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April 14, 2012 12:11 pm Ivan Brandon's VIKING came along when Northlanders was on around #15 or so - they didn't launch at the same time.

April 12, 2012 12:12 pm Brian Wood is taking the book over with #13.

April 3, 2012 1:07 pm I wasn't disagreeing with you, or even commenting on your comment. To each their own. However, I too would be nervous of anything written by a "Brian Woos". Sounds like a wannabe.

April 3, 2012 8:59 am Those bulletpoints don't seem to belong to this issue. Nice proofreading, whomever did that. I'm reserving judgement until the end. This is one of those stories where the right ending can validate, or not, the whole thing.

February 6, 2012 7:50 pm Not even close. She's done American Virgin at Vertigo, Nation X and Strange Tales at Marvel, some Buffy-verse work, and some Northlanders.

November 28, 2011 7:14 am Agree with both of you. History written by the victors, etc. Such is the way of the world. Matty dd get a bunch of stuff in exchange for taking the rap, so that's something. But we shouldn't forget, Matty is a murderer. By any real world definition, he would be called a terrorist.

November 27, 2011 10:31 pm A bunch of those charges were right, though, he did most of that stuff. I don't think anyone who's read the book would say Matty is an innocent. It's true he took the heat for everything rather than fight it, but his reasons were clear enough. He gave up his amnesty way back in #54, saying he didn't deserve to get off scot free, so this was coming a long ways off.

October 27, 2011 11:33 am Matty "dealt" with the nuclear bomb only in that he cut a deal with the President to keep the dirty secret a secret, in the interests of peace and to help Parco. The issue is NOT settled... someone has to take the blame, publicly, and regardless of who detonated it, Matty's the one who bought it and delivered it to the "enemy". That right there is a crime, isn't it? Like, many many crimes, including treason, I bet. Accessory to mass murder, terrorism, war crimes? There's also the men he ordered killed in #49, as well as a whole host of other crimes along the way. I agree that all this started relatively late in the story - the start of the third act - but its far from abrupt or "fast". Matty gave up amnesty for these crimes back in, what, issue 54, and since issue 66 has been dropping hint after hint that bad news is looming on the horizon. He's packed up his stuff, shipped it off, is doing this farewell tour of sorts, and told Zee about it (but not the reader, tho). If anything I think Wood is reminding us too often, hitting that note over and over. But as is often the case with you and me, I see more in these stories than you tend to. I'm either inventing all of this or you are reading too fast! :) BTW, "M.I.A" is two arcs ago: MIA, (skipping the Matty part of Collective Punishment), Free States Rising, now Five Nations.

October 26, 2011 8:18 pm As I recall, this "problem" that Matty has isn't just out of the blue. I can trace it back to the end of "M.I.A." where he seems to hint at trouble ahead when he voluntarily gives up immunity from prosecution, and he's a guy that just sold a nuclear weapon that went off inside the US. That's gotta be the thing that's gonna come back around. At the start of this final arc, he asks those Secret Service-type guys to give him two weeks and then he'll cooperate...

September 21, 2011 4:38 pm EXTREMELY SLIGHT. A lot of 2 and 3 panel pages. Brian Wood would have done better.