FF #6

FF #6 was again very disappointing.  Well the part where one of the Mole Kids deciding it was female that was kind of interesting.  What was bad was how most of the issue was dedicated to the Yancy Street Gang bullying Darla Deering, the solution taken by Ant-Man was to cyber bully them back.  I’m not sure that if the gang was truly as apt as hackers as claimed in this story that one hack back would stop them.  If it was me and I was a punk kid I would keep right on doing this thing that made me money and got me attention.  That is the problem this comic book says that the correct solution to being bullied is to do something worse back to your bully.  Not find a peaceful way to resolve the issue or go to the proper authorities when your phone is hacked.  No you need to get revenge.  So where does this cycle stop?  Does it stop with guns killing people?  It just shows to me that the people working on this comic are not taking the job seriously.  I’m very disappointed.

A + X #6 !!!

A + X #6 Gambit + Thing and Wolverine + Captain Marvel with this month’s theme being Poker games and bluffing.  Wolverine and Captain Marvel were in a poker game showdown with each trying to get the upper hand in a battle of wills.  They argue and then the Avengers Tower is broken into by someone in a big suit of power armor calling itself the End.  Captain Marvel asks the End a “who would win” question and the next thing you see is Hawkeye and Spider-Woman running into the room to see the three not fighting but playing poker.  The second story of The Thing and Gambit starts with the Thing playing poker with the Yancy Street Gang (well three of them anyway) before the game starts the Gang brings in a ringer who turns out to be Gambit.  Gambit and the Thing have a history that the reader gets to see.  In the end it turns out The Thing and Gambit ran a scam and stole the pot from the Yancy Street Gang.  Both stories were well told and entertaining – I was entertained.