The rest of this week's books:
BPRD: The Killing Ground #1 - There's a lot of little character scenes in here that I liked a lot. Johann, playing the Pinocchio role, finally gets a new body and beings to rexperience all the things life has to offer: food and nudie mags. Abe makes the commitment to lead the BPRD's field team full time and Liz bonds with Panya, the 3,000 year old mummy they rescued in the last mini. All in all, it's a well deserved break for the agents. I don't think it's going to last long, though, as it seems someone's gunning for them at their new Colorado base. After 34 issues, this is still one of the best book on the market.
DMZ #22 - This story arc was wearing a little thin on me, and thankfully it finished up with this issue. It recaps the whole "Day 204" event pretty well and actually comes across as one of the best endings to any story I've ever read in any book. The tension and pacing are excellent and with this one issue, you really get a sense that this is what Brian Wood has been building to since day one. He takes a lot from current news when writing this book, but I think his goal is to show that everything (war, politics, religion, ect.) all comes down to one easily understandable factor and that's human nature. We're animals and nothing can stop us from acting as such if we don't want to. I think from here we get a series of one shots detailing the lives of various locals in the DMZ and then it goes back into a major storyline. This is as good as anything Vertigo puts out. Which isn't the case with the next book...
The Un-Men #1 - Ugh...I wanted to like this book so much. The premise sounded great: A government agency investigates the world of freaks. Freaks being sideshow mutations and otherwise. Basically, a Swamp Thing-inspired X-Files. It's so mediocre, though. The dialogue is filled with cliches and the worst puns ever. "I'm FREAKing out here", "Get your FREAK on"....it's that bad. And there's at least one of those per page. I hate when writers take their readers for idiots and feel the need to hammer home every single damn point they have to make. The villian of the book is a mad scientist, so of course he must be German. The protagonist is a black man (albeit albino), so of course he must be devoid of all emotion, unless it's showing some kind of physical dominance over someone. Oh, and he's not even a criminal investigator. He works for the Department of Energy. But he makes threats about arrest, which he's not authorized to make. And he carries a gun, which he's not authorized to do. It's just a really big disappointment and a waste of $2.99. The problem I think is that this isn't an organic story. It's an editorial idea, and was farmed out to a writer looking for work. The best Vertigo tales are often creator owned. On the upshot, the art's decent and the cover's pretty.
The Deathlok in FF and BEYOND! (also written by McDuffie, who now writes FF) is Micheal Collins, the second Deathlok to be made in Marvel 616. Basically, Luther Manning, the ORIGINAL Deathlok, hailed from an alternate future reality that was very harsh. Via time/dimensional travel he arrived at Marvel 616. He battled some Marvel characters and studying his cyborg body led to Deathlok cyborgs being created in Marvel 616; the first was John Kelly, now called Siege. Collins was the second and he is the one who ran about in the 90's with his own title. Luther Manning first showed up in the 70's.
There was a 4th Deathlok, Jack Truman, created for the failed Marvel launch line of comics called "M-Tech" or something in the late 90's/early 00's.
So, technically, Deathlok is a legacy character, hailing from an alternate reality/timeline and spawning 3 generations of copies in Marvel-616 (the core Marvel reality we all read about).
The Deathlok in FF and BEYOND! (also written by McDuffie, who now writes FF) is Micheal Collins, the second Deathlok to be made in Marvel 616. Basically, Luther Manning, the ORIGINAL Deathlok, hailed from an alternate future reality that was very harsh. Via time/dimensional travel he arrived at Marvel 616. He battled some Marvel characters and studying his cyborg body led to Deathlok cyborgs being created in Marvel 616; the first was John Kelly, now called Siege. Collins was the second and he is the one who ran about in the 90's with his own title. Luther Manning first showed up in the 70's.
There was a 4th Deathlok, Jack Truman, created for the failed Marvel launch line of comics called "M-Tech" or something in the late 90's/early 00's.
