Hey guys,
I passed on Irredeemable #3, having been intrigued by issue 1 and then a little disappointed with issue 2. Anyone read issue 3? I'd like to hear some opinions before heading back to the store on Wednesday.
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I ended up passing...there's high, dark drama...but without building connections to these characters before the bad stuff...it loses any emotional effect...
If you like a dark superhero book (and I do) , it's a buy.
Oh, it's definitely within my realm on interest, Rich -- but how's this issue particularly? The second just kind of whimpered along, IMO. (The fact that it felt a little like warmed over Astro City was probably exacerbated by an issue of Astro City shipping the same day.) I tend to *love* Waid's writing, but everyone gets a shorter leash at $3.99, especially when I'm buying fewer books these days.
This issue there's really no Lost-like flashbacks like we've had in the past two issues. It concentrates on a passel of extremely Silver Age type villains who are trying to determine how to respond to the sudden switch in the Plutonian. Honestly? It's possibly weaker than the first two because of the lack of flashbacks. My favorite thing in the past two is delving into the events that eventually corrupted this guy so completely. However, since you thought last issue was weak, this may work better for you.
Thanks, Rich. I'm leaning toward picking it up. I'll give it a flip-thru in my store and see what I think. (Actually, there's probably a preview online, knowing Boom!...)
Well, when I went back to the store to get issue 3, it was sold out.
So I waited, and got the budget-priced trade ($10) and the $1 issue 5.
So first of all, Boom!'s marketing people know their stuff.
Secondly... Yeah, this book is goooood. I think I'll be buying trades from now on, since I enjoyed reading a bunch together so thoroughly, but yeah, I'm a customer one way or the other.
Has anybody read yet if Waid has an endgame already planned? While I like the tension and feeling of impending doom so far, I think watching the Plutonian get his jollies killing people helter skelter is going to start wearing thin very soon. He needs to suffer some set backs too, or this will get very stale. Side note: I really enjoyed reading the fine print at the bottom of the first page:
Any similarity to actual persons, demons, anti-Christs, aliens, vampires, face-suckers or political figures, whether living, dead or undead, or to any actual or supernatural events is coincidental and unintentional. So don't come whining to us.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson
I don't know if he has an endgame planned, per se -- it's an ongoing, after all -- but the ad for volume 2 in the back of volume 1 says "Can the Plutonian be stopped? Find out in the next volume!" So it sounds like the heroes will be pointed in some sort of direction by the end of it, at least.
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Oh, it's definitely within my realm on interest, Rich -- but how's this issue particularly? The second just kind of whimpered along, IMO. (The fact that it felt a little like warmed over Astro City was probably exacerbated by an issue of Astro City shipping the same day.) I tend to *love* Waid's writing, but everyone gets a shorter leash at $3.99, especially when I'm buying fewer books these days.
So I waited, and got the budget-priced trade ($10) and the $1 issue 5.
So first of all, Boom!'s marketing people know their stuff.
Secondly... Yeah, this book is goooood. I think I'll be buying trades from now on, since I enjoyed reading a bunch together so thoroughly, but yeah, I'm a customer one way or the other.
Has anybody read yet if Waid has an endgame already planned? While I like the tension and feeling of impending doom so far, I think watching the Plutonian get his jollies killing people helter skelter is going to start wearing thin very soon. He needs to suffer some set backs too, or this will get very stale. Side note: I really enjoyed reading the fine print at the bottom of the first page:
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Thomas Jefferson
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