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A couple of weeks ago, when I
reviewed the previous issue of Exiles, I expressed my
mock-disappointment that the Truth ads seemed to have
finished. I would now like to express my even greater
actual disappointment that they've come back.
They're not in every book in the
line - they're not in this one, actually - but they're so
obnoxiously awful that they're worth a mention anyway.
They simply ooze the dreadful smugness of a self-proclaimed
"Creative" who thinks he's done something clever and
award-winning. "You see? The image provokes... a
reaction! That means it's art!" I have some
helpful suggestions for where he can shove his needle and
thread.
Actually, it's a really bad month
for the quality of adverts generally. Not only do we
have that poor woman in her chainmail bikini looking bored out
of her mind ("Look, just take the bloody photo, I've got to
pick the kids up from school."), we've also got a fabulously
awful new Got Milk? effort. "It doesn't matter if I'm
draining a 3 or throwing down an alley-oop, I gotta give props
to milk." I don't know what draining a 3 involves and
I'm not sure I want to. But I feel certain that nobody
in the real world talks about giving props to milk.
Perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps
America is full of people bigging up the dairy product
massive.
None of the above has anything to
do with Exiles #59, but hell, they keep churning this
book out at such a rate, there's no point wasting material
when you can save it for a later issue. Sasquatch is
gone from the team without explanation, much to everyone
else's bemusement. Instead, they're back on the world
where they left the AoA Sabretooth, and we fill in some gaps
in the back story before segueing into next month's tie-in to
Age of Apocalypse.
It's all perfectly solid stuff,
and Mizuki Sakakibara's art has really been coming along
during her run on this book. Actually, I'm kind of
looking forward to the Age of Apocalypse story, since at least
this book has a good compelling reason to go there. It's
the rest of the event that worries me...
Rating: B
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