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7 Soldiers: Frankenstein

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10:57 / 28.02.06

Frankie #3 was announced as delayed (until 3/8) last week. If all goes well, we should get a double dose next week.

12:00 / 28.02.06

Shilo dies(!) and The Bride betta be rocking a yellow tracksuit.

14:39 / 02.03.06

http://dccomics.com/comics/?dat=20060401&s=31

they've made a right pickle of this - frankie number four will now be out AFTER 7 Soldiers #1

didio's scheduling skills really not his strong point.

Keith, like a scientist

14:45 / 02.03.06

surely they will push SS #1 back a week to compensate?

15:26 / 02.03.06

I'd imagine. Also, I've seen next week's diamoante list and there's a Mister M but no Frank.

15:31 / 02.03.06

So Frankenstein's getting the Zatanna treatment?

16:53 / 02.03.06

Diamond's "expected" list is usually somewhat inaccurate. I usually check Midtown Comics' list on Saturdays.

07:58 / 07.03.06

Just to bring to everyone's attention (in case you don't know already) that issue three has been added to Diamond's shipping list for tomorrow (with Mister Miracle!).

13:03 / 07.03.06

Hot damn!

Anybody know if there's previews up of either anywhere?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

13:34 / 07.03.06

Think I'll skip any previews, just to make tomorrow all the more exciting. This one has the Bride, yes? I love that.

13:43 / 07.03.06

None of the usual suspects have previews...

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

14:02 / 08.03.06

Typical Frankenstein Madness.

Which is to say, a great issue (with a great cover that is in no way the splash page from #2). Apparently these S.H.A.D.E. dudes are all over the OYL DCU and they seem to be quite fun to be around. And Frankenstein's Bride is all that you'd expect her to be and so much more.

I'd write more, but (S&)LoSH didn't come out this week and I've got to downtroddenly kick small bits of garbage around this lonesome sidewalk some more.

14:11 / 08.03.06

So, it's definitely SHADE, not SADE? Pity...

21:22 / 08.03.06

Just for the record:

Ramsey (not Ramsay) Norton was the creator of Chemo, a similar-looking walking bag of toxic waste that was recently dropped on Bludhaven.

X-Hawks looks like a riff on the Blackhawks (complete with Eastern European leader)

21:34 / 08.03.06

Shade yes.... but more than made up for with BRIDE rocking the Kali look. Hardcore stiches replacing a garland of skulls around her neck.

Liked the "new chemo." Wondering if that new tech was Sheeda influenced or just us humans fucking up.

Liked the comment on Time Monsters.

21:35 / 08.03.06

"Says here it's a wetform A.I. based on a prototype by Professor Ramsay Norton."

Prof. Norton is, of course, the creator of Chemo, the large portly gent they dropped on Bludhaven before, and boiled the seas around New York in the first Crisis.

Mahnke's work is glorious. The way the Hussar's tunic doubles as ribcage imagery. The Bride's military platforms and big Kali gearrings. The sweet discomfort and noble pursing of the lips on our protagonist.

The credibility of Frankenstein's power fantasy up to this point is now being challenged, as he majestically attempts to combat hordes of cute animals and cows and water jugs. In over his head, used, experiencing no small amount of emasculation.

Frankenstein boasted of killing his accursed father in the last issue. Now he explains that he honors his name. I imagine he'll feel at least slightly the same way about Melmoth when all's said.

Morrison really does love his Grundyman.

"A mystery for Frankenstein!"

Like a children's show with carnage added in.

I love Frankenstein walking off at the end of every episode like Bill Bixby in the Hulk tv show.

21:42 / 08.03.06

Thanks Mario, I was just going to ask for a namecheck.

The Bride looks sweet. "Reincarnated Assassin Goddess" Yay!

Who's Replika?

7 S.H.A.D.E. Agents to subdue a brainwashed Bride!

Looks like Morrison's seen "What the Bleep?"

I'm gonna try a hand at deciphering Miracle now.

21:49 / 08.03.06

Closest I can find is an alien called Replikon, who was a sort of shape-shifting Amazo-type. Might be a new character.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

01:09 / 09.03.06

God, this was the horny, dirty thing this week. Indeed! Further commentary anon, when I'm freed from the bonds of work and can peruse the thing with more specific eyes.

Also: monster animals and "don't drink the water." Love. Hate. Ugly beauty.

Also: The Bride? Totally looks like our Lady of the Tenebrae. Gloriana's favourite dead girl.

