Week of 12/3/09 – Siege The Cabal
December 5th, 2009
Oh, Mask. The things you say sometimes, honestly! Well it’s finally happening. Norman is really starting to come unhinged. Just like every single hero in the Marvel Universe has hinted/suggested/screamed for the last year or so. It’s just a matter of time blah blah blah. Here in a quite moment Norman seeks council from his oldest and most trusted advocate, The Green Goblin.
I was really hoping that Osborn would succeed. I really wanted to see a more ruthless pro-active version of SHIELD? An organization that despite its shady black-ops and disregaurd for civil liberties got results. I would have loved to have seen HAMMER put down a second Skrull resurgence or squash an international AIM terrorist plot. It’s not that I don’t want to see Osborn and his cronies fall. If for no other reason than to get Hawkeye out of that ridiculous Ronin outfit and back into purple tights. I would just like the heroes of Marvel to have to sit and think, really think, that maybe the responsive way they’ve been dealing with villains is outdated or even straight up ineffective?
The rest of this one-shot issue is largely forgettable. The Cabal is falling apart thanks mostly to inflated egos. Doom makes some old-school bad guy demands of Osborn. Osborn declines rationally. Fireworks ensue and off we go! This Saturday at the coliseum, SIEGE!!
Honorable Mentions
Atom Eve and Rex Splode #2. Nate Bellegarde, my pencilling man-crush, draws one of the best exploding heads in the business. This is what happens, by the way, when Rex Splode charges up your eye glasses and then they go boom.
I don’t pick up much Wonder Woman but I know that Greg Rucka’s involvement in the title in the past has been very well received. So that and the fact that I’ve been quietly reading Blackest Night made me give Blackest Night Wonder Woman #1 a chance. Well that and Nicola Scott’s art.
Warren Ellis’ Supergod #2 gives us more examples of what happens when the world’s nations attempt to create super powered beings. An early Russian cosmonaut gets the ‘Krang’ treatment.
In the first Dark Avengers Annual, we find out what happened to Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr) after he ditched out of the Dark Avengers. Turns out he went on the run, struggled with his place in the world, and was granted a goofy new costume.
Finally, in a mildly entertaining What If: Secret Invasion story the Skrulls plan worked. The invasion succeeds and the Avengers become a tiny revolutionary force operating out of Wakanda. Here they face off against Skrull sympathizers. (My question is now that Thor is back in the Marvel U and Sentry is becoming an A-lister who squares off against Superman in the next “Big Fight but Nothing Happens” DC/Marvel crossover? Huh? Riddle me that!)
