This is the first comic I’ve read since the final Preacher TP. It’s the first comic I’ve bought since the final issue of The Invisibles (no wait, I think I bought some Last Gasp stuff in the past couple years…anyway). It’s also the first Marvel comic I’ve read since about 1992. After the Fall of the Mutants (or was it the Mutant Massacre?—whichever came second) was so fucking lame and no one important really died (what, one main character or something) I swore that Marvel fuckin’ sucked and that I’d never bother reading another one of their comics again. Well, yesterday I step into the comic store that is at the university for the first time since before I lived in Calgary. I thought I might pick up some issues of that Promethea some of you keep going on about (I ended up getting the first TP). So, the guy and I get to talking about the industry and some various writers and what not, and he ends up recommending this book. Well, I figure, what the fuck—it’s only supposed to be a limited series (what 6 books or something?) so if I like it I am not tied in for the next ten years or whatever. And he tells me a little about the premise of the new origins of the Marvel universe: not some “elsewhere” world, but the actual Marvel Universe. Sounds kind of neat.
So I finished reading it moments ago, and I thought it was fun, and is setting up for a tidy little story about the Ark of the Covenant or something. Personally, not having read any Marvel for so long, it was nice to see some of the characters surfacing. I especially like the treatment of Daredevil, and the panel where he does his acrobatics into the second story window was nicely done. And it’s always nice to see Dr. Strange. Also, while I really am sick to death of the X-men (one of the titles I read religiously until the Big Mutant Let Down), there was a real nice panel of Cyclops’ eyes. I am also looking forward to finding out more about the old man.
So, I liked it and I think I will get the rest of the series. I personally have no investment in the continuity and consistency of the Marvel Universe; thus, I really don’t care how divergent the series makes the history of some of the characters. It’s nice to see them shaking it up a little.
Also, the reason Fury and Strange hadn’t met is because Dr. Strange is the Queen's new court physician (see the sequence of dialogue between Strange and his love when he first arrives back home). |