09:32 / 09.03.06

I thought about that, (especially with the way Bride looks all spidery with the extra arms) but it's those selfsame arms that rule her out.

There may be some sort of connection, tho. We now know there's some sort of undead ("differently-abled") community out there.

12:21 / 09.03.06

That stuff about water is the best science ever. I was gonna google it, but decided it was prolly fiction.

However! It is not.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:22 / 09.03.06

"Differently active."

I like, as a break, having the Bride's relationship with Frankenstein way clearer and more emotionally on the level than all the previous Bad Relationships shown in SS (Shilo & Plastic-Jonelle, Zatanna & Gwydion, Ystin/Galahad, Jake/Carla, et cetera...all the way back to Melmoth/Gloriana)...

15:50 / 09.03.06

"Also: The Bride? Totally looks like our Lady of the Tenebrae. Gloriana's favourite dead girl."

I thought the same in the first panel she showed up in. Maybe the Bride has a bit of Golriana's blood in her, in the same way Frankenstein has a bit of Melmoth's?

15:52 / 09.03.06

Or the other way around... after all, we know Sheeda can breed with humans (see Klarion) and Frankie isn't the Bride's "type".

Could the Sheeda be descended from the Bride?

16:27 / 09.03.06

Another interesting possibility. (After posting, I realized that Frankie doesn't look much like Melmoth...)

20:54 / 10.03.06

"Captain Z-X"

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman for the Carter Administration.

Richard Dare became the British wartime hero Captain X, also known as the Aviator, to protect his country from the Nazi menace.

It seems like Captain Z-X is a combination of these two people: A strategist and a superhero.

X-Hawk

The X-Hawk is a "rotorless vertical take off and landing" (VTOL) vehicle. Unlike a helicopter, the X-Hawk's propellers are not extended, but incorporated into the body of the aircraft, enabling it to pull up close to the windows of tall buildings without danger of collision.

Those unique characteristics make the X-Hawk perfect for rescue and law enforcement work: evacuating injured people from high-rise buildings, high speed pursuit and other daring police activities. The X-Hawk is expected to be able to achieve a maximum speed of 200 KPH and to remain airborne for up to an hour and a half (like small helicopters).

- gary

21:14 / 10.03.06

I still think there's a Blackhawk connection, too

21:56 / 10.03.06

I keep wondering how this book wouldd've turned out had Grant stuck with J'onn J'onzz... How do Martians figure into all this? How did the Sheeds, or Melmoth, know about the gold on Mars?

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

00:35 / 12.03.06

I'd be sad as hell. I reread #3 today and thanks mainly to Dougie's extragantly spectacular art I am finding myself more emotionally invested in this book than any of the 7S so far. Which I had in no way expected. I just feel so damn bad for this lumbering, Ekovian monstrosity. I want a solo series out of him like yesterday.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

00:57 / 12.03.06

Sigh. Franky & Zatanna & Klarion & Bulleteer all deserve ongoings. Actually, Dame Ystine as well. Maybe they all do. Frank could wander the countryside as a SHADE agent, kicking the crap out of maddening, weird shit. Zatanna could be exposed to the magical equivalent of Red Kryptonite and split into herself and mad Zorina. Klarion really needs to do a Witch-Boy in the City routine.

I'm going to sit down and reread Franky so far on the morrow. I love the Bride's extraneous arms.

04:50 / 12.03.06

You sayin' Guardian doesn't deserve an ongoing? He's the one that makes the most sense as a storytelling property.

Sadly, none of them will get one... still, a book titled Grant Morrison Presents, with a rotating supercast of a hundred C and D level superhumans would rock.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

17:18 / 12.03.06

Jake should get one. Isn't he in the new JLA or something?

Imaginary Mongoose Solutions

01:52 / 13.03.06

That's the rumor.

And Jake does have his own Heroclix.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

13:42 / 13.03.06

Sadly, none of them will get one

I think you underestimate the power this fully armed and operational DC Publishing Dynamic.

I don't think Johns ever planned to have any 7S show up on the fringes of IC but there they are. I think its the serieses themselves have proven why they deserve at least a revisit (I doubt they'll get ongoings). They are, almost instantaneously, the seven most emotionally developed characters in the DCU. And that's the best part, they do exist full bore in continuity.

It might take a little while, and it'll probably only be guest spots for a bit, but given some time, I really believe we'll be seeing a lot more of these folks. (Except Shining Knight. She's absolutely going to die.)

13:51 / 13.03.06

Shining Knight might be a new Teen Titan. ...At least one can hope.

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