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MOTW 5/20/09: Someone dies tonight....
TexiKen
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Dammit!That fish really got me!Registered User regular
Again, Jack of Fables is MOTW. Or rather, it should be called "Bigby & the Literals"
So here we go!
And Battle for the Cowl #3 goes where we think, but it makes me wonder if
It was better than #2, but it was still a bad story.
And Cap #50 was a good birthday issue, although the second half of the issue is filler, and the Hembeck cartoon isn't that great.
Bucky is fighting generic bad guys, but reminiscing about how he never had a birthday party, ever since he was 16 on the Army base. But at the end of the issue....
And Brave & the Bold #23 could have easily been Booster Gold #21, so it was essentially a double ship month for Booster. Good solid Jurgens/Rapmund issue.
This was a pretty "oh snap" moment:
Moment of the Weak(s): Uncanny #510 was boring and generic with more Land tracing (he even blurred some naked pics for a dream sequence), and my LCS didn't order any of those G-Man trades, or if they did they didn't put them in the new release section.
So here we go!
Bigby keeps being changed from a monkey, to a donkey, then an elephant, and then a pink elephant (which Gary looooooves). Kevin Thorn is wondering why he can't outright kill his creation, and it's theorized that the story goes beyond the creator after so many years out in the open. Then we see who that straight jacket guy is:
Love that superhero line.
So we have Thorn trying to get rid of writer's block by thinking about other things for a bit. But the Page sisters have stolen a car and are going to find him and blow him up (seriously, they have a safehouse filled with Punisher-type guns), so he commands the genres to defend him from them.
And then, just to piss Bigby off, he turns into.....
Love that superhero line.
So we have Thorn trying to get rid of writer's block by thinking about other things for a bit. But the Page sisters have stolen a car and are going to find him and blow him up (seriously, they have a safehouse filled with Punisher-type guns), so he commands the genres to defend him from them.
And then, just to piss Bigby off, he turns into.....
And Battle for the Cowl #3 goes where we think, but it makes me wonder if
Squire will be the new Batgirl, because she was in this book for a fair amount of time.
It was better than #2, but it was still a bad story.
And Cap #50 was a good birthday issue, although the second half of the issue is filler, and the Hembeck cartoon isn't that great.
Bucky is fighting generic bad guys, but reminiscing about how he never had a birthday party, ever since he was 16 on the Army base. But at the end of the issue....
And Brave & the Bold #23 could have easily been Booster Gold #21, so it was essentially a double ship month for Booster. Good solid Jurgens/Rapmund issue.
This was a pretty "oh snap" moment:
Booster checks in on Magog who he saw Rip fight on one of Rip's missions, who is trying to stop a terrorist group from bombing a school in Kahndaq. The bombs are set to go off on a dead man switch (if the trigger isn't held down it goes off). Magog improvises:
Forget Superman, Booster seems to be the Magog keeper-in-checker after this issue.
Forget Superman, Booster seems to be the Magog keeper-in-checker after this issue.
Moment of the Weak(s): Uncanny #510 was boring and generic with more Land tracing (he even blurred some naked pics for a dream sequence), and my LCS didn't order any of those G-Man trades, or if they did they didn't put them in the new release section.
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Hey, Tasha... Since this is a night of firsts and all...
On a similar note, Clint is a slick mofo.
I don't know why I bother buying this book anymore. Greg Land's art is terrible, and its gotten to the point where I have no idea what the fuck is going on from panel to panel.
And aren't the Stepford Cuckoos and Elixir like 16? They shouldn't be talking about stuff like tantric sex (or rather, it shouldn't be implied that they're doin' it). And Land just uses one pose for the Stepford Cuckoos but just replicates the image three times to make them all the same. Weak.
/facepalm
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What?
Please tell me it is some sort of dream/simulation/another kind of thing where this didn't actually happen.
Because we all know that teenagers don't think/talk about sex?
And I can't decide if what's going on in Fables is awesome, or too self referential for me.
He killed Green Hulk. He killed Terrax by chopping Terrax's head off with Terrax's axe. Apparently, by the way, Red Hulk can absorb the power cosmic out of Silver Surfer, so he sucked Surfer's power out then killed him. The rest of the book was him basically one shotting the others. He went after Galactus (who did beat him and take back the Power Cosmic, thank god), but then he killed the Elder in about two hits.
