This comic is starting to piss me off. There's been this rather radical shift in the Black Knight's personality, even before succumbing to the blood curse that's on his sword, and which Namor used on Marrina in the previous issue. For a while he spoke like an everyday person, albeit one with some advanced scientific knowledge. But now he's talking like an extra from a bad medieval drama, with lots of archaic syntax and lack of contractions. It's off-putting. And then there's the fate of Captain Marvel, who is unceremoniously shipped off to live with her parents in today's issue as she actually expended so much energy defeating the Leviathan that it depleted the mass she usually has in corporeal form.
Add to that Doctor Druid's manipulation of the Avengers's minds, and it really bears little to no resemblance to the series I loved under Roger Stern's direction. I can understand why he left the title, but I can't understand why Marvel's editorial team would think this was a good direction for the team. It's not staying true to the kernel of the series, nor is it staying true to portrayals of the characters. I'm hoping for some explanation as to the Black Knight's behaviour, but I'm not holding out hope. Dane Whitman has been a favourite of mine since the early 80s when my Mum and Dad got me a comic collecting kit that included a copy of Avengers #225. But what's been done to him here is perverse.
To be continued.
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