From the adjacent hall you can hear a broom sweeping. The smell of disinfectant and moth-balls hangs in the air. Sheets have been slipped from various pieces of furniture and the lights have been turned on. Nice to be back at the Ole Cerberus stomping grounds. Sinister Monday is back up and running after a long, unplanned holiday. I'd like to say that much has changed in comics over the past few months but I can't. You know how comic-book time works. A few months equals a few days, a few weeks if things are really motoring, a few hours if you are, say, the Mighty Avengers.
Examples? Well, aside from that disparaging throwaway line about Carol and the Initiative's Republican Guard...
In Kirkman's Walking Dead we are zombie-shambling forward to the big battle between Home Sweet Prison and the boys from Woodbury. There's already been some fatalities, but please, this is Kirkman we're talking about here. I'm surprised people don't die doing their laundry or clipping their nails.
Scene: Alice (or Ashley, or A-Something, some anonymous girlname, I really can't tell them apart which is sometimes the point in WD, i.e. these people are just regular people, not heroes, just faces in a crowd... that faces an even bigger crowd of ravenous undead) is standing in front of a sink, nail-clipper poised ominously in one hand. Inexplicable light gleams off the cutting edge. She holds up her fingers before her face and wiggles them.
"Been a long time...," she mumbles. And with the first clip she breaks the skin. Blood starts gushing out, EvilDead style, spraying the walls, soaking her orange jumpsuit.
"I'm starting to feel faint... no, hey, that's odd, every cell of my body hurts ridiculously bad. Its like I'm dying or something. or perhaps changing into something other than dead or alive..." 'A' says, dropping the clippers, blood stoppering up to a trickle. Her eyes go cloudy, she begins to gag and groan. She stumbles out of the bathroom.
And cut.
Seriously, i'm really excited about the next few issues of WD. I think the avenues this holy war will open up will significantly enhance the story-line. Specifically if the Prison is breached in such a way that prevents it from being adequately repaired, and our boys and girls need to hit the road once more.
In New Avengers we had alot more "well let's try and prove a couple more times that each of us is not a Skrull." Yet this led to a really neat sequence where Doc Strange's enchantment shows that Echo very much wants to Daredevil, Clint Barton truly is Captain America (or at least a version of Cap), Luke Cage shoulda never swapped out his afro and Spidey is just plain miserable.
Speaking of Peter... One More Day is challenging Back in Black for slowest plot-line in the Marvel U. Aunt May is dying. Peter has no money. MJ is being alienated. Everyone is out to get Spider-Man. All of this serious drama and yet... no drama. All we get is a Kingpin beatdown (which I'll admit, was cool as hell) and alot of whiny woe-is-me, look-what-I-hath-cast-down-upon-my-loved-ones! bs. With great power comes great... ah put a cork in it. Save that for Tobey Macguire.
Beast's quest in "Endangered Species" limps forward. Its, um, supposed to be hopeless, right? Is that why it moves so slow? To show us how little ground we're making up? In this corner, Dark Beast. He's like Beast only with no moral compass. And in this corner there's the real McCoy (hehe, couldn't resist). And boy should the sparks fly having them working together. Sparks? hello, sparks? anyone seen any sparks?
I have a slew of further comics that I haven't read that I will be catching up on this week. Among them World War Hulk, Uncanny X-man, The Justice League, Cap, etc. If you are looking for a less Marvel-centric point of view, well, wake up my sleeping brothers, RHD and El CenTrale. I was at the LCS the other day with them and boy howdy, do they have Indies and DCs and Skekzies to spare. Thats all for now...
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