It’s straight up Spider-Man, 400 years ago. Octavius, Lizard, Goblin, Fisk. All the villains you’d expect in about to the ways you’d expect them.
It’s enjoyable, but not exactly groundbreaking.
My one (strong dislike) is replacing Virginia Dare with Mary Jane Watsonne. So not necessary… a problem with comics.
Stories say something. About us, and about where we came from. They’re a reminder that we have a past, a history. And a future.
Well that was certainly a thing.
Skyward introduced us to some far future humans trapped on a planet by terrifying aliens. Spensa learns how to fight, teachers her friends and allies how to be awesome, and saves the day from the aliens!
Then in Starsight, we get off world. We’re introduced us to some of those same aliens. Turns out they’re people, more or less just like us. So Spensa learns how to spy, teachers her new friends and allies how to be awesome, and saves the day from the Eldrich Horrors From Beyond Space!
So of course in Cytonic… Spensa goes Beyond Space. She adventures through all manners of weird environments, meets a bunch of Pirates From Beyond Space… And learns to fight, teachers her friends and allies how to be awesome, and saves the universe?
I’m starting to sense a pattern here.
All people must accept that we have the potential to do terrible things. It is part of seeing our place in the universe, our heritage, and our natures. But in that acceptance we gain strength, for potential can be refused. Any hero who could have been a monster is more heroic for the choices he or she made to walk another road.
The Four of the Fantastick. A story I’m more or less familiar with, only from various movies rather than the comics. Here, they’re in the world created by time travel to 1602. Doom wants to travel beyond the edge of the world to heal his face and takes Shakespeare along for the ride.
An interesting enough story. Weird to involve Shakespeare.
Onward!
Marvel 1602 established a world where time travel managed to accidentally cause various heroes to be born around the year 1602, now in New World we see more fallout if that story. The 1602 Master Spider of course, but also Lord Iron, Master Jameson and his broadsheet, and, of course, the Hulk—who needs no puny time periodic appropriate name.
It feels like somewhat smaller a story than the original 1602 and more like we’re reading something that we’ve seen before, just with a new coat of paint.
Still fun though.
Onward!
Sir Nicholas Fury, with his servant Peter Parquagh. Stephen Strange, master of medicines. A blind man jumping around in the night. Sister Wanda, with her red habit. Witchbreed. So many new takes on old friends.
Oh. And dinosaurs.
As things escalate, it turns out there may very well be a reason everything is out of time… as there always had to be in a comic book. It’s neat when you get there.
Worth a read. It’s certainly an interesting ride.
One part now:
One part future:
One part America (Chavez)!
It’s a neat story, finishing up the story of Project Communion from volume 5, digging into how very much baggage both Hawkeyes carry, and really giving their working together a chance to (eventually) shine.
I enjoyed it.
Fin.
Project Communion–whatever that is. The implication that S.H.I.E.L.D. isn’t really much better than H.Y.D.R.A. sometimes. Hawkeyes!
It’s a solid mostly self contained adventure. I enjoyed it.
Not a huge fan of the pastel flashbacks. Hard to read at best. The story is neat—origin story!—but I want to skip it just because of the style.
A prisoner could be convinced that they lived in a paradise, if the prison was pretty enough.
ReDawn is a lot like Sunreach in that it’s a cousin to the main Skyward books, really expanding the universe and letting us know what the rest of Skyward flight (and others) were getting up to while Spensa was… otherwise occupied.
This time around… the point of view is Alanik, the near human alien that crashed into Detritus right at the beginning of Starsight, enabling the events of that book.
I didn’t know enough about human politics to know who was correct, but I did know enough about politics in general to guess that everyone would interpret the law in the way that best suited themselves.
It’s facinating to have a point of view from someone who grew up in this universe on an alien world (bubbles of air around giant trees!) with an alien culture–that in this case is actually tied to humanity throughout the past. It gives us a way to dig more into the relationships (especially the ‘relationships’) between the humans all the more, which I enjoyed a lot.
And of course… learning more about the Taynix / slugs.
It’s a pretty fun story, well worth it’s place as a Skyward sidestory novella!
Down on his luck, eh? Oh the fallout from buying the building. Standing up to the goons. Poor Gil . :/
In comics everything ends up connected.
And we get deaf Hawkeye storyline. Not quite the same as the show, but its neat seeing inspirations.
It’s quite the story and good to see some closure of sorts. For now.
A conversation with my children:
e: what are you reading?
J: Hawkeye
…
z: what are you reading?
e: hawk pie
z: why are you reading pot pie
e: hawk pie
z: no that isn’t right
And now, a quick interluded with the other Hawkeye.
Broke in LA. Good times.
Of course she finds her own trouble. And gets herself out of it. More or less. I like comics Kate Bishop. The real strengths are the Hawkeyes together though.