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I'm... not sure about Metal Men. It invokes a - fairly unpopular, I believe - bit of continuity, namely Joe Kelly's 'Obsidian Age' arc on JLA (which I'm rereading and not enjoying greatly, as a result; it does have some particularly baroque plotting but the dialogue, particularly with the replacement JLA, is pretty poor in swathes.) Yeah, so that's Tezumak's gauntlet, which is Bronze, fact fans.
It's fairly appropriate for it to have doen that, though, because it is kind of a sub-Morrisonian superhero piece so far, in the way that Kelly did on JLA or say Doe Young, with less strictures, did on The Monarchy - (probably) very intricately plotted, some good high-concept, maybe not entirely able to sustain thematic concerns through the issue or have dialogue above serviceable or occasionally jarring (surprising more from a writer-artist) with the pictorial aspect.
It was just charming enough for me not to feel I'd wasted my time, which is - I think - as it oughtta be with the Metal Men, but the three plot strands were, to my mind, of diminishing prepossession going through the book. The art's phenomenal, though, very much it's own thing; I have this kind of fascination with the way they present the cross-stitch on Magnus' tweed (I assume) as perpendicular to the page every time, regardless, something I think either Allred does or has done or is a visual cue to his appearances in Doom Patrol - vs. the Candlemaker - way back. Or both? He's a trippy square, anyways.
Incidentally, apart from a quartet of comics cowritten with Steven Seagle - three of which were Alpha Flight - this, The Nightmarist seems to be Duncan's only other solo writing venture. |
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