Friday, May 24, 2013
Age of Ultron!!
Age of Ultron Book One was good. It was better than I expected or hoped. The art is really good thanks to Bryan Hitch,
Paul Neary and Paul Mounts. I am a bit
disappointed that the story begins mid disaster or post disaster which was
Ultron taking over the world or at least Manhattan. The world is in a post-apocalyptic state with
Manhattan under what appears to be a giant spaceship or building (a
dome?). The action starts with Hawkeye
attacking what appears to be a drug den or at least a place with bad guys
running the show. It turns out Hawkeye
is trying to save Spider-Man (we do not know which Spider-Man yet) from
Hammerhead and the Owl. During the
rescue the action attracts the notice of many Ultrons whom attack the hideout
even though there was a deal possibly made between Hammerhead and Ultron that
kept those bad guys safe from the big and powerful Ultron. That deal seems to fail as the Ultrons the
building and such explode. The good guys
get away and reach their hideout in the crashed remains of the S.H.I.E.L.D.
Helicarrier where we meet more survivors.
These survivors are not happy that Hawkeye has returned and run tests on
Hawkeye and Spider-Man. They are greeted
by Luke Cage and She-Hulk followed by Tony Stark (Iron Man) who runs tests on
Hawkeye and Spider-Man to make sure they had not been infected with a tracker
of some sort. We then get a quick look
at additional survivors Emma Frost, Wolverine, Sue Storm and finally after some
more plot exposition we finally see Captain America whom we are told is
devising a plan. First off Hawkeye? We just had an end of the world mini-series
that followed Hawkeye around while the world burned under the fist of Doctor
Doom and the crazy zombie plague known as the Avengers vs. the Marvel Universe. So we have been there done that with Hawkeye
and considering the number of mid power super heroes it seems like Marvel could
have gone with a different character to follow.
I was entertained, when at the beginning of the book Hawkeye continues
to use his trademark arrows even if he has switched to hand crossbows. Second the good guys are waiting on the good
Captain America for a plan? Even though
they have Tony Stark one of the world’s smartest people available to make plans
and fix stuff. In the end I did enjoy
this comic nitpicking aside it was entertaining and a good attempt to draw in
the reader.
Labels:
Age of Ultron,
comic books,
Hammerhead,
Hawkeye,
Hitch,
Iron Man,
Luke Cage,
Marvel Comics,
Mounts,
Neary,
Owl,
S.H.I.E.L.D.,
She-Hulk,
Spider-Man,
Tony Stark
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment