Comments on: It could be worse.

By: Saidi

Saidi — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:31:43 +0000

Guys you’re expecting bendis the guy who rapes any character he doesn’t like(scarlet witch: no srsly disassembled & HOM were her OMD)
to write proper DOOM dialogue
i think victor would” Bah!your team of pathetic fools can’t even have the slightest chance of scratching my armor let alone defeat DOOM monarch of latveria &…by the way woman ,may DOOM ask in all honesty why your posterieur is ludicrously looming in the foreground? DOOM means what goal does that serve?”

By: JerksWithWhips

JerksWithWhips — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:42:54 +0000

Those are just lulz.

By: jas

jas — Tue, 13 May 2008 03:18:22 +0000

whoever writes doom dialog like this should be assraped with a hot poker.

By: T-Zullah

T-Zullah — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:50:36 +0000

are you all retarded!!!

Its all MF DOOM rhymes…. the rapper who wears the DOOM mask? Anyone. He made the amazing “The Mouse and the Mask” disc with Danger Mouse? It was based on Adult Swim? ANYONE!

anything you said in the comments section here is STUPID if you don’t realize what the reference is. JESUS!

By: This Could Be Doom « mooreroom

This Could Be Doom « mooreroom — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:53:38 +0000

[...] misogynist dialog Brian Michael Bendis put in the vented mouth of Doctor Doom, I thoroughly enjoy the alternatives thunk up by MightyGodKing. Here’s one of [...]

By: Josh R

Josh R — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:35:28 +0000

I have to say that I’ve liked Bendis’s work for the most part, particulary his Ultimate Spiderman & Powers. This bit just didn’t ring true for the character.
Sorry to hear that he’s become one of the internet’s current whipping boys, though. Is there perhaps a list somewhere that I could get so I know who’s being hated this week?

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:53:35 +0000

From “Oh, Dearie me!” I heard it in Jonathan Harris’s voice. It made it all worthwhile.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:03:42 +0000

in re: ‘cow’

It’s a classic Claremont insult, but it’s generally used BY one woman and directed at another. Claremont females calling one another cows are hard to avoid running into in enclosed spaces, but I can’t recall an instance of a Claremont male using the word. … which isn’t to say it never happened, since an encyclopaedic knowledge of Claremont Canon is something I can’t claim, praise be to God.

By: El Bastardo Magnifico

El Bastardo Magnifico — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:09:12 +0000

Magnus: His plots have depth, he manages to plan ahead and he doesn´t rely on foul language, shock value storylines or some of the other tropes which make people like Millar, Ellis or Morrison so popular, but on plain old good storytelling.

I don’t know how to not sound like a jerk while doing this, so if anyone agrees with me can you please word this to be more eloquent?

Depth: There is nothing deep or meaningful about Wolverine revealing his love of Wendys fast food or secretly wishing his wiener grows back bigger every time it’s destroyed. Nothing.

Shock value storylines? Disassembled,House of M,Secret Invasion ,Jessica Jones’(Foul Language!) liason with the all new, all N-word using (Foul Language!), all back door loving Luke Cage, Ultron with breasts, or the Tigra snuff film don’t count?

Plain old good storytelling: If you can tell me a storyline from Bendis’ 616 hero stuff that doesn’t follow the formula of “Street-level Heros and Guy Who Can Do Anything quip, Street-level heros and Guy Who Can Do Anything get in over their heads fighting, Guy Who Can Do Anything does something/Deus Ex Machina and/or Someone other than Street-level Heroes and Guy Who Can Do Anything save the day/Deus Ex Machina” aside from when they took down Wrecker I’d be willing to hear it. Also it’s in bad taste to criticize other peoples work you admit you know nothing about. All this was written by someone who used to love Bendis’ stuff. I don’t know if it’s my discovery of the formula, realizing what was cool and edgy isn’t so much after five or so years of using them, or him just simply spinning his wheels at this point, but his stuff has been bad.

p.s. It wasn’t a drug, it was a sentient, mind-controlling virus/bacteria masquerading as an ability enhancer.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:27:47 +0000

Adam: I may be conflating here some authors, and a bit of Ennis may have slipped in. I´d rather get back to saying that their plots don´t really do it for me ( and sometimes absolutely infuriate me… drug-addled Magneto? Really? I mean, *really*? ).

Rob: Hey, we did get on the same page. I think you said it very well in regards to that single panel.

By: Zenrage

Zenrage — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:35:10 +0000

All this talk of Doombots (which is, in reality, Marvel’s ongoing excuse for why they fucked up Dr Doom “this time”) has made me wonder something.

Why hasn’t Dr Doom taken over Master Mold and then used him to build giant Doombots?

By: Rob Brown

Rob Brown — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:09:21 +0000

In fairness to Bendis, I stopped by my LCS earlier and flipped through the issue in question looking at all the Doom dialogue except for his thought bubbles.

I think the rest of what Latveria’s ruler says is adequately Doomsy in tone and choice of words. The single panel isn’t representative of the quality of the whole thing. Having said that, I stand by my belief that the quality of the dialogue in that single panel is very bad and that a better writer would have said to himself “Hey, that’s pretty bad. I’d better replace it with something that isn’t bad.” :p

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:42:19 +0000

http://outpoor.com/illustration/buckleydoom.jpg

Just popped into my head this morning. Probably seems funnier due to my current lack of sleep.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:14:59 +0000

I haven´t read the comics you mention, as I mostly stay with Marvel comics, so I judge those writers on what they have produced for Marvel. So far, not impressed. You mentioned "foul language." What Morrison or Ellis series are you referring to? I can't recall Marvel letting them get away with R-rated dialogue. *NB: Sorry, Preacher is Ennis; mea culpa. Still, fair point that Morrison's best work has arguably been for DC: e.g., Arkham, The Invisibles, etc.

By: Magnus

Magnus — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:22:01 +0000

Hey, not disagreeing with you here that MGK knows how to write well, but even if one single panel features an out of character moment, it doesn´t deny the hundreds and thousands of other excellent pages Bendis has written. But I think I´ll bow out of the discussion at this point, because, as usual, one cannot win an argument on the internet, just continue it endlessly. But because this *is* the internet, and firing a parting shot across the bow is a time-honored tradition when one tires of argueing in circles, I will say that I wasn´t impressed with this apparent slip up by BB, but it does not negate the excellence of the rest of the issue. Saying it does is a bit of a girly hissy fit, IMO.