Spider Ham & Civil Wardrobe
Taken from the comment thread for the X-Axis review of “ULTIMATE CIVIL WAR SPIDER-HAM FEATURING WOLVERHAM #1″
> THE X-AXIS
> 4 February 2007
> ===============> ULTIMATE CIVIL WAR SPIDER-HAM FEATURING WOLVERHAM #1 - I don’t generally
> review books that I read in the store, but then you don’t generally see
> books so devoid of content that I can finish them in the store.You went further than I did, I picked it up, considered buying it and read a
few pages before putting it right back down.> There’s a token and moderately promising set-up sequence, and then… it’s
> a poster book. A poster book of various Marvel characters as pigs. With
> endless puns on the word ham. Repeat until funny. Except it never is.Even worse, it’s a blatant rip-off of Rick Johnson’s actually funny “Civil
Wardrobe” (http://www.civil-wardrobe.com/) - Scientologist Thor - now that’s
funny!> It’s another in the recent string of jaw-dropping artefacts that make you
> wonder just how badly off-centre Marvel’s quality control has become, and
> whether anyone in editorial is actually devoting critical thought to the
> efforts of favoured creators. I mean, this is horrible - it’s not even
> “not funny” in the way that Christmas cracker jokes aren’t funny. It’s
> not funny in the way that chairs and rocks aren’t funny. Absolutely
> ungodly dreadful, and in all seriousness, something is terribly wrong when
> comics this bad are making the shelves. DAnd very pathetic that it comes out after a far better parody by an
independent publisher. Presumably, they saw Civil Wardrobe being something
of a success for the indies, but realised that they could get bigger sales
with a rip-off featuring a very tired old parody character of their own.D.
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