Fallen Son #2 : Avengers
Writer: Jeph Loeb
Artists: Ed McGuinness & Dexter Vines
Well, so much for this weekly series. It was supposed to be weekly or bi-weekly right? Well, I'm throwing my expectations for on-time out the window for now on. Thank you Jeph Loeb for rushed ideas! Moving on, this issue focuses on the stage of grief of "Anger." The Mighty Avengers take their anger out the villain Tiger Shark, while the New Avengers take it out on each other. This book didn't do a whole lot for me, the New Avengers just seemed too sad to really be angry. If you're angry, then why do you invite Ben Grimm to come over and set up a poker game? I know that Ben holds poker games in the Marvel Universe, but are you really that upset that you're going to give away your "secret" hideout to a registered hero, regardless of who it is? Luke Cage can't go out and buy a pack of cards for you? Just send out Jessica Drew, no one knows who she is, and they'd be too distracted by her boobs and pheramones to remember her ever being anywhere. This cover insinuates a battle between the two teams, but nothing like that happens here.
Ed McGuinness does the art here, and I was so in love with his DC stuff that I find myself seeing DC characters in this book. Ms. Marvel is clearly Wonder Woman with Blond Hair, Iron Fist is Batman, and Luke Cage and Sentry are Superman. It's just jarring to see the faces and musculature from in different costumes. The only persons trully different are Spider-Man and Ben Grimm, just because one is made out of rock, and the other is supposed to be skinny. Honestly, this book doesn't do much to further the Dead Captain America storyline, and is perfectly skippable if you're short on cash. Next issue is Captain America with John Romita Jr. so that may turn out okay. D+/C-
I have a feeling that Jeph Loeb has hired another hack to write his stuff for Marvel so he can make that money from Lost. All this talent that Marvel has and nothing is being done with it. Mcguiness can go back to DC too, I'm not a fan of manga.
I wouldn't call McGuinness manga at all. If anything Maduriera is manga, not McGuinness. I would just call McGuinness very stylized or manga inspired, but not manga entirely. I like his stuff, but mostly on DC characters. I think the DC characters fit his style better b/c they are all supposed to have perfect bodies whereas the Marvel characters do not. Is wolverine supposed to look jacked up? No. Spider-Woman? No. Ms. Marvel? Yes. I just think he's better off with DC characters. If he made this move just for Loeb, I think he's going to get really old quick.
Yeah, Ed goes with DC because of the whole square jaw look done over and over and over, and everyone knows it in the DCU reminds me of that one issue where Batman took Hawkman's costume and Superman was Captain Marvel and nooooone was the wiiiiser.
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