Marvel round-up
Powers #1-2 (ICON): More probable than not, only having read Powers in trades before has spoiled me a bit. It had brighter colours then and for some reason it feels a bit weird reading a comic on non-glossed paper. I liked it, even though I’ve missed a bit in between. Anyone who didn’t see this coming when reading the first trades shouldn’t be able to get within ten feet from a comic ever again. I mean, come on. There’s a 16 ton weight hanging in the roof and someone is about to attack you with a banana. Not even the Sixth Sense was this unsubtle and then that movie had people in “Hello. I’m a clue to the fully visible plot twist, hear me roar” t-shirts. (If you missed it, re-read it again and remember that out in the real world it’s not unusual to use a thing called hair dye.)
Kabuki 7 #1 (ICON): Kabuki, Kabuki, Kabuki. It’s marvelous. (Make that pun, you die.) As usual it takes time to read it because all the text and non-linear placement of them and the images. The style of it begain already in volume 2, but when this story line is over, I think it will even more comlex and in some ways more abstract than Metamorphosis. That’s the same thing as “promising,” as Kabuki has never managed to let me down so far.
District X #2-3 (Marvel): Yeah, I know. Bishop is in it and in spotlight on all the covers, but it’s really good. Really. The focus on the human partner makes everything so much better and the most interesting among the cop-comics. No continuity hazzle with 30+ years of back story and other annoying things. There’s a bit of an age problem though in issue three. Bishop’s partner seems a bit too young when you see his family.
Astonishing X-Men #1-3 (Marvel): Some people don’t like it, others are quite happy indeed. I’m more in the happy place. (Truth to be told, even most of what Morrison did were hardly new, just warped through his brain.)
— Boo (@ 7. August 2004, 02:14)
— Boo (@ 7. August 2004, 02:15)