Secret Empire: Omega

[laughing_tree]

Comments

[informationgeek]

It's like Civil War II: Hollow Realization all over again. The main writer says one thing and everyone else is doing the opposite.

[laughing_tree]

Honestly, unless it's something where there are actual continuity discrepancies (like Civil War I, where writers couldn't agree on what the Registration Act actually was), I think that kind of thing's a plus with shared universes. Their strength is having many writers, many voices. They should be leaning into that, using it put out many viewpoints and interpretations, not working against it by forcing everyone into a singular statement.

It's like that time in Uncanny Avengers where Havok told people not to use the word 'mutant' and shortly afterward Bendis wrote a comic calling that viewpoint crap. People were acting like this kind of disagreement was something scandalous. Chaos in the House of Ideas! Well, no, it's different writers expressing different takes, something I'd hope Marvel would encourage. I mean, I think the Havok scene was horribly misjudged and it should never have been published. But its merits aside, the fact that two stories could have the freedom to interpret it in completely opposite ways? That's a good thing.

[starwolf_oakley]

I thought the writers agreed that the CIVIL WAR Registration Act was "the War on Terror is bad and you should feel bad."

I'm not totally joking either. All of the anti-reg stories seemed to say "George W Bush is a terrible president and let's make Tony Stark into George W Bush for this story." And were there any pro-reg stories in CIVIL WAR?

[cyberghostface]

Well there were a few writers who tried showing it from Tony's perspective like the "Casualties of War" comic.

[starwolf_oakley]

That story also had Steve asking Tony "How could you lay down with the people you’ve laid down with?" Meaning the Evil George W Bush. That's how I read it, at least. (Bush is less "evil incarnate" these days for reasons.)

[cyberghostface]

I think Cap was referring to Norman Osborn and the other villains Stark was getting into bed with.