Remember in our last review we talk about stories that has more than one issue? Well, this is sort of an epilogue of the tale involving the kid you see on the cover and what an issue it is as we finally have several villains and also several heroes
We see Fist coming to a special holding cell for supers and going through the motions of security check. We also get a glimpse of the Falcon and then head of facility security but not in his guardsman (cheap Iron Man knock off) uniform
While the humdrum of administration is being administered, something wicked is happening down below as one by one, both villains and good guys started encountering something that scares the shit out of them and yet is impervous to any one of their attempts to stop it. What's this mystery presence? Well, go and buy the book
Suffice to say, the action is drawn out rather than a few pages of over the top fight and the fight here is actually brief but full of tension that makes you keep on turning the pages. For this tale, I do wish it was done in more current contemporary style as it would have benefited the extra pages. Still Greg Laroque penciller turned in awesome pages!
Ratings: 8/10
Showing posts with label #PowerMan. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Monday, March 30, 2015
336. Power Man/ Iron Fist #109 ... Marvel ...
There was a time in the 80s when the Power Man/ Iron Fist series was failing in terms of sales and Marvel made these cute house ads with one version having Fist whispering to us readers to try their mag and the other has Cage telling us to buy
Anyway, so what did they do to ramp up the sales? Well instead of giving us guest star after guest star, for some weird reason, the writers and editors didn't. They did give us stories with a bit of continuity every now and then sort of letting you buy the next couple of issues but that's it and I have to wonder why Spidey didn't drop by or the X-Men? Hehehe!
For me, I started this series with 108 and found myself actually enjoying the straightforward storytelling that stresses more on the human angle and this issue is no different. Here we have Power Man hanging out at the community church as apparently a kid was in there with a gun. Sad story is that the kid is no druggie or thieve. And he ... well ... you have to read the story okay?
While at the office, Iron Fist is approached by a beautiful, sad woman to find her husband as apparently he is ex-forces who has gone off the deep end in trying to bring justice to what he perceived as a world lacking and who he kills along the way including innocents do not bother him
Naturally thanks to TV coverage, Fist's search and Luke's stake out ends up intertwined and in the same place (cool storytelling) ... and the ending is more sad and tragic rather than a simple fist fight
Ratings: 8/10
Anyway, so what did they do to ramp up the sales? Well instead of giving us guest star after guest star, for some weird reason, the writers and editors didn't. They did give us stories with a bit of continuity every now and then sort of letting you buy the next couple of issues but that's it and I have to wonder why Spidey didn't drop by or the X-Men? Hehehe!
For me, I started this series with 108 and found myself actually enjoying the straightforward storytelling that stresses more on the human angle and this issue is no different. Here we have Power Man hanging out at the community church as apparently a kid was in there with a gun. Sad story is that the kid is no druggie or thieve. And he ... well ... you have to read the story okay?
While at the office, Iron Fist is approached by a beautiful, sad woman to find her husband as apparently he is ex-forces who has gone off the deep end in trying to bring justice to what he perceived as a world lacking and who he kills along the way including innocents do not bother him
Naturally thanks to TV coverage, Fist's search and Luke's stake out ends up intertwined and in the same place (cool storytelling) ... and the ending is more sad and tragic rather than a simple fist fight
Ratings: 8/10
Friday, March 27, 2015
333. Cage #4 ... Marvel ...
What-ho! And here we are with the next issue as Cage continues on his merry adventure with Punisher. So what happens now?
Well, firstly both he and Pun made up (awwww) and naturally the bad guys interrupted only for our combined heroes' efforts ... that proved more than sufficient to kick ass. And boy did Cage did a low blow here in this issue against Nitro ... bad ass! And then Pun followed it up with a shot in the back? Talk about fighting dirty
Naturally while the grunts are having a go at each other, the big boss of all these villains are carrying out his dastardly plans elsewhere ... and this involves a new chick that is somehow getting some mileage with Cage ... whether she will be his squeeze is yet to know ... but stupid boss villain ... why you bother with the black man's bitch, eh?