So, technically, Deathlok is a legacy character, hailing from an alternate reality/timeline and spawning 3 generations of copies in Marvel-616 (the core Marvel reality we all read about).
That it was. Can't beat that art by Manco, either.
The X-51 series from the M-Tech line wasn't too bad, either. Too bad he's now permanently stuck in his ******ed, "humans R teh devil!!" mode from Nextwave.
That it was. Can't beat that art by Manco, either.
The X-51 series from the M-Tech line wasn't too bad, either. Too bad he's now permanently stuck in his ******ed, "humans R teh devil!!" mode from Nextwave.
That it was. Can't beat that art by Manco, either.
The X-51 series from the M-Tech line wasn't too bad, either. Too bad he's now permanently stuck in his ******ed, "humans R teh devil!!" mode from Nextwave.
Someone on the Bendis board said that there should be a Nextwave/Go-Bots crossover. I'd buy the hell out of that, because you just know it'd be insane.
Yu's art is hit or miss on NA. Sometimes, especially on the covers it can look good but some panels just look sloppy and rushed, or at least not as polished as way back during his WOLVERINE days.
That it was. Can't beat that art by Manco, either.
The X-51 series from the M-Tech line wasn't too bad, either. Too bad he's now permanently stuck in his ******ed, "humans R teh devil!!" mode from Nextwave.
And it does stink that the price of the NEXTWAVE exposure for Machine Man is everyone being forced to use Ellis' characterization of him; one of the reasons I originally disliked the series' premise (I gave the first two issues a shot and aside for the Dirk Anger bits, wasn't interested enough). Some might say, "hey, anything that rescues a character from oblivion and all that", but sometimes I'd rather a character die than be a shell or parody of themselves. I mean, look at Speedball. Of course, that kind of choice is really a rock/hard place call that we always hate happening.
Daredevil 99: so this isw hat brubacker meant when he said he was going to make daredevil's life a living nightmare. heh, good stuff ED. i really loved how he's using villains we have'ntseen in such along time backto the pages of marvel pages.
New Avengers 33: i like the art in this book and the dialogue is avergae at best. but story wise nothing is advancing much. and the plotlines are bit excessive...luke's characterizaion has done a complete 180. bendis is on role with turning characters into *****ebags.
Batman 667:great issue,i hope each and every one of these "batmen" are all murdered.
New Avengers 33: i like the art in this book and the dialogue is avergae at best. but story wise nothing is advancing much. and the plotlines are bit excessive...luke's characterizaion has done a complete 180. bendis is on role with turning characters into *****ebags.
It's what he does. Hence why he excells at writing characters who actually are *****ebags through and through, like Namor most times. Bendis' themes are that superheroes are jerkbags at heart and always ultimately fail, because of infighting or some sort of faulty reasoning that even a ******ed slug could figure out, but the characters can't otherwise Bendis' theme would be in jeopardy. It's not something he ALWAYS did, but for the past 2 years has become an omnipresent theme. His best work these days usually results from either shorter one-shot stories or stories he does with co-writers to temper his predictable sloggings.
Someone on the Bendis board said that there should be a Nextwave/Go-Bots crossover. I'd buy the hell out of that, because you just know it'd be insane.
Yu's art is hit or miss on NA. Sometimes, especially on the covers it can look good but some panels just look sloppy and rushed, or at least not as polished as way back during his WOLVERINE days.
To me, he's kind of like Bagley. He's not always flashy, but when he hits something, it's usually out of the park. The
death of the Owl was great
and I'm really excited for next month's brawl. Lenil draws an awesome Logan. One of my all time favorite comics was his and Grant Morisson's New X-Men annual.
The other great thing about Yu is that he's great with deadlines.
I don't really see Cage as being a dick, just that he's paranoid now. Who can blame him? This team has just been thrown through the wringer on so many levels. They're exhausted, and now they have no idea what's going on.
