I dislike flashbacks in all media, be it comics, TV or else. If a work features them heavily, like Vengeance, I am instantly turned off.
Vengeance
Written by Last Angry Geek Wednesday, 01 February 2012 05:37
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Comments (14)
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02.01.2012 - 09:33 | Gweskoyen
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02.01.2012 - 10:15 | Shinigami
Oh great. Bad mini series that didn't even need to exist but did becouse they had to have all those six villains in it.
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02.01.2012 - 11:14 | That Anime Chick
Geez, does this miniseries have ADD or something? The way it jumps from place to place is...off putting. And it was made just to sell painted images of pictures? What the hell, Marvel?!?!?
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02.01.2012 - 13:54 | silence_dais
I'll give them credit: those are some really nice pieces of cover art. Personally I would have saved them for a "return of the villain" event like:
Bulls Eye Returns to Life
Magneto Returns to Terrorist Acts
and what not.
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02.01.2012 - 15:15 | Flayl
Zodiac = X the Eliminator?
I had a hard time following the story with all the jumping around, I'd be pretty pissed myself if I had bought that.
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02.01.2012 - 15:32 | Skyscraper
Pretty art wasted on a senseless plot. I mean, I like that Magneto actually choked out the Nullifier and that he didn't job for him... but he's in this comic SOLELY for what looks like a moral lecture to a prostitute which I... can't really see him doing? I mean I can buy Magneto caring for his fellow mutants, but... would he really care if one of them decided to be a prostitute? Does he hold EVERY mutant to some super-high moral standard, not just the ones whom it would benefit him to train and polish?
Oh, and then there's the whole thing about the comic jumping around to a million different places and never dedicating itself to develop one of the threads. But CR already handled that so I thought I could get some meaningless detail-nagging in instead.
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02.01.2012 - 17:02 | TheIrrehensibleTJ
Question. Is Nullifiers gun and/or bullets not made of metal? 'Cause they don't nullify a person's abilities until they hit them, right? How does one *shoot* Magneto?
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02.01.2012 - 21:59 | BumblebeeZ3
I was wondering what the deal was with this series when I read the description the Monday before the first issue came out and decided to pass. I'm still kinda wondering after having seen this. Nice to see some of the old new New Warriors who were ex mutants(but not Ex-Mutants)though.
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02.02.2012 - 07:54 | BathedInFlames
This book jumped all over the place so much I struggled to even pay attention to this review of it. Admittedly I was distracted and bored until the end. Not really your fault considering the material though. It must have been a horrible read.
And I can't believe they put out a book based on needing to use the covers. That's pathetic. Couldn't they have kept them back for when they had a reason for them?
(Also, the Grant Morrison joke gave me a laugh :p )
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02.02.2012 - 13:54 | DarkBee
Just like you, my mind was full of WTF after the first few pages/minutes. That sounded incredibly disjointed and stupid.
P.S. Minor nitpicking: Nancy SinatAra?
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02.03.2012 - 02:29 | Tigerknee
Great Review as Always Geek! So glad to see Gerliedo Rivera is still collecting his unemployment checks.
I was suprised the art work didn't save this comic from at least 1 and 1/2 star rating. That and the fact that you said a third of the story you found pretty interesting.
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02.03.2012 - 20:16 | SijoThanks for the review, LAG. I'm way behind in my Marvel reading these days (but at least I haven't given up on them yet like I have with DC) so blogs like yours are a big help. Plus they're fun to watch. :)
What amazes me the most is that Marvel *actually admitted* in the comic itself the truth of its origins. Did they realize it was so crappy they needed to apologize!? And DAMN, but this is one of the flimsiest excuses for a series I've ever seen. They cancel stuff like Incredible Hercules but print THIS? And Casey too seemed to be daring people to notice that he was just servicing his own characters. Add to that a dark and pointless plot (no, Evil is not necessary, I'll never accept that IN A SUPER HERO COMIC BOOK) and... yeah. I'm glad I didn't check it out.
Plus: Miss America = Latino Bitch Wonder Woman?? Oh God.
Looking up to your next review. :)
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02.07.2012 - 22:06 | Semudara
You have a problem with the idea that Evil is an essential part of the world? It's a pretty common idea in philosophy and in a lot of dramas (Good cannot exist without Evil, nor Happiness without Sorrow); you don't have to agree with it, but the inclusion of that concept in this story is certainly not a mark against it.
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