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CandidGamera said on September 7th, 2007 at 2:00 pm

Actually, I’ve got a complete run of What If, Volume 2. Timequake was, indeed, a feeble attempt to introduce issue-to-issue continuity into the What If series for a brief time, while at the same time revisiting some of their more popular past stories.

This issue, though, came out in the early 90’s – 1992. And Timequake had nothing to do with the book’s cancellation, as it did run for another 80 issues afterward, relatively unmolested by further attempts at issue-to-issue continuity.

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I believe you are overreading into my statement a bit. You see, it got cancelled because it sucked balls. Big donkey balls, did it most verily suck. Timequake was just some of the worst suck to suck.

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CandidGamera said on September 7th, 2007 at 2:08 pm

In the post, you seem to be lambasting the complexity of the storyline, which was atypical of the title. Now, if you want to say that What If, in general, sucks – that’s fine, and I’ll meet you on the field with pistols at dawn. But Timequake is in no way representative of the run as a whole.

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It’s certainly representative of the latter half of the run, by which point you were getting recycled concepts, poorly written or just plain stupid storylines and almost uniformly terrible art. Marvel was practically using it as a tryout title by issue #60, and it showed.

I’ll be the first to agree that the first thirty issues or so of the second run of What If are mostly very good comics, but Timequake sucks in all the ways later What If comics sucked, along with its own delicious brand of nigh-incomprehensible additional hypercomplex suck.

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CandidGamera said on September 7th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

Amend ‘latter half’ to ‘latter quarter’ and I think we’d be in perfect agreement, though there were some late gems. I remember fondly the story wherein the Impossible Man gets the Infinity Gauntlet. The downturn of the series, for me, was when they stopped letting the Watcher appear in it.

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Fortunately, Marvel revamped the What If series, gave it a supporting cast, and called it Exiles. To this day, I don’t think there’s ever been a better and more defining Mojo story than the one starring Morph called “So Lame”.

As for Avenger spin-offs, I still think they should make a Mystic Avengers and revamp some of the supernatural characters that have been locked in cold storage since the cancellation of the Ketch Ghost Rider and the Midnight Sons.

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Aw c’mon. That Timequake finale had a heroic Dr. Doom and a Vampire Wolverine fighting Dire Wraiths AND Space Phantoms…

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I read through pretty much the entire Volume I and Volume II of What If in my day, and I loved it to pieces, and good lord did some of it suck. It was like Kevin Siembada’s posse got to play with the Marvel Universe.

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