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Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #20

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , on November 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #20

Mystique gets called “Smurfette”, ’nuff said.

 

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Review: X-Men Legacy #1

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , on November 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

X-Men Legacy #1

X-Men Legacy #1

Review: X-Men Legacy #1

X-Men Legacy as a team book with Rogue in charge was cancelled for better things and reissued as a story centering around Legion, quiet possibly the most powerful mutant to ever exist (and Xavier’s son). I thought this might be a good read because Legion is a very interesting study in Dissociative Identity Disorder which plays a rather big role in XMFFS.

The first issue of X-Men Legacy is pretty basic, doesn’t do much but set up Legion’s character, reminding everyone of his particular issues, etc. In that sense it does a great job.

However, nothing really happens. And worse, a hole bunch of people die for no real reason.

That being said, it is just the first issue and it did what it needed to do and didn’t try to be anything else so… that’s something. Definitely see what the next few issues look like on this and who else is going to be spotlighted and how.

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Review: Arrow (1S06) Legacies

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , on November 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »

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Review: Arrow (1S06) Legacies

Or “Everyone Has Emotional Issues”.

On the island, Oliver is suffering PTSD and hallucinating his father. In the present, Oliver is getting an attack of conscious regarding the fact that his father was just as bad as the rest of the city.

Mom’s not taking the break up well. Sister apparently has the hots for the best friend. The Best Friend is clueless in ssssoooo many ways. The Love Interest is, well, normal for her.

Again, it’s Diggle that makes this episode with his sneaky manipulation of Oliver to get him to do some work that doesn’t involve ‘punishing rich people’ but actually helping everyone else. I am really digging Diggle. He totally went full on Alfred in this episode.

I’m pretty sure I’m going to be watching this show for Diggle and Dresden from here on out, everyone else is just background noise.

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Review: Arrow (1S05) Damaged

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on November 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »

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Review: Arrow (1S05) Damaged

So, Arrow can add ‘prognostic’ to his list of super powers.

Granted, yes, it was only a matter of time before someone started putting two and two together, it’s often a trope in comics such as Superman. But here, instead of being a playful lampshade, it just comes off as stiff and pompous almost. And of course his plan to ‘fix things’ I saw a mile away but at least they didn’t try to pretend it wasn’t going to happen.

Dresden was on form, man, to bad that series got cancelled, the things this actor could have done with later parts of those book’s storylines. But seriously, is he not going to put two and two together that, duh, it could have been a different person in the suit? Same for Captain Jack.

And again with the flip flopping of Laurel’s characterization, she’s become worse than a Lois Lane analogue.

But the island sequences was pretty awesome this time, mostly cause Arrow stayed in the background while his new friend kicked some butt. And YAY for Digby voiceover… so much better than Arrow’s!

Oh, and Arrow is a jerk.

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Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #19

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on November 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Wolverine and the X-Men #19

Wolverine and the X-Men #19

Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #19

After #18 really annoyed me in its dark nature and shooting of a fun character I was really liking, I was glad to see that WatX was more rounded. It had a few dark bits, mostly to do with Kilgore and his band of sociopathic psychos, but the more fun elements were there.

I love all the little cameos by characters coming to try out for a teaching position at the school. Blade actually might have been a good one to hire, as long as you can keep him a bit more on the tamer side. As for Deadpool, I like how he didn’t even get half his name out before he’s rejected, not that he doesn’t try.

Good to see that Broo isn’t completely dead and has a chance at surviving. I really liked him! Him and Idie made a very interesting couple/non-couple and I hate how it left off in #18. Idie, on the other hand, is still suffering from some the psychological whammo that done to her, though yeah, it is kinda hard to tell where that and her original mental issues border, but still.

Lastly, Storm is back, yay! Since Uncanny had ended I didn’t know if she was going to stick with regular X-Men and that be her only title (I think that’s the only other one she’s been in?). Though it’s possible she could go into the background like Rogue and Gambit (which leads me to also wonder if those two will get any more face time, esp since Rogue is now only in Uncanny Avengers).

Overall, liking the upswing, let’s hope they keep this up.

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Review: Uncanny X-Men #20

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on November 3, 2012| 1 Comment »

Uncanny X-Men #20

Uncanny X-Men #20

Review: Uncanny X-Men #20

Now this is how you end a comic who only got a paltry twenty issue run.

Sure, it’s mostly just talking which is what was in X-Men Legacy #275, but the content was the important part. Tied up, somewhat, are the loose ends regarding Danger and the Rasputin’s, both story lines left to be picked up later at Marvel’s leisure. As for Cyclops…

Damn. I knew it.

You can’t kill Sinister, he’s just too cool. And this issue proved that point to a T.