You just know, dumb as Cage is, he will still track down and kick more ass
And o yeah before we forget, that subplot habit of Marvel, yup, still here! Marvel is seeding something more from last issue to this issue for the futur
Ratings: 4/10
Well, firstly both he and Pun made up (awwww) and naturally the bad guys interrupted only for our combined heroes' efforts ... that proved more than sufficient to kick ass. And boy did Cage did a low blow here in this issue against Nitro ... bad ass! And then Pun followed it up with a shot in the back? Talk about fighting dirty
Naturally while the grunts are having a go at each other, the big boss of all these villains are carrying out his dastardly plans elsewhere ... and this involves a new chick that is somehow getting some mileage with Cage ... whether she will be his squeeze is yet to know ... but stupid boss villain ... why you bother with the black man's bitch, eh?
You just know, dumb as Cage is, he will still track down and kick more ass
And o yeah before we forget, that subplot habit of Marvel, yup, still here! Marvel is seeding something more from last issue to this issue for the futur
Ratings: 4/10
Thursday, December 25, 2014
241. Cage #2 ... Marvel ...
O-kay ... for our special Christmas review (done on 31st Jan 2015 actually) ... we decided to do a special ... something that can be hugely popular and yet faded away so fast ... and in Marvel comics, there are quite a number of such titles. A few that comes to mind include:
1. Immortal Iron Fist - hot hot hot when it was launched with David Aja but less than 24 issues before it fizzled out
2. Moon Knight - similarly sizzling when it was launched with David Finch (hey 2 Davids!) but again ran out of steam after only a dozen issues
Now as to Cage .. well this was an oddball choice as it came out in 1992 during the comic boom. At that time, Cage was the old Power Man with the Afro hair, yellow shirt, chain belt type and then when that series finally ended ... this popped up ... and everyone was surprised because now Luke has dropped his 70s look ... and become someone from the then current R&B crop
Naturally the series launched super-hot with back issues going up the rates but after less than 6 months, you knew it would not survive much longer regardless of guest stars or villains galore!
As for issue 2, we quite like it and have read it a few times over the years. Firstly, the artwork on the cover and interior is nothing to shout at but adequate. So is the colouring. However, what is good is Cage now no longer Heroes for Hire but still needing to make ends meet and trying to live it down. So he does all sorts including body guard
What is another cool point is that while the main character is black or African American, in one of the rare times, the writer manages to balance the tone of the book. Here we have him protecting someone who enjoys going overboard about the solidarity of his black brothers and what-not and naturally stirring the ire of white supremacists which in this case is also anti-mutants i.e. those weird robot like chaps with strange smiley faces which turns out to have real people within
As a more relevant guest star, we have Dakota North, a regular white woman who supposedly dresses fashionably and yet is a PI. Go figure!
A bit of a fight, a bit of tension and some good dialogue ensue with the final pages a lead up to issue 3's next action packed adventure
Overall, nothing to run out and find but if you do, have a flip through
Ratings: 6/10
1. Immortal Iron Fist - hot hot hot when it was launched with David Aja but less than 24 issues before it fizzled out2. Moon Knight - similarly sizzling when it was launched with David Finch (hey 2 Davids!) but again ran out of steam after only a dozen issues
Now as to Cage .. well this was an oddball choice as it came out in 1992 during the comic boom. At that time, Cage was the old Power Man with the Afro hair, yellow shirt, chain belt type and then when that series finally ended ... this popped up ... and everyone was surprised because now Luke has dropped his 70s look ... and become someone from the then current R&B crop
Naturally the series launched super-hot with back issues going up the rates but after less than 6 months, you knew it would not survive much longer regardless of guest stars or villains galore!
As for issue 2, we quite like it and have read it a few times over the years. Firstly, the artwork on the cover and interior is nothing to shout at but adequate. So is the colouring. However, what is good is Cage now no longer Heroes for Hire but still needing to make ends meet and trying to live it down. So he does all sorts including body guard
What is another cool point is that while the main character is black or African American, in one of the rare times, the writer manages to balance the tone of the book. Here we have him protecting someone who enjoys going overboard about the solidarity of his black brothers and what-not and naturally stirring the ire of white supremacists which in this case is also anti-mutants i.e. those weird robot like chaps with strange smiley faces which turns out to have real people within
As a more relevant guest star, we have Dakota North, a regular white woman who supposedly dresses fashionably and yet is a PI. Go figure!
A bit of a fight, a bit of tension and some good dialogue ensue with the final pages a lead up to issue 3's next action packed adventure
Overall, nothing to run out and find but if you do, have a flip through
Ratings: 6/10
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