I have eight books from last month that showed up on Monday. That's the last of the new books from 2022, so once we get through these reviews, I'll jump in the Year in Review posts. Either the 12th or the 13th, depending on whether I've got a book/movie review to post on the 12th or not.
Marc and Tigra march into the Tutor's big show. The Tutor makes a speech about how ineffective and foolish they are, as the old way, versus all his buzz speak and TED talk horseshit. Moon Knight promises to kill him, and Solider uses his HYDRA training to hack into a trigger the sprinkler system. At which point Marc consecrates the water in the name of Khonshu. Burn, baby, burn.
Vampires destroyed, one human servant left alive to tell Dracula to stay out of New York. Yes, I'm sure that's what will keep him out, a trick they pulled in the Constantine movie, not the presence of the Sorcerer Supreme, who whipped Drac's ass more than once.
It's a very perfunctory conclusion. Walk in, talk a bit, trigger the sprinklers, boom, vamps beaten. So easy there's no real sense of any triumph. I guess the point is Tutor's plan was built on him being indispensable, which made bringing everything down rather easy. He just figured he was safe because he was sure he was smarter than everyone else.
With Rosenberg as colorist, Sabbatini's work continues to look very similar to Cappuccio's, the exception being Tigra. Sabbatini softens his lines on her, so she looks softer and more rounded, especially her face. The eyes are rounder, and he makes the stripes on her face wider, less like sharp slashes. The overall effect makes her less fierce, younger looking. It's the first time I've really noticed a big difference between how the two portray a given character.
He also substantially reduces the amount of cleavage revealed by her dress and removes the sleeves.
Deadpool tries to kill Doc Ock and not get recaptured by Harrower, while symbiote arms keep bursting out of his body. Although the arms are sometimes helpful, they don't have the same priorities as Deadpool. With Deadpool's healing factor and tendency to make jokes about terrible injuries, it's hard to make damage he sustains really look bad, but I'll say Coccolo did a good job here. Especially when one of the arms bursts out of Wade's mouth. I think it's how he shades the fabric of the mask so you can see Wade's body being stretched and his eyes are actually shut from the pain.
The fact Ock then flails his tentacles about trying to dislodge Deadpool, like a frightened housewife leaping on the kitchen table in a Tom & Jerry cartoon, somewhat undercuts the moment, but oh well.
In the middle of the fighting, Lady Deathstrike shows up. Because she and Deadpool were supposed to work on this hit together. Apparently she was there during the entire expository flashback with the Atelier, and we didn't see her because it was Wade's flashback and he was fixated on Valentine, the person with the needles. Which isn't a bad way to play with Deadpool being an unreliable narrator, really, although it feels like the sort of thing that could easily be abused and get really tedious.
Anyway, Deadpool bails on Deathstrike again, they fail to kill Ock, meaning they're not getting into the super-secret assassin club. Which seems like a waste, but I assume the Atelier will become antagonists now. On top of Ock, Harrower, and Deathstrike, who are all pissed at Deadpool, who ran to Valentine for help. Who I'm sure is not going to do anything unethical with Wade or the symbiote.
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