have a
new movie coming out soon? Wasn’t it getting tiresome? Yeah, it was. And then
when he did leave Remender killed Sharon Carter (Again???) and the kid that Cap
had raised for years. And, since it was a pocket dimension no time had passed
in the Marvel Universe. Another aspect was just the amount of torture Captain
America was put through in each issue. Beaten, stabbed, brutalized issue after
issue. It became numbing and I just dropped the title. I wanted nothing to do
with Cap’s return to the real world, or at the very least, Marvel Universe.
This was not my Captain America.
Uncanny Avengers wasn’t faring much better. It seems that
Mr. Remender is only capable of long form, event stories. Sometimes those are
fun. All the time, they are not. And,
after I dropped the title he apparently slaughtered a bunch of super heroes. It’s
Marvel, they make a lot of money off of their heroes. We know that none of
these deaths are permanent. If Frank Miller couldn’t keep Elektra dead, Rick
Remender sure isn’t going to keep any of the Avengers six feet under.
I traded up for the infinitely better Avengers A.I. Of
course, they cancelled that titles and I did buy The Uncanny Avengers Annual,
but that was terrible. I got excited when I saw Man-Thing on the cover. Yeah,
why did I think Remender would know how to write Man-Thing? Beats me.
And the new twist in
Captain America is that they sucked the super soldier formula out of him and
he’s an old man. Yeah, this has been done. Steve Rogers still needs to be
Captain America for two more Avengers movies and one more solo film. Do you
think the money men at Disney are going to let this stick? If you don’t know
how to realistically tell stories within the context of someone else’s sandbox,
maybe you should go find something else to do. I hear Remender has an
independent book of his own. Maybe he could do that instead of ruining
characters that I have decades of history with. Writers and artists have
managed to tell stories about Captain America that are funny, smart, exciting
and done in one that don’t feel the necessity to shake things up.
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