X-Men KingBreaker #4 Preview

[stingerman]

Up at CosmicBookNews:

http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/previews/xmkb4preview

 

[Manic]

With War of Kings #1 already out and exactly one character missing during that issue, I don't see the point in buying the final issue of Kingbreaker.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Gotta finish the series man

 

[Manic]

Really? Because I can tell you exactly how it ends.

Raza dies or is captured again.
The rest of the imprisoned X-Jammers meet up with Lilandra, Rachel, and Korvus.
They narrowly escape and head toward Kree space, with Vulcan's forces in hot pursuit.

They're not getting another $4 from me to tell me what I already know.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Unless I hated the book, having my last issue be "3 of 4" would probably kill me

 

[Manic]

Well, I've already pawned off my 3 issues of Kingbreaker to Half Price Books.

I used the money to buy bubblegum. A single piece, from a dispensing machine...

*decides to never go there again*

 

[Colossal Spoons]

You're a terrible collector lol

 

[Manic]

I'm not a collector. I buy. I read. I sell for cheap or give away on Halloween with candy. I'm not talking about one or two issues, either. I make sure I give a kid an entire storyarc or miniseries. It's the best way to get them hooked.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I don't think a little kid has ever touched a comic of mine. If they did, I'd be on the news.

 

[RAMORE]

Hahhahah


I donate all my Trades to the library in memory of Brother who was killed in Iraq...he loved comics.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Hahhahah


I donate all my Trades to the library in memory of Brother who was killed in Iraq...he loved comics.

Awwww. How sweet.

I keep all mine like Spoons.

 

[Brainiac 8]

Single issues I buy read, pass them to my father, who reads, then he sells them or gives them away.

If an arc or book really blows me away, I buy the trade.

 

[Dread]

I will buy KINGBREAKER #4, even if I haven't the foggiest idea why Marvel thought it was a good idea to release WAR OF KINGS #1 two weeks before the ending of the lead-in mini. It wasn't like KINGBREAKER was running late or anything.

My feelings about KINGBREAKER as a whole are torn so far. Technically, there is nothing wrong with it. It has some great art, solid writing, and a lot of action. The problem is that it's entire purpose is to act as a prologue scene and one wonders if 4 issues was a bit much for it. All it has to accomplish really is freeing half the Starjammers and their ship and getting them back into space. Once upon a time, it might have been a 1-5 page flashback sequence in an event mini; now it is a $16 mini series. As a slightly oversized, 36 page one shot it would have been fine, or even a two part thing like DARKHAWK. Four issues just kind of seems a bit much.