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Also this week...
BLACK PANTHER #2 - Hmm.
It's a decent enough take on the character, but I'm largely
baffled as to the point of the continuity reboot. I
suspect this is one of those continuity issues which House
of M is going to clear up (ie, by establishing this book
as the authentic version and wiping the slate clean on all
that came before), but it's not as if we're getting a
drastically different take on the character here, so one
wonders what the exercise is actually meant to be achieving.
Readable enough, but the book still hasn't made any real
headway on introducing the character, as opposed to the
general concept of Wakanda. B
HOPELESS SAVAGES: B-SIDES: THE
ORIGIN OF THE DUSTED BUNNIES - And to think I complain
about X-Men miniseries having excessively long titles.
Anyhow, this is a Hopeless Savages one-shot with a
flashback story about the origin of Zero's band, which is
really a set of stories about how they met as children.
I run hot and cold on Hopeless Savages, which often
comes across to me as a little too self-conscious, but this is
a strong and likeable story, which makes good use of the
multiple artists as it jumps between time periods. A-
YOUNG AVENGERS #2 - You
know, this is remarkably good. Of course, Young
Avengers had the advantage of advance publicity so dodgy
that it could hardly fail to exceed expectations. But
this is turning out to be a fun team book which has turned the
awful concept to its advantage. If you think the Young
Avengers sounds like a truly dreadful idea, well, so do most
of the cast. Some of the more arbitrary plot elements of
Avengers Disassembled also finally start to make some sense
now that this title is following up on them (at least now we
know what they were trying to achieve). Worth a look if
you ignored it on the strength of the dreadful title.
A-
Last week's Article 10 is still
up at
Ninth Art.
Next week,
Excalibur #11 takes us ever closer to House of M;
New X-Men #11 ties up the Prodigy two-parter; The
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe has a crack at
the Age of Apocalypse; Rogue #9 continues her trip to
Japan; Wolverine: Soultaker ships its second issue of
the month; X-Men #168 has more of "Golgotha"; and
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse drones on to issue #4.
There's also the ninth Ultimate X-Men trade paperback,
collecting "The Tempest", plus the Wolverine Classics
trade.
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