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Message: [QUOTE="Yousef, post: 48828, member: 963"] [HEADING=2]Ian does not know how to write, period. Rant by me[/HEADING] Ian is not really a good writer. It is incredible how maintained his job this long. He has a very tomato pasty writing style. Where he drills and squashes any nuance and personality from a character down to their core essentials until they’re nothing but paste. It should be clear from how vague I am this is not exclusive to Mega Man, this is an issue across both blue mascots it’s just that our good buddy Rock got caught in the crossfire with over 50 issues of mildly entertaining, overexplained writing. Yes, 55. Didn’t even last two years lmao. Which is a stark contrast to sonic having the longest running comic… ever? I have to check what the Guinness world record said. Cool. Yeah Megaman Archie is Not that. Basically. I wanna stress out 55 isn’t a small number. For Ian it isn’t. Because… [HEADING=2]Dependency on lore-freaks[/HEADING] This kinda style isn’t inherently bad, but doesn’t quite fit for something straightforward like Megaman that relies more heavily on simplicity and charm rather than complexity or depth. The characters, by nature, can be nuanced. All characters inevitably have nuance, but taking Megaman, and trying to write like it’s Lord of the Rings simply does not compute. Lore lunatics are also always the wrong people to appease. Mega man lore is fun because it’s tucked in manuals, guides, interviews. It is not a request to turn the franchise into a novel. Mega Man 9 and 10 stories got deservingly mocked for trying to pass off as super serious. [HEADING=2]Reliance on foreshadowing[/HEADING] Simply put, this style is what canablized the comic. Ian was not a very good boy, he misbehaved and tried to introduce a 1,000,000,000,000 foreshadowing elements in his silly 50 issue run that barely covered the events of the first two games. Because why focus on giving depth to Airman or Gutsman when you could also shoehorn in stuff about Plant Man and Concrete Man years before they can be introduced? Ian didn’t just bite off more than he can chew, I also think this is Ian having some false perception of deep writing. It’s like he’s applying basic writing principles but only in the most superficial sense. [HEADING=2]55 issues, huh?[/HEADING] But maybe I’m not crazy. Maybe Archie agrees with me. Archie stuff do better than people realize. Both Archie (the fictional dude, not the company) and Sonic are two the largest names in the comic book industry outside of DC, Marvel, Image or Dark Horse. Rubbing shoulders with them should be fireway to fame, yeah? But maybe people actually saw through the cracks and didn’t find Ian all that interesting of a writer. [HEADING=2]Why even bother[/HEADING] Now for the million dollar question, why would Ian do all this? Trying to show care? The characters aren’t his children. If he ONLY focused on the MM1 and MM2 casts during their respective events then he’d have more time to flesh them out. Unfortunately the entire characterization is just one giant tomato paste. Ian is not a good writer. He can write good stuff but he’s mostly just a lore monster and that’s it. [/QUOTE]

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