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Review Group #369 - Age of Ultron #1
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 This is the big event comic of the year (until some other comic pops up by year's end). Read or look like a dork for not buying a comic that will change things...........forever! Age of Ultron #1 
Digital copy can be found here. Ze rules: Review as often or as little as you like. Once you've posted 5 reviews, you will be awarded 1 pick. You can post 5 reviews, right? That's a totally achievable goal and with day and date digital releases becoming the standard, it shouldn't matter if your shop ordered enough copies of this weeks comic or not. When multiple Review Groupers have posted 5 (or more) qualifying reviews, they will be awarded their pick in the order that they qualified. What constitutes a qualifying review? Any review posted (with a score on a scale from 0-10, that's right 0!) within 1 calendar month of the thread going live. Reviews are to be at least 5 sentences long. It shows that a) you have at least read this week's pick and b) you have some unique insight into the comic. Reviews posted while waiting in line for your pick will be applied to your next pick. I'll be keeping track of everyone's progress with the newly christened Spreadsheet of Fantastic (RIP, Spreadsheet of Doom) and reporting the results in the Current Members list in the weekly OP. When it's your turn to make a pick, I will PM you. If you do not respond to me by Midnight EST the following Sunday, you will lose your pick and I will start a poll to determine that week's selection. Any week in which we do not have a Review Grouper with 5 qualifying picks, we will determine the week's comic via poll. If it's your week to pick, remember to keep it under $3.99. Naturally, this new system is new and it may be necessary to make changes as we go. Ntikrst has next week's pick. Suggestions welcome. 5 Reviews Posted Ntikrst +1 4 Reviews Posted @dace1314 bkthompson guitarsmashley Jude Terror Punchy Stephen Day 3 Reviews Posted BlueStreak ElijahSnowFan GHERU GiveWarAChance Victorian Squid 2 Reviews Posted Amoebas doombug Eli Katz Sakie 1 Review Posted Amlah GLX john lewis hawk Midas PhoenixEquinox SilverPhoenix Sunless |
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Is this the same BMB who wrote Guardians? Whose been writing the X-Men? I'm not a BMB Avengers fan. I tried many times to get into it and just couldn't. This issue being a prime example. For now lets skip over the amount of wasted space and go on the story. Sure it sets the scene, but its not all that good. For one thing where is this set in the 616 timeline? Some major resetting will be done at some point. The story seems very bare bones, its set after Ultron has taken over and not much happens. The artwork is fine, but my problem is the over usage of panels to show the destruction of NYC. After a couple of pages I got the point. This issue could have told more story if pages weren't wasted on all the panels of rubble. I'm not a BMB Avengers guy and I doubt I'll be picking up issue 2. 4/10 |
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Ritten RUview: Age Of Ultron #1
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The Age of Ultron is here!!! Or is it? I can't tell because I'm not savvy on how the MU multiverse works. It looks like Ultimateverse but I assume it's 616 cause I don't know any better. Anyways, a splash page sets the scene and we're in the middle of the suck. Ultron rules over all of humanity or just New York? (Does the MU exist outside of NY?) I dunno I'm just nitpicking because the story didn't tell me. Or maybe it did and I missed it. If I channeled my inner Whedon, I'd say the set up was very Days of Future Past-y and the scoobies are all gone. Not a bad set up, kinda derivative but I'll give Marvel a pass cause they do alternate timelines like DC does alternate universes. Meanwhile, Hawkeye is on a mission to see how many guys he can shoot in the eyes. His aim isn't as cracked up as it used to be, so he misses a lot and hits them in the neck instead. I'm reading Hawkeye's monthly and he doesn't seem to be so fast and loose with killing but these are hard times so I assume that's why he's upped his game. Hawkeye does a nice job of raiding the place and rescuing Spider-man before he's sold to Ultron by the bad guys. Mission accomplished and the two return to the underground hideout the rest of the Avengers use in times of Crisis. It was a big risk and the other heroes aren't happy about it but Hawkeye would rather die on his feet than his knees for the greater good. Besides, Captain America has lost all hope now that his shield is broken. I've seen him make due with shield replacements before but I guess this was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. Not a bad issue per se but there's nothing really good about it either. The action sequence is engaging enough but the whole in medias res approach leaves more questions than answers and makes it difficult to engage the characters or sympathize to their plight because this technique makes everything seem formulaic. Other people have drawn parallels to House of M and I probably would too if I had access to those old floppy's of mine in storage. I can fill in the blanks as to why Hawkeye is illin to kill and Captain America has abandoned his way but when I do that I realize how cliched the narrative is going to be. The heroes are defeated, their will is broken and now they have to overcome this crisis in confidence and their questionable new motivations. Will they be able to resolve their moral dilemma of whether or not the ends should justify the means in time? The more I think about it, the more I hear Stewie Griffin asking about Brian's novel: My last issue with this issue, is the price. $3.99 for 23 pages is fucking steep, especially when it's this decompressed with all those pretty splash pages. Am I using the term decompressed here properly? I'm not sure but I know that it's too rich for my blood. I would pay $3.99 for more pages, or denser storytelling but not this kind of pacing, even though Alan Davis is one of my favorite artists.  5/10 |
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I feel bad for Hickman, the poor guy just doesn't get the exposure he deserves.
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Then I glanced at the cover, which had blinded me in the comic shop under those dim fluorescent lights with its foil-y ugliness, and saw that Bendis had written this shit, and it was suddenly all so clear. More lousy, decompressed, largely unoriginal crap from Marvel. And here I was, having accidentally bought it under the naive and mistaken impression that I might be buying a real story. So anyway, buy Manhattan Projects, don't buy this. 1 |
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Good man. The Manhattan Projects #10 
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The complaints are still there for me. The story feels unoriginal. Alternate reality stories are the best stories in comics because they allow for actual change, but there doesn't seem much different. As an opening issue this leaves a lot to be desired, I guess it's just "world building" but however much you're meant to pay for this you get nowhere near enough. I just want comics to offer me something more. Something less by the numbers. 3 out of 10. |
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I thought you bought Avengers Arena.  I highly recommend that you pick up Rick Remender's Uncanny X-Force run in collections. One of the best Marvel runs of the past decade. |
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I have read Avengers Arena, not obtained it through purchase... |
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