[Parademon1]

Marvel just has a bunch of dumb ass writers who have strayed from making comics about superheroes battling villians and have gone into real world political storylines because they can't just write a 2 or 3 issue arc of the Masters of evil ripping off a bank to finance a new weapon that Baron Zemo wants to make to cause a massive earthquake in NYC & the Avengers have to stop them. No, it has to be about political issues. I got into comics as a kid in the late 70s due to the fact that they took me away from the real world problems & issues for 22 pages of great art & battles between make believe characters. Now these writers have to make yr long story arcs that cross over into multiple titles and involve politics, race issues & other real life stuff that I really don't care to read about in a "comic book about make believe superbeings.

The color, nor gender , nor race had to be changed on any character to make me read a comic books as a kid, a young adult or middle aged man. If the art was great and the storyline was action packed with heroes/villians pummeling each other, I was hooked. That's why I loved Marvel teamup featuring Spidey and a different superhero every other issue or 2. We got great art and stories that only took 1-2, maybe 3 issues to tell! When Claremont & Byrne were on MTU were the greatest in the title's history. Then they went on to write the great but short lived 15 issue Ironfist run before they made history on X-men.

I'll take Perez/Byrne/Kirby/Buscema/Heck/Golden/Romita/Lim/Lee/Gibbons/Layton/Bolland/Dillon/ just to name a few over the vast majority of today's "artists" Just about anything those guys drew, I bought! The story could be great, but if the second I open the 1st page, that art looks like an 8yr old drew it, I put it write back down. The art is what always drew me to comics 1st, story 2nd. Perez & Byrne were then & now my all time 2 favorite artists and they always drew their characters in their correct and listed hgts! No giant 8-9 ft Hulks or 7ft Thors. At one point in the 70s/80s, those 2 were drawing everything in both comic companies. That's how dam n good and in demand they both were. They both created some of the most well known characters in both Marvel & DC as well. George Perez created the White Tiger, Deathstoke the Terminator & Taskmaster as well as helped co-create the Teen Titans. Byrne created Alpha Flight. Now, thanks to the MCU, today's Marvel writers and artist just base their stories and art on what the movies are doing. Knowing what has been done to a lot of my favorite marvel characters these past few yrs all in the name of PC, makes me so glad I quit collecting comics right after the Planet Hulk/WW Hulk arc. That's why I really hope the ML Vintage line succeeds, so I can get a chance to buy classic versions of the "comic book" characters I grew up reading as a kid & not figures of actors.