All of those unnecessary straps and belts are making me wicked nostalgic though.
I mean I'm excited that Neil Gaiman is coming back to comic books. As he is very good at writing them, this is an established incontrovertible fact. So that's really neat. I just for the life of me do not know why I'm supposed to be super excited about a character who is known mainly for legal disputes and pantyless action figures. That's really it. Don't get me wrong though I loved the character as a boy, mainly due to the pantyless toys (God, I wish that were more of a joke), and the angels were always really well designed. At the same time though, does anybody really care about the ancillary characters of the Spawn universe in 2013? I guess they obviously do as this was a major-ish story last week. I don't know. Yet again, really psyched about the Gaiman, even if that is the most seemingly random book to bring him back to comics, but kinda meh on the Angela.
Their plan to distract the Ultrons by recreating the opening to The Lion King did not work.
On a side note, so far Age of Ultron is thoroughly not shitty. It's self contained, ships briskly, looks nice, and doesn't involve me buying an ungodly number of side books. Ah back to that faint praise that we do here, and that I do every day in real life. Granted, the one issue that I do have with the book is that you can really kind of tell that it was written two years ago and shelved, as the unceasing tumult of Marvel Now! has made character relationships in the book, costumes seem out of date(Now! has by and large been neat, if you just say fuck it to establishing a concurrent continuity) So, Age of Ultron so far, while incredibly decompressed and after thought-y, has only cost me $4 on books with Bryan Hitch art and a serviceable, "Oh, reality got boned and we've got to fix it storyline", which are quickly becoming the "We got locked in a _______ what about those crazy adventures" of comic books. However, I don't know if today's youth as fondly remember the clip show, but I am not above a faulty, shitty allusion. So, in closing, Age of Ultron is okay so far. It's not reinventing the wheel, and while the main plot point is a well worn trope of the past few years; I can still find some enjoyment in a reality thrown all out of whack due to a time whammy; it's a Bendis book - surprised nobody has said that exact phrase yet. So there you go, I don't consider it a waste of $4, and it's mercifully self contained. And my one buddy is all about She Hulk's short hair in it, is weird. I guess we're back everybody, the royal we really.
