no we were not shown Matt's dad being an abuser. we were shown a scene with no actions taking place. Yes, sure it was meant to imply one thing... but the thing about these "secrets revealed" type stories is that they should never be taken at face value.
I mean, sure, people jumped to Tony sabotaging the gama bomb because, let's face it, it's drunk era Tony Stark... it's totally something in his perview. Matt's dad on the other hand, was always seen as a caring and loving guy. it just surprised me people jumped there only having seen the stage set and not seeing what lead to it, or what actually happned
This is exactly the same thing that happened during Simone's second Birds of Prey run. People were basically tearing her down because she'd appeared to have killed off the two gay characters she'd brought it, despite her saying they didn't know the full story, and people ignored her. When Savant and Creote turned out to be alive, no-one apologised, and that's why she stopped coming here.
So I wasn't surprised by the reaction to the 'original' version of that scene, last month, at all.
The Tony Stark thing turned out pretty great as well. I understand that a lot of comic fans have been hurt for a long time by all the Grimdark, but at least with Marvel and Especially with Mark Ward I hope people are starting to trust a bit more.
It seems to be a thing with Marvel recently. A lot of people still give them shit over the angst-party during the 00s and Quesada's run, but Marvel NOW has really done a lot for adding fun back to comics. While the tone varies from book-to-book, and the quality in some cases leaves a lot to be desired, Marvel have a good amount of fun in their books.
Mark Waid especially is good with this since he knows that tone isn't important to writing a good story; he can use any kind of tone in his work, but he uses it when it fits instead of making things super grimdark or super silly all the time.
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Because that's what we were shown (see also: Tony Stark sabotaging the Gamma Bomb).
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I mean, sure, people jumped to Tony sabotaging the gama bomb because, let's face it, it's drunk era Tony Stark... it's totally something in his perview. Matt's dad on the other hand, was always seen as a caring and loving guy. it just surprised me people jumped there only having seen the stage set and not seeing what lead to it, or what actually happned
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So I wasn't surprised by the reaction to the 'original' version of that scene, last month, at all.
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Mark Waid especially is good with this since he knows that tone isn't important to writing a good story; he can use any kind of tone in his work, but he uses it when it fits instead of making things super grimdark or super silly all the time.