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Does Busiek have a point this time? This entire series seems pointless. It’s Anacleto, finally, drawing superheroes–not a lot of them, but some of them–and they look good and the comic looks good overall, but Busiek isn’t doing anything here. There’s nothing… pressing about this comic book. It’s completely by the numbers.
It’s so unspectacular, I don’t even remember what happened this issue. It ends with Spider-Man not trying to save the Hitman. It apparently takes place in the seventies, since the Punisher has just shown up, but there’s no seventies texture to it. Apparently, setting Marvels in a point in history is over now. It’s just the same as every other Marvel comic. Stuff happened a while ago. An indeterminate while ago. Like when Doctor Doom says many months ten years after an event. Sure, it’s many months….
Oh, man, this was four bucks an issue?
Tags: Marvel· Marvels Principals: Jay Anacleto· Kurt Busiek· Roger Stern
February 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment
And this indie rendition of Strange Tales goes whimpering into the night.
Even Bertozzi’s Watcher intros have run out of steam and Bagge’s Hulk hits its greatest potential then falters.
Sakai’s samurai Hulk story is filler and contrived to be Marvel related. Lewis’s Longshot story is lame and a little misogynistic. Oddly, Longshot looks like a girl.
Brown’s two page FF gag story is good. Stephens’s Beast vs. Morbius story’s lame, but somewhat inoffensively. Chua’s graffiti as narrative thing is unintelligible. Cannon’s Spider-Man origin retell is lame. Lee’s Punisher story suggests he needs a male role model.
Hornschemeier’s story is depressing, Cloonan’s goes for a quic joke and gets it….
Marvel should have required humor in all the stories; they’re not getting “real” stories out of these creators anyway so funny would be better.
They duped me into getting excited for this series with the first issue’s Pope cover.
Tags: Marvel· Strange Tales Principals: Becky Cloonan· Chris Chua· Corey Lewis· Jay Stephens· Jeffrey Brown· Jonathan Lee· Max Cannon· Michael Kupperman· Nick Bertozzi· Paul Hornschemeier· Peter Bagge· Stan Sakai