You also had a teleport scene that made no fucking sense. I hope it pops up on S_D just so someone could explain it better, because it reads like shit.
That's all I've wanted to read. I've picked up the last couple issues just to see how terrible it is first-hand.
I want to know how Emma Frost went from wearing pants and a halter-top to bra and panties mid-page. Did Land forget that he was drawing a super hero book and not a porno?
Although I'd probably prefer to read it in trades. Because I'm thinking there may actually be somewhat of a story hidden here, maybe even slightly moreso than the average Wolvie book.
Okay so you recognise that its absolutely crap, but you still continue to buy it. Congratulations you're to blame for Loebs career.
But M-11, from remembering Logan from 1958, blasts his arm off, so they fight because of that. And Venus makes the Avengers cream their jeans so the Agents can escape
And Supergirl #41 was good as well. An award for "most improved series"
Re: Supergirl. That seemed a bit heavy handed.
:shrug:
I like Ed McGuinness quite a bit, and the run has actually featured some characters I really like (Valkyrie and the Defenders, among others).
Edit: Not to mention Art Adams and Frank Cho, who've also worked on it. I'm certainly not buying the book for Loeb. I don't purchase anything else he's involved with currently, but if they pair artists I like with bad writers, I'm prone to keep reading the book in the hopes that the writers get switched. Strangely, I'm a lot less forgiving for bad art paired with writers I like.
Also, what artist is that? -and is he capable of drawing a woman that looks older than 17?
Ha, I went back and looked at the art again, and you're right. Also, the frame of Bucky blowing out the candles totally makes him look like he's five.
As for Emma's clothes-switch, she was wearing proper clothes in her mind, but in reality she was just wearing her bra and panties. Which I don't buy, because Emma surely sleeps in the nude.
As much as I agree Land's cut and paste of the Cuckoos is weak, I have a weakness for boobs, which explains why I can stare for minutes at the cover with Emma and Maddy cat-fighting. For this, Land is granted forgiveness, temporary though it may be.
My MOTW, though, had to be Punisher.
I am loving that book.
That came out today? Shit.
I can't decide which I liked more. Jack of Fables, Ex Machina or FC Aftermath: Dance. Dance has the most potential since it's set in another universe. Jack was expected, though I like the reveal of the straightjacketed guy. Ex Machina had a cool scene at the end and a great panel at the end.
At the end, there are two slight previews for X-Men Forever. The first one is pretty simple, and it's just a big party for reuniting all the X-Men from the various offshoots.
The second is a preview of a 'flash forward' of the book, to show how much it's going to deviate:
Is it permanent? Probably not, but it looks like it would be.
The newly mentioned story concepts aren't the greatest, as they're almost all the standard recurring plot threads, taken to the extreme. Either way, the 5 or 6 page preview was still miles better than Uncanny.
Moment of the weak is my comic shop not getting Ultimate Galactus Trilogy, which I wanted. Did pick up Invincible volume 10 though.
How did you not feel the fight was that important? They took the heavy hitters out pretty quickly, even if there was still the young'uns around it's enough for everyone to go "Shit!"
Also, at the end.
Edit: On a second look through, there is the portal sound effect at the bottom of the panel. Why would Logan give them Kwannon? Oh, Scott's telling me to let her go! See ya, potential informant!
Oh, yeah, and...
It was such a colossal mess that the fight had no weight. Because the art is such a clusterfuck, you have to go purely off the dialog, which still feels really disorganized.
It was pretty much 32 pages of disorientation.
I'm saying the fight was a mess mainly because of the art, but the writing really isn't that strong either.
It's like the brain automatically toggles a mediocre switch, and so you can't really process the weight of events. I think it might also have to do with how many X-books there are, and how uneven they can generally be.
Where did the writing go wrong?
The only thing I think was a bit weak was that she wouldn't see through the gaping whole in her plan and try to account for Pixie's magic usage, or X-Men that were offsite. Then again, it was really only a snatch-and-grab, the mission wasn't really intended to cripple them.
I mean, this isn't the best arc I've read ever but it's not terrible. Seems like the pacing is a bit off.
The fight was pretty much "Wolverine's fighting again, this time he's stabbing women." And taking X-23 out, a chick who was made to cut people up, made no sense, but I'm willing to go with "Pixie just getting everyone out no time to think" as an excuse.
And again, the teleporting away at the end made no sense, be it dialogue or art.