DARK X-MEN BEGINNING #2 (OF 3)
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Size: pages
Price: 3.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Okay, this one's pretty bad. Still considering myself a pretty new reader, I really only bother with titles like these as a way of keeping tabs on/learning more about the characters I'll be reading about in other titles, but, honestly, I'm really starting to regret the $8 I've dropped on this series so far. Not sure if it'll meet the same fate as Blackest Night: Tales From The Corps (which I've dropped after the first two issues), but that's certainly where I'm leaning at the moment.
Out of the three stories, I'd say the Weapon Omega one is the least offensive to me, and even that one's pretty heavy handed and silly. If I hadn't read most of Civil War online a couple of months ago, I'm not sure I'd have any idea what was going on here, but, being a little familiar with the character, I find him to be a slightly more acessible and potentially more interesting version of the Dark Avengers' Sentry, the tortured hero who keeps f*&@ing everything up despite himself. I mean, the danger there is that he becomes nothing more than a Sentry clone for the "Dark" mutant world, but I guess I'll hold out hope that his dangerous powers and unstable mindset will promote intrigue rather than eye-rolls as the Dark X-Men saga unfolds. And perhaps it's just that mindset that makes it so, but out of all three stories, this is the only one where the circumstances of the individual signing up with Osborn seem even remotely believable.
The Cloak and Dagger story is pretty non-comment worthy for me. Other than the fact that the dude can teleport folks, I don't really understand their place on the team, nor am I really interestsed. This little ditty didnt' do anything to change that. The whole drug bit may be a huge part of these two as characters, but this whole story smacked of "Oh f*&^, we need a Cloak and Dagger story! What are they doing there?"
By far the story that seemed the most ridiculous to me was the Daken one. From most of the reviews of Wolverine and Dark Reign titles I've read online, it seems like the general consensus is that this character sucks. Not having any sort of pre-conceived notions, attachments or even familiarity with the character (I don't really read any "X" books), I really don't mind him and honestly think he's one of the more interesting central figures in any of the Dark Reighn books. I like that he's portrayed as devious and intelligent, in contrast with the more grunt-grunt, git-r-done attitude of his more popular father. That said, is the best way to display his intelligence to have him tossing out info that most of us learn in 10th grade? Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex?!?!? You've gotta be some kinda GENIUS to pull that sort of info off the top of your head (if this was a message board, I'd insert the eye-roll-y emoticon right here). I mean, not only is it weird and illogical and strange that Norman is taking the guy to see Oedipus Rex (who the f$%^ is putting on Oedipus Rex in a huge, posh playhouse these days?), but then we're basically led to believe that Norman Osborn, this genius, master manipulator, has a grand plan to recruit Daken, and that grand plan is to give him a plot synopsis of Oedipus. And then we're supposed to believe that he is SHOCKED and just straight knocked off his feet when Daken happens to already know the story. I dunno, maybe I sound like a smug a**hole here, but this whole bit seemed reeeeally stupid. I walked away having less of an understanding as to why Daken had bothered to allign himself with Osborn, and I'm pretty sure that's the opposite of what this book is going for.
So yeah, I might be jumping off this one.
Art: 3 - Good
"is the best way to display his intelligence to have him tossing out info that most of us learn in 10th grade? Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex?!?!? You’ve gotta be some kinda GENIUS to pull that sort of info off the top of your head (if this was a message board, I’d insert the eye-roll-y emoticon right here)."
^Hahahaha! It’s stuff like this that makes me wish I’d bought the issue just for a laugh. I might actually pick up issue 3 IF Cornell & Kirk are doing the Emma Frost story.
Actually, they were at a showing at Stravinsky’s opera, Oedipus Rex, and Daken didn’t simply point out that Oedipus Rex was written by Sophocles but also that the opera was composed by Stravinsky. He also through out some stuff about the libretto that I assume was true. I want to know what 10th grade you went to if you learned all of that.
Also, my wife saw Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex in Tucson a few years back in their main concert hall. It was part of their opera series. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is put on all over the place given how popular Stravinsky is.
i learned about oedipus rex in 10th grade….and i went to public school…
There’s something wrong with my brain, but knowing that Norman took Daken to see ‘Oedipus’ is the first thing that makes me want to read this series.