HEROIC AGE ONE MONTH TO LIVE #3 (OF 5)
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PENCILS: SHANE WHITE
COVER BY: MIKE DEL MUNDO
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
This book is fifteen shades of greatness. We continue to follow our doomed hero, Dennis Sykes, as the Fantastic Four recruit him for a cosmic mission that they need his new found powers for. If it weren’t for the weighty undercurrents and leaps of logic, this would be competitive with the fun nature of Avengers: Infinity Gauntlet.
Dennis is made an official member of the Fantastic Four ( a briskly evil opinion on that to come), and has to defeat Ego, the planet of…death. Mogo’s evil twin is consuming worlds in the center of the galaxy, and all will be destroyed if he continues on his cosmic-buffet-rampage. Dennis discovers that a “tumor-like-growth” is the cause of all the mayhem, and extracts the tumor, saving the day, NAY, the galaxy.
Of course there are leaps of faith here, and moments when you have to turn off the logic board in your head, which is why it feels like a Silver Age Marvel book. For instance, the FF make him a member of the team. This just shouted “Pity Fuck” at me. Hey there Make-A-Wish Samaritan, wanna join our club? Since you have about 2 weeks left, we won’t have to worry about membership cards being lost in the mail by Willie Lumpkin. The other leap of faith here is the obvious cancer cure thing. If Dennis is developing the powers of Dr. Manhattan, and cured a cosmic planet of it’s cancer……You see? This is the same as the Penguin holding up the local movie theater to threaten Batman. It’s all nutty Silver Age comics. And if it weren’t for the drab realism the book is based on, I’d buy into it. However this feels like Angela Lansbury is guest starring on Dexter.
Anyways, enough of the old man reading comics moments. Shane White draws a hell of a FF book, and the illustrated environment he creates reminded me of 1970’s adventures. The lines drawn on Johnny, the crazy drawings of the planet, and the cosmic cancer creature all create a fun Silver Age Marvel book. Can’t wait to see the storytelling style presented in the next 2 issues.
Art: 4 - Very Good
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