Everything came and went, everything was new and bright with promise once and old and worn out later, and everything left a small, diminishing stain on eternity, a mark that time would eventually erase.
House of Suns is what really great sci-fi tries to be: it takes some fascinating ideas (generally technological), sprinkles in interesting characters (although some authors seem to find that optional), and goes from there.
Cool.
Jimmy gets a hidden message in that hidden message with his father.
Enough to reveal a tiny bit of Wolverine’s past, how Jimmy came to be (almost graphically), and who his mother/family is…
Why does everyone have to be related?
As a one off, meh. In the greater storyline, too late.
Skip-able, unless you’re going for completion.
So here we go again again (again?). Another Volume 1.
It could have been an interesting story. The Mutant Cure. The last 20 or so mutants (in the US/public). Divisions even among them. A Mutant Seed that can cure world hunger.
But it’s all moving so fast I barely even have a chance to get to know anyone we didn’t already know. And those left feel different.
If this has been the start of Ultimate X-Men, opening with Ultimatum? That would have been cool. As it is? Meh.
Almost to the end. Onward!
President Cap. Hydra. Fury doing Fury things.
It’s certainly a jam packed volume… but for all that happens, what has actually changed?
Feels like they’re trying to reboot a reboot while holding together entirely too much damage they (the writers) have done to this version of the universe.
Overall: it’s fine, but I’m not surprised that this line doesn’t last long. Being yet another Volume 1 doesn’t help. Onward!
Side note: Cap is a terrible President. 😃
Miles is new on the job—and already too many people know (or suspect that he’s Spider-Man).
I do like this Jameson.
Unfortunately, that list includes Venom.
So now we’ve got to deal with the tragic origin part of Spider-Man stories.
Oy.
♫ Spider-Man. Spider-Man. ♫
Now we have TWO Spider-Men.
It’s another part of what became Into the Spider-Verse, with another Peter Parker getting shot across dimensions and meeting Miles.
It’s good fun all around. I’m glad to see the two get a chance to meet. And I’m going to have to check out some main universe Spider-Man at some point!
And I do wonder… what’s Fury going to do now that he knows about parallel realities… or apparently what Stark might do.
Onward!
Flooded New York. Blew up DC. Wiped out large chucks of Europe. Sentinels on the loose.
I feel like it’s just so much diverging, so many deaths… at some point it just doesn’t land any more.
I suppose we’re building up to another big event, but at this point, I’m mostly waiting to see how it all ends.
Well that escalated again’ly.
Given the number of sudden super powered threats, it’s not over surprising. But in a world reeling… I’m doubtful we’ll get the gravitas this deserves.
A lot certainly happens, but I find it hard to be invested in any of it. Onward!
