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Subj: Re: Marvel's Flashback Minus Ones Part 2 Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 at 07:52:55 pm EDT (Viewed 283 times) | Reply Subj: Marvel's Flashback Minus Ones Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2020 at 11:08:46 pm EDT (Viewed 404 times) | ||||||
Incredible Hulk -1 gives an important look into the history of Bruce Banner. Peter David tells the story of Banner's abusive and murderous father with art by Adam Kubert. The issue is significant but the mishmash of styles doesn't work for me. The story is dark and serious but Stan Lee breaking the third wall as some sort of...I don't know what...(he's like the cool teen characters from the X-Men books of the time) narrator presenting a play of what's going on simultaneously in the main story is just weird and not engaging. It's not a good mix of dark and humorous themes. Wolverine -1, by Larry Hama, doesn't really add anything new to Wolverine's mythos. He doesn't remember his past and he has retroactive history with several characters from the Silver Age: Nick Fury, Carol Danvers, Black Widow and Ben Grimm. Sabretooth is in the story too. It's not terrible, but it's a bit too much for me. Deadpool -1 talks a lot about Wade Wilson but it's all about Zoe Culloden and Deadpool's girlfriend Vanessa. The story by Joe Kelly is ok though a bit predictable. Aaron Lopresti's artwork pays homage to Sterenko's Nick Fury Agent Of SHIELD work. Stan Lee's intro and outro are more emotional rather than lighthearted, which is kind of funny since Stan has no creative connection to Deadpool at all. Scott Lodbell and Bryan Hitch present Uncanny X-Men -1 in which Rachel Summers and Sanctity go back in time to when Bolivar Trask was creating the Master Mold. I was hoping for an original X-Men story but it did touch on an important aspect of X-Men history and did so nicely connecting it to modern X-Men history. Stan appears as the Watcher, possibly for the first time ever? These issues weren't as much fun as the previous 4. Other than the Wolverine issue, the plots were inspired, but I question how much the creators were into the project. Peter David obviously had the Hulk story already in mind but it seems like the Flashback theme flustered him and he tried to do too much. The Sternko-style in Deadpool seems like a copy, adding nothing to the book. The X-Men issue features characters that hadn't been seen in years (were they in X-Calibur?). If I had been a new fan at the time, I would've been very confused and disappointed. Definitely a mixed-bag. | |||||||
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