When Lazarus opens, we see a woman being shot with a description of where each bullet hits her body and the damage it inflicts. She looks dead. The woman is Forever Carlyle, Lazarus to the Carlyle family, and she cannot be killed. She kills the three men who tried to kill her, but expresses sadness because they were just looking for food. This is of concern, because the power structure won’t last if the enforcer is questioning the structure. In the future, states have disappeared […]
You know, for kids!
About a year ago, the Marvel Comic Moon Girl got a lot of positive press because its heroine is a young girl of color and because it was revealed that Lunella Lafayette, aka Moon Girl, is perhaps the smartest character in the Marvel Universe, outshining intellects such as Tony Stark and Reed Richards. Lunella is a science/math/engineering wunderkind and a fourth grader. She is also bored at school, friendless, and, in her opinion, deeply misunderstood by most of the people in her life, including but […]
Saga Vol 7, but also all the rest in spirit
I can’t tell you what Saga is about. I wonder if anyone can really sum it up in a few sentences to catch everyone up. I couldn’t imagine trying to watch this as a tv show because of this weird kind of disjointedness. One of the effects of having fifty different stories being told simultaneously and from multiple times in the future is the kind of fracturedness we get in this series. Because of this nature and the nature of its subject matter, the confluence of about […]
Wade wants to roast marshmallows while all creation burns.
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe is interesting, but not as much fun as I like my Deadpool. Spoilers abound in this review. The first issue opens on Sue Storm grieving with Reed Richards as he dies a rather gruesome death in the shattered remains of The Thing. Soon we find out that Deadpool has killed them, and he promptly kills the Storm siblings. But why? Flashback to Charles Xavier and some X-Men forcibly checking Deadpool into a mental hospital. It’s pretty clear that something sketchy […]