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sdelmonteThe rest of this week's stash...
Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born 3 - Wherein Roland meets Susan, the boys get the lay of the land, Farson and Marten scheme, and the boys and the Coffin Hunters have a little set-to. I enjoyed this, in part because the story is being streamlined. (Wizard and Glass was not my favorite DT book and could have been shorter, IMO.) The confrontation was very well done. The visuals for Farson, though, are just wrong. The high point, however, was the text piece offering the origin of the Gunslingers. I am not thrilled, though, that we spend $4 to get a transcript of the panel the DT staff and King did at NYCC instead of more story. Marvel knows that it has a captive audience, though, and any complaints are useless.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Eight 2 - Amy strikes, Dawn whines, things happen. This issue is a bit scattershot, with scenes featuring Giles and Andrew (the worst drawn Andrew possible, I am afraid) that are interesting but irrelevant, and a rush towards things at the end of the issue. Still, the main plot works, the voices are right, and by the last page everyone is back in our viewscope. Good stuff.
Runaways 25 - Joss' first issue (out of only six, it seems - I am tired of seeing big name writers hired for short runs). The good news is that he gets the characters' voices right. The bad is that his plot - with the team in NYC, seeking help from the Kingpin - makes no sense based on what came before. it's as if he wanted to write the team so badly that he ignored the question of what to do with them. Also, the script is just a little too glib. BKV was better as balancing the glib and the serious. But at least it's readable and fun, which for Marvel these days is rare.
Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born 3 - Wherein Roland meets Susan, the boys get the lay of the land, Farson and Marten scheme, and the boys and the Coffin Hunters have a little set-to. I enjoyed this, in part because the story is being streamlined. (Wizard and Glass was not my favorite DT book and could have been shorter, IMO.) The confrontation was very well done. The visuals for Farson, though, are just wrong. The high point, however, was the text piece offering the origin of the Gunslingers. I am not thrilled, though, that we spend $4 to get a transcript of the panel the DT staff and King did at NYCC instead of more story. Marvel knows that it has a captive audience, though, and any complaints are useless.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Eight 2 - Amy strikes, Dawn whines, things happen. This issue is a bit scattershot, with scenes featuring Giles and Andrew (the worst drawn Andrew possible, I am afraid) that are interesting but irrelevant, and a rush towards things at the end of the issue. Still, the main plot works, the voices are right, and by the last page everyone is back in our viewscope. Good stuff.
Runaways 25 - Joss' first issue (out of only six, it seems - I am tired of seeing big name writers hired for short runs). The good news is that he gets the characters' voices right. The bad is that his plot - with the team in NYC, seeking help from the Kingpin - makes no sense based on what came before. it's as if he wanted to write the team so badly that he ignored the question of what to do with them. Also, the script is just a little too glib. BKV was better as balancing the glib and the serious. But at least it's readable and fun, which for Marvel these days is rare.
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