DARK AVENGERS #7

Review by: flapjaxx

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Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 3 - Good

Comments

  1. Well, you certainly feel strongly about that!

    I admit some of the caption stuff works better than others, but I’m really digging the story overall, and I like the characterizations (of Scott and Emma particularly) better than I have in any X-stuff since Whedon’s run ended. 

  2. Have you been reading Dark Avengers? she hooked up with Marvel Boy.  that’s not EVERYONE, but it is someone.

  3. I just got around to reading this issue–excellent review, flapjaxx. Matt Fraction continues to fall short of impressing. He comes up with only semi-coherent ideas for his comics, and makes his characters sound like "hip" people in commercials. He’s still an improvement on Bendis, though.

  4. I would have thought that the captions were an editorial innovation rather than a device of Mr Fraction’s. For people like me – a Dark Avengers regular but not an X-reader – they’re a welcome way of navigating a huge amount of characters. At least he tries to make them witty – the jetpack one made me laugh.

    I thought it was quite a strong issue personally. Fraction does well with the large cast, his Osborne is note-perfect and there are some lovely moments – Beast moulting to death (!), Dark Beast spraying all over Norman when shouting at him, the deftly written Cyclops/Osborne summit.

    It’s a little unfair to take Matt Fraction to task over the 1984 quote because you suspect him of not having read the whole book – which you can’t possibly know. I would think he chose that line because it’s dramatic, chilling and iconic. Reason enough surely?   

     

      

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