They always do that. It only accomplishes making people feel left out and half the time the "Part x" either functions by itself or as something smaller like Quasar's "Cosmos in Collision" which is 7 parts but issues #19 and 20 are almost they're own separate story about Presence and then the last 5 are about the big fight with Maelstrom. I know there absolutely have been comics I've looked at where I've gone "just ignore the stupid title or the part 3 of 6 bit on the cover".
@@SonofCapwolf I could maybe see it for the summer biweekly stuff but doing an advertised 6 part story for a monthly comic makes little sense to me, especially when it’s not an epic story just some normal bit of fluff. I suppose this was around when they started to focus more on the direct market instead of the newsstand audience so maybe they just didn’t care about gaining any new readers.
@@robert2430 I wish I hadn't torn up all my Bendis ones already because I really really need to talk about how awful decompressed 6 part story arcs are on a team book. Basically, for 6 issues (half a year) he's focusing on one character usually. Any team line-up, be it promising or dreadful, is effectively nothing in that model of writing because within a year it is likely time to shake up the roster again. So, you have a team, you have the first 6 issue arc that brings them together, the next 6 issue arc is focusing on the pet character and the rest of the characters don't do anything and then the next year the team is done with and we get a new line-up. It meant he'd add characters to the team and never once even give them something to do, let alone have a story involving them. Even if you were enforcing the "new line-up every year" crap, back in the day, you'd at least have had 12 stories with them. You'd get 2 in a year with Bendis and 1 of them would be another solo story about Spider-Woman.
I had to research the retcon. Last I read, one of the Runaways was Darkhawk.
Didn't he run a support group for teen heroes or something like that?
A bad pipe that carries water or a bad smoking pipe?
Combination of the two - steam.
Part 5 of 6. No wonder this didn’t last. You shouldn’t tell your audience half your year is devoted to one minor storyline.
They always do that. It only accomplishes making people feel left out and half the time the "Part x" either functions by itself or as something smaller like Quasar's "Cosmos in Collision" which is 7 parts but issues #19 and 20 are almost they're own separate story about Presence and then the last 5 are about the big fight with Maelstrom. I know there absolutely have been comics I've looked at where I've gone "just ignore the stupid title or the part 3 of 6 bit on the cover".
@@SonofCapwolf I could maybe see it for the summer biweekly stuff but doing an advertised 6 part story for a monthly comic makes little sense to me, especially when it’s not an epic story just some normal bit of fluff. I suppose this was around when they started to focus more on the direct market instead of the newsstand audience so maybe they just didn’t care about gaining any new readers.
@@robert2430 I wish I hadn't torn up all my Bendis ones already because I really really need to talk about how awful decompressed 6 part story arcs are on a team book. Basically, for 6 issues (half a year) he's focusing on one character usually. Any team line-up, be it promising or dreadful, is effectively nothing in that model of writing because within a year it is likely time to shake up the roster again. So, you have a team, you have the first 6 issue arc that brings them together, the next 6 issue arc is focusing on the pet character and the rest of the characters don't do anything and then the next year the team is done with and we get a new line-up. It meant he'd add characters to the team and never once even give them something to do, let alone have a story involving them. Even if you were enforcing the "new line-up every year" crap, back in the day, you'd at least have had 12 stories with them. You'd get 2 in a year with Bendis and 1 of them would be another solo story about Spider-Woman.
Lets be real. Venom threw the fight. He didn't want to have to kill Darkhawk because he was innocent.
Didn't want to blow his chances with Darkhawk's mam by killing her son.