comics read, 9/23/13
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snick_backupFF #5 - Fraction, Allred
It took me a bit of warming up, but now I love this title, even though this particular issue is mostly set-up/development for future arcs. We've got Old Johnny burning down NYC (I loved the full-page spread for that), Medusa acting suspicously and apparently kidnapping Bentley, and Alex Power following his ethics straight to Dr. Doom. I predict that Medusa's ultimately motives are less dastardly than they now seem. And meanwhile we have lots and lots of Scott one-liners and self-deprecation; he's definitely moving up in my list of fav characters on this book.
In fact, I'm loving this book so much that I've subscribed to it now, w00t.
(I'm also interested to see Medusa referring to the terragin mists, which we now know is a major plot element/consequence of the Infinity arc and will lead into the Inhuman arc. But the Inhumanity thing is Fraction's baby, so it makes sense that he in particular would be teasing it in advance, even though I doubt a lot of people would look to this book for clues to major cross-title events.)
X-Factor #1-3 - David, Sook
I started this after having it recced to me by bunches of people. So far, I like it. Although it's very much a serial comic, each issue feels like a storytelling unit of its own, with its own internal structure, which I really appreciate (in TV, too, not only comic books). This is a comic that feels like its authors have their narrative tools well in hand.
Layla Miller is immediately intriguing. She "knows stuff," indeed. And Madrox has some of that same appeal that I was interested in Fantomex for - the potential for multiple personalities, sometimes doing their own thing and sometimes integrated into the hole. I'm also interested to see more of Monet, if only because she's joining the all-ladies X-Men book in a couple of months.
And now we find out Layla has been placed with X-Factor specifically to make sure they don't find out why the mutants lost their powers, which, I hadn't realized that that wasn't common knowledge to the general population. I-i-nteresting. I wonder who she's working for.
Also, lol, I loved the line early on about how the majority of mutants losing their powers was called decimation "even though decimating means removing one tenth of the total." This is a problem I FREQUENTLY HAVE with how that word is used.
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It took me a bit of warming up, but now I love this title, even though this particular issue is mostly set-up/development for future arcs. We've got Old Johnny burning down NYC (I loved the full-page spread for that), Medusa acting suspicously and apparently kidnapping Bentley, and Alex Power following his ethics straight to Dr. Doom. I predict that Medusa's ultimately motives are less dastardly than they now seem. And meanwhile we have lots and lots of Scott one-liners and self-deprecation; he's definitely moving up in my list of fav characters on this book.
In fact, I'm loving this book so much that I've subscribed to it now, w00t.
(I'm also interested to see Medusa referring to the terragin mists, which we now know is a major plot element/consequence of the Infinity arc and will lead into the Inhuman arc. But the Inhumanity thing is Fraction's baby, so it makes sense that he in particular would be teasing it in advance, even though I doubt a lot of people would look to this book for clues to major cross-title events.)
X-Factor #1-3 - David, Sook
I started this after having it recced to me by bunches of people. So far, I like it. Although it's very much a serial comic, each issue feels like a storytelling unit of its own, with its own internal structure, which I really appreciate (in TV, too, not only comic books). This is a comic that feels like its authors have their narrative tools well in hand.
Layla Miller is immediately intriguing. She "knows stuff," indeed. And Madrox has some of that same appeal that I was interested in Fantomex for - the potential for multiple personalities, sometimes doing their own thing and sometimes integrated into the hole. I'm also interested to see more of Monet, if only because she's joining the all-ladies X-Men book in a couple of months.
And now we find out Layla has been placed with X-Factor specifically to make sure they don't find out why the mutants lost their powers, which, I hadn't realized that that wasn't common knowledge to the general population. I-i-nteresting. I wonder who she's working for.
Also, lol, I loved the line early on about how the majority of mutants losing their powers was called decimation "even though decimating means removing one tenth of the total." This is a problem I FREQUENTLY HAVE with how that word is used.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. Comment here or there. (
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Date: 2013-09-23 08:22 pm (UTC)Sometimes I just need comedy in my comics, I think.
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Date: 2013-09-23 08:31 pm (UTC)