Try as we might, there are always a few titles that don?t get the full review treatment here at WCBR. ?What can we say? ?Those guys publish a LOT of comics and it?s hard to get to them all.
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The Incredible Hulks #628?- If you?ve followed the news, you?ve probably seen that Greg Pak is ending his LONG run on this title around issue #635 or so. ?And, he is really going out with a bang. ?This has been a very fun story arc that follows Bruce and Betty Banner as they try to retrieve Pandora?s Box from a bunch of bad guys in a flying fortress. ?The Banner?s aren?t getting along all that well, so there is lots of fun, biting banter between the two. ?Sometimes it even plays into the story as in one place where Hulk needs to get angrier and she starts telling him that he stinks and when that doesn?t work, she starts telling him about her sexual activities with other men since they broke up.?It?s pretty funny, and great superhero action abounds. ?It certainly doesn?t hurt to have Tom Grummett drawing the comic. ?His classic superhero style doesn?t really have a bad panel in the whole issue and he really nails those scenes when Hulk-action happens and you can almost feel the ground shaking. ?Great stuff. ?Grade: ?A- ??
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X-Men Legacy #248 ?- A lot happens in this issue as we see the X-Men recovering from Age of X. ?Ironically, this mop-up issue ended up being stronger than the actual Age of X story was. ?The first part of the issue deals with Emma offering mind-wipes to X-Men who want them, and as you can imagine, not everyone wants the same service: Cannonball wants it all gone, but Frenzy wants to keep her memories of her relationship with Cyclops. ?We also dig into Legion a bit and Xavier and Nemesis?s new plan for helping him cope with his personalities. ?I?m (personally) not that excited about Legion being a part of ongoing stories, but we?ll see what we get. ?There also looks to be some more Rogue/Magneto/Gambit love-triangle stuff going on. ? Yawn? But?.the big news is that it looks like the X-Men are finally going to go find Rachel, Polaris and Havok who have been missing in space for ~5 years (since the Brubaker run on UXM). ?THAT is a story I?m looking forward to seeing.??The art is a bit of a mixed bag. ?Jorge Molina has some great panels and some others where characters look funny, but the storytelling is always solid. ?Grade: B-
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30 Days of Night: Night, Again #1?- I bought this mostly for the Sam Kieth artwork and was a little disappointed with the story. ?I?m not invested in the 30 Days of Night universe and came at this as a new reader and just didn?t enjoy it at all. ?For a #1 issue, there was too much action where the story behaved as if I should know more about events than I actually did. ?The basic story seems to be that there are vampires in the arctic and they are killing people and a group of humans has to try to walk overland to the next town 100 miles away. ?But, I just didn?t enjoy this enough to read any more. ?I do like Kieth?s artwork generally, but while he had a few panels in here that make you ohhhhh and ahhhhhhh, it isn?t enough to overcome the inaccessibility of the story (for me at least). ?Grade: C-
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Moriarty #1 ?- I couldn?t get to the end of this comic and that?s a shame because I was legitimately excited to read it. ?Hey! ?It?s a new Image #1 issue, right? ?And, I liked the art (which is very sketchy/scratchy). ?But, I just found the story to be so ponderous that I wasn?t enjoying it within the first 10 pages and just ran out of energy before getting to the end. ?The problems are that (a) it doesn?t provide an immediate hook, (b) it is wordy as hell and (c) most of the words are in narration boxes. ?Narration boxes are dangerous as the primary storytelling method because it makes the story feel stuffy. ?I want to watch the characters interact with their environment. ?Not see them narrate (after the fact) over the top of the action. ?The basic story is that we are following Professor Moriarty some 20 years after he has killed Sherlock Holmes and, after Holmes? death, he kinda lost his inspiration to be a villain anymore. ?Now, something is happening that pulls him back in. ?There may be die-hard Holmes fans out there who will enjoy this more, but I didn?t care for it at all. Grade: D?
Daredevil Reborn #4?- Ugh?.TGIO. ?What a shame that Andy Diggle?s run on Daredevil (that started with such promise) is ending on such a down note.? Shadowland stunk and now this?? It was really hard to even must the strength to read this issue because the title has been so mediocre recently and we know that the end of the issue/miniseries will find Matt Murdock back in Hell?s Kitchen because we have been seeing these teasers for the new Mark Waid/Marcos Martin Daredevil for the last month or so. ?I?m really excited about the Waid/Martin book and would have been just as happy if this miniseries never finished. ?Needless to say, Matt finishes off the bad guys who were ruining this small western town and inspires a blind boy along the way before returning to NYC. ?Hopefully he?ll shave off his neck beard (how does a blind man maintain a well groomed neck beard anyway?). ?Grade: D?
-Dean Stell
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Filed under: Image Comics, Marvel Comics Tagged: | 30 Days of Night, Andy Diggle, Daredevil Reborn, David Gianfelice, Dean Stell, Greg Pak, Image, Incredible Hulks, Jorge Molina, Marvel, Mike Carey, Moriarty, Quick Hit Reviews, Sam Kieth, Tom Grummett, X-Men: Legacy
Source: http://weeklycomicbookreview.com/2011/05/17/quick-hits-reviews-week-of-may-11-2011/
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