Attack of the Ultimate 50ft MILF.
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scans_dailyAuthors from Robert Louis Stevenson to Chuck Palahniuk have dealt with the internal duality and struggle for mastery of the whole within a person. For me, that struggle came to a head when the part of me that wants to read the whole run of Ultimate Fantastic Four defeated the part of me that has tried three times to pick up the Millar/Land run on UFF.
On the whole, it's a terrible, huvenile and ugly run. It will surprise nobody that Land's art is terrible, with inconsistencies between character models, characters whose face doesn't fit on their heads and a lot of people shouting, either in frustration or surprise with the patented Cock goes where?" face.
The writing isn't much cop either, with a lot of daft ideas (and some good ones, like the Super Skrull's journey through time)
The one that caught my eye was in the stupid Namor story, where Reed Richards and Namor fight in New York".
Namor's being petulant and wants to destroy all surface dwellers, etc, Reed turns up in a giant robot suit that has the powers of each of the Fantastic Four and also a "helmet that makes my thoughts into three dimensional constructs, mister... All I have to do is think of something and it'll appear out of nowhere and beat you up."
So he thinks of this
Yes, that's Sue and Johnny's mum, back from the apparently dead but actually faked her death so that she could work on uncovering Atlantis for the princely sum of $1m (and that was when $1m was a lot of money)
A pre-emptive warning that LAAAAND is old hat.
On the whole, it's a terrible, huvenile and ugly run. It will surprise nobody that Land's art is terrible, with inconsistencies between character models, characters whose face doesn't fit on their heads and a lot of people shouting, either in frustration or surprise with the patented Cock goes where?" face.
The writing isn't much cop either, with a lot of daft ideas (and some good ones, like the Super Skrull's journey through time)
The one that caught my eye was in the stupid Namor story, where Reed Richards and Namor fight in New York".
Namor's being petulant and wants to destroy all surface dwellers, etc, Reed turns up in a giant robot suit that has the powers of each of the Fantastic Four and also a "helmet that makes my thoughts into three dimensional constructs, mister... All I have to do is think of something and it'll appear out of nowhere and beat you up."
So he thinks of this
Yes, that's Sue and Johnny's mum, back from the apparently dead but actually faked her death so that she could work on uncovering Atlantis for the princely sum of $1m (and that was when $1m was a lot of money)
A pre-emptive warning that LAAAAND is old hat.
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Date: 2010-09-05 10:37 pm (UTC)But that's Land for you, I guess...
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Date: 2010-09-05 10:44 pm (UTC)