theswordisdrawn
Name: Mark Roberts
Bio: UK based Comics fan. I work in videogames, and run a blog about the fallen Marvel UK imprint ( <a href="http://itcamefromdarkmoor.blogspot.com/">http://itcamefromdarkmoor.blogspot.com/</a> ).
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Coming a little late to the party with this… Nation X: X-Factor was my pick of the week from this…
Read full review and commentsThunderbolts has kind of been riding a high since Warren Ellis rebooted the title after Civil War. The whole Villains Team…
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France also has heroes. Le Peregrine. And Les Heroes de Paris.
Mohannda, Wakanda's neighbor to the North, has Afrikaa - who debuted in the pages of Black Axe, in the 90s.
And I don't know if you'd call him a Hero exactly, but Mbangawi also has a champion in the form of Joshua N'Dingi. Better known as Doctor Crocodile - principly a Captain Britain character, but who also appeared in Warren Ellis' Astonishing X-Men.
There's also S.H.E. - The Super Heroes of Europe. Granted we haven't really seen them since Civil War, but we assume they're still active.
But I think the most interesting thing about ALL of these teams and characters is just how few of them have appeared in a big Global Event like Fear Itself...
I mean Iron Man was fighting n Paris, but the very Heroes who protect that city never showed. Most likely because somebody forgot they existed...
But I won't be buying this book.
And I won't be because of Matt Fraction. Through Uncanny X-Men, Thor and Fear Itself Fraction has disappointed time after time. He talk the talk in interviews, hypes the books in person a cons, paints this brilliant Epic picture of what he's going to do.
And then utterly fails to deliver the concept in panel.
It's easy to see how he talks the editors into giving him the chance to tell these stories, because he's great at publicity. But the concepts he hypes are clearly that little bit beyond him when he comes to writing a number of his stories.
I fear this will be more of the same. And so I won't be picking this up.