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Bryan Hitch’s cover for FF #554 doesn’t excite me at all. It’s a bad movie poster, stiffly posed and uninspired. …
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Bryan Hitch’s cover for FF #554 doesn’t excite me at all. It’s a bad movie poster, stiffly posed and uninspired. …
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Very short list of pluses: Dempsey was a good villain, I thought. Shame he was a B-plot (was there an A-plot?). Huntington-Whitely really tried hard to give her character some heart. She was surprisingly good, even if her character was largely pointless except as window dressing. Great to hear Nimoy's voice. Shia was charming as usual and did more with the content than most could. The 3D was top class. It looked pretty.
I yawned. A lot.
I have a soft spot for the first film, but it's charm seems to have been a fluke. Someone please tell Michael Bay that special effects are not story.
I'm confused.
Verily!
And there will be a second printing if it sells out.
And there a places were comics are still on the newsstand? I thought that had gone away years ago.
I turn 45 next year, and I've been feeling a bit like Jimski and wondering if I should still be reading comics. Historically a Marvel guy mostly, I find myself reading a lot less books and a lot more that aren't DC and Marvel. Stuff with there own single book universes. Sometimes it feels like Marvel, in particular, is hanging on the edge of a cliff that leads to 90s nonsense again.
But, probably not. Lots of books that don't last long suggests to me that Marvel is testing what works. It's what companies do when things a flat. I'm sure they are just as unhappy about cancelling some of these books. After all, they like the concepts enough to publish them in the first place. Seems like a transition period for the industry at the moment and everyone, including the people who make comics (who are, after all, just people like us who love comics), are doing their best to sort it out.
I'm feeling the frustration though.