Yeah, but his wife and kid? Nevermind that he's probably right, its still pretty extreme to be lashing out at them with little to no evidence other than she "suddenly" started loving him, I mean WTF is that? I'm saying Cage is going to be a Skrull, the shape-shifter in these stories always poses as the super-paranoid guy.
To me, he's kind of like Bagley. He's not always flashy, but when he hits something, it's usually out of the park. The
death of the Owl was great
and I'm really excited for next month's brawl. Lenil draws an awesome Logan. One of my all time favorite comics was his and Grant Morisson's New X-Men annual.
The other great thing about Yu is that he's great with deadlines.
And also like Bagley, sometimes you can tell when he's rushing. Frankly I thing Bagley is the stronger artist, but both have their own style. And Bagley was on ASM for years when I was a kid so I have bias favoring him.
I at least liked that Yu made Wizard look less laughable than most. That's good.
I don't really see Cage as being a dick, just that he's paranoid now. Who can blame him? This team has just been thrown through the wringer on so many levels. They're exhausted, and now they have no idea what's going on.
I understand all that and I wouldn't call him a "dick", but his paranoia is now on laughable levels. It serves no purpose other than to waste entire pages with infighting and drive a wedge in the team. A Skrull would never reveal themselves just because an angry black man yelled at him. All it does is make the other members more worked up. He gets any worse, Cage will be walking down the street and yelling at random old ladies and their doggies. "ARE YOU THE MOTHER ****ING SKRULL!?"
Yeah, but his wife and kid? Nevermind that he's probably right, its still pretty extreme to be lashing out at them with little to no evidence other than she "suddenly" started loving him, I mean WTF is that? I'm saying Cage is going to be a Skrull, the shape-shifter in these stories always poses as the super-paranoid guy.
1). Bendis presents the obvious suspect, then dilly dallies for about 4 issues providing counter-evidence, usually under the tone of, "it can't be ____ because it makes too much sense/is too easy", and then in the end it turns out to be the obvious suspect, thus making the reader feel like a utter dragged out tool.
2). Bendis throws out the real suspect out of nowhere without any sort of evidence to build it up, because he is one of those writers who sometimes cares more about being edgy and throwing a reader than providing a coherant story, a quality he shares with Millar and quite a few Ultimate writers. To disprove Way #1, he'd spend 4 issues building up, say, Cage or Drew and then out of the blue reveals it to be Wong's left testicle or something. Now, he's not the only writer who handles mysteries like that (TV shows have become notorious for trucking out some random person from the background of scene #24 for their serial killer of the week), but that doesn't mean it doesn't get annoying.
I really need to give some of his books up, I rarely enjoy them, as in I rarely feel the pro's outweigh the con's and he has way too many sins in my eyes, coupled with almost unrivaled power over the company. But NA is the primer for the MU; whatever happens there is carried forth down the line, so one had best get a first glimpse there. Plus, shops overorder it and they're usually stuck with about a dozen or so copies of every issue for months and months, so I may as well bite.
I don't really see Cage as being a dick, just that he's paranoid now. Who can blame him? This team has just been thrown through the wringer on so many levels. They're exhausted, and now they have no idea what's going on.
they've been through the ringer because of an uncreative writer. seriously 2-3 issues of you a skrull imgoing to bash you, gets pretty boring very quickly.
anyways i was really blown away by daredevil 99,what a shocker.
I don't really see Cage as being a dick, just that he's paranoid now. Who can blame him? This team has just been thrown through the wringer on so many levels. They're exhausted, and now they have no idea what's going on.
Paranoid and slightly ******ed. What was his reasoning for suspecting Spider-Man over everyone else? The fact that Spider-Woman had taken the Skrull? The fact that Peter changed his costume? I didn't get why Luke singled Peter out. Ultimately, the reasoning doesn't even matter, though. He was being a god-awful leader again. I was hoping Peter would punch him through a wall or something.
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Of course, that kind of choice is really a rock/hard place call that we always hate happening.
