Okay, as someone who doesn't read comics anymore, but did for years, I feel I want to weigh in on this.
For the first, technically, the faction of Hydra he is supposed to be a spy for is a different faction than the Nazis that are tied to the Red Skull, and is more of a death-cult. Stupid, but that's how they're getting around him still not really being a Nazi.
For the second, let's talk about "Secret Wars II" from last year. Didn't that end with Reed Richards rebuild the universe, and didn't they make a big deal about how that was how all of the continuity problems were solved? So.. this is technically Reed Richards' fault.
For my part, this could end up being a cool thing: a reveal that the world that readers have started to hate isn't actually the main continuity, and that the original heroes come in to help the newer legacy heroes to overthrow these terrible (and terribly written) heroes. Marvel has at many times in its history revealed universes where the Nazis won as alternate worlds, and in the hands of good writers this could be the ultimate end reveal of this arc.
However, I've lost a lot of faith in Marvel writers, so my honest guess is that this is going to be done straight, without a trace of creativity or irony, except where it can get attention from media outlets and outrage fans. Marvel has spent the last decade using a combination of "shocking reveals" and angry fans to try to bolster sales, and their numbers are starting to drop because of it. Without a change of staff at the top, however, it will likely be Axel Alonso's "One More Day".
For the first, technically, the faction of Hydra he is supposed to be a spy for is a different faction than the Nazis that are tied to the Red Skull, and is more of a death-cult. Stupid, but that's how they're getting around him still not really being a Nazi.
For the second, let's talk about "Secret Wars II" from last year. Didn't that end with Reed Richards rebuild the universe, and didn't they make a big deal about how that was how all of the continuity problems were solved? So.. this is technically Reed Richards' fault.
For my part, this could end up being a cool thing: a reveal that the world that readers have started to hate isn't actually the main continuity, and that the original heroes come in to help the newer legacy heroes to overthrow these terrible (and terribly written) heroes. Marvel has at many times in its history revealed universes where the Nazis won as alternate worlds, and in the hands of good writers this could be the ultimate end reveal of this arc.
However, I've lost a lot of faith in Marvel writers, so my honest guess is that this is going to be done straight, without a trace of creativity or irony, except where it can get attention from media outlets and outrage fans. Marvel has spent the last decade using a combination of "shocking reveals" and angry fans to try to bolster sales, and their numbers are starting to drop because of it. Without a change of staff at the top, however, it will likely be Axel Alonso's "One More Day".
