Dread
TMNT 1984-2009
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DREAD'S BOUGHT/THOUGHT for 1/31/07: The "I tracked it down" Edition:
HUNTER/KILLER #11: My LCS didn't get enough copies, so I went to another to snag it; getting the B & W Silvestri covers. The clerk asked me why Top Cow decided this issue was worth 3 alternate covers vs. the usual two, and danged if I knew. The best I could offer was, "maybe it's a pivotel moment in the story", and it actually is. On the run from Samantha & the H/K squad after meeting a hot girl named "Echo" who seems to have telepathy, Ellis uses his powers to escape, shags Echo in a bathroom, and then it is revealed that Echo is in fact Cassandra, the seemingly "future psychic" that Morningstar has been dealing with for years, and whose prophecies led him to secretly take over the world to avert the apocalypse. There SHOULD be some huge "gasp" from the reveal, but as Echo only showed up last issue, there wasn't enough time to connect with her. Basically, Cassandra needs Ellis because apparently the only way to starve off the apocalypse this time, and seemingly for good...is to kill Morningstar. I do wonder, though, if killing him will save the Earth "forever" as she claims, why didn't she kill him years ago? Or did she need him for some catastrophes and then only realized that he had to die later, when he became too powerful? And is she a servent or the master? Not the best comic in the world, but it's better than some other books I read (BLUE BEETLE comes to mind, and definately USM, UFF and ULT. XM for sure). Meanwhile, Samantha finds Wolf and gets his help to track Ellis down, after the guy basically steals a PS3 from some grifters. At $600 a pop, I don't blame him. There is a cool sequence where Wolf uses his powers for a chesire cat sequence, which has become rare for males to do and I liked it. But, as Wolf seems affiliated with neither Cassandra or Morningstar, just doing what he pleases (including sleeping with Sam), I wonder why Morningstar doesn't just try to kill him off. Oh, well. I hope the #12 conclusion is worth it, and I am damned tired of every issue promo having the sentence "all will be revealed". I guess since next is the conclusion, it'd have to be this time. But every issue has been solicted like that since about #9. Oh, well, a minor quibble.
HUNTER/KILLER #11: My LCS didn't get enough copies, so I went to another to snag it; getting the B & W Silvestri covers. The clerk asked me why Top Cow decided this issue was worth 3 alternate covers vs. the usual two, and danged if I knew. The best I could offer was, "maybe it's a pivotel moment in the story", and it actually is. On the run from Samantha & the H/K squad after meeting a hot girl named "Echo" who seems to have telepathy, Ellis uses his powers to escape, shags Echo in a bathroom, and then it is revealed that Echo is in fact Cassandra, the seemingly "future psychic" that Morningstar has been dealing with for years, and whose prophecies led him to secretly take over the world to avert the apocalypse. There SHOULD be some huge "gasp" from the reveal, but as Echo only showed up last issue, there wasn't enough time to connect with her. Basically, Cassandra needs Ellis because apparently the only way to starve off the apocalypse this time, and seemingly for good...is to kill Morningstar. I do wonder, though, if killing him will save the Earth "forever" as she claims, why didn't she kill him years ago? Or did she need him for some catastrophes and then only realized that he had to die later, when he became too powerful? And is she a servent or the master? Not the best comic in the world, but it's better than some other books I read (BLUE BEETLE comes to mind, and definately USM, UFF and ULT. XM for sure). Meanwhile, Samantha finds Wolf and gets his help to track Ellis down, after the guy basically steals a PS3 from some grifters. At $600 a pop, I don't blame him. There is a cool sequence where Wolf uses his powers for a chesire cat sequence, which has become rare for males to do and I liked it. But, as Wolf seems affiliated with neither Cassandra or Morningstar, just doing what he pleases (including sleeping with Sam), I wonder why Morningstar doesn't just try to kill him off. Oh, well. I hope the #12 conclusion is worth it, and I am damned tired of every issue promo having the sentence "all will be revealed". I guess since next is the conclusion, it'd have to be this time. But every issue has been solicted like that since about #9. Oh, well, a minor quibble.
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up: I don't do reviews that much but for a while now I've been thinking that we're quick to post about the bad stuff and very little about the good and that's why I've decided to do a lil' more of the latter. That's why I think that it's great that you posted something about a comic that you thought was awesome, the number of words isn't really important. Well done!!
4 out of 5
