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« Marvel Sales | Main | Hey kids! Ads! » SuperMegaSpeed ReviewsAvengers AI #7 - I think this issue is as close as i'm getting to the Inhumanity crossover for now, and it serves fairly well as my little window to what's going on with that event (it's certainly clearer than any of the tie-ins i read for Infinity). And even though that's the case, this issue worked pretty well as a standalone story that just happened to use Inhumanity as a backdrop. All put together, that's the sign of a good second tier tie-in issue. Plus, you know, Doombot. A few comments about Inhumanity generally, based solely on vague things i've read about it on the internet plus this issue (i did also read that Hulk tie-in last week but i'll be damned if i understand how that had anything to do with Inhumanity): i recently saw someone on Tom Brevoort's tumblr page accuse Marvel of replacing the X-Men with the Inhumans and the Fantastic Four with the Guardians of the Galaxy because of who owns what movie rights. I hadn't heard the GotG theory before, but it's not the first time the Inhumans thing came up. And there's no doubt that the basic concept of Inhumanity makes mutants redundant, or vice versa, with the idea that the Terrigen Mists have been released across the world and are triggered random people to suddenly develop powers/mutations. It definitely has little to do with the Inhumans concept as seen to date, and definitely steps on the toes of the mutant concept. So you can see why people are suspicious. There was also this idea that was floated during AvX that speculated that it would end with mutants being shunted off to a separate universe. I don't know what any of it means. Inhumanity could just be a story. After all, i'm the guy that thought the little Hulk time travel story was going to result in a complete Marvel reboot, and i likewise panic about every random announcement. But it is a little odd for Marvel to use such a redundant concept and does lend to paranoid fantasies about Marvel sort of segregating out their properties into various movieverses. We shall, of course, see. Wolverine #12 - I'm disappointed that the security guard turned out to be Mystique, because the points s/he was making were valid ones. Regular people that don't necessarily discriminate against mutants or fear them for their own sake nonetheless have a reason to be concerned about the fact that they seem to constantly be pursuing vendettas against each other that endanger bystanders. This seems to be more the case for mutants than regular super-heroes. Sure, Doc Ock and Electro hate Spider-Man and come up with schemes to defeat him, but it's only because he's stopped them from committing actual crimes so many times. The same can't really be said of Sabretooth and Wolverine. So i thought that was an interesting critique, even if it can be discounted due to the messenger. Beyond that, we're in the "abuse Wolverine" phase of the story, which is at least given a unique twist thanks to the fact that Wolvie doesn't have his healing factor. And again, Alan Davis. Here's hoping Wolverine's current state doesn't preclude a nice Davis-drawn fight with Sabretooth next issue. Fantastic Four #14 - What?!? Superior Foes of Spider-Man #6 - I'm taking all depictions of Doom in this issue with a grain of Bad Narrator salt, but, excepting that, i'm continuing to enjoy this. It's a weird coincidence that both Tombstone and Lightmaster turn out to have grown super-daughters that we never knew about until recently, but that's neither here nor there. This book is very much a fun Guy Ritchie heist story featuring our favorite super-villains, and why wouldn't you like that? By fnord12 | December 16, 2013, 10:07 PM | Comics CommentsFor the Foes, I think you're definitely supposed to apply Bad Narrator to Doom characterization (and potentially the story as a whole). Regardless, it's great! |