Marvel Comics 23rd March 2011
FF #1:
The Fantastic Four story has come on leaps and bounds recently. Shaking up the normality has served it a lot of good. As has extending the first family and introducing the Future Foundation. The few months leap forward since the last issue of Fantastic was a good decision as well, the last thing we need is more mourning issues. Especially when dead doesn’t mean dead, to comics writers.
The Baxter building has been refurbished and Spider-Man has joined on the request of Johnny Storms hologram/ will.
As well as the Future Foundation with all the protégé youngsters that are now under the guiding wing of the FF, Spider-Man, and Reed’s recently returned father there is also Valeria’s request for her Uncle Dr. Doom to join, which is the cliff-hanger that we are left with. I hope he does join, as it could mean a Magneto like becoming a main player in the good guys team, kind of deal. After all he is way over due for some character development. The plot for the opening arc’s villain starts with Hydra breaking the wizard out of prison to give them new ideas.
As a larger ensemble cast the sense of family is brilliant and the art in the book is still reminiscent of the Bryan Hitch issues, giving it a much more detailed realism. Great series re-launch.
Power Man and Iron Fist #3:
This time the book started off feeling a bit like the movie Rush Hour, with it’s race differences and high joke count. Soon after though this turned into a classic, bonkers evil villain plot as during the silent auction Iron Fist is pulled away and made to bet how many super powered henchmen Power Man can defeat. It’s a bizarre Arcade and Murder world style scenario. He underestimates him but beats the information wagered in the bet, out of Poker Face anyway. Who’s back story is given al the space it needs, yes two panels worth.
Also if you can believe the villain, it was Jenny Royce who killed Crime-buster. Meanwhile Iron Fists current secretary and love interest is duped into a deal of her own. She is given the Commedia Dell’Morte mask in exchange for detail on some of Rand inc. missile info. She appears to be being transformed or given it’s powers upon touching it. Poker Face escapes with knowledge of where the hidden city that Iron Fist got his powers, is located. This was a great midway issue on a fun series. A very high tempo story but with precision story telling. This is so fast that I really am intrigued as to just haw far it will go in it’s two remaining issues.
Uncanny X-Force #6:
Wow just WOW! This is really how you use a boring character like Deathlok to it’s best.
First Fantomex and Deathlok fight off Deathlok versions of Avengers, then just when they think X-Force has turned up as reinforcements, it turns out to be Deathlok versions of them. After killing the lot and the real X-Force turns up they take the Captain America Deathlok and the World onto E.V.A. and hook him up to find out whom he is and where he is from. I was expecting it to be a clone or a randomer but no, this is the real Cap from the future. An alternate future where the Humans grow sick of Super Humans playing judge, jury and executioner, so they turn them into a mindless Deathlok army. Which allows the Human race to flourish and build a Utopia. Yep so now we have to stop the Utopia of Humanity from coming true in order to save the minority of the Superhero population. This is grade A amazing for X-men comics. This is how you introduce an alternate future and destroy it in a three issue story. Next they head into the world to destroy the creator of the Deathlok virus.
The Fantastic Four story has come on leaps and bounds recently. Shaking up the normality has served it a lot of good. As has extending the first family and introducing the Future Foundation. The few months leap forward since the last issue of Fantastic was a good decision as well, the last thing we need is more mourning issues. Especially when dead doesn’t mean dead, to comics writers.
The Baxter building has been refurbished and Spider-Man has joined on the request of Johnny Storms hologram/ will.
As well as the Future Foundation with all the protégé youngsters that are now under the guiding wing of the FF, Spider-Man, and Reed’s recently returned father there is also Valeria’s request for her Uncle Dr. Doom to join, which is the cliff-hanger that we are left with. I hope he does join, as it could mean a Magneto like becoming a main player in the good guys team, kind of deal. After all he is way over due for some character development. The plot for the opening arc’s villain starts with Hydra breaking the wizard out of prison to give them new ideas.
As a larger ensemble cast the sense of family is brilliant and the art in the book is still reminiscent of the Bryan Hitch issues, giving it a much more detailed realism. Great series re-launch.
Power Man and Iron Fist #3:
This time the book started off feeling a bit like the movie Rush Hour, with it’s race differences and high joke count. Soon after though this turned into a classic, bonkers evil villain plot as during the silent auction Iron Fist is pulled away and made to bet how many super powered henchmen Power Man can defeat. It’s a bizarre Arcade and Murder world style scenario. He underestimates him but beats the information wagered in the bet, out of Poker Face anyway. Who’s back story is given al the space it needs, yes two panels worth.
Well that's all the backstory I need!
Also if you can believe the villain, it was Jenny Royce who killed Crime-buster. Meanwhile Iron Fists current secretary and love interest is duped into a deal of her own. She is given the Commedia Dell’Morte mask in exchange for detail on some of Rand inc. missile info. She appears to be being transformed or given it’s powers upon touching it. Poker Face escapes with knowledge of where the hidden city that Iron Fist got his powers, is located. This was a great midway issue on a fun series. A very high tempo story but with precision story telling. This is so fast that I really am intrigued as to just haw far it will go in it’s two remaining issues.
Uncanny X-Force #6:
Wow just WOW! This is really how you use a boring character like Deathlok to it’s best.
First Fantomex and Deathlok fight off Deathlok versions of Avengers, then just when they think X-Force has turned up as reinforcements, it turns out to be Deathlok versions of them. After killing the lot and the real X-Force turns up they take the Captain America Deathlok and the World onto E.V.A. and hook him up to find out whom he is and where he is from. I was expecting it to be a clone or a randomer but no, this is the real Cap from the future. An alternate future where the Humans grow sick of Super Humans playing judge, jury and executioner, so they turn them into a mindless Deathlok army. Which allows the Human race to flourish and build a Utopia. Yep so now we have to stop the Utopia of Humanity from coming true in order to save the minority of the Superhero population. This is grade A amazing for X-men comics. This is how you introduce an alternate future and destroy it in a three issue story. Next they head into the world to destroy the creator of the Deathlok virus.
Marvel Comics 23rd March 2011
Reviewed by Matt
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04:01:00
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Reviewed by Matt
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