X-O Manowar #47
Aric is a particularly compelling character, a man out of time, in constant tension with modernity; I can certainly relate.
Aric is a particularly compelling character, a man out of time, in constant tension with modernity; I can certainly relate.
Even integrating so heavily into Civil War II, this tie-in issue feels like a perfectly natural extension of the direction this series has taken since the beginning.
“It is the mark of a good fair-story, of the higher or more compete kind, that… however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the “’turn’ comes, a catch of breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art.”
Because male characters have been historically the default, masculinity as a theme is just now beginning to be explored.
“He ain’t in this for your revolution, and he’s not in it for you, Princess.”
Klaus #6 smartly and subtly synthesizes the real pagan roots behind Santa Claus with the superhero tropes the comics medium demands… like Klaus himself, that which Morrison builds is made with magic and always gives the gift of joy.
This issue spends so much effort repudiating the New 52 that it does nothing to excite the readers for Rebirth. And where it falters as an advertisement it fails all the more as a story.
Lex Luthor is the best main-continuity “Superman” in recent memory. Rao help us all!
The Goddamned #4 is a purposeful parody of the Passion story, utilization and upending of Biblical imagery to argue for an antitheist theology.
Civil War II #1 is a confluence of five egregious errors, each emblematic of Marvel comics at the moment.