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Thor Giant-Size Finale – Wow. Ouch. Not just Bill – but Kelda too? Urk. I suspect at least one will come back. Building up some great supporting characters only to throw them under the plot bus is downright insulting. Seriously. Making minor characters ONLY to kill them & tug the strings is dumb. Even if the story is well written. So, if neither of them come back, this issue was moving & insulting. If they do, it was moving and good writing.
…which leads (literally, the last 6-7 pages of the above are the first 6-7 pages of) Thor 604 – Urk. All that goodwill, gone. Robotic undead Asgardians?? That’s….really lame, especially for Doom. Shouldn’t there be magic involved with this somehow? We’ll see. I still don’t get how Khelda (a real goddess, not just some generic Asgardian) died like that. I call BS.
Son of Hulk 17 – An interesting ending to a strange series. The little “huh?” that could. It’s wrapping into the Marvel cosmic stuff next month or so, so that will be interesting.
Guardians of the Galaxy 20 – One of the weakest issues so far, but that’s not saying much. It was still good … I’m just not quite as interested for some reason. Maybe it’s this whole “Fault” thing. It’s just not working for me.
Hercules 138 – Herc is gonna die huh? We’ll see. Curious to see how all the long running Athena stuff ties up at least.
Ultimate Avengers 04 - Dumb.
New Mutants 07 – Poorly written in spots – “Hey let’s leave Doug, hi other X-men! Ok, now let’s go back and get Doug when we could have just done that before!” … dumb. But other than that, above average.
Fantastic Four 573 – Dumb. You go to all this length to make some interesting new semi-heroes, then make them into GIANT DICKS off camera? The hell? Horrible issue all around. OH. And two separate people have their brains smashed – in a Fantastic Four comic… ON CAMERA.
Uncanny X-Men 517 – Wow, Magneto’s new powers are weak. Really? AND I HATE GREG LAND’S “ART”. ARGH. I mean…too fucking lazy to even finish tracing Psylocke on the cover…
(Oh look, someone else hates this cover!)
And the rest of the book just veers between crapmeh and similar levels of insulting – artwise. There’s a scene with Rogue that was decent, but would have been better with a real artist.
Meh.
So, Matt Fraction (the writer) is going to be at my local comic shop (Excalibur) and I’m thinking of going just to ask a Greg Land question and see if he can answer honestly. I mean, can the man who brought us Casanova actually like this shattacular “art”?
PS. Check out Casanova. Very good.
New Avengers 59 – OK but DUH, of course the ending should have been expected – no one checked for this?
Blackest Night 5 & Green Lantern 48 – Good stuff, be more interesting if deaths now have repercussions because of this stuff though… what can I say, I like me some Rainbow Guardians. It’s simple, it’s fun. It just works.
Blackest Night Wonder Woman & Blackest Night Flash – Dumb. Pointless. PS evidently Wonder-Woman can lasso herself and make a giant ring of fire? What the fuck? OK.
I’ll close with a few panels that I found really cute for some reason or another, from Ultimate Spider-Man 5.
I didn’t like the new artist (David La Fuente) at first, but he’s growing on me. The action scenes are actually quite good, but it’s the personal stuff that I’m enjoying. Gwen’s face in the 1st and second panels need work (esp the 2nd – a little tooooo freakish) but the 3rd is great and the 4th is adorable.
PS Bringing Gwen back as a clone is awkward.
PPS There are a lot of Spider-related clones in Ultimate Spider-Man. Already. Spider-GirlPersonWoman is a female clone of Peter. Like X-23 to Wolverine, except the same age. Yeah.
Oh, right, here’s the page:
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