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Subj: Re: You had me at "which will give you a huge hint as to who the main villain is." Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 at 05:29:24 pm EDT (Viewed 467 times) | Reply Subj: Re: You had me at "which will give you a huge hint as to who the main villain is." Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 at 05:01:10 pm EDT (Viewed 508 times) | ||||||
Quote: Quote: I didn't really care for the new imagining of Deathcry in Annihilation: Conquest. She was an irrational killer; Captain Universe saved her from an attacker, and she flipped out and tried to kill him for taking away her "honour killing". I don't have a problem with that concept, she just seemed pretty fanatical about it.Quote: I remember picking that issue up in the store specifically because of the inclusion of Mantis and Deathcry, and then putting it back after seeing that they just dug her up so they could make a joke out of killing her. It pretty much solidified that I was done with Marvel's continuity. (Which might have been a shame, since I've heard good things about those cosmic books otherwise.)I'll be honest, the Marvel cosmic books have been pretty out-of-the-park. I collect them all in hardcover form, since you can get them on Amazon for about $25. What I really liked about the hardcovers is they collect everything except Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy (those are collected separately), otherwise the whole story is there. Nova has been one of Marvel's best books since it started so I was already collecting that in tpb format anyway, and I'm just starting to pick up the Guardians collections here and there. We'll see how good the Chaos War is though...it's a cosmic story but it's not being told by DnA, so I reserve judgement. Seems like every day a new tie-in is revealed...I just learned about a Thor tie-in, and Ares tie-in, and a rumour of a Silver Surfer tie-in. Quote: Blowing her up as a gag just seemed like such a waste, and fit the trend of Marvel killing characters left and right. Yes, they can always come back, but they waste such story potential every time they off someone callously.Well, her death did have some meaning in that it really shell-shocked Captain Universe, who had to kill her to save himself. I guess they wanted to establish that people could and would die and Deathcry got the nod. While I didn't like her portrayal, I liked how they explored Gabe's guilt after he killed her. ~Hat~ | |||||||
