It's Wednesday night, and Friday I'm driving 600 miles with Alex to one of his gigs, then coming back on Sunday. Fingers crossed things go well!
I was only able to find two of last week's six books at the local store, but they're both from Marvel, they're both on the 4th issues, and they're both kinda disappointing me. That's enough of a theme.
Deadpool, with the symbiote, are doing pretty well against Harrower's experiments, so Ock tries taking Valentine hostage, but doesn't pay attention and gets shot. Despite the fact we see blood, he doesn't seem all that hampered by it three pages later, when he destroys one of Valentine's arms. Which is about when things go wrong.
Deathstrike shows up, trying to kill Deadpool. She has to kill him and Ock, why not go after Ock first? As long as Deadpool's alive, he's a distraction she can use in her favor. Anyway, Harrower yoinks the bag of sedatives keeping the symbiote free of her control, Deathstrike gets multiply impaled, and off the bad guys go. Valentine gets Deathstrike on her feet and demands she help rescue Deadpool, or she'll die screaming in agony. In the meantime, the symbiote has matured and, sigh, Cletus Kasady bursts out of Wade's chest like a Xenomorph.
Oh goody, said no one whose opinion is of any relevance to me whatsoever. After a promising third issue, Wong returned to the stuff I don't care much about. The symbiote as antagonist, Harrower, Lady Deathstrike. The symbiote as sort of a supporting cast member that we saw glimpses of last month? That I liked. There's something there, where the symbiote could act as most of Wade's historical supporting casts. Sometimes they bail each other out, sometimes they screw each other over, sometimes they just annoy each other. Valentine as supporting cast/love interest/person of mystery? That I like.
So I'm back at the point of whether I want to continue buying this book on the chance I will get more of the stuff I like. Example, at the end of the issue, Wong nods towards the question of, why exactly Ock has hung around and helped Harrower. We don't get an answer, but am I intrigued enough to hang on and find out?
Min-Jae gets ready to steal Tae's powers and transfer them to himself, so Lady Bright busts through the window. Then she pauses she Tae can give us another flashback about how he decided to turn his life around and make up for all his past misdeeds. Then, having not destroyed the machine or incapacitated Min-Jae during all this, Lady Bright has to try and fight him when he dons the ugliest, stupidest looking armor I have ever seen.
It is like a grey version of a Mandroid armor, but instead of the clear faceplate, it's just open in front like Magneto's helmet. Or maybe like he's wearing a Mindless One as a meat suit. It's made of a bunch of little flat pieces of metal, which he can shoot like projectiles, but also he can channel energy through it. Or electricity, maybe it's electricity.
He triggers the machine, Lady Bright tries to destroy it and fails, then gets beat easily by this moron in his shitty armor. Then the rest of the team shows up, but Tae's lost his powers. I think Nitro colors Tae with duller tones, like he's a plant that's been kept out of the sun and is slowly dying. Lee shrinks Tae's muscles too, and while he doesn't make Tae's clothes hang off him, he draws his shoulders as slumped and the pauldrons don't seem to be almost floating off his body any longer.
Then the guy who helped Mae-Jin build this device shows up. It's Dr. Doom. Well, at least it's a character who wears armor with some damn style. As well as a character with a track record for seeing sources of great power and saying, "I'll take that." I mean, "It is only logical that DOOM should be the one to wield this power to its full extent." Yeah, that sounds more like Doom. So credit to Kim for that.
I wouldn't exactly give this squad a great chance at beating Doom, but it may be as simple as Tae taking a crazy risk to reach the gem and regain his powers and Doom leaving. If he can't get the power, then he's not going to hang around fighting South Korea's government super-team. That's just a recipe for a lot of tedious diplomatic meetings.
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