The All About Comics Thread 5: Comic Books Ate My Paycheck

I agree with E's review of Black Widow: Deadly Origins, but disagree with his assessment of Black Widow and The Marvel Girls. I personally love Salvador Espin's art, I also should mention that BW&TMG is really more like a series of one shots, rather than a single story. So you may like another issue even if the first didn't grab you. Also, have you checked out the first issue of the new Black Widow series? It was pretty good.
 
ProjectX2 said:
That mini should have been drawn entirely by John Paul Leon. Tom Raney is awful and didn't fit the tone of the series at all.
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I totally agree, and not just because I love Leon's work.

I'm just glad to read something he drew again. I don't think I've seen anything else he's done besides Earth X.

Iceshadow said:
I agree with E's review of Black Widow: Deadly Origins, but disagree with his assessment of Black Widow and The Marvel Girls. I personally love Salvador Espin's art, I also should mention that BW&TMG is really more like a series of one shots, rather than a single story. So you may like another issue even if the first didn't grab you. Also, have you checked out the first issue of the new Black Widow series? It was pretty good.
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Maybe I'll give the second issue a shot.

And no - I haven't read the new issue. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Has anyone else read Magneto: Testament?

I just finished it and really wanted to like it, but it was so sloppy and hard to follow that I just couldn't enjoy it. The art was terrible but the plot was good enough to save the book; it's a great concept (think Origin but starring Magneto) but is just too confusing. I think a lot of that is the bad art but a lot of the dialog is messy, too.

Isn't it about time to retcon Magneto as a Holocaust survivor, anyway? He'd be closing in on 80 pretty soon.
 
E said:
Isn't it about time to retcon Magneto as a Holocaust survivor, anyway? He'd be closing in on 80 pretty soon.
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well, he would but...
Magneto later reorganized the Brotherhood, and fought Professor X and the Defenders. Using ancient and advanced alien technology he finds near the core of the earth, Magneto creates an artificial humanoid he names "Alpha the Ultimate Mutant." Alpha rebels against his creator and reduces Magneto to infancy. Magneto is then placed in the care of Xavier's former love interest, Professor Moira MacTaggert at Muir Island. At Muir Island, MacTaggert manipulates the infant Magneto's genetic code in an attempt to prevent him from becoming "evil" in adulthood. However, her genetic tampering loses its effect when Magneto re-activates his powers again. Magneto is eventually restored to adulthood when he is found at Muir Island by the alien Shi'ar agent Erik the Red.
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(This happens in Defenders #15-16 and X-Men #104) wikipedia

When he was returned to adulthood, be ended up younger than when he started off.
 
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captaincanuck65 said:
well, he would but...
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:arrgh:

This is why I can't read X-Men comics. They're full of junk like that.

Thanks for the info though - I didn't know that.

J. Agamemnon said:
so technically, he should lose all memory he had as an adult since he became an infant and has no memory of the Holocaust. Theoretically.
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I don't think so...he wasn't reborn, he was just backward-aged. At least that's what it sounds like. He should retain all knowledge if that's the case.
 
E said:
:arrgh:

This is why I can't read X-Men comics. They're full of junk like that.

Thanks for the info though - I didn't know that.



I don't think so...he wasn't reborn, he was just backward-aged. At least that's what it sounds like. He should retain all knowledge if that's the case.
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well i think it happened either back when X-Men really sucked or during the hiatus after it was cancelled and before it was relaunched, so it's almost forgivable. And yeah, he wasn't reborn. He retained his memories of being an adult when he was a baby, he was essentially an adult trapped in a baby's body. Chris Claremont even did a story early in his run where Magneto gets revenge on the X-Men by putting some sort of inhibitor on them so that they don't have use of their fine motor skills, powers, or the ability to talk/express what they are thinking. He has a robotic nanny take care of them until Storm summons up enough concentration to pick the lock on the inhibitor using a lock pick hidden in her head piece.

:lol:
 
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thee great one said:
All comics are full of junk like that.
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X-Men is the worst though. By far.

captaincanuck65 said:
well i think it happened either back when X-Men really sucked or during the hiatus after it was cancelled and before it was relaunched, so it's almost forgivable. And yeah, he wasn't reborn. He retained his memories of being an adult when he was a baby, he was essentially an adult trapped in a baby's body. Chris Claremont even did a story early in his run where Magneto gets revenge on the X-Men by putting some sort of inhibitor on them so that they don't have use of their fine motor skills, powers, or the ability to talk/express what they are thinking. He has a robotic nanny take care of them until Storm summons up enough concentration to pick the lock on the inhibitor using a lock pick hidden in her head piece.

:lol:
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Because that is so much easier and more efficient than killing them!
 
E said:
Because that is so much easier and more efficient than killing them!
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but it's not as poetic!

Even though it was the defenders who did it to him and the x-men he made into "babies" weren't the same ones he had ever fought before. (besides Cyclops)
 
I've been reading Capt. America/Black Panther: Flag of our Fathers by Reginald Hudlin, its about the 1st meeting between Steve and Black Panther, along with Nick Fury w/ the Howling Commandos during WWII, battling some Nazi's. very graphic and pretty cool, w/ a wonderful story line for Cap being a symbol after the war is over.
 
Actually I found it to be lame.

The helmet doesn't change the power over, it merely allows one to speak to the Worldmind.

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You are overanalysing it. Don't do that. Because it is awesome.
 
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