SASQUATCH, TANARAQ...or something else?
Thanks, -K-M-. These reviews more accurately appreciate what is happening in IMMORTAL HULK# 4. My only quibble (besides the misspelling "Langowski" instead of "Langkowski" in the COMIC(S)VERSE review) is that it is assumed to be a prelude to a HULK-SASQUATCH fight. I don't think that's SASQUATCH.
Concept, characterization, motivation, and editing
Back in the day, four things I felt made a good comic book were (1) a solid conceptual foundation, (2) strong characterizations, (3) logical/consistent motivation, and (4) editing that helped make a story better, not worse. OML# 46 has a solid conceptual foundation: Logan and Alpha Flight are friends, and they're investigating something extraordinary. I really couldn't tell you what the concept behind The Immortal Men and The Unexpected is. Chasing somebody?OML# 46 has some good characterization, but Snowbird, Shaman, and Puck don't have any second thoughts about Mac's plan? Shaman concludes his magic won't work without even trying to find out (Shaman's magic worked well in the GREATBEASTS' dimension in ALPHA FLIGHT #24)? I couldn't tell you what the main characters are capable of after 3 issues of The Immortal Men and 2 issues of The Unexpected, even though they are supposedly heroes according to the front covers.Overall, OML# 46 suffers from "horror movie logic" where characters make inane decisions that make matters worse. At least there is a possibility that the second part of the story turns out better; there is no way Immortal Men (already said to be cancelled) and The Unexpected can be salvaged.
Original Alpha Flight - updated roster with Roger and Mr. Jeffries
A 5-page story in the new anthology MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS would be a good way to reintroduce the original members of ALPHA FLIGHT without the risk of launching a series that may not have the audience to support it.
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My unsolicited submission
ALPHA FLIGHT: DISCLAIMER would be my unsolicited submission.
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The partly-new, partly-different ALPHA FLIGHT
I hope MARVEL gives long-time Alpha Flight fans more than just a reprint of ALPHA FLIGHT# 1.
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You are witnessing the beginning of a nightmare...
Disgusting Comics, zombies, and the death of the superhero
Before Sunday, July 28th, 2019, I had hoped that MARVEL comics would let DC comics be the comic book company to publish zombie-fied versions of their most popular characters. Let DC comics revel in the vile degradation of what a superhero is supposed to be. Let DC comics take the lead in the race to the bottom for awhile.
And then I found out from the upcoming October solicitations that MARVEL is going to double-dip in
the same fetid cesspool as their distinguished competition.
I should have known that MARVEL would not see that the extensive implosion currently consuming DC comics (cancellation of 9 out of 10 New Age of "Heroes" titles; MAD magazines impending demise; the end of VERTIGO imprint) makes this a dangerous time for MARVEL, especially if MARVEL relies more on hype and copycatting instead of putting out better comic books. As one of the Big Two goes, so goes the other.
After all the effort DC and MARVEL comics made to create a monopoly on the concept of the superhero, the characters quickly devolved to antiheroes, assassins, and killers. And now...the undead.
A universe where the Justice League---the Superman-Batman-Wonder Woman JUSTICE LEAGUE---cannot stop a catastrophic zombie infestation is not one anyone should want to live in.
Marvel Zombies: Respawn # 1
Over on NEWSARAMA, with pride MARVEL is soliciting a new zombie comic. DC comics is already publishing their zombie epic, DCeased. How low the industry has gone from "With great power there must also come---great responsibility!" to "We're all monsters."
Will MARVEL & DC characters just "get better" from being zombies?
Just got the previews (paper-versions) and it is worse than I thought: DC is going all-in with variant zombie covers, line-wide, MARVEL are heralding RESPAWN #1 as "the FIRST ISSUE of this terrifying new vision of the classic Marvel tale!", and I can't believe that we're spending so much time talking about [B]this[B]! Now, the big two will have to keep publishing this junk every few years to exercise and keep the copyright claims to their intellectual property.
Go, Donavann & Matthew Weldon, and Bill Williams (creative team on PUNCHLINE). Go, Joe Benitez and friends on LADY MECHANIKA. Keep up the good work, IMMORTAL HULK team!