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SuperMegaSpeed Reviews

Been a while...

War of the Kings Saga - Ugh. If the purpose of this was to justify the fact that i haven't been reading any X-Men or Inhumans comics, it worked. What the hell's been going on over there?!? What a mess of stupid ideas. And I know it's just a Saga issue, but can't they try to make it a little less dry? Recaps don't have to be such a boring read, do they? I mean, our D&D recaps are fascinating, right?!?

Secret Invasion: War of the Kings - I demand that House of M: Civil War: Planet Hulk: Secret Invasion: War of the Kings be released. In the meantime, i can't say i find the motivation/characterization of Black Bolt and the other Inhumans to be all that believable, and Vulcan just makes me roll my eyes. I'd have been able to enjoy it more if i could have gotten into the whole Crystal "My family's insane and i'm the only one who sees it" angle, but the fact that they kept drawing her like a bimbo with her ass sticking out kind of ruined that for me.

Guardians of the Galaxy #8 - Now this was better, so there's still hope for the Kings crossover. Kind of a lot going on at once, though, and not in a Claremont "5 subplots simmering nicely" sort of way. More of an MTV schizophrenic jumping from one thing to another without really giving too much attention to any one thing sort of way. And get these kids off my lawn.

Avengers: Inititative #19 - I have to tell you i can't keep track of all these teams and all these new characters. When i first started reading this book i thought that was sort of the point, that you've got all these faceless recruits and they didn't really matter and we were gonna focus on the lives of a few of the training staff, and for the most part that's still true but sometimes those montage scenes (And here's what the Texas Rangers are up to! And here's the Georgian Nerfherders!) get to me. And min's right, it doesn't matter if you give him a gun and let him hang out with the Skrull Kill Krew and try to have him act like a badass: he's still Triathlon and there's nothing he can do about it. This book's good enough that i can't bring myself to drop it but if it got canceled i'd probably be happy.

Avengers: Initiative #20 - Poor Henry Pym. Dressing up a robot like his dead wife so he can have conversations with her. He's a mixed up man. I'll let min talk about the head tiltling. From my perspective the art's just not very good, and i think it's the fat lips and faces that make everyone look like they have down syndrome as much as the heads that must be veeeeery heavy.

Secret New Avengers #48 - Good enough. Bendis restores my faith in him to a degree. Although if the good guys knew about all those AIM and Hydra bases, why'd they wait until now to break them up?

Fantastic Four #562 Hey! You know what's really bizarre?!? The Invisible Woman at her own funeral! I mean, isn't that weird?? Because it's her own funeral! Didn't Millar come up with a clever idea? After all, it's the Invisible Woman at her own funeral. I just wish he was a little less subtle about it so that every reader would realize how awesome an idea it was. Maybe he could try to have tried to mention twice on every page instead of just once.

Daredevil #114 - Good good good. Mid-plot, so hard to comment on it, but Brubaker, if you're listening, we managed to get min reading the book again so don't blow it by going back to making everything depressing.

Captain America #45 I'm sorry, but Brubaker makes Batroc cool, and that's just impressive.

War Machine #1 Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmdrop*!

X-Force #10 - Ok, really: Hrimhari? This truly is just an X-Men Greatest Hits series. That's fine when it's taking the time to do something with the hits, but now we're getting into this MTV schizophrenic mode (why are you still on my lawn?) where it's like And here's Hrimhari! And Warpath is fighting the Demon Bear! With Ghost Rider! And here's the Right! And the Legacy Virus! Wowowowowow! I don't know, i just feel like so much is happening and nothing is happening at the same time.

Nova #20 - Well, i was hoping that Robbie Rider becoming a Nova Corp guy was just a fakeout, but it seems like it's for real. I don't like it, especially the ease with which he and the other new recruits seem to have mastered powers that took Rich many many issues to learn. But this is still good, and i liked all the downtime stuff with the New Warrior a lot.

Hercules #124 - Marvel's best comic.

It turns out i haven't actually read Mighty Avengers #20 or Age of Sentry #4 yet, so you'll just have to wait for the definitive judgments on those (but it'll probably be "Avengers: Good downtime dialogue issue, which plays to Bendis' strengths unlike all the recent 'epic' plotting he's been doing" and "Sentry: More stupid Silver Age tributes. Kinda cute but i don't need 6 issues of it and i'm glad we're dropping it"). To make it up to you, here's some bonus trade reviews:

Marvel Zombies - I thought this was quite good. Much more to it than i expected. Funny, and of course bizarre, but also interesting and serious in its own way with good characterization. I can't imagine how there can be two sequels, though.

Wisdom: Rudiments of Wisdom - Some great ideas, and some great set-ups, but really poor delivery and conclusions. And the team is really not very fleshed out and they all come off as fairly unlikeable (except John the Skrull, i like him). I did like seeing all the old supporting characters from Masters of Kung Fu, though. (P.S., i'm actually only halfway through this trade, so maybe it'll get better).






*That's a Beastie Boys reference ("Beastie Boys are known to let the beat... mmmmmmmmmmmmmdrop!"), not a Hanson reference. I can't believe i had to clarify that. What do you people think of me?

By fnord12 | January 22, 2009, 10:20 PM | Comics


Comments

I felt the similar about Wisdom, but felt it got much better in the second half.

and you were supposed to read Mighty Avengers before that initiative issue or the new avengers issue ya' dingus. and I distinctly remember telling you that.

Sorry, you have a new war machine awaiting you.

And I think they've gotten five total marvel zombie mini's of some sort, with a sixth on the way.

Min got all my comics out of order, but i can't complain because she read them without badgering. Plus, i thought i had read it. I sat down to review it and realized i'd not seen it before.

Well, I read somewhere that min's a jackass, so I guess it's expected she'd mix up the order.

And I think it's New Avengers not secret avengers.

My main issue with that issue is Iron Fist not helping with the new problem, even though he's right there finding out about it.

Can Marvel put out a book like, 4 times a year that that's normal comic length (not a trade!) but tells me what's going on with all the Avengers titles? Cause the whole reading 58 titles a month thing didn't work for me at all.

war of the kings - i'm waiting for the part where i should bother caring.

guardians of the galaxy - the best of the sad lot.

avengers init #20 - if george lucas was in charge of directing the art in a comic, this is what you would get. any person trying to express an emotion is depicted by their head tilted sideways. and not in a natural way. in a "i have nerve damage" way. this is on top of bad art/bad faces. and what is with that ridiculous pose jocasta is drawn in when she changes back to herself? normal people don't be standin' that way. as for hank pym - c'mon, guys. do you have to kick him when he's down? everyone already knows pym's a total loser, no matter how big his brain is. did you really have to make him an even bigger loser? robot dead wife? it's just too much.

new avengers - i'm trying to be understanding about the character's motivation and what they're going thru and stuff, but i'm really just thinking "you're a huge moron. osborne?? idiot." this will prolly become one of those skim to the end to see what's going to happen before bothering to read it books.

ff - just awful.

dd - hey, brubaker, forget it. it's too late for that.

herc - 2nd best.

mighty avengers - was this the dark reign stuff? more don't care.

sentry - it could have been good if they had bothered to get on with the story instead of dragging out the silver age cutesy stuff indefinitely.

zombies - i can't imagine reading this in single issues.

wisdom - i don't think it was very good. i concur that the stories all seemed to end way too abruptly. it may have gotten better later in the book in terms of fleshing out the plot, but i would say the delivery was still poor. the main character was a jackass that you had no sympathy for. his "team" was barely existent except to throw a one liner here and there. everyone seemed to be running around, frantic. and then it was over.