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Also among this week's comics...
SPIDER-MAN / DOCTOR OCTOPUS:
NEGATIVE EXPOSURE #1 - The first of a slew of Doctor
Octopus stories in anticipation of the movie. There's a
Dr Octopus story coming up shortly in Peter Parker,
Spider-Man, and another Dr Octopus miniseries starting in
a couple of weeks. And he's in Ultimate Six as
well. If you like Dr Octopus, this is your time.
Why do I get the feeling that I'm going to be heartily sick of
Dr Octopus by the time the movie comes out? Anyhow, this
book's actually not bad; it's by Brian Vaughan and Staz
Johnson, and they've produced a nice little old-school
superhero book of just the sort that ought to be readily
accessible to the movie audiences. It's set back in the
past, in the classic Spider-Man set-up where he's a
photojournalist at the Daily Bugle, and there's a
pleasant enough story about an envious staff photographer who
can't understand how Peter keeps getting all those great
photos. A dead straight Spider-Man story, in other
words, but done perfectly well. B
THANOS #1 - And the other
issue #1 for the week is Jim Starlin's Thanos, a book
that feels a little out of place in today's Marvel. Of
course, the surprisingly high sales of Marvel Universe: The
End have probably made Marvel reconsider on that point -
there's certainly an audience out there for this stuff, after
all. So here's Jim Starlin with a series so old school
that it's inked by Al Milgrom and spends seven pages recapping
the history of Thanos. There's rather a lot of it by
this point, and personally I think the character ran his
course about a decade ago. Still, Starlin seems to be
trying to take the character in a different direction, so you
never know. It's not a comic that's likely to upset most
people's expectations - you already knew what it was going to
be like, and you were probably right. B-
Last week's Article 10 is still up at
Ninth Art.
Next week, the launch of NYX;
Sentinel #7 begins a new storyline; Ultimate X-Men
concludes "Blockbuster"; and Weapon X winds up the
"Underground" arc.
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