Avengers Arena 9 One Page... Plus Tribute
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scans_dailyWe lost another one...
There's some actual good stuff in this issue about Katy/Tim's backstory and the ethics of dooming an innocent person to stop a monster but... this is just too damn much for me.
With a cast of 16 characters and finite number of issues we all knew someone was going to get shafted but I actually think Juston got off worse than Mettle. At least Ken died defending someone he loved. Poor Juston went through a string of loss and sacrifice just to hype how evil Katy is. Worse still we're never given time to reflect on his flesh and blood friends and family. If you came into this book having never read Sentinel (or Juston's few appearances in Avengers Academy) you'd think his only loved one was the Sentinel. (Which was Tom Skylark's M.O.)
Anyway here's a few pages from the final issue of Sentinel vol. 2 by Sean McKeever and Joe Vriens.
I prefer to remember Juston not as how he died but how he lived. A kid in a bad situation who made some mistakes when he found some power and spent the rest of his life trying to do the right thing. He didn't always do it the right way but his heart was in the right place. Which is something I think Hopeless never got about the character.
There's some actual good stuff in this issue about Katy/Tim's backstory and the ethics of dooming an innocent person to stop a monster but... this is just too damn much for me.
With a cast of 16 characters and finite number of issues we all knew someone was going to get shafted but I actually think Juston got off worse than Mettle. At least Ken died defending someone he loved. Poor Juston went through a string of loss and sacrifice just to hype how evil Katy is. Worse still we're never given time to reflect on his flesh and blood friends and family. If you came into this book having never read Sentinel (or Juston's few appearances in Avengers Academy) you'd think his only loved one was the Sentinel. (Which was Tom Skylark's M.O.)
Anyway here's a few pages from the final issue of Sentinel vol. 2 by Sean McKeever and Joe Vriens.
I prefer to remember Juston not as how he died but how he lived. A kid in a bad situation who made some mistakes when he found some power and spent the rest of his life trying to do the right thing. He didn't always do it the right way but his heart was in the right place. Which is something I think Hopeless never got about the character.
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Date: 2013-05-14 01:11 pm (UTC)There all found under this label:
http://www.forcesofgeek.com/search/label/Gladiator%20Games
The first one is the review. You can just read that, but having a background in the genre can help a lot.