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Also this week...
CABLE & DEADPOOL #47 -
Doctor Strange is this month's guest star, which means an
issue of arbitrary nonsense, only very loosely justified by
the use of magic. There's a half-decent story idea
towards the end about Deadpool having to revive his
arch-enemy T-Ray, but the rest of the issue consists of
Deadpool running around doing largely meaningless stuff.
It's the sort of magic-based story where the plot is
virtually nonsensical, and then a magician shows up at the
end to declare that a ritual has been fulfilled. It
just doesn't work, I'm afraid. C-
SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN #41
- Part three of "One More Day" finally gets to the point,
and good lord, it's weak. Marvel want a cosmic reset
button to get rid of Spider-Man's marriage, so for
absolutely no other reason than that, Mephisto shows up to
provide one. Stories that exist for the primary
purpose of revising continuity tend to be a bit shaky, but
this is both clumsy and cursory. Quesada's artwork is
lovely, to be sure, but it can't disguise the flimsiness of
the whole concept. C-
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS #6 -
Um... oh, I get it, the pages are stapled in completely the
wrong order. I was wondering for a moment whether this
was a bizarre experiment in non-linear storytelling, which
didn't really work. Looking past that, and reading the
pages in the order that the creators must have intended,
it's an okay issue. The lead strip is the first half
of a two-parter with the X-Men mysteriously losing their
powers. It's a gimmick story, but there's nothing
wrong with that in a series like this, and there's a lovely
page of Warren with his wings moulting. There's also
another charming Jean/Wanda back-up strip by Jeff Parker and
Colleen Coover, which is always welcome. B+
There's more from me at
If Destroyed, and if you're desperate for more Article 10 columns, you can
always hunt through the archives on
Ninth Art.
Next week, the Sentinel storyline wraps up
in Ultimate X-Men #88. "Messiah Complex"
continues in Uncanny X-Men #493. And the
X-Men's contribution to this year's What If?
one-shots is an alternative version of "Rise and Fall of the
Shi'ar Empire", told in one twelfth of the space.
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