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Review: Gambit #13

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on May 29, 2013| 2 Comments »

Gambit #13Gambit is just one of those guys who can’t seem to win for loosing.

First Joelle bites it in the last issue and now Fence has something under his sleeve that probably won’t come back to bite Remy very hard seeing as there is only four issues left, but it’s possible it could have consequences in other parts of the Marvel ‘verse (was it me or did that look a like a silhouette of Red Skull?).

As for this ‘filler’ issue, it was definitely a great concept, Remy robbing Iron Man and actually getting into the suit, but it just fell a little flat. Asmus gets a little too serious with Gambit and this is the moment for the breather, to have a laugh between somber moment.

It’s still a good issue and I do like Asmus thinking outside the box on Gambit’s mutant abilities. Using his powers like a fuse and powering the Iron Man suit himself. This kind of stuff is really great and should be explored, just perhaps on a larger scale.

But now we’re coming down to the wire, the last arc until the end… let’s see where this Cajun takes us…

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Review: Deadpool #9

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on May 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Deadpool #9Never let it be said that Wade Wilson isn’t… complicated. He’s not a one-trick joke, he really does have serious issues which he hides behind a facade. This is something a lot of people tend to forget, including his writers.

But at the beginning of this issue we get a further look into Deadpool’s mind. Behind a closed door in the outward looking play house of Deadpool’s conscious is something both beautiful and terrible. Unfortunately we only get a tease at this, though it’s good to know that Posehn is at least thinking about the depth of Deadpool as a character and will be coming back to it, Preston almost guarantees it.

Speaking of Preston, she has some measure of control over Deadpool’s body, this should be interesting to see what Posehn will do with this.

As for the rest of the story, poor Michael… though he did kinda have it coming. It’s a really morally ambiguous things Deadpool did and you have to wonder at the entirety of Deadpool’s motives.

Is the Merc with a Mouth the Man with a Plan? Only time will tell…

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Review: The Fearless Defenders #4

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , on May 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Fearless Defenders #4This issue is a bit of a breather. The gang gets the hell out of dodge and regroups, adding a little dash of background story to spice things up a bit.

But other than a little introspection and a lovely taste of just how everyone got into this mess in the first place… not a lot happens.

That’s okay, it’s good to have these kinds of way-point issues at number 4, plus we are left off with a nice little cliffhanger which could make things really interesting if they are going the way I think they are going. There is definitely some character progression Valkyrie has to come to grips with what she has done and what she’s remembering, it’s subtle and not overdone.

And might I say that I love the way Valkyrie is drawn on this cover. Sure, she’s thin but not uber-thin and her underwear is actually practical. Dare I say this is actually sexier than some of the stuff the other female characters wear which is supposed to be skimpy and sexy?

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Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #29

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on May 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Wolverine and the X-Men #29Flashforward issues are inherently flawed. Unless the flashfoward takes place relatively soon and part of the overall arc of the story, then it’s just a lot of fan service and conjecture.

Who knows what will really take place twenty years from now, both physically and in comic-book time. Characters might get killed off, canon relationships may change. Sure, we might cling to the fact that in Gambit’s 3rd series there is a flashforward were Gambit and Rogue are married… but if we’re honest, it may not actually ever happen.

That’s why issues like this just kinda set sour with me. Especially when the writer throws out names like Professor Xorn, Carmen Drake, Warren Worthington IV, Kubrick Quire, Charlene Xavier, Rose Logan, and Summer Grey (really? Summer Grey?). It’s just so annoying in its obvious pan-handling fan service.

Not to mention blantently trying to hint at something big happening but not saying what it was… of course he can’t tell the readers because the writer doesn’t know if in two years Marvel decides to have another House of M or Civil War moment. All this just takes away from the actual story here which might finally be something worthwhile out of the whole Dog Logan fiasco.

For a title that was pretty spectacular for a while there… I can’t help but wonder what happened.

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Review: Uncanny X-Men #5

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on May 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Uncanny X- Men #5Is it just me or does Irving draw Magneto like Christopher Lloyd?

Uncanny Resemblance aside, we move back to Cyclops’ new school with the Cuckoo’s and Angel in tow… just in time for Magik to lose control.

I’m not really up on Magik’s back story with Limbo though I know there is a lot of bad blood there. Considering her powers are broke like the rest of the Phoenix Five, it’s not surprising that her history is coming back to haunt her.

I like how Scott is done here, he really does care about Magik and is worried about what’s happening to her, both for the sake of herself and his team. This matches up wonderfully to how Bendis is writing young Scott’s character. They are both leaders who do actually give a damn and aren’t meglomaniacs. Bendis is really giving something for the “Cyclops Was Right” camp to sink their teeth into.

Not sure though what I think of the Scott romance angle though. In All-New X-Men, Jean is all jealous of Mystique’s relationship with young Scott though there really isn’t anything to worry about there. In Uncanny X-Men, it seems Tempus has developed a school-yard crush on old Scott which did not sit well with Emma even though Scott would never look at Tempus as more than a student (or one would hope, I know Scott has had a bad track record what with cheating on his wives but never with girls WAY to young for him… and Tempus is not even a telepath).

Oh well, still better than what’s going on with Alex Summers’ love-life in Uncanny Avengers.

