Phoenix Warsong # 1 - 5 Review
Author: Greg Pak
Penciler: Tyler Kirkham
Inker: Sal Regla
Colors: John Starr
The follow-up to Phoenix Endsong comes to a conclusion with issue five. Thank the good Lord! I really had high hopes for the series because I enjoyed Endsong so much and Pak was stirring this ship as well. But, I'll be damn if this didn't turn out into nothing more than a very boring story that just seemed force to cash in on the Phoenix fever.
I should have known better, hell every time they bring the Phoenix back its the same bullshit over and over. Although the big cliché was absent in this series (Jean Grey) it was still painful and very predictable to read. Pretty much all that happens within the span of five fucking issues is the cuckoos find out they are nothing more than clones of Emma Frost and that they were part of the Weapon Crap (That's what I call Morrison's take on the whole Weapon X story) project. The Phoenix takes over not only Celeste, Mindee, and Phoebe, but all 1000 Cuckoo Clones! Don't worry all 1000 clones get destroyed! The Phoenix stays in the three Cuckoos, the X-men win, Emma cries, and Omar wonders why the flying fuck he bought five issues and didn't bother reading any of them till he got the last one!!!?
The art is nothing special, just seems like one of the really bad Silvestri clones that got stuck in the mid 90s. Although some frames are really well done, some just look plain awful, the characters never really come to life and for the most part look the same. So to wrap up this review I'm going to quote Phoebe, because this is the way I felt after I realized I spent 15 bucks on these books: "If I could feel anything....I think I would cry." D I have to give props to the cover of issue 5 by Silvestri because es muy muy caliente, no pun intended!
