>>92963602I guess that's the core of his problem: he's too caught up in his on ideas to let the characters have theirs. In various issues I looked at, I can tell you exact moments he loses me as a reader, and it always has to do with characters suddenly doing something out of character. Take Rhodey's funeral in the Sam Wilson book, the whole "we're his FAMILY" thing was insanely stupid, a betrayal of a character that didn't really interact with most of the other black heroes in the room, because Rhodey wasn't JUST "a black superhero". He was a real, fully developed character, and it's completely idiotic that Tony would miss Rhodey's funeral EVER (much less then go to Banner's funeral). But, let's chalk that up to "Civil War 2 is fucking stupid" and let him off the hook for now.
There is another moment in the Sam Wilson book where John Walker appears and the asshats that make the new Americops are trying to talk him into taking the shield away from Sam. John first tells them no, but then changes his mind when he sees Sam fighting Americops. Why? Why would John Walker, who returned the shield to Steve after he was manipulated by the Red Skull (who was a BUSINESSMAN, just like these asshats, at the time) ever just jump at something like this? He trusts Steve, so he'd trust his judgement in giving Sam the shield. It just doesn't make sense that he'd go and attack Sam with such little provocation. And it's because Spencer knew where he wanted the plot to go, and failed to work that in a way that flowed with the characters. He SHOULD be going with the flow of the characters, and making a plot that works along with them.
