Re: NEW THUNDERBOLTS #13 and the NAers (Was So... who *is* Ronin? (NA#11 SPOILERS))


Steven R. Stahl wrote:

>
> You forgot, for the twentieth or so, (thirtieth? fortieth?) time that
> there was a perfectly valid explanation for Wanda's power: Chthonic
> magic, AKA chaos magic. Bendis provided no "explanation" for Wanda's
> power; all he did was claim that the power wasn't chaos magic (abusing
> and molesting magics hardly qualifies as an explanation) and that the
> use of the power caused her insanity to worsen.

He provided an explanation: regular, ordinary magic, as opposed to
Chaos magic. It's right there, and "magic" and "chaos magic" are both
equally valid and equally silly.


In other words, why did
> Wanda alter reality? Because she was insane. Why was Wanda insane?
> Because she altered reality. The phrase "alter reality" means nothing
> by itself.
>
> **************************************************************************************
>
> NEW THUNDERBOLTS #13 was the best Avengers story I've seen since the
> AVENGERS/THUNDERBOLTS miniseries,


Don't read New Thunderbolts, dropped it after issue 6. Nicieza
clearly didn't think the villian's motivation had to make any sense, or
was unwilling or unable to recocgnise that it didn't make sense, and
that was enough to make me swear off his writing for good, as I didn't
like his original Thunderbolts run either, where he arbitrarily fake
killed off many of the characters in the Busiek for some really
artificial "plot twists" Bleh. Textbook bad comic writing.

I loved Busiek's Thunderbolts, but Nicieza completly killed it for me.

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