So, I just got done reading Marvel's Battle Scars miniseries, and I liked it for the most part.
***Spoilers Begin***
So, as it turns out, I was wrong when I said that Nick Fury didn't know about his son, Marcus Johnson. Nick did know about him, and he took steps to hide him and his mother. Also, before Fury "erased" his son and his baby-mama, he was legally named Nick Fury Jr.-- for real. And that's the name that Marcus is using now.
So, Marvel really does have a Sam Jackson-style Nick Fury in 616. How do I feel about that? Well, I'm not totally sure yet, but I did enjoy the miniseries. I suppose that like all forms of entertainment, comics have to evolve and change with the times. I remember spending a lot of energy hating Marvel for Spider-Man making a deal with the devil a few years back (that story line was called One More Day...look it up), but new readers will not care, and the industry really does need to focus on the new reader more than my old ass. I, and other thirtysomething comic readers like me, just need to remember that we need to look at these new stories with new eyes, and just take the entertainment as it comes.
That said, I still haven't read 616 Spider-Man since One More Day. Not because I'm being a grumpy old fanboy, but because Spider-Man had never been more interesting before Marvel pulled that crap, and I'm voting with my money.
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