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I like the psychology of this issue – Anders Klimakks (i.e. sexuality) is really a pretty healthy, likeable guy. He only ends up being a devil after hours of “make-up”, to cater to the repressed tastes of Religious Fundamentalists – and similarly, he only becomes the father of murdering monsters when he gets appropriated by the hate-filled Tex Porneau.
Do you think this is too simplistic a reading?
runce-marriage: Was too busy pissing myself (and occasionally going "Urrgh! That's not water!") to come up with any DEEP response.
Funnily enough, runce, I go “Urrgh! That’s not water!” whenever I piss myself, too.
Vlad: The Devil In Miss Jones quite literally
Ooh, nice one!
There’s a strong smell of David Conway off this ish. What was that short story? “Manta Red” or something? It had a pornography star being dragged into a mad experiment in some guy’s house – mutant monster sperm – a pool roiling and churning with scary creatures – and ended with a scene of newly-evolved monsters shooting off from the mad guy’s house to wreak havoc on a city.
Um…I’m not sure I want to saythis, but…is it just my filthy mind, or did anyone else feel weird about that line the delivery guy came out with? “Please – I have two young boys!” I know what he meant, but the line seems wrong somehow… Look, no, on second thoughts, forget I mentioned it.
The crack-smoking cop refers to the Hand as “untouchables”.
1: Connery and Costner and crew. Elite squad of policemen. Their job: to clean up the town.
2: Those at the bottom of the Indian caste system. “The lowest of the low.”
3: Alternative name for this series. Identifies it as the sister-series of The Invisibles. The Untouchables
I’ve got to admit that this issue disappointed me a little. Some of it seemed a little…sloppy. Things like the accidental (?) repetition of Tex’s dialogue on page 16 irritated me. Where’s the editor? On page 18, why do we cut to an outside view of Tex’s place on the last panel? It might make some sense if it was the end of the scene, but it’s not – we’re back inside the house on the very next panel. Are we supposed to be looking at the roof opening up to let the super-sperm out? If we are, it doesn’t look like it. There’s quite a lot of silent panels in the comic, where nothing seems to be happening, or we’re not learning or seeing anything new. Is some dialogue missing? These panels of dullness mess with the pacing of the comic, for me. And why is that third caption on page 8 so amateurish-looking? Was something else written there, but had to be hastily changed before publication?
Maybe it’s all deliberate – a reference to the infamously poor production values of much pornography. Or maybe I’m just an anal-retentive pedant.
Anyway.
The fellow on the porn set that looks like GM had me puzzled – since ish three, I’d thought that Ned/Greg was GM. And those “wanted”/”missing” posters in the police station…hmm…how likely is it that this is some kind of in-joke, and they’re all friends of Chris Weston?
Oh, and: Marxist monkeys giving out about porn? Have a wee glance at Ultimate X-Men #22. |
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