Until today, I hadn't really read Civil War #4.
Oh, I'd flipped through it on Friday, but I hadn't had the guts to sit down and really get into the thing. I went the spoiler route and what I heard online was that this issue wasn't going to be pretty, so I'll admit to a little fear on my part. But when the guys over at Blog@Newsarama asked for volunteers to write on it to boost some hits, I raised my hand. After all, I had to have something to say on it, right?
Oh dear lord.
I've read it four times in the past 8 hours and each time is just as depressing as the last. Man, I officially have NO IDEA where they are going with this. None. This could all be Skrulls or robots or a dream or another reality or all of the above and it could be true because I still have the same questions I had from issue #1 through #3. Nothing is being answered, nothing is being gained, only more questions and more tragedy. In fact, how in the heck are they going to get 'winners' out of this? How is anything ever going to go back to normal again?
Between this and Astonishing X-Men, I feel wholely unqualified to review either. I just have to put my hands up in the air and wit until the story finishes to understand anything. Marvel's 'Wait and See' policy has finally done me in. Each issue gives you only a random part of a puzzle that I can only guess will turn out to be a picture in the end.
I need to go read Nextwave.
But I have an article to write first.
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Civil War #4 Kicks Me in the Metaphorical Nads, Film at 11
Until today, I hadn't really read Civil War #4.
Oh, I'd flipped through it on Friday, but I hadn't had the guts to sit down and really get into the thing. I went the spoiler route and what I heard online was that this issue wasn't going to be pretty, so I'll admit to a little fear on my part. But when the guys over at Blog@Newsarama asked for volunteers to write on it to boost some hits, I raised my hand. After all, I had to have something to say on it, right?
Oh dear lord.
I've read it four times in the past 8 hours and each time is just as depressing as the last. Man, I officially have NO IDEA where they are going with this. None. This could all be Skrulls or robots or a dream or another reality or all of the above and it could be true because I still have the same questions I had from issue #1 through #3. Nothing is being answered, nothing is being gained, only more questions and more tragedy. In fact, how in the heck are they going to get 'winners' out of this? How is anything ever going to go back to normal again?
Between this and Astonishing X-Men, I feel wholely unqualified to review either. I just have to put my hands up in the air and wit until the story finishes to understand anything. Marvel's 'Wait and See' policy has finally done me in. Each issue gives you only a random part of a puzzle that I can only guess will turn out to be a picture in the end.
I need to go read Nextwave.
But I have an article to write first.