jaydeebee
07-26-2006, 03:23 PM
Okay, for my comic in review, I have chosen UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #1.
First of all, I don't quite understand the title. I don't understand how this can be UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #1 since there is a long line of annuals that came before this one that were also Uncanny X-Men Annuals...so I guess this is a case of Marvel Reboot Syndrome, since more people are likely to buy a #1 issue than a #15 or whatever issue. So this fact alone didn't bode well for UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #1(or whatever).
Our story opens, already in progress, with Storm (Ororo) lying is pile of rubble and all bleedy and icky. After a quick recap, we learn that Storm had summoned the other X-Men; Cannonball, Bishop, Marvel Girl, Psylocke and Nightcrawer, to the African nation of Turkana to help in a battle against warlord Shetani and his forces. The X-Men were attacked in a hotel and the hotel promptly collapses on Storm, which brings the reader up to speed on exactly why Storm is all bleedy and trapped in rubble.
Meanwhile the rest of the X-Men are battling the warlord's forces and not too successfully either.
While this is going on, the reader is jerked back and forth between the battle and Storm's various hallucinations stemming from her injuries. The hallucinations serve as an expositionary way of recapping Storm's history from the death of her parents, to her time with Forge and the other X-Men. Hallucinary cameos include Jean Grey and Kitty Pryde and Storm's parents who warn her that no one returns from the dead. I'll just let the irony of that last statement sink in for a moment before I continue...there, got it? Good. Also we see Storm's inner struggle to decide whether or not to accept the marriage proposal of T'Challa, Marvel's BLACK PANTHER.
Eventually Storm escapes the rubble, confronts warlord Shetani and there's something of a Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader moment, the X-Men meet Storm's granny and Storm makes a decision about T'Challa...to be continued in the WEDDING OF THE CENTURY #1, on sale soon kids!
Overall I came away from UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #1 feeling a little cheated for the $3.99 I paid, considering that it's a TO BE CONTINUED. I think that comic Annuals should be self-contained stories or the end of storylines begun in the regular title. This book obviously stems from a storyline in BLACK PANTHER, but since I don't read that title, I was a little lost, so it should have been STORM MARRAIGE SPECIAL #1 or something like that.
Overall the book looks okay, the art by Clayton Henry and Mark Morales is nice, though Storm looks a little too old in some panels. The story by Chris Claremont and Tony Bedard is a nice recap of Storm's life, but offer very little new information about Storm of any real interest.
Out of 10, I'd give this book a 6. Fish it out of the dollar comic bin in a few months if you haven't bought it already.
:-D :-D :-D :smile: :smile: :-(
+ $15 CC
First of all, I don't quite understand the title. I don't understand how this can be UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #1 since there is a long line of annuals that came before this one that were also Uncanny X-Men Annuals...so I guess this is a case of Marvel Reboot Syndrome, since more people are likely to buy a #1 issue than a #15 or whatever issue. So this fact alone didn't bode well for UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #1(or whatever).
Our story opens, already in progress, with Storm (Ororo) lying is pile of rubble and all bleedy and icky. After a quick recap, we learn that Storm had summoned the other X-Men; Cannonball, Bishop, Marvel Girl, Psylocke and Nightcrawer, to the African nation of Turkana to help in a battle against warlord Shetani and his forces. The X-Men were attacked in a hotel and the hotel promptly collapses on Storm, which brings the reader up to speed on exactly why Storm is all bleedy and trapped in rubble.
Meanwhile the rest of the X-Men are battling the warlord's forces and not too successfully either.
While this is going on, the reader is jerked back and forth between the battle and Storm's various hallucinations stemming from her injuries. The hallucinations serve as an expositionary way of recapping Storm's history from the death of her parents, to her time with Forge and the other X-Men. Hallucinary cameos include Jean Grey and Kitty Pryde and Storm's parents who warn her that no one returns from the dead. I'll just let the irony of that last statement sink in for a moment before I continue...there, got it? Good. Also we see Storm's inner struggle to decide whether or not to accept the marriage proposal of T'Challa, Marvel's BLACK PANTHER.
Eventually Storm escapes the rubble, confronts warlord Shetani and there's something of a Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader moment, the X-Men meet Storm's granny and Storm makes a decision about T'Challa...to be continued in the WEDDING OF THE CENTURY #1, on sale soon kids!
Overall I came away from UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #1 feeling a little cheated for the $3.99 I paid, considering that it's a TO BE CONTINUED. I think that comic Annuals should be self-contained stories or the end of storylines begun in the regular title. This book obviously stems from a storyline in BLACK PANTHER, but since I don't read that title, I was a little lost, so it should have been STORM MARRAIGE SPECIAL #1 or something like that.
Overall the book looks okay, the art by Clayton Henry and Mark Morales is nice, though Storm looks a little too old in some panels. The story by Chris Claremont and Tony Bedard is a nice recap of Storm's life, but offer very little new information about Storm of any real interest.
Out of 10, I'd give this book a 6. Fish it out of the dollar comic bin in a few months if you haven't bought it already.
:-D :-D :-D :smile: :smile: :-(
+ $15 CC