Post by Jesse M. Huertas on Feb 15, 2007 14:27:00 GMT -5
Better than Life Itself: It must be in your collection for eternity
Definite Read!: A great read from front to finish
Not bad, but not great: A decent read worth the asking price
Well, it’s not the worst: Only for diehards…even then
Where’s my Pistol?: Titles like this make you question your hobby!
Short Review for short book folks...
This month we get a glimpse at the 'new' Cyber and we get to see the face of bastardo. This book was so painful to read and awful that I cannot understand why it is published.
Wolverine wakes up, escapes SHIELD confines in the span of 7 pages, then the scene shifts to bastardo in a weird interlude of him walking home to a drunken bald chick who caught him in a bar smooching on some dude whom he then later suffocates in a hotel. He tells this chick that he knew she would catch him feeling up on a dude, knew she would call her girlfriends and knew she would drink in depression, so he puts sleeping pills in her bottle.
All this interlude takes place in the span of 7 pages. No rhyme or reason why this is even here, I guess it's to show how badass and manipulative 'bastardo' is, I guess. It's no insite or anything on him.
Then we get interlude #2 featuring a grown man with down syndrome that has a body of Arnold Schwarzegger in his prime who ripped of 'hossy's' head (horse). This boy/man or whatever name is Milo. His mommy washes him up in the tub and he goes to sleep until his teddy bear starts talking to him in his amazement. It wasn't his bear, it turns out to be Silas Burr aka Cyber who wants to be Milo's new bud bud. This takes up another 6 pages.
Yes yes folks, it's as bad as it sounds. Cyber was a cool villian prior to his gruesome death 10+ years ago, so why he's being ressurected for the purpose of this story is beyond me. This book is so crap that I fail to understand why Marvel's QA don't put a stop to this. Another wasted issue. I mean Jubilee has a hole of a basketball in her, but why mention her, Dugan is dead I think, but who knows. There are so many subplots that I don't even think Dan Way has kept track. This could have been the perfect issue to actually delve into Wolverine's psyche, but nope, asking too much for our estranged writer.
*sigh* i've said it before and I'll say it again, this book had such great promise and it's fallen on it's face, During origins and endings cool scenes of national bigwigs were shown committing suicide, burning paper trails when announced that Wolverine has all his memories, all those were cool, none of those touched on, hell I'm still wondering what Condolezza's role was and why a SHIVA robot wiped her out, that was 10 months ago, so who knows when that'll get worked out.
Most books are criticized for having style without substance, this is one of those books that has neither style or substance and it hurts a bit more since this book belongs to Wolverine, one the of the greatest fictional creations ever. It's a shame that this monumental type of story is being wasted on some lame concept by Daniel Way, where's Larry Hama and his retcon machine when you need him
REVIEW: Where’s my Pistol?: Titles like this make you question your hobby!
Definite Read!: A great read from front to finish
Not bad, but not great: A decent read worth the asking price
Well, it’s not the worst: Only for diehards…even then
Where’s my Pistol?: Titles like this make you question your hobby!
Short Review for short book folks...
This month we get a glimpse at the 'new' Cyber and we get to see the face of bastardo. This book was so painful to read and awful that I cannot understand why it is published.
Wolverine wakes up, escapes SHIELD confines in the span of 7 pages, then the scene shifts to bastardo in a weird interlude of him walking home to a drunken bald chick who caught him in a bar smooching on some dude whom he then later suffocates in a hotel. He tells this chick that he knew she would catch him feeling up on a dude, knew she would call her girlfriends and knew she would drink in depression, so he puts sleeping pills in her bottle.
All this interlude takes place in the span of 7 pages. No rhyme or reason why this is even here, I guess it's to show how badass and manipulative 'bastardo' is, I guess. It's no insite or anything on him.
Then we get interlude #2 featuring a grown man with down syndrome that has a body of Arnold Schwarzegger in his prime who ripped of 'hossy's' head (horse). This boy/man or whatever name is Milo. His mommy washes him up in the tub and he goes to sleep until his teddy bear starts talking to him in his amazement. It wasn't his bear, it turns out to be Silas Burr aka Cyber who wants to be Milo's new bud bud. This takes up another 6 pages.
Yes yes folks, it's as bad as it sounds. Cyber was a cool villian prior to his gruesome death 10+ years ago, so why he's being ressurected for the purpose of this story is beyond me. This book is so crap that I fail to understand why Marvel's QA don't put a stop to this. Another wasted issue. I mean Jubilee has a hole of a basketball in her, but why mention her, Dugan is dead I think, but who knows. There are so many subplots that I don't even think Dan Way has kept track. This could have been the perfect issue to actually delve into Wolverine's psyche, but nope, asking too much for our estranged writer.
*sigh* i've said it before and I'll say it again, this book had such great promise and it's fallen on it's face, During origins and endings cool scenes of national bigwigs were shown committing suicide, burning paper trails when announced that Wolverine has all his memories, all those were cool, none of those touched on, hell I'm still wondering what Condolezza's role was and why a SHIVA robot wiped her out, that was 10 months ago, so who knows when that'll get worked out.
Most books are criticized for having style without substance, this is one of those books that has neither style or substance and it hurts a bit more since this book belongs to Wolverine, one the of the greatest fictional creations ever. It's a shame that this monumental type of story is being wasted on some lame concept by Daniel Way, where's Larry Hama and his retcon machine when you need him
REVIEW: Where’s my Pistol?: Titles like this make you question your hobby!
