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Hal 9000 said:
I'm far from a comic aficionado, but I'm less than thrilled about the character and story developments with the sum of the new Marvel stuff. (To be fair, I hadn't read much of anything prior, and was hoping for something substantial and carefully-thought-out, in light of the "canon/legends" announcement that framed it.) It all feels so unlikely and forced, with no real connecting tissue with the films they are supposedly bridging. I think I'll have to treat the new EU the way I did with the old one: major adult novels are head canon, and most of anything else isn't.
If there's anything the Big Two have taught us (the Big Two being DC & Marvel, of course), it's that if you leave the same loons in charge of the loony bin, you're going to keep getting the same type of lunacy regardless of whatever new paint job they've applied to the exterior.
The same people who oversaw the EU prior to the Great EU Purge are exactly the same people who are overseeing the nuEU. They didn't care about quality control then, they don't care about it now.
I fully expect the nuEU to become as much a quagmire of crap as the old within ten years, maybe less. Hell, they'll probably re-canonize garbage like TOR just to add shit frosting to the turd cake.
