Fanboy Fodder 9.1
Quite possibly the first week ever that I read all the books I picked up. I’m sure it has a lot to do with only buying six books total. I resisted the urge to pick up G.I. Joe: Scarlett Declassified. While the Snake Eyes Declassified mini was good, I don’t think this one would be as good and especially not for $5 a pop.
Out of curiosity, and a Michael Turner cover, I picked up Justice League of America #0 which must have a come out a few weeks ago. It gave quick clips of JLA history, but wasn’t easy to understand if you don’t know it, so I think they failed in their goal because I didn’t get it. Then again, they did get my money, so maybe they succeeded…
X-Men: Phoenix: Warsong #1
The first issue in a five issue mini that looks to pick up where the Endsong mini left off… I guess. You can see the Marc Silvestri cover here, which honestly, doesn’t look very Silvestri. It does and it doesn’t, but who cares since he has nothing to do with the inside other than the fact it looks like one of his Top Cow guys, or a few, did the interior art as well. Presumably this is part of his pact with Marvel. Anyway, this story obviously deals with the Phoenix and brings the Stepford Cuckoo girls into the mix, so it should be interesting. Quentin Quire is tubed in the Beast’s lab and he is related to the Phoenix force from Silvestri’s fairly recent arc on X-Men (with Grant Morrison). He’s also related to the Cuckoo girls as he got one of them killed. It is hard to reconcile the events here, and in other books, as they relate to Emma Frost given what Joss Whedon is putting on over in Astonishing X-Men. When will it converge? She’s no Wolverine yet though…
Uncanny X-Men #478
Well, this issue was slow to start, but then they just throw some Skrulls into the mix on a Shiar station to give the issue some small point. I guess the other was on the Shiar homeworld where the second in command is revealed to be working his own angles to presumably usurp the Queen. I’m sure Xavier will save the day if the Shiar don’t kill him first. No sight of Vulcan other than reports of his activities as they related to the station the X-Men were on. I don’t know, not much happened here that was of interest to me. Warpath kicking the last conscious Skrull after the fight may have been the highlight since I chuckled.
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #12
Peter David has made it thru a year on this book and I’m not impressed. I usually like his stuff a lot, but other than “The Other” tie-in to kick off the title, it has been forgettable. The previous arc to this one wasn’t good and this one with three different Mysterio characters is on par with that one. About the only thing that saves this book is the David humor and his in-jokes. Not sure how much longer that can carry things.
Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four #1
Another book being written by Peter David, this one picks up in the 1602 universe started by Neil Gaimen. I haven’t read the previous two 1602 minis yet, but I certainly plan to get to it eventually. I figured with David writing this one, I’d give it a shot without first catching up. I’m not sure if I regret that or not. I don’t feel like I needed to have read the others first, but I didn’t necessarily follow this well either. I’ll stick with it even if only because the last page featured a visible fetus floating in the Invisible Woman’s invisible body. Hola fetal Franklin!
Hunter-Killer #7
What a surprise this was! You might recall me talking up the previous issue not even four weeks ago and they actually got this book out on time! I guess they found the cure to what ails the late schedule; remove Silvestri from his penciling duties! Yup, he’s off this issue, but it doesn’t skip a beat because the artist doing the art was decent. We still don’t know why the capped the guy at the end of issue 6, but we do get another history lesson about how this universe unfolded. It’s an interesting take on superheros as weapons and I like it. Seems like Mark Waid took Alan Moore’s Watchmen as a source of inspiration here, but that’s with me still not having read my Watchmen TPB yet. Anyway, with this issue having come out on time, I hope it continues because I am interested in any book that shows Dubya getting kicked out of the Oval Office by a shadowy figure. It’s just that in this case, it is not Dick(head) Cheney.
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