Lastly, I never cared much for the Cuckoo’s, but the way they put the smack down on the other boys… nice…

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Review: All-New X-Men #11

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on May 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »

All-New X-Men #11Not exactly the smartest cover considering that Bendis gave away the game in his previous issue of Uncanny X-Men. You think someone would have noticed this and fixed either this cover or the ending of UXM #4 so that it wasn’t so revealing. In fact, UXM #5, which continues to spill the secret, came out before this issue of All-New, so, yeah, there was no hope in keeping it under wraps that Angel left to join old Cyclops. Really bad planning all around…

Oh well.

This issue was very interesting, it was nice to see young Jean put in her place by the Cuckoo’s. It was something that needed to be done or else Jean would end up on the path of not-so-nice Jean. It was a good way to get to her sorted realistically without having to drag out that story plot. Let’s just hope Bendis keeps to it.

As for Angel, I really can see why he’d side with Cyclops. Of the core group, Angel has met himself and realized that he literally becomes someone he couldn’t recognize. That’s right in front of his face which is a lot harder to deal with then Jean’s being dead because it’s not something that is physical and tangible. To Angel, seeing himself like that is walking proof that he, as he knows himself, is dead and that has to hurt.

And then of course there is Mystique, she’s having way to much fun being bad… and that’s exactly the way we like her.

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Review: X-Men Legacy #10

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on May 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

xmenlegacy10As much as I’m enjoying where this title has been going recently… I can’t help but be a little annoyed at how the writer just loves to refer to Ruth as a weirdo. Just because she wears the blindfold and has telekinetic and precognative abilities, as well as a speech impediment, doesn’t make her weird, at least by X-Men/Mutant standards. You would think that her fellow X-Men would be more forgiving of her differences? I suppose this is just an extension of Spurrier’s mad dash in the first issues to totally ditch on the X-Men in order to build up David, and I can kinda see the Cuckoo’s being all Mean Girl but Pixie? I dunno, it just bugs me.

But getting to the issue at hand, David believes he is going to end the world one day… and apparently has no idea how precognition actually works. For one, he took the power from one of his ‘demons’ which obviously has his own agenda. And there are things like self-fulfilling prophecies. And as for the ‘destiny’ that he thinks he sees… yeah… again… never trust the future, especially when destiny is involved because one thing is often not like the other. (and like his deal with the Xavier demon isn’t going to come back and bite him in the arse)

But that is no slight against Spurrier, he’s really taken David on a rollercoaster of emotions and he’s truly a mess. So it makes sense as to why he would want to get rid of his ‘mutant side’ as it were.

Also, nice to see a look at one of the glaring issues regarding super hero comics, there is always the collateral damage, the people who get stuck in the middle of stuff they have no way of fighting against and get hurt because of it. It’s a very real reason for people to be afraid of what mutants and superheros mean to them.

So, yeah, this should get interesting…

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Review: Deadpool Killustrated #4

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on May 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Deadpool Killustrated #4As I said before, Deadpool Killustrated was a great idea but it’s been poorly executed. They only give him four issues to kill off the classics and most of the really cool deaths or concepts are just washed over.

Who were the witches of MacBeth? Who was Dorian Gray?

This kind of stuff could have been awesome to explore, even in Deadpool’s hilarious way of doing things. But instead it’s all just washed over for one big battle with the Three Musketeers and Sherlock’s gang, the latter of which was kinda an underwhelming boss battle. They build up Sherlock and he doesn’t really do anything.

Then you get the cop out that Deadpool didn’t actually kill everything, just enough of it to make it ‘mortally wounded’ and it’s left to Sherlock to remember and try to heal it. Really? Not only do they skim on the fun stuff but they cop out on the ending too. I suppose they were trying to be metaphorical or something but come on, it’s Deadpool. If you say he’s going to kill everything, let him kill everything… he’s the only one who could get away with it!

Now we’re going to get a Deadpool vs Deadpool which may be interesting… but not if handled the same way as this mini-series. The sad part is I’ll probably buy it anyway.

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Review: Astonishing X-Men #61

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on May 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Astonishing X-Men #61X-Termination: Part Five

Mostly a lot of talking in this issue, just getting us from Point A to Point B… telling us that there is only one way to stop the invaders and that is by sacrificing the Age of Apocalypse world.

Really? After all that time and effort put into the Age of Apocalypse title, which did have some measure of fan base, and all you’re going to do is destroy it completely?

What a crock.

If I had been a fan of the title then I would have totally yelled foul. In fact, I’m not a fan and I’m going to yell foul anyway.

Can’t really blame Liu for that though because she is writing inside of a pre-defined story structure… of which whoever came up with it is an idiot.

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Review: Arrow S01E23 “Sacrifice”

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on May 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

CW's ArrowHere’s an idea… you’re shot, bleeding out, you have a phone… dial 911, dial the clinic you set up, dial one of the doctors/nurses you surely have in your phone book…

And why only send three cops to get Captain Jack? I mean, they were heavily armed so they must have assumed it wouldn’t be an easy takedown. And no one noticed the cops didn’t check in?

And when the camp goes kaboom, wow, only the three lead characters survived, not a single other person who could help out the boss (and it got dark really quickly).

This show continues to baffle me with crap like this.

Oh, catching the exploding arrow… that was Loki’s schtick (again with forgetting that they are DC, not Marvel).

As for the “Laurel hangs back for no reason and gets trapped, Tommy saves her and doesn’t run out with her so he can get trapped just in time for Oliver to see him die”… seriously?

The only cliffhanger we’re left with is basically “Mom’s arrested, quarter of the city is trashed, and what happened to Red Arrow and Annoying Sister?”

Yeah, not sure I care.

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