This issue is an introduction to a new enemy who have an agenda tied into M-day, the day all mutants were decimated by Scarlet Witch’s powers. I’m biting my nails and rocking back and forth because writer Peter David knows he’s a tease, and he loves being one. I have to wait a month for issue 18, and the anticipation could kill me.
The artist on X-factor doesn’t matter to me much, but Peter David is a must on this book. It’s a solid series with characters who are all worth caring about. X-factor, technically, is not an X-men book, but it is a definite tie for first with Astonishing X-men for my favorite X-men books right now.
My ruling:
Loved it!
Civil War: The Confession One-shot
Have you ever seen an Iron Man cry? I’ll tell you that it’s almost as sad as tears of a clown. In The Confession, one of Marvel’s monthly attempts to squeeze money out of your wallet, Iron Man is involved in two conversations. The first conversation takes place after a certain event, and the second convo takes place two days prior to that event.
Brian Michael Bendis wrote this, and he does an outstanding job. Add to that Alex Maleev’s artwork, and this book is damn near perfect. This is a very emotional book, and Maleev captures every tear, every facial expression and every gesture perfectly. To describe it best as I can, the art looks like Maleev took smoke from the air, mixed it with ink and used it to bring Bendis’ writing to life. Steve Mcniven’s art was great on Civil War, but I would have loved to see Maleev drawing all those battle scenes involving a who’s-who of the Marvel universe.
This one-shot is a valuable addition to the Civil War story, which angers me a bit. Why couldn’t this be part of Civil War? Did civil war really have to be just seven issues? I think people really missed out on seeing Iron Man as Tony Stark behind a mask. This is the same feeling I got when I read Iron Man/Captain America: Casualties of War. Why wasn’t this story included in the main Civil War story?
In Civil War, Tony Stark sounded more like a robot than a man who was conflicted with being an enemy to his friends. Every time Iron Man was face-to-face with an Anti-registration hero, he was coldly logical and calm. In this book, he is exactly as he should be. Iron Man is a brilliant mind, a visionary, a man with a history of alcoholism and he is also a hero . He’s a man with so much power in his hands that he has to be rational and somewhat cold to get through tough times.
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