[comic stuff] Good old patriotic entertainment

[mrph]

I've just noticed that Marvel Comics currently has Captain America embroiled in another terrorism plotline.

The storyline kicks off with Cap, as a trusted hero in the public eye, being asked to do his bit for the War Against Terror and chair a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. It's still too soon to see where it goes from there, but...

*twitch*

(It may even be worse than the latest issue of the Authority, which is saying something. The Authority is utter shite right now, just the feebly twitching corpse of something that once kicked serious arse..)

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[markeris.livejournal.com]

How bad did The Authority actually get? I found the Millar stuff tolerable.

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Pretty bad. We get an Authority vs. Lobo special soon, and the current storyline involves an evangelical church led by a telepathic messiah kicking the crap out of Our Heroes - oh, and reprogramming (again) the ones they've captured.

It's yet another storyline that relies on the Authority being massively less competent than they were in the Ellis days. Someone gets the Midnighter by surprise, the Doctor is generally a bit crap, Apollo gets "punched around the world" (literally) only to land back at his assailant's feet...

The villains aren't terribly interesting, either. :(

My one consolation is that one of mrbear's friends left it here after reading it, so I didn't have to pay for it myself.