I've got a new favorite comic book sound effect, courtesy of the rubbish that is Uncanny X-Men 471:
SCYTHE!
This is, evidently, the sound a sweep kick makes when it is intended to knock down a friend whose face is about to be eaten by a Shi'ar bug monster. It's a very specific sound that is nigh-impossible to produce outside of a bus station, and I'm sure Rachel's TK has something to do with it.
Apparently, the Shi'ar Death Commandos arc is over, thank God, without any real explanation of why the Shi'ar decided that now was a good time to eliminate the strain of the Phoenix once and for all. Of course, this may be another rogue ship, like the one that appeared in Phoenix: Endsong (which is strangely not mentioned in this story), but one gets the impression that this operation is legit. Of course, one gets that impression because that's the only way the story makes any sense, not because it's implied by the story.
The comic ends on a classic "X-Men do not kill" quote, which is bollocks. Rachel apparently doesn't kill. Anymore. Maybe because she can always SCYTHE bad guys instead of killing them from here on out.
What a mess. Chris Claremont can write some awesome stories, but this arc was complete shit.
Argh!
I just read Nightwing 118 myself - it's a great issue, and while the identity of the second Nightwing is pretty easy to guess, I didn't need it spelled out for me in the goddamn solicitation for the next issue! Thst just pisses me the hell off. It's like no one told the author that the identity of the second Nightwing was going to be revealed twice, once on the cover and again in the solicit. The story is written like a mystery, but there's no mystery there!
To the right is the cover of Daredevil 86 drawn by Joe Quesada....ohh I mean David Finch. He started out mimicking Marc Silvestri; just last week I compared Finch to Stephen Platt now he has taken the art course of Quesada. Come on Finch, pick an art style already, we know you can draw; find one that lets you meet your monthly schedule. I have to admit its a nice picture, so let's just blame that crazy inker!
In the tradition of Avengers Disassembled and Countdown it looks like my favorite teen teams of the 90's is biting the big one! After watching the trailer for the Marvel's Civil War #1 I get the feeling that they are going to do away with the New Warriors. And why the hell not? After the way Marvel has been treating these characters since Fabian Niceiza left the book, it doesn't surprise me. No one gives a shit about the Warriors, but Nitro!!!!!???? Nitro is going to off the Warriors, a guy who was taken down by Rusty and Skids!!!!? I know he was responsible for Mar-Vell's (Captain Marvel) death, but who has written him as a possible threat since then. I also put up the cover to issue two by Michael Turner. Those Young Avengers look nice, but damn that is a nice Liefeld-looking cover. Character in the foreground? Check; Characters standing as a group in the back with a huge splash of another character? Check; Rock field for them to stand on? Check! And where the hell did Spider-man's nose go? Whose side am I on? Damn, it’s hard to judge the book before it comes out. I could be completely wrong about this. I mean, I thought the previews to The Matrix sucked and I ended up loving the movie.
Seems to me that David Finch's Moon Knight is reminiscent of Stephen Platt's Moon representation of the caped crusader (sorry couldn’t help it). Regardless, his artwork looks different than when he was drawing Ascension or for that matter New Avengers. I actually like this better than his previous work. I know Moon Knight is just a poor man's Batman, but that's really silly to say. He's a good analogy and it doesn't hurt that he has a really cool costume, except no one seems to be drawing his cape correctly these days. It is, after all supposed to look like a crescent moon.
Okay I know what this really means but lets pretend I didn't for a second, WHERE IS GORDON'S FACE AND WHY IS HE TRYING TO CALL THE RIDDLER? I'm interested to know who will be picking up 52* as I still remain on the fence until One Year Later tells me what the hell is going to be the final result, if the end result is appealing then I'll follow it up with 52 to find out how all that came to fruition. Until then I keep getting bombarded with these little snipits of stuff thats supposed to make me start salivating? F that! The latest IC came out and I flipped through it before picking it up to just to double check, yep, no more surprises in this issue. Well maybe one, MINI spoiler---lets just say Johns beats Bendis in quickest death/rebirth ever, possibly, both are still in the running. Oh well, Batman wont be gone for long in Gotham, like a guy with no face and who always leaves the people he helps in a vague stupor is really going to clean up the worst city ever, succeed where the Bats has failed? F that too.
From the look of this cover of Civil War issue 2 by Steve McNiven, it looks like Spider-man has choice to make. To side with Captain America or side with Iron Man. Damn, he should go back and read Contest of Champions or Secret War...by the way Spidey, go with the side that has the damn Hulk on the team. Or could this be the first cover with two Spidermen. Peter Parker in the classic suit and his dead skin turn woman made of spiders wearing the new suit made by Iron Man a.k.a New Venom as Dan likes to call it.
