I can see myself rereading this, just to go over the details, however. And there are a lot of important details. There's a lot of politics, and politicking, as well as the main themes of personal liberty and safety, which are shown as mutually exclusive for much of this graphic novel. It takes ...
Yeah, I read this after watching the movie, so sue me.The film was obviously very different so comparisons are pointless. The comic was a good read and did a good job of showing the divide characters felt. But as someone who isn't a regular reader of the various Marvel stories, some of the side plot...
I did like how the politics meshed with the superhero plot line, but it was all a little slow. Then again, Mark Millar is usually explosively violent when he writes, and this was a lot slower. I think my expectations really bogged me down here. Regardless, I didn't have nearly as much fun with ...
This has a lot of the Frightful Four - apparently what the Marvel FF are called here - as well as more Doom. And man, he is really twisted here: he works by his own code of honor, but isn't above using people, stripping away everything that makes their life worth living, if they insult his honor. ...
Well, for me, not the FF. They've got to deal with zombified versions of themselves, who are older, smarter, and more experienced than they are. And after that, Namor: possibly the strongest being on the planet, who've they've just released from his ten-thousand year stint in Atlantean prison. ...
The thing is that I didn't get that much new or original out of this, but it was a fun retelling. It did include the Baxter Building as a think tank, teenage versions of the Fantastic Four, and Victor Van Damme - I know, I know - before he became Doom. Fun, a quick read, but I'd hoped for so much...
At times really interesting, but it lost me at other times. A lot goes on in this take on superheroes. After visiting some strange island and returning with superpowers (which have somehow become inheritable), superheroes start playing a role in the ordinary life. While some are trying to fit in and...
I love the retelling of both the Punisher and Ghost Rider mythos in this volume, although there is one thing I don't get. Not everyone believes that Blaze sold his soul to a demon to come back to life and avenge himself, and his girlfriend, but they start calling him Ghost Rider before they know h...
I couldn't focus on reading anything, and then I started this. This is a twisted retelling of Red Skull's origins, and the darker it got, the more interested I got. And it got dirtier the more I read, and it didn't stop even near the end: the dirtiest tricks, the biggest punches were left until ...
This is an extract from my full review, which can be read at If These Books Could TalkIt’s 1932 and Sheldon Sampson has lost everything in the infamous Wall Street crash, but while soup kitchens and job lines are forming around him, he’s concentrating on getting to the mysterious island he’s been sh...
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