#Stop messing with jim hammond marvel i am begging you

[torchtime]

You know what gets me about Namor Conquered Shores is that Cantwell (still, lest we forget what happened in iron man) doesn't understand that Jim isn't a fucking robot.

He's a synthetic being. He's a man made human. He's Frankenstein's Pinocchio, cursed to be considered an "other", and yet dreaming to fit in with humanity, to be part of them, but always to be considered an outcast by everyone except for his friends, The Invaders.

Drawing him into the machines trope hurts the story behind him. The story that shows how much turmoil exists in him because of the way he was born. He gave all of his blood to Jackie. He felt such rage upon meeting Hitler that he burned him to death, in every iteration of the story!

For Jim to be assigned to team machine is ridiculous for not only the above reasoning, but also that Jim has always been a friend to humanity as well as other beings. He would never lead a third separate faction away from humanity, he would want humanity and machines and Atlanteans coexist, the way that Namor seems to want things in this sad alt. future.

Why would Jim knowingly avoid Steve and Namor for such a long time when all he'd ever wanted was peace? Namor was one of the first friends Jim ever had.

And you know, for a comic book that was meant to be a love letter, there were so few moments of love within this book that it was astounding.

This was the weakest story Cantwell could've pulled in this setting. Truly it felt like a rip off, and the love that I was told that inspired it was nowhere to be found.

What a terrible first book for people who come from the MCU to read if they're interested in Namor. I guess it could be worse, it could be Invaders 2019.

I'm still waiting for a good Invaders book, but we'll never get one at this rate.