7. Fantomax MAX #1
What!? Me name drop?!
Okay so I
know the artist that drew this comic.
Shawn Crystal was in the Sequential Art MFA program at SCAD Savannah
with me, and is currently a Professor of SA at SCAD ATL. Good memories. Good artist.
That said I have to admit Fantomex is one of my least favorite Grant
Morrison creations. I also have not followed
his activities in the Marvel world up until his current antics in Uncanny
X-Force, I like the movement of his characters in this but the use of zip tones
distracts from the art. And the women
are drawn very gratuitously… but it is a MAX book. The story didn’t hold me. Lot of unnecessary cursing and EVA is out of
control. I’m lost with what is going on
as there is really no setup for the violence that occurs by Agent Fleming’s
fellow agents. I’ll check out issue two
at BAM but, it is nice to see folks from SCAD making good.
6. All New X-men
Special #1 The Arms of the Octopus part
1.
But… what about
Battle of the Atom?
Hurm. I’m not following this Superior Spiderman
story and am pissed at how nobody is realing how much of a dick Spidey is being
and not calling him on it. I think this
story came out a little too early but I hope it leads to Petey coming back. Otherwise the writer gave young Hank a nice
voice.I won’t be getting the rest of this story. Not my cup of tea.
5. Uncanny X-men #8
Battle of the Atom tie-in part 8.
Too many inkers…
So the true
colors came out in part 7 and everybody’s scrapping. Visually this was a confusing issue. This might be attributed to the five
different inkers working on Bachalo’s pencils which lacked the interesting layouts
he normally has. Looked rushed. Seemed
to be battle filler My least favorite issue of the event so far. Ready to get to the end. Man time is really effed up in the Marvel
U. Interesting.
4. X-men #7 Battle of
the Atom tie-in part 7.
Really? Miss Grey…oh Brubaker.
Nice
issue. Wolverine gets gutted by another
crazy product of his loins(and mystique eveidently.) and present time Xmen keep getting hurt and
sitting out of fights for long periods of time(wolverine and Bling for
example.) The betrayal goes down and we
start to see this Brotherhood of Mutants from the future’s real side. Ready for the big brouhaha to come. Nice art though I hate that Lopez doesn’t
draw faces in his smallest panels. It is
weird. Love Shogo.
3. New Avengers #11
Infinity tie-in.
So when are these
guys REALLY gonna destroy another Earth.
Jumped off
the Infinity wagon and missed issues 3 and 4 of the event title. Still I’m glad this issue connected some of
the stuff the Builders were doing with what the Illuminati are dealing. Hate to see Wakanda getting attacked…again
but what can you do. Nice to see Doc
Strange got that thing taken out of his head.
He’s really been a empty spot in this series. I don’t think Hickman knows what to do with
him. I am digging Thanos in this story
arc though. He finds the fellas
clubhouse and some of their toys and is impressed. Scary.
Striking resolution to the Illuminati’s problem is offered by the other-dimensional
Builders. I hope after this Infinity
thing we can start seeing what the boys can to do be heroes and get to the
bottom of this problem instead of just reacting to its symptoms. Nice art by Deodato.
2. Ultimate Comics
The Ultimates #30 Disassembled tie-in
More artist stalking.
One of my
favorite reads from Matt Fraction’s run on Iron man was the Annual featuring
the Mandarin. I even reviewed it a
couple years back. The artist on that
issue was Carmine Di Giandomenico and I fell in love with his art. His style is very angular and detailed and
fluid. The Ultimate world is falling
apart and the Ultimates are a mess. I
left following the Ultimate Universe after the terrible Ultimatum event. I got this for the artist and was
intrigued. I’ll have to go back and get
some of the Ultimates in trade.
Everything is different and all the “good guys” are fighting each
other. And more of the time problems pop
up here. Hmmmmm. And the infinity gems
of this reality are destroyed. Hmmmm.
And Galactus is coming. While I
had no idea how any of the characters got here I enjoyed it thoroughly, even in
my confusion. Strong fun moments: Thor getting Mjolnir and his harness back. Hercules
and Frank Castle facing thousands of evil Herbietrons. And the one word form
the other end of Space a single message is sent. Hunger.
A lot of different stuff happened in the Ultimate Universe and I’m
curious.
1. Captain America
#12
Our Boys! Our Boys!!
Born Again. Miller and Mazzuchelli’s beautiful and
redemptive Daredevil story has a special place in my heart. One character I loved from the end of the arc
was Nuke. The crazed Super Soldier that
just needed a Red to get at his enemies.
Carlos Pacheco with the powerful inks of Klaus Janson delivers a nice
rendition of the confused Super- Soldier, Pacheco has been real sparse with his
pencils lately so Janson gives him a lot more shape and texture. Because of the previous story arc Cap is
again a man out of time. Very interested
in where Remender takes this. Always nice to see the Falcon Cap friendship.
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