4 Kids Walk into a Bank
Freakin' Amazing! I highly recommend this. Very reminiscent of BKV's style of writing. What has Rosenberg been doing since UXM? He deserves to be a lot bigger name. 10/10
4 Kids Walk into a Bank
Freakin' Amazing! I highly recommend this. Very reminiscent of BKV's style of writing. What has Rosenberg been doing since UXM? He deserves to be a lot bigger name. 10/10
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Lake of Fire
Reminiscent of Abnett/Culbard's Dark Ages. Medieval Knights vs Aliens. Alright for what it is, everyone is an archetype and you see the plot coming 5 pages before it happens. 5/10
Against Hope
Victor Santos is the spiritual successor of Frank Miller insofar as writing hard boiled actioners about revenge and blood and seedy underbellies. That's not necessarily a good thing as one just gets numb to the brutality and death after a while, no matter how well rendered. 5/10
November v3
Another series I don't know why I'm following. Fraction's doing a good impression of Lapham, but so far it feels disjointed and not adding up to much. Again, dirty low down people doing dirty low down things. And that'd be fine if there was some sunshine to contrast it with. Otherwise, numbness like I said. I'll pick up the 4th and last volume since I've gotten the first three, and cross my fingers for a nice conclusion. The lettering can be a pain to read sometimes. 5/10
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“We have a saying, my people. Don’t kill if you can wound, don’t wound if you can subdue, don’t subdue if you can pacify, and don’t raise your hand at all until you’ve first extended it.”
Goldie Vance v1-4
Decent young adult books. Teen detectives. You've seen these characters before. Nothing new or subversive but fun enough. 6/10
Almost finished with the 3rd X-Men: Road to Onslaught collection.
While there are a handful of good issues throughout these 3 volumes, it really has been a chore to get through.
My stopping point in X-Men had always been AOA. I decided to keep going with my latest read through...and yeah, not really impressed.
Started Ms. Marvel OHC Vol 1 (Kamala Kahn -sp?) last night, with Vol. 2 to be right after that.
I am about 3 issues into the 12 issue collection, and really like it so far.
Grayson superspy omnibus, bit of a drag, shouldn’t be surprised I find most superhero stuff fairly boring lately
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Zero Tolerance was horrible. I can forgive the tired "group of humans build new generation of sentinels to kill mutants" trope simply because it has always been a big part of the X-Men mythos. But the execution of this specific iteration... horrible.
I mean, we have a group which sole purpose is to exterminate all mutants - and they manage to capture (most of them a bit too easily) a string of the very most prominent mutants in the world... only to keep them all captive until they manage to escape. Bastion himself had promise, but ultimately fell short and amounted to nothing.
And none of the new mutants coming out of this era were interesting enough to stick around in a meaningful way: Marrow, Cecilia Reyes, Maggot (worst mutant of the entire decade), Joseph (interesting idea, but horrible payoff)...