This very much felt like a sweeps episode, an ending which leaves so much open and you’re a-okay with that because you want to see what happens next, it’s just too cool to simply tie up with a bow. It also leaves open a plot for Cyclops to take on later if he ever gets out of jail… we’ll have to see what happens in Consequences and All-New X-Men.

Yes, I do like this. Perhaps if the series had gone on for longer it would have been more annoying to have it so open-ended, but this definitely worked for Uncanny X-Men. I can’t wait to see more Sinister in the future!

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Review: X-Men Legacy #275

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on November 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »

X-Men Legacy #275

X-Men Legacy #275

Review: X-Men Legacy #275

With the new Marvel NOW! initiative, X-Men Legacy got the axe to be replaced by a new series with Legion as the lead. So Legacy #275 is the finale comic of this mostly Rogue led title. As finale’s go… it’s just kind of there.

Basically, because all of the other characters are off doing their own thing now, Rogue and Mimic are the only ones in this formally team-title. And they are thrown together into a minor (by X-Men standards) fight where Rogue is allowed to give a whole bunch of speeches as she dictates about how she has changed over the past few years.

On its face that’s not necessarily a bad thing, I mean, she has changed and this is a big moment for her, dumping Mags, going off Avenging, becoming something more than herself… but did we really need a whole comic of speech bubbles?

So over all, a lackluster ending, but hey, could be worse… could have been a clip-episode.

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Review: Arrow (1S04) An Innocent Man

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , on October 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »

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Review: Arrow (1S04) An Innocent Man

I’m just going to start calling this tv show Plot Hole… cause that’s pretty much how everything gets done. The most glaring was how the hit man, with little to no prompting, suddenly decides to confess off camera. Say what now?

Not to mention Laurel or Dinah, whatever, flip flops so badly it’s not even character development, it’s a mental defect. Seriously?

The only saving grace in this episode is Diggle who is awesome. His dry wit really shined in this episode. Also, finding that momma had the boat brought up from the sea bed and apparently step-daddy doesn’t know anything about it… I admit, did not see that coming.

Nice cameo from Captain Jack Harkness as well, but not enough to go by really.

So far this show hasn’t gotten any worse but it hasn’t gotten any better either. Its contrived plot points which create big gaping holes is worse than any comic book. If they can tighten things up then we really got something here, but until then, Arrow is still good filler before Supernatural.

On a completely random side note, every time I see an ad for Vampire Diaries, I keep thinking how great of a Gambit Ian Somerhaulder would be…

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Review: Arrow (1S03) Lone Gunman

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , on October 26, 2012| Leave a Comment »

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Review: Arrow (1S03) Lone Gunman

We get an all new episode of Arrow in which rich guys are getting killed by someone named Deadshot who apparently likes to ink himself with his victims… and that’s a real shame, Deadshot seems like he’d be a cool character to get to know but instead he’s just there, a plot device for fan service and nothing else.

Instead of Deadshot goodness, we have to sit through more bad voice over and a sorta/kinda love triangle. And not only is Deadshot wasted in this story but he’s been killed off? Seriously? Just pick off the Rogue’s gallery one by one why don’t you? It doesn’t even leave anything that could be picked up later. I suppose they don’t want to leave everything opened ended, but there are more ways to close this up without killing off the character.

Oh, and another thing that bugs me about this series (other than its editing issues) is his face paint. Oliver runs up to the roof, gets dressed, applies all that face paint perfectly, then zip-lines over well before the police even think about getting into the building the shooter is obviously coming from? What? Seriously? The body guard gets over there faster than the cops and somehow I think he didn’t zipline but had to go all the way back downstairs then across the road and up that building. This makes no sense!

But there was some good moments. I like Dresden being a smart cop. I like the exchange between him and Oliver at the auction. I like how Oliver kinda forgot who he was talking to with the body guard, wish they would have played that out more before turning the body guard into the side kick, cause that’s basically what’s gonna happen.

Again, still listing this as ‘not a bad show’ but waiting for it to move up into ‘it’s a good show’ territory.

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Review: X-Treme X-Men #5

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on October 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

X-Treme X-Men #5

X-Treme X-Men #5

Review: X-Treme X-Men #5

X-Treme X-Men has really picked itself up in these last two comics. With a steampunk vibe and more reliance on storytelling than being completely random (which can be fun if done right), this two issue arc was fairly good on all corners.

You had a nice rounded story, the characters were well played, and the quirky part was just the right level. As I said with #4, it felt like a full fledge story that could have come out from any comic, and that’s a good thing.

Governor Howlett had a great moment in this too which is just underplayed enough to make it pretty darn awesome. The kind of scene we need to see Earth-616 Logan to address what with recent events.

It looks like in the next one we’ll be getting some background on this version of Kurt, so that should be fun and I find myself looking forward to it.

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